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Scouting report: bats left, throws left, has problems with authority figures. Read too much Arendt, Horkheimer and Adorno in his formative years. Hoya Saxa! 📍 Santa Cruz, CA 🪿🙏💀

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 8d

Socrates was a Luddite who would have hated AI

This invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom, for they will read many things without instruction and will therefore seem to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant.”
— Plato, Phaedrus 275

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 30m

841 Jr!

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Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social · 9h

We wanted to know what it was like to own a Cybertruck. So @zoeschiffer.bsky.social went to the desert got this absolutely amazing quotes (and Michelle Groskopf took the pictures!) www.wired.com/story/owning...

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 1h

Can I still call Elon musk a welfare queen tho

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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 3h

I do not want your premiums to double next year. Republicans do.

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 4h

I got ChatGPT to swear today

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The Red-Headed Strangler @emmaberquist.bsky.social · 5h

my god there has never been a more accurate use of this

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15h

the year is 2030. a doctor solemnly informs you that you have plastic in your testicles bc millions of people persuaded by celebrity marketing bought synthetic pubic hairs that were eventually consumed by fish that you ate

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 13h

If my kids did that I’d kick their asses

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 13h

Ok so tbh I thought it was a bit apocryphal when I read it earlier

surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 14h

I quit drinking for a while for health reasons but am now thinking it might just make more sense to drink all day every day

surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 17h

Play a clarinet, go to jail

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 19h

They’re still up 2-0 in the series. Go mariners!

surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 19h

Ok this is the last thing I’ll post about today’s otter attack at the Lane, but these are indeed the End Times.

Revelation 6:8:

“And I looked, and behold a pale surfboard: and his name that sat on him was Otter, and Hell followed with him”

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 19h

She personifies the America I know and still love

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 19h

Except he didn’t even stop any wars, just fucked children

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 20h

Otter attack

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 20h

If you’re wondering what’s up with all the emergency vehicles are doing on west cliff drive on Santa Cruz, it was just your usual otter attack at Steamer Lane

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 1d

I guess Russell Westbrook didn't get the memo about No Kings.

Russell Westbrook agrees to join Kings for 18th NBA season

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 21h

TIL the Latin name for the American robin is “turdus migratorius” and my vestigial 12 year-old brain thinks that is really funny

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America...

American robin - Wikipedia

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 21h

Um what happens when they land?

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

This is straight up white nationalist talking points posted by the DHS.

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 1d

I love Thomas Pynchon when I open up and read a random chapter from, say, V or Gravity’s Rainbow or even Mason & Dixon, but I also fuckin hate Thomas Pynchon if I have to read the whole goddam thing beginning to end

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parisinla @parisinla.bsky.social · 2d

This homeland threat advisory system is getting out of hand.

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 1d

Shit I just want it to generate functioning Python code for me