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No valuables stored in this account overnight Mostly using this to follow subjects of interest - i.e. history, protest and environment - expect long periods of silence with outburts of sarcasm. Occasionally there may be memes.

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elrondcupboard.bsky.social @elrondcupboard.bsky.social · Jan 1

And the pottery 2024 top nine posts are out in force today - so heres mine.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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sri (but spooky) @sri.plur.ca · 20h

yeah I built an AI that hangs out on your porch and drinks a six pack for you so you can write regexes at work

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elrondcupboard.bsky.social @elrondcupboard.bsky.social · 15h

Ok so there’s a battle I guess, let’s get that out of the way, but also now for 20 pages on how to do surgery and stop the captain eating rare wildlife (you cannot)

I love them.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a material reality that right now the AI tech bubble is holding up the empire. It increasingly powers all commerce, and is central to the most invasive surveillance apparatus the world has ever seen. Predictive analytics trained on our data have allowed billionaires to track us like wildlife.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 1d

The railways are never going to break even. At best London and the SE plus two main lines might subsidise the rest. But there will always be some subsidy.

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elrondcupboard.bsky.social @elrondcupboard.bsky.social · 1d

A reminder this man cannot physically pay for petrol with a contactless card

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 1d

Rishi Sunak’s twin appointments mean he will be advising rivals in the push for AI breakthroughs. on.ft.com/3KNw22e

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elrondcupboard.bsky.social @elrondcupboard.bsky.social · 1d

Last day in Kumamoto

I have bought a shit ton of textiles and pottery and had a fantastic Warabumochi drink so its been a good day

elrondcupboard.bsky.social @elrondcupboard.bsky.social · 1d

I need this more than anything I have ever needed anything else in my life

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 2d

I really don't know what to do about a situation where a plurality of the group that (rightly!) takes up most government spending thinks that it is unrepresented in politics.

Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 2d

Hollow laughter

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 2d

A photoshopped version of an article from The Times. The headline reads "meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future", and the photos of the young Tories underneath have been replaced by three notoriously ugly old Warhammer models.

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elrondcupboard.bsky.social @elrondcupboard.bsky.social · 2d

Enshoritification is a terrible terrible word.

Call it demographic collapse

(Also I am available to move here if they’ll have me doing anything but teaching English (they will not))

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 2d

Good morning, New York. While you were sleeping, this was the most-read story on.ft.com/3KHZTcr

elrondcupboard.bsky.social @elrondcupboard.bsky.social · 2d

Wife rented a car to visit Mt Aso and we tootled around the caldera all day

Mt Aso caldera, it’s a big boy.

It’s got several smaller active volcanos ringing the super volcano caldera

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Grave Dirt Boy @gordbrush.bsky.social · 3d

HR found your posts

Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · 3d

‘Six words or _fewer_.”

A meme. There’s a skull at the top, followed by the words ‘WRITE A HORROR STORY IN SIX WORDS OR LESS’

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elrondcupboard.bsky.social @elrondcupboard.bsky.social · 3d

It has been a relax day so I have consumed an ungodly quantity of melon soda

Also frankly we peaked as a civilisation when this was invented sorry

Melon soda in a happy little cup from a fruits parlor

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elrondcupboard.bsky.social @elrondcupboard.bsky.social · 4d

Day trip to Unzen hot spring town to meet the cats

They were otherwise engaged

A cat, scratching away like it just doesn’t care

elrondcupboard.bsky.social @elrondcupboard.bsky.social · 5d

The British passport intro blurb is one of the few things that makes me feel patriotic, it’s just so pompously flamboyant and protective, so it’s been a wild ride watching successive governments make it mean absolutely fuck all over the years

New wording; “In trouble abroad? Your fucked mate”

His Britannic Majesty's Secretary of State requests and requires in the name of His Majesty all those whom it may concern to allow the bearer to pass freely without let or hindrance and to afford the bearer such assistance and protection as may be necessary.'

elrondcupboard.bsky.social @elrondcupboard.bsky.social · 6d

Cicero and Cato started a podcast during the civil wars

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social · 6d

AI at its peak.

A red toaster with a grid and blinking lights. "Talky Toaster", an AI toaster from "Red Dwarf".

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elrondcupboard.bsky.social @elrondcupboard.bsky.social · 6d

I’m a millennial, yes we know there is no such thing. As such the lack of work life balance just pisses me off

I want to be doing things outside the office as much as possible.

Instead lack of secure housing and money means I’m a forerunner of hustle culture or sitting worrying about the future

Fortune @fortune.com · 6d

“We millennials know that there’s no such thing as work-life balance. My career is my life, my life is my career. I would never be at peace if I wasn’t working so hard.” trib.al/suc3yU6

Astronaut says Gen Z often quits when things get uncomfortable—here’s the Jeff Bezos Blue Origin training that taught her to push through | Fortune

From space rockets to 13-hour workdays, this millennial astronaut reveals the mind trick that can make discomfort your secret weapon to success.

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elrondcupboard.bsky.social @elrondcupboard.bsky.social · 6d

In Nagaski? Eat at Yubatotofunomise Umenohana Merukanagasakiten

(Mostly) tofu and soy based full on set meals. Really unexpected find, it’s tucked away on the second floor of a mall and the tables are in a labyrinth of meeting room style private alcoves.

Tofu served 3 ways (2 types of miso skewers, and a crispy chewy fried tofu)

One dish of like 10

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wariotifo @wariotifo.bsky.social · 7d

folks we need to bring back forums. social media doesn't work. forums didn't work either but they were funnier and had more concentrated giant flameouts

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 7d

It’s funny because it’s true

Jay D@@jay.bsky.team
You could try a poster's strike. I hear that works

crystal @cim.bsky.social
your user base consists entirely of people who are willing to migrate from social media websites that turn on them

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elrondcupboard.bsky.social @elrondcupboard.bsky.social · 7d

Come on Barbie Lets Go Party

ɪᴍᴍᴀɴᴜᴇʟ ᴋᴜɴᴛ @soberthots.bsky.social · 7d

question for the timeline

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matt’s slutty lil halloween name @windows98support.bsky.social · 7d

Turns out, 6 months was optimistic

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