real mic cullen
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This is an awesome, and awesomely correct, book title. Yes Elon, he's talking to you and your lot.
The radicalization of Silicon Valley is the subject of my forthcoming book, "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and The War on Democracy."
It exposes a decades-long campaign to use tech power to overthrow democracy and destroy nations. Pre-order here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
It exposes a decades-long campaign to use tech power to overthrow democracy and destroy nations. Pre-order here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
The Nerd Reich
A fearless and urgent chronicle of the tech-authoritarian movement from its early days in San Francisco politics to its current moment on the inter...
www.simonandschuster.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:19 AM
This is an awesome, and awesomely correct, book title. Yes Elon, he's talking to you and your lot.
And this is how you justify only headlining the boosterism parts of the AI paper, and not the bits you don't want to talk about
(I use AI a lot, but I'm not a blatant shill for the companies)
(I use AI a lot, but I'm not a blatant shill for the companies)
December 5, 2025 at 3:42 AM
And this is how you justify only headlining the boosterism parts of the AI paper, and not the bits you don't want to talk about
(I use AI a lot, but I'm not a blatant shill for the companies)
(I use AI a lot, but I'm not a blatant shill for the companies)
Sigh, more trite rubbish from Jon Haidt, who clearly hasn't the first clue about how LLMs work...
December 2, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Sigh, more trite rubbish from Jon Haidt, who clearly hasn't the first clue about how LLMs work...
I remember when journalists had to have a working knowledge of the language, which this writer clearly does not. "device hoarding" is used here when it means "getting value out of a device" as opposed to "having a house full of them".
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h...
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h...
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever before, and while it may be consumer smart, it comes at a cost to work productivity and the U.S. economy.
www.cnbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I remember when journalists had to have a working knowledge of the language, which this writer clearly does not. "device hoarding" is used here when it means "getting value out of a device" as opposed to "having a house full of them".
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h...
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h...
Not a great advert for Christianity, unfortunately
👇 Pay attention because this is the plan. They have tried to take away the ACA since 2010. Let's fire Johnson next year. I am about tired of him.
November 6, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Not a great advert for Christianity, unfortunately
This is what passes as evidence for the morons voting Republican...
LEAVITT: It's absolutely true that there's fraud in California's elections
Q: What's the evidence of that?
LEAVITT: It's just a fact
Q: What's the evidence of that?
LEAVITT: It's just a fact
November 5, 2025 at 9:25 AM
This is what passes as evidence for the morons voting Republican...
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Study hard today. Pop quiz after potluck!
November 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Study hard today. Pop quiz after potluck!
Never can tell if leads like this are just massive ignorance, or deliberate lies for clickbait. Either way reflects very badly on the publication, though.
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"Microsoft has officially ended support for Windows 10, all but forcing users to either upgrade or pay..."
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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"Microsoft has officially ended support for Windows 10, all but forcing users to either upgrade or pay..."
futurism.com/artificial-i...
As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity
Microsoft wants you to ditch your old OS so you can try its new one stuffed with overbearing, if not invasive, AI features.
futurism.com
October 18, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Never can tell if leads like this are just massive ignorance, or deliberate lies for clickbait. Either way reflects very badly on the publication, though.
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"Microsoft has officially ended support for Windows 10, all but forcing users to either upgrade or pay..."
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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"Microsoft has officially ended support for Windows 10, all but forcing users to either upgrade or pay..."
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Australian war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith is probably trying to sign up to the US military right now...
Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."
September 30, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Australian war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith is probably trying to sign up to the US military right now...
When journalists are so confidently incorrect ("enraged") about something as well-researched as this, it does make me wonder (as a former journalist) about the rest of the subjects they're similarly confident about...
The Boring Truth About Why America Got Fat
The truth about calories, ultra-processed food, and why “myth-busting” media sometimes makes more myths
www.derekthompson.org
September 7, 2025 at 3:29 AM
When journalists are so confidently incorrect ("enraged") about something as well-researched as this, it does make me wonder (as a former journalist) about the rest of the subjects they're similarly confident about...
Maybe the idea here from the Nazi was to prove that people on both sides of the political aisle can be complete rubes if the motivation is strong enough (and steal money from people via the meme stock, and so on)
Tesla changes meaning of 'Full Self-Driving', gives up on promise of autonomy
Tesla has changed the meaning of “Full Self-Driving”, also known as “FSD”, to give up on its original promise of...
electrek.co
September 7, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Maybe the idea here from the Nazi was to prove that people on both sides of the political aisle can be complete rubes if the motivation is strong enough (and steal money from people via the meme stock, and so on)
The level of stupid needed to support this is beyond comprehension. Especially for Australians? Seriously.
This is frankly one of the worst things Donald Trump has ever posted, which is really saying something
September 6, 2025 at 6:41 PM
The level of stupid needed to support this is beyond comprehension. Especially for Australians? Seriously.
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Sand batteries are literally just silos of sand that retain heat exceptionally well -- so well that they can be tied to heat exchange systems to serve as proxy *electrical* batteries. Finland's new model can store enough power (100 MWh) to heat an entire town for a week.
newatlas.com/energy/large...
newatlas.com/energy/large...
The world's largest sand battery just went live in Finland
Finland has inaugurated an industrial-scale sand battery this week in the southern town of Pornainen, where it'll take over heating duties from an old woodchip power plant for the municipality. It's s...
newatlas.com
August 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Sand batteries are literally just silos of sand that retain heat exceptionally well -- so well that they can be tied to heat exchange systems to serve as proxy *electrical* batteries. Finland's new model can store enough power (100 MWh) to heat an entire town for a week.
newatlas.com/energy/large...
newatlas.com/energy/large...
So his point is that the NFL is doing very well despite conservatives not watching it? Is he congratulating them, or is he just functionally illiterate?
I’ve lost track now - is this the 126th MAGA boycott of the NFL or 127th? How will they survive this?
August 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
So his point is that the NFL is doing very well despite conservatives not watching it? Is he congratulating them, or is he just functionally illiterate?
#VideoGames Much as #TheDivision predicted the pandemic, so #TheDivision2 predicted troops all over Washington...
August 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
#VideoGames Much as #TheDivision predicted the pandemic, so #TheDivision2 predicted troops all over Washington...
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So release the files, then, surely that's a win for you?
Seriously, it's difficult to comprehend how dumb these people (and the people who voted for them) are.
Seriously, it's difficult to comprehend how dumb these people (and the people who voted for them) are.
JD Vance: "We know that Jeffrey Epstein had a lot connections with left-wing politicians and left-wing billionaires ... Democrat billionaires and Democrat political leaders went to Epstein island all the time. Who knows what they did."
August 11, 2025 at 12:51 AM
So release the files, then, surely that's a win for you?
Seriously, it's difficult to comprehend how dumb these people (and the people who voted for them) are.
Seriously, it's difficult to comprehend how dumb these people (and the people who voted for them) are.
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SURPRISE! Turns out the diner is as rubbish as everything else Tesla/Musk is involved with (hasn't caught on fire yet, but give it time...) la.eater.com/restaurant-n...
Why Has the Tesla Diner Already Gutted Most of Its Menu?
Tesla Diner’s big promises are getting cut short for the sake of efficiency.
la.eater.com
August 10, 2025 at 1:37 AM
SURPRISE! Turns out the diner is as rubbish as everything else Tesla/Musk is involved with (hasn't caught on fire yet, but give it time...) la.eater.com/restaurant-n...
"I buy Apple products because the company is so ethical"
Tim Cook pathetically kisses Trump's ass by pretending him with a "24 karat gold" gift
August 7, 2025 at 10:42 PM
"I buy Apple products because the company is so ethical"
Meanwhile, dark leftist technology (batteries) are used in 1st-world countries...
July 27, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Meanwhile, dark leftist technology (batteries) are used in 1st-world countries...
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@tomtomorrow.bsky.social @rubenbolling.bsky.social
First they come for the comedians, then the cartoonist. Kings fear being laughed at. We have a funny bone to pick with/without a smile on our faces #Colbert #Kimmel #SethMeyers #DailyShow
First they come for the comedians, then the cartoonist. Kings fear being laughed at. We have a funny bone to pick with/without a smile on our faces #Colbert #Kimmel #SethMeyers #DailyShow
July 18, 2025 at 2:43 PM
@tomtomorrow.bsky.social @rubenbolling.bsky.social
First they come for the comedians, then the cartoonist. Kings fear being laughed at. We have a funny bone to pick with/without a smile on our faces #Colbert #Kimmel #SethMeyers #DailyShow
First they come for the comedians, then the cartoonist. Kings fear being laughed at. We have a funny bone to pick with/without a smile on our faces #Colbert #Kimmel #SethMeyers #DailyShow
This is great - "journalist" posts a "why can't people cheating on their spouse have privacy at a concert where the tix warn you that you may be filmed?" lament and gets correct by pretty much everyone in the comments about concepts and actual word-meaning ignorance and stupid comparisons.
The gleeful doxing of someone cheating in public is bad even if they are a CEO and even if they are a Coldplay fan. It's bad because this kind of thing is happening to random people on TikTok for such crimes as "sitting silently on a plane" or "being attractive"
www.404media.co/the-astronom...
www.404media.co/the-astronom...
The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia
Facial recognition and crowdsourced social media investigations are constantly being used not just on cringe CEOs, but on random people who are simply existing in public.
www.404media.co
July 17, 2025 at 10:43 PM
This is great - "journalist" posts a "why can't people cheating on their spouse have privacy at a concert where the tix warn you that you may be filmed?" lament and gets correct by pretty much everyone in the comments about concepts and actual word-meaning ignorance and stupid comparisons.
I guess this is the Find Out phase
Elon Musk’s Tesla sales utterly collapse in Europe, even as EV market surges www.huffpost.com/entry/tesla-...
Elon Musk’s Tesla Sales Utterly Collapse In Europe, Even As EV Market Surges
The numbers are the latest indication of how much the vehicle brand is suffering because of the backlash against its billionaire CEO and his far-right views.
www.huffpost.com
May 29, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I guess this is the Find Out phase
Where the @nytimes.com demonstrates that it thinks its readers are as stupid as your average Trumpanzee
May 16, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Where the @nytimes.com demonstrates that it thinks its readers are as stupid as your average Trumpanzee