Alex Arrelia

oh... oh no

It’s the mouth, the permanently downturned mouth lmao

You ever make something that tastes so good, but the photos you take of it are so bad? Sigh.

Is it just me, or does he look exactly like the Scarran emperor from Farscape?

It is shocking to me that there hasn’t been a movie about a haunted sleep disorder lab, or like a lab tech with a possessed patient who thinks they just have sleep disturbances.

That feels like a story that writes itself, while being just self evidently creepy.

Billionaires have decided that as a species, the human race will stop passing on skills and knowledge to each other, that this transfer will be moderated by programs designed to make you dependent on them.

They are turning you into a helpless peon fit only for dangerous, manual labour.

I kinda think the way people use ChatGPT is sort of aspirational because it seems to emulate the way rich people have sycophants lying to them all the time until they lose touch with reality and also their entire minds

My partner and I have been making our way through every John Carpenter movie this year, and we jump-scared ourselves during They Live, because it cites 2025 as the year of global domination…and I just…am so tired.

Punk without the concept of “DIY” is just dance music. It can be very good dance music, but resourceful self and community empowerment is part of the whole deal.

They’re building a machine to coddle you and tell you you’re a smart boy, incidentally.

Tech bros are amazing because they’re the sort of people who ask big brain questions like “why do women live after their reproductive age anyway?” while actual scientists are realizing that species with grandparents are overwhelmingly more likely to also have a culture.

Billionaires have decided that as a species, the human race will stop passing on skills and knowledge to each other, that this transfer will be moderated by programs designed to make you dependent on them.

They are turning you into a helpless peon fit only for dangerous, manual labour.

I want to spell this out for any young people who follow me.

What we are creating is an economy when people who are old enough, rich enough, or specialized enough to fact check machines are employable, and everyone else is meat. Meat.

If you can’t tell when the machine is lying, you’re fucked.

Yes, I know it’s a sentence fragment, it’s for dramatic emphasis.

Like thank god video essays didn’t exist in 1995 to opine about how Clippy has the potential to save the world, when everyone around them is actively trying to figure out how to get the draconian talking paperclip grammar police to shut the fuck up.

Like thank god video essays didn’t exist in 1995 to opine about how Clippy has the potential to save the world, when everyone around them is actively trying to figure out how to get the draconian talking paperclip grammar police to shut the fuck up.

This is, incidentally, why your elders are so cynical. This is just so obviously nonsense to anyone with enough technical knowledge and lived experience to debunk the claims being made by tech companies designing a machine that confidently spouts the exact same kind of nonsense.

Oh my god.

I’ve seen so, so many young intellectual creators take the bait and accept uncritically the marketing fluff spouted by CEOs, taking propaganda at face value because it’s a juicy morsel of content that can be laundered as a real philosophical debate.

That’s a trap. You walked into a trap.

Here in reality, these companies have created a stock market bubble so large, that when their unprecedented investments continue to yield negative returns, they are going to crash our entire economy. Do we all get this?

That’s the reality, you’re shadowboxing with an episode of Black Mirror.

Here in reality, these companies have created a stock market bubble so large, that when their unprecedented investments continue to yield negative returns, they are going to crash our entire economy. Do we all get this?

That’s the reality, you’re shadowboxing with an episode of Black Mirror.

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Why are we debating the hypothetical, utopian applications of LLMs, when that is advertising copy! It’s like not reflective of reality, this is fundamentally anti dialectical materialism, it’s debating with ether!

You all remember marketing, right? The deliberate mind control capitalists do, yes?

Fundamental mistake number one: there are no means of production to seize. This is like wanting to seize casinos in the name of communism, it’s inane. It’s nonsense. The product doesn’t do what it says on the tin lmfao, oh my god, these are just machines that produce pollution, that’s it.

I can always tell when someone is an academic when they start saying shit like this.

From the frontlines as a graphic designer with almost 20 years of experience: the product doesn’t work. It’s bogus. It’s marketing hype. This was the propaganda you weren’t immune to…

“First they came for”

That’s not a poem.

That’s a math equation.

The question is: are you willing to jeopardize the strength of the working class now, by offering up human sacrifices to men who will almost certainly kill you tomorrow?

The answer is obvious. The future is ours if you can count.

I’m glad somebody saved this

Americans are uniquely bad at resistance because of the individualism instilled in you from such a young age, that it becomes acceptable—in your mind—to publicly float the idea of betraying your allies.

Do you don’t even hear yourselves?

Not just as a matter of “antifa was right”—though that should matter if you care about things like accurate data analysis—it’s also a matter of survival. There is nothing more integral to resistance movements than trust, unbreakable trust. Untrustworthy people must be kept far from organizers.

These are people so ideologically and emotionally entrenched in neoliberalism that they have no understanding of how to fight fascists. All of their suggestions ultimately empower fascists lmfao. They don’t care about fostering the kind of collective strength required to fight a fascist government.

I’m completely serious about this. No effective resistance is about to be mounted by otherwise privileged and oblivious people who didn’t see injustice until the moment it was happening to them, personally.

The people who didn’t see fascism coming are the worst possible people to trust right now.

I don’t wanna make fun of someone for their looks, but that fucking expression, like…that is definitely the face of a white man gleefully posting about the 5D chess move that is “just ignore mass murder.”

This is why we’re not taking advice from libs who joined “the resistance” yesterday.