I saw the best minds of my generation produce high quality content for startups that laid them off on a zoom call

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Walter Benjamin’s Concept of History (1940): A Naomi Klein rec; she references it when talking about fascists having a monopoly over truth. We see history as a series of disparate events; but The Angel of History will look at it as wreakage piling on wreakage

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Resisting AI by Dan McQuillan (2022): Valerie Veatch referenced this because Dan was the first person she interviewed for her movie Ghost in the Machine. He told her that AI technologies can be routed back to eugenics, and this inspired her to make the film www.themaybe.org/podcast/fant...

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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini (1984): in an episode about campaigning and storytelling, Anat Shenker-Osorio referenced this when talking about the effectiveness of old car ads and the now tired metaphor ‘put a tiger in your tank!’
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I love working on a podcast; the guests give such amazing reading recommendations. Literally this is the list from @naomiaklein.bsky.social's episode.

I’ve been doing this for two years now so I’ve collected A LOT of reading lists, have added some recent bangers in this thread

A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

Lego to mark Sagrada Familia completion with largest ever set Toy brand Lego is reportedly set to release a model of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, which will be the largest set ever created.

is there a way we can scrub this information from the internet so my girlfriend is never tempted to buy this www.dezeen.com/2026/03/26/l...

And this kind of creates a new problem: we end up with strange anti-social pro-censorship laws like flat out bans and age-gating which has honestly just made the web worse in the UK, doesn’t protect children from anything, and makes the platforms look like they’re doing something

I think what she’s getting at in her work is that it’s hard to prove that it’s actually addictive — and as you say it may well be designed to be — but there’s no actual research to suggest it is definitively, but laws and morals panics often over-index on the idea that it’s definitely addictive

Nope I don’t think that’s what she’s saying lol

Why is everyone always picking on @taylorlorenz.bsky.social who literally is using those 17 hours to work hard and report on stuff no one else is 😭

Esther Ghey: Brianna was addicted to social media – teenagers need to be protected Exclusive: The mother of Brianna Ghey is calling for tighter controls on smartphones and access to social media for young people in the wake of her daughter’s murder

So many “social media victims” are just LGBTQ kids whose parents blame IG for their kids sexuality or gender or not conforming to societal norms. Trans girl Brianna Ghey was stabbed to death in a hate crime and her mom said she was **murdered first by social media**

simpsons lionel hutz meme where he's accepting war and condemning war

Maybe if we convert the entire US defence complex to Catholicism they will stop doing war

The WHITE HOUSE The White House * @WhiteHouse The goal is not just to reach the Moon, but to stay. AMERICA WILL NEVER GIVE UP THE MOON AGAIN.

Dying empire embroiled in a quagmire of its own making attempts outlandish conquest to restore faith

In Dec 2025 Disney decided to add $1bn to the raging furnace that is generative AI with their OpenAI Sora deal and it turns out the money furnace is burning so hard that it's eating itself and Sora is already dead and Disney will just have to rely on humans for their movies again ahahaha...

No it’s all parody

Irish Zionism YouTube video by Conner O'Malley

This is the best use of AI I’ve ever seen

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Also next time someone says we can build data centres in space you now have this very easy straightforward way of explaining how that is physically impossible to do. Listen to the whole thing here www.themaybe.org/podcast/fant...

I loved working on this interview because @adambecker.bsky.social really does just use the power of physics to explain why the dreamy AI futures of Silicon Valley men are literally scientifically impossible -- thank you!

I had to watch it in parts because it made me feel sick and sad but if you want to understand the state of male unwellness right now it’s worth it

The Clown World of Clavicular | Kick's Most Corrupted Looksmaxxer YouTube video by j aubrey

I know everyone’s talking about Louis Theroux’s Manosphere but honestly I think I got all I need from this deep dive on Clavicular

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Me here: I still exist

Me on Linkedin: Thrilled to annouce that I still exist

Honestly that movie is just the media equivalent of David Lynch masturbating to pass the time

an isreali billionare died, no wait stop laughing, theres more...

I've said it before and I'll say it again: twitter is literally just /pol with a better UI now, and it has exponentially more reach and users than /pol ever had.

Yes I agree, it’s just csam is also illegal but that doesn’t stop it

Also define ‘sexual’ and also what was the point in that online safety act then

Creating AI sexualised images to become criminal offence this week Media watchdog Ofcom says it will examine whether X has breached UK law over reports Grok was used to create and share sexualised images of children.

Ah that’ll stop it from happening then

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They’d ask you to leave the room before tacking on a cover charge yep