Beta
@betapositive.bsky.social
Scientist, chinchilla enthusiast, anarchist, occasional activist. Bitter old man (39).
Free Palestine.
All nations are acts of aggression against their own people.
Free Palestine.
All nations are acts of aggression against their own people.
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Now down to needing $655 RIGHT NOW!! PLEASE HELP ME STAY OUT OF THE STREETS THIS XMAS!!
Down to needing $670, but need it RIGHT NOW for past due rent!! Additional $1,000 needed by 1/2 for next rent + Xmas/NYE bills!! THIS IS EXTREMELY URGENT!! EVICTION IS IMMINENT AT ANY TIME!! PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN!!
ko-fi.com/anthonyjkenn...
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paypal.me/anthonyjkenn
ko-fi.com/anthonyjkenn...
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paypal.me/anthonyjkenn
December 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Now down to needing $655 RIGHT NOW!! PLEASE HELP ME STAY OUT OF THE STREETS THIS XMAS!!
They're right, it's not going "go away" it just also isn't going to matter.
Alexa, GoogleAssist etc are all still around too but nobody cares. It'll get deprecated then abandoned same as every other tech obsession for the last 15 years
Alexa, GoogleAssist etc are all still around too but nobody cares. It'll get deprecated then abandoned same as every other tech obsession for the last 15 years
One of the weakest and most damaging arguments for using AI is that it's not going to go away. That's a horrible argument for conforming based on everyone giving up and letting our environment, the veracity of our collective knowledge, and future generation's ability to learn all be destroyed.
December 21, 2025 at 6:32 PM
They're right, it's not going "go away" it just also isn't going to matter.
Alexa, GoogleAssist etc are all still around too but nobody cares. It'll get deprecated then abandoned same as every other tech obsession for the last 15 years
Alexa, GoogleAssist etc are all still around too but nobody cares. It'll get deprecated then abandoned same as every other tech obsession for the last 15 years
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I am now in a full panic this morning.
Landlady just texted me a stern notice that she can wait no longer for the rent. Either I pay it TODAY or I am out on the streets.
If ever I needed your aid, it's now. Down to my last hope again.
💸💕 🙏🏿🙏🏿🆘🚨🆘
Landlady just texted me a stern notice that she can wait no longer for the rent. Either I pay it TODAY or I am out on the streets.
If ever I needed your aid, it's now. Down to my last hope again.
💸💕 🙏🏿🙏🏿🆘🚨🆘
Down to needing $670, but need it RIGHT NOW for past due rent!! Additional $1,000 needed by 1/2 for next rent + Xmas/NYE bills!! THIS IS EXTREMELY URGENT!! EVICTION IS IMMINENT AT ANY TIME!! PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN!!
ko-fi.com/anthonyjkenn...
donate.stripe.com/6oE9BeeJ2c2p...
paypal.me/anthonyjkenn
ko-fi.com/anthonyjkenn...
donate.stripe.com/6oE9BeeJ2c2p...
paypal.me/anthonyjkenn
December 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I am now in a full panic this morning.
Landlady just texted me a stern notice that she can wait no longer for the rent. Either I pay it TODAY or I am out on the streets.
If ever I needed your aid, it's now. Down to my last hope again.
💸💕 🙏🏿🙏🏿🆘🚨🆘
Landlady just texted me a stern notice that she can wait no longer for the rent. Either I pay it TODAY or I am out on the streets.
If ever I needed your aid, it's now. Down to my last hope again.
💸💕 🙏🏿🙏🏿🆘🚨🆘
Wandering around shopping i decided to try on those facebook ai glasses and they are such a crock of shit.
It's a bad camera, a speaker, and a microphone you wear on your face in order to do things your phone already does better.
It's a bad camera, a speaker, and a microphone you wear on your face in order to do things your phone already does better.
December 21, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Wandering around shopping i decided to try on those facebook ai glasses and they are such a crock of shit.
It's a bad camera, a speaker, and a microphone you wear on your face in order to do things your phone already does better.
It's a bad camera, a speaker, and a microphone you wear on your face in order to do things your phone already does better.
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“the #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.”
Oh no. We have been here before.
Oh no. We have been here before.
December 19, 2025 at 11:38 PM
“the #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.”
Oh no. We have been here before.
Oh no. We have been here before.
Random history reading:
"Florence Nightingale was believed to have remained chaste her entire life, possibly out of a religious conviction to her duties she left the advances of men unrequited.
She was known however to have several close friendships with her female colleagues."
History is funny
"Florence Nightingale was believed to have remained chaste her entire life, possibly out of a religious conviction to her duties she left the advances of men unrequited.
She was known however to have several close friendships with her female colleagues."
History is funny
December 19, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Random history reading:
"Florence Nightingale was believed to have remained chaste her entire life, possibly out of a religious conviction to her duties she left the advances of men unrequited.
She was known however to have several close friendships with her female colleagues."
History is funny
"Florence Nightingale was believed to have remained chaste her entire life, possibly out of a religious conviction to her duties she left the advances of men unrequited.
She was known however to have several close friendships with her female colleagues."
History is funny
How is Walliams his name
That sounds fake
That sounds fake
By the way, the episode of Would I Lie To You? featuring the episode where David Walliams reportedly did two Nazi salutes (which the BBC edited out and said were unacceptable) will be on BBC One on Boxing Day at 7pm.
December 19, 2025 at 10:41 PM
How is Walliams his name
That sounds fake
That sounds fake
Fun fact: I have boarded more than one plane via wheelchair and later been seen walking!
One time they confiscated my cane and checked it. Another time they made me pack my leg brace away. And yet a third time I set off the metal detector with my prosthesis and the security guy put me in one.
One time they confiscated my cane and checked it. Another time they made me pack my leg brace away. And yet a third time I set off the metal detector with my prosthesis and the security guy put me in one.
Travelers bemoan a rise of able-bodied passengers who game the system to skip the lines. on.wsj.com/3N6apva
They Get Wheeled on Flights and Miraculously Walk Off. Praise ‘Jetway Jesus.’
Travelers bemoan a rise of able-bodied passengers who game the system to skip the lines.
on.wsj.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Fun fact: I have boarded more than one plane via wheelchair and later been seen walking!
One time they confiscated my cane and checked it. Another time they made me pack my leg brace away. And yet a third time I set off the metal detector with my prosthesis and the security guy put me in one.
One time they confiscated my cane and checked it. Another time they made me pack my leg brace away. And yet a third time I set off the metal detector with my prosthesis and the security guy put me in one.
Terry Pratchett's best quote was that evil is the result of treating people like things.
This includes treating them as problems to be solved, which is what this is. It's treating people like a series of inputs and outputs you can simply influence. And is why I consider myself an anarchist.
This includes treating them as problems to be solved, which is what this is. It's treating people like a series of inputs and outputs you can simply influence. And is why I consider myself an anarchist.
China to hike tax on condoms in attempt to boost falling birth rate
China to hike tax on condoms in attempt to boost falling birth rate
From 1 January, contraceptives will be subject to a 13% VAT rate – part of a carrot-and-stick approach by the government to increase births
China is set to impose a value-added tax (VAT) on condoms and other contraceptives for the first time in three decades, as the country tries to boost its birthrate and modernise its tax laws.
From 1 January, condoms and contraceptives will be subject to a 13% VAT rate – a tax from which the goods have been exempt since China introduced nationwide VAT in 1993. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Terry Pratchett's best quote was that evil is the result of treating people like things.
This includes treating them as problems to be solved, which is what this is. It's treating people like a series of inputs and outputs you can simply influence. And is why I consider myself an anarchist.
This includes treating them as problems to be solved, which is what this is. It's treating people like a series of inputs and outputs you can simply influence. And is why I consider myself an anarchist.
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
For me, this timeless classic by Scotland's national poet, Robert Burns:
For me, this timeless classic by Scotland's national poet, Robert Burns:
December 18, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
For me, this timeless classic by Scotland's national poet, Robert Burns:
For me, this timeless classic by Scotland's national poet, Robert Burns:
I love the genetically engineered guys in Enterprise because torn up clothing is like, their uniform.
Which given the kind of shape they're in? Yeah I wouldn't be covering up either
Which given the kind of shape they're in? Yeah I wouldn't be covering up either
December 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I love the genetically engineered guys in Enterprise because torn up clothing is like, their uniform.
Which given the kind of shape they're in? Yeah I wouldn't be covering up either
Which given the kind of shape they're in? Yeah I wouldn't be covering up either
My most toxic trait is that I'm actually an asshole who puts a lot of effort into not acting like one
December 17, 2025 at 12:24 PM
My most toxic trait is that I'm actually an asshole who puts a lot of effort into not acting like one
My favourite thing about vulcans is how pride and annoyance are apprently not emotions as far as they're concerned
December 16, 2025 at 9:08 PM
My favourite thing about vulcans is how pride and annoyance are apprently not emotions as far as they're concerned
I'm gregor critical. I don't accept the story that Gregor Samsa became a cockroach. I think he just needs his meds adjusted and a better support network
im gengar critical. i don't believe they evolve from haunter. i think they were made like that by god
im gondor critical. where tf were they when the Westfold fell?
December 16, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I'm gregor critical. I don't accept the story that Gregor Samsa became a cockroach. I think he just needs his meds adjusted and a better support network
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The complete and repeated failure of CEOs everywhere to simply Not Say Words in Public
December 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The complete and repeated failure of CEOs everywhere to simply Not Say Words in Public
This is the version of your favourite band putting out an NFT
sigh
December 16, 2025 at 5:25 PM
This is the version of your favourite band putting out an NFT
Someone needa to remind the fans of Charlie Kirk's corpse that he was at best the third most famous person named Kirk.
December 15, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Someone needa to remind the fans of Charlie Kirk's corpse that he was at best the third most famous person named Kirk.
Join us in theatres for a rip-roarin, rootin tootin adventure as Angel and Netflix bring you Blood Meridian!
Starring Jack Black as The Judge!
Starring Jack Black as The Judge!
December 13, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Join us in theatres for a rip-roarin, rootin tootin adventure as Angel and Netflix bring you Blood Meridian!
Starring Jack Black as The Judge!
Starring Jack Black as The Judge!
So fun fact about that Animal Farm cartoon that looks so awful: there is a pretty faithful animated adaptation of the book already, it was made in 1954. It's not entirely faithful (and is made to skew more anticommunist than the book does).
It was funded by the CIA as cold war propaganda.
It was funded by the CIA as cold war propaganda.
Animal Farm (1954). George Orwell. HD Cartoon
YouTube video by Ivanna Oliinyk
youtu.be
December 13, 2025 at 12:38 AM
So fun fact about that Animal Farm cartoon that looks so awful: there is a pretty faithful animated adaptation of the book already, it was made in 1954. It's not entirely faithful (and is made to skew more anticommunist than the book does).
It was funded by the CIA as cold war propaganda.
It was funded by the CIA as cold war propaganda.
What the everloving fuck is this
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
What the everloving fuck is this
Legends.
Also just a great song
Also just a great song
Kick out the jams, motherfuckers 🔥🖤
Remembering Rob Tyner, lead singer for the Detroit proto-punk band MC5, born on this day in 1942, Detroit Rock City
Photo by Doug Fulton
#punk #punks #punkrock #protopunk #mc5 #robtyner #punkrockhistory #history #otd
Remembering Rob Tyner, lead singer for the Detroit proto-punk band MC5, born on this day in 1942, Detroit Rock City
Photo by Doug Fulton
#punk #punks #punkrock #protopunk #mc5 #robtyner #punkrockhistory #history #otd
December 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Legends.
Also just a great song
Also just a great song
Receiving my Instacart order: You're an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks
a close up of a man 's face with a lot of white powder on it
Alt: Closeup of Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now in his The Horror speech
media.tenor.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Receiving my Instacart order: You're an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks
...fuck
They may have got me
They may have got me
Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic is a new entry in the classic RPG series from former KOTOR and Mass Effect Director Casey Hudson.
#TheGameAwards
#TheGameAwards
December 12, 2025 at 1:48 AM
...fuck
They may have got me
They may have got me
Hey remember when they announced that mobile Diablo game and everyone immediately turned off of it, because they all expected it was gonna be an exploitative mess meant to extort the player?
They were entirely correct about that and even this article doesn't bother arguing that this isn't the case.
They were entirely correct about that and even this article doesn't bother arguing that this isn't the case.
Open letter claims mobile gamedev is "ignored" because industry perceives it as a "world of predatory monetization and low quality"
www.gamesindustry.biz/open-letter-...
www.gamesindustry.biz/open-letter-...
Open letter claims mobile gamedev is "ignored" because industry perceives it as a "world of predatory monetization and low quality"
Christian Lövstedt, CEO of Midjiwan AB, has published an open letter to the "global games industry" calling out peers f…
www.gamesindustry.biz
December 12, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Hey remember when they announced that mobile Diablo game and everyone immediately turned off of it, because they all expected it was gonna be an exploitative mess meant to extort the player?
They were entirely correct about that and even this article doesn't bother arguing that this isn't the case.
They were entirely correct about that and even this article doesn't bother arguing that this isn't the case.