Rich Puchalsky
@richpuchalsky.bsky.social
freelance librarian
anarchist
anarchist
In part that's it. In part it's even worse.
This explanation posits rational, selfish capital-owners, but capital-owners now generally believe propaganda put out by a subset of capital-owners who wanted to preserve sunk cost investments. They created a cultural belief among themselves.
This explanation posits rational, selfish capital-owners, but capital-owners now generally believe propaganda put out by a subset of capital-owners who wanted to preserve sunk cost investments. They created a cultural belief among themselves.
November 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
In part that's it. In part it's even worse.
This explanation posits rational, selfish capital-owners, but capital-owners now generally believe propaganda put out by a subset of capital-owners who wanted to preserve sunk cost investments. They created a cultural belief among themselves.
This explanation posits rational, selfish capital-owners, but capital-owners now generally believe propaganda put out by a subset of capital-owners who wanted to preserve sunk cost investments. They created a cultural belief among themselves.
Every large retailer orders its employees to smile, and almost no one working there would smile otherwise.
November 8, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Every large retailer orders its employees to smile, and almost no one working there would smile otherwise.
You can't really have a right to be safe, because human existence is inherently unsafe. People have different risk tolerances, but the actual amount of risk is not always controllable.
I agree with you about "feeling safe".
I agree with you about "feeling safe".
November 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
You can't really have a right to be safe, because human existence is inherently unsafe. People have different risk tolerances, but the actual amount of risk is not always controllable.
I agree with you about "feeling safe".
I agree with you about "feeling safe".
The American people shaped the current moment. Dick Cheney was not a Great Man of History who magically had the ability to make everyone go along with his particular representation of elite interests. Americans are a bad people.
November 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The American people shaped the current moment. Dick Cheney was not a Great Man of History who magically had the ability to make everyone go along with his particular representation of elite interests. Americans are a bad people.
inevitable that Teen Vogue would either be owned by someone who decided to become Trump affiliated or be bought by someone specifically to close this down
November 3, 2025 at 8:40 PM
inevitable that Teen Vogue would either be owned by someone who decided to become Trump affiliated or be bought by someone specifically to close this down
I'm a data librarian. You do not need a "data center" in order to have an Internet, or at least you certainly don't need to build any new ones.
The good metrics that we have are that people who understand what is going on see that it's all hype and nonsense for infalting a bubble.
The good metrics that we have are that people who understand what is going on see that it's all hype and nonsense for infalting a bubble.
November 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I'm a data librarian. You do not need a "data center" in order to have an Internet, or at least you certainly don't need to build any new ones.
The good metrics that we have are that people who understand what is going on see that it's all hype and nonsense for infalting a bubble.
The good metrics that we have are that people who understand what is going on see that it's all hype and nonsense for infalting a bubble.
It's 0% / 100%. There is no "AI" use for genuinely important functions, or if some sucker is trying to use it for them then everyone would be better off if they didn't.
November 3, 2025 at 1:07 PM
It's 0% / 100%. There is no "AI" use for genuinely important functions, or if some sucker is trying to use it for them then everyone would be better off if they didn't.
This time they're gonna get Kevin Bacon
October 31, 2025 at 7:18 PM
This time they're gonna get Kevin Bacon
A large majority of War of Terror era wars (except the aggressive war on Iraq) have been on entities that may or may not exist. The US would make up an entity and some guy eager to expand his network would say "Oh yeah I'm the boss of International Terror."
October 31, 2025 at 4:55 PM
A large majority of War of Terror era wars (except the aggressive war on Iraq) have been on entities that may or may not exist. The US would make up an entity and some guy eager to expand his network would say "Oh yeah I'm the boss of International Terror."
Most academic work can use LLMs because most academic work is of no particular value to anyone
October 30, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Most academic work can use LLMs because most academic work is of no particular value to anyone
No. Nostalgia is remembering good things about the past; bitterness is remembering bad things about the past. They may both be falsified memories to some extent. But the biggest barrier to progress is not that we remember the past.
October 30, 2025 at 4:40 PM
No. Nostalgia is remembering good things about the past; bitterness is remembering bad things about the past. They may both be falsified memories to some extent. But the biggest barrier to progress is not that we remember the past.
I see no reason to indulge people in a boring, provincial discourse just because I physically live in the area
October 30, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I see no reason to indulge people in a boring, provincial discourse just because I physically live in the area
it ends romantically, sort of
October 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
it ends romantically, sort of
I'd already blocked Kruse, this reminded me to block Grim too. Neither one is on the left and both use this kind of rhetorical move on the actual left.
October 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I'd already blocked Kruse, this reminded me to block Grim too. Neither one is on the left and both use this kind of rhetorical move on the actual left.
As a librarian I have to say: let barbarians be barbarians again. People keep wanting to preserve the institutions of civilization in places like Florida, but why should they? It always ends with the hapless staff who have been brought it being driven out.
October 30, 2025 at 1:33 PM
As a librarian I have to say: let barbarians be barbarians again. People keep wanting to preserve the institutions of civilization in places like Florida, but why should they? It always ends with the hapless staff who have been brought it being driven out.
There is nothing more American than cops beating people up and killing them
October 29, 2025 at 12:21 PM
There is nothing more American than cops beating people up and killing them
This is like coal burning power plants in the US. When they are shut down you need to make sure that they are actually destroyed, or some crypto or "AI" booster will start them up again based on some bubble that momentarily makes the economics worth it.
October 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
This is like coal burning power plants in the US. When they are shut down you need to make sure that they are actually destroyed, or some crypto or "AI" booster will start them up again based on some bubble that momentarily makes the economics worth it.
The US is an empire: it literally always has to be killing people somewhere for no real reason. Democrats could deal with Islamophobia in two minutes as long as there was a different convenient pool of people to kill.
October 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The US is an empire: it literally always has to be killing people somewhere for no real reason. Democrats could deal with Islamophobia in two minutes as long as there was a different convenient pool of people to kill.
The Nazis in the sketch were actually extremely smart. They figured out that they were the bad guys, against all propaganda, just from what was on their hats, then changed their behavior! (You see them abandoning their posts at the end, if I remember rightly.) If only actual people did this more.
October 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
The Nazis in the sketch were actually extremely smart. They figured out that they were the bad guys, against all propaganda, just from what was on their hats, then changed their behavior! (You see them abandoning their posts at the end, if I remember rightly.) If only actual people did this more.
There are only two parties in America: the Party of Fascism and the Party of Empire.
October 22, 2025 at 1:10 PM
There are only two parties in America: the Party of Fascism and the Party of Empire.