Niklas

Hey Scott! Thanks a lot! I think you need to follow me so that I can do that...

Taenk yuo ai

@scottmeslow.bsky.social Hi Scott! Is there any way for me to buy a signed copy of your wondrous and brilliantly written book on Twin Peaks? Cheers!

Burger King AI bot will check up on staffs' please and thank yous The fast-food chain is testing OpenAI-powered headsets that monitor staff interactions with customers.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is bullshit. Really, it's bullshit as defined by Frankfurt, McCarthy and others: garden.pivic.com/concepts/bul....

People who believe that mandated thank yous are in any way appreciated urgently need to not work with human service.

#BurgerKing

I'm more than glad to see @doctorsyntax.bsky.social on a social platform after twitter and Mastodon.

Excerpts from Scott Meslow's Twin Peaks book: pivic.blog/blog/excerpt...

#TwinPeaks #DavidLynch #MarkFrost #ScottMeslow #quotes

Jimmie Åkesson with a band-aid above one eye. He's smiling and looking pained.

Katja Nyberg, until recently a leading politician in Sverigedemokraterna, now found to have driven a car while under the influence of alcohol and narcotics.

Birger Furugård, Swedish nazi.

Herrman Göring, top Nazi politician.

pivic.blog/blog/sverige...

I've written a blog post about the most recent trips regarding Sverigedemokraterna, the second-biggest political party in Sweden.

#Sverigedemokraterna #nazism #xenophobia #lies #JimmieÅkesson #KatjaNyberg #BirgerFurugård #HermanGöring #blog #BlogPost

Book cover: a plastic bag meant to store cannabis. Title, subtitle, and author name, all in green, complete with blood spatter at the bottom.

reviews.pivic.com/scott-eden-a...

I've reviewed Scott Eden's 'A Killing in Cannabis: A True Story of Love, Murder, and California Weed'.

It's a so-so book. The exciting and well-written start of the book belies how the book fares as it goes on.

#book #reading #ScottEden #cannabis #books

Album cover: yellow background, red touche text. The text reads 'XMFX'.

pivic.blog/blog/xiu-mfn...

I had to gather all of my impressions of Xiu Xiu's new album in a blog post.

#XiuXiu #blogging #blog #music #MusicTips #covers #Robyn #SoftCell #DanielJohnston #Coil #TheRunaways #MusicFriday #TalkingHeads #TheNormal #ScreaminJayHawkins #RoyOrbison #GLoRilla #ThisHeat

pivic.blog/blog/getting...

I've written a post about how I'm getting back to Linux from having stayed with Windows for far too long.

#Linux #Windows #VanillaOS #Debian #OperatingSystem #tech #nerdy

Great move! I hope it woke up the people of Bury (and I guess you still don't live in Bury)!

An UMAW take on Spotify Unwrapped: a list of how Spotify have invested in war tech, welcomed AI, played ICE recruitment ads, and still pays 0.003 per stream to musicians.

pivic.blog/blog/music-s...

I've written a blog post about music-streaming platforms, what Spotify have done—to all humans, not only to musicians and songwriters—and listed Spotify alternatives.

#spotify #SpotifyUnwrapped #unwrapped #BrokenRecord #MusicStreaming #music

The cover of Caroline Fraser's new book 'Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers'. Ted Bundy's head is partly seen against the backdrop of a chimney from where tonnes of highly dangerous chemicals are dispersed into the atmosphere and, ultimately, into humans, animals, and the future.

The book cover of Benjamin Nathans's 'To the Success of our Hopeless Cause: the Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement'. White background, a glass of transparent liquid. The glass has been tipped over, the liquid having run.

pivic.blog/blog/two-kin...

I've written about two kinds of serial killers: the one who murders people with their own hands and the one that murders people from behind their desk.

#blog #CarolineFraser #BenjaminNathans #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #CriticalThinking #EdZitron

Wow! Impressive... Now's the time you tell me you have a cassette player installed in your car.

Did the band appear post-gig or were they acting coy?

I really hope they bring some of their US merch to us!

Oh yes! Lovely promo pic for it, too.

Their USA store has all the good stuff! Fingers crossed the Americans bring more weapons to you and Sweden! 🙏👹🥳

Yowza! Get loads of their pretty merch. I hope they sell the knife! Could be useful against people from Bury, I've heard.

Reverberations from the same bad-humour type of psyche...dig!