Arguably if the Soviet Union had funded Excel development it would still be around en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OGAS

Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · 8h ago

Type of guy who wants a completely planned economy but also constantly disparages spreadsheet people is an amazingly common type of guy on the Internet. Who exactly do you think is going to be planning your socialist economy.

A tornado could do the funniest thing ever to the ballroom construction.

Joe Sudbay@joesudbay.bsky.social · 7h ago

oh: [AlertDC] The National Weather Service (NWS) has issued a Tornado Watch for the District of Columbia until 10PM.

not everything where people agree is an echo chamber. Sometimes it's *consensus* based on *observation* and *listening*. Gravitation is not an echo chamber. Evolution is not an echo chamber. Rejecting "AI" and its fascist promoters is WISDOM.

what's funny about this is that monks were perfectly delighted with the printing press, the myth that the late medieval church resisted printing is false, you can actually embellish printed books and people did, illuminators and scribes are not the same people, and simon should read more.

Simon Evans@sevans.bsky.social · 7h ago

Academic BlueSky is becoming an echo chamber about AI. Like a monastery chuckling about how the printing press can’t embellish a letter with gold leaf.

What is it about the printing press that inspires bad metaphors about digital tech?

Type of guy who wants a completely planned economy but also constantly disparages spreadsheet people is an amazingly common type of guy on the Internet. Who exactly do you think is going to be planning your socialist economy.

this is psychotic but a genuinely valuable articulation of a thing many drivers actually believe

Christopher Owen@oysta.au · 20h ago

found another new type of guy

I posted a couple weeks ago that I had no idea who he was and his fans filled my mentions saying I was lying, he was an extremely prominent Twitch streamer so I *definitely* knew who he was. It was like listening to my son go on and on about Fortnite.

bobby@bobbylewis.bsky.social · 4mo ago

never seen so stark an example of navel gazing as the recent obsession with hasan piker, a man who only the extremely online have ever heard of

The people who are obsessed with Hasan Piker — pro and con — really refuse to believe that the vast majority of us do not give the slightest shit either way.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 24h ago

CBS: You campaigned with Hasan Piker during the primary. Dem Senate candidate, while images of Piker flash on the screen: I didn’t campaign with him, and I don’t know where that came from. CBS: Ah well… would you want to campaign with him in the general? Candidate: I don’t really know who he is.

I was certain that this would be a car video of a guy eating a Hostess Ding Dong but our buddy George here was just enjoying the church bells on a Sunday morning. Having a ding dong

journeyman folklorist@aniceburrito.bsky.social · 6d ago

perfect synopsis of modern Republicanism

When it premiered Bourdain's show was deeply countercultural and 2026 resembles 2006 in a lot of ways

Newsletter is out and it's about how instead of a Joe Rogan of the left we need to recreate Anthony Bourdain in the aggregate link.heartlandsignal.com/v/443/b6619d...

"spreadsheet jobs" are largely real work but "value engineering" is actual shit from the ass of satan himself. scrubbing shit out of outhouses is a more noble profession

I don't understand why major outlets keep writing about this phenomenon like it's cute or interesting... it's not, we know that substituting chatbots for real human relationships is terrible for your mental health, could we stop already?

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 12h ago

The tech writer and podcaster Bridget Todd felt sorry for people who said they had relationships with chatbots. Then she became one of them. nyti.ms/46igD1j

California's ZEV program got the EV revolution rolling. President Trump's war is helping seal the deal. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I'm sorry. The Denver Republican party is run by a dude named Hugo Chavez and he's in trouble because he won't back a candidate named Marx?

Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · yesterday

NEW: Hugo Chavez-Rey, Vice-Chair of the Denver Republican Party, has resigned rather than face a removal vote tonight after he refused to back GOP gubernatorial candidate Victor Marx.

What gets me about these sorts of incidents is that they illustrate how many people are using AI for COMPLETELY USELESS purposes. There are already a million US maps and periodic tables! You can get them anywhere! What conceivable reason is there to have an LLM make one? It doesn't even save effort!

'Venecky' instead of Kentucky: JCPS middle school parents suspect school agendas are AI-generated

A Farnsley Middle School parent found bizarre errors in student agendas, prompting JCPS to warn families.

wdrb.com

DSA Pivot Table Caucus

It's obvious that so many of these people have unwittingly swallowed the Republican "real American"/"real man"/"real job" framing and have a lot of internalized shame about being part of the educated elite knowledge worker class. Knowledge workers are good! Have some pride, man!

unironically using “spreadsheet people” as an insult during a massive anti-intellectual demolition of government capacity to manage society is really a statement about your approval of it

Dems will shift their entire apparatus to appeal to three lying never trumpers in exchange for losing millions of votes. Bernie just said “shit sucks and I have some ideas to fix it” and flipped a bunch of default republican voters

The problem with the idea of a "Joe Rogan of the left" is that they don't actually want a Joe Rogan of the left. They want a Joe Rogan of the centrist establishment. And that's doomed to fail, because literally everybody is sick to death of the centrist establishment.

i always read "No DMs" as "i've tried to buy a PS5 from a scammer"

Phil@heardyoulooking.bsky.social · 12h ago

“No DMs” - a person who nobody would ever want to DM in a million years

Don’t get me wrong, this isn‘t Jon‘s fault, good on him for finding an attack that works. But it’s so incredibly bleak that this is a more effective line of attack than Epstein and Iran simply because the media gets bored easily and always needs a new shiny toy to get their attention.

Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 23h ago

Jon Ossoff tells Lawrence O’Donnell: “It’s been amazing to watch this White House melt down over this all week. And about Natalie Harp, these White House staffers are adults — public officials, paid by the taxpayer, with immense power in positions of public trust… No one cares about their feelings.”

“spreadsheet people”

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · yesterday

People can’t just say this for literally years now and have the products it creates only positively affect spreadsheet people. Most people have profoundly negative experiences with this product because its utility remains pretty niche but targeted to the capital class.

half expecting to find out trump was actually born in kenya, its the only thing left from the obama years so far that wasnt total projection

its just funny because during obama the debt and “certainty” were the most important things to ever exist for businesses and corporations and the media

Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · yesterday

The U.S. national debt just hit $40 trillion, according to the Treasury Department.

we're getting several fascinating real-time experiments in 'no presumption of regularity'

Yeah, there's a lot of debt but what matters is the fact that they have eroded the fiscal space via political actions and have shown they have no plan to actually deal with fundamental real economic - i.e. capital stock -- rather than monetary problems.