Rextyn 🏳️🌈 ㋐
@rextyn.tygerbox.social
he/him | old queer leftist weeb | technologist | resident of the best coast I dig art | anti-racist | antiwork | trans lives matter | no ai
@abdulelsayed.bsky.social triumphing over something like $60 million, $32-ish million of it AIPAC money, is not a "narrow" victory, it's a people's earthquake. This kind of spending is oligarchy in action, to smother democracy through its formal channels, and is getting normalized. Still he won.
taking a smoke break for the 90 seconds before the times starts running its daily "millionaires will flee michigan" story
Pam Herd@pamherd.bsky.social · 13h agoNY Times Calls It!
"No one's sure why" because we have perfectly good computers sitting around that can't upgrade to Windows 11 and all the new hardware costs too much that's why
internet freds 🦇☠️💾✨️@esquiring.bsky.social · 20h agoit is, at long last, the Year of Linux on the Desktop. www.techspot.com/news/113326-...
Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
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i started this train of thought as a joke but now i do think there's something to the idea that the way to sell the green revolution to the US public is that we're being denied Good Deals on cheap chinese cars and solar panels and there's nothing more unamerican than saying we can't have a good deal
You know Akiba Maid War had the sauce because it ran for a tight 12 and still had the baseball episode
botoggle@botoggle.bsky.social · 3d agoA concise 12-13 episodes doesn’t give you any time for the baseball episode. An anime TV series is not complete without a baseball episode. We’ve got to do something about this
Husband or boyfriend who asks his partner "who told you that" when she accuses him of cheating instead of "I didn't do that"
Eric Blair@protecttruth.bsky.social · 3d agoI once had a longtime criminal defense attorney tell me he felt guilty people often said “there’s no way this could have happened because of X, Y and Z,” instead of ”this did not happen because I did not do it.”
my favorite religious theory is that "biblically accurate angels" is just someone tripping balls who encountered a peacock for the first time
I’m not sure whether this is just a psychological difference or AI bros fundamentally don’t understand the nature of an artistic experience, but: I don’t want a personalised film/book/podcast. I want to see/read/hear the same one as everyone else, so I can read reviews or discuss it with my friends
Using lists of three is not an "AI tell." It's a common trait in human writing because our brains biologically want to make sure there's always one thing to marry, one thing to fuck, and one thing to murder.
yeah. Asking four million people to give up the hope for themselves to have equal rights is considered more realistic than asking one hundred politicians to change their minds about being bigots
Jim Henley Music@jimhenleymusic.bsky.social · 5d ago“Pragmatists” always insist political success requires solving the harder collective-action problem—a diffuse mass of people with little power coordinate their rhetoric and actions—rather than the simpler one: a much smaller group of people with actual power be less terrible.
Hopefully the follow up questions will be "why did you make this in the first place?" and "who requested this feature?" because I guarantee you it required plenty of Google employee man hours to add this feature to one of their most popular apps
404 Media@404media.co · 5d agoUPDATE: After the publication of this piece, Google sent 404 Media a statement saying it was “rolling back this feature in Google Earth while we work on implementing stronger guardrails.” www.404media.co/google-earth...
People still think of Sweden as this sexually liberated place, but the reality is you're not even allowed to fuck inside the giant taxidermied Blue Whale anymore. Place has really changed.
jordan@jordantyranny.bsky.social · last wk.The only taxidermied blue whale in the world, 1865 CE, now housed at the Natural History Museum in Sweden. The public was allowed to enter the whale up until a couple was found having sex inside it. Now the whale’s jaws are opened only for special occasions, such as Swedish election days.
my gf was trying to gas me up and told my 9yo "your dad is one of the smartest people I know" and she deadpanned "you need to meet more people" crushed both of us with 6 words like Hemingway
