Zaybak
@zaybak.bsky.social
Solidarity, poems, prose, art, violin.
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we need to stop treating billionaires like people. they chose to forsake their humanity to become entities and as such we need to stop assuming they have any valid feelings or a heart
May 31, 2024 at 3:30 PM
we need to stop treating billionaires like people. they chose to forsake their humanity to become entities and as such we need to stop assuming they have any valid feelings or a heart
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May 27, 2024 at 7:35 PM
Already glad I made this purchase. Fun to just leaf through.
May 25, 2024 at 3:29 PM
Already glad I made this purchase. Fun to just leaf through.
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the Helldivers 2 fiasco & the fact even the director of the game is going wtf at Sony demanding a PSN account to let you play it is just exhibit #657234 of why letting bean counters run creative industries to improve bottom lines is the corporate version of trying to trim your pubes with a chainsaw
May 6, 2024 at 1:56 PM
the Helldivers 2 fiasco & the fact even the director of the game is going wtf at Sony demanding a PSN account to let you play it is just exhibit #657234 of why letting bean counters run creative industries to improve bottom lines is the corporate version of trying to trim your pubes with a chainsaw
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Current estimates say that every prompt you give a generative "AI" system— not each session, every PROMPT— is like pouring a 16 oz bottle of water onto the ground.
This is a fact that goes somewhere in every talk i give, now, & i always see audience members looking it up… and then looking horrified
This is a fact that goes somewhere in every talk i give, now, & i always see audience members looking it up… and then looking horrified
Annoyed by articles that go into great detail about what companies say they're doing with so-called "A.I." but do not ask what companies are doing about the technology's ecological impact.
Better Siri is coming: what Apple’s research says about its AI plans - https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/5/24147995/apple-siri-ai-research-chatbot-creativity
May 5, 2024 at 2:29 PM
Current estimates say that every prompt you give a generative "AI" system— not each session, every PROMPT— is like pouring a 16 oz bottle of water onto the ground.
This is a fact that goes somewhere in every talk i give, now, & i always see audience members looking it up… and then looking horrified
This is a fact that goes somewhere in every talk i give, now, & i always see audience members looking it up… and then looking horrified
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good.
Hawaii’s legislature has passed a bill that would effectively ban AirBnBs as the state grapples with a housing crisis
Are Airbnbs banned in Hawaii? New law seeks to cracks down on short-term rentals.
Short-term rentals make up a significant portion of Hawaii's housing supply. A new law the governor promised to sign will change that.
www.usatoday.com
May 4, 2024 at 4:37 PM
good.
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we’re gonna miss the H5N1 jump from bovine to human cause our industrialized ag system requires cheap immigrant labor afraid of our awful immigration enforcement system
So much of the farming industry relies on undocumented labor that it's going to be really difficult to track people down. Undocumented laborers in the USA are often highly leery of government officials knocking on the door, understandably so. Immigration reform is crucial to public health
May 3, 2024 Public Health: To prevent disease transmission, #contacttracing should be conducted.
www.cdc.gov/museum/pdf/c...
My 2 Cents: This should be done now. I cannot accept that with so many infected cows on so many different farms that there has been only one documented case of #H5N1Human
www.cdc.gov/museum/pdf/c...
My 2 Cents: This should be done now. I cannot accept that with so many infected cows on so many different farms that there has been only one documented case of #H5N1Human
May 4, 2024 at 6:08 AM
we’re gonna miss the H5N1 jump from bovine to human cause our industrialized ag system requires cheap immigrant labor afraid of our awful immigration enforcement system
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I think about this tumblr post at least once a day.
May 1, 2024 at 7:10 PM
I think about this tumblr post at least once a day.
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Overpolicing in US cities cannot be discussed without discussing gentrification, because overpolicing is being funded to kill & incarcerate Black people to remove them from the city for white people to move in.
May 1, 2024 at 1:06 PM
Overpolicing in US cities cannot be discussed without discussing gentrification, because overpolicing is being funded to kill & incarcerate Black people to remove them from the city for white people to move in.
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posting shit like this on a night like this absolutely sucks on every level
May 1, 2024 at 3:57 AM
posting shit like this on a night like this absolutely sucks on every level
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considering that she’s about to unleash riot cops on a bunch of students for the second time in two weeks, I feel compelled to share my mother’s sobriquet for Minouche Shafik, which was, “she’s not even a real scholar, she just spent her career licking the ass of capital at the world bank”
my mom just said the crudest thing I’ve ever heard her say about the president of Columbia
May 1, 2024 at 12:46 AM
considering that she’s about to unleash riot cops on a bunch of students for the second time in two weeks, I feel compelled to share my mother’s sobriquet for Minouche Shafik, which was, “she’s not even a real scholar, she just spent her career licking the ass of capital at the world bank”
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FYI Bibi Netanyahu worrying about charges from the ICC while actively engaged in ethnic cleansing is exactly why the Hague exists. I hope it haunts him every waking second
April 29, 2024 at 4:10 PM
FYI Bibi Netanyahu worrying about charges from the ICC while actively engaged in ethnic cleansing is exactly why the Hague exists. I hope it haunts him every waking second
A good spread of brains, brawn, heart, and panache
April 29, 2024 at 4:04 AM
A good spread of brains, brawn, heart, and panache
This week I've written about The Celebration (1998). Warning: the film includes mention of some potentially traumatic material. This thread will not mention it, but see the full content warning in the essay (link below) for details.
April 28, 2024 at 6:39 PM
This week I've written about The Celebration (1998). Warning: the film includes mention of some potentially traumatic material. This thread will not mention it, but see the full content warning in the essay (link below) for details.
Forgot to post this here yesterday. I'm starting to get back into writing and thinking critically about the media I consume. So, I'm going to be writing weekly blogs about the stuff I'm watching/readting/etc.
Here's the first: Shin Ultraman (2022) open.substack.com/pub/zaybak/p...
Here's the first: Shin Ultraman (2022) open.substack.com/pub/zaybak/p...
Shin Ultraman (2022)
Ultraman is real, and he's my buddy
open.substack.com
April 22, 2024 at 3:28 PM
Forgot to post this here yesterday. I'm starting to get back into writing and thinking critically about the media I consume. So, I'm going to be writing weekly blogs about the stuff I'm watching/readting/etc.
Here's the first: Shin Ultraman (2022) open.substack.com/pub/zaybak/p...
Here's the first: Shin Ultraman (2022) open.substack.com/pub/zaybak/p...
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We don’t have an alternative energy problem, we have a storage and transmission problem.
April 22, 2024 at 3:03 PM
We don’t have an alternative energy problem, we have a storage and transmission problem.
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Fuck yes get their asses
Volkswagen workers in Tennessee pass historic vote to unionize
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Volkswagen workers in Tennessee pass historic vote to unionize
VW workers in Chattanooga, Tenn., became the first big auto plant in the South to join the United Auto Workers in a victory for organized labor.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 20, 2024 at 2:46 AM
Fuck yes get their asses
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it’s even worse because a lot of these incredibly talented folks will simply leave the gaming industry and its horrible whims entirely, and not only will we lose out on what they were going to produce over the next few years we’ll lose out on everything beyond that
the ripple effects are wide
the ripple effects are wide
I don't think a lot of gaming fans realize just how many future releases have evaporated into thin air over the last 18 months
Projects canceled, teams scattered to the wind... so many of the experiences that were going to surprise and delight over the next 2-5 years just gone
Projects canceled, teams scattered to the wind... so many of the experiences that were going to surprise and delight over the next 2-5 years just gone
April 14, 2024 at 7:18 PM
it’s even worse because a lot of these incredibly talented folks will simply leave the gaming industry and its horrible whims entirely, and not only will we lose out on what they were going to produce over the next few years we’ll lose out on everything beyond that
the ripple effects are wide
the ripple effects are wide
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Well, “lo mein that kills people” sure is a compelling advertisement for this restaurant at Newark Airport
April 14, 2024 at 9:38 PM
Well, “lo mein that kills people” sure is a compelling advertisement for this restaurant at Newark Airport
I've seen other people post similarly, but man it really is annoying how effective the pomodoro system is for tricking myself to work.
April 14, 2024 at 10:50 PM
I've seen other people post similarly, but man it really is annoying how effective the pomodoro system is for tricking myself to work.