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tylerbranston.bsky.social
puttin’onthefritz
@tylerbranston.bsky.social
Philosopher, sociologist and photographer.
Philosophy of Technology (particularly AGI), Nietzsche, (de)colonial Theory, Continental Philosophy, political theory.

UVic MA (CSPT)

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I was thinking about this movie while I finished reading capitalist realism by mark fisher. Mainly I was considering the nightmarish situation he probably faced when he got out, job prospects, education insufficiently, just the raw capitalist experience as a virtual alien.
July 18, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Just ordered, very excited for this one. 👌
June 23, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Covered a lot of this in my MA and now monograph.

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May 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Reposted by puttin’onthefritz
AI is not designed to answer questions, it is designed to generate an answer. It’s going to take a lot of people a long time and a lot of wasted money to understand how different those two things are.
May 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Science is so laden with bias that just bursts at the seams when you trace it back with Christianity and Platonism. Positioned next to TEK it becomes so clear where and why those biases arise.
April 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
This thread is 👌👌 and exactly what I wrote a book on, but how the technology of AI only arises because of Christian-Platonic asceticism and the idea of human inferiority. It’s a technology overflowing with bias and dangerous assumptions about humanity.

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April 29, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I missed half of Barney’s speech watching him.
April 29, 2025 at 6:45 AM
I 100% laughed out loud at that. 😂
April 29, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Agreed. There needs to be a resurgence of political discussion that recognizes that every Canadian political party is a right of centre party that doesn’t take decolonization seriously.
April 29, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Best part of the night
April 29, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Oh. It went back up to 8 as Polievre was speaking.
April 29, 2025 at 4:59 AM
That felt like a nail in the coffin 😞
April 29, 2025 at 4:56 AM
This is what has been scaring me this whole night. I don’t think CBC mentioned this once.
April 29, 2025 at 4:55 AM
I’m guilty of this in my recent book. However, I made a point to describe exactly what I meant by it. In my case it was basically “Platonic-Cristian culture”. Over the course of a book saving those extra words paid off…
April 28, 2025 at 5:57 AM
In my undergrad my fave prof taught one called Death, Desire, and Art in Continental Thought. We covered people like Nietzsche, Artaud, Rousseau, Kristeva…
That and the single courses dedicated to one thinker were best. We did Sartre, Nietzsche, Foucault, Kant.
April 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Following because I would also love to access similar resources.
April 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM