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j west bennett @jwestbennett.com · 17h

AI’s role in this is accelerationist: it helps leaders cut corners, hollow out their companies, prop up these papier-maché products just long enough so they can collect their paycheck and dip

whoever starts investing in resilience now will have a leg up in the long run

j west bennett @jwestbennett.com · 17h

bubble economy. CEO’s are increasingly incentivized to fuzz the numbers and cash in, to build an MVP simulacrum of a stable business and arrange for their golden parachutes before too many people catch on

it’s one big game of hot potato and we bystanders stand to lose the most

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j west bennett @jwestbennett.com · 1d

“I should call her”

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · Dec 12

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 2d

we all got that one sullen homie whose leitmotif shares a chord progression and instrumention with an enemy whose identity is yet revealed

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Pyramid Chad @pyrameadhead.wifeguy.online · 2d

Top frame: Shelly Duvall as Wendy Torrance looking down in horror at Jack Torrence's typewriter. It repeats "Same as it ever was, same it ever was" four times. Bottom Frame: Jack Torrance has the David Byrne giant suit.

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j west bennett @jwestbennett.com · 2d

nobody tell Ezra “this isn’t who we are” Klein, he might lose faith in democracy

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Alex Kain @tdcpresents.bsky.social · 4d

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j west bennett @jwestbennett.com · 3d

Pynchon characters be like:

shit whistle @guntoucher.bsky.social · 3d

Agent Richard Boneload, FBI

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little lamb @puddleofbrain.bsky.social · 5d

This danse is not that macabre to me

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Daniel Wynter @boardgamefeast.bsky.social · 8d

Subtext is for cowards.

Screenshot of Phantasy Star 2 with an NPC saying "What's most frightening is humans, not monsters"

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j west bennett @jwestbennett.com · 11d

perfect illustration that their goal is spiteful retribution against perceived enemies, no matter the collateral damage

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j west bennett @jwestbennett.com · 12d

nothin wrong with that! we humans have always loved our hero narratives

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 12d

one will soon sink, unrecorded, in the sea

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j west bennett @jwestbennett.com · 12d

or, as the poet Chad Kroeger writes:

“they say that a hero can save us; I’m not gonna stand here and wait.”

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j west bennett @jwestbennett.com · 12d

superhero films generally depict mass passivity in the face of crises rather than mutual aid and community building

sorry, but nobody’s coming to save you—we all gotta save each other

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j west bennett @jwestbennett.com · 12d

world’s most pathetic villain origin story tbh

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j west bennett @jwestbennett.com · 12d

sometimes a cigar really is just a metaphorical giant penis

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j west bennett @jwestbennett.com · 12d

sometimes a cigar really is just a metaphorical giant penis

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j west bennett @jwestbennett.com · 13d

Their race, color, creed, or social condition is not the criterion. It is something in them.

Those who haven’t anything in them to tell them what they like and what they don’t—whether it is breeding, or happiness, or wisdom, or a code, however old-fashioned or however modern, go Nazi."

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j west bennett @jwestbennett.com · 13d

But the frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son, the labor tyrant, the fellow who has achieved success by smelling out the wind of success—they would all go Nazi in a crisis.

Believe me, nice people don’t go Nazi.

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j west bennett @jwestbennett.com · 13d

"Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi. They may be the gentle philosopher whose name is in the Blue Book, or Bill from City College to whom democracy gave a chance to design airplanes—you’ll never make Nazis out of them...

Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13d

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

harpers.org

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j west bennett @jwestbennett.com · 14d

those shorts look comfortable and easy to wear!

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j west bennett @jwestbennett.com · 15d

like your grandad’s baseball glove

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