"What this analysis fails to apprehend is that in war, you cannot be defeated if, whenever anything happens in the war, you say that it was no big deal and also everybody else's fault and also good actually and due to your genius." 🤌

President, Extremely Normal Brain-Wise: Pope Weak On Crime, Also I'm Dr. Jesus Christ | Defector The President of the United States, Donald Trump, is a deranged old pervert whose brain, long since sodden and pitted from a lifetime of indulgence and Diet Coke, is foaming out of his ears. Over the ...

"A lesser tactician might observe that responding to a blockade of the strait by blockading the strait is the equivalent of punishing a guy for punching you in the face by also punching yourself in the face."

We didn't deserve this day.

then, stay tuned for the weather. it’s gonna rain if you’re poor. sunny skies ahead for those who purchased the sunny skies annual subscription from starlink

[2035] tonight (presented by google) at 6 (powered by t-mobile) the bank of america school board will vote on a motion (sponsored by doritos) to eliminate education (copyright 2027 by palantir) from the curriculum (brought to you by duolingo)

Geist in the machine ⊗ The prospect of Butlerian Jihad No.397 — Ending the AI arms race ⊗ Insight and future-fit decisions ⊗ Better AI creative collaborators ⊗ Progressive Paris ⊗ The asteroid ryugu and the building blocks of life

"The fights ahead are between capital and whatever coalition can form against it, not between humanity and machines. Technology is a terrain in that conflict; abandoning it means losing before the contest begins."

side note: sentiers has quickly become one of a handful of my weekly must-reads

Instead of actual fan seats behind home plate, Cleveland has decided to make the ads roughly 8x bigger and remove fans from the scene entirely

my kingdom for an ad blocker capable of obliterating this absolute embarrassment from @cleguardians.com. this is just insulting as a baseball fan.

"Most of the questions worth asking are not about how to transcend the environment, but how to inhabit it. How to live together in shared space."

Limiting Not Just Screen Time, But Screen Space | NOEMA The internet has stopped being a place we visit — it’s now an environment we inhabit.

"[Tech bros are] imagining that Borges’ one-to-one map will be finally useful—that if we just feed enough into the machine, it will comprehend the world.

Even if we had the time, labor and energy to attempt this, why would we? Why not put that effort into talking to each other?"

miranda july. all fours. jesus. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

i bet for the quadrillion dollars they’ve poured into ai they could’ve just fixed bluetooth

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ooh i've been waiting for something like this: social media centered around longform media recs 👀

i don't think any of us fully appreciated what we had at the atlantic a dozen or so years ago: alexis madrigal, ta-nehisi coates, james hamblin, ed yong, ian bogost, amanda mull.

feels like it all started going downhill when they brought frum on board (surprise, surprise) but man, what a lineup

apple news+ would be such an incredible deal if it wasn't such a godawful product

There are at least three major news stories about sexual assault and abuse of power by men in prominent positions this week. Government, labor, academia; the culture is everywhere, and women disproportionally bear the weight of the consequences.

If this week feels extra heavy, be kind to yourself.

‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog | Martin Gelin Sweden’s V-Dem Institute warns that the US is no longer a liberal democracy. And autocracy is creeping across Europe too, says writer Martin Gelin

"The US is no longer a democracy. One of the most credible global sources on the health of democratic nations now says this outright."

quite the lede

feels like a massively under-discussed affect of the ai discourse: machines using humans as a sensory input layer. the framing of the human api feels apt

AI Agents Are Recruiting Humans To Observe The Offline World | NOEMA Agents need us — as sensors, as verifiers, as bearers of liability — in ways we have barely begun to account for.

“One user’s agent reportedly called more than 80 restaurants recently to ask about ingredients; each employee who picked up was a sensor in a survey they never agreed to join. This infrastructure for human sensing is already in production.”

rooster on hbo is just the right kinda meh i need right now

20s: everything is so stupid but i can't explain why

30s: lol i was so naive

40s: everything is so stupid and i can explain why

this feels like the reason behind analog's resurgence. record players don't ask you to curate your own playlists. paper notebooks don't ask you to religiously tag every note. dvd collections don't ask you to manage your streaming subscriptions. analog watches don't ask you to watch your heart rate.

"My Casio is telling me it's 12:17. It collected no data while I slept. It has no report to show me. It has no opinions about my health, my habits, or my attention.

And that absence, the peace of a thing that does what it does and then shuts up, feels like the most luxurious thing I own."

indie devs, on the other hand, often sell finished software. things 3. ia writer. news explorer. it's a dying breed, and i mourn their loss

this dude articulated something about my own preferences i've been struggling to identify. i have an aversion to subscription software, but it's not about money. i simply want *finished* software, which is maddeningly rare because companies don't sell software anymore. they sell relationships

The Last Quiet Thing Your possessions came alive. Now they won't stop talking.

"Your thermostat has opinions now. Your television requires a login. Your car updates itself overnight, and sometimes when you start it in the morning, the interface has rearranged itself, as if someone broke in and reorganized your dashboard while you slept."

why isn't apple intelligence just the ability to use natural language to create shortcuts

signing up for letterboxd pro was worth it if only for the fact that letterboxd now sends me an email when something in my watchlist shows up on kanopy, where i can watch it with nothing more than my library card

Syndicates of Capital States are no longer the highest form of power globally. Power has shifted to wealthy individuals who work in groups and operate across borders.

"Neoliberal hegemony catalyzed the shift of how world power is organized, facilitating the fall of an anarchic system of states, and the rise of syndicates of capital. Liberalism effectuated a new world order in which liberalism is obsolete."

excellent explainer on who runs the world now, and why

good lord this is epic mismanagement considering they just came out of beta what, a month or two ago?