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I think one of the saddest things about being a millennial is remembering a time when technology was advancing in a way that made life better and easier and more exciting instead of actively, intentionally worse
July 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I think one of the saddest things about being a millennial is remembering a time when technology was advancing in a way that made life better and easier and more exciting instead of actively, intentionally worse
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Every ai video sucks because they’re never more than their prompts, you’re like ‘yeah that’s a video of a dinosaur eating chips whilst skateboarding,” but like that’s it - you could just post your prompt and it’d be the same. But every real piece of film contains MORE than just its script
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Every ai video sucks because they’re never more than their prompts, you’re like ‘yeah that’s a video of a dinosaur eating chips whilst skateboarding,” but like that’s it - you could just post your prompt and it’d be the same. But every real piece of film contains MORE than just its script
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The main achievement of the tech industry has been increasing the flow of money from people who make or do things to people who already have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes
“Average musician makes $12 a month on Spotify. The fact that they are not even able to sell a record and it’s taken from them by rich motherfuckers on streaming platforms who get paid royally by record labels,Ticketmaster, merch companies. They’re all fucking getting paid, except for the musician.”
Garbage’s Shirley Manson Speaks Out Against Music Industry Economics: “This Is An Alarm Call”
Just before they kicked off their current run of dates, the ’90s alt-rock greats Garbage announced that it would be their final North American headline tour. When the band played at Denver’s Mission B...
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October 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The main achievement of the tech industry has been increasing the flow of money from people who make or do things to people who already have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes
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You know how billionaires end up with severe cognitive deficits as a result of becoming surrounded by yes men who constantly tell them their every idea is genius? What if we made a bot that just does that to everyone. I think that would be a good idea.
October 17, 2025 at 5:00 AM
You know how billionaires end up with severe cognitive deficits as a result of becoming surrounded by yes men who constantly tell them their every idea is genius? What if we made a bot that just does that to everyone. I think that would be a good idea.
I made a reference to the speech from The Network in a reply a few minutes ago, and thought "Why not actually rewatch it?" It's still a cathartic scene. youtu.be/ZwMVMbmQBug
I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore! Speech from Network (1976)
YouTube video by lbtve
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October 9, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I made a reference to the speech from The Network in a reply a few minutes ago, and thought "Why not actually rewatch it?" It's still a cathartic scene. youtu.be/ZwMVMbmQBug
I just listened to ep4 of Behind The Bastards' Heinrich Himmler series & when @iwriteok.bsky.social explained that there's a through line from the early fascist modernism and fetishisation of speedy cars and aeroplanes, through to the modern AI tech cult, it instantly explained the USA & cars to me.
October 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I just listened to ep4 of Behind The Bastards' Heinrich Himmler series & when @iwriteok.bsky.social explained that there's a through line from the early fascist modernism and fetishisation of speedy cars and aeroplanes, through to the modern AI tech cult, it instantly explained the USA & cars to me.
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The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
September 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
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Every artist I’ve ever known has this itch to create that won’t go away until they create. They have to do it.
It’s why I know the “finally, someone like me can make art” AI users are full of shit. What they really mean is “finally, a way to get social media likes without hard work”.
It’s why I know the “finally, someone like me can make art” AI users are full of shit. What they really mean is “finally, a way to get social media likes without hard work”.
September 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Every artist I’ve ever known has this itch to create that won’t go away until they create. They have to do it.
It’s why I know the “finally, someone like me can make art” AI users are full of shit. What they really mean is “finally, a way to get social media likes without hard work”.
It’s why I know the “finally, someone like me can make art” AI users are full of shit. What they really mean is “finally, a way to get social media likes without hard work”.
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Tapping the sign
September 6, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Tapping the sign
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As several have pointed out, this also applies to the massive (100,000 or so) Trans Pride event. Almost entirely blanked.
Here's how the real two-tier Britain works:
1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off.
2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵
1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off.
2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵
August 27, 2025 at 11:28 AM
As several have pointed out, this also applies to the massive (100,000 or so) Trans Pride event. Almost entirely blanked.
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it's crazy that being like "how do i explain gay couples to my kids?" isn't an unthinkably embarrassing to say in 2025. it's actually incredibly easy to explain, that should be like indignantly saying "how am I supposed to explain to my kids where the sun goes at night? did a bird steal it?!"
August 25, 2025 at 12:01 AM
it's crazy that being like "how do i explain gay couples to my kids?" isn't an unthinkably embarrassing to say in 2025. it's actually incredibly easy to explain, that should be like indignantly saying "how am I supposed to explain to my kids where the sun goes at night? did a bird steal it?!"
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i am so sick of the dumbest people alive being in charge of everything and the second dumbest people alive writing opinion columns about how it's good
August 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
i am so sick of the dumbest people alive being in charge of everything and the second dumbest people alive writing opinion columns about how it's good
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on the one hand I should absolutely put my phone down but on the other hand what if the forces attacking democracy operate on weeping angels logic
August 23, 2025 at 2:10 AM
on the one hand I should absolutely put my phone down but on the other hand what if the forces attacking democracy operate on weeping angels logic
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[CN: transphobia, transmisogyny, sexual harassment]
Unworkable rules and impossible situations are the point. They want to make our lives unliveable.
transactual.org.uk/impacts-of-t...
Unworkable rules and impossible situations are the point. They want to make our lives unliveable.
transactual.org.uk/impacts-of-t...
!["I, a trans woman, believed I had to follow the EHRC interim update and was followed into the men's room by a male security officer and told to get out. It is worth noting that before this I was already shaking with fear about the possible confrontation that could ensue. The security man and the two other men in the room circled me. I said I believed, according to what the EHRC and our political leaders have said, that I have to be in there now.
Now that he infers I am trans, he starts sniggering at me. The other men in the room join him in laughing at me. I tell him that it isn't funny and please stop laughing at me. He doesn't stop and I say "it might be funny to you but to me this is my life and I am scared, scared about being attacked, please stop laughing, it's not funny'. He tells me he doesn't care what I have to say, that I need to get out. So I do.
I leave and talk to the store manager, where again, I have to relay all sorts of intimate and private details, of my background, my trans and intersex statuses, history of being assaulted, my genital configuration. This is humiliating.
I felt deeply unsafe, humiliated, hopeless like nobody cares, violated. I don't think the EHRC lets me use the [service of my gender] so I was just denied service."
WHITE TRANS WOMAN WHO FACED ISSUES IN A SHOP OR SHOPPING CENTRE IN ENGLAND.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cau5eglmhacxw6jpnxtbvpgz/bafkreie26vh6ozbbc45rxhq2fichu77of6e6iwcbh6asetbyq6ftwnnjsm@jpeg)
August 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
[CN: transphobia, transmisogyny, sexual harassment]
Unworkable rules and impossible situations are the point. They want to make our lives unliveable.
transactual.org.uk/impacts-of-t...
Unworkable rules and impossible situations are the point. They want to make our lives unliveable.
transactual.org.uk/impacts-of-t...
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Worth remembering that Terence Stamp was the son of a ship's stoker.
Stamp desperately wanted to act, after falling in love with movies as a kid, and it was a scholarship to Drama School that allowed him to walk that path.
Every time arts cuts are made, they rob us of more Terence Stamps.
Stamp desperately wanted to act, after falling in love with movies as a kid, and it was a scholarship to Drama School that allowed him to walk that path.
Every time arts cuts are made, they rob us of more Terence Stamps.
August 18, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Worth remembering that Terence Stamp was the son of a ship's stoker.
Stamp desperately wanted to act, after falling in love with movies as a kid, and it was a scholarship to Drama School that allowed him to walk that path.
Every time arts cuts are made, they rob us of more Terence Stamps.
Stamp desperately wanted to act, after falling in love with movies as a kid, and it was a scholarship to Drama School that allowed him to walk that path.
Every time arts cuts are made, they rob us of more Terence Stamps.
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it appears that @bsky.app have suspended the account of @jessiegender because a trans person saying "I wish ill on JK Rowling" is against the rules, so let me say with my loud cis voice that I too wish ill on all perpetrators of hate speech against trans people
reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous
reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous
August 16, 2025 at 8:20 AM
it appears that @bsky.app have suspended the account of @jessiegender because a trans person saying "I wish ill on JK Rowling" is against the rules, so let me say with my loud cis voice that I too wish ill on all perpetrators of hate speech against trans people
reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous
reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous
I liked the new Superman film today. Solid story, good fun, excellent dog. I see what some people meant when they said it had too much going on - it mostly works as the movie goes on, but at the end I noticed the loose ends - but my biggest criticism is the musical edging w/ the John Williams score.
July 27, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I liked the new Superman film today. Solid story, good fun, excellent dog. I see what some people meant when they said it had too much going on - it mostly works as the movie goes on, but at the end I noticed the loose ends - but my biggest criticism is the musical edging w/ the John Williams score.
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Newsletter: This is the Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble: genAI is nothing like Uber or Amazon Web Services, there are no profitable genAI companies, agents do not and cannot exist, there is no AI SaaS story, and everything rides - and dies - on selling GPUs.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble
Hey! Before we go any further — if you want to support my work, please sign up for the premium version of Where’s Your Ed At, it’s a $7-a-month (or $70-a-year) paid product where every week you get a ...
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July 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Newsletter: This is the Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble: genAI is nothing like Uber or Amazon Web Services, there are no profitable genAI companies, agents do not and cannot exist, there is no AI SaaS story, and everything rides - and dies - on selling GPUs.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
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Hi!) Today is my birthday!😁 And by tradition, I will be very happy with your reposts - this is the best gift for an artist).
July 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Hi!) Today is my birthday!😁 And by tradition, I will be very happy with your reposts - this is the best gift for an artist).
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Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
June 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
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If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
June 22, 2025 at 2:47 AM
If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
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Farage and the far right in general come from a grievance culture. If you do what they want, even maximally – Brexit – they’ll move the goalposts and keep moaning. If you engage seriously with their concerns, they’ll find new ones. You will never satisfy them, because they don’t want to be satisfied
The problem with this ‘let’s weaken our commitment to the ECHR so as to fend off Farage’ plan is that when it doesn’t work, we end up with Farage *and* a weakened commitment to the ECHR at exactly the moment we need the ECHR the most.
June 19, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Farage and the far right in general come from a grievance culture. If you do what they want, even maximally – Brexit – they’ll move the goalposts and keep moaning. If you engage seriously with their concerns, they’ll find new ones. You will never satisfy them, because they don’t want to be satisfied
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When I needed a hysterectomy due to severe endometriosis & adenomyosis, I was repeatedly denied
Told I “might want kids.”
Told I “might meet a man who wants kids”
I was left disabled & bed ridden, yet the system continued to try & save my diseased uterus against my will 🧵
Told I “might want kids.”
Told I “might meet a man who wants kids”
I was left disabled & bed ridden, yet the system continued to try & save my diseased uterus against my will 🧵
June 18, 2025 at 3:18 AM
When I needed a hysterectomy due to severe endometriosis & adenomyosis, I was repeatedly denied
Told I “might want kids.”
Told I “might meet a man who wants kids”
I was left disabled & bed ridden, yet the system continued to try & save my diseased uterus against my will 🧵
Told I “might want kids.”
Told I “might meet a man who wants kids”
I was left disabled & bed ridden, yet the system continued to try & save my diseased uterus against my will 🧵
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Hamilton Nolan is always on point, but today he is especially on point. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/youre-a-bu...
You're a Bunch of Cowards!
We're all laughing at you.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
June 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Hamilton Nolan is always on point, but today he is especially on point. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/youre-a-bu...