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slipperyjack.bsky.social
Not far from my hotel is the absurdly blingy 18th century Late Baroque private chapel Asamkirche, home to a golden skeleton brandishing scissors to cut the cord of life..!
December 2, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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justinhendrix.bsky.social
Introducing a new series on Tech Policy Press, Andreu Belsunces Gonçalves examines how hype operates within venture capital and private equity and why it has become such a powerful political instrument. The orientation provided by AI hype is guiding us towards an oligarchic future, he writes..
Why Tech Hype Is Rising and What Venture Capital Has to Do with It | TechPolicy.Press
Andreu Belsunces Gonçalves examines how hype operates and explains why it has become such a powerful political instrument today.
www.techpolicy.press
December 3, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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skiles.blue
The richest "capitalists" today don't really invest in capital, the means of production. They invest in hype cycles. 🧵
justinhendrix.bsky.social Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 11h
Introducing a new series on Tech Policy Press, Andreu Belsunces Gonçalves examines how hype operates within venture capital and private equity and why it has become such a powerful political instrument. The orientation provided by AI hype is guiding us towards an oligarchic future, he writes..
Why Tech Hype Is Rising and What Venture Capital Has to Do with It | TechPolicy.Press
Andreu Belsunces Gonçalves examines how hype operates and explains why it has become such a powerful political instrument today.
www.techpolicy.press
December 3, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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sarcasmodemiami.bsky.social
It occurs to me that there are probably a LOT of multi-millionaires who are eager to see the billionaire class destroyed because they fully grasp that billionaires are bad for democracy AND SOCIETY AND markets AND capitalism.
December 3, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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kenlowery.bsky.social
If you've spent your life GMing because no one else in the group will, you've got a future in lower level leadership in corporate America
December 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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jessicacalarco.com
We have to talk about how this glorification of overwork is driving care downstream.

To compete, men are incentivized to dump care onto women in their families. And women in privileged positions are then incentivized to push care onto others more vulnerable than them.

www.cnbc.com/2025/10/25/b...
Billionaire Jimmy John’s founder: Work-life balance for entrepreneurs ''is the biggest line of bulls--- that’s ever been created’
Jimmy John Liautaud says launching a successful business requires an immense amount of dedication and persistence, leaving no room for work-life balance.
www.cnbc.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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adamtots.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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anthonyavonart.bsky.social
Hey, I'm free to do some landscape commissions!
DM me to talk about it if you're interested.
Shares help a lot! 🤍
November 30, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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kennedytcooper.bsky.social
When your brain is so cooked it has turned to ash and blown away in the wind
from r/SunoAI title: "Sick of having to come up with prompts" Hey y'all, looking for some tips here. I like what I've made so far with Suno but now I'm kind of hitting a wall with ideas for prompts. Why doesn't Suno also have a feature to write prompts for you? Like just hit a button that says "new prompt" and then hit make song when it comes up with something that sounds interesting! Thoughts?
November 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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zachweinersmith.bsky.social
Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/red-3 #smbc
November 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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publius24.bsky.social
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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lorak.bsky.social
“the amount of money people are spending during the so-called Turkey 5 – the period of shopping days spanning Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday – has declined for two straight years, according to the NRF. Between 2019 and 2024, spending fell nearly 13%.” www.cnbc.com/2025/11/28/b...
'To sustain the ride, they started to dilute it': How Black Friday became a retail letdown
Black Friday used to be the biggest in-person shopping event of the year, but for six straight years, online sales have outpaced stores.
www.cnbc.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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astrokatie.com
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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mrlovenstein.bsky.social
maybe next time
November 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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aplante.com
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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delicateecopouf.bsky.social
Thanksgiving is the most American holiday, even moreso than 4th of July IMO, because it's simultaneously grounded in a mythology that papers over the horrors that lie in our history while also celebrating the very best of our mixed culture despite being constantly encroached on by consumerism.
November 27, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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smbccomics.bsky.social
You are the balut of love, my dear.

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/fine-2
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
Part 1/4 of an SMBC comic update. In the first panels, a woman asks a man sitting on the beach with her if he thinks AI will replace human companionship. The man says he doesn't think so, and assumes it will lead to people valuing humans more. He explains that when you are a kid, you like fruit punch and chocolate milk, because they're objectively tasty. Part 2/4 of an SMBC comic update. The man continues his explanation. As an adult, you graduate to coffee and beer, which are more acquired tastes, and the dialogue underlines they are also tastes you seek out for their effects, and as social lubricants. The man continues to explain that the final taste stage you graduate to is the most esteemed, and the most challenging, taste wise. The dialogue hints how the 200$ liquor isn't really enjoyed by the person trying it out. Part 3/4 of an SMBC comic update. The man finishes his explanation concluding human relationships will be the same, with the robot one being seen as easy and childish, while the human ones are more difficult and become an acquired taste and social convention. The woman says that is beautiful, and calls the man her little Turkish coffee, and he calls her his little peated whisky. Part 4/4 of an SMBC comic update. The joke ends with the woman asking why the man went quiet, implying he is thinking of the AI relationship.
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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coreybrickley.bsky.social
artists and designers using ai like
cartoon of a cute little monkey using a saw to cut off a tree branch that it is standing on. The monkey is saying "Wow technology is amazing"
November 27, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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happytoast.co.uk
Love that it's still exploring
Perseverance in the style of Calvin and Hobbes
November 26, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore

I feel like we need this
November 24, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
Let's move on with the rest of the passage.

Lewis recognizes that modesty raises thorny issues, but he sweeps them aside to focus on the more important spirit. I want to bring your attention to the last sentence here:
bad manners. When, as often happens, they break it defiantly in order to shock or embarrass others, they are not necessarily being unchaste, but they are being uncharitable: for it is uncharitable to take pleasure in making other people uncomfortable. I do not think that a very strict or fussy standard of propriety is any proof of chastity or any help to it, and I therefore regard the great relaxation and simplifying of the rule which has taken place in my own lifetime as a good thing. At its present stage, however, it has this inconvenience, that people of different ages and different types do not all acknowledge the same standard, and we hardly know where we are. While this confusion lasts I think that old, or old-fashioned, people should be very careful not to assume that young or ‘emancipated’ people are corrupt whenever they are (by the old standard) improper; and, in return, that young people should not call their elders prudes or puritans because they do not easily adopt the new standard. A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will solve most of the problems.
November 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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thatpetewoods.bsky.social
I thought I was going nuts I’m glad it’s not me.

youtu.be/hksVvXONrIo?...
It's Not Just You - The iOS Keyboard is Broken
YouTube video by Michi NekoMichi
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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jackiantonovich.bsky.social
Who invests in critical thinking and who invests in an AI chatbot to help you think will be really telling.
November 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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unenthusiast.com
need-a-penny, take-a-penny
a border collie and small bird commune under the moon in a dark wood amongst barren trees. Fairy light illuminates the bird's words to the pup: Even the moon glows from borrowed light... So, if you need it, I'll gladly lend you mine tonight. from the devastatingly talented, Sina Simbürger https://www.instagram.com/sin.xline
November 21, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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courtneymilan.com
So all I'm saying is... if your only answer to people who are experiencing enormous pain or upheaval is "just suck it up and listen to the true experts," I don't think you're being honest with yourself.

You would probably try a lot of woo woo, too.
November 23, 2025 at 1:18 AM