Orion Kidder
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Orion Kidder
@orionkidder.bsky.social
· Jan 19
Folks, it was just a matter of time before this Twitter clone turned into Twitter. Even before Elon, it was a trash fire. I was already thinking of winding down my presence, here. An ICE-friendly social-media platform is not for me.
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If you’re going to be required to use a digital robot butler then surely you want that to mean that it will do work while you’re frolicking in meadows or relaxing with novels and tea, not that it will do work while you somehow go out and find other, harder work to do even more of, for the same pay
It’s funny how SV went from 4-hour work week to 9-9-6 rather than the reverse with the rise of AI agents
February 19, 2026 at 2:55 AM
If you’re going to be required to use a digital robot butler then surely you want that to mean that it will do work while you’re frolicking in meadows or relaxing with novels and tea, not that it will do work while you somehow go out and find other, harder work to do even more of, for the same pay
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These crisis PR strategies: building a pseudo-feminist narrative around an alleged predator, relying on access journalists, and turning to partisan influencer "news" sources over actual journalists when that fails, are consistent across each of these cases. spitfirenews.com/p/epstein-jo...
The Epstein-Johnny Depp-Justin Baldoni connection
These men shared some of the same crisis publicists and PR strategies.
spitfirenews.com
February 18, 2026 at 5:32 PM
These crisis PR strategies: building a pseudo-feminist narrative around an alleged predator, relying on access journalists, and turning to partisan influencer "news" sources over actual journalists when that fails, are consistent across each of these cases. spitfirenews.com/p/epstein-jo...
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and it's *so little* money
for us, the difference between "good headspace, able to get life done and create things" and "total burnout" is like $800/mo
most artists aren't asking to be rich. seriously, just make life a little fucking easier and we'll handle the rest and keep you entertained.
for us, the difference between "good headspace, able to get life done and create things" and "total burnout" is like $800/mo
most artists aren't asking to be rich. seriously, just make life a little fucking easier and we'll handle the rest and keep you entertained.
this is why the whole “oh, suffering creates great art” thing is bullshit
you know what’s conducive to art? a roof over your head and food on the table
you know what isn’t? stressing out over where the fuck the rent money is going to come from
you know what’s conducive to art? a roof over your head and food on the table
you know what isn’t? stressing out over where the fuck the rent money is going to come from
I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.
And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.
And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.
February 19, 2026 at 2:47 AM
and it's *so little* money
for us, the difference between "good headspace, able to get life done and create things" and "total burnout" is like $800/mo
most artists aren't asking to be rich. seriously, just make life a little fucking easier and we'll handle the rest and keep you entertained.
for us, the difference between "good headspace, able to get life done and create things" and "total burnout" is like $800/mo
most artists aren't asking to be rich. seriously, just make life a little fucking easier and we'll handle the rest and keep you entertained.
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this is why the whole “oh, suffering creates great art” thing is bullshit
you know what’s conducive to art? a roof over your head and food on the table
you know what isn’t? stressing out over where the fuck the rent money is going to come from
you know what’s conducive to art? a roof over your head and food on the table
you know what isn’t? stressing out over where the fuck the rent money is going to come from
I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.
And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.
And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.
I’m constantly astounded at the sheer level of artistic production coming out of Iceland. Novels, movies, music. Amazing.
February 19, 2026 at 1:35 AM
this is why the whole “oh, suffering creates great art” thing is bullshit
you know what’s conducive to art? a roof over your head and food on the table
you know what isn’t? stressing out over where the fuck the rent money is going to come from
you know what’s conducive to art? a roof over your head and food on the table
you know what isn’t? stressing out over where the fuck the rent money is going to come from
Everybody! I just found something. I'm sure lots of people knew, but I didn't, so here it is:
Paste a link into your post.
Watch it generate a linked preview of the page, but one that *doesn't take up more characters*.
Delete the link *text*.
The preview link remains.
:)
Paste a link into your post.
Watch it generate a linked preview of the page, but one that *doesn't take up more characters*.
Delete the link *text*.
The preview link remains.
:)
Luddite - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
February 19, 2026 at 2:57 AM
Everybody! I just found something. I'm sure lots of people knew, but I didn't, so here it is:
Paste a link into your post.
Watch it generate a linked preview of the page, but one that *doesn't take up more characters*.
Delete the link *text*.
The preview link remains.
:)
Paste a link into your post.
Watch it generate a linked preview of the page, but one that *doesn't take up more characters*.
Delete the link *text*.
The preview link remains.
:)
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Whole Foods AI stores were entirely Indians watching on video feeds and ringing you up. Waymos have live human support partially driving them. And the AI that has “Hollywood shaking in its boots” is…stock footage. With face replacement.
Yeah. We are sooooooo cooked, AI bros. Call me when it works.
Yeah. We are sooooooo cooked, AI bros. Call me when it works.
From the above piece: “I hopped over to Seedance’s website and it only took 10 seconds to find green screen footage of two stuntmen performing the same fight choreography we see in the Cruise vs Pitt scene.” youtu.be/AKDWuFSy9DA
The Seedance Tom Cruise vs Brad Pitt fight scene - how was it really made?
YouTube video by Shokunin Studio
youtu.be
February 19, 2026 at 1:46 AM
Whole Foods AI stores were entirely Indians watching on video feeds and ringing you up. Waymos have live human support partially driving them. And the AI that has “Hollywood shaking in its boots” is…stock footage. With face replacement.
Yeah. We are sooooooo cooked, AI bros. Call me when it works.
Yeah. We are sooooooo cooked, AI bros. Call me when it works.
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Question for Mac geeks: I left my Mac on a plane. (NEVER use the seatback pocket.) Bought new Mac. Restored from TM backup. Used it for 2 weeks, kept backing up. Airline found my old Mac (hurray!) Is there any way to get my old Mac to take over the TM backup from the NEW mac without a wipe/restore?
February 18, 2026 at 5:39 AM
Question for Mac geeks: I left my Mac on a plane. (NEVER use the seatback pocket.) Bought new Mac. Restored from TM backup. Used it for 2 weeks, kept backing up. Airline found my old Mac (hurray!) Is there any way to get my old Mac to take over the TM backup from the NEW mac without a wipe/restore?
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Someone making $100,000 a year pays lower income taxes in BC than in Alberta.
ALBERTA.
That's nuts. The BCNDP should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves for the fact that BC is racing Alberta to the bottom, and winning.
ALBERTA.
That's nuts. The BCNDP should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves for the fact that BC is racing Alberta to the bottom, and winning.
B.C. personal income tax increased for first $50,363 earned starting in 2026 | Urbanized
There are some notable changes in the Government of British Columbia’s 2026 budget relating to the provincial personal income tax.
dailyhive.com
February 18, 2026 at 5:56 AM
Someone making $100,000 a year pays lower income taxes in BC than in Alberta.
ALBERTA.
That's nuts. The BCNDP should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves for the fact that BC is racing Alberta to the bottom, and winning.
ALBERTA.
That's nuts. The BCNDP should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves for the fact that BC is racing Alberta to the bottom, and winning.
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Personally, I'd rather BC have higher taxes and better housing and hospitals.
But the BCNDP have made a different fiscal decision.
But the BCNDP have made a different fiscal decision.
February 18, 2026 at 5:51 AM
Personally, I'd rather BC have higher taxes and better housing and hospitals.
But the BCNDP have made a different fiscal decision.
But the BCNDP have made a different fiscal decision.
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"Ladies and Genitals, we bring you the new, improved, party of Sovereignty and British Values: the Reformatives!"
"Our team of recycled, failed Tories will be your chance to vote for the same people who brought you austerity, poverty and #Brexit!"
"You can rely on us!"
#ukpolitics #wato #r4today
"Our team of recycled, failed Tories will be your chance to vote for the same people who brought you austerity, poverty and #Brexit!"
"You can rely on us!"
#ukpolitics #wato #r4today
February 17, 2026 at 1:21 PM
"Ladies and Genitals, we bring you the new, improved, party of Sovereignty and British Values: the Reformatives!"
"Our team of recycled, failed Tories will be your chance to vote for the same people who brought you austerity, poverty and #Brexit!"
"You can rely on us!"
#ukpolitics #wato #r4today
"Our team of recycled, failed Tories will be your chance to vote for the same people who brought you austerity, poverty and #Brexit!"
"You can rely on us!"
#ukpolitics #wato #r4today
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"Under international human rights law, States are obligated to prevent, investigate and punish violence against women and girls, including acts committed by private actors."
February 18, 2026 at 3:53 AM
"Under international human rights law, States are obligated to prevent, investigate and punish violence against women and girls, including acts committed by private actors."
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My white parents did not pass down any family history.
Fail
We were all immigrants here unless youre native American, natural migration peoples, or forced to come here.
We escaped nazis once,
im (+ this generation) not running ever again.
We dont concede land nor human rights.
You dont choose.
Fail
We were all immigrants here unless youre native American, natural migration peoples, or forced to come here.
We escaped nazis once,
im (+ this generation) not running ever again.
We dont concede land nor human rights.
You dont choose.
February 18, 2026 at 3:28 AM
My white parents did not pass down any family history.
Fail
We were all immigrants here unless youre native American, natural migration peoples, or forced to come here.
We escaped nazis once,
im (+ this generation) not running ever again.
We dont concede land nor human rights.
You dont choose.
Fail
We were all immigrants here unless youre native American, natural migration peoples, or forced to come here.
We escaped nazis once,
im (+ this generation) not running ever again.
We dont concede land nor human rights.
You dont choose.
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2026: Feed your X-Rays to MechaHitler
Counterpoint:
Don’t upload your medical records to any LLM.
That’s fucking insane.
Don’t upload your medical records to any LLM.
That’s fucking insane.
February 18, 2026 at 3:20 AM
2026: Feed your X-Rays to MechaHitler
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My dudes. My billionaire pals. The wealth tax is for YOUR well-being, not ours.
Read this sentence slowly:
“Gov. Gavin Newsom, crypto executives and business leaders are ramping up efforts this week to stop the proposed wealth tax...”
gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/u...
“Gov. Gavin Newsom, crypto executives and business leaders are ramping up efforts this week to stop the proposed wealth tax...”
gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/u...
As Bernie Sanders Comes to California, Wealth Tax Opponents Intensify Efforts
www.nytimes.com
February 18, 2026 at 3:22 AM
My dudes. My billionaire pals. The wealth tax is for YOUR well-being, not ours.
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a fucking pedophile sexually abused nearly every prospective and actual Olympian gymnast for over two decades, and the political discourse is hyper-fixated on the hypothetical unfairness of trans girls competing with cis girls
1 reason why I get so angry at anti-trans "safety in women's sports" people is NONE of them do SHIT or say ANYTHING about actual safety in womens sport. There are ongoing histories and challenges and abuses in sport, and folks are more than welcome to pay attention, and give a damn. But they don't.
February 17, 2026 at 7:57 PM
a fucking pedophile sexually abused nearly every prospective and actual Olympian gymnast for over two decades, and the political discourse is hyper-fixated on the hypothetical unfairness of trans girls competing with cis girls
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Not only that, voters find attempts to make these issues more salient to be extremely off putting, as seen in Virginia
The reason I wrote this essay was to push back against the argument that trans issues were salient for the average voter. They're not.
The panic among some progressives about this polling is disproportionate to the real electoral impact.
The panic among some progressives about this polling is disproportionate to the real electoral impact.
February 18, 2026 at 1:23 AM
Not only that, voters find attempts to make these issues more salient to be extremely off putting, as seen in Virginia
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The craft vs product distinction is key. If you want the product without the craft, you're not a writer - you're someone who wants to have written. Big difference.
February 17, 2026 at 11:39 PM
The craft vs product distinction is key. If you want the product without the craft, you're not a writer - you're someone who wants to have written. Big difference.
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I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.
February 17, 2026 at 9:00 PM
I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.
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My wife said AI in Outlook has started to send summary notes about emails and the summaries are longer than the emails and full of wrong info lol. "I got a 5 word email from my coworker that said 'Lunch will be at 1' and the summary said 'Your lunch meeting is now at 11' lmaoo
you know what would be a great way to market the AI technology you really want me to use but which I have thus far refused to touch?
what if you used it to imply that my emails are poorly written, in real time as I'm writing them, even though I'm consciously trying to avoid sounding like AI?
what if you used it to imply that my emails are poorly written, in real time as I'm writing them, even though I'm consciously trying to avoid sounding like AI?
February 17, 2026 at 8:07 PM
My wife said AI in Outlook has started to send summary notes about emails and the summaries are longer than the emails and full of wrong info lol. "I got a 5 word email from my coworker that said 'Lunch will be at 1' and the summary said 'Your lunch meeting is now at 11' lmaoo
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So "bots are doing harassment!" kind of feels like "AI is taking my job!" which attributes agency to AI in a way that is letting actual humans off the hook. Like... why take that very real decision making agency away from THE HUMAN THAT FIRED YOU?
February 17, 2026 at 7:56 PM
So "bots are doing harassment!" kind of feels like "AI is taking my job!" which attributes agency to AI in a way that is letting actual humans off the hook. Like... why take that very real decision making agency away from THE HUMAN THAT FIRED YOU?
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Love that AI, a thing we hate and don’t want, steals everything, ruins everything, shittifies everything. Drinks our water, plagiarizes our art, pisses all over our information fidelity, drives kids to suicide, serves the right-wing, and fucks up our devices and services. Good job, techbros!
“.. ‘many system vendors will go bankrupt or exit product lines due to a lack of memory. Mobile phone production will be reduced by 200-250 million units, and PC and TV production will be significantly reduced.’ Yikes.”
@pcgamer.com #DRAM
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/mem...
@pcgamer.com #DRAM
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/mem...
February 17, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Love that AI, a thing we hate and don’t want, steals everything, ruins everything, shittifies everything. Drinks our water, plagiarizes our art, pisses all over our information fidelity, drives kids to suicide, serves the right-wing, and fucks up our devices and services. Good job, techbros!
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Absolutely not. The process of transformation by skilled, creative human interpretation is what makes adaptation from one medium to another interesting.
Writers if you could drop your novel or short story into an AI and have it make a great and watchable movie out of your story, and you could sell that movie, would you do it? #writers #WritingCommunity
February 17, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Absolutely not. The process of transformation by skilled, creative human interpretation is what makes adaptation from one medium to another interesting.
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I love how the entire economy is now oriented around “fuck you personally for being poor and living in society”
WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out
WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out
Hyperscalers are tearing hard drives out of the hands of manufacturers. Prices are therefore also rising for SSDs.
www.heise.de
February 17, 2026 at 5:55 PM
I love how the entire economy is now oriented around “fuck you personally for being poor and living in society”
