Ben T.
@headtinker.bsky.social
www.wpri.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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RIP Gianfranco Sanguinetti
one of the last standing members of the Situationist International has left the building…
one of the last standing members of the Situationist International has left the building…
October 6, 2025 at 1:48 PM
RIP Gianfranco Sanguinetti
one of the last standing members of the Situationist International has left the building…
one of the last standing members of the Situationist International has left the building…
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“Tech companies have found a way to market digital goods to lonely people, promising relief through connection, but this kind of connection isn’t the solution; it’s the problem,”
@samantharhill.bsky.social on the tech loneliness doom hoop.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/o...
@samantharhill.bsky.social on the tech loneliness doom hoop.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/o...
Opinion | Tech Companies Have Created a Loneliness Doom Loop
www.nytimes.com
July 9, 2025 at 1:28 AM
“Tech companies have found a way to market digital goods to lonely people, promising relief through connection, but this kind of connection isn’t the solution; it’s the problem,”
@samantharhill.bsky.social on the tech loneliness doom hoop.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/o...
@samantharhill.bsky.social on the tech loneliness doom hoop.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/o...
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A problem that has baffled mathematicians and physicists since 1900 has finally been solved, a result that should deepen our understanding of the complex behaviour of liquids in the atmosphere and ocean.
Mathematicians solve 125-year-old problem to unite key laws of physics
Can one single mathematical framework describe the motion of a fluid and the individual particles within it? This question, first asked in 1900, now has a solution that could help us understand the complex behaviour of the atmosphere and ocean.
www.newscientist.com
March 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
A problem that has baffled mathematicians and physicists since 1900 has finally been solved, a result that should deepen our understanding of the complex behaviour of liquids in the atmosphere and ocean.
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One of the (too few) journalists who did actual investigative work on the topic. bsky.app/profile/jame...
@zey.bsky.social on Covid origins. Proud to have one of my stories cited in the piece: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...
Opinion | We Were Badly Misled About Covid (Gift Article)
Five years after the start of Covid, we still don’t know the truth.
www.nytimes.com
March 16, 2025 at 8:20 PM
One of the (too few) journalists who did actual investigative work on the topic. bsky.app/profile/jame...
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If you have any brain cells left for thinking about "AI," whatever that might mean, I have a review of Matteo Pasquinelli's The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence in the new issue of @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
The Labor Theory of AI | Ben Tarnoff
Artificial intelligence may be the first attempt to automate and discipline human labor that even its creators don’t fully comprehend.
www.nybooks.com
March 6, 2025 at 8:47 PM
If you have any brain cells left for thinking about "AI," whatever that might mean, I have a review of Matteo Pasquinelli's The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence in the new issue of @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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In "The Personality of Power: A Theory of Fascism for Anti-Fascist Life ," Brian Massumi retheorizes the conditions of contemporary fascism through the prism of Donald Trump’s persona. Read a sample of this timely new book for free now:
https://buff.ly/42wmnUx
https://buff.ly/42wmnUx
January 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
In "The Personality of Power: A Theory of Fascism for Anti-Fascist Life ," Brian Massumi retheorizes the conditions of contemporary fascism through the prism of Donald Trump’s persona. Read a sample of this timely new book for free now:
https://buff.ly/42wmnUx
https://buff.ly/42wmnUx
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A new episode of Future Histories!
This time I talk to Jacob Blumenfeld (@cominsitu.bsky.social; @ktbberlin.bsky.social) about climate barbarism, managing decline, the subject of fossil capitalism and the implications of transitioning away from it.
www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...
This time I talk to Jacob Blumenfeld (@cominsitu.bsky.social; @ktbberlin.bsky.social) about climate barbarism, managing decline, the subject of fossil capitalism and the implications of transitioning away from it.
www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...
February 16, 2025 at 8:50 AM
A new episode of Future Histories!
This time I talk to Jacob Blumenfeld (@cominsitu.bsky.social; @ktbberlin.bsky.social) about climate barbarism, managing decline, the subject of fossil capitalism and the implications of transitioning away from it.
www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...
This time I talk to Jacob Blumenfeld (@cominsitu.bsky.social; @ktbberlin.bsky.social) about climate barbarism, managing decline, the subject of fossil capitalism and the implications of transitioning away from it.
www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...
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The power of DOGE, argues @zey.bsky.social, stems from the power of the sysadmin: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/opinion/musk-doge-personal-data.html
In chapter 2 of Governable Spaces, I warned that the logic of the sysadmin has become a model for political power: https://ntnsndr.in/govbook
In chapter 2 of Governable Spaces, I warned that the logic of the sysadmin has become a model for political power: https://ntnsndr.in/govbook
Opinion | Here Are the Digital Clues to What Musk Is Really Up To - The New York Times
What will DOGE do with access to personal data on almost all Americans?
www.nytimes.com
February 22, 2025 at 3:42 AM
The power of DOGE, argues @zey.bsky.social, stems from the power of the sysadmin: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/opinion/musk-doge-personal-data.html
In chapter 2 of Governable Spaces, I warned that the logic of the sysadmin has become a model for political power: https://ntnsndr.in/govbook
In chapter 2 of Governable Spaces, I warned that the logic of the sysadmin has become a model for political power: https://ntnsndr.in/govbook
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The best time to turn on Advanced Data Protection was before the U.K. forced Apple to disable it. If you’re not in the U.K., the second best time is right now.
February 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The best time to turn on Advanced Data Protection was before the U.K. forced Apple to disable it. If you’re not in the U.K., the second best time is right now.