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Nicole Tersigni

@nicsigni.bsky.social

Writer of Men to Avoid in Art and Life, and other books in the Art and Life series. Not a genius. nicoletersigni.com

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Nicole Tersigni@nicsigni.bsky.social · 3mo ago

if I was president the first law would be no big trucks. they’re going in the shredder. if you park like a rude idiot, jail. littering is 100 years of community service. if you use AI you’re going straight to the moon. and you don’t even want to know what I’m doing to the guns. (melting them.)

Nicole Tersigni@nicsigni.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I’m done saying “WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY!!!!” ten thousand times a day. I’m getting a big rubber stamp that says it and I’m just going to stamp that shit on every forehead I see. twice on the big ones.

Nicole Tersigni@nicsigni.bsky.social · 4mo ago

katie miller: [closing the drapes so the sun doesn’t sizzle the skin of her conservative husband who looks like he’s been summoned by the necronomicon] liberal men are so unattractive.

Nicole Tersigni@nicsigni.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I’m done saying “WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY!!!!” ten thousand times a day. I’m getting a big rubber stamp that says it and I’m just going to stamp that shit on every forehead I see. twice on the big ones.

Micah@rincewind.run · 4mo ago

the roadmap to technological fascism is both terrifying and deeply insufferable our wannabe overlords are evil, and dangerous, and also total dweebs

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.
Moosic11@moosic.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We all celebrate the hero who went to a Nazi rally in 1936 with a napkin in his pocket that said “I’m not totally on board with some of this.”