Over optimization, like a panopticon, creates vulnerabilities.
03.03.2026 16:12 — 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0Over optimization, like a panopticon, creates vulnerabilities.
03.03.2026 16:12 — 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0Jesus. Another boarded up unit. This is all so fucking wasteful. Running everything for the benefit of speculation rather than commerce is so destabilising. All the pointless destruction of stuff that made things feel normal, even the dull shit. The knock-ons always unforeseen, chaotic.
03.03.2026 08:35 — 👍 173 🔁 34 💬 8 📌 2
Dog under a desk
Typical, installed a footwarmer in the home office in the same week that temperatures jumped up to not-freezing
27.02.2026 12:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I have thoughts about this as a chart, but I remain baffled how anyone thinks that AI will bring about an end to scarcity. Like, *this* is the thing that will prompt the oligarchs to ensure that everyone has what they need? *This* will be the thing that breaks greed's grip? Sure. OK.
26.02.2026 14:21 — 👍 317 🔁 49 💬 32 📌 4
Head of a dog
Upgraded the home office (it’s only a loaner though)
26.02.2026 10:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“What Would It Take”
https://pythonbynight.com/blog/what-does-it-take
> Technologists and industrialist are the least equipped to know (or care) what is good for our world. Their ethics are warped. Their egos are gluttonous. And their ambitions are delusional hallucinations.
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Seven words that will drive your lover wild
25.02.2026 20:08 — 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Germans started writing 40,000 years ago! You know what that means? Any day now they might be getting to the verb
25.02.2026 20:08 — 👍 481 🔁 95 💬 27 📌 12
AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations
Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases
www.newscientist.com/article/2516...
🚨 Russian spy agencies have allegedly acquired summer houses, holiday cabins, warehouses, abandoned schools, city flats, and even entire islands with the intention of using them as launchpads for co-ordinated surveillance, sabotage and covert attacks.
Gift link ⬇️
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/ee7f8d7...
i promise you, you will not guess what this is responding to
god i love the Internet
Is Ai spending and borrowing by the hyperscalers about to blow up the system? And what does the weakening US dollar portend for future financial instability? Tomorrow’s discussion points...
23.02.2026 13:36 — 👍 20 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 2
"It's not theft, a human could also memorize thousands of books and recite them for profit, luddite."
23.02.2026 20:46 — 👍 114 🔁 36 💬 6 📌 2
Testing Bluesky’s new Bandcamp widget with absolutely no ulterior motives whatsoever.
delesosimi.bandcamp.com/album/the-co...
“Oh I’ve had well over one hundred cheddars”
22.02.2026 19:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Internet comment: “Oh l've had well over 100 different cheddars, there are 7 different ones in my fridge at this very moment, it's the best cheese in the world.”
Insane flexes you see over on Reddit
Don’t talk to me about cheddar, I’ve forgotten more cheddar than you’ll ever taste
Still love this
@womenwritersnet.bsky.social
If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.
It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.
www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...
we need a rom-com that unites the people in revolutionary struggle
21.02.2026 12:07 — 👍 1097 🔁 154 💬 56 📌 37
From Graeme Richardson's recently published book Dirt Rich.
20.02.2026 17:01 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Tesla is not a car company… it is a government subsidies company
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Recognised this same moment in [toots own linkhorn] a poem of mine except Rivard handled it more deftly but that’s FINE [folds arms totally not defensively]
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Vicki Rivard
20.02.2026 19:03 — 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
Let’s recount all of the promises that Anthropic has made in the last year from before the premium break. It’s promising to spend $30 billion on Microsoft Azure (and an additional "up to one gigawatt”), “tens of billions” on Google Cloud, $21 billion on Google TPUs with Broadcom, “$50 billion on American infrastructure,” as much as $3 billion on Hut8’s data center in Louisiana, and an unknowable (yet likely in the billions) amount of money with Amazon Web Services. Remember: Anthropic only made $4.5 billion in revenue in 2025 and lost $5.2 billion. It spent $2.79 billion on inference, and $4.1 billion on training. The Information also reports that Anthropic plans to spend $100 billion on training between 2026 and 2029, and based on the current split of inference to training, that means Anthropic will need another $59 billion or so for inference in the next four years. That’s — assuming that Google’s share is $20 billion — around $283 billion in the next 4 years. It projects (and I think these are quite ridiculous estimates) to make $15.2 billion in 2026, $38.9 billion in 2027, and a laughable $70 billion in 2028. Things get worse when you factor in Anthropic’s revenue shares with Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. Based on The Information’s reporting, assuming that Anthropic meets these revenue targets, these amount to somewhere in the region of $22 billion in the next three years. That’s over $300 billion in costs on $124 billion in revenue, and that’s including one year that has $70 billion in fucking revenue, which is around the entire ($75 billion) annual revenue of Microsoft Azure.
Anthropic's core business is deceit, selling over-hyped products based on specious marketing and a bloviating CEO that manipulates developers based on when it needs to raise funding.
Now it raised $30bn, it stopped subscribers from using OpenClaw and OpenCode.
www.wheresyoured.at/premium-the-...
tbt when i read that post to actual damon albarn www.vulture.com/2021/11/damo...
20.02.2026 11:56 — 👍 3705 🔁 1082 💬 30 📌 22
muted light on rock outcrop and foliage
Signs form a language, but not the one you think you know.
Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
I think Rupert has always been smarter than almost every other person in his wealth class and one of the reasons why is that he's always been way better at actually gauging public sentiment and vibes and if he's going here it's because he knows the vibes and where they're trending
19.02.2026 14:35 — 👍 283 🔁 46 💬 7 📌 1
Naming the policeman Officer X, Welles addressed him directly. "Wash your hands, Officer X. Wash them well. Scrub and scour, you won't blot out the blood of a blinded war veteran," Welles said. "Go on, suckle your anonymous moment while it lasts. You're going to be uncovered. We will blast out your name! We'll give the world your given name, Officer X. Yes, and your so-called Christian name. It's going to rise out of the filthy deep like the dead thing it is."
When Tom Homan, Trump and other Republicans defend the masking of ICE agents, I can't help but think of Orson Welles announcing on his radio show his intention of identifying the South Carolina police officer who violently attacked and blinded the uniformed Black veteran Isaac Woodard in 1946.
19.02.2026 19:33 — 👍 2544 🔁 700 💬 23 📌 15
