A. Das
@rohandas.bsky.social
Writer, editor, digital programmer, sometimes movie critic. CMS@MIT, CRC@NYU. Editorial/programming: @TEDTalks, @io9, @slant_magazine, @livemint, @SundayGuardian. NYC/Kolkata.
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something very important for Dems to realize is that the tech overlords are not people you can win back by promising a lighter touch and saying a few nice things
they’ve gotten a taste of mask-off fascism and they are not going back, they don’t want to play nice with the peons anymore
they’ve gotten a taste of mask-off fascism and they are not going back, they don’t want to play nice with the peons anymore
There’s a funny Politico story showing that the latest polling on AI shows 80-20 in favor of heavy regulations, an absolute slam dunk platform, but Dems are worried about not winning back mask-off tech CEO donors
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
December 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
something very important for Dems to realize is that the tech overlords are not people you can win back by promising a lighter touch and saying a few nice things
they’ve gotten a taste of mask-off fascism and they are not going back, they don’t want to play nice with the peons anymore
they’ve gotten a taste of mask-off fascism and they are not going back, they don’t want to play nice with the peons anymore
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some of the more insidious consent manufacturing i've ever encountered. subtle enough that you might ingest a few ideas before realizing the whole point of the piece is to tell you that being raped and killed by heartless, soulless thugs is fine, actually, and you like it.
A common assumption is that throughout history, people have experienced the same basic range of emotions. A radical field of history now challenges this assumption, Gal Beckerman reports. theatln.tc/KD2QRX9Y
🎨: Nicolás Ortega
🎨: Nicolás Ortega
December 28, 2025 at 7:23 PM
some of the more insidious consent manufacturing i've ever encountered. subtle enough that you might ingest a few ideas before realizing the whole point of the piece is to tell you that being raped and killed by heartless, soulless thugs is fine, actually, and you like it.
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From my man @bilgeebiri.bsky.social's great piece on movie marketing:
www.vulture.com/article/movi...
www.vulture.com/article/movi...
December 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
From my man @bilgeebiri.bsky.social's great piece on movie marketing:
www.vulture.com/article/movi...
www.vulture.com/article/movi...
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Imagine it being easier to just pay the 8 billion dollars and it won't affect you in the slightest. Man what have we done lol
Zuckerberg settles $8 billion lawsuit over Cambridge Analytica scandal, avoids testifying www.france24.com/en/americas/... @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
Zuckerberg settles $8 billion lawsuit over Cambridge Analytica scandal, avoids testifying
Mark Zuckerberg and current and former Meta executives agreed on Thursday to settle a $8 billion shareholder lawsuit alleging the company’s directors failed to prevent billions of dollars in fines and...
www.france24.com
December 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Imagine it being easier to just pay the 8 billion dollars and it won't affect you in the slightest. Man what have we done lol
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TMZ has confirmed james ransone's death. a horrible loss of a character actor of immense nuance and gorgeous subtlety, especially when playing guys who tick all of our typical "god, that fucking tool" boxes. ziggy, like so many of THE WIRE's characters, was its heart. (also: watch GENERATION KILL.)
December 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
TMZ has confirmed james ransone's death. a horrible loss of a character actor of immense nuance and gorgeous subtlety, especially when playing guys who tick all of our typical "god, that fucking tool" boxes. ziggy, like so many of THE WIRE's characters, was its heart. (also: watch GENERATION KILL.)
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the main thing about these guys is that they’re all allergic to actual work. they truly believe that they’ll be able to “leverage AI to plunge toilets” or whatever and the second a sewer backs up they’ll be blubbering for a government bailout
I love that crypto guys are setting up these little barbarian camps all over. little annoying civilization-style NPCs that pop out a bunch of resources when you conquer them. piñata nations
Belgian crypto billionaire Olivier Janssens is planning to establish a "libertarian community" with its own legal system in Saint Kitts and Nevis.
December 18, 2025 at 11:50 PM
the main thing about these guys is that they’re all allergic to actual work. they truly believe that they’ll be able to “leverage AI to plunge toilets” or whatever and the second a sewer backs up they’ll be blubbering for a government bailout
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MULHOLLAND DRIVE was on at 8:30 in the morning on Canadian television. My mother heard "I’ve Told Every Little Star" from another room and started singing along; she hadn't heard it in maybe 50 years and remembered every word. The power of Lynch compels me.
December 15, 2025 at 4:47 PM
MULHOLLAND DRIVE was on at 8:30 in the morning on Canadian television. My mother heard "I’ve Told Every Little Star" from another room and started singing along; she hadn't heard it in maybe 50 years and remembered every word. The power of Lynch compels me.
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god bless rob reiner for spinal tap
December 15, 2025 at 3:43 AM
god bless rob reiner for spinal tap
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The kind of fate that reportedly fell Rob & Michelle Reiner should happen to no one, but it's doubly gutting to know the kind of person he was, how loved the art he gave us, and how much he'll be missed by all of his family and fans alike. What a horrible way to go, what tragic news to absorb.
December 15, 2025 at 3:44 AM
The kind of fate that reportedly fell Rob & Michelle Reiner should happen to no one, but it's doubly gutting to know the kind of person he was, how loved the art he gave us, and how much he'll be missed by all of his family and fans alike. What a horrible way to go, what tragic news to absorb.
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We’re in a bold new era of soulless slop. Deeply unethical when it comes to art, labour, the environment, and the entertainment landscape at large.
December 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
We’re in a bold new era of soulless slop. Deeply unethical when it comes to art, labour, the environment, and the entertainment landscape at large.
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No, fuck off, but I did write a story once about a character talking to their dead grandmother in an aspect of forever:
December 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
No, fuck off, but I did write a story once about a character talking to their dead grandmother in an aspect of forever:
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The way tech companies constantly do stuff that nobody asked for really tells you a lot about their bigger ideology. They tell themselves that you will like it over time. What they mean is you’ll learn to endure it, or you’ll give up. quality of UI is not actually anywhere on their radar
new iOS update is sleek and also defaults in Music to “you must want songs transition as they would on a dance floor.” so many people will wonder why they can’t just listen to an album. Apps > Music > Song Transitions > toggle off.
December 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The way tech companies constantly do stuff that nobody asked for really tells you a lot about their bigger ideology. They tell themselves that you will like it over time. What they mean is you’ll learn to endure it, or you’ll give up. quality of UI is not actually anywhere on their radar
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I mean, in what sense will you be able to say the college “survived”?
December 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I mean, in what sense will you be able to say the college “survived”?
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This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
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"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
December 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
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‘MIT researchers showed that *95 percent of companies get zero return from their pilot programs* with generative AI."‘
"US Census Bureau data show that AI adoption by companies with more than 250 employees may have *already peaked and began declining or flattening out this year.* Most businesses still don’t see a significant return on their investment when trying to use the latest generative AI tools"
December 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
‘MIT researchers showed that *95 percent of companies get zero return from their pilot programs* with generative AI."‘
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It is an absolutely delightful irony that the richest man in the world is universally acknowledged to be a huge fucking loser who not a single living person envies in any way at all
Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.
December 7, 2025 at 12:23 AM
It is an absolutely delightful irony that the richest man in the world is universally acknowledged to be a huge fucking loser who not a single living person envies in any way at all
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As I just said demons walk among us. Look at this guy's IRL YouTube thumbnail face. Physical embodiment of 🤣. Contrast with the ice cold viscerally human gal who broke his pervert glasses. bsky.app/profile/tran...
December 5, 2025 at 10:04 PM
As I just said demons walk among us. Look at this guy's IRL YouTube thumbnail face. Physical embodiment of 🤣. Contrast with the ice cold viscerally human gal who broke his pervert glasses. bsky.app/profile/tran...
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I sure wish I could be sympathetic but all I remember is round after round of layoffs as private equity, Facebook and Google destroyed my various workplaces and tech dudes LEAPING onto Twitter to bray about how my friends got fired because they were too stupid to be Python coders like them
I think a lot of "learn to code" people thought high salaries for programmers were a permanent feature of the world rather than the result of unusual circumstances around supply and demand in the labor market. Over last 20 years, CS went from a niche college major to the most popular major in the US
December 5, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I sure wish I could be sympathetic but all I remember is round after round of layoffs as private equity, Facebook and Google destroyed my various workplaces and tech dudes LEAPING onto Twitter to bray about how my friends got fired because they were too stupid to be Python coders like them
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Joint Statement of the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.
December 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Joint Statement of the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.
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he's already saying it
Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos says the streamer has no "opposition" to releasing Warner Bros. movies in theaters, but hints that "windows will evolve to be much more consumer friendly."
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
December 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
he's already saying it