billy Z duke
@billyzduke.bsky.social
Music: WrongWindows.rocks
Digital Art: inhumantouch.art
Digital Art: inhumantouch.art
A seemingly obvious (yet apparently completely ignored) way to minimize the backlash against AI would be to STOP INSERTING "AGENTIC" INTERFACES INTO ABSOLUTELY EVERY APP OR SITE CUSTOMERS USE (most of which already work just fine as is, thank you).
August 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
A seemingly obvious (yet apparently completely ignored) way to minimize the backlash against AI would be to STOP INSERTING "AGENTIC" INTERFACES INTO ABSOLUTELY EVERY APP OR SITE CUSTOMERS USE (most of which already work just fine as is, thank you).
Sick o' Spotify? Extract your carefully curated playlist data fo' FREE!
Spotifried
Much like my personal relationship with generative AI, my feelings about Spotify are… complicated. On the one hand, pay the artists what they deserve, full stop, fuck all the gatekeepers and non-creative rights-holders forever, and stop randomly Netflixing songs on my playlists into faded, unplayable titles no apparent reason. On the other, that damnably accurate recommendation algorithm has introduced me to countless new artists I might never have discovered otherwise. Many of whom I also end up listening to and following on other platforms that more appropriately compensate the artists on their roster, and/or I see their shows when they come through LA, and/or I buy physical or digital versions of their music from…
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August 12, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Sick o' Spotify? Extract your carefully curated playlist data fo' FREE!
One of the strategies I've been compelled to adopt that represents an indictment of how little internet UX has improved in general since its introduction: for any given textarea field, I compose whatever I intend to submit in a locally run text editor instead, then copy and paste it in.
March 3, 2025 at 10:17 PM
One of the strategies I've been compelled to adopt that represents an indictment of how little internet UX has improved in general since its introduction: for any given textarea field, I compose whatever I intend to submit in a locally run text editor instead, then copy and paste it in.
For the first time, I just heard the general American obsession with being rich referred to as "money dysmorphia," which strikes me as painfully accurate.
March 1, 2025 at 10:28 PM
For the first time, I just heard the general American obsession with being rich referred to as "money dysmorphia," which strikes me as painfully accurate.
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Commission your friends for art. Give them dollars (this makes them happy) in exchange for drawing you like (this makes you happy). This is symbiosis. This is a healthy ecosystem.
Support your friends. Support art. Support your friends' art.
Support your friends. Support art. Support your friends' art.
February 26, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Commission your friends for art. Give them dollars (this makes them happy) in exchange for drawing you like (this makes you happy). This is symbiosis. This is a healthy ecosystem.
Support your friends. Support art. Support your friends' art.
Support your friends. Support art. Support your friends' art.
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I really hate the "no person who works a full time job should live in poverty" discourse because it should simply be that nobody deserves to live in poverty. We gotta let go of this idea that we work in exchange for worth. People are innately worthy + deserving of the basics
February 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I really hate the "no person who works a full time job should live in poverty" discourse because it should simply be that nobody deserves to live in poverty. We gotta let go of this idea that we work in exchange for worth. People are innately worthy + deserving of the basics
February 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Hi. Elon Musk is not very good at things – running companies, managing the government's money, parenting, gaming, etc. And he thinks you're so fucking stupid that you won't even notice.
Elon Musk Thinks You Are So F**king Stupid - SOME MORE NEWS
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February 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Hi. Elon Musk is not very good at things – running companies, managing the government's money, parenting, gaming, etc. And he thinks you're so fucking stupid that you won't even notice.
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Planes just falling out of the sky is like one of the top clichés for showing the collapse of infrastructure in apocalypse movies, too
February 1, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Planes just falling out of the sky is like one of the top clichés for showing the collapse of infrastructure in apocalypse movies, too
I have been trying to “get a feel” for TikTok, and find myself slightly threatened by the feel I’m getting: almost exactly like having fallen asleep in front of a cable TV channel playing nonstop informercials.
February 1, 2025 at 11:33 AM
I have been trying to “get a feel” for TikTok, and find myself slightly threatened by the feel I’m getting: almost exactly like having fallen asleep in front of a cable TV channel playing nonstop informercials.
Severance is the GOAT of AppleTV+ shows. #severance
January 31, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Severance is the GOAT of AppleTV+ shows. #severance
Nazi Musks Fuck Off. youtu.be/xDyPSKLy5E4?...
Elon Musk's "Hitler Problem" - SOME MORE NEWS
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January 21, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Nazi Musks Fuck Off. youtu.be/xDyPSKLy5E4?...
Hopescrolling, on dangerously thin ice, over a deep dark ocean of doom.
January 19, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Hopescrolling, on dangerously thin ice, over a deep dark ocean of doom.
Lynch is dead. Long live Lynch. www.threads.net/@wrongwindow...
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Goodbye Sweet Lynch.
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January 16, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Lynch is dead. Long live Lynch. www.threads.net/@wrongwindow...
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Many people reported having their accounts banned and content removed after commenting on the assassination of UnitedHealth Group CEO Brian Thompson, showing just how much control over our online expression social media and financial platforms have.
Platforms Systematically Removed a User Because He Made "Most Wanted CEO" Playing Cards
On December 14, James Harr, the owner of an online store called ComradeWorkwear, announced on social media that he planned to sell a deck of “Most Wanted CEO” playing cards, satirizing the infamous “M...
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January 15, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Many people reported having their accounts banned and content removed after commenting on the assassination of UnitedHealth Group CEO Brian Thompson, showing just how much control over our online expression social media and financial platforms have.
For the last six months of 2024, my mantra became "Stay Alive till '25." Two weeks into 2025, already feeling the need to update that to "Stay in the Mix till '26."
January 15, 2025 at 11:59 PM
For the last six months of 2024, my mantra became "Stay Alive till '25." Two weeks into 2025, already feeling the need to update that to "Stay in the Mix till '26."
I never really engaged with Twitter, but I feel it's worth at least signing up over here if it will help piss Elon off.
November 15, 2024 at 2:59 AM
I never really engaged with Twitter, but I feel it's worth at least signing up over here if it will help piss Elon off.