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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 2h

more like autechrist

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Multiversal Streaming @multiversalplus.bsky.social · 17d

LESS THAN TWILIGHT (Marek Kanievska, 1987)

A decadent college student (Andrew McCarthy) returns home for Christmas and finds himself caught in a love triangle between a dissipated gigolo werewolf (Robert Downey Jr.) and his sociopathic coke-dealing vampire pimp (James Spader).

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Multiversal Streaming @multiversalplus.bsky.social · 18d

HOUSE OF THE UNDEAD (Massimo Cazzioni, 1969)

Two legendary vampires compete for possession of John Dee’s great-great granddaughter, whose blood is rumored to be the regenerative elixir of life. Cristopher Lee, Veronica Carlson, Paul Köhler, and Boris Karloff as Van Helsing.

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Bullwark @bullwark.bsky.social · 13h

Why do all our "unwavering and special allies" all kinda seem like Nazis

Alexis ☭ @gothgf.rip · 14h

good thing nothing more urgent is happening right now

The Rada will consider a law against LGBT propaganda in Ukraine

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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 13h

"politicians don't owe you anything" is my favourite

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 16h

being online is amazing you can say "our democratically elected officials should be doing something and/or should have done something previously to prevent the current political climate from developing to this point" and someone will argue with you

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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 20h

Anna Tsing really cooked here

(from The Mushroom at the End of the World)

Excerpt from Anna Tsing's "The Mushroom at the End of the World"

"What we have is mushrooms, that is, fruiting bodies of underground fungi. The fungi require the traffic of the commons to flourish; no mushrooms emerge without forest disturbance. The privately owned mushroom is an offshoot from a communally living underground body, a body forged through the possibilities of latent commons, human and not human. That it is possible to cordon off the mushroom as an asset without taking its underground commons into account is both the ordinary way with privatization and a quite extraordinary outrage, when you stop to think about it. The contrast between private mushrooms and fungi-forming forest traffic might be an emblem for commoditization more generally: the continual, never-finished cutting off of entanglement."

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Five iPads @tomorrowarchive.com · 23h

reminder that starship titanic, lovingly remade by scummvm volunteers to work on modern hardware, is available on steam for just $6 store.steampowered.com/app/467290/S...

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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 23h

yeah, that's very much it, he was a court jester, not a cultural attache

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Laurie Lipton @laurielipton.bsky.social · 1d

You think an immigrant at the ER is stealing your money? Not the billionaires with 5 homes, 3 yachts, 2 private jets, & a golden toilet? Congratulations! You’re living proof that propaganda works (“DELUSION DWELLERS 2007”, 38”x48”, charcoal and graphite on paper)

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𝙾𝚙𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚊 @highnessophelia.bsky.social · 5d

my gift to you today 🥹

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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 1d

what a fool i've been as a programmer trying to come up with elegant heuristics to perform such functionality efficiently when i should've just been shoehorning all of human language in there instead

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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 1d

the pro-AI guy on the dev slack i hang out on is very defensive about openAI getting a stranglehold on the DRAM market: "what else are you going to use it for?"

it. is. a. fucking. cult.

and when you strip away all of the asimovian bullshit what it truly worships is raw consumption

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Anthony B, @swearyanthony.bsky.social · 1d

Really saying the quiet bit rather loudly, hey.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 1d

Former Wallabies star David Pocock booted from parliamentary sports club

Exclusive: Senator accused of bringing social club into disrepute after raising concerns about its association with betting lobby Independent ACT senator David Pocock – a former Wallabies captain – been banned from attending parliament house’s social sports club after raising concern about its sponsorship by the gambling industry. The former rugby star was on Thursday night told he was no longer welcome at Australian Parliament Sports Club events, and accused of politicising the organisation. He has been removed from group chats discussing its events. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 1d

the problem with most comedians these days is they want endless adoration for being a sack of shit

Defector @defector.com · 1d

Bill Burr has continued to address his decision to perform at the Riyadh Comedy Festival, but he still can't settle on which lazy excuse he wants to employ. defector.com/bill-burr-ke...

Bill Burr Keeps Cycling Through Excuses For Doing The Riyadh Comedy Festival | Defector

By default, Bill Burr exists in a state of his ass being chapped, but clearly it’s been feeling more chapped than usual. The comedian has continued to address his decision to perform at the Riyadh…

defector.com

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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 1d

i too like to have a reductive take on human creativity so i can keep using the thieving slop machine

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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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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 2d

made a friend

a little black cat sitting on the middle step of a set of wooden stairs, looking up at a small huntsman spider that is just out of reach on the wall above him

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 1d

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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 1d

humanity doesn't need to be educated into people

they already have it

it is the inhumanity of the civilised rational actor that must be taught

and it takes the rewards of privilege to motivate acceptance of membership of that elite class

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Rodger Binyone @rodger-binyone.bsky.social · 2d

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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 2d

made a friend

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 2d

a fascinating writeup on the making of a set of widely distributed IDF propaganda videos, specifically identifying assets they used. there's something incredibly unsettling about the creative ethos here. stolen assets. no actual intelligence information at all. just hubris and pure fabrication.

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 2d

Others assets came from scans made by the Scottish Maritime Museum of their boat-building workshop which was downloaded (via @sketchfab.bsky.social) and reimagined by the IDF adornments for underground missile factories.

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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 2d

which makes their end game of replacing teachers entirely with this bullshit a lot easier

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d

“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”

Rising Use of AI in Schools Comes With Big Downsides for Students

A report by the Center for Democracy and Technology looks at teachers' and students' experiences with the technology.

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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 2d

come to bluesky! we give you the tools to moderate the site to your liking!

just, y'know, don't use them on us or we'll fucking come for you

have fun!

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Black Lodge Cult @blacklodgecult.bsky.social · 2d

DAVID LYNCH for Vulture, 2018. Photo by Sandro Miller

An abstract David Lynch photograph taken by Sandro Miller in 2018

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