Walt Rizzney
@cullobsidian.bsky.social
You all know why we’re here.
@thecullobsidian over at the bad place.
Addiction psychologist, assistant psychologist and therapist on an addiction ward.
Just like you imagined.
@thecullobsidian over at the bad place.
Addiction psychologist, assistant psychologist and therapist on an addiction ward.
Just like you imagined.
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I read this in my native celcius and recoiled; "THERE IS SOMETHING VERY WRONG WITH YOUR CAT, ITS BOTTOM IS ABOUT TO BOIL"
January 3, 2026 at 10:01 PM
I read this in my native celcius and recoiled; "THERE IS SOMETHING VERY WRONG WITH YOUR CAT, ITS BOTTOM IS ABOUT TO BOIL"
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It is ALWAYS a mechanical turk, it is ALWAYS human beings being pressured to do more work for less wages. Every single goddamn time.
MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.
MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing
There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.
fortune.com
December 26, 2025 at 6:40 AM
It is ALWAYS a mechanical turk, it is ALWAYS human beings being pressured to do more work for less wages. Every single goddamn time.
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the epstein files as rick owens fall/winter 2024
December 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
the epstein files as rick owens fall/winter 2024
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It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.
December 19, 2025 at 6:45 AM
It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.
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Gonna stop looking at the Epstein Files in a second because I'm frankly way too skeeved out to keep going but I will say this: the CSAM isn't blacked out nearly enough while the faces of guys in ties are obscured by vanta black rectangles the size of the sun.
December 19, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Gonna stop looking at the Epstein Files in a second because I'm frankly way too skeeved out to keep going but I will say this: the CSAM isn't blacked out nearly enough while the faces of guys in ties are obscured by vanta black rectangles the size of the sun.
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Almost a year into this presidency, Trump voters have gotten nothing except the Big Beautiful Bill, which was usual Republican politics of giving tax cuts to the rich and slashing social spending for the poor. Housing remains unaffordable, cost of living is rising, and manufacturing jobs fell.
December 19, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Almost a year into this presidency, Trump voters have gotten nothing except the Big Beautiful Bill, which was usual Republican politics of giving tax cuts to the rich and slashing social spending for the poor. Housing remains unaffordable, cost of living is rising, and manufacturing jobs fell.
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the most transparent administration in history
December 19, 2025 at 9:45 PM
the most transparent administration in history
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“Aye, breach your last to the sun, Moby Dick!” cried Ahab, “thy hour and thy harpoon are at hand!”
December 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
“Aye, breach your last to the sun, Moby Dick!” cried Ahab, “thy hour and thy harpoon are at hand!”
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At 1pm Trump is going to run an informercial about Trump approved pharmaceuticals being sold at a discounted price to you his adoring public, hint: it'll all be shit his sponsors are creating and they'll be rigging the system to force you to purchase them.
December 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
At 1pm Trump is going to run an informercial about Trump approved pharmaceuticals being sold at a discounted price to you his adoring public, hint: it'll all be shit his sponsors are creating and they'll be rigging the system to force you to purchase them.
IT’S FINALLY HAPPENING.
How he lasted longer than Brand is beyond me. (It’s not, he had super-injunctions) couldn’t have happened to a more odious man and literally the worst kept secret in creative media
How he lasted longer than Brand is beyond me. (It’s not, he had super-injunctions) couldn’t have happened to a more odious man and literally the worst kept secret in creative media
December 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
IT’S FINALLY HAPPENING.
How he lasted longer than Brand is beyond me. (It’s not, he had super-injunctions) couldn’t have happened to a more odious man and literally the worst kept secret in creative media
How he lasted longer than Brand is beyond me. (It’s not, he had super-injunctions) couldn’t have happened to a more odious man and literally the worst kept secret in creative media
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"[Workers at major companies] are asking, why do I have to use something that doesn't work? Well it's because capitalism demands eternal growth. Milton Friedman's ghost haunts every trader, Ronald Reagan pops out of the toilet every so often, this is what we do here."
Love the mental imagery.
Love the mental imagery.
Spoke with Times Radio about the AI bubble, and how I think it might be bigger and uglier than the dotcom bubble (though the after-effects will be...different)
youtu.be/C35bMFVDrlo
youtu.be/C35bMFVDrlo
AI bubble: ’This is so much worse than the dot-com bubble’ | Ed Zitron
YouTube video by Times Radio Tech
youtu.be
December 18, 2025 at 12:17 AM
"[Workers at major companies] are asking, why do I have to use something that doesn't work? Well it's because capitalism demands eternal growth. Milton Friedman's ghost haunts every trader, Ronald Reagan pops out of the toilet every so often, this is what we do here."
Love the mental imagery.
Love the mental imagery.
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JFC all these guys are megalomaniacal weirdos…we need to remove billionaires from the planet like we would termites or roaches from a building.
Factory farming humans — one more reason there should be no billionaires
“Videogame executive Xu Bo, said to have more than 100 children, and other elites build mega-families, testing citizenship laws and drawing on nannies, IVF and legal firms set up to help them”
www.wsj.com/us-news/chin...
“Videogame executive Xu Bo, said to have more than 100 children, and other elites build mega-families, testing citizenship laws and drawing on nannies, IVF and legal firms set up to help them”
www.wsj.com/us-news/chin...
The Chinese Billionaires Having Dozens of U.S.-Born Babies Via Surrogate
Videogame executive Xu Bo, said to have more than 100 children, and other elites are building mega-families—testing citizenship laws and drawing on nannies, IVF and legal firms set up to help them.
www.wsj.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:12 PM
JFC all these guys are megalomaniacal weirdos…we need to remove billionaires from the planet like we would termites or roaches from a building.
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You don't have to blame antisemitism on the pronouncements of Zionists. You really don't. It doesn't make you seem politically attuned to the plight of Palestinians. It just makes Jews question whether you actually care about antisemitism at all outside of being labelled an antisemite.
December 14, 2025 at 1:28 PM
You don't have to blame antisemitism on the pronouncements of Zionists. You really don't. It doesn't make you seem politically attuned to the plight of Palestinians. It just makes Jews question whether you actually care about antisemitism at all outside of being labelled an antisemite.
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All I can say this morning is look for the helpers, like Ahmed.
“Seven News reported the bystander was a 43-year-old fruit shop owner from the Sutherland Shire named Ahmed.”
“Seven News reported the bystander was a 43-year-old fruit shop owner from the Sutherland Shire named Ahmed.”
Bystander tackles and wrestles gun from alleged gunman during Bondi beach mass shooting
Bystander tackles and wrestles gun from alleged gunman during Bondi beach mass shooting
Video shows the man rushing one of the alleged gunmen who shot dozens of people on Sunday evening in Australia
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Bondi beach shooting live updates
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Bondi terror attack: full report
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What we know so far about the shooting in Australia
A bystander tackled and wrestled a gun from one of the two alleged gunman during the Bondi beach mass shooting in which at least 12 people were killed, footage shows.
Video of the scene shows the alleged gunman standing on a footpath between a grassy area and parking lot holding a shotgun and firing into the distance. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
All I can say this morning is look for the helpers, like Ahmed.
“Seven News reported the bystander was a 43-year-old fruit shop owner from the Sutherland Shire named Ahmed.”
“Seven News reported the bystander was a 43-year-old fruit shop owner from the Sutherland Shire named Ahmed.”
This isn’t just a Bad Idea, it’s a mutilation of the human condition.
Putting aside the fact that it isn’t your grandmother, the fact we are impermanent is what makes our lives worth living.
You’re not only not accepting your loss and moving through grief, you’re wallowing in it perpetually.
Putting aside the fact that it isn’t your grandmother, the fact we are impermanent is what makes our lives worth living.
You’re not only not accepting your loss and moving through grief, you’re wallowing in it perpetually.
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 13, 2025 at 2:52 AM
This isn’t just a Bad Idea, it’s a mutilation of the human condition.
Putting aside the fact that it isn’t your grandmother, the fact we are impermanent is what makes our lives worth living.
You’re not only not accepting your loss and moving through grief, you’re wallowing in it perpetually.
Putting aside the fact that it isn’t your grandmother, the fact we are impermanent is what makes our lives worth living.
You’re not only not accepting your loss and moving through grief, you’re wallowing in it perpetually.
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I can't wait for the new movie of Kafka's Metamorphosis starring the cast of A Bug's Life.
December 13, 2025 at 12:41 AM
I can't wait for the new movie of Kafka's Metamorphosis starring the cast of A Bug's Life.
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Man walks into doctor's office, says, "Doctor, I-"
Doctor interrupts him. "Are you Pagliacci?"
"What?"
"Just checking."
Doctor interrupts him. "Are you Pagliacci?"
"What?"
"Just checking."
December 12, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Man walks into doctor's office, says, "Doctor, I-"
Doctor interrupts him. "Are you Pagliacci?"
"What?"
"Just checking."
Doctor interrupts him. "Are you Pagliacci?"
"What?"
"Just checking."
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From the US Embassy in London today.
December 12, 2025 at 12:28 AM
From the US Embassy in London today.
Ummmmmm am I the only one who noticed @larianstudios.com’s new game trailer had a Wicker Man style inter-species orgy that implies children were watching it?
I’ve never felt prudish about anything, but that felt…..weird. #thegameawards #TGA2025
I’ve never felt prudish about anything, but that felt…..weird. #thegameawards #TGA2025
December 12, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Ummmmmm am I the only one who noticed @larianstudios.com’s new game trailer had a Wicker Man style inter-species orgy that implies children were watching it?
I’ve never felt prudish about anything, but that felt…..weird. #thegameawards #TGA2025
I’ve never felt prudish about anything, but that felt…..weird. #thegameawards #TGA2025
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i made this in december 2023 but never shared it bc i felt like it'd just bum everyone out
December 12, 2025 at 1:18 AM
i made this in december 2023 but never shared it bc i felt like it'd just bum everyone out
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So all the far right talking points then. Bingo! She was appointed by Kemi Badenoch who tweeted out she was put in post to spread transphobia so that is a fact on the record
Kishwer Falkner, the former EHRC chair, is on Sky saying the Labour government is anti-women, citing not just trans issues but also grooming gangs and what she calls pandering to Islam and racial sensitivities. She's not exactly dispelling the idea she was a political actor when she led the EHRC.
December 7, 2025 at 1:26 PM
So all the far right talking points then. Bingo! She was appointed by Kemi Badenoch who tweeted out she was put in post to spread transphobia so that is a fact on the record
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"Jess O’Thomson of GLP argued that recent decisions by Girlguiding and the WI to exclude trans women were the result of “lobbying and legal threats” from groups “pressuring organisations on the basis that the case is closed, and exclusion is now legally required – when that is far from the case”
Trans doctor changing room case: does it amount to a bathroom ban?
Trans doctor changing room case: does it amount to a bathroom ban?
Some businesses still waiting for final EHRC guidance while firms that moved early to exclude trans people show no sign of backtracking
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:04 AM
"Jess O’Thomson of GLP argued that recent decisions by Girlguiding and the WI to exclude trans women were the result of “lobbying and legal threats” from groups “pressuring organisations on the basis that the case is closed, and exclusion is now legally required – when that is far from the case”
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GET YOUR 💉💉💉!
#Flu
BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...
Flu cases jump sharply in England as NHS faces 'worst case scenario' - live updates - BBC News
#Flu
BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...
Flu cases jump sharply in England as NHS faces 'worst case scenario' - live updates - BBC News
Flu cases jump sharply in England as NHS faces 'worst case scenario' - live updates
NHS England says there are now enough flu patients to fill more than three whole hospital trusts.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 10:07 AM
GET YOUR 💉💉💉!
#Flu
BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...
Flu cases jump sharply in England as NHS faces 'worst case scenario' - live updates - BBC News
#Flu
BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...
Flu cases jump sharply in England as NHS faces 'worst case scenario' - live updates - BBC News