Victor

*to do, sigh.

Also: Parents (often aristocrats) giving their firstborn son the same name as themselves generation after generation. There's a certain amount of due diligence genealogy I'm prepared to but goddamnit

Without downloading any new pics where are you mentally?

https://www.hs.fi/kirjeenvaihtajat/art-2000011423462.html

Amfetamiinijohdannaiset, bentsot, unilääkkeet, opiaatit, mitä näitä nyt oli. Ja ennen kaikkea sellainen yhteiskunta, jossa yksilön pitää takoa rahaa aivan helvetisti välttääkseen kodittomuuden ja täyden putoamisen kaiken ulkopuolelle. Mutta hei, se on sitä vapautta.

graphic of a gold star written "has never even opened ChatGPT"

tenbluelinks.org

Vesi Leskinen

AI disagreements Inside a closed-door AI doomer conference with rationalists, tech executives, and the acolytes of Silicon Valley's "new religion"

when I call the AI true believers a doomsday cult, it's because they are literally a doomsday cult. Here's a great writeup from @bcmerchant.bsky.social who somehow found himself at one of the LessWrong AI doomsday cult conferences in Nov 2024.

www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-disagre...

Every Reason Why I Hate AI and You Should Too maybe it's anti-innovation, maybe it's just avoiding hype. But one thing is clear, I'm completely done with hearing about AI.

Every Reason Why I Hate AI and You Should Too

malwaretech.com/2025/08/ever...

Arwa, do any memories stand out from your times in Gaza?

Arwa Damon: "A mother said I don't know what to do about my son. He's 5 & every night he screams.. & he rocks back & forth pulling his hair out & he's been doing this ever since he saw his baby sisters head blown off"

Random adult flick for ab. 5 secs because someone had a vendetta with our viz arts teacher.

New hero just dropped.

If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.

The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

Osuus työvoimasta julkisella sektorilla: Norja: 30,92% Ruotsi: 29,27% Tanska: 28,04% Suomi: 25,41% Islanti: 24,95% Lähde: Lähde: OECD - Employment in general government as a percentage of total employment, 2021 (Iceland 2019)

Suomessa myös työskentelee pohjoismaalaisittain pieni osuus työvoimasta julkisella sektorilla. Vain Islannissa osuus on pienempi. Erityisen outoa tämä on ottaen huomioon vanhemman ikärakenteemme. 4/

University students offload critical thinking, other hard work to AI Two studies indicate students are using chatbots to undermine what they learn

University students offload critical thinking, other hard work to AI

Seeing posts about how now is totally the time for Europe to poach America's best academics but the thing is Europe needs to actually have some academic jobs for that to happen

THAT'S AN AT FIELD

MAN VAKNAR VARJE MORGON MED EN HEMSKHET I SITT BRÖST
KAN INTE ÄTA, DRICKER KAFFE, ÅKER BUSS TILL JOBBET
DÄR ÄR LÅNGA, TRISTA TIMMAR, MENINGSLÖSA KLYSCHOR
INGEN ÖPPNAR SIG

MAN STIRRAR BARA TOMT OCH PRATAR STRUNT OCH SKRATTAR TILL
MEN MAN VÄNJER SIG
MAN VÄNJER SIG

Real darkness has love for a face. The first death is in the heart.

Trump Announces Seal Team 6 Killed U.S. Protester In Daring Overnight Raid

More journalists need to talk about this the way Japanese articles do

Of course, not all of them felt this way. Niall Ferguson, for example, projected a serene confidence that I found somewhat shocking

I was unaware but I checked it out, really cool!

NES Ducktales The Moon

Listening to this classic album

A fierce-looking woman riding a dinosaur on a desert road

My spirit animal is and will always be whatever this is

On notions of inevitability in today's politics and tech:

"[---]it is a future you'd accept only if you had given up on every other richer and more human and more generous one. The only people who've actually chosen it, so far, are the ones insisting that there's no other future to choose."

YouTube video by Mighty Dub Katz - Topic Let the Drums Speak

I want to be teleported back to Brighton beach ca. 2002 K plz thx