The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

dont sleep on fusion. fusion has the juice. look at this shit. impeccable sci fi vibe. alien curvature for reasons u wouldnt understand bc u dont know what poincare sections of the plasma beam are. it's even greebled with ports and domes and shit. u can tell the physics nerds are really cooking here

Music is basically a detective novel where the musicians are the suspects/criminals, the listener is the detective and of course the music is the crime. The listener tries to determine what happened and what was the motivation, while the musicians try to obscure this, so they can get away with it.

This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Finally got my hands on @indrapramitdas.bsky.social's Last Dragoners of Bow Bazar, all thanks to the great curation at #trilogyBooks in Bombay who actually have a fantastic selection of #indian #indieWriters and #indiepress books, and the passion to spend half an hour discussing them!

Don't buy any appliance that demands internet access

bom dia faces

#indianBookSky looking for books about the pre hindu / Dravidian past of Kerala, folk history, and anti caste history, without an overly hindu pov. I recently bought a book i am not vibing with called The Evergreen Legends of Kerala by Sreekumari Ramachandran, so hoping to find alternatives...

Thinking about viscachas again

This is such a good article btw - I really buy this as a theory of contemporary US politics

Many of these “illustrations” aren’t based on verified intelligence at all. Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.

a fascinating writeup on the making of a set of widely distributed IDF propaganda videos, specifically identifying assets they used. there's something incredibly unsettling about the creative ethos here. stolen assets. no actual intelligence information at all. just hubris and pure fabrication.

"We must work [twd] direct control of universities. If we do, we’ll be of real use to our knlwdg allies—gov't scientists, public health advocates, local... jrnlsts, community rschrs, theater company directors, et al.—in bldg the self-governing knwldg systems we need to block authoritarian implosion"

This is my blood

looking into the article, important part to it is this was initiated by italian unions, making it possible to organize such action at all. which reinforces for what and why such union restrictions exist in america. keeping labor down doesn't just generate wealth, it also suppresses other movements.

How it started

Ted Chiang: "The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write [...]. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning."

WALK FAST LOOK MAD , TRUST ME - dashare.zone ADMIN

people will tell you they don't understand gender fluidity then look right at a ship called the Edmund Fitzgerald and call it "her" without missing a beat

Turning Point USA made a literal watch list of professors, primarily women, queer folks and people of color, and made us targets of political violence. I’ve received hate mail and harassment and death threats off and on for nearly a decade in part due to that man’s organization so 🤷🏽‍♀️

who has favorite programming or other monospace fonts? i do research periodically- some favorites (all free) include: noto mono ibm plex mono roboto mono consolas inconsolata courier new

Getting yelled at on the internet is not what turns people into fascists.

Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be

I finally read computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum’s 1976 classic “Computer Power and Human Reason.” This book deserves a massive revival in our current age of grotesque and largely thoughtless AI creep into everything:

Portugal STARTED Transatlantic Slave Trade. But schools focus on 15th to 17th-century “discoveries” in Africa, Asia and the Americas & rosy picture of brutal 20th-century colonialism in Angola, Mozambique, Guinea Bissau, Cape Verde, São Tomé & Principe, Goa, Macau & East Timor. #History #BlackSky

It's beautiful and annoying when you hear only a few seconds of a track and have to go get your headphones to listen deeply.

chuquimamani-condori.bandcamp.com/album/edits It’s difficult to wrap my head around how this album does what it does. I wouldn’t say that I’d be put off by a country and Huayño mashup album. But I didn’t expect it not just work, but combine these worlds into something impossibly beautiful.

Last week someone made this point, a lot of money people (including tech) made a very clear, very calculated decision that authoritarianism, even a corrupt kleptocracy, was better for them financially than risking Dems doing a wealth tax/tax fairness etc. It was an eyes-wide-open choice.

"All I can do is try to convince you that I'm successfully inhabiting the current target of my approximations" -Hilary Leichter

Someone asked me what I thought of VR games in general in 2025 on our discord. I spent too much time writing this so figured I'd share it elsewhere. This is written off the top of my head so apologies for overbroad generalizations. Coffee-shop tier banter.

The New York Times: laundering genocide so people might try wordle

when you open a service you've been using for a decade only to find it out it caught the virus

I want to share one of my favourite spooky youtubes, just contextually using scientific data, someone made a "live stream" of the last 15 minutes before the Chicxulub asteroid hit the planet, with high-realism soundscapes and visuals. It's..... so eerie and disturbing, for so calm it is

The LAPD posts a net loss of $3.3 billion a year every year! But sure, we're gonna talk about the U.S. Postal Service instead

I love adding this one data point to economic charts. It works every time.

oooof. I knew all of this, but seeing it listed in one paragraph really hits different.

Wonderful rumination thread on human nature, class solidarity, and star trek

Wordfreq shuts down because "I don’t think anyone has reliable information about post-2021 language usage by humans.” Not only does Generative AI pollute the environment but it also pollutes the data. www.404media.co/project-anal...

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me before and after eating a fried egg and having a little cup of coffee

"My plumber that day did more for me than easily 90% of the great art I’ve ever experienced" I've 💯 told students of mine who "want to make a difference" to be plumbers.

So I'm catching up on news and am utterly unshocked to find that the white anti-trans crowd has decided that their sex binary of "you're only a woman if you're born one" is only more complex when it comes to excluding two non-white women from womanhood in the Olympics.