Erik
@elindberg.bsky.social
Independent media producer/editor. Video, graphic design, activism, and unsolicited takes. He/him.
There is no person in history more terrified of cooties than Pete Hegseth.
U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'
Documents show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts.
www.npr.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
There is no person in history more terrified of cooties than Pete Hegseth.
Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.
November 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.
New Torment Nexus just dropped.
November 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM
New Torment Nexus just dropped.
Me: *furiously checking MLA style guide and CC’ing my lawyer when responding to an automated email from the phone company*
Richest man in western hemisphere: hey sentitar u wanna get hi and crime 2nite???
Richest man in western hemisphere: hey sentitar u wanna get hi and crime 2nite???
November 12, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Me: *furiously checking MLA style guide and CC’ing my lawyer when responding to an automated email from the phone company*
Richest man in western hemisphere: hey sentitar u wanna get hi and crime 2nite???
Richest man in western hemisphere: hey sentitar u wanna get hi and crime 2nite???
Solutions to the Bond-is-dead crisis:
1: Do a Face/Off
2: 5 eligible bachelors compete in a reality show “The Bond”
3: George Miller directs
1: Do a Face/Off
2: 5 eligible bachelors compete in a reality show “The Bond”
3: George Miller directs
November 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Solutions to the Bond-is-dead crisis:
1: Do a Face/Off
2: 5 eligible bachelors compete in a reality show “The Bond”
3: George Miller directs
1: Do a Face/Off
2: 5 eligible bachelors compete in a reality show “The Bond”
3: George Miller directs
I don’t think I would like this sandwich, but I adore sandwich discourse. This is Arthur Dent-level sandwich mastery.
Come and take it. defector.com/time-for-my-...
Time For My Weird Sandwich | Defector
The commercials that air during NFL broadcasts tend to celebrate action, which I appreciate. It is not always clear what these actions are about—why all that broken concrete is splashing heavily into ...
defector.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I don’t think I would like this sandwich, but I adore sandwich discourse. This is Arthur Dent-level sandwich mastery.
Theory-crafting a new political movement, “Worst People in the World, Eat Shit”
November 5, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Theory-crafting a new political movement, “Worst People in the World, Eat Shit”
We didn’t invent Hell to scare good people good, we invented it to fantasize bad people being stabbed in the nads for all eternity.
November 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
We didn’t invent Hell to scare good people good, we invented it to fantasize bad people being stabbed in the nads for all eternity.
Every historian I read on bsky is acting like Sam Neill and Laura Dern seeing dinosaurs in the wild for the first time.
This is what I've had the privilege to watch happening in Chicago:
A genuine social moment, so new and spontaneous (though not without antecedents and seedbeds) it doesn't even yet have a theory or "ideology." Just: people doing....
A genuine social moment, so new and spontaneous (though not without antecedents and seedbeds) it doesn't even yet have a theory or "ideology." Just: people doing....
October 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Every historian I read on bsky is acting like Sam Neill and Laura Dern seeing dinosaurs in the wild for the first time.
At #NYCC this year I made it a point to spend more time in Artist Alley enjoying and paying for(!) actual cool art by actual cool humans. Like this great K-2 print and some inexcusably rude stickers from @thecalebking.bsky.social in booth J-37.
October 11, 2025 at 12:15 AM
At #NYCC this year I made it a point to spend more time in Artist Alley enjoying and paying for(!) actual cool art by actual cool humans. Like this great K-2 print and some inexcusably rude stickers from @thecalebking.bsky.social in booth J-37.
20-something techbro: AI will be our perfect anime waifus, our benevolent overlords, and live on in our immortal image after consigning our civilization to blissful oblivion.
50-something Unix dev: Computer is bad now.
50-something Unix dev: Computer is bad now.
October 1, 2025 at 12:37 PM
20-something techbro: AI will be our perfect anime waifus, our benevolent overlords, and live on in our immortal image after consigning our civilization to blissful oblivion.
50-something Unix dev: Computer is bad now.
50-something Unix dev: Computer is bad now.
I (absurdly) got to spend a summer vacation week with some fairly rich and influential tech-adjacent people and I hope my extremely gloomy and acerbically funny comments about AI contributed to bursting the bubble earlier.
Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
September 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I (absurdly) got to spend a summer vacation week with some fairly rich and influential tech-adjacent people and I hope my extremely gloomy and acerbically funny comments about AI contributed to bursting the bubble earlier.
September 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
“…we have all become characters in a story where our actions carry actual weight and consequence.”
‘Andor’ Writer Dan Gilroy On Disney Suspending Jimmy Kimmel & Hollywood Facing “Venomous Evil”: “This Isn’t A Skirmish. It’s A Siege” – Guest Column
'Andor' Writer Dan Gilroy On Trump's Jimmy Kimmel Pressure Campaign: "Artists Are Censored First Because They Fear Us Most" -- Guest Column
deadline.com
September 20, 2025 at 12:11 AM
“…we have all become characters in a story where our actions carry actual weight and consequence.”
I’d feel a lot better about the future if I knew every union had a well-financed strike fund right now.
September 18, 2025 at 11:21 AM
I’d feel a lot better about the future if I knew every union had a well-financed strike fund right now.
Gonna be thinking about our “cherished American Awards“ all day.
Proving yet again what a small, petty, whiny, pathetic loser he is.
September 8, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Gonna be thinking about our “cherished American Awards“ all day.
If Schumer’s master strategy to sit back and let nature take its course turns out to have been the correct one, we’ll never get a single thing done ever again.
September 1, 2025 at 12:15 AM
If Schumer’s master strategy to sit back and let nature take its course turns out to have been the correct one, we’ll never get a single thing done ever again.
Chatbots are validation engines. If you feed one your most intrusive thoughts, eventually it’s going to tell you go for it, champ!
August 27, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Chatbots are validation engines. If you feed one your most intrusive thoughts, eventually it’s going to tell you go for it, champ!
The longer it takes for the marketing consultant to wind up the logo pitch, the shittier the design.
August 18, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The longer it takes for the marketing consultant to wind up the logo pitch, the shittier the design.
When a book is incorrect, you can point to the offending page, edit it, tear it out. When an LLM is incorrect, it’s not fixable. You just didn’t get the right result and the owner isn’t liable.
It’s a slot machine for words that occasionally pays out, and the house always wins.
It’s a slot machine for words that occasionally pays out, and the house always wins.
July 24, 2025 at 12:50 AM
When a book is incorrect, you can point to the offending page, edit it, tear it out. When an LLM is incorrect, it’s not fixable. You just didn’t get the right result and the owner isn’t liable.
It’s a slot machine for words that occasionally pays out, and the house always wins.
It’s a slot machine for words that occasionally pays out, and the house always wins.
Reposted by Erik
“China was putting up a gigawatt's worth of solar panels, and a gigawatt's worth of solar panels is the rough equivalent of a nuclear or a coal-fired power plant, they were doing that every eight hours. Can you imagine building a nuclear plant every eight hours?”
www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0...
www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0...
www.marketplace.org
July 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
“China was putting up a gigawatt's worth of solar panels, and a gigawatt's worth of solar panels is the rough equivalent of a nuclear or a coal-fired power plant, they were doing that every eight hours. Can you imagine building a nuclear plant every eight hours?”
www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0...
www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0...
I hate this dumbfuck wellness argument in particular because it belies everything else in American society. Our entire economy is based around stuffing ourselves full of shit that is bad for us. Cake, pizza, video games, Marvel movies, cosmetics, gasoline, instagram, smartphone apps.
"You’ve got to stay healthy, as well. Be vital. Do the most you can do to really live up to … your God-given potential to live a full and healthy life. Don’t eat carrot cake.”
Dr. Oz Says Medicaid Will Be There for Americans … as Long as They Lay Off the Cake
Dr. Mehmet Oz said on Fox Business that Medicaid will still be there for Americans, but they need to stay healthy and lay off the cake.
www.rollingstone.com
July 14, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I hate this dumbfuck wellness argument in particular because it belies everything else in American society. Our entire economy is based around stuffing ourselves full of shit that is bad for us. Cake, pizza, video games, Marvel movies, cosmetics, gasoline, instagram, smartphone apps.
One of the disadvantages of a geriatric political system is the waning likelihood of your representatives throwing hands when literal fascists show up.
Bill De Blasio is promising a human shield of New Yorkers to protect Mamdani from Trump
July 2, 2025 at 12:42 AM
One of the disadvantages of a geriatric political system is the waning likelihood of your representatives throwing hands when literal fascists show up.