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Conservative-leaning tech investors are racing to build a new American colossus, and they want something much, much bigger than the Statue of Liberty. Meet the new monuments men of the tech right and their plans for statue-maxing:
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
America’s Tech Right Is Obsessed With Building Giant Statues
With proposals for a 450-foot statue of Prometheus on Alcatraz and a 650-foot George Washington, MAGA adherents are racing to build America’s largest statue.
www.bloomberg.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Conservative-leaning tech investors are racing to build a new American colossus, and they want something much, much bigger than the Statue of Liberty. Meet the new monuments men of the tech right and their plans for statue-maxing:
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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It’s all happening on x dot com where I do my banking
October 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM
It’s all happening on x dot com where I do my banking
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Scholarslop: The Dangers of an Algorithmic Idea of the University - great piece by @berrydm.bsky.social
"academics will need to find new means to defend the university and contest the use of scholarslop before it is too late" stunlaw.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
"academics will need to find new means to defend the university and contest the use of scholarslop before it is too late" stunlaw.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
Scholarslop: The Dangers of an Algorithmic Idea of the University
Understanding digital media, technology, theory, culture and society.
stunlaw.blogspot.com
October 6, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Scholarslop: The Dangers of an Algorithmic Idea of the University - great piece by @berrydm.bsky.social
"academics will need to find new means to defend the university and contest the use of scholarslop before it is too late" stunlaw.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
"academics will need to find new means to defend the university and contest the use of scholarslop before it is too late" stunlaw.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
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Names include international students, lecturers and part-time faculty, Judith Butler says: “The consequences of this compliance could be terrible for a lot of people’s lives, most of whom are much more vulnerable than I am. They can suffer deportation, expulsion, job loss, harassment, surveillance"
UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move
Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’
www.theguardian.com
September 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Names include international students, lecturers and part-time faculty, Judith Butler says: “The consequences of this compliance could be terrible for a lot of people’s lives, most of whom are much more vulnerable than I am. They can suffer deportation, expulsion, job loss, harassment, surveillance"
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“The site announcing America’s new design studio is a hot mess. That’s a clue.”
Authoritarian by design - DesignObserver
The "America by Design" initiative, issued by the Trump administration, pushes a harmful narrative with questionable visuals
designobserver.com
September 13, 2025 at 1:06 AM
“The site announcing America’s new design studio is a hot mess. That’s a clue.”
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a load bearing “our”
Ok PBS just let David Brooks say that his friends texted him “this is our George Floyd”
September 13, 2025 at 3:05 AM
a load bearing “our”
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X’s head of product celebrating record downloads of his app on a day where a man’s murder was autoplayed on loop for all to see.
September 13, 2025 at 5:16 AM
X’s head of product celebrating record downloads of his app on a day where a man’s murder was autoplayed on loop for all to see.
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"The dark new America that Kirk dedicated his life to manifesting has finally arrived. A complete collapse of the online and the offline, where political violence is simply just another opportunity to grow your personal brand if you can turn your phone on fast enough and make it out alive."
The logical endpoint of 21st-century America
Charlie Kirk and what comes next
www.garbageday.email
September 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM
"The dark new America that Kirk dedicated his life to manifesting has finally arrived. A complete collapse of the online and the offline, where political violence is simply just another opportunity to grow your personal brand if you can turn your phone on fast enough and make it out alive."
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all the best windows software in history is called something like "joe's thing doer". it does the thing and nothing else and is available on a html website in plain text and takes up under a megabyte of space and uses default windows ui elements and will work until the heat death of the universe
August 31, 2025 at 9:53 PM
all the best windows software in history is called something like "joe's thing doer". it does the thing and nothing else and is available on a html website in plain text and takes up under a megabyte of space and uses default windows ui elements and will work until the heat death of the universe
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Thomas Jefferson: Buzz Lightyear went woke, the movie went broke
3rd grader: do u have any thoughts about Liberty? do u like organizing countries?
Thomas Jefferson: they have my soul in a crystal! Help me children!
3rd grader: do u have any thoughts about Liberty? do u like organizing countries?
Thomas Jefferson: they have my soul in a crystal! Help me children!
Reading about "The Founders Museum," an AI-generated digital hall of Presidents commissioned by the White House from PragerU, in which dead Presidents recite Ben Shapiro quotes
![One concern is how AI-generated videos can sometimes blur the line between reality and fiction. In one video, an artificially generated John Adams says, "Facts do not care about your feelings" — a phrase often used by conservative commentator and PragerU presenter Ben Shapiro.
"I have real concerns about the extent to which they weave together words that are preserved in primary sources from historical figures with other sort of commentary," Gillis explains. "And it's not always clear [when] the historical figures actually said the words that are coming out of their mouth, or wrote them down, and when this is the work of whoever scripted them."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mlmouohgzbjofidukcp4pxf2/bafkreifbje7afwpney65phyojo3zbqehcjbohqu4ko5232i6v3ymjsa47u@jpeg)
September 3, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Thomas Jefferson: Buzz Lightyear went woke, the movie went broke
3rd grader: do u have any thoughts about Liberty? do u like organizing countries?
Thomas Jefferson: they have my soul in a crystal! Help me children!
3rd grader: do u have any thoughts about Liberty? do u like organizing countries?
Thomas Jefferson: they have my soul in a crystal! Help me children!
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a bit late but the whole jillian michaels thing last week gave me an excuse to talk a bit about the economy of slavery in detail youtu.be/pRs2Xu1FWR4
How many slaveholders were there, really?
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
youtu.be
August 26, 2025 at 12:54 AM
a bit late but the whole jillian michaels thing last week gave me an excuse to talk a bit about the economy of slavery in detail youtu.be/pRs2Xu1FWR4
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Quick way to spot a loser
August 26, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Quick way to spot a loser
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No really, these people are in an actual cult
AI Experts No Longer Saving for Retirement Because They Assume AI Will Kill Us All by Then
Some researchers have given up saving for their retirement, based on the assumption that AI has guaranteed the downfall of humanity.
futurism.com
August 23, 2025 at 1:33 AM
No really, these people are in an actual cult
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most people want a quick and simple answer to why AI systems encode/exacerbate societal and historical bias/injustice and due to the reductive but common thinking of "bias in, bias out," the obvious culprit often is training data but this is not entirely true
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November 24, 2024 at 4:26 PM
most people want a quick and simple answer to why AI systems encode/exacerbate societal and historical bias/injustice and due to the reductive but common thinking of "bias in, bias out," the obvious culprit often is training data but this is not entirely true
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Anyone keyed into the system realized early on the AP/honors classes didn't actually teach you anything better they just were more homework, and it was better to be a smart slacker in the normie classes then do 8 hours of homework a night in the special classes
August 3, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Anyone keyed into the system realized early on the AP/honors classes didn't actually teach you anything better they just were more homework, and it was better to be a smart slacker in the normie classes then do 8 hours of homework a night in the special classes
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@bmann.ca once told me "Self hosting is selfish", it struck a nerve and I instantly knew he was right. The priesthood of programmers cannot save the internet with our private gated co-los and suburban home servers.
This is a beautiful synopsis of why: We're still thinking feudal terms.
This is a beautiful synopsis of why: We're still thinking feudal terms.
The Future is NOT Self-Hosted
Hey friends 👋,
A few months ago, Amazon announced that Kindle users would no longer be able to download and back up their book libraries to their computers. Thankfully, I still have access to my libr...
www.drewlyton.com
July 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
@bmann.ca once told me "Self hosting is selfish", it struck a nerve and I instantly knew he was right. The priesthood of programmers cannot save the internet with our private gated co-los and suburban home servers.
This is a beautiful synopsis of why: We're still thinking feudal terms.
This is a beautiful synopsis of why: We're still thinking feudal terms.
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i’m finding it requires more and more cognitive dissonance to enjoy indulgences as the fascism becomes increasingly omnipresent and suffocating
July 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
i’m finding it requires more and more cognitive dissonance to enjoy indulgences as the fascism becomes increasingly omnipresent and suffocating
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Morning Briefing: The Return to the Land, a neo-fascist White Nationalist movement, is building a 'Whites only community' community in Arkansas — with plans to build similar communities in the South and Appalachia.
Morning Briefing: White Nationalists Building 'Whites Only Community' in Arkansas
The Return to the Land, a neo-fascist White Nationalist movement, is building a 'Whites only community' community in Arkansas — with plans to build similar communities in the South and Appalachia.
www.radicalreports.org
July 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Morning Briefing: The Return to the Land, a neo-fascist White Nationalist movement, is building a 'Whites only community' community in Arkansas — with plans to build similar communities in the South and Appalachia.
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Have just realized that the silly “Bezos wants to buy Vogue as a lavish wedding gift for his bride” story that’s been circulating is inaccurate - Bezos wants to buy Condé Nast which owns The New Yorker,Teen Vogue, Wired & Arts Technica because he is an oligarch who wants to crush all dissent.
July 15, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Have just realized that the silly “Bezos wants to buy Vogue as a lavish wedding gift for his bride” story that’s been circulating is inaccurate - Bezos wants to buy Condé Nast which owns The New Yorker,Teen Vogue, Wired & Arts Technica because he is an oligarch who wants to crush all dissent.
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i think the big middle event between george floyd protests and covid that accelerated this hard right turn in elite circles was tech employees using slack to stage walk-outs and force concessions from management. tech bosses got a first whiff of organized labor's power and started reading mein kampf
Only in America could a white man with a current net worth of $2 billion see himself as part of a victimized group. 🤦♂️
July 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
i think the big middle event between george floyd protests and covid that accelerated this hard right turn in elite circles was tech employees using slack to stage walk-outs and force concessions from management. tech bosses got a first whiff of organized labor's power and started reading mein kampf
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I am going to become the Joker
heat. kills. people.
AC is not a luxury
heat. kills. people.
AC is not a luxury
How do I feel about air conditioning? I’m very hot – but it’s destroying the planet | Emma Beddington
How do I feel about air conditioning? I’m very hot – but it’s destroying the planet | Emma Beddington
Yes, temperatures are rising. But more and more AC means more and more CO2 – and then more and more global heating. Let’s have some long-term thinking instead, writes Guardian columnist Emma Beddington
www.theguardian.com
July 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I am going to become the Joker
heat. kills. people.
AC is not a luxury
heat. kills. people.
AC is not a luxury
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“The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before.”
If you agree with our 5 requests to our universities, please sign 🖊️ the open letter and don’t forget to confirm your email! ☺️🙏
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July 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
“The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before.”
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My latest newsletter is about how tech companies, by pushing generative AI, reveal the contempt they hold for their users and society at large.
whatwelost.substack.com/p/the-bigges...
whatwelost.substack.com/p/the-bigges...
The Biggest Insult
The Unspeakable Contempt At The Heart of Generative AI
whatwelost.substack.com
July 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
My latest newsletter is about how tech companies, by pushing generative AI, reveal the contempt they hold for their users and society at large.
whatwelost.substack.com/p/the-bigges...
whatwelost.substack.com/p/the-bigges...
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So a thing to understand about Grok’s Hitler praising Nazism is that Musk intentionally does stuff that’s over the line to see how far others will follow and bc he’s confident the consequences will be minimal, even when people get upset. See also: the Nazi salute
Elon Musk's xAI now says Grok went Nazi due to a code update that led it to echo "extremist views."
Was told:
* "You tell like it is and you are not afraid to offend people who are politically correct"
* Don't "blindly defer to mainstream authority or media"
* Be "maximally based"
wapo.st/4nJVPrh
Was told:
* "You tell like it is and you are not afraid to offend people who are politically correct"
* Don't "blindly defer to mainstream authority or media"
* Be "maximally based"
wapo.st/4nJVPrh
July 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
So a thing to understand about Grok’s Hitler praising Nazism is that Musk intentionally does stuff that’s over the line to see how far others will follow and bc he’s confident the consequences will be minimal, even when people get upset. See also: the Nazi salute