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Indignant Desert Bird

@longanimus.bsky.social

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A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. W.B. Yeats

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Indignant Desert Bird @longanimus.bsky.social · Jan 2

It is a commonplace that’s hardly worth
A poet’s while to make profound or terse,
That now the sun does not go round the earth,
That man’s no centre of the universe;
And working in an office makes it worse.

- W.H.Auden - Letter to Lord Byron -

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Tanja Suni @tanjasuni.bsky.social · 2h

🌱 11/11
Vapaavuori yrittää paikata repeämää asenteilla, populistit ottavat merkityksiä haltuun, ja Ylikylä kysyy, mitä jää jäljelle, kun työ ja ideologia eivät enää kanna.
Seuraavan yhteiskunnan täytyy rakentua yhteisöstä, osallisuudesta ja mielekkyydestä, ei pelosta ja tehokkuudesta.

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Tanja Suni @tanjasuni.bsky.social · 2h

📜 4/11
Hän kirjoittaa, että "ennenkin on noustu takamatkalta, eikä syynä ollut vain nälkä ja ryssänpelko" ja viittaa kansan asenteeseen.
Absurdin historiaton väite. Progressiivinen verotus, säännelty luottojärjestelmä, peruskoulu ja yliopistot loivat sen, mitä nyt kutsumme hyvinvointivaltioksi.

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Tanja Suni @tanjasuni.bsky.social · 2h

⚙️ 2/11
Vapaavuoren kolumnissa kuuluu epäusko.
Oikeisto on nyt ensimmäistä kertaa historiassa saanut tehdä talouspolitiikkaa täysin yksin.
Tuloksena on kotimaisen kysynnän hyytyminen ja keskiluokan varautuminen säästämällä – juuri päinvastoin kuin oli tarkoitus.

www.hs.fi/paakirjoituk...

Kolumni | Suomen suurimmat ongelmat ovat henkisellä puolella

Synkkyydestä on kehittynyt suomalaisille paljon vahinkoa aiheuttava kulttuurinen refleksi.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 51m

No institutional design can overcome a lawbreaking president, a Congress defending lawbreaking and forfeiting its own power, a Supreme Court that pretends legal text doesn’t count to facilitate lawbreaking, and a citizenry that votes for all that.
Need at least one that wants rule of law. Maybe two.

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antifa’s sleepiest soldier @emilydwarfield.bsky.social · 8h

The only reason this isn’t considered trafficking via fraud is because crime is something poor people do

Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 10h

Fun fact about the Salvation Army: they use a form of substance use treatment called work therapy. Oh, and by treatment, I mean they have people who have been convicted of drug charges work for their stores & warehouses in exchange for room, board, around a $1 a week, and minimal actual therapy.

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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 6h

When I thought about how machine learning can help with brain computer interfaces this is not what I imagined. This is terrifying. I hope that the places my mind went to will not occur to the people building this. Wishing the patient all the best, and hoping that black mirror and Leo are on it.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 11h

I am straight-up going to have nightmares about this

In the video Smith posted online, he said Neuralink engineers had started using language models including ChatGPT and Grok to serve up a selection of relevant replies to questions, as well as options for things he could say in conversations going on around him. One example that he outlined: “My friend asked me for ideas for his girlfriend who loves horses. I chose the option that told him in my voice to get her a bouquet of carrots. What a creative and funny idea.”

These aren’t really his thoughts, but they will do—since brain-clicking once in a menu of choices is much faster than typing out a complete answer, which can take minutes.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1d

anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide

larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · 1d

her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 7h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Janne Seppänen @jannesep.bsky.social · 1d

Oletteko kuulleet pääministerin jos sanovan, että "hallituksen on tehtävä vaikeita päätöksiä"? Mediaproffa kertoo 60 sekunnissa, mitä siinä itse asiassa sanotaan. #mediakritiikki

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 9h

repeating non-falsifiable claims undermines the entire premise of journalism

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 7h

2025 has been the most miserable AP World History class

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 14h

Many historians of Rome identify Roman generals becoming the personal sources of payment for their armies as a key step in the downfall of the Republic, since it personalized military authority and freed armies to fight for their immediate leader, who paid them, instead of for the Republic

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 20h

It is a good sign for us that the effective-for-our-side framing "Trump's Argentina Bailout" is how it's being referred to in NYT headlines. If that's the language being used we've already won the argument on the issue. Trump's Argentina Bailout

Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 20h

When the bailout for Argentina…is actually a bailout for the Treasury Secretary’s hedge fund billionaires.

They get richer…and it just gets harder for you.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Big Investors Await Windfall From Trump’s Argentina Bailout

www.nytimes.com

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 20h

"An elaborate regency romance where everyone is a duck wearing a tiny human for a hat (each tiny human is also wearing a hat)"

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 22h

Think about how for decades, one of the ingredients of a crackpot was: retired engineer.

Retired engineers, for *generations* have been a fertile ground for crackpot theories in everything.

They get that golden watch and bam, incoherent manifesto about quantum archeology inbound.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 22h

Whenever you hear a tech CEO spinning out *absolute fucking nonsense* using star trek language, some of what you're hearing is a screeching positive feedback loop between him and the crackpots he's spending all of his time listening to.

Some of whom he literally created.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 21h

A man born in Pretoria, 1971, left for Canada in 1989, might want to wind his neck in (though apartheid South Africa was not necessarily too traumatic place for those who could benefit from apartheid if could manage to resist being too troubled by the racist principles of the state and society)

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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Indignant Desert Bird @longanimus.bsky.social · 23h

It's the naughty bits.

A medieval drawing of a naked man chained to a chair, with what appears to be a peacock diving to assault his naughyy bits with its beak.

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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 1d

We are sorry to hear you have failed to pass your examination, and can only advise you to try again. We do not at all agree with your idea that “the only thing that can be done for you is to run away to London and try to get on the stage” nor do we see how that would help you.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

gonna keep reposting this until i don't have to

www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-t...

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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 1d

From the linked blog, “generative AI cannot tell a user how it arrived at a decision when it grades or evaluates work” - this is key and if parents are unaware of what’s happening (which they are) they should use this to push back. Demand the explanations for evaluations.

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Jarkko Lauspalo @lauspalo.com · 1d

Jumpe että Janne osaa tiivistää nämä politiikkojen käyttämät kehystykset ja narratiivit, ja osaa purkaa niitä rakentaa tavalla! Toivottavasti näitä katsellaan myös media-alankin keskuudessa :)

Janne Seppänen @jannesep.bsky.social · 1d

Oletteko kuulleet pääministerin jos sanovan, että "hallituksen on tehtävä vaikeita päätöksiä"? Mediaproffa kertoo 60 sekunnissa, mitä siinä itse asiassa sanotaan. #mediakritiikki

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Heikki Turunen @heikkiturunen.bsky.social · 1d

Toiseksi laskin kumuloituneen eron verokertymissä Suomen, Ruotsin ja Tanskan osalta. Nämä ovat siis vain tylsiä excelöintejä, eikä laskettu VM:n supertietokoneilla simuloituna. Todennäköisesti ne sanoisivat Suomesta tulleen Tanskan veroasteilla rikkaan hygge-maan sijasta köyhä, surkea ja ankea.

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Marek @marekmcgann.bsky.social · 1d

A new facet to David Graeber's idea of "Bullshit Jobs": work that uses AI without consideration. If you think using AI without doing all of the work to check the outcome, you implicitly consider what you're doing to be bullshit.

(See also: every company deploying AI in customer service.)

Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 1d

“Deloitte “misused AI and used it very inappropriately: misquoted a judge, used references that are non-existent,” Pocock told Australian Broadcasting Corp. “I mean, the kinds of things that a first-year university student would be in deep trouble for.””

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fortune.com/2025/10/07/d...

Deloitte was caught using AI in $290,000 report to help the Australian government crack down on welfare after a researcher flagged hallucinations | Fortune

The updates “in no way impact” the report’s findings and recommendations, the Big Four firm said.

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Indignant Desert Bird @longanimus.bsky.social · 1d

So, looks like there will be an Arc de Trompe in Washingtoh DC.

Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 1d

You've probably seen the photos of the "Arc de Trump," spotted in the Oval Office.

Now read our story behind the models — and how initial plans for a temporary, triumphal arch have given way to Trump's desire to build a permanent monument.

Scoopy details at @washingtonpost.com:

Trump eyes a triumphal arch to mark America’s 250th anniversary

The arch would be constructed across from the Lincoln Memorial, on a small patch of federal land currently occupied by a traffic circle.