Toby Tremayne
@magicindustries.bsky.social
Technical Futurist. Inventor, Hacker, Coder, Writer, Troublemaker. AuDHD/PDA et al. Chaotic Good. He/Him.
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/metaverse-big-tech
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/metaverse-big-tech
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Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
May 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
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“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”
May 9, 2025 at 11:19 PM
“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”
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Also, unrelatedly, the hand-wringing "men don't know what the rules are" business these people do really irritates me, because they then... enumerate the rules in a sarcastic tone of voice. You do know the rules! You just don't like them!
May 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Also, unrelatedly, the hand-wringing "men don't know what the rules are" business these people do really irritates me, because they then... enumerate the rules in a sarcastic tone of voice. You do know the rules! You just don't like them!
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If you are having sex with someone and they say they want to stop, you stop. It's really not that difficult a concept
May 6, 2025 at 9:19 PM
If you are having sex with someone and they say they want to stop, you stop. It's really not that difficult a concept
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Everyone now and again I will see someone use the phrase "woke mind virus" seriously and I will wonder what it is like to be them, and to have a head full of rancid pudding where a brain is meant to be
April 20, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Everyone now and again I will see someone use the phrase "woke mind virus" seriously and I will wonder what it is like to be them, and to have a head full of rancid pudding where a brain is meant to be
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🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
April 18, 2025 at 12:10 AM
🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
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It is really bothering me (understatement) that the message is “bring back that one innocent guy” and not “WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK SHUT DOWN THIS WHOLE OPERATION IMMEDIATELY.”
April 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM
It is really bothering me (understatement) that the message is “bring back that one innocent guy” and not “WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK SHUT DOWN THIS WHOLE OPERATION IMMEDIATELY.”
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Like obviously there's a wide range of how autism impacts folks but also I'm autistic and a whole-ass college professor with a PhD, wtaf is this human carbuncle talking about.
The full quote from RFK, Jr. is truly disgusting and this is 100% him calling for institutionalization of autistic people. This is horrifying.
April 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Like obviously there's a wide range of how autism impacts folks but also I'm autistic and a whole-ass college professor with a PhD, wtaf is this human carbuncle talking about.
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Weird* how all those people who said we NEEDED an armed society to prevent tyranny even though our kids were dying barricaded behind desks are now all in favor of tyranny.
*extremely predictable
*extremely predictable
April 15, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Weird* how all those people who said we NEEDED an armed society to prevent tyranny even though our kids were dying barricaded behind desks are now all in favor of tyranny.
*extremely predictable
*extremely predictable
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*taps mic*
Hey Millenials! You know what we're not gonna do? We're not gonna fucking watch that new HBO Harry Potter show because R*owling is a reprehensible human/transphobe/acephobe and we're not giving her money.
Okay? OKAY?!
Yes, I mean *you*.
Also read a different book. Hell, *write* one.
Hey Millenials! You know what we're not gonna do? We're not gonna fucking watch that new HBO Harry Potter show because R*owling is a reprehensible human/transphobe/acephobe and we're not giving her money.
Okay? OKAY?!
Yes, I mean *you*.
Also read a different book. Hell, *write* one.
April 14, 2025 at 8:05 PM
*taps mic*
Hey Millenials! You know what we're not gonna do? We're not gonna fucking watch that new HBO Harry Potter show because R*owling is a reprehensible human/transphobe/acephobe and we're not giving her money.
Okay? OKAY?!
Yes, I mean *you*.
Also read a different book. Hell, *write* one.
Hey Millenials! You know what we're not gonna do? We're not gonna fucking watch that new HBO Harry Potter show because R*owling is a reprehensible human/transphobe/acephobe and we're not giving her money.
Okay? OKAY?!
Yes, I mean *you*.
Also read a different book. Hell, *write* one.
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This doesn't surprise me. Sociological research shows that discounting of girls' competence and commitment--and celebration of (especially White) boys' brilliance--starts in K-12 schools and ramps up in college/grad school. Girls see how they're treated and reasonably assume it won't get better.
Interesting new research suggesting one reason women are less likely to major in STEM, economics, and business is that they expect to face labor market discrimination later in those fields (so that the return to such majors is lower).
www.nber.org/papers/w33680
www.nber.org/papers/w33680
April 15, 2025 at 10:18 AM
This doesn't surprise me. Sociological research shows that discounting of girls' competence and commitment--and celebration of (especially White) boys' brilliance--starts in K-12 schools and ramps up in college/grad school. Girls see how they're treated and reasonably assume it won't get better.
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To the people who think racist authoritarians should be posting more on Bluesky: What the actual fuck is wrong with you, fuck off with that mealy-mouth "both sides" bullshit, thank you for your attention, now go fuck yourselves
April 13, 2025 at 11:05 PM
To the people who think racist authoritarians should be posting more on Bluesky: What the actual fuck is wrong with you, fuck off with that mealy-mouth "both sides" bullshit, thank you for your attention, now go fuck yourselves
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The British automotive industry contributes £22bn to the UK economy.
The creative industries contribute £124bn.
Fucksake.
Stop AI copyright theft.
The creative industries contribute £124bn.
Fucksake.
Stop AI copyright theft.
"My choice in these volatile times is backing British brilliance," says Keir Starmer, who promises to deliver "British cars for British workers"
April 8, 2025 at 8:41 AM
The British automotive industry contributes £22bn to the UK economy.
The creative industries contribute £124bn.
Fucksake.
Stop AI copyright theft.
The creative industries contribute £124bn.
Fucksake.
Stop AI copyright theft.
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No he's not. Giving in implies that he doesn't want to do this stuff.
He doesn't have to do this at all, it's deeply unpopular, he just wants to.
He not giving in to the Far Right; he's Explicitly doing policies that alienate his base and party in order to appeal to fascists.
He IS Far Right.
He doesn't have to do this at all, it's deeply unpopular, he just wants to.
He not giving in to the Far Right; he's Explicitly doing policies that alienate his base and party in order to appeal to fascists.
He IS Far Right.
March 31, 2025 at 2:50 PM
No he's not. Giving in implies that he doesn't want to do this stuff.
He doesn't have to do this at all, it's deeply unpopular, he just wants to.
He not giving in to the Far Right; he's Explicitly doing policies that alienate his base and party in order to appeal to fascists.
He IS Far Right.
He doesn't have to do this at all, it's deeply unpopular, he just wants to.
He not giving in to the Far Right; he's Explicitly doing policies that alienate his base and party in order to appeal to fascists.
He IS Far Right.
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I don't particularly care--nor should the Democrats--whether or not protecting trans people is popular in the heartland. Even if it alienates the "moderates," it's the right thing to do, and the Democrats should make every effort to do it. Sometimes what the people need is to be led and not lead.
March 29, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I don't particularly care--nor should the Democrats--whether or not protecting trans people is popular in the heartland. Even if it alienates the "moderates," it's the right thing to do, and the Democrats should make every effort to do it. Sometimes what the people need is to be led and not lead.
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Once upon a time, many children lived in iron lungs due to polio. Vaccines eradicated it
Public health matters. When you shake confidence in public health, people die
The last man living in an iron lung was killed by Covid when a carer refused to mask
This is where anti-science rhetoric leads
Public health matters. When you shake confidence in public health, people die
The last man living in an iron lung was killed by Covid when a carer refused to mask
This is where anti-science rhetoric leads
Covid Just Killed The Last Man Living In An Iron Lung
Paul Alexander, the last man on Earth living in an iron lung after surviving polio as a child, was just killed by covid.
www.donotpanic.news
March 29, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Once upon a time, many children lived in iron lungs due to polio. Vaccines eradicated it
Public health matters. When you shake confidence in public health, people die
The last man living in an iron lung was killed by Covid when a carer refused to mask
This is where anti-science rhetoric leads
Public health matters. When you shake confidence in public health, people die
The last man living in an iron lung was killed by Covid when a carer refused to mask
This is where anti-science rhetoric leads
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I appreciate that Jeffrey Goldberg did not sit on this news for a book that he writes two years from now
March 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I appreciate that Jeffrey Goldberg did not sit on this news for a book that he writes two years from now
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The founder of Signal releases a response to SignalGate:
“There are so many great reasons to be on Signal.
Now including the opportunity for the vice president of the United States of America to randomly add you to a group chat for coordination of sensitive military operations.”
“There are so many great reasons to be on Signal.
Now including the opportunity for the vice president of the United States of America to randomly add you to a group chat for coordination of sensitive military operations.”
March 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
The founder of Signal releases a response to SignalGate:
“There are so many great reasons to be on Signal.
Now including the opportunity for the vice president of the United States of America to randomly add you to a group chat for coordination of sensitive military operations.”
“There are so many great reasons to be on Signal.
Now including the opportunity for the vice president of the United States of America to randomly add you to a group chat for coordination of sensitive military operations.”
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Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and *that* is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?
March 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and *that* is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?
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Have you patched your ingress controller yet? The best time to do it was yesterday, the second best time is now.
March 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Have you patched your ingress controller yet? The best time to do it was yesterday, the second best time is now.
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Most neurotypical people find it hard to understand or empathise with the neurodivergent mind. Whereas many of us have been running a neurotypical emulator for years. It crashes occasionally. Different instruction sets.
March 25, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Most neurotypical people find it hard to understand or empathise with the neurodivergent mind. Whereas many of us have been running a neurotypical emulator for years. It crashes occasionally. Different instruction sets.
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🔴Labour is so paralysed by Brexit that, despite its hunt for growth, it won’t mention vast sums lost.
🔴CER estimates Brexit has cost the UK 5% of GDP—£128bn. Goldman Sachs agrees.
🔴LSE found £27bn lost in exports in just two years.
🔴OBR says trade is down 15%.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
🔴CER estimates Brexit has cost the UK 5% of GDP—£128bn. Goldman Sachs agrees.
🔴LSE found £27bn lost in exports in just two years.
🔴OBR says trade is down 15%.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Rachel Reeves is all about growth. So why won’t she admit that Brexit is its worst enemy? | Polly Toynbee
Our exit from the EU won’t be a focus of the spring statement, but it should be. Most now accept the need for closer ties, writes Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
www.theguardian.com
March 25, 2025 at 6:59 AM
🔴Labour is so paralysed by Brexit that, despite its hunt for growth, it won’t mention vast sums lost.
🔴CER estimates Brexit has cost the UK 5% of GDP—£128bn. Goldman Sachs agrees.
🔴LSE found £27bn lost in exports in just two years.
🔴OBR says trade is down 15%.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
🔴CER estimates Brexit has cost the UK 5% of GDP—£128bn. Goldman Sachs agrees.
🔴LSE found £27bn lost in exports in just two years.
🔴OBR says trade is down 15%.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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How much better would women's lives be if even a tiny fraction of the money and attention spent attacking trans women went instead on this?
"The 1,012 domestic abuse-related deaths recorded in the past four years were described as a 'grim milestone'."
And these figures will be the tip of the iceberg of an enormous - and ongoing - tragedy. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
And these figures will be the tip of the iceberg of an enormous - and ongoing - tragedy. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Domestic abusers driving more victims to suicide, warn police
Report finds that 98 domestic abuse victims in England and Wales died by suspected suicide in 2023-2024
www.theguardian.com
March 25, 2025 at 6:43 AM
How much better would women's lives be if even a tiny fraction of the money and attention spent attacking trans women went instead on this?