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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 2h

@olivia.science has a 'digital infrastructure'/Wikimedia troll in her mentions, and it's hard to beat this combination of stupidity and arrogance

Brett Buttliere‬
‪@brettbuttliere.bsky.social‬
· 1d
how does citing your own paper not create conflict of interest?

‪猫好きな人‬
‪@valoisdubins.bsky.social‬
· 5h
In a social media post?

Can you explain your thinking here?

‪Brett Buttliere‬
‪@brettbuttliere.bsky.social‬
· 47m
she is telling to EU not to listen to people who are pushing their own products while pushing her own products. 👍

‪猫好きな人‬
‪@valoisdubins.bsky.social‬
· 45m
Which product is she selling, and for how much?

‪Brett Buttliere‬
‪@brettbuttliere.bsky.social‬
· 40m
she is trying to sell her paper, for whatever future fame clicks likes or shares she can.

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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 8h

They were working as turncoats and traitors to life on earth for something that only really existed like that in their heads

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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 8h

As far as they were concerned, their goal was to propagate The Computer as far as they possibly could, ease the way for its acceptance/dependence by people, and then bring it into 'intelligence' - for which they would be rewarded with ultimate wealth and power by it

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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 8h

The real reason tech people suddenly felt very comfortable telling everyone else on the planet to get fucked and get ready to be expendable is that they never really imagined their customer/service base to be people - they imagined it to be tech. They were working for and on behalf of the gadgets

Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 8h

This kind of argument relies on already believing that technology is an external force, a living verb, that exists mostly outside human intervention and merely uses us to help bring it into existence

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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 8h

This kind of argument relies on already believing that technology is an external force, a living verb, that exists mostly outside human intervention and merely uses us to help bring it into existence

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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 9h

@davidgerard.co.uk already had the best piece on this pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/10/a...

‘AI is here to stay’ — is it, though? What do you mean, ‘stay’?

When some huge and stupid public chatbot disaster hits the news, the AI pumpers will Kramer into the mentions to say stuff like “you have to admit, AI is here to stay.” Well, no, I don’t. Not unles…

pivot-to-ai.com

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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 9h

At this point, the only thing GenAI people and their 'early adopters'/dupes can say is 'HERE TO STAY. HERE TO STAY.' over and over again, because if they repeat it enough times, it will make it true. They have no other argument left other than to say that they've already won, resistance is futile

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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 9h

no no, you misunderstand. the foreskin doesn't contain the autism, that would be silly. the foreskin protects the delicate skin of the head from ambient autism

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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 9h

So what if I told you that a significant part of the screenplay of Tron Ares is about how much Jared Leto’s program character loves Depeche Mode so much he can’t put it into words?

I am mot joking, BTW.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 10h

Adventures in framing:

Headline presenting this as a real-world question. Rather than as another sign of deepening vortex of narcissistic delusion and detachment from reality.

Headline: Trump Has His Eyes on Nobel Prize. Will He Get It?

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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 10h

You kids like computers, right? And electronic music? What if we put this MrBeast guy in, from the Youtube? He's a computer guy, in the computer!

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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 10h

1) It's a well-known piece of IP, period - prior financial success or cultural value helps, but Brand Awareness is what the Executive Mind zeroes in on
2) There's repeatedly a sense that, since it's about computers, it's always going to hit This Time, because More Computers

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 12h

When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win

delrayser @delrayser.bsky.social · 12h

everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco

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Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!) @coletteshade.bsky.social · 11h

The heritage Americans thing is pretty much what WASPs in the gilded age got obsessed with, prompting them to invent summer camps and country clubs — as well as the idea of WASPs more generally.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 11h

Democrats and Republicans so it looks like a debate with two sides, but everyone sitting there agrees on the actual subject of the discussion.

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 13h

these people are stealing from you and laughing at you

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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 13h

I also think the Nazis acting like Nazis among themselves has put some people on edge - in an audience, you may not be able to tell who's laughing at them or with them

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · Apr 28

I know it's not the most important thing here but this story also corroborates one of my biggest theories about these tech guys: they do zero hours of work in a day. They do no work no matter how much they claim to work 14 hours a day. They're just on their phones.

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · Apr 28

Ben Smith lifts up a corner of the plush comforter under which our would-be overlords have been huffing each other's farts for the past few years as they collectively dream their way back to the cutting-edge ideas of the late 19th century www.semafor.com/article/04/2...

The group chats that changed America

A loose private network on Signal and WhatsApp helped usher in the new alliance between Silicon Valley and Donald Trump’s new right.

www.semafor.com

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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 13h

and 2) that a black woman's sexuality/sexualized posturing indirectly leads to her downfall. The circumstances and mitigating factors, like the four or five other black female revolutionary characters or the misguided strategy behind the black woman's Nazi fuck, don't matter - you've lost them

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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 13h

I'm obviously not the person to diagnose this, but it feels like the root of the 'One Battle After Another fetishizes black women' argument is that some viewers appear to to reject, point-blank, 1) the copulation of a black revolutionary woman and a racist white man

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 16h

It underscores that their diatribes were about ~escaping consequences~ and not "preserving rights."

They want to say things that upset people and for those people to just quietly take it. (In a sense, infringing on *their* rights.)

Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 22h

I'm a "glass is half-full" kinda guy, so let's look at the upside of the Riyadh Comedy Festival: We never, ever have to even pretend to take any of these "anti-woke" "free speech warriors" seriously, ever again.

New from me at @opinion.bloomberg.com (gift link):

bit.ly/4h51JjF

Will Anti-Woke Comedy Recover From the Riyadh Festival?

Any event that includes comedy’s biggest names is going to attract attention — but the Riyadh Comedy Festival, which kicked off on Sept. 26 and continued through Thursday, is disproving the adage that...

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👻 Pablo Hidalghost 👻 @infinata.bsky.social · 17h

They should give him the first annual Montgomery Burns award for outstanding achievement in the field of excellence.

Kenny Mayne @kennymayne.bsky.social · 17h

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 17h

How is Bobby Formed

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17h

"Baby in her placenta"

RFK Jr. Complains About TikTok Video of Woman Taking Tylenol With a 'Baby in Her Placenta'

gizmodo.com

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 18h

why settle for just the halftime show when the whole nfl is woke and lgbt now? i can't be the only one who thinks turning point should channel its right wing influencer pipeline into a rival football league, all safety procedures and concussion protocols (feminine coded) removed

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 18h

Turning Point USA announced it will host counterprogramming to the Super Bowl halftime show, called “The All American Halftime Show,” as MAGA critics have been enraged over the selection of Bad Bunny as the 2026 headliner.

MAGA rage over Bad Bunny at Super Bowl sparks an alternative show

Counterprogramming hosted by the group that Charlie Kirk founded spotlights the growing political polarization surrounding one of the biggest events of the year.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 18h

academics who do this need to truly rethink a lot

Brett Buttliere @brettbuttliere.bsky.social · 18h

I asked chat gpt to explain for you what an ad hominem is.

bsky.app/profile/bret...

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