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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 1h

"It's really hard... I've got to turn up to all these board meetings and I don't really do anything but I get 100 grand a year for it..."

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 1h

@whenisbirths.bsky.social @greavesian.bsky.social there was an old Week Ending sketch from c.1985 doing the reverse scenario - an unemployed Northerner gets to be a Tory MP for a week, and at the end of it he's completely integrated into being a smooth-talking git.

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 1h

(The latter is parodied in the "crime" episode of Brass Eye, which might puzzle younger generations who don't realise the right-wing journalism strand it is referring to).

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 1h

The never-ending supply of articles "I tried a poverty for 5 minutes and it was surprisingly unpleasant."

Well, I suppose it's better than the old tabloid genre of "I blacked up for a day and was surprised to find out that racism is a real thing", which was still around in the 90s.

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 1h

Any new investment in Argentina has to be focussed on its successful industries, ie. writing weird short stories. Anything else would just be giving free combs to a bald man.

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AuntBunny @auntbunny.bsky.social · 7h

Is he bringing his chainsaw so he and Elon can have chainsaw fights on the White House lawn?

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Jason Dogwood 💙 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @jasondogwood.bsky.social · 12h

In under-the-radar news: a GOP-aligned former election official just bought Dominion Voting. He wants to mirror trump’s election directives. His other company, KnowInk, has been tied to multiple voting failures. Now he controls the machinery & our votes. That should scare everyone.

Former Republican election official buys Dominion Voting — a target of 2020 conspiracy theories

Voting equipment company Dominion Voting Systems, a target of false conspiracy theories since the 2020 election, has been bought by a firm run by a former Republican elections official.

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 12h

fyi
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Updike Antifa

I went to see Eddington at West Norwood Picturehouse. I thought it was superb. From the very beginning this film makes clear that it is set in the recent, explicitly dated past, in our universe, an…

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 13h

Robbie Williams support band.

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 13h

I liked Eddington, but that wasn't simply "anti-woke". The ultimate message was "all these assholes are owned by the tech companies really".

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 20h

Don't like these later Duran Duran albums.

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 20h

No one has any patience and they expect instant fixes and one-line explanations.

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 20h

You wanna destroy them?

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

“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.

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 20h

The serious highbrow alternative to JG's middlebrow wittering is of course the site that several people are talking about, the fearless cultural vortex of www.discontinuednotes.com

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 20h

Fyi
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Computing Today

Last year I went to the National Museum Of Computing. Seeing all the old microcomputers from the 70s and 80s gave me the urge to go on ebay and once again search out old copies of Computing Today m…

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 20h

The correct answer, of course, is: Virginia Woolf.

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 21h

C'mon, Mulholland Drive.

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 23h

One of the things that strikes me when reading books by Gen Z authors is just how much porn they’ve watched. It’s a really obvious, pervasive influence. I guess because it’s been as available to them as tap water.