Leon Oskam

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID

Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

This is unbelievably bleak. The clear lack of functioning guard rails around suicide and self-harm is already bad enough, but for it to actually tell someone that a human support worker is subbing in and then instantly pulling the rug and admitting that isn't a real feature is so fucking cruel.

Screenshot reads, "A Carnivorous ‘Death Ball’ Has Emerged from the Deep This newly-discovered species is being called the “death-ball sponge” for its appendages, which end in orbs and are covered in micro-hooks meant to capture prey."

Not now, carnivorous death ball

AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge "Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:

www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

FRANK BOOTH: straight from my heart, fucker! You know what a love letter is? It's a bullet from a fucking gun, fucker!
CHATGPT: Wow! 🤯 that was a really passionate statement! You clearly have thought deeply about what love means!

Ah yes, the reason is always private equity. Guess I missed the memo on that one.

Is A24 ok

Here’s Nick Cave replying to a correspondent called Valerio who was asking him about how to respond to a growing sense of cynicism - here. www.theredhandfiles.com/do-you-still...

It's a game changer yeah. Also good for getting some insight into which of your wifi connected devices are constantly phoning home and stopping them from doing that if you wanted to.

Calling Firefox not as secure as Chrome seems strange. Firefox Sync is zero knowledge by default, unlike Chrome which is only zero knowledge if you set a passphrase. And you can set a master password for local access same as Chrome, it literally says so in the mozilla.org article you linked to.

AI’s Invasive Species The slop is winning.

Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.

Sounds like the position of Econ professor at Michigan has a pretty low barrier to entry as well.

we have got to start killing billionaires. is the first line that the villain speaks in the novel im writing. really though, in the real world, we have to kill these people. he continues

“Everyone who is rich enough or close enough to reactionary politics is effectively in a cult with beliefs loonier than the median Heaven’s Gate member” is a relatively straightforward description of the current moment. I don’t know how we live like this

It's almost as if passing laws that require every company on the internet to collect enormous amounts of personal information on their users so they can implement trivially circumvented "age verification" checks was a terrible idea all along. Who could have seen it coming.

Just read the whole damn thing that goes into the very depressing state of the numbers and the math that isn't mathing, but this is a very succinct representation of a specific type of feneric Executive (Dys)Function:

Text describing the current state of business in media and tech (and most industries, truly)

Kind of want to put this bit on a billboard somewhere (or, idk, replace every web ad everywhere with this text) bsky.app/profile/edzi...

it’s a beautiful day to shut the fuck up

(mf doom voice) he threw a sandwich cheese and salami, feds couldn't indict folded like origami, afraid of subway both the chain and the train, mayo salt and pepper shake your thang, grand jury shut em down twice, coca cola on the side no ice

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci!
ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

ah yeah the familiar whiplash of seeing a legacy media org cover something you're an actual expert in and realizing "oh if this is how badly they're fucking up this, how badly are they fucking up every other topic?"

sorry but this sucks. consolidation is ruining space. we used to have lots of places to get sucked into an event horizon beyond comprehension and soon it’s just gonna be one infinitely dense point of matter. count me out

We really need some laws to make sure that if you’re wearing glasses that record video everyone knows it. Legally mandate that if you’re wearing smart glasses you also have to wear a cap with a propeller on it

Yeah my job is pretty cool. My uniform is a tactical vest that’s two sizes too small and a gaiter I bought in a gas station. They send me to sneak into schools to kidnap little kids because people got mad about having to press 1 for English. The president had to warn everyone to stop spitting on me.

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

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