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James Tindall @atomless.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Love this. We should all be out on a global general strike. But this is a great start: https://nomusicforgenocide.org/

No Music For Genocide

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nomusicforgenocide.org

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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 1d

Hey @cnn.com, what’s happening here? Care to explain, using your plenary powers, why you excluded an extremely material part of the interview?

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

Merrick Garland green-lit the search of Mar-a-Lago. It happened in August 2022 three months before Jack Smith was appointed. Jack Smith was in the Netherlands at the Hauge prosecuting Kosovo war crimes when Mar-a-Lago was searched. Eric should have listened to my podcast.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Eric Trump accuses Jack Smith of "planting classified documents at Mar-a-Lago"

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atomless @atomless.bsky.social · 4d

Woot! Happy Birthday CAN! 🥳

CreativeApplications.Net @creativeapps.bsky.social · 4d

Online for 6,209 days (1️⃣7️⃣ years, 0 months, 0 days), published 4,024 articles about 2,712 people, featuring 172 tools. Supported by 1,638 members, and providing access to 516 educators and their students.

Happy Birthday CAN! 🎂 🎉

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CreativeApplications.Net @creativeapps.bsky.social · 4d

Online for 6,209 days (1️⃣7️⃣ years, 0 months, 0 days), published 4,024 articles about 2,712 people, featuring 172 tools. Supported by 1,638 members, and providing access to 516 educators and their students.

Happy Birthday CAN! 🎂 🎉

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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 4d

The Realtime Techpocalypse Newsletter is two months old! We've covered: the TESCREAL ideologies, Silicon Valley pro-extinctionism, the AGI race, AI slop and AI bloopers, etc. If these topics interest you, please subscribe, share, and recommend! :-)

www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/the-right-...

The Right Time for a Realtime Roundup!

Here are the fun topics we covered over the past two months!

www.realtimetechpocalypse.com

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Happy Hour at Hippel's @sanktmaxtci.bsky.social · 8d

There's a sense of urgency and churn to a lot of the content economy that requires more processing and translation into the form of its mediation rather than sitting down and thinking about ideas to the extent that one really can, because you're kept rushing through the circuits of productivity.

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Paul Lander @paullander.bsky.social · 8d

The first words from the AI actress were ‘What I really want to do is direct.’

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 8d

Peter Thiel *destroyed* by priest:

“Heretical.”

“Cynical.”

Read: “I’m a priest. Here’s why you should reject Peter Thiel’s Antichrist talk,” via @sfstandard.com

sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...

I’m a priest. Here’s why you should reject Peter Thiel’s Antichrist talk

The cynicism of the billionaire venture capitalist stands in deep contrast to the true values of Jesus.

sfstandard.com

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 8d

Tony Blair's institute took $350M+ from Larry Ellison, whose company powers Israel's military tech.

Ellison & Rupert Murdoch are buying TikTok—a platform Netanyahu calls a critical "weapon" in the war.

Oh, and Trump just made Blair the man who'll govern Gaza.

www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...

'WHAT WILL JESUS SAY?' TONY BLAIR, BIG TECH AND THE ISRAEL CONNECTION

As Trump announces the former British PM as his choice to help govern Gaza, Carole Cadwalladr investigates the opaque workings of Blair's institute, its funding from friends of Israel – including bill...

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James Tindall @atomless.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d

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https://www.creativeapplications.net/theory/predictive-capital/

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atomless @atomless.bsky.social · 8d

seems relevant: x.com/Lucaswoodlan...

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atomless @atomless.bsky.social · 8d

Imagine perceiving the "moral stigma" around mass murder to be an annoying inconvenience!

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atomless @atomless.bsky.social · 8d

From P.C.

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atomless @atomless.bsky.social · 8d

With the release of Sora 2 & its cameo feature further confirmation that these machines are configured for virality not utility, forgive me for posting this relevant excerpt from the Stolen Ladders chapter of Predictive Capital—published earlier this year
www.creativeapplications.net/theory/predi...

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 9d

People who don’t think this is fascism “yet” aren’t seeing members of their own ethnic group get brutalized and kidnapped by masked men with guns.

Some of us already live in the future. Spoiler alert: It’s fascism.

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Dan O'Hara @skeuomorphology.bsky.social · 9d

A surprise to see a relatively factual, sober article about covid on the front page of the BBC

Good to see it addresses rapid reinfections

A brief 🧵

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Covid cases rising with new variants 'Nimbus' and 'Stratus'

Unwell with a bad throat and temperature? You may have one of the new Covid strains circulating this autumn.

www.bbc.co.uk

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atomless @atomless.bsky.social · 9d

Honestly, when Yarvin, Musk and the Right talk about the superior power of the left, I think they mean facts.

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atomless @atomless.bsky.social · 9d

Yeah, I know about The Cathedral nonsense. I just feel the claim of this all power left is disingenuous somehow. The right always sides with Capital and visa versa. The only way his claim makes any sense is if he’s referring to the inconvenient weight of facts that stack up against all his bs.

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atomless @atomless.bsky.social · 9d

This is such an excellent piece @edzitron.com thank so much for writing it! A shining example of diligent and rigorous public service journalism.

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10d

Newsletter: This is The Case Against Generative AI, a comprehensive analysis of a financial collapse built on myths I’ll dispel, the markets’ unhealthy obsession with NVIDIA's growth, and the fact that there is not enough money in the world to fund OpenAI.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

The Case Against Generative AI

Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 wo...

www.wheresyoured.at

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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 10d

In the time it takes to play this really cool video our President posted, the USA plunges $2,254,136.85 farther into debt.

If the USA sold the entirety of its land, mineral reserves, and precious metals at the highest market value, it would still be over $2 trillion dollars in debt.

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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 10d

As I was reading Ed’s unflinching indictment of the extent of unsupportable investment in AI, & the billions being thrown away, all I could think of was the fact that AI companies drew the line at having to pay for the content on which their products & services are based. That they can’t afford! 🤬

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10d

Newsletter: This is The Case Against Generative AI, a comprehensive analysis of a financial collapse built on myths I’ll dispel, the markets’ unhealthy obsession with NVIDIA's growth, and the fact that there is not enough money in the world to fund OpenAI.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

The Case Against Generative AI

Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 wo...

www.wheresyoured.at

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atomless @atomless.bsky.social · 12d

I think this was from a related thread. It’s something I’ve heard a fair bit from Yarvin and others on the Right. Can they really think that, in this moment, the power of the Left far outweighs that of the Right?

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James Tindall @atomless.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12d

I keep getting drawn back to re-read bits of Matt Colquhoun's Narcissus in Bloom: An Alternative History of the Selfie. What a book. Deserves far more attention. Highly recommended.

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James Tindall @atomless.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12d

"Capital first entered the field of material production, then moved into cultural production; now, it is increasingly in the business of ideological production." https://www.creativeapplications.net/theory/predictive-capital/

The Verge
Silicon Valley's latest argument against regulating Al: that would
literally be the antichrist / This is a real thing Peter Thiel told a group
of tech professionals recently.
by Tina Nguyen
Sep 25, 2025, 8:49 PM UTC

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