VioletBrown
@violetbrown.bsky.social
Just here to shoot the shit
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The billionaires who own much of the the infrastructure of our 21st century lives have progressively enshittified that infrastructure while expanding their wealth, and then they scold us for being small-souled peasants who don’t believe in progress anymore.
it is amazing how so much tech gets unremittingly worse year on year at whatever you once used it for and less pleasant to use and more bound up with creepy politics as well as personal and environmental harms and yet also still less productive of actual goods and these are somehow great visionaries
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The billionaires who own much of the the infrastructure of our 21st century lives have progressively enshittified that infrastructure while expanding their wealth, and then they scold us for being small-souled peasants who don’t believe in progress anymore.
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Headline: "AI can replace 11.7% of workforce"
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce
Artificial intelligence can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. labor market, across finance, health care and professional services, according to MIT's study.
www.cnbc.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Headline: "AI can replace 11.7% of workforce"
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
I need to do stuff but the cat is taking a nap on me.
November 29, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I need to do stuff but the cat is taking a nap on me.
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Kick over everyone like Seth Rogen
Just as you thought food delivery companies couldn't inflict any more misery on society:
Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
November 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Kick over everyone like Seth Rogen
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Personally I these white men just need to assimilate to the real Indigenous values of America, responsible stewardship of land & use of resources, cooperative community governance, hospitality, honor of spirit, instead of refusing to relinquish their barbaric European culture, we'd be better off.
Trump is doing 95% of the shit the Declaration of Independence was written about so Miller was kind of spot on about importing the horrors of… England.
November 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Personally I these white men just need to assimilate to the real Indigenous values of America, responsible stewardship of land & use of resources, cooperative community governance, hospitality, honor of spirit, instead of refusing to relinquish their barbaric European culture, we'd be better off.
Time for the guillotine
While work-life balance may give you a sense of happiness and fulfillment, it isn’t always realistic, says Walmart executive vice president and chief people officer Donna Morris.
Walmart exec: ‘I’ve never believed in the term work-life balance’—this is the mantra that made her highly successful instead
Many professionals see work-life balance as a non-negotiable. Walmart CPO Donna Morris says people should practice work-life integration instead. Here's why.
cnb.cx
November 27, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Time for the guillotine
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NYT recipe for yom kippur quiche with bacon
November 27, 2025 at 7:53 PM
NYT recipe for yom kippur quiche with bacon
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A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving
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Call me old fashioned, but exempting the oil patch from basically all federal climate regulation is maybe the sort of thing that would be good to run by voters beforehand
November 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Call me old fashioned, but exempting the oil patch from basically all federal climate regulation is maybe the sort of thing that would be good to run by voters beforehand
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My family is trying to be sustainable this Thanksgiving so we're going to eat the rich 🏌️♂️🏇🍴
November 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
My family is trying to be sustainable this Thanksgiving so we're going to eat the rich 🏌️♂️🏇🍴
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Did you know the Canadian Citizenship Exam has only one question? Goes like this:
Fill in the blank. "And the joke is, when he awoke is, body was covered in ________"
a. Woke Rizz
b. Smoked Ribs
c. Coke Fizz
d. Tote Lids
Fill in the blank. "And the joke is, when he awoke is, body was covered in ________"
a. Woke Rizz
b. Smoked Ribs
c. Coke Fizz
d. Tote Lids
November 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Did you know the Canadian Citizenship Exam has only one question? Goes like this:
Fill in the blank. "And the joke is, when he awoke is, body was covered in ________"
a. Woke Rizz
b. Smoked Ribs
c. Coke Fizz
d. Tote Lids
Fill in the blank. "And the joke is, when he awoke is, body was covered in ________"
a. Woke Rizz
b. Smoked Ribs
c. Coke Fizz
d. Tote Lids
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A supposed dormant volcano erupts in Ethiopia after being inactive for at least 12.000 years.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/hayl...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/hayl...
November 26, 2025 at 6:44 PM
A supposed dormant volcano erupts in Ethiopia after being inactive for at least 12.000 years.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/hayl...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/hayl...
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This is the exact type of deal the #BlueJays needed in their rotation.
Kevin Gausman and Shane Bieber are free agents after 2026 while José Berríos has a player option.
Now, in Cease and Trey Yesavage, two new long-term cornerstones. A massive statement by Toronto.
Kevin Gausman and Shane Bieber are free agents after 2026 while José Berríos has a player option.
Now, in Cease and Trey Yesavage, two new long-term cornerstones. A massive statement by Toronto.
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
This is the exact type of deal the #BlueJays needed in their rotation.
Kevin Gausman and Shane Bieber are free agents after 2026 while José Berríos has a player option.
Now, in Cease and Trey Yesavage, two new long-term cornerstones. A massive statement by Toronto.
Kevin Gausman and Shane Bieber are free agents after 2026 while José Berríos has a player option.
Now, in Cease and Trey Yesavage, two new long-term cornerstones. A massive statement by Toronto.
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first it was sonny gray to boston, now its dylan cease to toronto, i hate this division so much
November 26, 2025 at 11:22 PM
first it was sonny gray to boston, now its dylan cease to toronto, i hate this division so much
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Stickers that don’t stick. Invisible license plates. Signs that won’t hang.
Now just imagine these people building a tunnel under Canada’s busiest highway.
Now just imagine these people building a tunnel under Canada’s busiest highway.
November 26, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Stickers that don’t stick. Invisible license plates. Signs that won’t hang.
Now just imagine these people building a tunnel under Canada’s busiest highway.
Now just imagine these people building a tunnel under Canada’s busiest highway.
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This is one of those things that rarely gets talked about that has had a massive effect.
As fields like journalism, art, and academia were collapsed and living expenses skyrocketed they came to skew increasingly toward people whose families could afford to supplement their income.
As fields like journalism, art, and academia were collapsed and living expenses skyrocketed they came to skew increasingly toward people whose families could afford to supplement their income.
If you're ever wondered why journalists seem so out of touch most of the time it's because in order to establish yourself you need to either come from money, marry into money, or be OK with abject poverty and daily financial panic
That third thing is unsustainable long-term
That third thing is unsustainable long-term
November 25, 2025 at 11:58 PM
This is one of those things that rarely gets talked about that has had a massive effect.
As fields like journalism, art, and academia were collapsed and living expenses skyrocketed they came to skew increasingly toward people whose families could afford to supplement their income.
As fields like journalism, art, and academia were collapsed and living expenses skyrocketed they came to skew increasingly toward people whose families could afford to supplement their income.
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RUDE. JUST RUDE.
narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
November 25, 2025 at 5:57 AM
RUDE. JUST RUDE.
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Ontario-based Sprague Foods is a family-owned cannery with a great line of organic soups. Buy Canadian! #ElbowsUp www.spraguefoods.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Ontario-based Sprague Foods is a family-owned cannery with a great line of organic soups. Buy Canadian! #ElbowsUp www.spraguefoods.com
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Every week living in Ontario is like
- BREAKING: Doug Ford's government introduces bill that will let landlords evict you with no notice if you sneeze too loud
- 10 protests about bill
- Daily social media posts raising awareness
- News interviews scared allergy sufferers
- BREAKING: Bill passes
- BREAKING: Doug Ford's government introduces bill that will let landlords evict you with no notice if you sneeze too loud
- 10 protests about bill
- Daily social media posts raising awareness
- News interviews scared allergy sufferers
- BREAKING: Bill passes
November 24, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Every week living in Ontario is like
- BREAKING: Doug Ford's government introduces bill that will let landlords evict you with no notice if you sneeze too loud
- 10 protests about bill
- Daily social media posts raising awareness
- News interviews scared allergy sufferers
- BREAKING: Bill passes
- BREAKING: Doug Ford's government introduces bill that will let landlords evict you with no notice if you sneeze too loud
- 10 protests about bill
- Daily social media posts raising awareness
- News interviews scared allergy sufferers
- BREAKING: Bill passes
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Campbell's soup VP caught on tape trashing his own brand. Oof. www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2...
November 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Campbell's soup VP caught on tape trashing his own brand. Oof. www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2...
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me: ok six weeks left of 2025 let's get stuff done!
my brain cells:
my brain cells:
November 13, 2025 at 8:56 PM
me: ok six weeks left of 2025 let's get stuff done!
my brain cells:
my brain cells: