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If the modern economy is based on flows, and modern politics is based on performance, power will reside with those who have the power to ensure or disrupt flows and the platform to poast epically about it
Logging into Gemini AI to see what they hype is on what it can supposedly offer me.
When one of my nation's chiefs, Yonaguska, was asked of what he thought of the bible he said "It's a pretty good book. I wonder why Christians aren't better people if they've had it for so long."
Ty Neadik@notkoze.trashmammal.club · 2d agoA happy indigenous peoples day to the ever excellent Cacique Hatuey. Christianity is a fine religion. Using it to subjugate and torture people is atrocious. www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ha...
back at it again (researching the history of peanut butter cups)
I think a shocking number of our major societal problems would vanish overnight if you could magically pull the plug on the X platform and Meta, both of which are carefully designed to turn people into the worst version of themselves.
"The Data Lord has all the money, so now we just pay with blood instead. It’s even easier, if you think about it. No need to worry about 'savings' or 'inflation' or whatever it is your generation was so obsessed with. Now it’s all about platelet count." buff.ly/DwVTmBG
It’s Cute How Grandma Doesn’t Even Know How to Blood Tithe to the Data Lord
“You can’t pay for anything by card anymore. That stopped being a thing in the 2030s. The Data Lord doesn’t take AmEx. It’s half a pint now, or a full pint e...
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Every community manager/mod in the world read this story, raised an eyebrow, and realized there was another solution to their bot problem.
Tinman - Beardo Weirdo Wimp@bcmfietser.bsky.social · 3d ago
This is not just an AI problem but a general tech/private equity management vibe problem we began to encounter when those guys moved into Hollywood due to either money or streaming dominance. Small top-heavy staffs who don't go to set don't make future show runners.
Linotype Pilgrim@symbo1ics.bsky.social · last yr.I am once again asking where they think senior engineers come from
i have lived here my whole life, and i have never once seen a plane take off from the Willamette… …let alone do THIS. wtf.
I promise I won't spam the feed with my stolen art, but I wanted to share this one because I enjoyed painting it. I used black watercolors on toned paper, something I hadn't tried before. (There is a Leyendecker watercolor that made me want to try this combo of materials) "Nocturne"
I really hate this sort of take. someone saying "we're better than this" is speaking aspirationally! you are not clever for insisting we aren't, you are giving people an excuse not to try to be.
Buttadeus@thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 5d agoOk white girls, I guess you don’t have to be mad about this.
They worship and love death. It is their god
AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · 6d agoBREAKING US execution by firing squad of Fort Hood shooter to be livestreamed: Pentagon official
SOURCE CALL: I'm looking to interview with folks who sold PBR (either as an employee of Pabst Brewing Co., or one of its distributors or retail accounts) in the early Aughts. If that's you or someone you know, please get in touch. Email dave@dinfontay.com or text dinfontay.11 on Signal.
But the boom is also being driven by what the booze business likes to call a "health halo" effect—i.e., drinkers are reaching for Super Lyte et al. because its marketing scans as athletic and vodka scans as "clean"/"pure."
What if AI is evil not because it is computer, but because trying to build cognition from the discarded thoughts of the past is like trying to harvest graveyards for meat or tapping into Hell for geothermal energy?
Keith@mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 11mo agoIt works so well because it's powered by ghosts.
“Getting social issues off the table never, ever happens—the reactionaries merely up the ante, because what they really want is the elimination of the disfavored group, and we inconveniently refuse to go away.” www.liberalcurrents.com/concede-noth...
Concede Nothing
Trans people are who we say we are, and we will fight and organize on those grounds.
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This is why neoliberals since the Washington Consensus have understood that free trade is economically good, not just because of comparative advantage, but also because it improves the political economy by removing one avenue for clientelism, forcing companies to instead make better products.
Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · last wk.Perfect example though of how corrupting tariffs are. Every town & business becomes dependent on little tariff carve outs, meaning that buying influence with Senators becomes mandatory to stay in business. The tariff is the mother of trusts!!!
This is why imperial collapses can often seem extraordinarily sudden: They come as the culmination of decades of undermining the institutions, relationships, and structures that keep states functioning. A jenga tower can stand with missing blocks until it's given a tiny push.
lot of “THIS JOB WILL BE DISPLACED BY AI” stuff doesn’t answer the question of “who has legal liability if a mistake is made?” Google is gonna be liable? OpenAI? If that’s your answer then yeah but a lot of human industry is buttressed by “who gets sued” when a mistake is made.
People in Portland spent a decade and a half complaining about the costs and burdens of growth, but: we stopped growing and it is way worse
Shane Phillips@shanedphillips.bsky.social · last wk.Another entry for the "impact fee nexus studies are bullshit" file! Student enrollment at LA Unified has fallen for 24 years straight, ~48%. And yet! We have an impact fee because: "As new development occurs, additional school facilities will be needed to house the growth in the student population."
Remember when King Neptune AI slopped his hundreds of awful burgers in seconds and SpongeBob painstakingly made one delicious burger by hand
One of the hardest things about raising a small child is watching their peers take on toxic behaviors that you *know* will evolve them into monsters if no one stops them. All you can do is teach your kid how to defend themselves against them. And try to keep them from becoming monsters themselves.
Gil Durán@gilduran.com · last wk.“Democracy has been hailed as, like, the holy grail for the last couple hundred years, but democracies are inefficient,” said the crypto billionaire. “If you get a benevolent dictator, it’s actually extremely efficient." Hmm, where have I heard this before? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...
