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politics is not flying a plane and technocracy is not an antidote to authoritarian populism

Cop climate summit is being used by fossil fuel lobbyists to strike deals under green cover so they won't be targeted by protesters. socialistworker.co.uk/news/experts...

Would you rather have a shitposter daughter or replyguy son?

Excellent insight into contemporary right-wing politics in this article about Dutch outgoing PM Mark Rutte. https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/exit-rutte?pc=1527

this thing where AI boosters have lost track of the fact that what's interesting in writing is the perspective of the mind behind the writing. Even something purely factual, you are looking through somebody else's eyes. The minds of LLMs are fucking boring! they don't care about or want anything!

this looks amazing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRrqvjjKlOs

There are certain novels that you wish certain authors wrote, but never did. For example, I wish Hilary Mantel wrote about Cesare Borgias.

Some thoughts on the Silo series, hopefully without spoiling it. The premise of the show is there exists a silo, a small community of survivors, who have been living here after an unknown apocalyptic event. Virtually all history has been erased, and all knowledge destroyed.

End of the weekend

wheres pepsi. why cant i talk to doritos and arbys on here. where is the personification of netflix, the streaming service. i want to pass the digital blunt to steakums right FUCKING now

Bluesky is becoming night twitter, the dive bar where all the cretins stumble to after they run out of rate limit.

This is the year I finally get into mid 20th century cybernetics.

Let’s keep it civil here. Let’s make this a good place. Let’s bring our best game to this platform.

this place is so active now. love it

It's absolutely wild that elon musk can act as gatekeeper to content we created; restrict it, parcel it and sell it back to us.

hey new users, Bluesky is a *public* social network please read about data privacy and more in our User FAQ to help you get oriented! even though we require an invite code to create an account, you should treat any posts here as if it's a public blog https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/5-19-2023-user-faq

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Eid mubarak friends

doggo by the beach

going to a hellthread. do you guys need anything?

yeah I'm skeeting