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Blurry Cat Face @therealbcf.bsky.social · 8h

Wait, so, shoveling an infinite amount of money into a technology that demonstrates time and time again that it doesn't live up to expectations was NOT a sound investment?

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 2d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
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Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 8h

I'm sure it's fine. Who even remembers the so-called "2008 financial crisis"? I'm pretty sure it blew over basically unnoticed

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 2d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 1d

From: Labyrinth Labyrinthos (1987), dir. Rintaro, Madhouse

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 14h

You can’t hate fascists and use AI slop generators. They’re the same thing: total destruction of truth at scale.

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Juan Antonio Guerrero 🪰🎥 @juananguerrero.es · 9h

Una Eurydema ornata

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Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 18h

@adriandaub.bsky.social expertly dissects Thiel‘s obsession with the antichrist, Armageddon and scapegoats - and Thiel‘s own unreality: „Overall, the picture of Thiel that emerges in these lectures is someone desperately trying to disidentify from their own power.“

Peter Thiel’s off-the-record antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon

Silicon Valley titan desperately tries to detach self from power in amateurish talks attempting to ape his favorite philosopher

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Pedro Jorge Romero 🇮🇨 @pjorge.bsky.social · 18h

La magnitud tan enorme del cambio solo indica lo efectiva que está siendo la medicación en mi caso. Siento incluso que me está rehaciendo el cerebro, que por lo visto es un efecto que se puede dar

Otra conclusión es que el tdah es una mierda 😀

a baby yoda standing next to a frog with the words " distracted easily i am " on the bottom

Alt: Baby Yoda persiguiendo una rana porque se distrae con facilidad

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Pedro Jorge Romero 🇮🇨 @pjorge.bsky.social · 18h

Ahora tomo notas, ahora quiero tomar notas, y ahora uso las notas que tomo. Poco a poco me estoy convirtiendo en una persona que toma notas

Hace apenas dos años era inconcibible. Nunca fui capaz de tomar notas de ningún tipo. Y las pocas veces que lo intenté, el esfuerzo fue brutal

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Asschapel Roan @stochasticburrito.bsky.social · 23d

Meme from the Simpsons, Moe (labeled Francis Fukuyama) throws Barney (labeled History) out of the bar, only for us to see in the third panel Barney standing behind Moe inside the bar

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 11d

When I’m accused of “technopessimism“ I counter that I’m not “pessimistic about technology“; I am opposed to the economic, political, and social project of upward wealth transfer that “AI” is being leveraged to bring about. If that phrasing is useful to others, then go ahead and use it.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 1d

People think the first thing Gutenberg printed was the Bible. This is false. The first things he printed were a political prophecy, propaganda about the Turks’ threat to Christendom, & a popular school text. If you want a parallel to AI, that’s it: making $ from conspiracies, racism, & school slop.

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 1d

really nice piece on this btw from @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...

"The Printing Press Democratized Knowledge": When Slogans Masquerade as History — Sonja Drimmer

The phrase is said so frequently it seems, like the mechanism it celebrates, to mechanically replicate itself.  It's become a favorite catchphrase among tech boosters of any sort (see my post on...

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 1d

AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."

ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"

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Pedro Jorge Romero 🇮🇨 @pjorge.bsky.social · 1d

Curioso, uno diría que la noticia es quien gana el Nobel… no el señor que lo quería

Titular de El País “Trump se queda sin el Nobel de la Paz: la opositora venezolana María Corina Machado se lleva el galardón”

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 5d

Weird thing where people say “no one could have predicted it” when really what they mean is their political commitments and orientation were such that they ignored everyone who was predicting it

Sorry but “no one could have“ and you having your head stuck up your ass are two different situations

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 1d

nothing but respect for my Antichrist

Greta Thunberg wearing a keffiyeh and a black t-shirt with a skeleton dual-wielding assault rifles and the word "AUTISM"

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Andy Hoberek @thathoberekguy.bsky.social · 2d

Wait, this was based on a novel?

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SayItToMyFace🚫👑 @sayittomyface.bsky.social · 3d

Love this! So talented and creative. It’s the soundtrack to the scientific apocalypse we are living in! I follow @ellecordova.bsky.social here but this wasn’t posted. This was from TikTok! Enjoy!

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Pedro Jorge Romero 🇮🇨 @pjorge.bsky.social · 3d

La respuesta es siempre Kobayashi Maru

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 3d

kobayashi maru y'all

👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 3d

the answer to the trolley problem is not to pick who to sacrifice, it’s to dismantle the system that led to an unsafe trolley crossing.

if any part of your morality strategy involves picking a group to let die on a hill, throw the entire strategy out. it’s wrong.

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 4d

Here's your daily dose of weirdness for today!

Altered Calvin and Hobbes cartoon.

First panel. Calvin's dad says, "what story would you like to read tonight? Anything except..."

Calvin: "The Voynich Manuscript?"

Second panel. Calvin's dad, exasperated: "No! No Voynich Manuscript tonight!"

Calvin: "I want the Voynich Manuscript !"

Third panel. Calvin's sad: "Look, you know how the story goes! You've memorized the whole thing! It's completely unreadable!"

Calvin: "I want mysterious glyphs and symbols!"

Fourth panel. Calvin: "Wow! The story was different thatvtime!"

Hobbes: indecipherable squiggles

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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 3d

someone rescue her!

Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 3d

Bit niche I think, but apparently this parking spot is reserved for female rock climbers.

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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 3d

I find it strangely beautiful and freeing that (even if just a few cases, and with a struggle) we've made it possible for peoples to be 'voluntarily isolated' & it is incredibly telling about the grossest side of humanity that there are others whose immediate instinct is to try to violate that right

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 4d

So, not content with John Allen Chau forcing his obnoxious, law-breaking and likely disease-ridden self into the midst of the North Sentinelese and getting himself killed, now there is a movie making a saint of this man?

Colonizers gonna colonize, I suppose.

The poster for the movie Last Days showing the actor playing John Allen Chau looking beatifically up into the light while green ocean water swirls around him. The general effect is one of him as a saint. To the right of the poster, a North Sentinelese man rows himself in a boat. The text reads Based on a True Story, Last Days,

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 3d

We have to all learn Navajo so we can talk without AI unserstanding

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 4d

Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.

A post by Rebecca Johnson:
“I finally learned how to teach my guys to ID the passive voice. If you can insert "by zombies" after the verb, you have passive voice.”

A tumblr respond from mightymur:
“The final, brilliant word on passive voice.
"She was killed [by zombies.]"<--passive
"Zombies killed [by zombies] her." <-- active”

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Becinator @artdragon86.bsky.social · 4d

*walks into cafe*
Me: Hey, can I have a sandwich?
Server: Yes, it comes with lettuce, tomato and dogshit.
Me: I don't WANT dogshit on my sandwich!
Server: My manager measures my performance based on how many dogshit sandwiches I sell, so if you don't want one, this conversation is not interesting.

your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 5d

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> Lol the timing; I work in IT for a large publishing company - and my god the meetings with microsoft sales team is all AI AI AI COPILOT COPILOT COPILOT.
> I had to flat out tell their VP we're not buying any fucking copilot - whereupon she revealed that the only thing she is being measured on for Q4 is sales of copilot, so if that's off the table the conversation is not interesting. LMAO

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Casket Based @cineblah.bsky.social · 4d

Greta Thunberg is obviously a heroic person by any measure, she is quite obviously the kind of person who any decent society would hope they see their reflection in. It is remarkable how cruelty is so common place that people will openly hate her, and in really vicious ways, with no shame.

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