i once called this guy “look mum no money (because i spent it all on modular bullshit)” and he didn’t like it very much www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

A well-balanced society should contain a roughly equal amount of 808- and 909-based music. When there is an excess of music made with 909s, tensions and unpredictability will rise, while in periods of excessive 808 prevalence, that society will experience widespread complacency.

Our thread of ICE and Border Patrol sex offenders is up to 53 agents, with many more to go.

i literally had to use cron for the first time in at least 20 years 3 days ago and spent a good hour staring at numbers and *s saying out loud "why, why the fuck would you do it like this" (pls fucking trust me that i am not looking for an answer)

I’m starting to think the people who are excited about “AI agents” have literally never used a computer in their lives

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

"It’s really a shame that I learned all of this too late."

honestly looks better than the animation in that trailer that dropped yesterday:/

uggghh why does the animation look so cheap :( youtu.be/7yE9MHlifmw?...

"The Melania movie was doing documentaries the right way" -- Ezra Klein, Monday, probably

If I have the right Nellie Bowles, the partner in question is Bari Weiss

exciting job opportunity for any Hugo nominated quislings out there (we’re watching you) job-boards.greenhouse.io/xai/jobs/501...

Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes. Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.

Some ideas (not mine) on setting up a permacomputing collective: brewing.permacomputing.net/index.html

“But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance” 🔥

these are the sorts of spaces - especially in times like this, especially in the face of so AI slop - I want to support (more positive: I’ll talk about the incredible art piece I saw next week!)

earlier this week I went to a performance (which was incredible btw) at a small community theatre/art space that was using AI generated posters for upcoming shows, and today I went to a small non-profit gallery that was just straight up showing a gen AI piece it all feels so fucking defeating

what I can appreciate about the latest version of the fundamentally unnecessary water and oil consuming technology that helps automate fascism is that it makes me feel like a very special little boy

Lads. You've invented Rumbelows.

“The company also beat Wall Street estimates for quarterly results in the all-important holiday period and forecast a surprise rise in annual revenue” stock markets are an anti-human plague that must be destroyed www.theguardian.com/business/202...

*points gun at your face, checks to see if shareholders are watching* “you should really take gun control seriously” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Soft times cause weak men

one of the reasons I don’t use AI to help me write is that I don’t need to I’ve decided to take this as objective proof that I’m a much better writer than anybody that does

Don't stop, friends! Attack!

this is what happens when your whole career writing about “tech” was 2 decades of regurgitating laptop maker’s press releases so you think you’re qualified to be a thought leader on the same companies’ new circle jerk ponzi scheme that also automates fascism while destroying the climate

this is what happens when your whole career writing about “tech” was 2 decades of regurgitating laptop maker’s press releases so you think you’re qualified to be a thought leader on the same companies’ new circle jerk ponzi scheme that also automates fascism while destroying the climate

Migadu is a good service if you want a lot of control over your email for correspondence (but not bulk mail) without going to all the trouble of running your own mail server. Based in Switzerland. www.migadu.com/pricing/

no single platform for everything, no. Although I hear good things about Proton. I’m personally trying to self host everything but that’s absolutely not a sensible option for every individual -but might be doable shared amongst your family or friends group? search “self hosting”, lots of resources

a gentle - but very serious - reminder to try and migrate as much of your data and as many of the web services you use as possible to platforms outside the US. Especially if patreon/newsletter subs or go fund me etc are part of your income. (1/3)

trying to remember people are working to stop this everywhere

The people who'll tell you today's murder victim in Minnesota shouldn't have turned up to a protest carrying a gun are the same people who said Kyle Rittenhouse was perfectly entitled to do the same thing.

Protest in NYC will be 4pm at Union Square

Doppelwänker

clicked on a thing expecting Naomi but it was Ezra :(

ngl I do not know much about Minneapolis apart from Prince, Woody McBride, DVS1 and that ppl from there come out to fucking represent

this site seems to be mainly “this is a very unproductive and time wasting arguement, and here’s a 15 post that took me an hour to write explaining why” and I usually never know what the argument is

I’ve come to conclusion it’s all about managing what your electorate is scared of. you want to make sure they’re scared of things they shouldn’t be (immigration, crime) and not scared of the things they should be (your economy is intrinsically linked to the whims of a imperialistic fascist rapist)

so let me get this set: for ages he said he might do the thing, so everyone got worried about him doing the thing, then he said he wouldn’t do the thing, so everyone is saying of course he was never going to do the thing, and now everyone believes him when he says he won’t do a thing great

I mean yeah, he is a millionaire with a piss poor record on Gaza, so I guess he’s qualified

there are a bunch of big names on this list, including multiple beard award winners, and some places i never would have guessed in a hundred years (the malt shop?!) and i'm genuinely floored and delighted to see so many participants bringmethenews.com/minnesota-li...

ah yes, the famous cyberpunk “upsides”

We’re all getting the fucking Jackpot tho

*if you respect the law lmao

oops too late bsky.app/profile/jaso...

Minneapolis schools are closing because non-white families can't go outside and Senate Dems are like "ok but you gotta buy some body cameras for ICE"

despite its many twists and turns and the constant media attention this story still leaves the most important question unanswered: who gives a fuck

ok dumb stoned post I might regret later: if you somehow are rich and want to help I recommend buying a bunch of cheap-mid range drones before the price rises hit. fantastic tools for helping to keep your community, strike, protest etc safe - ask some Ukrainians

apropos of nothing: amazing what the Ukrainians have achieved against the Russian military with relatively cheap, off the shelf drones you can get from like Best Buy