fuck capitalism; find a friend (via @hhf.bsky.social)
Don’t blame women for men’s loneliness. Blame capitalism
There’s a lot of money to be made off angry, isolated men
www.salon.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:53 AM
fuck capitalism; find a friend (via @hhf.bsky.social)
Instagram sends me fun fact accounts into my feed.
This was last night's fun fact.
This was last night's fun fact.
November 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Instagram sends me fun fact accounts into my feed.
This was last night's fun fact.
This was last night's fun fact.
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Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
So: is it alive? Or is it only pretending to be? In case of our robot guinea pigs, there's an easy answer - look what's inside! But with software, the answer might not be as easy.
We want to talk about machines pretending to be alive and how to deal with them, using a petting zoo of fluffy robots.
We want to talk about machines pretending to be alive and how to deal with them, using a petting zoo of fluffy robots.
November 4, 2025 at 6:14 PM
So: is it alive? Or is it only pretending to be? In case of our robot guinea pigs, there's an easy answer - look what's inside! But with software, the answer might not be as easy.
We want to talk about machines pretending to be alive and how to deal with them, using a petting zoo of fluffy robots.
We want to talk about machines pretending to be alive and how to deal with them, using a petting zoo of fluffy robots.
I have always been partial to red wine. Suddenly, I can't drink it anymore. My nose itches when I do, and I get splitting headaches the day after, no matter how little I've drunk. Turns out, this is a symptom of perimenopause. Another I've never heard of. This sucks.
November 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I have always been partial to red wine. Suddenly, I can't drink it anymore. My nose itches when I do, and I get splitting headaches the day after, no matter how little I've drunk. Turns out, this is a symptom of perimenopause. Another I've never heard of. This sucks.
I live my life on the clock. Timekeeping is very important to me. Kazakhstan is proving to be my nemesis.
YOU CAN'T JUST SWITCH TIMEZONES LIKE THIS *shakes fist* (I was at the museum an hour early today because my phone still had the UTC+6 time for Almaty)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in...
YOU CAN'T JUST SWITCH TIMEZONES LIKE THIS *shakes fist* (I was at the museum an hour early today because my phone still had the UTC+6 time for Almaty)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in...
Time in Kazakhstan - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
October 21, 2025 at 7:10 AM
I live my life on the clock. Timekeeping is very important to me. Kazakhstan is proving to be my nemesis.
YOU CAN'T JUST SWITCH TIMEZONES LIKE THIS *shakes fist* (I was at the museum an hour early today because my phone still had the UTC+6 time for Almaty)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in...
YOU CAN'T JUST SWITCH TIMEZONES LIKE THIS *shakes fist* (I was at the museum an hour early today because my phone still had the UTC+6 time for Almaty)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in...
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The return of Kokpar as Kazakhstan’s modern national sport
Since independence, kokpar has made a comeback as part of a broader revival of nomadic traditions. The World Nomad Games, launched in 2014, showcase sports such as archery, wrestling, and kokpar.
globalvoices.org
October 12, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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I'm sitting in a wildly delayed train. At 3pm, a TV crew is scheduled to come film us for a tourism segment (?). My team is currently building a singing swamp and a sled for our robot dog. Someone has unearthed some influencers who want to come, too. A startled resident is 3D printing in a corner.
October 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I'm sitting in a wildly delayed train. At 3pm, a TV crew is scheduled to come film us for a tourism segment (?). My team is currently building a singing swamp and a sled for our robot dog. Someone has unearthed some influencers who want to come, too. A startled resident is 3D printing in a corner.
So tomorrow I'm hosting a Weisswurstfrühstück for the residents (and my colleagues), have a budget meeting for 2026, and go swamp-hunting for a singing swamp installation tomorrow. Great fun!
October 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM
So tomorrow I'm hosting a Weisswurstfrühstück for the residents (and my colleagues), have a budget meeting for 2026, and go swamp-hunting for a singing swamp installation tomorrow. Great fun!
Reposted by twena
So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed
have just come across a YouTube account that has been using Sora to upload reels of fake, AI-generated “90s sitcoms” every few hours
October 7, 2025 at 12:32 PM
So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed
Deleuze des Tages: "Und jedesmal, wenn man einen Toten verzehrt, kann man sagen: wieder einer, den der Staat nicht kriegt."
October 7, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Deleuze des Tages: "Und jedesmal, wenn man einen Toten verzehrt, kann man sagen: wieder einer, den der Staat nicht kriegt."
I went to our archives today, to talk about a project based on a historical event. This was lying randomly on the table: a newspaper from the day of the moon landing.
Normal stuff at ZKM.
Normal stuff at ZKM.
October 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I went to our archives today, to talk about a project based on a historical event. This was lying randomly on the table: a newspaper from the day of the moon landing.
Normal stuff at ZKM.
Normal stuff at ZKM.
I am reading essays about "9 Evenings" and E.A.T. (Experiments in Art and Technology) in the 1960s and thoroughly enjoying how much of an epic failure this project was thought to be by contemporary critics. Sometimes it takes a few decades for a projects' contribution to be recognized.
October 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I am reading essays about "9 Evenings" and E.A.T. (Experiments in Art and Technology) in the 1960s and thoroughly enjoying how much of an epic failure this project was thought to be by contemporary critics. Sometimes it takes a few decades for a projects' contribution to be recognized.
Deleuze des Tages: "Man hat nur die Wahl zwischen dem Arsch des Bockes und dem Antlitz Gottes"
October 4, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Deleuze des Tages: "Man hat nur die Wahl zwischen dem Arsch des Bockes und dem Antlitz Gottes"
I spent the last two days with a guy who remembers the time he could read the whole of the www each morning. And be done with it before the 2nd cup of coffee.
Such an unexpected gem of a person at a theatre conference, no less.
Such an unexpected gem of a person at a theatre conference, no less.
October 3, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I spent the last two days with a guy who remembers the time he could read the whole of the www each morning. And be done with it before the 2nd cup of coffee.
Such an unexpected gem of a person at a theatre conference, no less.
Such an unexpected gem of a person at a theatre conference, no less.
Before the year is out, I will see the vast Kazakh steppe and stand on a singing Dune.
September 27, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Before the year is out, I will see the vast Kazakh steppe and stand on a singing Dune.
My day went from "Robopet autopsy" to "lying in a surround screen lab looking at Indian mudras (hand gestures)" to "spending some lovely one-on-one time with an injured guest artist in the emergency room" real fast (artist is okay)
September 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
My day went from "Robopet autopsy" to "lying in a surround screen lab looking at Indian mudras (hand gestures)" to "spending some lovely one-on-one time with an injured guest artist in the emergency room" real fast (artist is okay)
Sometimes, a colleague passes by my office saying: "come look at what I made!" and then, no matter what was my plan to do that day, I get to spend an hour seeing and listening to stuff and thinking up ways to use it in projects. Emails can wait. Seeing ppl curious & learning never can.
September 23, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Sometimes, a colleague passes by my office saying: "come look at what I made!" and then, no matter what was my plan to do that day, I get to spend an hour seeing and listening to stuff and thinking up ways to use it in projects. Emails can wait. Seeing ppl curious & learning never can.
There must be TikTok influencers out there teaching how to get ahead in seven easy steps or so. I've been positively swamped by people wanting jobs, internships, mentoring - anything and everything. And being extremely assertive about it.
September 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
There must be TikTok influencers out there teaching how to get ahead in seven easy steps or so. I've been positively swamped by people wanting jobs, internships, mentoring - anything and everything. And being extremely assertive about it.
Deleuze of the Day: "Eine Biene ist keine Relaisstation."
September 22, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Deleuze of the Day: "Eine Biene ist keine Relaisstation."
They've abandoned Stephenson's Snow Crash for a dip into Stephenson's Diamond Age, another dystopia novel I would rather not live within.
‘I love you too!’ My family’s creepy, unsettling week with an AI toy
The cuddly chatbot Grem is designed to ‘learn’ your child’s personality, while every conversation they have is recorded, then transcribed by a third party. It wasn’t long before I wanted this experime...
www.theguardian.com
September 17, 2025 at 5:19 AM
They've abandoned Stephenson's Snow Crash for a dip into Stephenson's Diamond Age, another dystopia novel I would rather not live within.
It feels like I'm spending so much of my time on the road. Well, tracks, actually.
September 16, 2025 at 12:36 PM
It feels like I'm spending so much of my time on the road. Well, tracks, actually.
Lithium is a finite resource. All the lithium we could ever need is already on the surface, but mostly unrecycled. It doesn't degrade through recycling, it's endlessly usable. This is brilliant, brilliant news.
September 16, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Lithium is a finite resource. All the lithium we could ever need is already on the surface, but mostly unrecycled. It doesn't degrade through recycling, it's endlessly usable. This is brilliant, brilliant news.
Offering up an option of Weisswurst Frühstück in Baden-Württemberg will be a culture shock for all involved. Looking forward to it.
September 15, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Offering up an option of Weisswurst Frühstück in Baden-Württemberg will be a culture shock for all involved. Looking forward to it.