Zack Spades
@zackspades.bsky.social
28 | They/Them | Abolish Canada | Studying In Malaysia
I'm not good at describing myself. What am I doing? My best.
I'm not good at describing myself. What am I doing? My best.
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Zack Spades
@zackspades.bsky.social
· Oct 18
You've found the Zack Spades Bluesky profile.
I don't post much compared to how much I reply to people, but when I do it's usually a funny story or thought, something political, or an ongoing interest.
This is also just where I ramble about music, you've been warned.
I don't post much compared to how much I reply to people, but when I do it's usually a funny story or thought, something political, or an ongoing interest.
This is also just where I ramble about music, you've been warned.
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"AI is just a tool" says tech mogul who is just a tool
"AI is just a tool" says tech mogul who is just a tool
PALO ALTO, CA - Tech industry billionaire Jared Banks recently dismissed fears over artificial intelligence disrupting the labor market by insisting that AI is "just a tool", while also himself being ...
www.thebeaverton.com
August 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
"AI is just a tool" says tech mogul who is just a tool
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The Guardian just revealed Israel’s own military data: 83% of those killed in Gaza are civilians. That’s not war, that’s genocide.
August 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The Guardian just revealed Israel’s own military data: 83% of those killed in Gaza are civilians. That’s not war, that’s genocide.
Learning Drums is for:
❌ creating original music
❌ playing in a band
❌ having a hobby to dostract from the agony of existence
✔️ playing "Out Of The Black" by Royal Blood with the detuned St Anger snare drum
❌ creating original music
❌ playing in a band
❌ having a hobby to dostract from the agony of existence
✔️ playing "Out Of The Black" by Royal Blood with the detuned St Anger snare drum
August 21, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Learning Drums is for:
❌ creating original music
❌ playing in a band
❌ having a hobby to dostract from the agony of existence
✔️ playing "Out Of The Black" by Royal Blood with the detuned St Anger snare drum
❌ creating original music
❌ playing in a band
❌ having a hobby to dostract from the agony of existence
✔️ playing "Out Of The Black" by Royal Blood with the detuned St Anger snare drum
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If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it:
Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.
Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.
August 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it:
Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.
Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.
Sometimes you make terrible decisions on purpose.
Like this week's terrible decision of mine: Listening to every Nickelback album.
Yup. All 10 of them.
This isn't a "hear me out" moment, this is just me getting a better grasp on a group I very much dislike.
Like this week's terrible decision of mine: Listening to every Nickelback album.
Yup. All 10 of them.
This isn't a "hear me out" moment, this is just me getting a better grasp on a group I very much dislike.
August 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Sometimes you make terrible decisions on purpose.
Like this week's terrible decision of mine: Listening to every Nickelback album.
Yup. All 10 of them.
This isn't a "hear me out" moment, this is just me getting a better grasp on a group I very much dislike.
Like this week's terrible decision of mine: Listening to every Nickelback album.
Yup. All 10 of them.
This isn't a "hear me out" moment, this is just me getting a better grasp on a group I very much dislike.
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Canada: “We are prepared to issue as many empty statements as necessary to stop this genocide”
Canada: "We are prepared to issue as many empty statements as necessary to stop this genocide"
OTTAWA – Two months after issuing one statement promising “concrete actions” if Israel did not stop intentionally starving Palestinians in Gaza, Canada has joined with 24 other nations to issue a new ...
thebeaverton.com
August 9, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Canada: “We are prepared to issue as many empty statements as necessary to stop this genocide”
Boy, nothing sets off an existential panic more than reading about the insane water and energy costs of data centers for these glorified slop mills.
Just
Overwhelming dread
Just
Overwhelming dread
The more I look at the insane water and energy consumption of generative AI, the more I think how it's criminal that it's been pushed so hard when so many places are on the verge of or are having a water crisis
Forget irresponsibility, it should be a crime against humanity and I'm not exaggerating
Forget irresponsibility, it should be a crime against humanity and I'm not exaggerating
August 9, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Boy, nothing sets off an existential panic more than reading about the insane water and energy costs of data centers for these glorified slop mills.
Just
Overwhelming dread
Just
Overwhelming dread
There's a handful of albums coming from artists I'm familiar with who are dropping albums on Fridays this month, starting today with "Accelerator" by Bad Suns.
I'm expecting disappointment, lemme see if I'm correct.
I'm expecting disappointment, lemme see if I'm correct.
August 8, 2025 at 8:18 AM
There's a handful of albums coming from artists I'm familiar with who are dropping albums on Fridays this month, starting today with "Accelerator" by Bad Suns.
I'm expecting disappointment, lemme see if I'm correct.
I'm expecting disappointment, lemme see if I'm correct.
I really do dislike how there's this prevalent societal expectation that we should spend our free time being "productive" in order to justify being hired to earn a pittance.
Not just in like learning a cool skill or hobby but basically turning it into a side hustle just to be considered employable
Not just in like learning a cool skill or hobby but basically turning it into a side hustle just to be considered employable
August 3, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I really do dislike how there's this prevalent societal expectation that we should spend our free time being "productive" in order to justify being hired to earn a pittance.
Not just in like learning a cool skill or hobby but basically turning it into a side hustle just to be considered employable
Not just in like learning a cool skill or hobby but basically turning it into a side hustle just to be considered employable
If Spotify being absolutely terrible to artists, embracing AI slop and funding military warfare startups hasn't convinced you to abandon Spotify, let this be the final straw.
Begging people to just buy/download music as directly from their artists as possible.
Begging people to just buy/download music as directly from their artists as possible.
Spotify is now instituting face scans and ID checks ... to listen to music.
Porn was only ever the excuse. The only thing that surprises me is how quickly the government surveillance mandate has spread to absolutely every service we use.
www.404media.co/spotify-uk-a...
Porn was only ever the excuse. The only thing that surprises me is how quickly the government surveillance mandate has spread to absolutely every service we use.
www.404media.co/spotify-uk-a...
Spotify Is Forcing Users to Undergo Face Scanning to Access Explicit Content
Submit to biometric face scanning or risk your account being deleted, Spotify says, following the enactment of the UK's Online Safety Act.
www.404media.co
July 31, 2025 at 3:15 PM
If Spotify being absolutely terrible to artists, embracing AI slop and funding military warfare startups hasn't convinced you to abandon Spotify, let this be the final straw.
Begging people to just buy/download music as directly from their artists as possible.
Begging people to just buy/download music as directly from their artists as possible.
If I go back to Canada, first of all I gotta move out of Quebec.
Second of all, when I go back to working, I gotta like, I dunno, find work in a corner store or something.
Will it be boring and unfulfilling? Probably.
But I won't have to worry about fucking tech all the time.
Second of all, when I go back to working, I gotta like, I dunno, find work in a corner store or something.
Will it be boring and unfulfilling? Probably.
But I won't have to worry about fucking tech all the time.
July 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
If I go back to Canada, first of all I gotta move out of Quebec.
Second of all, when I go back to working, I gotta like, I dunno, find work in a corner store or something.
Will it be boring and unfulfilling? Probably.
But I won't have to worry about fucking tech all the time.
Second of all, when I go back to working, I gotta like, I dunno, find work in a corner store or something.
Will it be boring and unfulfilling? Probably.
But I won't have to worry about fucking tech all the time.
Philosophy is probably the worst field for studying because it only makes sense if you're actively looking for it and already engaged with the material.
Trying to glean anything from it without prior knowledge is just swimming in an ocean of incoherent word soup.
Trying to glean anything from it without prior knowledge is just swimming in an ocean of incoherent word soup.
July 29, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Philosophy is probably the worst field for studying because it only makes sense if you're actively looking for it and already engaged with the material.
Trying to glean anything from it without prior knowledge is just swimming in an ocean of incoherent word soup.
Trying to glean anything from it without prior knowledge is just swimming in an ocean of incoherent word soup.
Regular reminder that I hate GenAI and I especially hate GenAI text.
Complete and utter fucking word slop. Just a million words to say fucking nothing of value.
No one reads this shit. If they did, their eyes would glaze over. It's a sedative.
Complete and utter fucking word slop. Just a million words to say fucking nothing of value.
No one reads this shit. If they did, their eyes would glaze over. It's a sedative.
July 28, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Regular reminder that I hate GenAI and I especially hate GenAI text.
Complete and utter fucking word slop. Just a million words to say fucking nothing of value.
No one reads this shit. If they did, their eyes would glaze over. It's a sedative.
Complete and utter fucking word slop. Just a million words to say fucking nothing of value.
No one reads this shit. If they did, their eyes would glaze over. It's a sedative.
6 classes this semester where seemingly everything is due in the last month.
The workload is crushing me.
I so desperately want to crash out.
The workload is crushing me.
I so desperately want to crash out.
July 21, 2025 at 2:21 AM
6 classes this semester where seemingly everything is due in the last month.
The workload is crushing me.
I so desperately want to crash out.
The workload is crushing me.
I so desperately want to crash out.
TIL that was one of the big fandom collaboration albums of the Gen 4 MLP fandom was themed and titled after a dubstep side project formed by the members of Pendulum.
In hindsight, this explains so much.
In hindsight, this explains so much.
July 18, 2025 at 12:43 PM
TIL that was one of the big fandom collaboration albums of the Gen 4 MLP fandom was themed and titled after a dubstep side project formed by the members of Pendulum.
In hindsight, this explains so much.
In hindsight, this explains so much.
Oh new NIN song just dropped.
It's pretty good.
It's pretty good.
July 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Oh new NIN song just dropped.
It's pretty good.
It's pretty good.
Really would be swell if assignment outlines, deadlines and expectations didn't change on a near daily basis.
July 17, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Really would be swell if assignment outlines, deadlines and expectations didn't change on a near daily basis.
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Vote for a neoliberal banker who loves privatization and you get a neoliberal banker who loves privatization
#Breaking: Carney government tells CBC, Via Rail and other Crown corps to propose their own spending cuts
Suggest your own spending cuts, Carney government tells CBC, Via Rail
Federally funded institutions and Crown corporations like the CBC and Via Rail are expected to propose their own cuts under the Liberal government's sweeping efforts to find $25 billion in
www.thestar.com
July 16, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Vote for a neoliberal banker who loves privatization and you get a neoliberal banker who loves privatization
Top 4 Video Game OSTs
I dunno if this is 100% accurate but it's close enough.
I dunno if this is 100% accurate but it's close enough.
July 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Top 4 Video Game OSTs
I dunno if this is 100% accurate but it's close enough.
I dunno if this is 100% accurate but it's close enough.
Hahaha, I lost my job for shit like this.
(For legal reasons I am obliged to say I did not work on any of the games in the examples but just within video game LQA)
(For legal reasons I am obliged to say I did not work on any of the games in the examples but just within video game LQA)
July 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Hahaha, I lost my job for shit like this.
(For legal reasons I am obliged to say I did not work on any of the games in the examples but just within video game LQA)
(For legal reasons I am obliged to say I did not work on any of the games in the examples but just within video game LQA)
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RCMP apprehend Quebec terrorists after discovering manifesto written only in English
RCMP apprehend Quebec terrorists after discovering manifesto written only in English
QUEBEC CITY, QC - Four men involved in an far right terror plot were arrested this week by RCMP, not for plotting terrorism, but for releasing a written manifesto that was not properly translated into...
www.thebeaverton.com
July 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
RCMP apprehend Quebec terrorists after discovering manifesto written only in English
Every couple of weeks someone makes a bait article about "Bluesky is a left-wing echo chamber" and I always have three instinctive reactions
- Reactionary debate bros have no idea what "leftist" means
- Bluesky users have no idea what "leftist" means
- Bluesky isn't left-wing but I sure wish it was
- Reactionary debate bros have no idea what "leftist" means
- Bluesky users have no idea what "leftist" means
- Bluesky isn't left-wing but I sure wish it was
July 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Every couple of weeks someone makes a bait article about "Bluesky is a left-wing echo chamber" and I always have three instinctive reactions
- Reactionary debate bros have no idea what "leftist" means
- Bluesky users have no idea what "leftist" means
- Bluesky isn't left-wing but I sure wish it was
- Reactionary debate bros have no idea what "leftist" means
- Bluesky users have no idea what "leftist" means
- Bluesky isn't left-wing but I sure wish it was
While the country is trending for less important reasons, it's probably worth mentioning that Liberia might be the best example for the failures of America as a broader institution.
A country styled so heavily after the United States only to fail catastrophically.
A country styled so heavily after the United States only to fail catastrophically.
July 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
While the country is trending for less important reasons, it's probably worth mentioning that Liberia might be the best example for the failures of America as a broader institution.
A country styled so heavily after the United States only to fail catastrophically.
A country styled so heavily after the United States only to fail catastrophically.
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If your nationalism is just hockey references; memories of a few brands now owned by oligarchs and hedge funds; songs and shows from a long-dead era of Cancon; and stories about universal health care that haven't been true for decades, you might as well just pack the whole thing in. It's cooked.
July 7, 2025 at 6:14 PM
If your nationalism is just hockey references; memories of a few brands now owned by oligarchs and hedge funds; songs and shows from a long-dead era of Cancon; and stories about universal health care that haven't been true for decades, you might as well just pack the whole thing in. It's cooked.