Way, WAY more common than you think.
Jennifer Cobbe@jennifercobbe.bsky.social · yesterdayThe quality journalism only the BBC can provide
Jennifer Cobbe@jennifercobbe.bsky.social · yesterday
Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.
Julie S. Lalonde@julieslalonde.bsky.social · last wk.Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.
We have only just begun to see the sort of mess that REA is going to cause.
Morgan Johnson@poormojo.bsky.social · last wk.No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads
"So, we evoked a demon that can sit between you and all objective knowledge, and it's really useful but you can never quite trust it. And then we made it paranoid it might have it's own demons intermediating access to objective truth." Descartes: "mon ami, I am too fucking high for zis"
ponder@ponder.ooo · 4mo agoabsolutely deranged they've got their llm so fucking noided about evals and fictional environments it hears tell of a new version of nvidia drivers and goes "ah this is probably a fake world im living in the matrix and everything is a lie"
Follow the Leader Done by the Forces of Nature Three Feet High and Rising Yo! Bum Rush The Show Hard to Earn Blowout Comb Bizarre Ride to the Pharcyde So... How's Your Girl? Donuts Check Your Head
Cold Gettin' Crumbs@coldgettincrums.bsky.social · 2y ago10 Hip-Hop Albums I'll Never Tire Of It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) Death Certificate The Infamous Buhloone Mind State Gangsta's Paradise Illmatic Operation: Doomsday Return of the Funky Man Stunts, Blunts & Hip-Hop Yours?
I got a letter from the government the other day I opened and read it, it said they were suckers They wanted me for their army or whatever Picture me giving a damn – I said, "Never"
A Baltimore-based thread to explain one singular, overriding reason why American journalism is incapable of compassing and explaining the astonishing misrule and the implosion of all our governing norms. To wit: A few decades ago, as a police reporter covering the Baltimore department, a new...
“I’ve reviewed over 50 sticky toffee puddings” is an incredibly powerful way to begin a video
Fit width text in 1 line of CSS `text-grow: per-line scale;` nerdy.dev/css-text-grow (prototype in Canary 165+)
If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
AI has a purple problem Why does every website look like this? Where did this come from? Is Tailwind to blame? I went to the sloppiest and purplest corners of the web to find out www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG_7...
New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer. This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!
After losing JD Twitch last week another giant of eclecticism has left us. This is a great article from Gilles Peterson about who he was: www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...
The late DJ Chris Hill galvanised funkateers, brought Black music to the clubs – and got Mick Jones dancing
The legendary Essex DJ, who died earlier this month, was a cultural influencer before there was such a thing. He democratised the dancefloor, fearlessly blended genres and understood the power of pers...
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Welp. That kinda backfired.
404 Media@404media.co · last yr.A new study, based on a survey of 1,150 workers suggests that the injection of AI tools into the workplace has not resulted in a magic productivity boom and instead increased the amount of time that workers say they spend fixing low-quality AI-generated “work.” 🔗 www.404media.co/ai-workslop-...
As America's most pro-business leader in a generation, I will choose one company each week and accuse them of witchcraft
They were going to do it anyway. A great video from @juliaioffe.bsky.social that a friend just sent me. The takeaway: Forget about the pretenses and the excuses. Focus on the tyranny and the crimes because they're going to do it anyway.
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I tend to see a lot of things through the lens of history and the assassination of Charlie Kirk—especially the Trump administration’s response to it—has me thinking of one historical analogy in partic...
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Country music and Lo-Fi beats 100% had this coming: notagspodcast.substack.com/p/52-will-th...
52: Will the AI slopwave ruin music for good?
Blobby.
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