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Great thread + commentary.

My question is: are we going to end up with pauper’s houses or are we just going to have AI-based robodogs killing and eating people for energy?

Hyperbole?

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not nt but:
it’s capitalism

specifically 🌈 marketing 🌈

If you divide everyone into this or that and tell them what they should like or be like, it is easier to manipulate people into buying your product through in-group signalling.

Just obscene

the onion newspaper is worth it for the ads

Holy shit - this would be very, very bad:
"The databases, called “Numident” and the “Master Death File,” include records for more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names."

I am the best Christian ever

@genuscorvidae.bsky.social it’s your dayyyyyyy

HELL YEAAAAAAAAH

Magnificent!

This is so heartbreaking, and also I am going to make my PSA again.

Babies can be vaccinated against measles as young as six months, it’s just not standard. It’s usually only recommended for international travel in the US. But guess what? We’re the plague pit now.

I see you have a point you are obsessed with and will continue to say the same thing over and over without actually thinking through that “automared washing” is not the same thing as all of your free time being eaten by Capitalism.

The difficulty of something isn’t the same as forced productivity.

Ncuti Gatwa's acclaimed theatre run of beloved classic play is set to stream for free Alongside Gatwa, the play stars Sharon D Clarke, Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ́jọ́, Eliza Scanlen and Hugh Skinner.

quick reminder that NT's production of The Importance of Being Earnest, starring human ray of sunshine Ncuti Gatwa, will be streaming FOR FREE on YouTube this weekend

www.radiotimes.com/movies/ncuti...

I want Keynes’ corpse to be yeeted into the sun for the whole “innovation will lead to more leisure time” thing.

Because they don’t remember the cotton gin or don’t count it

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!

"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be joining Bluesky as interim CEO. I deeply believe in what this team has built and the open social web they're fighting for. More here: toni.org/2026/03/09/c...

redditors just achieved object permanence, let's not expect theory of mind to follow immediately

I don't think most people grasp the insane amount of resources that the US allocates to weapons and war machines. The list of better things we could do with the military budget is nearly endless.

They get mad when people on SNAP want to buy soda

This is exactly right, but the push "to protect children" by a technology sector that is actively harming children—and everyone else in the process—is happening worldwide.

Mary Poppins was never shot down by a drone because of this one weird trick

Folk music hive mind; please can I have examples of sixties/seventies revival acts attempting to release coke-bloat infused albums in the eighties (ideally with cover artwork featuring yacht rock styling).

Photo of a cuneiform tablet fragment shaped a bit like an irregular diamond. It preserves nearly 20 incomplete lines of text separated by a horizontal ruling

There's a broken cuneiform tablet from the Old Babylonian period, nearly 4,000 years ago, which preserves a tiny portion of a dialogue between two friends.

It feels a bit like the conversations I've been having for the past week, so I wanted to share it.

This really puts the playbook to the front: As consumer you get to buy just enough storage for a terminal and all actual storage is rented from big tech.

The US is at war and repression at home is going to get worse.

I'm old enough to remember during the Iraq war the FBI infiltrating quaker meetings and vegan potlucks and cracking down on anti-war groups and outspoken Muslim leaders.

The US surveillance state has grown exponentially since then.

🧵

Do you think the economy's bad? Just wait till some of these things start kicking in later in this year! It can only get better right? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Hi my name is Sluggo and I have solved MANY problems both mine and others through the power of judiciously applied violence, either real or implied.

Let me tell you about violence. It’s simple, it’s easy, it’s direct, and it’s rarely misunderstood.

Violence™️: when that shit needs to end right NOW

getting real mad at the proliferation of 4K-upscaled 60fps colourised versions of archival footage. SHOW ME THE REAL THING, NOT YASSIFIED SLOP FROM THE LIES MACHINE.

the nazis believed this about wwi

What the heck???!!