javier
@bartlebooth.bsky.social
data processor. recovering mathematician. lazy anarchist. tech mercenary. parent. immigrant. child of the corn. unpronounceable. toronto rodent. seeking puzzlement.
nie mój cyrk, nie moje małpy
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javier
@bartlebooth.bsky.social
· Jan 9
La gente a la que le gustan cosas me gusta más que la gente a la que no le gustan cosas.
I think this includes Ghibli. I worry about Master Miyazaki’s emotional state.
Well this ain’t good.
“Disney is making a $1 billion investment in OpenAI and will allow the AI platform to use its characters and properties to generate short, user-prompted social videos.”
www.wsj.com/business/med...
“Disney is making a $1 billion investment in OpenAI and will allow the AI platform to use its characters and properties to generate short, user-prompted social videos.”
www.wsj.com/business/med...
Disney to Invest $1 Billion in OpenAI, License Characters for Use in Sora
The three-year licensing deal will let users generate videos of more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Star Wars and Pixar characters.
www.wsj.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I think this includes Ghibli. I worry about Master Miyazaki’s emotional state.
Democracy dies in broad daylight.
Washington Post editorial board really speaking truth to power
December 11, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Democracy dies in broad daylight.
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When I die, I hope that I go out with a pen in my hand, stabbing madly at the gelatinous black eyeballs of a giant mutant salamander as it drags me screaming into the sewers.
June 26, 2023 at 7:53 PM
When I die, I hope that I go out with a pen in my hand, stabbing madly at the gelatinous black eyeballs of a giant mutant salamander as it drags me screaming into the sewers.
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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Addresses Trump’s Mandatory Social Media Checks For Tourists
youtu.be/1SxOpvnyqlo
youtu.be/1SxOpvnyqlo
Karoline Leavitt Addresses Trump’s Mandatory Social Media Checks For Tourists
YouTube video by Clare Blackwood
youtu.be
December 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Addresses Trump’s Mandatory Social Media Checks For Tourists
youtu.be/1SxOpvnyqlo
youtu.be/1SxOpvnyqlo
There is always a wrong to your right and there will always be a war somewhere to fight. God knows I've had some rough fucking years. Oh, oh Lord, oh Lord, keep on keeping on.
December 11, 2025 at 3:09 AM
There is always a wrong to your right and there will always be a war somewhere to fight. God knows I've had some rough fucking years. Oh, oh Lord, oh Lord, keep on keeping on.
Pirates of the Caribbean.
December 10, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Pirates of the Caribbean.
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When they say they're massive fucking losers, believe them.
December 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
When they say they're massive fucking losers, believe them.
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I’m going to keep saying it: both the “male loneliness epidemic” and the techbro obsession with AI are, at their core, about a complete lack of distress tolerance for the messy business of relating to other people and a terror of vulnerability/interdependence.
we talk a lot about the weirdo techbro obsession with immortality these AI necromancy projects embody, but I'm arguably even MORE fascinated by the terror of allowing yourself to experience deep, complex emotions they so obviously reveal
you cannot prevent yourself from feeling grief with an app??
you cannot prevent yourself from feeling grief with an app??
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
December 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I’m going to keep saying it: both the “male loneliness epidemic” and the techbro obsession with AI are, at their core, about a complete lack of distress tolerance for the messy business of relating to other people and a terror of vulnerability/interdependence.
I think often about all those sudden deep experts on quantum physics and string theory, always at the border of a historical breakthrough, that ChatGPT and similar products are fostering among the C-suites of large tech companies.
December 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I think often about all those sudden deep experts on quantum physics and string theory, always at the border of a historical breakthrough, that ChatGPT and similar products are fostering among the C-suites of large tech companies.
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Truth. Justice. Whatever. #Supergirl lands in theaters and IMAX June 26.
December 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Truth. Justice. Whatever. #Supergirl lands in theaters and IMAX June 26.
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One year ago, Kevin O'Leary said he would help build the world's largest data centre in rural Alberta.
When we asked for an update, O'Leary Ventures didn't respond to our questions. So we went to Wonder Valley to get some answers.
Story by @davidreevely.bsky.social.
thelogic.co/news/the-big...
When we asked for an update, O'Leary Ventures didn't respond to our questions. So we went to Wonder Valley to get some answers.
Story by @davidreevely.bsky.social.
thelogic.co/news/the-big...
The truth about Wonder Valley, Kevin O’Leary’s data-centre dream - The Logic
The colossal data-centre project is behind schedule and faces major obstacles. Yet, on a vast swathe of land in northern Alberta, something is starting to happen.
thelogic.co
December 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
One year ago, Kevin O'Leary said he would help build the world's largest data centre in rural Alberta.
When we asked for an update, O'Leary Ventures didn't respond to our questions. So we went to Wonder Valley to get some answers.
Story by @davidreevely.bsky.social.
thelogic.co/news/the-big...
When we asked for an update, O'Leary Ventures didn't respond to our questions. So we went to Wonder Valley to get some answers.
Story by @davidreevely.bsky.social.
thelogic.co/news/the-big...
What a grim statement. I hope those kids are well.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
What a grim statement. I hope those kids are well.
Incredibly stupid.
Wow! Now the arXiv is demanding that all papers have a full English-language version, either as the original language or as an included translation.
It looks like this is pushing some French scientists to use HAL instead.
blog.arxiv.org/2025/11/21/u...
It looks like this is pushing some French scientists to use HAL instead.
blog.arxiv.org/2025/11/21/u...
Attention authors: Upcoming policy change to non-English language paper submissions – arXiv blog
blog.arxiv.org
December 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Incredibly stupid.
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A veces pienso que sería bonito, en esto de las redes, que las personas que están muy enfermas, si ellos así lo quieren, informasen para recibir en la despedida todas estas muestras de cariño, muy sentido, que se desencadenan tras su muerte.
El gran George Pérez lo hizo así, y fue bonito.
El gran George Pérez lo hizo así, y fue bonito.
December 9, 2025 at 7:51 PM
A veces pienso que sería bonito, en esto de las redes, que las personas que están muy enfermas, si ellos así lo quieren, informasen para recibir en la despedida todas estas muestras de cariño, muy sentido, que se desencadenan tras su muerte.
El gran George Pérez lo hizo así, y fue bonito.
El gran George Pérez lo hizo así, y fue bonito.
December 10, 2025 at 4:27 AM
AOC should dump Twitter and stop engaging with its owner.
December 10, 2025 at 4:16 AM
AOC should dump Twitter and stop engaging with its owner.
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One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
December 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
Virtue signaling.
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Virtue signaling.
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polymarket? no thank you. i am monogamous
December 10, 2025 at 12:08 AM
polymarket? no thank you. i am monogamous
The McDonald’s generative ad will be studied in a few years as an example of how stupid these times became once people started getting desperate, some months (?) before the collapse.
December 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The McDonald’s generative ad will be studied in a few years as an example of how stupid these times became once people started getting desperate, some months (?) before the collapse.
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can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
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My grandpa was born in the US to German parents. He had younger cousins who were in Hitler youth in Germany. Decades later I talked with some of them about it (with the ruthless candor of youth). Why did you do that? What were you thinking? What they described was a lot like this.
Happening now: Texas leaders announcing a rollout of a statewide program to put TPUSA chapters in high schools and colleges across the state. Gov. Abbott adds that schools that stand in the way should be reported to the Texas Education Agency.
December 9, 2025 at 2:26 AM
My grandpa was born in the US to German parents. He had younger cousins who were in Hitler youth in Germany. Decades later I talked with some of them about it (with the ruthless candor of youth). Why did you do that? What were you thinking? What they described was a lot like this.
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Terribly stupid idea that will satisfy faux-populist urges to dunk on public servants while simultaneously making the lives of public servants and the service itself so much worse.
Goofy stuff.
Goofy stuff.
Carney says back-to-office plan for federal civil servants coming soon nationalnewswatch.com/2025/12/08/c...
Carney says back-to-office plan for federal civil servants coming soon
National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.
nationalnewswatch.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Terribly stupid idea that will satisfy faux-populist urges to dunk on public servants while simultaneously making the lives of public servants and the service itself so much worse.
Goofy stuff.
Goofy stuff.