Pencil Neck Computer Geek
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Heed my warning that everything is computer
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Sorry but this just makes everything so explicit. The oligarchs have decided that they're now in the "just swipe everything in reach" phase. There's no interest in providing a service or value of any kind; it's just extract, exploit, and extinguish.
The ONLY way forward is building what's next.
The ONLY way forward is building what's next.
Amazon is making money off AI copies of books - and putting the onus on authors to prove they’ve been plagiarised.
Honestly, just stop buying books from Amazon. Get them from an actual bookshop or order them from a reputable book supplier like bookshop.org
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Honestly, just stop buying books from Amazon. Get them from an actual bookshop or order them from a reputable book supplier like bookshop.org
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Amazon Is the World's Biggest Online Book Marketplace. It's Filled With AI Knockoffs
Authors say Amazon's knockoff book problem is leaving them frustrated — and making the internet worse in the process.
www.rollingstone.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Sorry but this just makes everything so explicit. The oligarchs have decided that they're now in the "just swipe everything in reach" phase. There's no interest in providing a service or value of any kind; it's just extract, exploit, and extinguish.
The ONLY way forward is building what's next.
The ONLY way forward is building what's next.
Anti-DEI: “I’m mad people who I think are beneath me are more accomplished than me.”
Rachel Gilmore on the anti-DEI movement: "I think that to attack these notions is a dog whistle to the worst elements of society that are seeing a slide towards a more fascistic world. And every politician who engages in that should be ashamed of themselves."
December 9, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Anti-DEI: “I’m mad people who I think are beneath me are more accomplished than me.”
I guess I would be mad if my property taxes were raised to pay for this bullshit. Oh well, guess little Timmy’s after school arts program can be a worthy sacrifice so Mayor Sim can pseudo-intellectually jerk himself off and wax poetic about his greed on the taxpayer’s dime.
pretty wild how many Bitcoin video podcasts Vancouver mayor Ken Sim has done just in 2025, all of which are clearly being recorded at City Hall
December 9, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I guess I would be mad if my property taxes were raised to pay for this bullshit. Oh well, guess little Timmy’s after school arts program can be a worthy sacrifice so Mayor Sim can pseudo-intellectually jerk himself off and wax poetic about his greed on the taxpayer’s dime.
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'You shouldn't criticize Mark Carney because that's how you get Pierre Poilievre' is...exactly how you get Pierre Poilievre.
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
December 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
'You shouldn't criticize Mark Carney because that's how you get Pierre Poilievre' is...exactly how you get Pierre Poilievre.
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda.
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
December 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda.
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
I have a strong premonition those who first adopted the internet will also be the first ones to abandon it, for the exact same reasons.
December 7, 2025 at 9:45 AM
I have a strong premonition those who first adopted the internet will also be the first ones to abandon it, for the exact same reasons.
Conservatives were doing cancel culture before it was called cancel culture. They just don’t want people to get upset at them for using slurs, so they employed their greatest tool: projection.
All the meltdowns about free speech while the right turned out to be the cancel culture all along
November 28, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Conservatives were doing cancel culture before it was called cancel culture. They just don’t want people to get upset at them for using slurs, so they employed their greatest tool: projection.
Vaccines are one of the greatest inventions in the history of mankind. This should not be a controversial statement.
Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
November 28, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Vaccines are one of the greatest inventions in the history of mankind. This should not be a controversial statement.
“All that stuff sounds bad but I don’t like thinking about stuff and using AI really solves that problem.”
- Average AI Enthusiast
- Average AI Enthusiast
there are so many great things about generative AI! here are some of my favorites <3
November 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM
“All that stuff sounds bad but I don’t like thinking about stuff and using AI really solves that problem.”
- Average AI Enthusiast
- Average AI Enthusiast
It’s called grievance culture because it’s a way of life for those who partake in it.
No it fucking won't.
They've been gorging themselves on grievance porn for decades now. Nothing any government does is going to calm them.
They've been gorging themselves on grievance porn for decades now. Nothing any government does is going to calm them.
November 28, 2025 at 5:06 AM
It’s called grievance culture because it’s a way of life for those who partake in it.
I find it laughable that people are still defending Carney because he’s ”not Poilievre”, as if that’s some high bar to cross. We should demand more from our leadership than, “not a smarmy little dweeb who caters to far right weirdos”
liberal talking heads proving they have absolutely no convictions other than power and consulting contracts with how quickly they turned around on oil pipelines and climate policy
November 27, 2025 at 11:08 PM
I find it laughable that people are still defending Carney because he’s ”not Poilievre”, as if that’s some high bar to cross. We should demand more from our leadership than, “not a smarmy little dweeb who caters to far right weirdos”
What I’ve never understood about pro-oil Canadian nationalism, is that most of the profits from our publicly owned resources don’t even stay in Canada. We do get stuck with all the externalities though.
“Rather than reinvesting those profits in the Canadian economy, the four companies paid out $79.7 billion in dividends and share buybacks, nearly ¾ of which went to foreign shareholders, including 62% to American shareholders.”
www.theenergymix.com/u-s-owned-oi...
www.theenergymix.com/u-s-owned-oi...
U.S.-Owned Oil Sands Giants Send Profits Out of Canada Despite Public Support for Resource Sovereignty
Canada’s biggest oil sands producers are sending a large share of their profits out of the country to their shareholders in the United States, the CEO of the Trottier Family Foundation warns in an opi...
www.theenergymix.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
What I’ve never understood about pro-oil Canadian nationalism, is that most of the profits from our publicly owned resources don’t even stay in Canada. We do get stuck with all the externalities though.
More austerity nonsense from Number Go Up true believers.
I guess ABC have a humiliation fetish because shit’s gonna get really bad for them.
I guess ABC have a humiliation fetish because shit’s gonna get really bad for them.
Vancouver's 2026 draft budget has PASSED.
Approved on a 7-4 vote on party lines, with ABC in favour and councillors Fry/Bligh/Orr/Maloney opposed.
Property tax freeze, $50 million more for VPD, and cuts to Arts, Culture, Planning and Sustainability departments, among others.
Full story to come.
Approved on a 7-4 vote on party lines, with ABC in favour and councillors Fry/Bligh/Orr/Maloney opposed.
Property tax freeze, $50 million more for VPD, and cuts to Arts, Culture, Planning and Sustainability departments, among others.
Full story to come.
November 25, 2025 at 10:48 PM
More austerity nonsense from Number Go Up true believers.
I guess ABC have a humiliation fetish because shit’s gonna get really bad for them.
I guess ABC have a humiliation fetish because shit’s gonna get really bad for them.
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Direct action is not designed as spectacle for media consumption, unlike large peaceful protests which are, deliberately, a spectacle.
The editorial desks at major media outlets are incapable of grasping the difference. Direct action scares institutions because it threatens the order they sit atop.
The editorial desks at major media outlets are incapable of grasping the difference. Direct action scares institutions because it threatens the order they sit atop.
(mostly) Millennials and Gen Z literally ran ICE out of Charlotte, NC so they can fuck right off with that
November 25, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Direct action is not designed as spectacle for media consumption, unlike large peaceful protests which are, deliberately, a spectacle.
The editorial desks at major media outlets are incapable of grasping the difference. Direct action scares institutions because it threatens the order they sit atop.
The editorial desks at major media outlets are incapable of grasping the difference. Direct action scares institutions because it threatens the order they sit atop.
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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
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In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
November 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
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Nothing to add ...
newrepublic.com/post/203517/...
newrepublic.com/post/203517/...
Trump’s Ukraine Peace Deal Appears to Be Translated From Russian
Certain phrases in Trump’s proposed deal seem to be using Russian language.
newrepublic.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Nothing to add ...
newrepublic.com/post/203517/...
newrepublic.com/post/203517/...
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I don't know who in Canada needs to hear this, but the greatest threat to you is the alignment of state and corporate interests and not anything foreign.
November 20, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I don't know who in Canada needs to hear this, but the greatest threat to you is the alignment of state and corporate interests and not anything foreign.
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“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.”
“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath
Some costs aren’t costs.
“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath
Some costs aren’t costs.
One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss
Copenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact.
grist.org
November 21, 2025 at 12:40 AM
“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.”
“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath
Some costs aren’t costs.
“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath
Some costs aren’t costs.
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This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
November 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
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This absurd oversensitivity about professors having sex with minors procured for them by sex criminals shows that campus cancel culture is out of control.
by Alan Dershowitz and Larry Summers
by Alan Dershowitz and Larry Summers
November 20, 2025 at 1:30 AM
This absurd oversensitivity about professors having sex with minors procured for them by sex criminals shows that campus cancel culture is out of control.
by Alan Dershowitz and Larry Summers
by Alan Dershowitz and Larry Summers
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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