on the zoom call typing into my mechanical keyboard like i'm playing the piano and really feeling it
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on the zoom call typing into my mechanical keyboard like i'm playing the piano and really feeling it
6 months ago i ditched my iphone for a dumb phone and decided to teach myself how to shoot 35mm film on a 1980s Nikon FM. i just got my film back from a recent trip to greece and turkey (shoutout @mikecrivellos.bsky.social for developing) and am in love with this hobby www.hollwall.com/photography
good question
Send Every Billionaire To The North Pole On A Wooden Ship
Our pup Hank in a vampire costume
A different picture of our pup Hank in a vampire costume
Happy Hank-o-ween
milwaukee // no kings // june 2025 h0llace.micro.blog/2025/10/09/n...
in a trend they’re calling “nanoquitting,” more and more millennials are leaving work temporarily in the middle of the day to eat
"You know our chatbot? The one that responded to your mom’s question about a pasta recipe with 'White genocide is real and happening as we speak'? Yeah, that's going to be in charge of the military now."
an employee wanted sign that reads, "Join our team. Now hiring: MEAT."
Good morning to job hunting 2025
hand holding a light phone in front of a shelf with various knick knacks
new light phone just dropped she is beauty she is grace
milwaukee said #nokings
copy of the book “the shallows: what the internet is doing to our brains” by nicholas carr
written 15+ years ago, the shallows by nicholas carr outlines how the internet has changed not only our actions but also our thoughts. it’s getting harder and harder to think critically as we automate more of our brains’ functions. scares me to see how much worse this has gotten with AI. 4.5/5
can anyone recommend a web browser that's actually useful or...
libby copy of the lola quartet by emily st. john mandel displayed on a kindle
the lola quartet by emily st. john mandel: this was a miss for me, especially because every other ESJM book i’ve read has been so good. i didn’t connect the characters or story. it was written like it was supposed to be a mystery but since all the characters are narrators there was no mystery. 2.5/5
screenshot of a tiktok of a dark cybertruck with the word NAZI spray painted on it in huge white lettering and the caption “ope chicago is not playing”
not a mood board girlie but if i were this would be on it
Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
copy of the book “the luminaries” by eleanor catton
the luminaries by eleanor catton: a densely challenging victorian mystery set during the new zealand gold rush. for those looking to be awed by the art of writing, not necessarily the story itself. wish she leaned more into the supernatural and contextualized the zodiac influence a bit more. 4/5
copy of the book “the trip to echo springs: on writers and drinking” by olivia laing
the trip to echo spring by olivia laing: beautiful prose but i wanted more analysis on the relationship between alcoholism & writing. this basically just pointed out the connection without much depth. didn’t love the structure. laing gave a weak reason for her to choice to exclude female writers 2/5
These people are powerful, and have big platforms. They’re people like Derek Thompson, famed co-author of the “abundance” agenda, who celebrates the idea of a fictitious version of ChatGPT that can entirely plan and execute a 5-year-old’s birthday party, or his co-author Ezra Klein, who, while recording a podcast where his researchers likely listened, talked proudly about replacing their work with OpenAI’s broken Deep Research product, because anything that can be outsourced must be, and all research is “looking at stuff that is relevant.” And really, that’s the most grotesque part about Business Idiots. They see every part of our lives as a series of inputs and outputs They boast about how many books they’ve read rather than the content of said books, about how many hours they work (even though they never, ever work that many), about high level they are in a video game they clearly don’t play, about the money they’ve raised and the scale they’ve raised it at, and about how expensive and fancy their kitchen gadgets are. Everything is dominance, acquisition, growth and possession over any lived experience, because their world is one where the journey doesn’t matter, because their journeys are riddled with privilege and the persecution of others in the pursuit of success. These people don’t want to automate work, they want to automate existence. They fantasize about hitting a button and something happening, because experiencing — living! — is beneath them, or at least your lives and your wants and your joy are. They don’t want to plan their kids’ birthday parties. They don’t want to research things. They don’t value culture or art or beauty. They want to skip to the end, hit fast-forward on anything, because human struggle is for the poor or unworthy. When you are steeped in privilege and/or have earned everything through a mixture of stolen labor and office pantomime, the idea of “effort” is always negative. The process of creation — or affection, of love, of ki…
Business Idiots are grotesque, seeing our lives as a series of inputs and outputs, of gestures over actions and numbers over people. These people don’t want to automate work, they want to automate existence - everything is number go up for the Business Idiot.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-t...
This just in: company whose racist algorithm led to some of the first Congressional hearings on algorithmic bias in health care (after independent research by Obermeyer & colleagues revealed this) now working on A.I. to determine what care Medicare patients deserve & how quickly they’ll receive it
Great job everyone
ik the enshittification has been written about exhaustively already but i simply cannot get over how companies are just brazenly pushing things users don’t want. who are all these supposed people gobbling up linkedin videos? i would rather stare at an eclipse than watch a cringe video on linkedin
Poisoning the air of a Black community for a fucking chatbot.
While I want to think further about how AI enclosures are racialized (they are at the training level, certainly), I think treating public expenditure & forced adoption of AI as anti-literacy policy is imperative. They want to leave the next generation with nothing to offer but their obedience.
from the bottom of my heart, fuck meta
a french bulldog sleeping on a blanket on a couch in front of a window
somebody had a hankover all day from partying too hard at daycare
“I asked ChatGPT,” well I asked your mom and she said you’ve always been a disappointment
