David Sooley
@soolzmcghoulz.bsky.social
🇨🇦🏳️🌈 Geologist and Software Enthusiast
"Be ruthless to systems, and kind to individuals." - Michael Jamal Brooks
"Be ruthless to systems, and kind to individuals." - Michael Jamal Brooks
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taylor lorenz taking it upon herself to report on internet culture like a doomed lovecraftian protagonist driven mad by forbidden knowledge
Viralflation comes to YouTube, Dora the Explorer feet mukbang, IShowSpeed takes China, Big Balls cybercrime ring, 'influencer accent', IvyTok, AI-fueled fan fiction, Ghiblification, and a great new podcast on Section 230 -- All in today's newsletter!!
Viralflation comes to YouTube
+ Dora the Explorer feet mukbang, IShowSpeed takes China, Big Balls cybercrime ring, 'influencer accent', IvyTok, AI-fueled fan fiction, Ghiblification, and a great new podcast on Section 230
www.usermag.co
March 27, 2025 at 9:42 PM
taylor lorenz taking it upon herself to report on internet culture like a doomed lovecraftian protagonist driven mad by forbidden knowledge
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I will literally lie down anywhere, idc. Love being horizontal 😩 ↔️
March 22, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I will literally lie down anywhere, idc. Love being horizontal 😩 ↔️
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I love thief classes in JRPGs. I’m a little scallywag, a looter if you will. A mischievous little cutpurse. Lemme dip into your satchel, your bag, your pockets. I’ll steal it all to craft better items😈
March 22, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I love thief classes in JRPGs. I’m a little scallywag, a looter if you will. A mischievous little cutpurse. Lemme dip into your satchel, your bag, your pockets. I’ll steal it all to craft better items😈
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My honest reaction to every foreign policy position coming out of the US & UK right now:
March 2, 2025 at 7:31 AM
My honest reaction to every foreign policy position coming out of the US & UK right now:
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So, wait. For basically ever, men were earning way more than their female counterparts, and the messaging was that women were "too emotional" or whatever. And the second women start earning more than men, men completely lose their shit and it's a "crisis" "gripping" them? What a bunch of losers.
Young women are now consistently earning more than their male counterparts for the first time, according to a report that warns of a social “crisis” gripping young men
The lost boys: how a generation of young men fell behind women on pay
www.thetimes.com
March 1, 2025 at 10:43 PM
So, wait. For basically ever, men were earning way more than their female counterparts, and the messaging was that women were "too emotional" or whatever. And the second women start earning more than men, men completely lose their shit and it's a "crisis" "gripping" them? What a bunch of losers.
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if i designed algorithms i would make it so they showed you nice things that made you smile
January 31, 2025 at 8:11 PM
if i designed algorithms i would make it so they showed you nice things that made you smile
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I started my career in organized scientific skepticism so let me tell you: RFK Jr has been a low-information anti-vaccine grifter for DECADES. Don’t get your immunological information from that boiled kneecap.
January 30, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I started my career in organized scientific skepticism so let me tell you: RFK Jr has been a low-information anti-vaccine grifter for DECADES. Don’t get your immunological information from that boiled kneecap.
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I could wrap this all up real quick if you guys gave me the Death Note
January 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I could wrap this all up real quick if you guys gave me the Death Note
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My crankiest belief is that we are now being sold on solutions to problems which only exist because we've let others convince us they exist. That is what "innovation" seems to be in 2025.
There's a level of introspection that's just not happening these days re: what actually needs to bother us.
There's a level of introspection that's just not happening these days re: what actually needs to bother us.
January 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
My crankiest belief is that we are now being sold on solutions to problems which only exist because we've let others convince us they exist. That is what "innovation" seems to be in 2025.
There's a level of introspection that's just not happening these days re: what actually needs to bother us.
There's a level of introspection that's just not happening these days re: what actually needs to bother us.
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I'm so glad that the UK gov. has tied the futures of so many departments & public services to AI processes & tools! I welcome our high tech future! Unrelatedly, let me just check the stocks of AI tech companies today.
January 27, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I'm so glad that the UK gov. has tied the futures of so many departments & public services to AI processes & tools! I welcome our high tech future! Unrelatedly, let me just check the stocks of AI tech companies today.
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Pessimism of the intellect allows us to better analyse worst-case scenarios, but optimism of the will means that we actually get out & make plans to thwart them. There *is* a organisation, online or in person, where you *will* forge community & provide what the state cannot: hope for a future.
January 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Pessimism of the intellect allows us to better analyse worst-case scenarios, but optimism of the will means that we actually get out & make plans to thwart them. There *is* a organisation, online or in person, where you *will* forge community & provide what the state cannot: hope for a future.
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there are people out there saying "keep politics out of video games" and their favourite games will be like Fallout or Metal Gear
January 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
there are people out there saying "keep politics out of video games" and their favourite games will be like Fallout or Metal Gear
I have come to the promised land(?) to escape the clutches of zuck
January 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I have come to the promised land(?) to escape the clutches of zuck
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People will be like “keep politics out of gaming” and then play Final Fantasy 7
January 25, 2025 at 1:32 AM
People will be like “keep politics out of gaming” and then play Final Fantasy 7