"Today is August 4, 2026" There Will Come Soft Rains By: Ray Bradbury
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"I’d go so far as to say that without social media — or, rather, the need to compulsively post on social media, to be digitally productive — there’d be almost no reason for generative AI to exist at all." @garbageday.email www.garbageday.email/p/hank-green...
Hank Green’s anti-AI AI psychosis
Read to the end for a good Instagram Reel
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The most recent @garbageday.email has a prediction about Silicon Valley trying to make gen-AI cool and I think is both spot-on & very depressing
![As AI usage becomes something fewer and fewer people will be comfortable admitting they use, Silicon Valley reactionaries will absolutely try and spin it as something edgy and dangerous. It will not work in the long term, the same way none of their messaging and would-be social engineering really sticks, [highlighted text starts here] but it will mean that in approximately five months, there’s going to be an extremely tedious national conversation about whether or not using an AI is actually the new punk rock.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qhfrqqizkezklmpafitl2ife/bafkreigdsdvuravhabzl5y724e5c4andqwvjr6kfoamh65p27fjrt5lg34)
Thank you @garbageday.email for this link to the best punk show ever held in a Subway www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAG8... S/o to some very supportive family, esp the older guy recording with a big smile.
What The F*** Is Up Subway?! - FULL PERFORMANCE
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They might not agree on the details, but very different groups are pretty aligned on one thing: They hate hearing about AI and they definitely don't want a data center built in their town. Read more from @garbageday.email www.garbageday.email/p/no-one-wan...
No one wants to see the evidence of their own AI usage
Read to the end for a very good fandragon
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The World Cup and, more broadly, just going outside and having fun, is an existential threat to MAGA. www.garbageday.email/p/going-outs...
Great new Panic World featuring @bencollins.bsky.social on @theonion.com's plans for Info Wars and saving democracy @garbageday.email www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB80...
The Onion Bought InfoWars. Now What?
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This week we had @bencollins.bsky.social on our podcast Panic World to talk through his plans for @theonion.com's relaunch of Info Wars. You can listen anywhere you get your podcasts and, also, on YouTube, you want to see our faces say words. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB80...
I'm currently reading @kkdumez.bsky.social's 'Jesus and John Wayne' so this paragraph from the latest issue of @garbageday.email hit especially hard:
thought @garbageday.email's coverage and take on the White House UFC fight was fantastic. i added my own (long-winded) two cents. I do think we're seeing the reality of a political movement tied to a doddering 80 year old when we knock back a "vodka jalapeno slam" on the white house grounds:
Unfortunately, we do need to know there was a UFC fight at the White House
Today I want to talk about something less high-minded.
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I thought Ryan Broderick / @garbageday.email had the best summary of the Trump wrestling event at the weekend www.garbageday.email/p/my-horribl...
My horrible, no good weekend at the UFC White House fight
Read to the end for a really good World Cup fan
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The new @garbageday.email newsletter is saying all the things I've been yelling incoherently. It's this kind of thinking that makes me hopeful for the future.
Get the feeling this line from a recent @garbageday.email update is going to be rattling around in my skull often in the near future.
![Another assumption I’m going to make is that the average user on a platform like TikTok, YouTube, or Instagram can no longer discern the difference between a legacy media podcast like Popcast, Druski’s one-man Comedy Central on Instagram, Jake Shane sitting on a couch with Kacey Musgraves, and a guy recapping murder trials in his kitchen. Which means all four kinds of videos are held to the same standard, though not how you might think. Instead of users expecting everything on their feeds to be professional, audiences have kind of settled into a weird middle ground where they want videos to feel like a friend with perfect media training casually FaceTiming them from a professional newsroom. A tough balancing act to keep up, for sure.
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“Is there life after a brutal frame-mogging?” I bravely ask while running headfirst into a Looney Tunes tunnel wall youtu.be/AJCvmzLQNZ4?...
That time I mogged Clavicular
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Strong agree with the latest @garbageday.email. The flattening of everything (text into microblog, video into shortform vertical, music into tiktokcore) is corrosive. I wonder if atproto's interoperability story can't improve upon this. www.garbageday.email/p/there-s-no...
There's nothing to watch on YouTube anymore
Read to the end for an Australian town everyone on Reddit agrees is haunted
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Been thinking a lot about this recently for various reasons but this excerpt from today’s @garbageday.email really nails it.
Before the show the people behind me were trying to teach their friend what mpreg is (but had to start with slash fic first), after the show there is a line of people waiting to take a selfie with a connection conspiracy board of people named in the Epstein files. Well done @garbageday.email.
Tonight’s @garbageday.email Live show featuring @donlemonofficial.bsky.social and @akilahhughes.com was the best show we’ve done IMO. Shout out to bringing weird online stuff to IRL events
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