Roberto Iannucci
@rossomalpelo.bsky.social
All straight lines circle sometimes.
I like music for weirdos, science, politics, economics and plenty of other stuff. The Weakerthans are God and John K. Samson is their prophet.
I like music for weirdos, science, politics, economics and plenty of other stuff. The Weakerthans are God and John K. Samson is their prophet.
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There are some in the Republican Party who are actively pushing for Russian interests and it is most certainly involving a lot of money. This audio transcript obtained by Bloomberg is only the tip of the iceberg.
November 26, 2025 at 7:43 AM
There are some in the Republican Party who are actively pushing for Russian interests and it is most certainly involving a lot of money. This audio transcript obtained by Bloomberg is only the tip of the iceberg.
That's what Enron would say.
Nvidia, $NVDA, has said it is "not Enron."
November 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
That's what Enron would say.
@chriso-wiki.bsky.social for the win 🫶
In honour of its proponents, I suggest that the Dmitriev-Witkoff proposal should henceforth be called the Dim-Wit Plan
November 23, 2025 at 9:05 PM
@chriso-wiki.bsky.social for the win 🫶
Bitcoin and the blockchain are brilliant ideas. But they're not new: they're now 17 years old. In seventeen years those brilliant ideas have served only two purposes: as a way of conducting black market / illegal transactions and as purely speculative assets.
November 21, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Bitcoin and the blockchain are brilliant ideas. But they're not new: they're now 17 years old. In seventeen years those brilliant ideas have served only two purposes: as a way of conducting black market / illegal transactions and as purely speculative assets.
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Finally, I know of at least one case where the letter writer, deep into an episode of AI-induced psychosis, asked the LLM why scientists were not responding. The machine suggested that perhaps the scientists were trying to steal his discovery.
This will get someone killed sooner or later.
This will get someone killed sooner or later.
November 21, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Finally, I know of at least one case where the letter writer, deep into an episode of AI-induced psychosis, asked the LLM why scientists were not responding. The machine suggested that perhaps the scientists were trying to steal his discovery.
This will get someone killed sooner or later.
This will get someone killed sooner or later.
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MeToo did not go far enough. People were saying "MeToo has gone too far" when it had barely just picked up momentum.
It was an attempt at reckoning with how institutionally misogynistic and sexually exploitative most institutions are and what women are constantly put through. So it was crushed.
It was an attempt at reckoning with how institutionally misogynistic and sexually exploitative most institutions are and what women are constantly put through. So it was crushed.
This idea that #metoo was a temporary piece of insanity that happened because America was too woke...
Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.
Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.
November 17, 2025 at 8:37 AM
MeToo did not go far enough. People were saying "MeToo has gone too far" when it had barely just picked up momentum.
It was an attempt at reckoning with how institutionally misogynistic and sexually exploitative most institutions are and what women are constantly put through. So it was crushed.
It was an attempt at reckoning with how institutionally misogynistic and sexually exploitative most institutions are and what women are constantly put through. So it was crushed.
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this is a twofer because both Dr Gay Hitler and George Washington Hitler are incredible names.
Lots of those Hitlers stretch back to the early 1800s. Also, one of those Hitlers gave us an incredible rap name www.circlevilleherald.com/news/hitlers...
November 12, 2025 at 5:25 PM
this is a twofer because both Dr Gay Hitler and George Washington Hitler are incredible names.
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Let me get this straight, the criminal enterprise has a fixer named Mr. Wolff
November 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Let me get this straight, the criminal enterprise has a fixer named Mr. Wolff
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you have to understand maga's obsession with weirdo fucking plastic surgery as basically the same things as gang members getting face tattoos
bsky.app/profile/sjsh...
bsky.app/profile/sjsh...
[marx voice] IT'S A COSTLY SIGNAL
November 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
you have to understand maga's obsession with weirdo fucking plastic surgery as basically the same things as gang members getting face tattoos
bsky.app/profile/sjsh...
bsky.app/profile/sjsh...
Best YT channel on the internet? Yes.
The new episode of Philosophy Tube is about birth rates, ageing populations, and moral panics. Check it out! 👶
youtu.be/AIDnr646tLA?...
youtu.be/AIDnr646tLA?...
You're Wrong About Birth Rates & Aging Populations
YouTube video by Philosophy Tube
youtu.be
November 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Best YT channel on the internet? Yes.
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For those asking for background - I was in Sudan twice this year and wrote about it
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
November 2, 2025 at 12:07 PM
For those asking for background - I was in Sudan twice this year and wrote about it
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Travelling makes you smarter, they say, but only because you have a shitload of time to read books in the airport.
October 26, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Travelling makes you smarter, they say, but only because you have a shitload of time to read books in the airport.
I genuinely believe you can be an effective leftist who cares about human rights, public healthcare and the redistribution of wealth AND has an healthy appreciation for nice and useful things like the M1 Abrams Main Battle Tank, the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II and the M142 HIMARS.
October 25, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I genuinely believe you can be an effective leftist who cares about human rights, public healthcare and the redistribution of wealth AND has an healthy appreciation for nice and useful things like the M1 Abrams Main Battle Tank, the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II and the M142 HIMARS.
"Reagan loved tariffs" is the official position of today's GOP.
Amazing.
Amazing.
Trump: "They cheated on a commercial. Ronald Reagan loved tariffs and they said he didn't. And I guess it was AI or something. They cheated badly. Canada got caught cheating on a commercial. Can you believe it?"
October 25, 2025 at 11:35 AM
"Reagan loved tariffs" is the official position of today's GOP.
Amazing.
Amazing.
I've now learned that "Political candidate gets canceled for a nazi tattoo = WOKE" is the official Jacobin position and I'm not entirely surprised.
Establishment Democrats spent a full year complaining the Left forced them to be “woke.”
But then a left populist, Graham Platner, threatened to win in Maine, so they went right back to trying to cancel someone over old internet posts.
But then a left populist, Graham Platner, threatened to win in Maine, so they went right back to trying to cancel someone over old internet posts.
Democrats Cynically Wield “Wokeness” Against Graham Platner
Establishment Democrats spent a full year complaining the Left forced them to be “woke.” But then a left populist, Graham Platner, threatened to win in Maine, so they went right back to trying to cancel someone over old internet posts.
jacobin.com
October 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I've now learned that "Political candidate gets canceled for a nazi tattoo = WOKE" is the official Jacobin position and I'm not entirely surprised.
October 24, 2025 at 9:35 AM
If you search "thin-skinned" on Google Images, Donald J. Trump shows up in the results.
October 24, 2025 at 6:41 AM
If you search "thin-skinned" on Google Images, Donald J. Trump shows up in the results.
"The East Wing is Gone" is something I would expect from a Roland Emmerich movie.
Breaking news: The East Wing of the White House is gone.
Wrecking crews completely removed the decades-old annex by midday Thursday, just three days after they started, to make way for a pet project of President Trump: a 90,000-square-foot ballroom.
Wrecking crews completely removed the decades-old annex by midday Thursday, just three days after they started, to make way for a pet project of President Trump: a 90,000-square-foot ballroom.
The East Wing is gone, and Trump turns to damage control
Demolition crews appeared to finish taking down the bulk of the White House wing Thursday, while President Donald Trump defended the project.
wapo.st
October 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
"The East Wing is Gone" is something I would expect from a Roland Emmerich movie.
It took two World Wars with a global depression in between to give us the rule-based order, AKA the liberal international order: multilateral institutions + human equality + economic liberalism + democracy.
October 22, 2025 at 10:48 PM
It took two World Wars with a global depression in between to give us the rule-based order, AKA the liberal international order: multilateral institutions + human equality + economic liberalism + democracy.
Jesus Fuckin' Christ.
When historians write the history of the destruction of US public health & health research, I believe this event will be foundational in encapsulating what went wrong
The Great Barrington Declaration meets extreme anti-vaxx activists meets dangerous conspiracy theorists meets wellness grifters, ugh
The Great Barrington Declaration meets extreme anti-vaxx activists meets dangerous conspiracy theorists meets wellness grifters, ugh
October 22, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Jesus Fuckin' Christ.
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The linked course is an incredibly well-written, clear explanation of how LLMs work and outlines really thoughtfully what the can, and can't, do. Recommended read for absolutely everyone out there. #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky 💻🧬
So why do I let AI in my house? Don’t I care about the environmental consequences? What about the theft of intellectual property? Don’t I understand that these are bullshit machines?
Yes, yes, yes, and yes.
It’s what I do all day long.
Yes, yes, yes, and yes.
It’s what I do all day long.
Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines: Introduction
A free online humanities course about how to learn and work and thrive in an AI world.
thebullshitmachines.com
October 19, 2025 at 9:01 AM
The linked course is an incredibly well-written, clear explanation of how LLMs work and outlines really thoughtfully what the can, and can't, do. Recommended read for absolutely everyone out there. #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky 💻🧬
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POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
October 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Fucking Gestapo wannabes.
In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...
Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver
Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.
www.wweek.com
October 13, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Fucking Gestapo wannabes.