This is the sort of clip you see in the opening minutes of a deeply dystopian film

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Meth, measles and black mold can also spread rapidly in schools. This means they must be important for educators to integrate in the classroom! That’s just logic, which Randi has definitely mastered.

No absolutely the fuck NOT. I will not be integrating the text-extruding plagiarism machine owned by misanthropic, world-destroying sociopaths and trained on my STOLEN BOOK into my pedagogy or research. Fuck off with this boosterism.

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Just had a great zoom call with 3 artists in Romania who are currently working on making a theatre performance based in part on my #NihilismAndTechnology book. Certainly not what I imagined the outcome of my book to me. But can't wait to see what they come up with... www.facebook.com/share/p/1DmV...

Well, here you go... letterboxd.com/ethicistforh...

The future of Mar-a-Lago...

Tired: Neoliberalism Wired: Independentanic

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There is no excuse for downplaying or eliding the insanity of Trump’s morning post. It is the most unhinged public comment by a president in US history and should be reported and remarked upon as such.

Constitutional lawyer here. I don't think it would violate the Constitution for the VP/Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment, but the intended constitutional remedy for this behavior is impeachment & removal. The fact that that remedy is politically impossible is a scandal and a crisis.

Dutch news + Google translate =

Love that the Dutch know the true meaning of Easter is zombies...

Really hoping this is an April Fool's joke that just arrived a couple days late...

I did such a bad job hiding Easter eggs that instead of my son finding them, the eggs are finding him...

But why Lego?

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As Günther Anders warned in 1956, what matters is not the decision AI reaches when it comes to questions about war, but the very fact that humanity would debase itself by asking a computer such questions at all... #NihilismAndTechnology

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My son's new favorite live action movie...

BREAKING: Media company found clickbait inside of tech company that found hype that could increase investments... #NihilismAndTechnology

i respect taking a firm stance on not engaging with ai at all but if you do that you won't see the "claude got every one of my tarot cards wrong" posts

Wow shocked to discover that AI is actually creating new jobs (i.e., someone who can help delete the AI assistant destroying your life)... #NihilismAndTechnology

"a term popularized by Palantir" we are cooked

So fucking funny to sell this to big businesses and world governments

this was the successful rightwing revolution regressive tax policy is the whole shebang, the greatest cause of the present

i hope everyone around me on the subway enjoyed my look of abject disgust as i read this.

What’s the life of a @utwentepsts.bsky.social student like? At the moment (finals season!) it looks like this! (Not included: the tears we were laughing at our team meeting… watch til the end for a cute guest appearance!) www.instagram.com/reel/DWi3Bfc...

today in stickers received!

OpenAI's Sora and Meta's metaverse were shuttered the same week. Both were defined by an aesthetic that embodies Silicon Valley's current project: to undermine labor, replace art + lived experience with digital facsimiles, and extract value at any cost. And users recoiled at the mere sight of them.

Sad, beautiful, and true 😢 Thx to the students who made this

"Israel" doesn't start with a J.

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Kurosawa on watching Solaris with Tarkovsky

new quinnipiac poll on ai suggests bluesky users are not the ones living in a bubble over this shit. nobody trusts it, nobody’s excited about it (6 percent say they’re “very excited” about it- more believe in mermaids). 21-point majority thinks it does more harm than good poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

"It may hence be right to conclude that human misery leads to an accumulation of machinery, which in turn leads to an accumulation of human misery. Happy days, when the pastoral idyll of hydra was still seen as a frightful myth!" - Günther Anders, "On Promethean Shame" (1956)

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Always nice to visit the most beautiful synagogue in Europe, which just happens to be here in Enschede...

I hope people are reading the article. They don’t actually look like scarecrows with a camera for a face!

NEW WRITING: "What these people want (influenced by the anti-democratic reactionary philosophy of Thiel and others) is a world in which politics itself is no longer thinkable at all." On the political theology of AI www.patreon.com/posts/154185...

I was actually thinking about how these Backrooms are representative of American economic decline and suburban decay but mediated through horror as a way to, ironically, make the experience less scary by trying to imagine it as something universal or "liminal" rather than American...