Franklin Borovi
@slowclapcitkane.bsky.social
I'm a sarcastic jerk with a very floofy cat. Tech, analog cameras, and typewriters. Flight simming bastard. I garden when it isn't winter.
Asking Trump who he thinks should be the next Pope is like asking Trump what his favorite book of the Bible is.
He has no idea, and you look like an idiot for asking.
He has no idea, and you look like an idiot for asking.
April 29, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Asking Trump who he thinks should be the next Pope is like asking Trump what his favorite book of the Bible is.
He has no idea, and you look like an idiot for asking.
He has no idea, and you look like an idiot for asking.
Pick whichever rationale you want, because it doesn’t matter. Whatever the reason was, it exposed half of the electorate—the 77 million people who voted for Trump—as either fundamentally unserious, decadent, or weak.
The American Age Is Over
Emergency Triad: The United States commits imperial suicide.
www.thebulwark.com
April 4, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Pick whichever rationale you want, because it doesn’t matter. Whatever the reason was, it exposed half of the electorate—the 77 million people who voted for Trump—as either fundamentally unserious, decadent, or weak.
These are important questions, because the tools of oppression that are tested on the fringes of society eventually get turned on the masses.
Imperial boomerang - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
March 11, 2025 at 10:27 AM
These are important questions, because the tools of oppression that are tested on the fringes of society eventually get turned on the masses.
The bombing of Guernica was the first demonstration of the true destructive power of aerial bombardment. What will the equivalent for state-surveillance AI be?
The Guernica of AI
A warning from a former Palantir employee in a new American crisis
zigguratmag.substack.com
March 11, 2025 at 10:25 AM
The bombing of Guernica was the first demonstration of the true destructive power of aerial bombardment. What will the equivalent for state-surveillance AI be?
AI will be used to disappear people. It's already happening here.
The disappeared Columbia student is the start of a surveillance nightmare
Mahmoud Khalil is a legal permanent resident. That didn’t stop ICE.
www.theverge.com
March 11, 2025 at 10:23 AM
AI will be used to disappear people. It's already happening here.
Let's talk about Project 'Good Old USA':
threadreaderapp.com/thread/18976...
threadreaderapp.com/thread/18976...
Thread by @adamscochran on Thread Reader App
@adamscochran: 1/31 Meet project "Good Old USA" the now unsealed DoJ file on the Russian influence in the US to sway opinion on the war in Ukraine. Something Trump has bought into hook-line and sinker...
threadreaderapp.com
March 7, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Let's talk about Project 'Good Old USA':
threadreaderapp.com/thread/18976...
threadreaderapp.com/thread/18976...
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NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
March 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
I see the media has agreed on "heated discussion" instead of the more accurate "pre-meditated attempt by Agent Krasnov to humiliate an ally."
March 1, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I see the media has agreed on "heated discussion" instead of the more accurate "pre-meditated attempt by Agent Krasnov to humiliate an ally."
We've just seen the only thing Trump will let get between himself and money: his own narcissistic rage.
March 1, 2025 at 12:11 AM
We've just seen the only thing Trump will let get between himself and money: his own narcissistic rage.
Sweatshops as a service goes quite well with our new billionaire overlords...
Y Combinator deletes posts after a startup's demo goes viral | TechCrunch
YC deleted a controversial demo video from one of its startups, which monitors factory workers with AI cameras.
techcrunch.com
February 26, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Sweatshops as a service goes quite well with our new billionaire overlords...
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The Revolution will be AI-icized
February 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The Revolution will be AI-icized
Resist the Butterfly Revolution.
February 16, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Resist the Butterfly Revolution.
Dorsey: "people are running away from X, rather than running to something on Bluesky. That's not a great way to build a product, unfortunately. We want people that are running to us for a particular thing that they couldn't do before."
You got mad and quit over mod tools, which Twitter lacks.
You got mad and quit over mod tools, which Twitter lacks.
February 15, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Dorsey: "people are running away from X, rather than running to something on Bluesky. That's not a great way to build a product, unfortunately. We want people that are running to us for a particular thing that they couldn't do before."
You got mad and quit over mod tools, which Twitter lacks.
You got mad and quit over mod tools, which Twitter lacks.
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Weak sauce, @axios.com
We’ll be calling it “Gulf of Mexico” even in the gulags, and we’d boycott White House pressers if we were up there to stand in solidarity with the AP — even if they won’t stand in solidarity as we’re banned from Speaker Sexton’s pressers here in Tennessee.
We’ll be calling it “Gulf of Mexico” even in the gulags, and we’d boycott White House pressers if we were up there to stand in solidarity with the AP — even if they won’t stand in solidarity as we’re banned from Speaker Sexton’s pressers here in Tennessee.
February 15, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Weak sauce, @axios.com
We’ll be calling it “Gulf of Mexico” even in the gulags, and we’d boycott White House pressers if we were up there to stand in solidarity with the AP — even if they won’t stand in solidarity as we’re banned from Speaker Sexton’s pressers here in Tennessee.
We’ll be calling it “Gulf of Mexico” even in the gulags, and we’d boycott White House pressers if we were up there to stand in solidarity with the AP — even if they won’t stand in solidarity as we’re banned from Speaker Sexton’s pressers here in Tennessee.
Elon Musk’s DOGE Shares Classified U.S. Intel With Entire World newrepublic.com/post/191580/... via @newrepublic.com
Elon Musk’s DOGE Shares Classified U.S. Intel With Entire World
Elon Musk’s minions posted classified data on their website for anyone to see.
newrepublic.com
February 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Elon Musk’s DOGE Shares Classified U.S. Intel With Entire World newrepublic.com/post/191580/... via @newrepublic.com
Let me be 100% clear. Our country's problems stem from a class of oligarchs that loot the government and the working class and now want to destroy all vestiges of representational government in favor of a corporatocracy: a neo-state ruled by an executive that answers only to shareholders.
This administration has convinced half the country that the real problem isn’t billionaires who evade taxes and collect government handouts but the working class who pay taxes and get nothing in return.
February 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Let me be 100% clear. Our country's problems stem from a class of oligarchs that loot the government and the working class and now want to destroy all vestiges of representational government in favor of a corporatocracy: a neo-state ruled by an executive that answers only to shareholders.
On a lighter note, both Pringles and Little Caesar's have decided to make commercials featuring flying body hair.
February 10, 2025 at 1:05 AM
On a lighter note, both Pringles and Little Caesar's have decided to make commercials featuring flying body hair.
See? Trump gets back into office, and hell freezes over.
January 22, 2025 at 2:09 AM
See? Trump gets back into office, and hell freezes over.
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Sports subs on Reddit have started a wave of proposals to ban links from X/Twitter. Some will allow screenshots only, others are leaning towards a hardline ban.
January 21, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Sports subs on Reddit have started a wave of proposals to ban links from X/Twitter. Some will allow screenshots only, others are leaning towards a hardline ban.
Last week on the Olentangy.
January 18, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Last week on the Olentangy.
I sense an impending divorce from Facebook (alas, Marketplace) and IG. Fuck Zuck.
January 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I sense an impending divorce from Facebook (alas, Marketplace) and IG. Fuck Zuck.