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Well, now that Elon has irredeemably fucked twitter, we turn to another platform for succour and support. Just out here salting the vibes. Also, I'm very sweary. Yaegl country.
Gonna start using foofooraw instead of furore.
Surpassing human capabilities isn’t the biggest threat that AI poses, says activist and author of “Enshittification” Cory Doctorow.
November 27, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Gonna start using foofooraw instead of furore.
"An ouroboros of shit."
Perfection.
Perfection.
Billionaires handing money back and forth, no one creating anything except carbon in the air. Anthropic buys Nvidia chips; Nvidia gives Anthropic billions to buy even more chips; Microsoft gives Anthropic billions, which Anthropic spends on Microsoft Azure, run by Nvidia, etc. An ouroboros of shit.
New @axios: Anthropic lands $15 billion investment from Microsoft, Nvidia
November 19, 2025 at 9:07 AM
"An ouroboros of shit."
Perfection.
Perfection.
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The man is not that charismatic… there has got to be a way to stop people from fellating him
November 15, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The man is not that charismatic… there has got to be a way to stop people from fellating him
Is someone working on a concordance of this Epstein email dump?
November 14, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Is someone working on a concordance of this Epstein email dump?
"It tries to solve the world's problems one self actualisation at a time."
'Psychology's quiet conservatism' sounds like it's a banger of a book @bmhughes.bsky.social .
'Psychology's quiet conservatism' sounds like it's a banger of a book @bmhughes.bsky.social .
I just listened to your conversation with @davetuller1.bsky.social about the book, very interesting!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K75...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K75...
Interview with Brian Hughes, professor of psychology and University of Galway in Ireland.
YouTube video by David M Tuller
www.youtube.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
"It tries to solve the world's problems one self actualisation at a time."
'Psychology's quiet conservatism' sounds like it's a banger of a book @bmhughes.bsky.social .
'Psychology's quiet conservatism' sounds like it's a banger of a book @bmhughes.bsky.social .
What a time to be alive.
Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same
October 29, 2025 at 10:02 AM
What a time to be alive.
Uncle Peter in his prime.
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
October 20, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Uncle Peter in his prime.
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Starting my day by Googling "Taylor Swift Nazi lightning", as one does.
October 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Starting my day by Googling "Taylor Swift Nazi lightning", as one does.
This.
Kimmel getting tanked the same evening as that monstrous state banquet over here, honestly feels like one of those history book moments students in 30+ years will look at and go "grandma why didn't anyone do anything"
September 18, 2025 at 7:30 AM
This.
RIP Tom Lehrer.
Haven't felt this bummed since Frank Zappa shuffled off this mortal coil.
Haven't felt this bummed since Frank Zappa shuffled off this mortal coil.
July 28, 2025 at 10:31 AM
RIP Tom Lehrer.
Haven't felt this bummed since Frank Zappa shuffled off this mortal coil.
Haven't felt this bummed since Frank Zappa shuffled off this mortal coil.
I was a fan until I watched "Matilda and me" in 2016, which made it excruciatingly pellucidly clear he is a self satisfied creep.
Tim Minchin, at the height of his fame, wrote a song about wishing women had neck-down allopecia.
So, you know. He's never been anything but sus.
But now he looks like something caught dangling off a trailer hitch on a dusty road.
So, you know. He's never been anything but sus.
But now he looks like something caught dangling off a trailer hitch on a dusty road.
Tim Minchin talks to Mark Beaumont about escaping the confines of comedy, his new album and revisiting his early songs, plus why he hopes artists who speak out about Gaza are ‘doing all their reading’
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urlr.me/thFBC3
July 26, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I was a fan until I watched "Matilda and me" in 2016, which made it excruciatingly pellucidly clear he is a self satisfied creep.
See also: dawdling to consensus. (Bob Hawke)
Democracy is an endless meeting to seek consensus.
July 26, 2025 at 9:57 PM
See also: dawdling to consensus. (Bob Hawke)
If people could just stop using AI to "edit" perfectly good text, that would be great. kthnx.
July 6, 2025 at 10:15 PM
If people could just stop using AI to "edit" perfectly good text, that would be great. kthnx.
US citizens - we see your shame and raise you a healthy dose of moral cowardice.
Australia supports a terrorist action against Iran? Because that’s what an unannounced attack on a foreign nation is when there has been no declaration of war.
Live: Wong says Australia supports US strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-23/federal-politics-live-blog-june-23/105447868
June 22, 2025 at 10:55 PM
US citizens - we see your shame and raise you a healthy dose of moral cowardice.
Derrida enters the supreme court chat.
Justice Jackson taking on Gorsuch's "pure textualism" and arguing for a more holistic reading of Congress' handiwork—worth reading in full. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
![The majority’s contention that I reject “ ‘pure textualism’ [a]s insufficiently pliable to secure the result [I] seek,” ante, at 10, stems from an
unfortunate misunderstanding of the judicial role. Our interpretative
task is not to seek our own desired results (whatever they may be). And,
indeed, it is precisely because of this solemn duty that, in my view, it is
imperative that we interpret statutes consistent with all relevant indicia
of what Congress wanted, as best we can ascertain its intent. A methodology that includes consideration of Congress’s aims does exactly that—
and no more. By contrast, pure textualism’s refusal to try to understand
the text of a statute in the larger context of what Congress sought to
achieve turns the interpretive task into a potent weapon for advancing
judicial policy preferences. By “finding” answers in ambiguous text, and
not bothering to consider whether those answers align with other sources
of statutory meaning, pure textualists can easily disguise their own preferences as “textual” inevitabilities. So, really, far from being “insufficiently pliable,” I think pure textualism is incessantly malleable—that’s
its primary problem—and, indeed, it is certainly somehow always flexible enough to secure the majority’s desired outcome.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreih3qdtlloz3yhggypbtwiveqdgzzfgapsnetvq7qsni7wfmyuovoi@jpeg)
June 20, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Derrida enters the supreme court chat.
Ok. I give in. Time to pull the ugg boots out of the back of the wardrobe.
It's officially winter.
It's officially winter.
June 9, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Ok. I give in. Time to pull the ugg boots out of the back of the wardrobe.
It's officially winter.
It's officially winter.
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elon and trump are meeting outside uniqlo on sunday 5pm. 3251 20th Ave, San Francisco, CA, 94132
June 5, 2025 at 9:10 PM
elon and trump are meeting outside uniqlo on sunday 5pm. 3251 20th Ave, San Francisco, CA, 94132
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Sources reporting that Zelensky has called Trump and offered to mediate a peaceful resolution between Musk and himself.
June 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Sources reporting that Zelensky has called Trump and offered to mediate a peaceful resolution between Musk and himself.
We all knew it would happen but it's a rich vein of schadenfreude watching mutually assured destruction erupt in real time.
The popcorn gif was built for this moment.
The popcorn gif was built for this moment.
a woman is eating popcorn while sitting on a couch and says `` the show begins '' .
Alt: a woman is eating popcorn while sitting on a couch and says `` the show begins '' .
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June 5, 2025 at 9:11 PM
We all knew it would happen but it's a rich vein of schadenfreude watching mutually assured destruction erupt in real time.
The popcorn gif was built for this moment.
The popcorn gif was built for this moment.
And more inevitable.
As a grandma (and on behalf of toddlers everywhere) I’ll say this Musk/Trump tantrum is worse than anything I’ve ever seen.
June 5, 2025 at 9:01 PM
And more inevitable.
2025. The year of living schadenfreudely.
Anti-Musk sentiment runs high in Australian city as 95% of submissions oppose land sale to Tesla
Anti-Musk sentiment runs high in Australian city as 95% of submissions oppose land sale to Tesla
Council in Adelaide censors strong language in some of the nearly 1,000 submissions that called for proposal to be struck down
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May 27, 2025 at 9:24 AM
2025. The year of living schadenfreudely.
I do not think it is a coincidence that the book my partner picked from the shelf during the second Eurovision semi-final was "What to listen for in music'. See also:
May 19, 2025 at 8:34 AM
I do not think it is a coincidence that the book my partner picked from the shelf during the second Eurovision semi-final was "What to listen for in music'. See also:
I spent 12 hours over the past few days handing out how-to-votes for the Greens in a rusted-on Nationals seat in regional NSW.
Boy did I receive the mansplaining of a lifetime from the elderly white men volunteering for the Nationals. Some highlights ...
Boy did I receive the mansplaining of a lifetime from the elderly white men volunteering for the Nationals. Some highlights ...
May 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I spent 12 hours over the past few days handing out how-to-votes for the Greens in a rusted-on Nationals seat in regional NSW.
Boy did I receive the mansplaining of a lifetime from the elderly white men volunteering for the Nationals. Some highlights ...
Boy did I receive the mansplaining of a lifetime from the elderly white men volunteering for the Nationals. Some highlights ...
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Drive it like you stole it, stop fucking around, deal with climate change, poverty, and deal with inequality to pay for it. Deal with industry transition, deal with education costs, accept that large investments in ourselves today pay for more than themselves in the future. And dental in Medicare
May 3, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Drive it like you stole it, stop fucking around, deal with climate change, poverty, and deal with inequality to pay for it. Deal with industry transition, deal with education costs, accept that large investments in ourselves today pay for more than themselves in the future. And dental in Medicare
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