The way I look at this is whether or not the hype winds up bearing out—or even a fraction of it—we need to prepare for a long future in which bosses + management are incentivized at every level to proceed as if it's true; cutting labor costs, automating tasks, killing jobs.

On the most recent episode of @trashfuture.bsky.social, Riley coins the term "Epsteinist" for the politics of profiting from managed decline and the promotion of that decline, and I think it should catch on.

Panopticon :3 ft. Cory Doctorow Cory joins us in studio for The Free One to talk about data centres in space, a corporate shell game, and, crucially, Amazon's attempt to shoehorn more cop spying into your world by appealing to mawkish sentimentality re: dogs. www.patreon.com/posts/panopt...

if you have a ring camera you are a child, terrified of the silhouette of a jacket hanging on a chair. you are lower than a worm to me. you have sold your soul to a devil that has offered you nothing in return

This made me realize that I have literally not even once entertained the idea that Jeffery epstein actually killed himself. Was legitimately not even an option. Seemed ridiculous to me on its face. My only question was which government person or people did it. Not sure what this says about me

Did probably my favourite mayor of Season 2 of No Gods No Mayors

When the Prime Minister talks like he’s pleading down a white collar crime charge, that’s how you know your government is in ship shape

Say what you will about the ship’s overall trajectory, at least the deckchairs have been rearranged really weird

i am trying not to joke about the Epstein stuff because it's so horrible but there's also this ridiculous element where it's like... discovering Dracula is real, he's taken over human society at the highest levels, he's involved in tons of evil and also he's a huge dipshit

🚨👇KNOWN GRUEL CONSUMER👇🚨

Didn’t have any gruel this morning @devononearth.bsky.social @illybocean.boontavista.com

On the new TF we talk about Epstein in terms of his “day job” as a node in the global kleptocracy (I.e. facilitating bribes from wealthy Russians or Saudis to Trump or connecting western financiers with same), and it occurs to me now that the function is filled by… crypto! 1 job lost to blockchain.

Having a personalist revolutionary political movement where the “person” is an enthusiastic paedophile who loved to hang out with his paedophile friends and exchange hundreds of emails proclaiming his love for the paedophile parties they all went to… was probably, in retrospect, an unforced error.

NEW episode on the mayoral benevolent feed! What if someone tried to to reconstruction correctly? Okay, what if he also got rich? nogodsnomayors.com

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This image is strikingly similar to the famous photo of a young Dilma Rousseff in front of a Brazilian military court also too cowardly to show their faces.

I've got a new show about scams with Hesse Deni, Dan Boeckner, and @raaleh.bsky.social. This one with @jim.londoncentric.media is a great place to start. Very fun story about an eccentric mob-connected businessman's tax-avoidance scheme that involves farming snails in vacant office spaces

I ate two Beyond burgers and some gelatin free Colin the caterpillars and @postoctobrist.bsky.social said I have eaten the dinner of a vegan six year old

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Astonished about people reaching for Russia rather than eg Kent State

Governments only do this when their fortunes are looking rosy and solid

What’s the Tom Myers take on all this

Greg Steube needs to be rehomed

Imagining what it was like to hear Rapper's Delight for the first time, since it's both a breakthrough of a new genre AND a song about things such as "there's this thing called rapping and I'm doing it," "Superman is probably gay," "my friend's mom is so bad at cooking that it gave me diarrhea"

I did everything right, and Jamie Dimon debanked me

This week, we're joined by our friend Hesse to talk about her hometown hero and lake terrorist, JIMMY GRIFFIN!

This episode is what I've been waiting for since I subscribed to this podcast. The mayor of one's youth is always one's Mayor Archetype, and for me and many Buffalonians, Jimmy Griffin - a very bad mayor - will always be Hizzoner.

We have ICE in the UK. They do everything ICE in America did up till a few months ago, and if you think what ICE is now doing in America can't happen here I have a bridge to sell you. And no – they're not regular police. They work directly for the Home Office.

I know it’s too early to call it, but how do you get bitched out by the *European Union*

BOOTS and SCANOOTS are coming to @nogodsnomayors.com! Want to know what it means? Well, the next episode is gonna be published in but a short day (and it’s a free one).

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He’s going to appoint Ryan Cohen because r/wallstreetbets will think it’s funny

Currently all about Francois X on.soundcloud.com/0rXaNMTbXnKO...

Currently all about Francois X on.soundcloud.com/0rXaNMTbXnKO...

It's really funny to think about the Canadian Liberals, another party that was locked into a zombie government on course for annihilation who harnessed anti-Trump sentiment to resurrect their terrible party and how Labour just will just never figure it out.

Update: this was *excellent*

Most Democratic voters would kill to hear Chuck Schumer do the coffee pot rhyme

My boy Johannes with another heater on.soundcloud.com/qIxoJrMvIzCM...

En route to Berlin, sitting on the train to the airport, trying to stop worrying that I’ve forgotten to push the button that stops my house from burning down if I leave it for more than 24 hours.

I promise to stop posting about Glant. Sorry to all the finance and business journalists that are seeing all the Glant.

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Games Workshop defying all British Logic by steadfastly remaining a real, actual thing as opposed to charging with the rest of the country in the realm of the purely theoretical.

There was only room in the world for one bald Scott, which is why Adams was replaced by Galloway. The latter also inherits the Dilbert castle

I just came up with a cool idea for a comic. It’s called Dilbert. It is about the escapades of man who works in an office with his quirky coworkers, and his smart alec talking dog.

The year is 2278. In the former United Kingdom, tribes from across the land gather for the ritual condemnation of West Midlands Police for their failure to appease the great beast Maccabi Tel Aviv

What are YOU going to do about it

this is absolutely where it began for me. it's also, as a 12 year old, when i got the idea to create the hit comic strip dilbert

When are they going to put Scott Adams' house, the one shaped like Dilbert's head, on Zillow?