If I get asked to stop chewing my nails “The division of labour in the production of goods only serves to brutalize the workforce. If to produce cheap and excellent nail scissors, we have to reduce the workers to machines, we would do better to cut our finger nails with our teeth”.

A huge Dub for the BDS movement in Aotearoa NZ. Tip of the hat to comrade Minto www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

Israelis really do things like name their unit 8200 cyber security companies “Check Point”

Attn #FilmSky my department is hosting Dr Sophie Gilmore (Harvard) for a seminar on "Algorithmic Hollywood". You are welcome via Zoom to attend (April 14th 10 am NZ time, April 13th 6pm EST). Registration Link follows.

Episode 16 of the @proteanview.muftah.org podcast: Venture Capitalism and Tech Utopianism with, in which I speak with @ojutel.bsky.social www.muftah.org/p/venture-ca...

I did a podcast with Dr Mohammed El-Sayed Bishra from @muftah.org on VC accelerationism, Marc Andreessen and Israel podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

We chat with @ojutel.bsky.social about why Marc Andreessen lacks "introspection" and what that has to do with the crisis of over-accumulation, accelerationism, and the utopian delusions of our tech overlords. Enjoy!

I did a podcast with Dr Mohammed El-Sayed Bishra from @muftah.org on VC accelerationism, Marc Andreessen and Israel podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

Attn #FilmSky my department is hosting Dr Sophie Gilmore (Harvard) for a seminar on "Algorithmic Hollywood". You are welcome via Zoom to attend (April 14th 10 am NZ time, April 13th 6pm EST). Registration Link follows.

WW3 anguish skate. Glory to the resistance. Long live the martyrs. Free Palestine and Lebanon from the demonic entity.

WW3 anguish skate. Glory to the resistance. Long live the martyrs. Free Palestine and Lebanon from the demonic entity.

My university: "Copilot is Microsoft's AI-powered productivity service that uses large language models (LLMs) to help you create content, analyze information, summarize documents, and complete tasks more efficiently." Microsoft: LOL

this is HILARIOUS therepublicjournal.com/essays/ai-an...

NZ's foreign minister views the forthcoming energy and economic crisis and USrael's deadly flipping of the global chessboard as a distraction from the real problems at home.

A BETTER WORLD IS POSSIBLE!

My university has inked a deal with an Israeli cyber war giant. What a Shonda www.odt.co.nz/opinion/otag...

My university has inked a deal with an Israeli cyber war giant. What a Shonda www.odt.co.nz/opinion/otag...

Incredible scene: Travelers wait on hours-long security line at George Bush International Airport in Houston while Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” blasts through the speakers. (video shared directly with me)

This is a great look at the egg man's runny yolk www.theverge.com/tldr/897566/...

Long live the death of NFTs! www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

After work work

As Epstein said to Ehud Barak ‘I want you to look up to cyber companies, Palantir and Andreessen Horowitz’

Week 3 of WW3; NZ govt refuses to have any thoughts about legality of the war, has yet to announce any kind of plan for energy scarcity, is blaming the previous govt for its covid response. What type of domestic political crisis will this kick up once we feel the pinch?

Andreessen making jokes about a16z's participation in Gaza genocide

New Kalanick joint "Atoms" basically a Flow Carbon 'food computer' for eating disordered tech people that hate everything that is joyful and cultural about food. 'My mom and dad died so now you have to eat soylent'

Among the ludicrous details about the Atlas Network which runs NZ politics is that its founder was inspired by The Reader's Digest excerpt of Hayek's Road to Serfdom. The chicken farmer did not understand that Hayek believed in and drew from the social safety net

Ouch! Awkward for Luxon. Former Marsden Point boss says NZ has lined up with MAGA states on oil first stance. Expert says government needs to secure country’s energy future with renewable energy and electrification www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

270+ journalists have been killed in Gaza since October 2023. More than in “the US Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, Vietnam War, the wars in the former Yugoslavia and the post-9/11 war in Afghanistan – combined” www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

I wonder how all the small business people are gonna feel about Covid lockdown levels of economic distress because USrael kicked off global war?

The lack of leadership in Aotearoa-NZ is staggering. Our foreign minister has MAGA brain rot. No one is preparing the country for what the next 6 months of a full crisis will look like. Not politicians or journalists. The coverage of Amerisraeli aggression has been extremely muted.

« Le système d’innovation états-unien est devenu profondément dysfonctionnel » : une petite vidéo de 5 min avec Olivier Jutel, chercheur en géopolitique des médias numériques. J'aime bien l'article qui accompagne la vidéo car il fournit des explicitations des réfs mobilisées

Quick question, what's the best academic work so far on vibe coding, LLMs and hacking. I am thinking security issues and nefarious prompt injections that sort of thing. Thanks

Nothing on WW3 or the Tehran being subjected to mass chemical weapon attack on the front page of NZ's public broadcaster. Levels of propaganda by omission that are inconceivabe

NZ Zionist’s favourite Iranian diaspora voice. What kind of metaphor will they reach for with tactical nukes?

Hahahaha RIP American Dyanmism

Now that all the Iranian accounts are banned on X, are there some good OSINT and war tracker accounts on here?

Which group chat will you be in when the nukes start flying?

This horny to liberate shtick is absolute degeneracy, befitting of war led by the Epstein class.

BREAKING — 51 Iranian children are dead after a strike hits Minab girls elementary school in Iran.

I assumed the FIFA AI video was fake or unofficial cuz it’s too Nazi. I was wrong! www.usatoday.com/videos/sport...

Paramount's take over of Warner Bros. Discovery is bad news for several reasons. It runs roughshod over the DOJ/FTC Merger Guidelines with respect to streaming, film and pay tv markets. 1/

the Venture capitalist culture understanders have logged on www.a16z.news/p/infinite-j...

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People on Bluesky: “sPoRtS aReN’t PoLiTiCaL” The United States men’s national hockey team: *parties in their dressing room with Kash Patel*

I read it the same way - I wrote something in a similar vein before the files were released: www.briefingbook.info/p/brave-new-.... I think the correspondence between Thiel and Epstein is more evidence of this mindset.

@profhilaryallen.bsky.social @edwardongwesojr.com @cascoinfoundation.org @timwhite100.bsky.social @mrshoward.bsky.social @quinnslobodian.com @shanley.com ?

When Epstein tells Thiel "0% interest rates are too high" my read is that this is tech & VC financial engineering insanity. Their power to capture everything comes from this manic yield seeking behaviour. Thoughts?

great day to remember that Andrew is presumably a limited partner at Andreessen Horowitz

I love this excerpt from Tony Michels’ “Jewish Radicals”. Poor goy trade unionist is like, ‘these lil guys like arguing theory more than labour, bless ‘em’. That’s my tradition