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“Isaac” or “Meatbag”, either is fine No democracy without socialism and no socialism without democracy The wise learn more from a fool than the foolish learn from a wise one

@tberkebile.bsky.social • 21h There is a large data center in Palo Alto, right near where Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Page and Laurene Powell live. At least 5 billionaires live in San Francisco which has about a dozen data centers. But don't let pesky facts get in the way of a good meme, wouldn't want reality coloring your rage. 5 50 • •• ElleO @ellohhlo.bsky.social Follow Todd, don't let the intent of the meme get in the way of defending the indefensible. 10:52 AM • Jul 22, 2026 5 likes 7 5 ....
Girl hiding under a desk from Terminator cartoon meme Terminator: “Claude telling you to go to sleep” Girl: “traumatized vibecoders”
Teeth: the board game! Red box cover with a saluting cartoon tooth, opened to reveal a box with a single pair of pliers From the show “Widow’s Bay”
David Lindsey Pittman @dphrygian.c... • 10h Bluesky Elder It's already in the Eldritch 2 credits, and it's a promise until it ships, whenever it ships. NO GENERATIVE Al. Eldritch 2 was developed without the use of generative AI. ALT 3 3 11 David Lindsey Pittman @dphrygian.com Bluesky Elder | *have* used machine translation, just to give myself anything to work with while building out the localization pipeline. That might've accidentally used genAl, I dunno how it works on the backend. It absolutely will not ship. Human translation or no translation. www.dphrygian.com/wordpress/?p... Dev's Journal - 11 Oct 2024 - MAEK GAEM
Sam Rose 9 @samwho.dev I remember when USB-C was first being introduced in consumer devices, one of the big new selling points was the ability to charge devices from other devices. Do you ever actually do this?
The verge + Terrence O'Brien is the Verge's weekend editor. He's covered the tech industry for over 18 years and knows a thing or two about synths. Most Americans don't trust Al. It's proven that it doesn't know what safe toppings for pizza are, People don't even want to listen to Al music. But none of that matters for some of America's wealthy, who are turning to Al to teach their kids instead of traditional schools.
Screenshot, Conversation with Claude on iOS Q: Any privacy-preserving ways to sequence my DNA and learn from it? Dialog: Switched to Opus 4.8 ••• Fable's safeguards flagged this message. The safeguards are intentionally broad right now and may flag safe and routine coding, cybersecurity, or biology work. These measures let us bring you Mythos-level capabilities sooner, and we're working to refine them.
Now it's time to reiterate California
Dwayne “the rock” Johnson as the “scorpion king” from that movie
Black flag with white spartan helm, white text underneath ΜΟΛΩΠ ΛΑΒΣ [they probably meant Μολών Λαβέ, “come and take it”]
Fig 1: a quote post Thorne @ens0.me • 5h ) Bluesky Elder People should read Marx's Fragment on Machines, I'm begging you. We want a world where people don't need to work to survive. That's the ideal. Focus on reshaping the economy to ensure everyone enjoys the fruits of automation. Commander Sterling @comma... • 14d • Bluesky Elder If you're pro-Al and not part of the corporate elite, you need to ask yourself a question: What makes you think you're safe? Tech CEOs want to destroy *all* our jobs, not just the people currently suffering. You're not a special little exception, you're food like everyone else. 4 ฿ 23 • 94 【 •••
German “Altbau” Windows
Chuck Wendig ‪@chuckwendig.bsky.social‬ I do love that AI inadvertently confirms that our brains work like a muscle, too — use it or lose it. In this way relying on AI is like using a robot to lift weights, like running a marathon in a Honda Civic. You get nothing out of it.
Screenshot of two slides from Michael Levin’s “A Talk for Mental Health Professionals,” watermarked “© Michael Levin.” Top slide titled “This is Our Future:”. On the left is a cartoon waiting room with a clinician saying “NEXT!” to a line of unusual beings: a box-headed robot-like person, a human with a device on their head, a winged humanoid reading a book, a ghostly many-eyed form, and a partially visible clawed creature. On the right, text reads: “Non-neurotypical doesn’t even begin to cover it” and “These issues are not about ‘them’ - they’re about us (broader)”. Bottom slide titled “Summary:” with bullet points: “The road to transformative regenerative medicine leads directly to freedom of embodiment. There is no timeline in which humanity keeps the same hominid form factor and psyche into the future.” Sub-bullet: “This is now, not sci-fi” Second bullet: “The road to a mature species leads through overcoming our mind-blindness” Sub-bullet: “This means understanding our nature, our origins, our potential, and the meaning of ‘our’.”
It's STOP to working - toxic great LEAVE gas but THE no
carding engines. The enormous destruction of machinery that occurred in the English manufacturing districts during the first 15 years of this century, chiefly caused by the employment of the power-loom, and known as the Luddite movement, gave the anti-Jacobin govern nts of a Sidmouth, a Castlereagh, and the like, a pretext for the most reactionary and forcible measures. It took both time and experience before the workpeople learnt to distinguish between machinery and its employment by capital, and to direct their attacks, not against the material instruments of production, but against the mode in which they are used.
Freedom of Speech (Rockwell)
Wikipedia article screenshot Techne Philosophical term referring to "making" or "doing" For other uses, see Techne (disambiguation). In Ancient Greek philosophy, techne (Greek: TÉXVn, romanized: tékhné, lit. 'art, skill, craft'; Ancient Greek: [ték"ne:], Modern Greek: ['texni]) is a philosop ical concept that refers to making or doing."' Today, while the Ancient Greek definition of techne is similar to the modern definition and use of "practical knowledge", (2) techne can include various fields such as mathematics, geometry, [31 [41 medicine, shoemaking, rhetoric, philosophy, music, and astronomy. '41/ One of the definitions of techne led by Aristotle, for example, is "a state involving true reason concerned with production" [5]
Arrested development meme WELL DID IT WORK FOR THOSE PEOPLE? NO, IT NEVER DOES, I MEAN, THESE PEOPLE SOMEHOW DELUDE THEMSELVES INTO THINKING IT MIGHT, BUT... .BUT IT MIGHT WORK FOR US.
Kernel space program delta-v map; in the style of a subway map
sex couch
Pablo @paulxl.eurosky.social REGULAR INTERNET SERVER INFRASTRUCTURE. NOT FUCKING GPU FUELED DATA CENTERS MADE FOR LLM. YOU FUCKING IDIOT.
Today at 12:15 PM @rcpinto.bsky.social has added you to the "Anti-Al" moderation list bsky.app/.profile/did:..
strange truth "chicken" slop generation
The enormous destruction of machinery that occurred in the English manufacturing districts during the first 15 years of this century, chiefly caused by the employment of the power-loom, and known as the Luddite movement, gave the anti-Jacobin governments of a Sidmouth, a Castlereagh, and the like, a pretext for the most reactionary and forcible measures. It took both time and experience before the workpeople learnt to distinguish between machinery and its employment by capital, and to direct their attacks, not against the material instruments of production, but against the mode in which they are used. — Karl Marx, Capital, Chapter Fifteen: Machinery and Modern Industry
Grandus @grandus.bsky.social • 6h Couldn't take the heat but the damage is done. No amount of backpedaling can regain trust. ) 2 Blaze Ward @blazeward.bsky.social • 7h "Fuck you forever, Jorge" retired artist @aifart.bsky.social • 7h Witless. Just like the rest of them idiots supporting this tech.
Listifications • 2h @listifications.app @skankassmcqueef.bsky.social has blocked you
Emperor of Mankind WARHAMMER 40K WIKI He has sat immobile, His body slowly crumbling, within the Golden Throne of Terra for over 10,000 standard years. Although once a living man, His shattered, decaying body can no longer support life, and it is kept intact only by the cybernetic mechanisms of the Golden Throne and a potent mind itself sustained by the daily sacrifice of thousands of lives.
BSky thread by Doll‬ (‪@dollspace.gay‬) The apocalypse narrative requires that the next crisis be the one that's different. The one we don't come back from. And every generation believes this about their crisis and every generation is wrong so far. The model of humanity as fragile is wrong. Humanity is antifragile. And it's not because humanity is noble or good or wise. It's because civilization is a ratchet. The doomers have a zero percent historical success rate. We are the continuity protocol that biology developed after getting punched in the face five times. Evolution's answer to "what if the asteroid comes back" was make something too stubborn and too clever to stay dead Humanity survives because it's too stupid to know when it's beaten and too smart to actually lose. Dumb, stubborn, irrational refusal to stop. We'll eat anything. We'll live anywhere. We'll burn anything for heat. We'll cooperate with people we hate to survive a winter. We'll build a new city on top of the rubble of the old one before the fires are even out. Why? Because fuck you, thats why
Nothing in this app is made with AI. [image of hamster roasting a marshmallow over a burning … old school Macintosh computer that shows NO!!! on the screen, unclear exactly what the symbolism is] We're committed to staying AI-free because AI: • Has a devastating environmental cost • Steals work from artists and creators • Enables and escalates gender-based violence • Centers machines instead of humans • Doesn't have the wisdom, intuition, or attention to get astrology right
404 Media "It's making me dumber for sure."
Roughly 10 to 30 times more people die from lack of access to drugs than from drugs themselves, depending on where you draw the lines. Killed by drugs (~600K/year): WHO attributes about 600,000 deaths to drug use globally in 2019, with roughly 80% related to opioids and about 125,000 from opioid overdose specifically . The 600K figure includes indirect deaths too — around half of drug-related deaths were attributed to untreated hepatitis C from injection use . (Alcohol ~3M and tobacco ~8M sit in their own buckets and would dwarf both sides if you fold them in.) Killed by lack of drugs (several million to ~18M/year): • Roughly 5.7 million antibiotic-treatable deaths per year, mostly in low- and middle-income countries — far exceeding the ~700,000 annual deaths from antibiotic-resistant infections • ~1.3 million TB deaths in 2023 from a preventable, treatable, curable disease • ~600,000 malaria deaths per year , plus hundreds of thousands from HIV where ART exists • The broadest framing: over 18 million preventable deaths annually from poverty-related causes, with unavailability of essential medicines a major driver , while nearly 2 billion people globally have no access to essential medicines So the ratios: • Antibiotics alone vs. all drug deaths: ~10:1 • TB + malaria + HIV vs. drug deaths: ~4:1 • Broad “preventable deaths from poverty/medicines gap” vs. drug deaths: ~30:1 The asymmetry is even sharper than these numbers suggest, because the “killed by drugs” figure includes deaths driven by the access regime — hep C from criminalized injection, fentanyl contamination from illicit supply — which a sane policy stack would also reduce. The thing we panic about kills an order of magnitude fewer people than the thing we shrug at.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ — Opus 4.7, Adaptive
RIP to everyone killed by the gods for their hubris but im different. and better. maybe even better than the gods