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Kong & Applesauce

@kongwen.bsky.social

Photographer (amateur). Synthesist (even amateurer). Reader & writer (professional). Erstwhile academic. Settler on unceded Mi'kmaq land. He/him.

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Ian@ianagp.bsky.social · yesterday

People are like "we can't have mob justice," and instead call a number that dispatches a paranoid domestic abuser with a badge and entitlement issues.

Kong & Applesauce@kongwen.bsky.social · 2w ago

AI "may well unleash a productivity miracle that raises the economy's non-inflationary speed limit enough to keep the world's mounting debt burden sustainable." Capitalism is a cult.

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 2w ago

Fidelity’s Director of Global Macro saying that the AI trade has been “dead money” for three months, and that it’s inflationary, meaning (as I’ve discussed multiple times) that the more debt they raise the more expensive debt becomes and the more they build data centers the more expensive it gets

Post ... Jurrien Timmer @TimmerFidelity X.com On the Al front, the trade has been dead money for more than 3 months now. The metrics I am following (token expenditures and GPU lease rates) are all flat to down. The price of memory (DRAM) seems to be the only thing that is still going up. (1/2) 500 475 450 425 400 375 350 325 300 275 Al Metrics Daily Data. Source: FMRCo, Bloomberg • GS Al basket 387 359 56% 283 249 200 175 150 •Silicon Data LLM token expenditure index (50d chg) •Silicon Data H100 GPU rental index (50d chg) •Silicon Data A100 GPU rental index (50d chg) Aug-25 Oct-25 Dec-25 Jan-26 Mar-26 May-26 Nov-24 Jan-25 Feb-25 Apr-25 Jun-25 Data as of 9/20/2026. Past performance is no guarantee of future results Jul-26 70%| 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 0% -10% -20% -30% -40% -50% -60% Sep-26 A Fidelity 8:45 PM • 9/22/26 • 32K Views
Kong & Applesauce@kongwen.bsky.social · 2w ago

The hackers used a security flaw in Oracle PeopleSoft that was widely publicized after ~100 educational institutions were breached and Oracle warned clients about mitigation measures IN JUNE.

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Kong & Applesauce@kongwen.bsky.social · 3w ago

💯 "If you don't want to get sent to the camps by fascists, you better vote for centre-right corporatocrats (who'll send you to the camps while wearing rainbow flag pins)" is not democracy.

Neovagina Evangelion@gammarae.design · 3w ago

Trans people are not going to be willing sacrifices for selfish liberals to feel better. If a nation needs to Omelas a group of people who already sacrificed so much for everyone else's rights, then burn the whole nation down and rend the scraps for something new. I will die on that hill.

Kong & Applesauce@kongwen.bsky.social · 3w ago

For any United States of American who wants to know how their "democracy" works. The voting public doesn't control policy by voting: lobbyists and the two corporate parties control policy by wealth exchange. The USA is not a bastion of freedom or democracy. Hasn't been for decades.

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Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 3w ago

No candidate, regardless of party, will ever get my vote if they call me a "biological man" and advocate for laws targeting my community. Its that simple.

Kong & Applesauce@kongwen.bsky.social · 3w ago

The very fact that people think Sony shitting the bed somehow automatically, necessarily means Xbox is good or will succeed is itself part of the deep psychic damage wrought by the console wars.

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 4w ago

I wrote in March: Feminism is far from dead, but people love to write its obituary. I’ve lived through dozens of them over the decades, and there’s been a fresh flurry over the past few years....

The one thing everyone gets wrong about feminism

People love to declare the death of the women’s movement, pointing to the ‘failure’ of #MeToo or the Epstein files, but don’t give up the fight just yet, writes Rebecca Solnit

theguardian.com

Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 4w ago

The reason we spend so much money being awful to unhoused people is the system needs a visible reminder of what landlords and bosses are threatening you with.

A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social · 4w ago

Our society's unfathomable cruelty to homeless people is not just morally unjustifiable, but more expensive than housing people would be. Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury.

Kong & Applesauce@kongwen.bsky.social · 4w ago

Caitlin Clark vs. WNBA discourse, Bill Maher, and police bodycam/dashcam videos are liberal-friendly nodes in the reactionary cultural outrage matrix. [Staying with my parents for the long weekend.]

Kong & Applesauce@kongwen.bsky.social · last mo.

Even if you completely set aside her transphobia (which you can't, shouldn't, and mustn't), it's telling that she could've been known for whimsy and imagination but is instead famously vindictive, grouchy, litigious, angry, combative and bitter. Hatred not only rots your brain, but your entire soul.

The Verge@theverge.com · last mo.

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

Kong & Applesauce@kongwen.bsky.social · last mo.

Taylor, did you consider that you're being treated differently than every other generic tech journalist because you have a cooler, smarter, more progressive audience who is more invested in your work? Why try to lower yourself to another audience's bar?

Taylor Lorenz posted a screenshot on Twitter of her audience's disappointed reactions to her list of AI tools. In response, she writes, "I would take this outrage more seriously if the ppl engaged in it were directing ANY similar criticisms at ANY other big consumer tech journalists, (all of whom have been open abt the AI tools they use), but they do not. Those journos can openly use AI tools all day & not a peep!"
Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦@raphlife.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

Boromir from THE LORD OF THE RINGS, holding The One Ring. He thought he could use it for good, but everything done with the ring turns to evil. He was one of the mightiest warriors of middle earth, and he could not resist its powers. Others even mightier fell to the ring. Do you think you are stronger than them? The One Ring is generative AI.