several studies that go into how fast/severe your brain atrophies even with short term use makes me think a lot of people will be severely fucked in the coming decades
Mike Bithell@mikebithell.bsky.social · 13h agoThe specific focus in this video on the way these tools get under your skin and train you to depend on them is an aspect I personally find existentially terrifying. youtu.be/TtvICev9sBE?...
bluesky is an esoteric millennial cult centered around the messianic promise of returning to Forums
this was always the heart of "better things aren't possible," the srs-bsns adult-in-the-room pragmatic gloss is just coming off real hard as we see the liberal order demure from taking any action against an existential crisis decades in the making bsky.app/profile/did:...
Alex P. 👹@saddestrobots.bsky.social · 8h agothe centrist argument against soft socialists is literally just "you'll make the money mad! then the rich will suspend the pretense of democracy and send in their nazi thugs to impose martial law!" but the money is already doing that anyway, it's obvious to anyone who isn't a massive racist
I like how the Emily Wilson of the chud imagination is a promoter of abstruse and impenetrable woke feminism, queerness, and cultural Bolshevik decadence, and then the Emily Wilson of real life is like "Nolan's ODYSSEY sucked because it wasn't enough like DIE HARD"
Chris Suellentrop@suellentrop.bsky.social · yesterdayTurns out @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social knows a lot about ancient epics www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
It will depress you! Sorry about that but it’s kind of my jam. I selected well-written books, some of them are even wryly funny at times — if you come from a culture with macabre humor. Still, the issue is big, complex, and scary. All the more reason for us to face it together.
John Robinson@jrobin.bsky.social · 2d agoA reading list that I know will depress me, but one that also seems vital to understand (and fight this version of) the future. From the brilliant @tressiemcphd.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...
Hollywood seems to be stuck on this idea: the bad thing about war is that the men we send off to do the wars come back all sad. There’s so much rich cinema about war, but usually from countries that have wars happen IN them.
London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · yesterday‘The representation of Odysseus as a reluctant warlord makes a nonsense of the movie’s imagined world. We are not shown that war or killing are bad, only that good men sometimes feel bad about it – a very different point.’ Emily Wilson on Christopher Nolan’s film. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
i’m never gonna be able to fire a cruise missile yet the question of using my tax dollars for them has never been up for debate
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
Parece que hace ligeramente más fresco hoy *arranca el SUV, prepara un chuletón y empieza a vibecodear el Unreal Engine 6*
La persona a la que guardaste en la agenda hace cinco años como 'armario wallapop 50 martes' se ha unido a Telegram.
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Kriegskeynesianismus inzwischen die Konsensantwort auf das Komplettversagen der deutschen Automobilindustrie
Tarzan ✪@trzn.bsky.social · last wk.krise kann auch geil sein
el hilo esta aqui tambien bsky.app/profile/did:...
Alejandro Salamanca Rodríguez@desvelandooriente.com · 4d agoMelilla es una ciudad en la que tienes una batukada antirracista junto a un monumento franquista gigantesco mientras a 200 metros hay un evento hindú en la playa y un camarero gay de origen marroquí te sirve un tinto de verano quejándose de los chicos de la ciudad y mirando el culo a un legionario.
The destruction of physical media, which serves as a reference point of comparison, enables control of the narrative. Is that really what it said, or is this slop? What if you can no longer "look it up"? The (printed) word matters. #FreedomToRead #libraries
Daniel Bellingradt@dbellingradt.bsky.social · 4d ago
Lo wapo de España es no saber si en 5 años vamos a ser el faro de occidente o a oír el ángelus por la megafonía de la renfe.
Post-Covid inflation made politics so normal I’m sure this will help
Ingmar Rentzhog@ingmar.wsocial.eu · 4d agoEconomists have a name for what's coming to your grocery bill: #climateflation. This summer's heatwave will push European food prices harder than the war that closed Hormuz. Bread first. Then meat. Then your mortgage rate. I dug deep. Worth your time. www.forbes.com/sites/we-don...
My publisher was in this building for many years and while it was absolutely an impractical building, I loved visiting and am sad that now the only people who will get to see the view from it are a bunch of rich folks www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
New York City’s Flatiron building enters new era with $58.5m apartments
Manhattan’s triangular building will open this fall to wealthy residents, with 36 apartments exposing Flatiron’s ‘steel skeleton’
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- Tenemos por delante una cobertura muy demandante a nivel geopolítico; peliaguada en lo social; espinosa en lo político y compleja a nivel logístico. Ah, y que afecta a los cimientos del Estado. - Perfecto, mandemos al ufólogo, a su señora, al mecánico, al militar loco y a uno del Mossad.
The other thing about LLMs of course is that there is just a constant fog of propaganda around the subject, and the technology itself is designed to be self-propagandizing. It's like trying to have a conversation about the health risks of cigarettes in a room awash with Marlboro ads.
"...nunca vi en aquellos años analizar obras maestras como Viviendo deprisa o Llámalo sueño a esos críticos que levantaban el meñique con Nick Cave, Blur o Pulp, pero tampoco les vi rechazar algo por ser de extrarradio" share.google/8499jKQ7LpK7...
Los problemas de los críticos con la música que gusta
Proliferan las teorías sobre qué música se escuchaba y cuál se debía escuchar en los 80
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Como desde hace bastante años reivindico que NO TENEMOS UNA CRISIS DE IMAGINACIÓN, sino de credibilidad de posibles. Porque imaginar (capacidades cognitivas) podemos imaginar con cierto margen. Y podemos encontrar “imaginarios” o propuestas de terceros. El problema es de creer que se puede viable
A key component of the Pact is the concept of ‘solidarity’ among EU Member States. What has happened show to what extent this is non-existent, given that many EU governments prefer to instrumentalise migration, including with open disinformation, for domestic political purposes.
"“What people are not getting is that we can’t turn this back – the CO2 to a large part remains in the air for thousands of years,” said Rahmstorf. “Some people think we can wait and, when it gets too bad, then we reduce emissions and things will get better again."
‘We can’t make it better again’: what Europe’s wildfires tell us about the climate crisis
In this week’s newsletter: As France and Spain battle huge fires in this summer of relentless heat, will it be enough to spur us to take action?
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