Note to all journalists: If you are tempted to describe what you are trying to report on as "ripped from the pages of a sci-fi novel", you have been taken in by the marketing department. >>

Just read the first chapter of Dune Messiah in prep for the movie, and it has me hooked 🤩

Oh, is a massive ritualized deflection of our cultural anxieties happening?

It’s a pretty weird week when a guy who wants to be a trillionaire is simultaneously getting headlines for the economy-shattering IPO expected Friday and the racist pogroms he is accused of stoking — but these stories are viewed as separate and in no way connected or prescient of the future.

Eyeing trade in the gym like

2026: I am struggling in a terrible economy because America has fucked up the Middle East 2003: I am struggling in a terrible economy because America has fucked up the Middle East 1991: I am struggling in a terrible economy because America has fucked up the Middle East 1982: I am struggling in a

CGI wishes it could create explosions this beautiful

AZ Intel@azintel.bsky.social · 2mo ago

BREAKING: Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up at Launch Complex-36 while attempting to static fire.

Waiting for The Australian to run with glowing headlines on how unemployed can get about income rules to claim more Jobseeker and avoid mutual obligations...

can a program pray to a machine god to manifest flesh? can a flesh person pray to a machine god to manifest a digital body? when the earth cries, doth its tears ever leave its body? the barista wiped the table.

This would seem to suit the populist mythology of "out of control technology controlled by shadowy elites." This has the secondary purpose of reinforcing other populist fables of untrustworthy and impotent authorities and adds a boost to the hostile rhetoric of anti-science. #moralpanic

Hoarding is not the Australian way, except for housing, which is the key economic and cultural commodity of our society, which is hoarded to hell

yeah im bummed about sora. bummed i sora bunch of stupid fake videos

I know it's a silly jokey joke, but people REALLY need to stop anthropomorphizing their boyfriends. "My boyfriend told me" your boyfriend didn't "tell" you anything. "My boyfriend thinks..." your boyfriend can't actually think or feel; just output a convincing simulation of it based on probability 🙄

caveman: ugg caveman therapist: (nodding) ugg caveman: *starts crying*

And the streetcar is electric. Wichita Falls, Texas, 1927.

Even when journalists reference Hanson’s past comments on Muslims, they reach back to 2016. Why not just mention the case from 2025, that is currently in front of the High Court? Surely the entire media industry isn’t unaware of the case? So what’s the reason?

Queen Bitcher United States, Census, 1880

Oh there’s an idea, putting responsibility where it actually belongs: perpetrators, not kids

Actually - the entire comment is good...

Woody Guthrie at McSorley's Old Ale House — Eric Schall, 1943

Australia has had a rise of 237,000 children living in poverty. Which brings the total up to 950,100 which means this year we are at risk of it surpassing 1 million bcec.edu.au/media/anothe...

Another 237,000 Australian children in poverty in four years - BCEC

Almost a quarter of a million children have been plunged into poverty in just four years - a 33 per cent increase.

bcec.edu.au

Adelaide writers festival, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne Symphony — in every case of censorship, boards have shown themselves. They will destroy the reputation of the institutions they lead, to be on good terms with people in their cocktail set.

Expanded on this rant a little on my blog: yeahrighto.substack.com/p/the-point-...

Leena 🌵@leena.reuben.games · 7mo ago

Getting grok to publicly strip a woman’s likeness online or alter her image isn’t just horrifying at the level of the individual, it’ll be used to get us fired, too. It’s a technique to keep us in the home popping out babies because we lost our teaching job when some guy sent porn of us to our boss.

Albo et al finding there’s a big difference between talking about fighting tories at the Uni bar and fighting actual fascists as a grown arse adult.

I've been tracking the spread of nonconsensual deepfakes on X for more than two years. Here's a timeline of how Musk's leadership allowed the practice to flourish from a once-underground market to a viral trend, with little recourse for victims or legal enforcement. spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...

How Grok's sexual abuse hit a tipping point

Nonconsensual deepfakes on X are nothing new, but now it's built into the platform.

spitfirenews.com

incredibly wild that we live in a country that the government gets you to upload your id in order to have a chug so as to "protect children" while simultanously shurgging as our social media overlords allow for their ai to create inappropriate images of children.

Jim Waterson@jim.londoncentric.media · 7mo ago

This does seem just a little bit bad! Idk the sort of thing you’d think politicians might distance themselves from or something!