Thomas Azar
@thomasazar.net
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I wrote about our interview with Roblox's CEO and how platforms got too big to feel shame www.platformer.news/roblox-ceo-i...
November 25, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I wrote about our interview with Roblox's CEO and how platforms got too big to feel shame www.platformer.news/roblox-ceo-i...
Love all the writing on AI this week.
"The other thing is, Sweetie (flat faced, fake, emotionless collection of stolen data), is that actors are interesting. And you’re just not. Except for maybe that arm in the steering wheel trick? That’s kinda dope."
open.substack.com/pub/bethanya...
"The other thing is, Sweetie (flat faced, fake, emotionless collection of stolen data), is that actors are interesting. And you’re just not. Except for maybe that arm in the steering wheel trick? That’s kinda dope."
open.substack.com/pub/bethanya...
Dear Tilly Norwood
An open letter to my new bestie
open.substack.com
October 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Love all the writing on AI this week.
"The other thing is, Sweetie (flat faced, fake, emotionless collection of stolen data), is that actors are interesting. And you’re just not. Except for maybe that arm in the steering wheel trick? That’s kinda dope."
open.substack.com/pub/bethanya...
"The other thing is, Sweetie (flat faced, fake, emotionless collection of stolen data), is that actors are interesting. And you’re just not. Except for maybe that arm in the steering wheel trick? That’s kinda dope."
open.substack.com/pub/bethanya...
"Someone once told me that art is like emotional nutrition.
That made sense to me. Art feeds my feelings.
And if that's the case, consuming AI art is like eating styrofoam."
theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
That made sense to me. Art feeds my feelings.
And if that's the case, consuming AI art is like eating styrofoam."
theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal
This is a comic about AI art.
theoatmeal.com
October 9, 2025 at 7:44 PM
"Someone once told me that art is like emotional nutrition.
That made sense to me. Art feeds my feelings.
And if that's the case, consuming AI art is like eating styrofoam."
theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
That made sense to me. Art feeds my feelings.
And if that's the case, consuming AI art is like eating styrofoam."
theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
"AI isn't going to wake up, become superintelligent and turn you into paperclips – but rich people with AI investor psychosis are almost certainly going to make you much, much poorer."
pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
September 30, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"AI isn't going to wake up, become superintelligent and turn you into paperclips – but rich people with AI investor psychosis are almost certainly going to make you much, much poorer."
pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
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March 31, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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i honestly have never seen a political leader so thoroughly destroy their credibility so quickly and, on the other side, it is abundantly clear that if anyone can claim a genuine leadership of large parts of the democratic party, it is AOC.
Folks is it good when your own party's leadership in the House is dropping "listen to the women" and MLK quotes on you while swing state members of your caucus are talking about new leadership
March 14, 2025 at 5:07 PM
i honestly have never seen a political leader so thoroughly destroy their credibility so quickly and, on the other side, it is abundantly clear that if anyone can claim a genuine leadership of large parts of the democratic party, it is AOC.
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Some pretty stunning answers here from DHS Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar in today's interview with NPR's Michel Martin, in which Edgar equates pro-Palestinian protests with terrorist activity and can't point to any crime committed by Mahmoud Khalil: npr.org/2025/03/13/n...
March 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Some pretty stunning answers here from DHS Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar in today's interview with NPR's Michel Martin, in which Edgar equates pro-Palestinian protests with terrorist activity and can't point to any crime committed by Mahmoud Khalil: npr.org/2025/03/13/n...
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Medicaid is not for sale.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.
We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.
We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.
February 21, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Medicaid is not for sale.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.
We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.
We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.
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Sean Hannity’s interview with Donald Trump and Elon Musk was “an hour of conversation among three men who have no idea how American democracy works,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social writes. theatln.tc/1ZbiqPfz
February 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Sean Hannity’s interview with Donald Trump and Elon Musk was “an hour of conversation among three men who have no idea how American democracy works,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social writes. theatln.tc/1ZbiqPfz