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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 12h

Stock market! Do not crash! I was joking!

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12h

“Don't worry about China, it will all be fine! Highly respected President Xi just had a bad moment.”

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Drewcifer DIEtsch 🎃 @drewdietsch.bsky.social · 13h

It's 1982. Disney hopes TRON will be a huge hit and a franchise kickoff. It flops.

It's 2010. Disney hopes TRON: LEGACY will be a huge hit and a franchise kickoff. It flops.

It's 2025. Disney hopes TRON: ARES will be a huge hit and a franchise kickoff. It flops.

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Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 12h

Yeah, I saw a lot of takes saying things like "it's totally unbelievable that there were underground revolutionary cells in the late 2000s" as if those first scenes were all obviously flashbacks.

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Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 13h

Do you remember the old days of tracking which tweets were sent with an iPhone and which were sent with Twitter for Android?

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Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 18h

You'd go mad looking for moral consistency in it. And any pleb naive enough to try to get people to notice these things when it's not time to notice them just gets dismissed as a conspiracist crank or puritanical killjoy.

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Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 18h

When it's your time, something goes from being a Wikipedia footnote to being a career ending scandal.

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Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 18h

I love it when incriminating material "resurfaces". No one gets ruined by having their secrets exposed anymore, it's just a sufficient number of influential people agreeing that it's time to notice stuff that was always public knowledge but wasn't an issue until it was time to make it an issue.

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Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 19h

Not the phrase I would pick, certainly.

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Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 19h

The adults are back in charge and will resume their program of looking the other way. Enjoy the stability! x

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Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 19h

Sorry, was Peter Mandelson getting fired over his close links to a notorious paedophile somehow the result of other people's childishness?

David Timoney @fromarsetoelbow.bsky.social · 21h

Lol at "Praetorian Guard", but what's really amazing is that they're still using the "grown-ups back in charge" line. These people aren't simply dim - they are incapable of original thought.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 2d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 1d

Nice valuation you got here. Would be a shame if the market corrected it...

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Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 2d

This is some real "if the state spends money on it it must be good" logic

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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · Jan 24

In the first 100 days I will dig down into the place of honor. On day one I will issue an Executive Order that the radical woke warning signs be removed and anyone perpetuating the "dangerous and repulsive" lie to be terminated. I will restore the country by touching the ancient treasures.

Graphic showing the proposed pictogram warning of the dangers of buried nuclear waste for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.

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Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 3d

Reckon if you're over 65 and also not rich it's actually pretty easy to form this opinion.

Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 3d

Hollow laughter

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Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 4d

Learn it and learn it well.

Chapter 15: Machinery and Large-Scale Industry
I. THE DEVELOPMENT OF MACHINERY
John Stuart Mill says in his Principles of Political Economy: 'It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.' That is, however, by no
means the aim of the application of machinery under capitalism. Like every other instrument for increasing the productivity of labour, machinery is intended to cheapen commodities and, by shortening the part of the working day in which the worker works for himself, to lengthen the other part, the part he gives to the capitalist for nothing. The machine is a means for producing surplus-value.

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Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 4d

When EA hits upon a way of increasing productivity do they get their workers to make the same amount of game in less time or to make more game in the same amount of time? And, is there some reason they expect their customers' bosses to make a different calculation?

Emanuel’s views are shared by private equity group Silver Lake, whose backing of the proposed $55bn takeover of video games maker Electronic Arts is partly predicated on a belief that AI will fuel an explosion in leisure time.

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Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 4d

This man is betting three billion dollars on the idea that businesses will say "well it's Wednesday afternoon and we've met our quota for the week, send everyone home with full pay and we'll start again on Monday"

Ari Emanuel, the Hollywood talent agent and sports tycoon, has raised almost $3bn from investors for a new events venture in a bet that artificial intelligence will shrink the working week and give people more free time.

The world could be “down to four-day work weeks” in the coming years, he told the Financial Times. This could go “down to three with AI” as more people use the technology to expedite everyday tasks, he said. “There’s going to be more free time.”

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 5d

Sometimes a user will post a joke and then that very same user will post something sincere. And I as the reader am expected to understand this, using my brain?

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Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 4d

The Exorsystem admin

OnlyFangs @onlycans.bsky.social · 4d

Agile Walks Home Alone at Night

Courtney 🐙 Lovecraftian 🐙 Actually @hexadecibelle.fyi · 5d

the blair witch project manager

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Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 4d

Doctorow suggests that the companies are burning money so fast that the US couldn't even afford to bail them out, so maybe my fears are unfounded.

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Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 4d

Thing is, there is so much global infrastructure dependent on these companies that if and when they crash they will need to be bailed out and I'm a little worried that this would give Trump the opportunity to "nationalise" them into his imperialist fiefdom.

Owen Blacker @owenblacker.bsky.social · 5d

The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh

"So, you're saying a third of the stock market is tied up in seven AI companies that have no way to become profitable and that this is a bubble that's going to burst and take the whole economy with it?"
"Yes"
pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
By Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net

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Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 5d

"When they put the magic wig on they have to pretend not to have personal values and that's just a really good and reliable system that I like but I can today expose that some liberal judges MIGHT NOT BE PRETENDING HARD ENOUGH!"

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Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 5d

Just so hamfisted to directly cite the principle of impersonal rule (we are ruled over by recallable agents who apply the democratically determined law and the system is insulated from the personal whims of those in charge) only to then make the earth-shattering revelation that judges have opinions.

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Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 5d

I apologise for applying logic to inane bullshit but it's very funny that he goes out of his way to make the point that the wig represents the separation of personal perspective from judicial function before going on to criticise what judges do in their own personal capacities outside the courtroom.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 5d

Jenrick delivers one of the most asinine speeches I have ever heard. He even brought along a prop, to explain how a judge becomes impartial setting aside personal views, then went on to attack judges for having views. His solution? Abolish tribunals. And who will adjudicate cases? Pfft. Details. ~AA

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