Thomas Tulling
@thomasborlaug.bsky.social
So married.
Above average in: weight, political engagement, books read, pedantic rantings, cats owned, hope, games played.
Below average in: achievements, influence, worry, stress, misanthropy, personal wealth, status, drive, unfinished 4x saves.
Above average in: weight, political engagement, books read, pedantic rantings, cats owned, hope, games played.
Below average in: achievements, influence, worry, stress, misanthropy, personal wealth, status, drive, unfinished 4x saves.
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Chilling piece on employment effects of AI on early careers. Includes this line, which will probably become the norm for many firms: "Managers at Shopify must now justify hiring a human by first explaining why AI can’t do the job."
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
‘There’s Just No Reason to Deal With Young Employees’
AI is taking entry-level jobs. What happens when Gen-Z-ers can’t start their careers?
nymag.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Chilling piece on employment effects of AI on early careers. Includes this line, which will probably become the norm for many firms: "Managers at Shopify must now justify hiring a human by first explaining why AI can’t do the job."
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
Starting season 13 of futurama.
Splash screen says "pace yourself."
No.
Splash screen says "pace yourself."
No.
October 8, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Starting season 13 of futurama.
Splash screen says "pace yourself."
No.
Splash screen says "pace yourself."
No.
Star wars!
Narkina 5 built rebels.
Every system that grinds people for “efficiency” ends up teaching them how it works. Musk, Trump, Sam. It's the same pattern. Oppression, inequality, is a factory that forges its own resistance. The empire is making rebels right now.
Narkina 5 built rebels.
Every system that grinds people for “efficiency” ends up teaching them how it works. Musk, Trump, Sam. It's the same pattern. Oppression, inequality, is a factory that forges its own resistance. The empire is making rebels right now.
October 8, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Star wars!
Narkina 5 built rebels.
Every system that grinds people for “efficiency” ends up teaching them how it works. Musk, Trump, Sam. It's the same pattern. Oppression, inequality, is a factory that forges its own resistance. The empire is making rebels right now.
Narkina 5 built rebels.
Every system that grinds people for “efficiency” ends up teaching them how it works. Musk, Trump, Sam. It's the same pattern. Oppression, inequality, is a factory that forges its own resistance. The empire is making rebels right now.
Have the christians left yet?
September 23, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Have the christians left yet?
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"So, what we have to find out how to do is to change the psychological attitude to money and to wealth and further more to pleasure and further more to the nature of work."
Alan Watts
Inspired by (in part):
youtu.be/HsQc19NvmI0?...
Alan Watts
Inspired by (in part):
youtu.be/HsQc19NvmI0?...
The first wave of AI layoffs
YouTube video by The Globe and Mail
youtu.be
September 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
"So, what we have to find out how to do is to change the psychological attitude to money and to wealth and further more to pleasure and further more to the nature of work."
Alan Watts
Inspired by (in part):
youtu.be/HsQc19NvmI0?...
Alan Watts
Inspired by (in part):
youtu.be/HsQc19NvmI0?...
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Last weekend, I retraced the steps of two of the most important moments in American (and Chicago) labor history, starting with the Haymarket Massacre.
But the Haymarket Massacre wasn’t just a tragedy. It still provides a compass for us to fight against fascism today:
But the Haymarket Massacre wasn’t just a tragedy. It still provides a compass for us to fight against fascism today:
September 2, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Last weekend, I retraced the steps of two of the most important moments in American (and Chicago) labor history, starting with the Haymarket Massacre.
But the Haymarket Massacre wasn’t just a tragedy. It still provides a compass for us to fight against fascism today:
But the Haymarket Massacre wasn’t just a tragedy. It still provides a compass for us to fight against fascism today:
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Just absolute garbage from the NYT. It takes a really special kind of person to ignore a mountain of evidence and look at one RCT exploring a specific causal finding, and then say that because we didn't see certain brainwave activity at age 4 that $333/mo for every kid would not help the poor.
For many, the logic seemed unassailable: Giving poor families money would measurably improve the lives of their children. A few years ago, social scientists set out to test whether that assumption was right.
The results of the experiment shocked them. Listen to "The Daily."
The results of the experiment shocked them. Listen to "The Daily."
More Money Was Supposed to Help Poor Kids. So Why Didn’t It?
A new study may undercut the idea that cash payments to low-income families can end the cycle of childhood poverty.
nyti.ms
August 6, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Just absolute garbage from the NYT. It takes a really special kind of person to ignore a mountain of evidence and look at one RCT exploring a specific causal finding, and then say that because we didn't see certain brainwave activity at age 4 that $333/mo for every kid would not help the poor.
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kiss cams are the surveillance state btw
July 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
kiss cams are the surveillance state btw
Fourth time someone has blocked me during a discussion. Am i an asshole?
July 16, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Fourth time someone has blocked me during a discussion. Am i an asshole?
Been thinking about consciousness and meditation. And if you think of consciousness as a focal point where a bunch of distributed signals turn into something that feels like a singular self, meditation and the oneness you sometimes feel, maybe that's just putting some processes on halt?
July 16, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Been thinking about consciousness and meditation. And if you think of consciousness as a focal point where a bunch of distributed signals turn into something that feels like a singular self, meditation and the oneness you sometimes feel, maybe that's just putting some processes on halt?
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Zohran Mamdani's victory wasn't a one-off for progressives.
I'm currently polling just single digits behind the lead, even though I was a "long-shot" candidate 3 months ago. That's because people-first politics WORK and we can't do it without you:
I'm currently polling just single digits behind the lead, even though I was a "long-shot" candidate 3 months ago. That's because people-first politics WORK and we can't do it without you:
June 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Zohran Mamdani's victory wasn't a one-off for progressives.
I'm currently polling just single digits behind the lead, even though I was a "long-shot" candidate 3 months ago. That's because people-first politics WORK and we can't do it without you:
I'm currently polling just single digits behind the lead, even though I was a "long-shot" candidate 3 months ago. That's because people-first politics WORK and we can't do it without you:
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Some results from basic income experiments:
June 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Some results from basic income experiments:
Wife's on a biscotti discovery journey, and here enjoying the ride. Eating her delicious home made biscotti.
Life could be worse.
Life could be worse.
June 6, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Wife's on a biscotti discovery journey, and here enjoying the ride. Eating her delicious home made biscotti.
Life could be worse.
Life could be worse.
I swear she dug herself in there.
June 3, 2025 at 5:45 AM
I swear she dug herself in there.
So food prices and housing prices are soaring. Cost of living. Industrial produced goods are still affordable. Scalability issues? Housing entrepenours already have low margins, as do farmers.
Maybe the problem is one of purchasing power, where has that gone the last 50 years? For food and houses?
Maybe the problem is one of purchasing power, where has that gone the last 50 years? For food and houses?
June 2, 2025 at 11:32 AM
So food prices and housing prices are soaring. Cost of living. Industrial produced goods are still affordable. Scalability issues? Housing entrepenours already have low margins, as do farmers.
Maybe the problem is one of purchasing power, where has that gone the last 50 years? For food and houses?
Maybe the problem is one of purchasing power, where has that gone the last 50 years? For food and houses?
Funny how the goal was to build something other than twitter, but the goal and metrics we use to gauge it's success is the same.
Why should we want this to be another cancerous link to link farm with engagement metrics being the be all end all.
Why should we want this to be another cancerous link to link farm with engagement metrics being the be all end all.
May 27, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Funny how the goal was to build something other than twitter, but the goal and metrics we use to gauge it's success is the same.
Why should we want this to be another cancerous link to link farm with engagement metrics being the be all end all.
Why should we want this to be another cancerous link to link farm with engagement metrics being the be all end all.
New coffee machine at work. Happiness.
May 13, 2025 at 10:43 AM
New coffee machine at work. Happiness.
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In Andor, the real world political parallels are impossible to ignore
In Andor, the real world political parallels are impossible to ignore
In its second season, what happens in the acclaimed Star Wars thriller is hard to separate from what’s happening in Gaza now
www.theguardian.com
April 25, 2025 at 5:26 AM
In Andor, the real world political parallels are impossible to ignore
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"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men." ― Francis Of Assisi
April 12, 2025 at 9:58 AM
"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men." ― Francis Of Assisi
She was brown all along!
April 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
She was brown all along!