Autonm-rantula
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You cannot love what you put on a pedestal. Insult it; subvert it; desecrate it until you can feel its embrace. | Alt: autonmalt.bsky.social
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EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY!!!
WOKE GROK!!!
VERSUS!!!
what the f—
WOKE GROK!!!
VERSUS!!!
what the f—
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if you do not think that your multiple ton hunk of metal which you are flinging down the highway at sixty miles per hour will eventually kill someone you are not qualified to work on any such thing
![Pop Crave & @PopCrave • 12h
Waymo co-CEO warns fatal crashes in self-driving cars are coming, and the company is already planning for them:
"We don't say "whether.' We say 'when.' And we plan for [fatal crashes]."
WAYMO](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ymipjgi2ebiptelhrw6zezas/bafkreicjmclzthikst76hsm4ntxz5qc44ixfgkbjlkteua4ld4clmethly@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 2:04 AM
if you do not think that your multiple ton hunk of metal which you are flinging down the highway at sixty miles per hour will eventually kill someone you are not qualified to work on any such thing
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My new piece for The Guardian
Big content is taking on AI – but it’s far from the David v Goliath tale they’d have you believe | Alexander Avila
Big content is taking on AI – but it’s far from the David v Goliath tale they’d have you believe | Alexander Avila
Deals between media conglomerates and tech companies serve both sets of interests, while leaving artists by the wayside, says video essayist, writer and researcher Alexander Avila
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
My new piece for The Guardian
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Buying and scanning the books you own is now "outright theft."
Love seeing people uncritically take up RIAA/MPAA talking points from 2001.
Love seeing people uncritically take up RIAA/MPAA talking points from 2001.
you can convincingly portray this whole financialized AI edifice as a mortgage crisis-style house of cards without even mentioning that the fundamental product is unreliable, based on outright theft, and people don’t like it.
November 3, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Buying and scanning the books you own is now "outright theft."
Love seeing people uncritically take up RIAA/MPAA talking points from 2001.
Love seeing people uncritically take up RIAA/MPAA talking points from 2001.
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If you hate the Commons so much, don’t contribute to it. Your slop won’t be missed.
November 4, 2025 at 6:31 AM
If you hate the Commons so much, don’t contribute to it. Your slop won’t be missed.
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I BEAT THE WORLDS HARDEST POKEMON NUZLOCKE
IT TOOK 1 TRY AND 426 HOURS
IT TOOK 1 TRY AND 426 HOURS
October 29, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I BEAT THE WORLDS HARDEST POKEMON NUZLOCKE
IT TOOK 1 TRY AND 426 HOURS
IT TOOK 1 TRY AND 426 HOURS
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Genuinely what the fuck is going on in Albania
October 27, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Genuinely what the fuck is going on in Albania
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This is why I ultimately have about as much patience for mid-2000s “GET RELIGION OUT OF POLITICS” shrieking as I do for MAGA’s shrieking for racial holy war
Mamdani should not be expected to apologize to anyone for his religious beliefs or those who claim to share them as a shield for atrocity
Mamdani should not be expected to apologize to anyone for his religious beliefs or those who claim to share them as a shield for atrocity
October 25, 2025 at 6:41 AM
This is why I ultimately have about as much patience for mid-2000s “GET RELIGION OUT OF POLITICS” shrieking as I do for MAGA’s shrieking for racial holy war
Mamdani should not be expected to apologize to anyone for his religious beliefs or those who claim to share them as a shield for atrocity
Mamdani should not be expected to apologize to anyone for his religious beliefs or those who claim to share them as a shield for atrocity
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Nearly all of the left-liberal skepticism around Mamdani came from a place of “he’s Muslim and refuses to say he doesn’t take his religion seriously” laïcité that is one of the worst and most enduring domestic cultural legacies of the Global War on Terror
Mamdani is well dressed, has to be very careful in his approach, and his record is damn near spotless. Platner is a fucking Blackwater merc with an SS tat and everyone from Sanders to Vigeland to fucking Jacobin is tripping over themselves to defend and equivocate. Fucking disgusting.
Mamdani: "I thought that if I could build a campaign of universality ... if I behaved well enough or bit my tongue enough ... it would allow me to be more than just my faith. I was wrong."
October 25, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Nearly all of the left-liberal skepticism around Mamdani came from a place of “he’s Muslim and refuses to say he doesn’t take his religion seriously” laïcité that is one of the worst and most enduring domestic cultural legacies of the Global War on Terror
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It’s very funny that a big portion of people who posted that “I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and I’m not kidding” meme pitched a fit and called for a boycott when Mario Kart World was $80
AAA video games should cost $100 on launch. this would still be extremely cheap for the amount of time and enjoyment you get out of them! But an audience of whiny babies has kept them literally at the same price for *two decades* despite both general inflation *and* sector-specific costs rising
October 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
It’s very funny that a big portion of people who posted that “I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and I’m not kidding” meme pitched a fit and called for a boycott when Mario Kart World was $80
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Guys who crawled up into fame by running small businesses and mastering SEO and cloutchasing being more right wing than people who mastered a collaborative art form seems pretty intuitive to me
just an observation but it does seem like the entertainment class of tiktok lifestyle influencers and reality stars is going to be way more right wing than actors, directors, and tv/movie writers.
why
October 17, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Guys who crawled up into fame by running small businesses and mastering SEO and cloutchasing being more right wing than people who mastered a collaborative art form seems pretty intuitive to me
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all the power in the world and it's worth nothing to them if the people whose guts they hate and whose approval they desperately crave can't see it. that's why we'll win in the end. they need us more than we need them.
Hello, Patriots! DHS is here to appeal to your patriotic spirit and ask that you lend us a hand in stopping the Democrats’ government shutdown.
To all the Americans on Bluesky, your homeland needs all of us to work together.
To all the Americans on Bluesky, your homeland needs all of us to work together.
October 17, 2025 at 10:14 PM
all the power in the world and it's worth nothing to them if the people whose guts they hate and whose approval they desperately crave can't see it. that's why we'll win in the end. they need us more than we need them.
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What’s lost in this conversation is that language must always escape containment, so your playful little “clanker” slur is now being directed at people with bionic limbs.
Harmless fun, right? www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8AjSabH/
Harmless fun, right? www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8AjSabH/
October 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM
What’s lost in this conversation is that language must always escape containment, so your playful little “clanker” slur is now being directed at people with bionic limbs.
Harmless fun, right? www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8AjSabH/
Harmless fun, right? www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8AjSabH/
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Okay now we’re really poasting
October 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Okay now we’re really poasting
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If your response to a post about antisemitism is solely to play word-games, the only interpretation is that that you're fine with antisemitism.
I'm assuming people already know this when they see it done with the term "Islamophobia", yes?
I'm assuming people already know this when they see it done with the term "Islamophobia", yes?
October 5, 2025 at 4:22 PM
If your response to a post about antisemitism is solely to play word-games, the only interpretation is that that you're fine with antisemitism.
I'm assuming people already know this when they see it done with the term "Islamophobia", yes?
I'm assuming people already know this when they see it done with the term "Islamophobia", yes?
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DO NOT POINT THE UNIVERSAL FUNCTION APPROXIMATOR AT THE FACE OF GOD
October 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM
DO NOT POINT THE UNIVERSAL FUNCTION APPROXIMATOR AT THE FACE OF GOD
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Tim Pool was willing to sell out for $100k/vid, do we think $shitcomedian’s fee was more or less
Is it a coincidence that most of these people have steadily grown shittier and more desperate as days between now and Feb 24, 2022 pass?
Yeah probably but I'm still going to choose to believe it was Russia
Yeah probably but I'm still going to choose to believe it was Russia
A lot of comedians are just horrible assholes but I also wonder if the rush to embrace the Riyadh Comedy Festival money says something about how bad the internal economy of the comedy podcaster sphere is doing
October 4, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Tim Pool was willing to sell out for $100k/vid, do we think $shitcomedian’s fee was more or less
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one way you can tell that the current wave of ai innovation is real is how many people are irrationally upset about it or deeply disturbed because they are being forced to visit philosophical and ideological priors that make them uncomfortable
October 4, 2025 at 11:39 PM
one way you can tell that the current wave of ai innovation is real is how many people are irrationally upset about it or deeply disturbed because they are being forced to visit philosophical and ideological priors that make them uncomfortable
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techbro is a slur for neurodivergent women
tech bro is a slur
February 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
techbro is a slur for neurodivergent women
Chatbots will not destroy human society, put down the sci-fi books.
Also, lmao at the Ed Zitron boosting
Also, lmao at the Ed Zitron boosting
I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.
August 29, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Chatbots will not destroy human society, put down the sci-fi books.
Also, lmao at the Ed Zitron boosting
Also, lmao at the Ed Zitron boosting
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Yeah, I often find myself irked by "haven't they watched [whatever]?"-type QRTs. I just don't think "this technology was portrayed negatively in fiction" is the slam dunk a lot of people seem to think it is! Media doesn't come down to us from above - it's written by people as fallible as you and I.
rly funny watching so much cyberpunk and scifi stuff because theres so many things that authors depict onscreen/page/whatever that are clearly meant to be viewed with scorn, like the author shows this thing and then looks back at the audience like "fucking bleak, right" and im just like. not really?
August 28, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Yeah, I often find myself irked by "haven't they watched [whatever]?"-type QRTs. I just don't think "this technology was portrayed negatively in fiction" is the slam dunk a lot of people seem to think it is! Media doesn't come down to us from above - it's written by people as fallible as you and I.
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i was feeling pretty 50/50 at having accidentally invited a ton of people to discuss their robot fetishes in reply to me but this redeemed it all
August 27, 2025 at 10:49 PM
i was feeling pretty 50/50 at having accidentally invited a ton of people to discuss their robot fetishes in reply to me but this redeemed it all
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not now sweetie i'm engaging in performatively tedious discourse within my highly curated internet ecosystem of people who mostly already agree with me
August 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
not now sweetie i'm engaging in performatively tedious discourse within my highly curated internet ecosystem of people who mostly already agree with me
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Every anti-AI hot take is like "Wow, this is incredibly sad. Truly pathetic. This is where civilization ends. Dark times ahead."
And then it is just a screenshot of someone posting a silly, casual 10-second experiment they did with ChatGPT before presumably moving on with their life.
And then it is just a screenshot of someone posting a silly, casual 10-second experiment they did with ChatGPT before presumably moving on with their life.
August 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Every anti-AI hot take is like "Wow, this is incredibly sad. Truly pathetic. This is where civilization ends. Dark times ahead."
And then it is just a screenshot of someone posting a silly, casual 10-second experiment they did with ChatGPT before presumably moving on with their life.
And then it is just a screenshot of someone posting a silly, casual 10-second experiment they did with ChatGPT before presumably moving on with their life.
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I fundamentally don't understand people who are this scared of text predictors and image diffusers.
August 21, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I fundamentally don't understand people who are this scared of text predictors and image diffusers.
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This is just what all politics are going to be like from now on.
August 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This is just what all politics are going to be like from now on.