There is a really fascinating book to be written about race, caste, fascism and tech in Silicon Valley in this The Age of Technofascists.
The desi techbros gleefully pushing tyranny through tech, Alex Karp, the multiracial coalition of technocultic haters is something
So beautiful! I was lucky enough to say hello to her and Mat at SDCC last year. May pick up this version too.
Alan Moore, folks! Just in case you haven't read him yet (via @satyaj.it)
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I quarreled with a pope once.
I was in a bar in Vatican City and got into a shoving match with John Paul I over his use of the sedia gestatoria. I told him it was the same as allying himself with the Mafia. He swung on me, and then the Vatican Guard separated us.
Popes ain't so tough.
@madhav.bsky.social @mujib.bsky.social definitely one for the all-time Stoner Canon. We’re All Juan, omg!
A primer for writers:
Apocalyptic: The world is ending
Post-Apocalyptic: The world you know is gone and you live in the remnants
Dystopian: Oh, shit. Remember when we almost started WW3 by bombing Iran? That was Tuesday...
More pics incoming here. Just gonna stare at these today as therapy for everything else going on www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...
Every one of my friends just wants to work, get paid, and then get io with their lives enjoying things they like and being left alone by strangers.
It’s not a big ask. It’s actually super easy to deliver. But we’re at the whim of pennycounters, psychopaths, and idiots.
A crucial part of Project 2029 has to be performative trials and draconian sentencing for Trump administration officials up and down the organizational ladder. Treat all of them like Timothy McVeigh so that the gravity of their criminality and treason become enduring images in American history.
Such a rich interview with @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
"A government can take away your rights, but no one can take away your belief in those rights. The first points of challenge to fascism are memory and history."
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...
Slept in my Lead Belly t-shirt and woke up. Don't lie to me, where did *you* sleep last night?
A Song of Ice and Fire
Alan Moore/Frank Miller and superhero comics in the 80s.
I am once again telling everyone to go buy this book IMMEDIATELY
Jesse Plemmons in CIVIL WAR
"What kind of TSA PreCheck Member are you"
the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes
Guy who made 800 million dollars selling a website named ToodleCo to Yahoo in 1996 and has done nothing since then but now has $100 billion: the concept of “human kindness” was invented by bolshevik psychologists in 1953, no one heard of that term until then
Podcast Host: fascinating, I have worms
Holds up
Anthropic: We lost a contract because we refuse to build Skynet.
OpenAI: We'll do it
having a stress dream about a college exam is so embarrassing. like ma’am, you’re closer to menopause than graduation, please get a new fear.
About the book Meet the Savarnas, the movie It Was Just An Accident, and the show His and Hers.
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Woke up to this fantastic news. #filmsky
www.forbes.com/sites/hannah...
No other word has done more damage to the craft of writing in recent years than “content”. Even if you’re using the word “content” ironically, or as a cute little joke, don’t. When someone calls writing “content” they’re pissing on someone’s hard work & passion. “Content” is Technosatan’s henchword.
Let's try this again 👋
Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA.
I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?
They should invent an internet where you can be online AND happy
The question of our time is how do you artistically rebel — and win — against a totally flat cultural landscape? And before my readers, who I assume are all approximately 36 years old and very tired, say, “so what, who cares?” This does matter. I mean, just look around right now lol. You know things are bad when even OpenAI President Greg Brockman is posting stuff, like “Taste is a new core skill.” If people had taste, your company wouldn’t exist, Greg. But if everything is just attention now, and attention is completely commodified by algorithmic tech platforms, how can you push back against that? Well, I am slowly coming around to a theory on the new cool: You have to essentially pre-deplatform yourself. Culture right now is determined not by human teams of editors and producers picking and choosing what youth culture gets the spotlight, but, instead, by the unthinking algorithms that power YouTube and TikTok. Which means the only things that have the level of scarcity and danger required to be seen as cool by young people will, slowly, but surely, be whatever is unacceptable on those platforms.
A post so smart I'm almost afraid to share it.
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The job of engineers is not to deploy some technology but to build robust, reliable and sustainable (in all meanings of that word) solutions for real world problems based on requirements directly derived from people's needs. Even for an engineer technology comes second at best.