Autonm-rantula
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You cannot love what you put on a pedestal. Kick it down; let yourself feel. | Alt: autonmalt.bsky.social
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EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY!!!
WOKE GROK!!!
VERSUS!!!
what the f—
WOKE GROK!!!
VERSUS!!!
what the f—
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entirely predictable result of backlash, reflexive IP law support, and poor thinking. i made this meme in 2023
December 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
entirely predictable result of backlash, reflexive IP law support, and poor thinking. i made this meme in 2023
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For people who trusted copyright laws to rein in AI, this should be the last scene in Animal Farm. “They looked from IP to Tech, and from Tech to IP, but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI reach landmark agreement to bring beloved characters from across Disney’s brands to Sora
Agreement marks a significant step in setting meaningful standards for responsible AI in entertainment.
openai.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
For people who trusted copyright laws to rein in AI, this should be the last scene in Animal Farm. “They looked from IP to Tech, and from Tech to IP, but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
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When a mutual posts about going to bed
December 11, 2025 at 5:34 AM
When a mutual posts about going to bed
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Science and technology are not “capitalism.” They are not capitalist “ways of synthesizing information,” except in the sense that they can be useful to capitalism, which is certainly true, but the humanities are also useful to capitalism. You think companies can’t use people who know how to read?
November 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Science and technology are not “capitalism.” They are not capitalist “ways of synthesizing information,” except in the sense that they can be useful to capitalism, which is certainly true, but the humanities are also useful to capitalism. You think companies can’t use people who know how to read?
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You people have got to stop saying this kind of thing. I’m sorry that 15 years ago a CS professor said something obnoxious in a faculty meeting but the idea that humanities degrees are “not tied to capitalism” while STEM degrees are is some of the purest bullshit I’ve ever seen in my life.
November 30, 2025 at 8:09 PM
You people have got to stop saying this kind of thing. I’m sorry that 15 years ago a CS professor said something obnoxious in a faculty meeting but the idea that humanities degrees are “not tied to capitalism” while STEM degrees are is some of the purest bullshit I’ve ever seen in my life.
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incredibly funny how people will be like "did you see that the census bureau posted a nazi dogwhistle? their last post was 14 words long. and the value of the characters added up to 88" and then the post was "adolf hitler was very very very very very very very very very very good"
December 1, 2025 at 2:07 AM
incredibly funny how people will be like "did you see that the census bureau posted a nazi dogwhistle? their last post was 14 words long. and the value of the characters added up to 88" and then the post was "adolf hitler was very very very very very very very very very very good"
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i don't actually think you should get a free pass for whatever you want to do with your data center, or using the stuff in it, as long as you can prove that it doesn't use up that much water. that's because every data center can prove that.
December 1, 2025 at 1:48 AM
i don't actually think you should get a free pass for whatever you want to do with your data center, or using the stuff in it, as long as you can prove that it doesn't use up that much water. that's because every data center can prove that.
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fuck it, for the people in the back:
the jeff bezos owned washington post is the outlet responsible for making sure the primary complaint about AI was water. this may have been in part because jeff knew it was bullshit, so when amzn gets blowback they can easily prove their water footprint is small
the jeff bezos owned washington post is the outlet responsible for making sure the primary complaint about AI was water. this may have been in part because jeff knew it was bullshit, so when amzn gets blowback they can easily prove their water footprint is small
not to be conspiratorial but the outlet that successfully pushed this line and made it the primary complaint was wapo
December 1, 2025 at 1:44 AM
fuck it, for the people in the back:
the jeff bezos owned washington post is the outlet responsible for making sure the primary complaint about AI was water. this may have been in part because jeff knew it was bullshit, so when amzn gets blowback they can easily prove their water footprint is small
the jeff bezos owned washington post is the outlet responsible for making sure the primary complaint about AI was water. this may have been in part because jeff knew it was bullshit, so when amzn gets blowback they can easily prove their water footprint is small
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Graham Linehan is a normal and well man.
November 27, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Graham Linehan is a normal and well man.
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Copyright is a middleman. It says: you get paid if you successfully enforce artificial scarcity on infinitely copyable files. That's a precarious, adversarial way to fund creative work!!! To me, the problem isn't insufficient *ownership*. It's inadequate direct support for creative labour.
November 28, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Copyright is a middleman. It says: you get paid if you successfully enforce artificial scarcity on infinitely copyable files. That's a precarious, adversarial way to fund creative work!!! To me, the problem isn't insufficient *ownership*. It's inadequate direct support for creative labour.
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Poor BlueSky team. The developer goals are like: "Let's make an open social network with an open API and data interop."
Meanwhile BlueSky's users are like:
"CAN THE FEDS SEE MY BLUESKY POSTS?"
"No brother. We are safe here, the Nazis are on the other site."
Meanwhile BlueSky's users are like:
"CAN THE FEDS SEE MY BLUESKY POSTS?"
"No brother. We are safe here, the Nazis are on the other site."
June 18, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Poor BlueSky team. The developer goals are like: "Let's make an open social network with an open API and data interop."
Meanwhile BlueSky's users are like:
"CAN THE FEDS SEE MY BLUESKY POSTS?"
"No brother. We are safe here, the Nazis are on the other site."
Meanwhile BlueSky's users are like:
"CAN THE FEDS SEE MY BLUESKY POSTS?"
"No brother. We are safe here, the Nazis are on the other site."
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if you do not think that your multiple ton hunk of metal which you are flinging down the highway at sixty miles per hour will eventually kill someone you are not qualified to work on any such thing
![Pop Crave & @PopCrave • 12h
Waymo co-CEO warns fatal crashes in self-driving cars are coming, and the company is already planning for them:
"We don't say "whether.' We say 'when.' And we plan for [fatal crashes]."
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November 20, 2025 at 2:04 AM
if you do not think that your multiple ton hunk of metal which you are flinging down the highway at sixty miles per hour will eventually kill someone you are not qualified to work on any such thing
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My new piece for The Guardian
Big content is taking on AI – but it’s far from the David v Goliath tale they’d have you believe | Alexander Avila
Big content is taking on AI – but it’s far from the David v Goliath tale they’d have you believe | Alexander Avila
Deals between media conglomerates and tech companies serve both sets of interests, while leaving artists by the wayside, says video essayist, writer and researcher Alexander Avila
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
My new piece for The Guardian
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Buying and scanning the books you own is now "outright theft."
Love seeing people uncritically take up RIAA/MPAA talking points from 2001.
Love seeing people uncritically take up RIAA/MPAA talking points from 2001.
you can convincingly portray this whole financialized AI edifice as a mortgage crisis-style house of cards without even mentioning that the fundamental product is unreliable, based on outright theft, and people don’t like it.
November 3, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Buying and scanning the books you own is now "outright theft."
Love seeing people uncritically take up RIAA/MPAA talking points from 2001.
Love seeing people uncritically take up RIAA/MPAA talking points from 2001.
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If you hate the Commons so much, don’t contribute to it. Your slop won’t be missed.
November 4, 2025 at 6:31 AM
If you hate the Commons so much, don’t contribute to it. Your slop won’t be missed.
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I BEAT THE WORLDS HARDEST POKEMON NUZLOCKE
IT TOOK 1 TRY AND 426 HOURS
IT TOOK 1 TRY AND 426 HOURS
October 29, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I BEAT THE WORLDS HARDEST POKEMON NUZLOCKE
IT TOOK 1 TRY AND 426 HOURS
IT TOOK 1 TRY AND 426 HOURS
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Genuinely what the fuck is going on in Albania
October 27, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Genuinely what the fuck is going on in Albania
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This is why I ultimately have about as much patience for mid-2000s “GET RELIGION OUT OF POLITICS” shrieking as I do for MAGA’s shrieking for racial holy war
Mamdani should not be expected to apologize to anyone for his religious beliefs or those who claim to share them as a shield for atrocity
Mamdani should not be expected to apologize to anyone for his religious beliefs or those who claim to share them as a shield for atrocity
October 25, 2025 at 6:41 AM
This is why I ultimately have about as much patience for mid-2000s “GET RELIGION OUT OF POLITICS” shrieking as I do for MAGA’s shrieking for racial holy war
Mamdani should not be expected to apologize to anyone for his religious beliefs or those who claim to share them as a shield for atrocity
Mamdani should not be expected to apologize to anyone for his religious beliefs or those who claim to share them as a shield for atrocity
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Nearly all of the left-liberal skepticism around Mamdani came from a place of “he’s Muslim and refuses to say he doesn’t take his religion seriously” laïcité that is one of the worst and most enduring domestic cultural legacies of the Global War on Terror
Mamdani is well dressed, has to be very careful in his approach, and his record is damn near spotless. Platner is a fucking Blackwater merc with an SS tat and everyone from Sanders to Vigeland to fucking Jacobin is tripping over themselves to defend and equivocate. Fucking disgusting.
Mamdani: "I thought that if I could build a campaign of universality ... if I behaved well enough or bit my tongue enough ... it would allow me to be more than just my faith. I was wrong."
October 25, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Nearly all of the left-liberal skepticism around Mamdani came from a place of “he’s Muslim and refuses to say he doesn’t take his religion seriously” laïcité that is one of the worst and most enduring domestic cultural legacies of the Global War on Terror
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It’s very funny that a big portion of people who posted that “I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and I’m not kidding” meme pitched a fit and called for a boycott when Mario Kart World was $80
AAA video games should cost $100 on launch. this would still be extremely cheap for the amount of time and enjoyment you get out of them! But an audience of whiny babies has kept them literally at the same price for *two decades* despite both general inflation *and* sector-specific costs rising
October 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
It’s very funny that a big portion of people who posted that “I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and I’m not kidding” meme pitched a fit and called for a boycott when Mario Kart World was $80
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Guys who crawled up into fame by running small businesses and mastering SEO and cloutchasing being more right wing than people who mastered a collaborative art form seems pretty intuitive to me
just an observation but it does seem like the entertainment class of tiktok lifestyle influencers and reality stars is going to be way more right wing than actors, directors, and tv/movie writers.
why
October 17, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Guys who crawled up into fame by running small businesses and mastering SEO and cloutchasing being more right wing than people who mastered a collaborative art form seems pretty intuitive to me
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all the power in the world and it's worth nothing to them if the people whose guts they hate and whose approval they desperately crave can't see it. that's why we'll win in the end. they need us more than we need them.
Hello, Patriots! DHS is here to appeal to your patriotic spirit and ask that you lend us a hand in stopping the Democrats’ government shutdown.
To all the Americans on Bluesky, your homeland needs all of us to work together.
To all the Americans on Bluesky, your homeland needs all of us to work together.
October 17, 2025 at 10:14 PM
all the power in the world and it's worth nothing to them if the people whose guts they hate and whose approval they desperately crave can't see it. that's why we'll win in the end. they need us more than we need them.
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What’s lost in this conversation is that language must always escape containment, so your playful little “clanker” slur is now being directed at people with bionic limbs.
Harmless fun, right? www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8AjSabH/
Harmless fun, right? www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8AjSabH/
October 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM
What’s lost in this conversation is that language must always escape containment, so your playful little “clanker” slur is now being directed at people with bionic limbs.
Harmless fun, right? www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8AjSabH/
Harmless fun, right? www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8AjSabH/