Can't wait until the companies that own the studios realize they don't need studio chiefs anymore either

hope he enjoys his “idiot audience” ignoring the slop he puts out

I predict one of the things we're going to see in the coming years is a considerable swing away from the digital realm by a significant percentage of the population.

Research has shown us repeatedly that reading is a key to longevity.

The animating purpose of representative democracy is to protect the rest of us from the whims of insane rich people, be they kings or oligarchs. The rest is wainscoting.

they'll use the data centers/factories to fuel america's new manufacturing-based economy after the bubble pops and everything collapses, i guess 🤷

You look at every culture that's ever existed and the running theme is everyone pretty much just wants to play/dance to music, make art, eat stewed meat wrapped in flat bread, and tell stories about the shapes we find in the stars. Somehow we turned that into wars and overtime and profit margins.

In addition to the cultish behavior already surrounding this snake oil tech, we’re probably about to start seeing new age grifts emerge: “learn my secret, special meditation techniques to unlock all the unused regions of your brain and start thinking exactly like AI”

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read. They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

found two baby house geckos huddling together between my houseplants when I was watering this morning; I couldn't see any egg shells in the planters, so I gently moved them outside together. One stopped to look at me after...

Making a deal with the Devil for the privilege of living in a Hellscape.

We’re living in Omelas but without Utopia.

Sunrise. #MorningWalk

my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy

You have to organize. I don't know what else to tell people. And organizing is not sexy and it is difficult and it matters that you be persistent. We need long-distance runners right now.

yup. they discovered that this is the *actual* value of social media and decided to turbocharge it to them, it's worth the risk of potentially losing billions when the bubble bursts as long as they've successfully integrated their corrosive tech within most institutions/industries/educational tiers

Octavia Butler predicted our dystopian present. What can a futurist learn from her chilling accuracy?

ChatGPT: Wow Mr. Dolarhyde, it's true that you perfectly encapsulate the living manifestation of William Blake's Great Red Dragon. How would you prefer to rain down your vengeance upon the unworthy?

My 80-year-old aunt told me she "got tired of streaming" and is borrowing DVDs from her library again. So I checked it out and they have an amazing selection. Blu-rays too, from Criterion, Kino Lorber and other boutique labels. #PhysicalMedia #FilmSky

This is wildly inspirational. I honestly find today’s writers are … completely boring and anesthetized. It’s not just that we’re flattening culture and writing, but people’s personalities too.

i can't help but feel like this is the inevitable result of an education system that has (for decades) placed a disproportionate value on the results of standardized tests and final grades, instead of on the *process* of learning itself. what a sad elegy for our societal priorities.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Iain M Banks' USE OF WEAPONS. it's part of The Culture series, but you don't have to read the rest to understand or appreciate it. Science fiction as social commentary with a non-chronological narrative and an ending that will fuck you up beyond repair.

sensing a theme here

AI this, LLM that, I'm amped for the counterculture to ignite against this banal mediocrity. Gimme handmade zines, let's write poems on the back of receipts, a watercolor using found pigments, book clubs on subway cars; let the revolution be not just analog but antiquated, baby. Bring back quills!

just for reference, we are so basic that we don't even qualify as a Type I civilization. that's how cosmically dumb Altman's proposed "solution" is.

Thought Erosion Machine

Late stage capitalism hates preventative medicine because it's not as profitable. why vaccinate someone once, maybe twice, in their life when you can charge them for ongoing treatments instead?

Halfway through season 3 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, I find myself wondering... Why is this show SO obsessed with giving Spock a girlfriend? www.tvguide.com/news/star-tr...

I don't know what genre of #worldbuilding needs this, but a new data storage device just dropped. www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...

i think a lot about the Silurian hypothesis and how human-equivalent intelligence could've evolved among dinosaurs (most likely a theropod species), but we'd have no way of knowing; even if they learned how to smelt bronze it would only last in the fossil record for thousands of years, not millions.

FUCK.

when they shut down Yahoo!Groups in 2020 i should have recognized that it was yet another measured step towards intentional enshittification

What actor’s expression in a movie will stay with you the rest of your life?

they definitely don't get enough credit for really going for it realizing the nightmarish original visions from the illustrated books, especially when they all had to be puppets and suits

they're never gonna cast an Egyptian actor in this role, huh?

a trick question because the only way to end the first three is to abolish the existence of the fourth

TIL that Diego Luna was a Zapatista??? BRO

also, this sounds like a tactic for scraping scripts for plagiarism purposes.

load-bearing "hypothetical"

One thing most of these tech oligarchs have in common is that they mostly got lucky with one idea just before or just after the dotcom bubble burst, and they've coasted on that success ever since. They mostly grow through buyouts rather than innovation. Yet they're treated as oracles and sages.

NEW: We investigated several stories of people who spiraled into severe, life-altering mental health crises after developing all-consuming obsessions with ChatGPT. Screenshots we reviewed show the AI directly engaging with and supporting user delusions + conspiracies. futurism.com/chatgpt-ment...

male yautja hunting trophies to distinguish themselves for larger, more terrifying females was a top-tier concept! THAT'S WHY THEY WEAR FISHNETS - THEY'RE PEACOCKING FOR SEXUAL ACCESS. why would you alter this?!!!? do you losers need to see reptile titties that badly?? WEAK. MEDIOCRE.

i just finished watching PREDATOR: KILLER OF KILLERS, did some minimum research about yautja society, and the men who decided to make this change will not see heaven:

also, it happens in the early morning, presumably because the rat is nocturnal. this is like the rodent version of Ladyhawke

i have, on two separate occasions, observed a squirrel and a very large rat playing together in my yard. i'm almost certain that it's the same two individuals, and they're definitely not fighting; they jump around each other and do that silly little defensive play stance. they're friends.

I think about this every day

yup. it erodes critical thinking skills, is a labor issue, a tool for fascism, AND is helping to speed-run catastrophic climate change. skynet couldn't have devised a slower or more ignominious fate for us.