@hlunar.bsky.social
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A resignation letter:
"We all saw it.
We all saw, with our own two eyes, people getting dragged like dogs and killed.
But we could not write one line about it on the newspaper.
In shame, we put down our pens.
May 20, 1980
All Journalists of Jeonnam Maeil Shinmun"
"We all saw it.
We all saw, with our own two eyes, people getting dragged like dogs and killed.
But we could not write one line about it on the newspaper.
In shame, we put down our pens.
May 20, 1980
All Journalists of Jeonnam Maeil Shinmun"
January 8, 2026 at 1:20 PM
A resignation letter:
"We all saw it.
We all saw, with our own two eyes, people getting dragged like dogs and killed.
But we could not write one line about it on the newspaper.
In shame, we put down our pens.
May 20, 1980
All Journalists of Jeonnam Maeil Shinmun"
"We all saw it.
We all saw, with our own two eyes, people getting dragged like dogs and killed.
But we could not write one line about it on the newspaper.
In shame, we put down our pens.
May 20, 1980
All Journalists of Jeonnam Maeil Shinmun"
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Being a zoomer who has a political memory pre-Trump genuinely makes me feel like I caught the last chopper out of Saigon
There's an entire generation of zoomers for whom Trump-era politics is completely normal!
December 30, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Being a zoomer who has a political memory pre-Trump genuinely makes me feel like I caught the last chopper out of Saigon
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six months ago Reader’s Digest asked if they could purchase the publishing rights for this elaborate shitpost I wrote a year ago now wherein I pretended to be the elf equivalent of David Brooks at the North Pole. Thought it was maybe a phishing scam but it’s real LMAOO
December 24, 2025 at 9:31 PM
six months ago Reader’s Digest asked if they could purchase the publishing rights for this elaborate shitpost I wrote a year ago now wherein I pretended to be the elf equivalent of David Brooks at the North Pole. Thought it was maybe a phishing scam but it’s real LMAOO
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wrote about Kalshi's business being about 5% truth machine/95% sportsbook (even if they refuse to mention it)
www.ft.com/content/1ac0...
www.ft.com/content/1ac0...
Prediction markets barely make money; sportsbooks make money
Kalshi’s ‘truth machine’ is financialising differences of opinion (about sports)
www.ft.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM
wrote about Kalshi's business being about 5% truth machine/95% sportsbook (even if they refuse to mention it)
www.ft.com/content/1ac0...
www.ft.com/content/1ac0...
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"I hate Jews, the anabaptists, the Mohammedans, the Turk, and the perfidious Boer" you are a 19th century British military officer named Colonel Wilburton J. Fairfax III. Get off the internet and go back to the Northwest Military Frontier.
(they're also Islamophobic, hate the Amish and Turks, and also Boers, who they also insist aren't white 🤷♂️)
December 21, 2025 at 11:55 PM
"I hate Jews, the anabaptists, the Mohammedans, the Turk, and the perfidious Boer" you are a 19th century British military officer named Colonel Wilburton J. Fairfax III. Get off the internet and go back to the Northwest Military Frontier.
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This and the discussion about how academics can now just read AI summaries of things really drives home how much these guys always confuse the product for the goal. You don't do a coloring sheet because you want to have a colored sheet at the end!!! The coloring is the point!!!
December 21, 2025 at 11:39 PM
This and the discussion about how academics can now just read AI summaries of things really drives home how much these guys always confuse the product for the goal. You don't do a coloring sheet because you want to have a colored sheet at the end!!! The coloring is the point!!!
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Also as you have mentioned we are in this space with AI because the AI boosters went on an antisocial rampage advertising their technology as life destroying so now people are mad that their lives are going to be destroyed (they will not be destroyed)
December 19, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Also as you have mentioned we are in this space with AI because the AI boosters went on an antisocial rampage advertising their technology as life destroying so now people are mad that their lives are going to be destroyed (they will not be destroyed)
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I said “it sounds like you’re just feeding municipal vehicles to the hill” and the mayor of Montreal started crying
if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄
December 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I said “it sounds like you’re just feeding municipal vehicles to the hill” and the mayor of Montreal started crying
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I think there’s some unproductive AI-Luddism (colloquial usage, you know what I mean, don’t be annoying), but also it’s extremely obvious where it came from and AI companies share a large portion of the blame with how they’ve framed things.
December 18, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I think there’s some unproductive AI-Luddism (colloquial usage, you know what I mean, don’t be annoying), but also it’s extremely obvious where it came from and AI companies share a large portion of the blame with how they’ve framed things.
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PSKY -2%, looks like Larry needs to write a check
*WARNER BROS. BOARD CONTINUES TO RECOMMEND NETFLIX DEAL
*WARNER BROS. URGES INVESTORS TO REJECT ‘INFERIOR’ PARAMOUNT BID
*WBD: PARAMOUNT OFFER PROVIDES INADEQUATE VALUE, IMPOSES RISKS
*WBD: ELLISON FAMILY HAS CHOSEN NOT TO BACKSTOP THE PSKY OFFER
*WARNER BROS. BOARD CONTINUES TO RECOMMEND NETFLIX DEAL
*WARNER BROS. URGES INVESTORS TO REJECT ‘INFERIOR’ PARAMOUNT BID
*WBD: PARAMOUNT OFFER PROVIDES INADEQUATE VALUE, IMPOSES RISKS
*WBD: ELLISON FAMILY HAS CHOSEN NOT TO BACKSTOP THE PSKY OFFER
December 17, 2025 at 12:02 PM
PSKY -2%, looks like Larry needs to write a check
*WARNER BROS. BOARD CONTINUES TO RECOMMEND NETFLIX DEAL
*WARNER BROS. URGES INVESTORS TO REJECT ‘INFERIOR’ PARAMOUNT BID
*WBD: PARAMOUNT OFFER PROVIDES INADEQUATE VALUE, IMPOSES RISKS
*WBD: ELLISON FAMILY HAS CHOSEN NOT TO BACKSTOP THE PSKY OFFER
*WARNER BROS. BOARD CONTINUES TO RECOMMEND NETFLIX DEAL
*WARNER BROS. URGES INVESTORS TO REJECT ‘INFERIOR’ PARAMOUNT BID
*WBD: PARAMOUNT OFFER PROVIDES INADEQUATE VALUE, IMPOSES RISKS
*WBD: ELLISON FAMILY HAS CHOSEN NOT TO BACKSTOP THE PSKY OFFER
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It's quite a sign of the times that Ford is pivoting away from EVs and will focus its battery tech on AI data centers instead.
There's a growing list from memory manufacturers to construction companies all pivoting from their primary focus areas to feed at the AI datacenter trough.
There's a growing list from memory manufacturers to construction companies all pivoting from their primary focus areas to feed at the AI datacenter trough.
Ford is starting a battery storage business to power data centers and the grid | TechCrunch
Ford will invest about $2 billion into the new business over the next two years.
techcrunch.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:02 AM
It's quite a sign of the times that Ford is pivoting away from EVs and will focus its battery tech on AI data centers instead.
There's a growing list from memory manufacturers to construction companies all pivoting from their primary focus areas to feed at the AI datacenter trough.
There's a growing list from memory manufacturers to construction companies all pivoting from their primary focus areas to feed at the AI datacenter trough.
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to expand on this, i think what writers forget about newer detective stories is that the character's personality is often, in classics, inherently linked to the theory of how you are supposed to read the story. sometimes explicitly
my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides
December 14, 2025 at 10:37 PM
to expand on this, i think what writers forget about newer detective stories is that the character's personality is often, in classics, inherently linked to the theory of how you are supposed to read the story. sometimes explicitly
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this is a difference you see between more "traditional" detective stories (holmes, poirot etc), where the dapper detective is more removed from the action itself, and noir and hardboiled detective fiction, where the troubled, traumatized, alcoholic detective shapes and is shaped by the plot
my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides
December 14, 2025 at 10:43 PM
this is a difference you see between more "traditional" detective stories (holmes, poirot etc), where the dapper detective is more removed from the action itself, and noir and hardboiled detective fiction, where the troubled, traumatized, alcoholic detective shapes and is shaped by the plot
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December 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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they'd also still be more wholesome than caravaggio, who lived a life with a 1990s gangsta rap level bodycount
"people with renaissance-level art skills don't exist anymore" yes they do their username is something like 03748218_ and they spend all their time drawing pornography so deranged it'd kill hugh hefner a second time
December 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
they'd also still be more wholesome than caravaggio, who lived a life with a 1990s gangsta rap level bodycount
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I say this as someone whose entire job is finding the narrow use cases in which AI is actually useful:
All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.
All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.
I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*
December 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I say this as someone whose entire job is finding the narrow use cases in which AI is actually useful:
All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.
All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.
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the Thai-Cambodian conflict is at least partially about control of the scam/gambling/prostitution compounds along the border.
foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/12/t...
foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/12/t...
Are Scam Compounds the Real Cause of Thailand-Cambodia Fighting?
Intense strikes targeted “pig butchering” syndicates on the border.
foreignpolicy.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
the Thai-Cambodian conflict is at least partially about control of the scam/gambling/prostitution compounds along the border.
foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/12/t...
foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/12/t...
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The thing to understand about all these network states is:
(1) they require a permanent underclass to do all the labor that keeps cities functional,
(2) they have no answers to how or why free people en masse would sign up to be that permanent underclass
And
(3) that’s because they want slaves.
(1) they require a permanent underclass to do all the labor that keeps cities functional,
(2) they have no answers to how or why free people en masse would sign up to be that permanent underclass
And
(3) that’s because they want slaves.
December 7, 2025 at 6:21 PM
The thing to understand about all these network states is:
(1) they require a permanent underclass to do all the labor that keeps cities functional,
(2) they have no answers to how or why free people en masse would sign up to be that permanent underclass
And
(3) that’s because they want slaves.
(1) they require a permanent underclass to do all the labor that keeps cities functional,
(2) they have no answers to how or why free people en masse would sign up to be that permanent underclass
And
(3) that’s because they want slaves.
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the automation of violence and surveillance and the concentration of wealth by flattening the job market all tend towards feudal systems of organization
I think there's a real chance if you can fully automate violence you basically revert to feudal social dynamics, which seems really bad
December 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
the automation of violence and surveillance and the concentration of wealth by flattening the job market all tend towards feudal systems of organization
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society has invented cyberpsychosis from the hit game "do not invent cyberpsychosis"
December 7, 2025 at 2:41 AM
society has invented cyberpsychosis from the hit game "do not invent cyberpsychosis"
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This will always and forever be the most on point and prescient thing that Fukuyama ever wrote.
December 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
This will always and forever be the most on point and prescient thing that Fukuyama ever wrote.
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This matches what I'm hearing from folks working in k-8, yeah. I don't get the argument for having these at all-- ok sure it's the digital age, but students don't need an iPad to learn how to use the Internet. Just have computer lab. It worked for millennials!
December 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM
This matches what I'm hearing from folks working in k-8, yeah. I don't get the argument for having these at all-- ok sure it's the digital age, but students don't need an iPad to learn how to use the Internet. Just have computer lab. It worked for millennials!