Part of the reason "Breaking Bad" is one of the greatest TV shows of all time is that its central thesis, which feels true, is that there is a monster inside all human beings, and given the chance to come out, it will, indeed, come out.
Anyway, here's an article about a Let the Monster Out Factory.
man, i don’t know matt at all irl but ive read his stuff for years and let me just say that he’s not someone you lay off he’s someone you get in a bidding war over
I hate that entire groups are being prevented from existing in mainstream art because of roughly 200 shrill lunatics who can't be normal about anything.
If the burden is entirely on me to vote for them and not on the candidate to convince people, why are they also asking me to buy them tv commercials
how did I learn about them to begin with
was I just born knowing I had to vote for them before I die like a penguin trying to mate
I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.
Despite the algorithmic parts, we live in an era of unrivaled connectivity and community when we have already made those bonds. It is possible to call a great of people in a great deal of places and have a clear conversation or share or receive data. The enemy wants to get in the way of you doing so
They've now killed four people -- three U.S. citizens and a Mexican national. They've shot several more.
They've lied about all of them. They haven't shaded the truth. They haven't "misled" us. They've brazenly, knowingly lied while in possession of the evidence disproving their lies.
I find it extremely difficult to discern how things are progressing and cannot trust any news source or even take video at face value considering rampant AI, but I am not really sweating it. This is just like how a provincial villager lived where they heard about the news weeks after it concluded.
Branlyn with the midterms looming is there any chance that Swan Boy is going to Avocado Toast to the Polls
if their targeting is so bad, why did Iran manage to hit a military installation and not the school here
Not sure what has to rot in the heart of a person who behaves like this, but … honestly, I hope these staff die broke, miserable, ashamed and unloved.
I think it's specious to say Harris would have been the same but it's ridiculous and offensive to spend so much time browbeating ten imaginary leftists as somehow responsible for everything rather than hold the candidate & political apparatus accountable for their bad positions & worse strategy
An advertisement for a production of “Carmen” featuring a gorgeous woman in red flamenco style dress with text proclaiming “Use promo code Timothee to save 14% of select seats for Carmen this weekend only.
I would quite simply like to shake the hand of whomever is doing the marketing @seattleopera.bsky.social
i don't care about any arguments against this. right now the sum total of my political advocacy is: crush the Republicans and make them pay. i don't care what comes after because until we do that nothing better is possible.
we used to have Steve Jobs, Johnny Cash, Bob Hope, Mike Pensions, Gary Literacy, Pete Socialsafetynet,
Imagine if you were taking a nap and a bunch of sandwiches ran in your room, freaked out, and ran back out
it genuinely crazy how chud the teamsters are. you have a president spitting in your mouth everyday and these guys still say “yes sir please more sir i love it sir none of this woke girl college nonsense for us strong union men”
In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles.
13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger.
The law didn't change.
torrentfreak.com/uploading-pi...
Like a lot of things rich guys believe and fund, the AI consciousness thing is in part driven by a desire to abscond from the responsibility of what they've made. It also explains why so many of them think we're in a simulation. Doesn't matter if everybody died if we're all just 1s and 0s baby!
Thing that really gets my goat is the way people are eager to fund this bullshit but you need eleven layers of analysis and a ton of collateral if you want to open a small grocery store in a food desert.
I can explain it right now tbh, they don't consider the rest of us human much less American. It's not national suicide, it is a family annihilation perpetuated by people who lied and grifted and stole they way into power and are using it to consolidate resources ahead of the climate catastrophe
What is the least health care a building could provide and still be called "a hospital"? What is the worst food people could produce and still count as a "meal"? What is the worst shelter that could still count as a "shelter"? That's the project. That and putting you in it.
One way to view all of capitalism is asking the question "what is the lowest bound of existence that can replace the mysterious?" again and again and replacing each piece. How little can we pay a worker that they will live long enough to work and sire replacements? How bad can we let the air get?
It even debases me to discuss either of our selves in terms of a monetary value, but here we are, these are the actual stakes of the argument. If you can set a formula for calculating your replacement value by a machine--even in the realm of cognition--that is what the bosses are going to seek.
Even with all the video footage, tweets, and the rest of the contemporaneous documentation, none of it will ever make any sense.
It may actually make less and less sense the more historians delve into the evidence. 21st century US history is going to be the domain of psychologists, not historians.
Yes! White supremacy rewards cruelty by destroying prosocial relationships replacing them w/ cruel transactions they call markets AND empowers cruel people to paper over facing consequences/those markets instead serving them simulacrum while forcing pro social people to shoulder all burdens
Twitter conversation between sj and Amarion: sj: Its true, the 1/3rd pounder burger failed in the US because ppl thought quarter pounders were bigger Amarion: Yeah cause they are???? sj: 1/3>1/4 .33> .25 Amarion: what are those signs
Wanna see the greatest tweet of all time
i'm a bit tall, and i'm standing in my living room and suddenly i look around and the view is disorienting in the way i imagine it would be if i had been short my entire life
unlike many weird sensations it's not going away upon noticing it
Scottie Ferguson could never
Rolling Stone is publishing pro-war advertorials by an Israeli government agent now:
Do we seek out things to covet?
