René Walter
@rawx.bsky.social
i learned more from a three minute record than i ever learned from a large language model.
Meme Magic / SocMed Psy / AI / Climate / Ex-Nerdcore.de
http://goodinternet.substack.com
http://goodmusic.substack.com
https://sigmoid.social/@rawx
Meme Magic / SocMed Psy / AI / Climate / Ex-Nerdcore.de
http://goodinternet.substack.com
http://goodmusic.substack.com
https://sigmoid.social/@rawx
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brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
January 27, 2026 at 12:22 AM
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
Thank god i turned my bots into disagreeaable knowitalls who criticise my stupid takes from all angles up to a point i called Gemini an asshole recently.
Sycophantic AI chatbots made participants’ attitudes more extreme and increased their certainty in those attitudes. Interactions with disagreeable chatbots, on the other hand, reduced both attitude extremity and certainty. www.psypost.org/sycophantic-...
Sycophantic chatbots inflate people’s perceptions that they are "better than average"
A new study suggests that "sycophantic" AI fuels political extremism and overconfidence, creating digital echo chambers that users mistakenly perceive as unbiased and objective.
www.psypost.org
January 26, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Thank god i turned my bots into disagreeaable knowitalls who criticise my stupid takes from all angles up to a point i called Gemini an asshole recently.
When even the clown posse on your propaganda network turns on you then maybe hopefully your time is up.
i dont know if it matters but jd vance and stephen miller are getting absolutely fried on X re: ICE and Minneapolis. Even on their heavily rigged propaganda social media network what they are doing is wildly wildly unpopular
January 26, 2026 at 11:55 AM
When even the clown posse on your propaganda network turns on you then maybe hopefully your time is up.
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I don’t think I’d call them “wannabes” I mean DHS has been recruiting with white supremacist dog whistles. It’s highly likely they hit their target audience and recruited whites supremacists who are now hunting humans and leaving white supremacist symbols behind.
ICE is leaving Vietnam-style death cards in the wake of their kidnappings because they are the saddest, most embarrassing military wannabes to ever live
coloradosun.com/2026/01/23/a...
coloradosun.com/2026/01/23/a...
January 26, 2026 at 8:09 AM
I don’t think I’d call them “wannabes” I mean DHS has been recruiting with white supremacist dog whistles. It’s highly likely they hit their target audience and recruited whites supremacists who are now hunting humans and leaving white supremacist symbols behind.
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new super mario movie's youtube preview image is 108 kb which is over 2.5x the size of the entire 41 kb NES game
January 26, 2026 at 3:36 AM
new super mario movie's youtube preview image is 108 kb which is over 2.5x the size of the entire 41 kb NES game
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I see they adopted the upside down flag as distress signal. The far right is losing its symbols.
This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.
January 26, 2026 at 7:47 AM
I see they adopted the upside down flag as distress signal. The far right is losing its symbols.
Oh look at this old fav of mine. The only thing better than typography is typography on pencils.
January 25, 2026 at 10:59 AM
Oh look at this old fav of mine. The only thing better than typography is typography on pencils.
"People eating funny food"
January 25, 2026 at 10:57 AM
"People eating funny food"
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AI-Powered Disinformation Swarms Are Coming for Democracy
Advances in artificial intelligence are creating a perfect storm for those seeking to spread disinformation at unprecedented speed and scale. And it’s virtually impossible to detect.
Read about our paper here:
www.wired.com/story/ai-pow...
Advances in artificial intelligence are creating a perfect storm for those seeking to spread disinformation at unprecedented speed and scale. And it’s virtually impossible to detect.
Read about our paper here:
www.wired.com/story/ai-pow...
January 24, 2026 at 6:26 PM
AI-Powered Disinformation Swarms Are Coming for Democracy
Advances in artificial intelligence are creating a perfect storm for those seeking to spread disinformation at unprecedented speed and scale. And it’s virtually impossible to detect.
Read about our paper here:
www.wired.com/story/ai-pow...
Advances in artificial intelligence are creating a perfect storm for those seeking to spread disinformation at unprecedented speed and scale. And it’s virtually impossible to detect.
Read about our paper here:
www.wired.com/story/ai-pow...
Don't use the word ice when talking about stormy winter stuff.
Reminder that these people got upset by pronouns.
Reminder that these people got upset by pronouns.
CNN: DHS officials have come to FEMA staff and told them to limit the use of the word ice…they are worried that by posting something like, watch out for the ice, that it's going to become a meme….
January 25, 2026 at 7:56 AM
Don't use the word ice when talking about stormy winter stuff.
Reminder that these people got upset by pronouns.
Reminder that these people got upset by pronouns.
That's Lemmy Kilmister. Obviously ICE would shoot Lemmy.
medium.com/@bruces/r-u-...
*I don't like to say that "cyberpunk is dead," because check out this ChatGPT-generated "cyberpunk" antifa guy here
*Obviously ICE would shoot him out-of-hand if he showed up at the protest, so if you want trouble, you can do cyberpunk and you can still get trouble
*I don't like to say that "cyberpunk is dead," because check out this ChatGPT-generated "cyberpunk" antifa guy here
*Obviously ICE would shoot him out-of-hand if he showed up at the protest, so if you want trouble, you can do cyberpunk and you can still get trouble
January 25, 2026 at 7:33 AM
That's Lemmy Kilmister. Obviously ICE would shoot Lemmy.
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If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
January 24, 2026 at 8:29 PM
If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
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Is this why he dropped America out of the World Health Organization?
January 23, 2026 at 6:42 AM
Is this why he dropped America out of the World Health Organization?
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🧵 @jburnmurdoch.ft.com is spot on about the conditions in his FT piece. Liberal democracy held it together thanks to growth, good demographics, and the promise of a better future. Those days are gone, and that’s the "why" behind the erosion. However...
Democratic politicians have, though, pursued growth in GDP at the expense of other values. One response to @jburnmurdoch.ft.com pessimistic scenario is refocus on those values, combined with egalitarianism, sufficiency and quality of life. Not "it's the economy, stupid" but "it's the the society"
Is liberal democracy in terminal decline?
The old system worked under a set of conditions that are no longer present
www.ft.com
January 23, 2026 at 9:07 AM
🧵 @jburnmurdoch.ft.com is spot on about the conditions in his FT piece. Liberal democracy held it together thanks to growth, good demographics, and the promise of a better future. Those days are gone, and that’s the "why" behind the erosion. However...
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The Board of Peace is to other international institutions as Truth Social is to other social media.
January 22, 2026 at 1:16 PM
The Board of Peace is to other international institutions as Truth Social is to other social media.
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There is a rally in front of #Berlin 's US Embassy by the Berlin Rechtsanwaltskammer (RAK) (the Berlin Bar Association) at 1pm today. I had expected to be there, following an important @europarl.europa.eu panel debate on hybrid threats to European Democracies nearby but I am down & out with the flu.
"The Day of the Endangered Lawyer, an annual event to raise awareness of risks to members of the profession, has in recent years picked Belarus, Iran and Afghanistan as its subject. For 2026, it has chosen the US."
This is Trump's USA.
www.ft.com/content/cf5d...
This is Trump's USA.
www.ft.com/content/cf5d...
Lawyers are ‘endangered’ in Trump’s America, international group warns
Citation places US alongside Belarus, Iran and Afghanistan as places that have threatened the rule of law
www.ft.com
January 23, 2026 at 8:48 AM
There is a rally in front of #Berlin 's US Embassy by the Berlin Rechtsanwaltskammer (RAK) (the Berlin Bar Association) at 1pm today. I had expected to be there, following an important @europarl.europa.eu panel debate on hybrid threats to European Democracies nearby but I am down & out with the flu.
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You don’t know your role yet maybe, but we are all finding out just what we have to offer.
In Minneapolis, one man knew immediately what he could offer and said “Bring me your clothing”.
In Minneapolis, one man knew immediately what he could offer and said “Bring me your clothing”.
January 23, 2026 at 2:57 AM
You don’t know your role yet maybe, but we are all finding out just what we have to offer.
In Minneapolis, one man knew immediately what he could offer and said “Bring me your clothing”.
In Minneapolis, one man knew immediately what he could offer and said “Bring me your clothing”.
"The White House responded by sending (...) this this message: (...) Enforcement of the law will continue. The memes will continue."
@bildoperationen.bsky.social #MemeFascism applies.
@bildoperationen.bsky.social #MemeFascism applies.
January 23, 2026 at 7:12 AM
"The White House responded by sending (...) this this message: (...) Enforcement of the law will continue. The memes will continue."
@bildoperationen.bsky.social #MemeFascism applies.
@bildoperationen.bsky.social #MemeFascism applies.
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"The Makerspace of Diogenes"
January 23, 2026 at 5:45 AM
"The Makerspace of Diogenes"
In 2031, every very-serious conference is full of swearwords and enshittificational neologisms to differentiate themselves from the AI slop machine.
Everyone is starting to sound like AI, even in spoken language
Analysis of 280,000 transcripts of videos of talks & presentations from academic channels finds they increasingly used words that are favorites of ChatGPT
Model collapse, except for humans arxiv.org/pdf/2409.017...
Analysis of 280,000 transcripts of videos of talks & presentations from academic channels finds they increasingly used words that are favorites of ChatGPT
Model collapse, except for humans arxiv.org/pdf/2409.017...
January 23, 2026 at 6:55 AM
In 2031, every very-serious conference is full of swearwords and enshittificational neologisms to differentiate themselves from the AI slop machine.
Putins Troll Army has been democratized.
Tremendously important work...👇
How malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @daniel-thilo.bsky.social @kunstjonas.bsky.social et al.
AI swarms are can be used to engineering a "synthetic
consensus" that can manipulate public opinion and perceptions.
How malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @daniel-thilo.bsky.social @kunstjonas.bsky.social et al.
AI swarms are can be used to engineering a "synthetic
consensus" that can manipulate public opinion and perceptions.
January 23, 2026 at 6:52 AM
Putins Troll Army has been democratized.
What a day. What a lovely day.
I put my life savings into gas town coin
January 23, 2026 at 6:44 AM
What a day. What a lovely day.
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GOODMUSIC 1.6/26
Savages / Courtney Barnett / Xcomm / The Barbarians of California / Wolf Alive / Adult DVD / Fickle Friends / The Brunettes / Searows and many more.
goodmusic.substack.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:51 PM
More GOODMUSIC featuring new tracks and songs from Savages / Courtney Barnett / Xcomm / The Barbarians of California / Wolf Alive / Adult DVD / Fickle Friends / The Brunettes / Searows and many more --> goodmusic.substack.com/p/goodmusic-... <-- ALL KILLERS NO FILLERS!
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It appears that the White House edited this image using AI
January 22, 2026 at 4:46 PM
It appears that the White House edited this image using AI
Oh god this is sending me down memory hole, german Arte Tracks about the UK Jungle revival... www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXiu...
Warum ein verbotener UK-Sound gerade die Clubs übernimmt | ARTE Tracks
YouTube video by Arte TRACKS
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January 22, 2026 at 6:07 AM
Oh god this is sending me down memory hole, german Arte Tracks about the UK Jungle revival... www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXiu...