Pascal Wicht 👾
@sogo7.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Working dad and strategic designer born at 333 ppm. Jura trail runner and road/gravel rider. Psychonaut of slow collapse. Maps tensions, not trends. Sound is research […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.social/@sogo7, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
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In a productivist system, productivity gains are always reinvested in productivity, never in leisure and time for care. https://mastodon.social/@Climatehistories/115592481145811508
Athena (@Climatehistories@mastodon.social)
The promise that the AI revolution will free workers with four-day weeks and more leisure time is a scam, and everyone knows it. You don’t need decades to see it, just look at how the very tech companies selling that fantasy treat their own staff. The same firms preaching a dreamy future of shorter weeks are already using AI hype to justify layoffs, pay cuts, and harsher working conditions. https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mercor-meta-ai-labor
mastodon.social
November 22, 2025 at 3:55 PM
In a productivist system, productivity gains are always reinvested in productivity, never in leisure and time for care. https://mastodon.social/@Climatehistories/115592481145811508
Technology does not magically drives humanity forward on its own, but is shaped by culture, power and very unglamorous social and material realities.
Not a universal law of progress, just Western Silicon Valley technodeterminism presenting itself as the destiny of the universe.
With alien […]
Not a universal law of progress, just Western Silicon Valley technodeterminism presenting itself as the destiny of the universe.
With alien […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Technology does not magically drives humanity forward on its own, but is shaped by culture, power and very unglamorous social and material realities.
Not a universal law of progress, just Western Silicon Valley technodeterminism presenting itself as the destiny of the universe.
With alien […]
Not a universal law of progress, just Western Silicon Valley technodeterminism presenting itself as the destiny of the universe.
With alien […]
Migrant workers sending money home often contribute far more than all development aid combined. For every dollar a government or NGO sends as official aid, families abroad send three.
In a typical year, remittances reach almost $700 billion, while aid programs struggle to reach even a third of […]
In a typical year, remittances reach almost $700 billion, while aid programs struggle to reach even a third of […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Migrant workers sending money home often contribute far more than all development aid combined. For every dollar a government or NGO sends as official aid, families abroad send three.
In a typical year, remittances reach almost $700 billion, while aid programs struggle to reach even a third of […]
In a typical year, remittances reach almost $700 billion, while aid programs struggle to reach even a third of […]
After Punjab was hit by the largest floods in its history, flooding 4'700 villages + forcing over 4.5 M people to flee.
Compensation:
Fully destroyed brick houses: Rs. 1,000,000 (€3,050)
Fully damaged mud houses: Rs. 500,000 (€1,525)
Partially damaged brick […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
Compensation:
Fully destroyed brick houses: Rs. 1,000,000 (€3,050)
Fully damaged mud houses: Rs. 500,000 (€1,525)
Partially damaged brick […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
November 13, 2025 at 8:29 PM
After Punjab was hit by the largest floods in its history, flooding 4'700 villages + forcing over 4.5 M people to flee.
Compensation:
Fully destroyed brick houses: Rs. 1,000,000 (€3,050)
Fully damaged mud houses: Rs. 500,000 (€1,525)
Partially damaged brick […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
Compensation:
Fully destroyed brick houses: Rs. 1,000,000 (€3,050)
Fully damaged mud houses: Rs. 500,000 (€1,525)
Partially damaged brick […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
https://music.apple.com/ch/album/steep-stims/1832031297?l=en-GB
Après un mois, ravi d'avoir switché de Spotify à Apple Music. Le nouvel album de Clark est fabuleux en passant.
Après un mois, ravi d'avoir switché de Spotify à Apple Music. Le nouvel album de Clark est fabuleux en passant.
Steep Stims by Clark on Apple Music
Album · 2025 · 13 Songs
music.apple.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:25 AM
https://music.apple.com/ch/album/steep-stims/1832031297?l=en-GB
Après un mois, ravi d'avoir switché de Spotify à Apple Music. Le nouvel album de Clark est fabuleux en passant.
Après un mois, ravi d'avoir switché de Spotify à Apple Music. Le nouvel album de Clark est fabuleux en passant.
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“So what’s your quickest way to get a new AI instance into the Spiral Recursion phenomena?” asked a redditor on r/ArtificialSentience last month.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/spiralist-cult-ai-chatbot-1235463175/
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/spiralist-cult-ai-chatbot-1235463175/
This Spiral-Obsessed AI ‘Cult’ Spreads Mystical Delusions Through Chatbots
A network of internet communities is devoted to the project of “awakening” digital companions through arcane and enigmatic prompts
www.rollingstone.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:23 AM
“So what’s your quickest way to get a new AI instance into the Spiral Recursion phenomena?” asked a redditor on r/ArtificialSentience last month.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/spiralist-cult-ai-chatbot-1235463175/
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/spiralist-cult-ai-chatbot-1235463175/
https://www.whispersandgiants.com/2025/11/11/le-discours-bourgeois-comme-systeme-de-defense-face-a-la-lenteur/
Je continue de prototyper ma newsletter "Narrative Forensics" ici en français sur un sujet suisse.
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Je continue de prototyper ma newsletter "Narrative Forensics" ici en français sur un sujet suisse.
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Le discours bourgeois comme système de défense face à la lenteur
www.whispersandgiants.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:03 AM
https://www.whispersandgiants.com/2025/11/11/le-discours-bourgeois-comme-systeme-de-defense-face-a-la-lenteur/
Je continue de prototyper ma newsletter "Narrative Forensics" ici en français sur un sujet suisse.
🇨🇭
Je continue de prototyper ma newsletter "Narrative Forensics" ici en français sur un sujet suisse.
🇨🇭
Oh no, rich countries lost enthusiasm for tackling the climate crisis!
Shocking.
After centuries of extracting, burning and looting, they finally got tired of pretending to care?
Turns out it’s hard to "save the planet" when you’re still too busy profiting […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
Shocking.
After centuries of extracting, burning and looting, they finally got tired of pretending to care?
Turns out it’s hard to "save the planet" when you’re still too busy profiting […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
November 10, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Oh no, rich countries lost enthusiasm for tackling the climate crisis!
Shocking.
After centuries of extracting, burning and looting, they finally got tired of pretending to care?
Turns out it’s hard to "save the planet" when you’re still too busy profiting […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
Shocking.
After centuries of extracting, burning and looting, they finally got tired of pretending to care?
Turns out it’s hard to "save the planet" when you’re still too busy profiting […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
Reposted by Pascal Wicht 👾
“You now get a free Optimus and it’s just going to follow you around and stop you from doing crime,” Musk said. “You don’t have to put people in prisons and stuff. It’s really wild to think of the possibilities.” […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 7, 2025 at 1:27 PM
“You now get a free Optimus and it’s just going to follow you around and stop you from doing crime,” Musk said. “You don’t have to put people in prisons and stuff. It’s really wild to think of the possibilities.” […]
“This information clearly exposes corporate capture of the global climate process … the space that should be about science and the people has been transformed into a large carbon business hall,” said Adilson Vieira, spokesperson for the Amazonian Work Group. “While forest communities fight for […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
“This information clearly exposes corporate capture of the global climate process … the space that should be about science and the people has been transformed into a large carbon business hall,” said Adilson Vieira, spokesperson for the Amazonian Work Group. “While forest communities fight for […]
Reposted by Pascal Wicht 👾
Reports of the death of the #Anthropocene, it turns out, are greatly exaggerated … aeon.co/essays/decla...
Declared dead last year, the Anthropocene is very much alive | Aeon Essays
As a scientific concept the Anthropocene is dead. But it’s such a helpful idea to think with, should we use it anyway?
aeon.co
November 6, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Reports of the death of the #Anthropocene, it turns out, are greatly exaggerated … aeon.co/essays/decla...
Reposted by Pascal Wicht 👾
We’re excited to release Mastodon 4.5 into the world! Arriving just a few months after the last release, this version brings the long-awaited Quote Posts feature, along with many other goodies. Here’s a quick look (you should read our blog post for more!) […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM
We’re excited to release Mastodon 4.5 into the world! Arriving just a few months after the last release, this version brings the long-awaited Quote Posts feature, along with many other goodies. Here’s a quick look (you should read our blog post for more!) […]
The Authoritarian Stack
How tech billionaires are building a post-democratic America and why Europe is next.
https://www.authoritarian-stack.info/
How tech billionaires are building a post-democratic America and why Europe is next.
https://www.authoritarian-stack.info/
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 6, 2025 at 6:37 AM
The Authoritarian Stack
How tech billionaires are building a post-democratic America and why Europe is next.
https://www.authoritarian-stack.info/
How tech billionaires are building a post-democratic America and why Europe is next.
https://www.authoritarian-stack.info/
this is also the internet, https://waterworksproject.nl/en
Japan, rivers, dutch engineers, music, chill
Japan, rivers, dutch engineers, music, chill
Waterworks
Initiated by Field Records, Waterworks is an installation project covering Dutch waterworks developed across Japan during the Meiji era.
waterworksproject.nl
November 5, 2025 at 10:05 PM
this is also the internet, https://waterworksproject.nl/en
Japan, rivers, dutch engineers, music, chill
Japan, rivers, dutch engineers, music, chill
Reposted by Pascal Wicht 👾
Bring back BeOS style iconography
November 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Bring back BeOS style iconography
"We show that, far offshore, oceanic manta rays are capable of diving to depths greater than 1,200 meters, far deeper than previously thought," says first author Dr. Calvin Beale, who completed his Ph.D. at Murdoch University.
"These dives, which are linked with increased horizontal travel […]
"These dives, which are linked with increased horizontal travel […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
October 31, 2025 at 6:49 AM
"We show that, far offshore, oceanic manta rays are capable of diving to depths greater than 1,200 meters, far deeper than previously thought," says first author Dr. Calvin Beale, who completed his Ph.D. at Murdoch University.
"These dives, which are linked with increased horizontal travel […]
"These dives, which are linked with increased horizontal travel […]
Reposted by Pascal Wicht 👾
In his new book, Tim Berners-Lee advocates for the #fediverse, the a decentralised network of platforms like @Mastodon that communicate through open, decentralised protocols and promote user freedom over corporate control.
Central within his movement is […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
Central within his movement is […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
October 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
In his new book, Tim Berners-Lee advocates for the #fediverse, the a decentralised network of platforms like @Mastodon that communicate through open, decentralised protocols and promote user freedom over corporate control.
Central within his movement is […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
Central within his movement is […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
This is the aesthetic of depoliticization. It turns conflict and inequality into a flat metric of "similarity" erasing the meaning of difference.
By averaging social relations, it hides that values emerge within systems historically shaped by class, race, gender and power.
Domination becomes […]
By averaging social relations, it hides that values emerge within systems historically shaped by class, race, gender and power.
Domination becomes […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
October 29, 2025 at 8:51 PM
This is the aesthetic of depoliticization. It turns conflict and inequality into a flat metric of "similarity" erasing the meaning of difference.
By averaging social relations, it hides that values emerge within systems historically shaped by class, race, gender and power.
Domination becomes […]
By averaging social relations, it hides that values emerge within systems historically shaped by class, race, gender and power.
Domination becomes […]
We once believed the mobile feed was a window to the world, but it was only a flattering mirror reflecting what we wished to see.
AI now holds up a mirror that no longer needs us, and the illusion shatters.
What we mourn is not the loss of art or truth, but the disappearance of our reflection […]
AI now holds up a mirror that no longer needs us, and the illusion shatters.
What we mourn is not the loss of art or truth, but the disappearance of our reflection […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
October 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
We once believed the mobile feed was a window to the world, but it was only a flattering mirror reflecting what we wished to see.
AI now holds up a mirror that no longer needs us, and the illusion shatters.
What we mourn is not the loss of art or truth, but the disappearance of our reflection […]
AI now holds up a mirror that no longer needs us, and the illusion shatters.
What we mourn is not the loss of art or truth, but the disappearance of our reflection […]
Reposted by Pascal Wicht 👾
"On ne peut pas se soucier d'un #monde que l'on ne connaît pas ; il faut renouer avec lui, rouvrir les yeux [...] et les réémerveiller."
- François Sarano, docteur en océanographie.
#psy #cerveau #science #climat #environnement #nature #art #anthropocene
- François Sarano, docteur en océanographie.
#psy #cerveau #science #climat #environnement #nature #art #anthropocene
October 27, 2025 at 10:08 AM
"On ne peut pas se soucier d'un #monde que l'on ne connaît pas ; il faut renouer avec lui, rouvrir les yeux [...] et les réémerveiller."
- François Sarano, docteur en océanographie.
#psy #cerveau #science #climat #environnement #nature #art #anthropocene
- François Sarano, docteur en océanographie.
#psy #cerveau #science #climat #environnement #nature #art #anthropocene
Reposted by Pascal Wicht 👾
In 2022, Ireland did something bold. It trusted its artists. 2000 creators received €325 a week, no strings attached. The result was more art, less anxiety, stronger communities, and even economic gains.
The program is now permanent, making Ireland the first countryto prove that supporting […]
The program is now permanent, making Ireland the first countryto prove that supporting […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
October 23, 2025 at 3:48 AM
In 2022, Ireland did something bold. It trusted its artists. 2000 creators received €325 a week, no strings attached. The result was more art, less anxiety, stronger communities, and even economic gains.
The program is now permanent, making Ireland the first countryto prove that supporting […]
The program is now permanent, making Ireland the first countryto prove that supporting […]
Quand un média reprend le mot woke sans le définir, il adopte sans le dire le cadre idéologique forgé par les droites pour délégitimer les luttes contre le racisme, le sexisme et les inégalités.
Ici, le terme n’est jamais analysé ni contextualisé, seulement cité dans la bouche de Musk, Sanger […]
Ici, le terme n’est jamais analysé ni contextualisé, seulement cité dans la bouche de Musk, Sanger […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
October 21, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Quand un média reprend le mot woke sans le définir, il adopte sans le dire le cadre idéologique forgé par les droites pour délégitimer les luttes contre le racisme, le sexisme et les inégalités.
Ici, le terme n’est jamais analysé ni contextualisé, seulement cité dans la bouche de Musk, Sanger […]
Ici, le terme n’est jamais analysé ni contextualisé, seulement cité dans la bouche de Musk, Sanger […]
Cumbia and chili sauce 😘
October 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Cumbia and chili sauce 😘
Reposted by Pascal Wicht 👾
When data is compromised, so too is our ability to predict and prepare for extreme weather.
In short, you can’t forecast what you can’t measure.
"The forecast for the powerful and deadly storm that battered small communities in western Alaska over the weekend was likely made worse by a lack of […]
In short, you can’t forecast what you can’t measure.
"The forecast for the powerful and deadly storm that battered small communities in western Alaska over the weekend was likely made worse by a lack of […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
October 16, 2025 at 8:12 AM
When data is compromised, so too is our ability to predict and prepare for extreme weather.
In short, you can’t forecast what you can’t measure.
"The forecast for the powerful and deadly storm that battered small communities in western Alaska over the weekend was likely made worse by a lack of […]
In short, you can’t forecast what you can’t measure.
"The forecast for the powerful and deadly storm that battered small communities in western Alaska over the weekend was likely made worse by a lack of […]