@aethylred.bsky.social
Making really big computers, won’t go to Mars until it’s unionised. He/Him
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I'm giving out this star, so get it while you can folks
December 14, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I'm giving out this star, so get it while you can folks
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I’m guessing there’s going to be a lot of wild speculation, so please remember:
![[BREAKING NEWS CONSUMER'S HANDBOOK]
1. In the immediate aftermath, news outlets will get it wrong.
2. Don't trust anonymous sources.
3. Don't trust stories that cite another news outlet as the source of the information.
4. There's almost never a second shooter.
5. Pay attention to the language the media uses.
• "We are getting reports"... could mean anything.
• "We are seeking confirmation"... means they don't have it.
• "[News outlet] has learned"... means it has a scoop or is going out on limb.
6. Look for news outlets close to the incident.
7. Compare multiple sources.
8. Big news brings out the fakers. And photoshoppers.
9. Beware reflexive retweeting. Some of this is on you.
ON [THE MEDIA]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qpogm67ybm5xhnp4edlvuzwu/bafkreih6qjg73gdnrqmoh5rgfhzalkt4rtjpenmpwrdf4smex57rhwlja4@jpeg)
December 15, 2025 at 3:42 AM
I’m guessing there’s going to be a lot of wild speculation, so please remember:
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The thing about The Shining is that although it is all about semiotics and I dunno, consumerism and madness and all that other shit that Kubrick was into, the thing I always think when watching it is that it's a film about family violence, and the Overlook Hotel is a metaphor for the relationship
December 15, 2025 at 3:43 AM
The thing about The Shining is that although it is all about semiotics and I dunno, consumerism and madness and all that other shit that Kubrick was into, the thing I always think when watching it is that it's a film about family violence, and the Overlook Hotel is a metaphor for the relationship
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“Our sources say the two suffered lacerations consistent with a knife. The LAPD's Robbery Homicide Division is still investigating.”
Rob Reiner, Wife Michele Found Dead in Their L.A. Home with Knife Wounds
Rob Reiner -- the legendary director -- and his wife Michele Singer Reiner have died ... TMZ has confirmed.
www.tmz.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:27 AM
“Our sources say the two suffered lacerations consistent with a knife. The LAPD's Robbery Homicide Division is still investigating.”
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Mel Brooks having to bury Rob Reiner is against all laws of nature and I’m not ok about it
December 15, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Mel Brooks having to bury Rob Reiner is against all laws of nature and I’m not ok about it
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“The LA Fire Department said a man and a woman were found deceased inside, approximately 78 and 68 years old.”
Rob Reiner is 78. His wife, Michele Singer, is in her 60s.
www.nbclosangeles.com/investigatio...
Rob Reiner is 78. His wife, Michele Singer, is in her 60s.
www.nbclosangeles.com/investigatio...
2 found dead at Brentwood mansion that belongs to director Rob Reiner
A man and woman were found dead inside a home in Brentwood that records and neighbors tie to director Rob Reiner.
www.nbclosangeles.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:14 AM
“The LA Fire Department said a man and a woman were found deceased inside, approximately 78 and 68 years old.”
Rob Reiner is 78. His wife, Michele Singer, is in her 60s.
www.nbclosangeles.com/investigatio...
Rob Reiner is 78. His wife, Michele Singer, is in her 60s.
www.nbclosangeles.com/investigatio...
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Remember when people said it was crazy to think that we were in an AI bubble? When they would actively mock you for doubting the glory of the LLM era?
December 15, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Remember when people said it was crazy to think that we were in an AI bubble? When they would actively mock you for doubting the glory of the LLM era?
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And yet, they're doing it.
Maybe because the toll of *not* winding down the world's largest coal industry would be way worse?
Maybe because the toll of *not* winding down the world's largest coal industry would be way worse?
China’s shift from away from the dirtiest fossil fuel exposes the economic and human toll of winding down the world’s largest coal industry.
China Confronts the Cost of Dismantling the World’s Biggest Coal Sector
From the days of Mao Zedong, the fuel has underpinned economic growth, millions of jobs and the Communist Party’s founding myths.
bloom.bg
December 14, 2025 at 11:32 PM
And yet, they're doing it.
Maybe because the toll of *not* winding down the world's largest coal industry would be way worse?
Maybe because the toll of *not* winding down the world's largest coal industry would be way worse?
You know it’s much worse when Fox News is reporting it as being bad
December 15, 2025 at 12:03 AM
You know it’s much worse when Fox News is reporting it as being bad
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With this piece of bread on the ground in Ottawa, Canada and the one below in Perth, Australia, @drstip.bsky.social and I have successfully created an Earth sandwich.
The hot dog vs sandwich debate is concluded.
If the Earth is sandwiched, everything is a sandwich.
HAPPY EARTH SANDWICH DAY!
The hot dog vs sandwich debate is concluded.
If the Earth is sandwiched, everything is a sandwich.
HAPPY EARTH SANDWICH DAY!
December 14, 2025 at 1:09 PM
With this piece of bread on the ground in Ottawa, Canada and the one below in Perth, Australia, @drstip.bsky.social and I have successfully created an Earth sandwich.
The hot dog vs sandwich debate is concluded.
If the Earth is sandwiched, everything is a sandwich.
HAPPY EARTH SANDWICH DAY!
The hot dog vs sandwich debate is concluded.
If the Earth is sandwiched, everything is a sandwich.
HAPPY EARTH SANDWICH DAY!
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Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
December 14, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
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You guys really need to develop the capacity of simultaneously holding the truth that the colonialist occupation and genocide of Palestine is unacceptable AND violent antisemitism is real
Both are true
Both are true
December 14, 2025 at 8:09 PM
You guys really need to develop the capacity of simultaneously holding the truth that the colonialist occupation and genocide of Palestine is unacceptable AND violent antisemitism is real
Both are true
Both are true
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Zootopia 2 is the highest grossing Hollywood movie of the year & Kpop Demon Hunters was Netflix's most popular movie of all time, but fuck animators, am I right? I hate reading about how huge & beloved this stuff is while knowing how hard creators have it & how it still isn't broadly taken seriously
December 14, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Zootopia 2 is the highest grossing Hollywood movie of the year & Kpop Demon Hunters was Netflix's most popular movie of all time, but fuck animators, am I right? I hate reading about how huge & beloved this stuff is while knowing how hard creators have it & how it still isn't broadly taken seriously
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not sure what vegetable this is
December 14, 2025 at 10:28 PM
not sure what vegetable this is
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I'd be the first to cop to being way too free with "Orwellian" in polite company, but how else can you describe Elon's racist AI hallucination generator when its doing literal Ministry of Truth retcons in plain sight?
www.theverge.com/news/844443/...
www.theverge.com/news/844443/...
Grok is spreading misinformation about the Bondi Beach shooting
Grok has repeatedly misidentified video of the Bondi Beach shooting and the hero who disarmed a gunman.
www.theverge.com
December 14, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I'd be the first to cop to being way too free with "Orwellian" in polite company, but how else can you describe Elon's racist AI hallucination generator when its doing literal Ministry of Truth retcons in plain sight?
www.theverge.com/news/844443/...
www.theverge.com/news/844443/...
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Jesus Christ, even *after recording* I'm having to rewrite this Jimmy Cliff episode. For an episode that's so straightforward (this is one of the simplest stories this year) it's been a *hell* of a lot of faff. And at one point tonight I literally wondered if I was going mad.
December 14, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Jesus Christ, even *after recording* I'm having to rewrite this Jimmy Cliff episode. For an episode that's so straightforward (this is one of the simplest stories this year) it's been a *hell* of a lot of faff. And at one point tonight I literally wondered if I was going mad.
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So now I've got to go and investigate how that happened, and rewrite and rerecord parts thirty-five and thirty-six of this eighty-five-part episode, before going on to edit the next fifty music clips.
December 14, 2025 at 10:14 PM
So now I've got to go and investigate how that happened, and rewrite and rerecord parts thirty-five and thirty-six of this eighty-five-part episode, before going on to edit the next fifty music clips.
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He’s making a list, he’s checking it twice.
An explanation for the delayed Jimmy Cliff episode 🎅
An explanation for the delayed Jimmy Cliff episode 🎅
Jesus Christ, even *after recording* I'm having to rewrite this Jimmy Cliff episode. For an episode that's so straightforward (this is one of the simplest stories this year) it's been a *hell* of a lot of faff. And at one point tonight I literally wondered if I was going mad.
December 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
He’s making a list, he’s checking it twice.
An explanation for the delayed Jimmy Cliff episode 🎅
An explanation for the delayed Jimmy Cliff episode 🎅
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The kind .. you find … in a second hand store
December 14, 2025 at 10:54 AM
The kind .. you find … in a second hand store
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Do you think we could aspire to not be racist?
Could we aspire to think there is more to life than profit?
Could we aspire to thinking a habitable environment is worth investment?
Could we aspire to think beyond the car and the atomised individual that drives it?
May we still aspire to empathy?
Could we aspire to think there is more to life than profit?
Could we aspire to thinking a habitable environment is worth investment?
Could we aspire to think beyond the car and the atomised individual that drives it?
May we still aspire to empathy?
"We've had a series of governments now who have encouraged people to be aspirational for New Zealand and have promised things that have been completely unrealistic. ... I'm not going to fall into that trap."
#NzPol
#NzPol
'Opportunity to stamp my own mark': Chris Hipkins promises a different Labour
The last election saw Labour's six years in government come to an end, and Hipkins returning to the opposition benches just 10 months after becoming prime minister.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 14, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Do you think we could aspire to not be racist?
Could we aspire to think there is more to life than profit?
Could we aspire to thinking a habitable environment is worth investment?
Could we aspire to think beyond the car and the atomised individual that drives it?
May we still aspire to empathy?
Could we aspire to think there is more to life than profit?
Could we aspire to thinking a habitable environment is worth investment?
Could we aspire to think beyond the car and the atomised individual that drives it?
May we still aspire to empathy?
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I'm feeling good about all my new followers!
Let's stay relentlessly positive about what we can achieve together!
And big Aspirational Chippy thumbs up to you all! 👍
Let's stay relentlessly positive about what we can achieve together!
And big Aspirational Chippy thumbs up to you all! 👍
December 14, 2025 at 7:00 AM
I'm feeling good about all my new followers!
Let's stay relentlessly positive about what we can achieve together!
And big Aspirational Chippy thumbs up to you all! 👍
Let's stay relentlessly positive about what we can achieve together!
And big Aspirational Chippy thumbs up to you all! 👍
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Don't listen to my alter-ego! Listen to me, Aspirational Chippy!
I'll restore workers right, deliver pay equity and set the minimum wage at the living wage!
When workers do well, we all do well!
Let's get New Zealand working again!
#nzpol
I'll restore workers right, deliver pay equity and set the minimum wage at the living wage!
When workers do well, we all do well!
Let's get New Zealand working again!
#nzpol
December 14, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Don't listen to my alter-ego! Listen to me, Aspirational Chippy!
I'll restore workers right, deliver pay equity and set the minimum wage at the living wage!
When workers do well, we all do well!
Let's get New Zealand working again!
#nzpol
I'll restore workers right, deliver pay equity and set the minimum wage at the living wage!
When workers do well, we all do well!
Let's get New Zealand working again!
#nzpol
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Hipkins and Labour need to stop trying to placate those who will never vote for them and start trying to inspire those who might.
December 14, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Hipkins and Labour need to stop trying to placate those who will never vote for them and start trying to inspire those who might.
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i believe people when they say linux has gotten better in the last few years. what i'm skeptical of is that linux Guys have improved. i will not use an OS where i'm at high risk of someone calling me stupid for not liking some aspect of the experience. i must be allowed to hate the computer
November 19, 2025 at 9:36 PM
i believe people when they say linux has gotten better in the last few years. what i'm skeptical of is that linux Guys have improved. i will not use an OS where i'm at high risk of someone calling me stupid for not liking some aspect of the experience. i must be allowed to hate the computer