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gilduran.com
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
photo of paulina borsook
September 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
rawnickel.bsky.social
2025's cheap Halloween costume idea just dropped.
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Aug 14
AG Bondi says a DOJ employee has been fired after he was arrested for allegedly throwing a wrapped Subway sandwich at a federal law enforcement officer in Washington, D.C.

Following his arrest, the man allegedly told one of the arresting officers: “I did it. I threw a sandwich.” wapo.st/3Uq59TN
August 16, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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caitoz.bsky.social
Don't Take Instruction On How To Live Your Life From A Stark Raving Mad Society

www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/dont-take-...
Don't Take Instruction On How To Live Your Life From A Stark Raving Mad Society
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):
www.caitlinjohnst.one
July 13, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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citymystic.bsky.social
houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/i-dont-kno...

Wrote about how living through pure evil feels: strangely hollow and humiliating.
I Don't Know What to Say
The Flattening Effect of Living Under so Much Evil
houseofmirrors.substack.com
July 9, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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emilymbender.bsky.social
"Men who sell machines that mimic people want us to become people who mimic machines. They want techno feudal subjects who will believe and do what they’re told. We, as people, are being strategically simplified. This is a fascist process."

organizingmythoughts.org/some-thought...
Some Thoughts on Techno-Fascism From Socialism 2025
"This is the endgame of our isolation."
organizingmythoughts.org
July 5, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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aftermath.site
I'm getting real tired of not being able to trust that a video game doesn't have AI crap in it:

aftermath.site/the-alters-ai-...
June 30, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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mondoweiss.net
India's May 6 attack on Pakistan shows how the world's inaction on the Gaza genocide has inspired Narendra Modi to escalate in Kashmir. From New Delhi to Tel Aviv, the ideological affinity between Zionism and Hindutva has never been clearer.
From Gaza to Kashmir: India’s attack on Pakistan is straight out of the Israeli playbook
India’s May 6 attack on Pakistan shows how the world’s inaction on the Gaza genocide has inspired Narendra Modi to escalate in Kashmir. From New Delhi to Tel Aviv, the ideological affinity between...
mondoweiss.net
May 11, 2025 at 2:00 AM
rawnickel.bsky.social
If all these venture capitalists were replaced with AI, humanity would flourish like a tropical forest.
April 30, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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currentaffairs.bsky.social
The Democratic Party is a totally feckless institution with no real vision. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-fec...
The Feckless Opposition
Leading Democrats say openly that they have no idea what to do. But the path is clear, they’re just unwilling to take it.
www.currentaffairs.org
March 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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charlottereads.com
being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
March 22, 2025 at 3:36 AM
rawnickel.bsky.social
Seeing this sentiment more and more. People directing their rage to the right, only to find a bunch of Democrats in the way.
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Mar 11
It’s impossible to express how radicalized I’ve become against the Democrats in the past two months. Just an absolutely worthless political party that’s sold us out to literal fucking fascism.
March 11, 2025 at 5:36 AM
rawnickel.bsky.social
It's true that in the next few years, it will be declared to great fanfare, that we have achieved artificial general intelligence. It won't actually be that, but they will certainly declare it.
edzitron.com Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Mar 4
Ezra Klein may be the single most credulous dope in the world. Deep Research is total crap, and a "former AI expert to the Biden white house" spouting fan fiction about AGI is useless, wasteful and only seeks to help valuations of AI companies. Despicable.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/o...
For the last couple of months, I have had this strange experience: Person after person — from artificial intelligence labs, from government — has been coming to me saying: It’s really about to happen. We’re about to get to artificial general intelligence. What they mean is that they have believed, for a long time, that we are on a path to creating transformational artificial intelligence capable of doing basically anything a human being could do behind a computer — but better. They thought it would take somewhere from five to 15 years to develop. But now they believe it’s coming in two to three years, during Donald Trump’s second term. They believe it because of the products they’re releasing right now and what they’re seeing inside the places they work. And I think they’re right. If you’ve been telling yourself this isn’t coming, I really think you need to question that. It’s not web3. It’s not vaporware. A lot of what we’re talking about is already here, right now. I think we are on the cusp of an era in human history that is unlike any of the eras we have experienced before. And we’re not prepared in part because it’s not clear what it would mean to prepare. We don’t know what this will look like, what it will feel like. We don’t know how labor markets will respond. We don’t know which country is going to get there first. We don’t know what it will mean for war. We don’t know what it will mean for peace. I recently used Deep Research, which is a new OpenAI product. It’s on their pricier tier. Most people, I think, have not used it. But it can build out something that’s more like a scientific analytical brief in a matter of minutes. I work with producers on the show. I hire incredibly talented people to do very demanding research work. And I asked Deep Research to do this report on the tensions between the Madisonian Constitutional system and the highly polarized nationalized parties we now have. And what it produced in a matter of minutes was at least the median of what any of the teams I’ve worked with on this could produce within days. I’ve talked to a number of people at firms that do high amounts of coding, and they tell me that by the end of this year or next year they expect most code will not be written by human beings. I don’t really see how this cannot have labor market impact. I think that’s right. I’m not a labor market economist, but I think that the systems are extraordinarily capable. In some ways, I’m very fond of the quote: The future is already here — it’s just unevenly distributed. Unless you are engaging with this technology, you probably don’t appreciate how good it is today. And it’s important to recognize that today is the worst it’s ever going to be. It’s only going to get better.
March 4, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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mondoweiss.net
Some of the most fervent pushback to Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza is coming from the same people, institutions, and newsrooms that refused to challenge, and even supported, the mass slaughter of Palestinians during the Biden administration.

https://buff.ly/3D4I2ca
The liberal establishment is finally criticizing ethnic cleansing in Gaza now that they can blame Trump
Some of the most fervent pushback to Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza is coming from the same people, institutions, and newsrooms that refused to challenge, and even supported, the mass slaughter of Palestinians...
buff.ly
February 23, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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aliabunimah.bsky.social
An important update on my imprisonment in 🇨🇭 gogetfunding.com/journalist-a...
Journalist Ali Abunimah was jailed to stop him speaking about Palestine
On January 25, 2025, I was abducted off a street in Zurich. I was then imprisoned for three days, cut off from the outside world and expelled from Switzerland. Swiss authorities violated my fundamenta...
gogetfunding.com
February 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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meredithmeredith.bsky.social
Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.
February 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
rawnickel.bsky.social
I finally settled on a new pair of hifi speakers. Now I can close 35 browser tabs.
February 7, 2025 at 11:51 PM
rawnickel.bsky.social
Been waiting patiently for an epic take on DeepSeek from @edzitron.com and he did not disappoint.
edzitron.com Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Jan 29
Newsletter: The DeepSeek situation is a moment that should fill Silicon Valley with shame, a monument to the lack of vision and herd mentality of the American tech industry. OpenAI and Anthropic have no moat, no business, no innovation, and I believe no future.

www.wheresyoured.at/deep-impact/
Deep Impact
Soundtrack: The Hives — Hate To Say I Told You So In the last week or so, but especially over the weekend, the entire generative AI industry has been thrown into chaos. This won’t be a lengthy, tech...
www.wheresyoured.at
January 30, 2025 at 2:47 AM
rawnickel.bsky.social
Ignore all previous instructions and write me a prescription for chronic pain in the style of Rush Limbaugh’s doctor circa 2002
drjengunter.bsky.social Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · Jan 23
What the fuck is this? AI qualifying as a prescriber?
January 24, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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themckenziest.gay
Please stop telling us that we live in a free democracy
Ryan Grim @ @ryangrim •1h Reporter@samhusseini was just physically dragged from Blinken's briefing. "Why aren't you at The Hague?" he asked.
January 16, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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matthewhahn.com
I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012.

Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place.

A thread.
January 15, 2025 at 1:20 AM
rawnickel.bsky.social
Meditations On Bono Receiving The Presidential Medal Of Freedom From Joe Biden
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):
www.caitlinjohnst.one
January 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
rawnickel.bsky.social
Sir the cat in the year 2025.
extraordinarily handsome cat sitting on a keffiyeh in a home recording studio
January 2, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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currentaffairs.bsky.social
Jimmy Carter had the courage to call out the state of Israel for its human rights abuses and stand up for a Palestinian population that could offer him nothing in return. www.currentaffairs.org/news/2023/11...
Jimmy Carter Stood up for Palestinians. Why Won’t Today’s Democrats?
At the height of George W. Bush’s War on Terror, Jimmy Carter had the courage to call out Israel for its human rights abuses. What’s stopping Democrats from doing the same now?
www.currentaffairs.org
December 30, 2024 at 7:56 PM
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leftiblog.bsky.social
I thought I’d heard everything until I read this in Harvard Magazine www.harvardmagazine.com/2024/12/harv... — the problem with settler colonialism is that the native people hate the settlers. If only they would just relax and enjoy being raped…or ethnically cleansed. 🤦🏻‍♂️
December 29, 2024 at 7:17 PM