Ben Zero
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Ben Zero
@benzero.bsky.social
· Aug 29
Stitches get stitches, proud boys get po’ boys?
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Many legal scholars link the court with the Constitution, as if attacking one is somehow attacking the other. They are not linked, nor have they ever been linked. The court is a threat to the Constitution and reform is the best way to protect it.
December 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Many legal scholars link the court with the Constitution, as if attacking one is somehow attacking the other. They are not linked, nor have they ever been linked. The court is a threat to the Constitution and reform is the best way to protect it.
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hey seriously I know you are stressed out right now but I hope you are okay because I care about you
December 19, 2025 at 3:38 AM
hey seriously I know you are stressed out right now but I hope you are okay because I care about you
My god.
December 17, 2025 at 9:20 PM
My god.
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just a collection of "inevitable" multi-billion dollar tech that was going to be the future of everything until everyone in the audience who was supposed to just get on board said "lol no"
December 17, 2025 at 5:42 AM
just a collection of "inevitable" multi-billion dollar tech that was going to be the future of everything until everyone in the audience who was supposed to just get on board said "lol no"
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let me suggest that the impulse that leads someone to run to compact magazine to complain about DEI — "they took my job!" — probably does more to explain professional failure than DEI
One problem with this take is the number of high profile white millennial men in the media...
www.compactmag.com/article/the-...
www.compactmag.com/article/the-...
December 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
let me suggest that the impulse that leads someone to run to compact magazine to complain about DEI — "they took my job!" — probably does more to explain professional failure than DEI
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In a moment of extreme boredom at work I photocopied a paperclip using an entire pack of paper which I then reloaded into the copier, paperclip image right side up. I'd forgotten about this until a photocopier repair man had the machine in pieces looking for the paperclip.
December 16, 2025 at 8:20 PM
In a moment of extreme boredom at work I photocopied a paperclip using an entire pack of paper which I then reloaded into the copier, paperclip image right side up. I'd forgotten about this until a photocopier repair man had the machine in pieces looking for the paperclip.
Ridiculous, but understandable to anyone who watched 'Lost' hoping that they'd try to make it make sense.
the premise is always that its a different king of show than it actually is, and that either there will be a big reveal that demonstrates that it is this other kind of show, or that it is failing by being the kind of show it is rather than the other kind of show.
December 16, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Ridiculous, but understandable to anyone who watched 'Lost' hoping that they'd try to make it make sense.
Me, logging on every morning.
My favorite tyrant joke: a man comes every day and peers at the front page of the newspaper without buying it.
The newspaper vendor says, "what are you looking for?"
"An obituary."
"Obituaries aren't on the front page."
"This one will be."
The newspaper vendor says, "what are you looking for?"
"An obituary."
"Obituaries aren't on the front page."
"This one will be."
December 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Me, logging on every morning.
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Amazing how many articles are just “I’m a white guy who didn’t get the promotion I wanted and the only answer to this problem that concerns every single one of us is to re-segregate the workplace”
December 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Amazing how many articles are just “I’m a white guy who didn’t get the promotion I wanted and the only answer to this problem that concerns every single one of us is to re-segregate the workplace”
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Again, anti-wokeness is a backlash to integration of white collar work. Only white men are allowed to have prestigious jobs otherwise it's unfair bsky.app/profile/mike...
Wow, the horror. Completely shut out of an industry that … promoted him to senior reporter by 40
December 16, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Again, anti-wokeness is a backlash to integration of white collar work. Only white men are allowed to have prestigious jobs otherwise it's unfair bsky.app/profile/mike...
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This entire weekend
December 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
This entire weekend
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The Internet was never perfect but it used to be usable, functional. I know how we got here and I want the old Internet back. I want forums back. I want personal sites. I want stuff not written by a machine. I just want shit to work again.
December 15, 2025 at 12:31 AM
The Internet was never perfect but it used to be usable, functional. I know how we got here and I want the old Internet back. I want forums back. I want personal sites. I want stuff not written by a machine. I just want shit to work again.
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It was a quick trip from "Make America Great Again" to "Shit Happens"
December 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
It was a quick trip from "Make America Great Again" to "Shit Happens"
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One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.
December 7, 2025 at 10:09 PM
One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.
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It’s like watching someone trying to win a marathon by using a car to get to the finish line, and when people ask what the fuck they reply well what else was I supposed to do I don’t have any desire to run or walk.
December 14, 2025 at 7:22 AM
It’s like watching someone trying to win a marathon by using a car to get to the finish line, and when people ask what the fuck they reply well what else was I supposed to do I don’t have any desire to run or walk.
A turducken of awesomeness.
I've been laughing at this all day. All three of these people nailed it. 10/10, no notes.
December 13, 2025 at 6:14 PM
A turducken of awesomeness.
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linkedin job history
Chief AI Officer Dec. 2024- Present
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Chief NFT Officer Feb. 2023 - Dec. 2024
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Chief Metaverse Officer Jun. 2022 - Feb. 2023
Chief AI Officer Dec. 2024- Present
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Chief NFT Officer Feb. 2023 - Dec. 2024
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Chief Metaverse Officer Jun. 2022 - Feb. 2023
December 11, 2025 at 10:28 PM
linkedin job history
Chief AI Officer Dec. 2024- Present
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Chief NFT Officer Feb. 2023 - Dec. 2024
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Chief Metaverse Officer Jun. 2022 - Feb. 2023
Chief AI Officer Dec. 2024- Present
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Chief NFT Officer Feb. 2023 - Dec. 2024
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Chief Metaverse Officer Jun. 2022 - Feb. 2023
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If the bird is, for example, a seagull, then it doesn't eat worms; it eats fries. So being up earlier than the shops open is a waste of time for it, frankly.
December 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
If the bird is, for example, a seagull, then it doesn't eat worms; it eats fries. So being up earlier than the shops open is a waste of time for it, frankly.
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Microsoft: 30% of our code is now written by AI
Also Microsoft:
Also Microsoft:
Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken | Microsoft Community Hub
A major new Windows 11 update has introduced widespread stability issues affecting core system functionality. Many users, including myself, are now...
techcommunity.microsoft.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Microsoft: 30% of our code is now written by AI
Also Microsoft:
Also Microsoft:
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This overlaps with a challenging mode of decision-making in orgs: validation.
I've made a decision, and invested some effort into executing it. Now I need you to validate that decision.
If you find any problems we can still fix, we'll fix them. But if you find problems we can't fix — don't.
I've made a decision, and invested some effort into executing it. Now I need you to validate that decision.
If you find any problems we can still fix, we'll fix them. But if you find problems we can't fix — don't.
Per my last re-post, twice this year I've been commissioned to write reviews of harms that can arise from the use of LLMs and then, as we surface the harms, told
it's not appropriate to be political.
But LLMs are a deeply extractive technology, they are political by design.
it's not appropriate to be political.
But LLMs are a deeply extractive technology, they are political by design.
December 13, 2025 at 3:43 PM
This overlaps with a challenging mode of decision-making in orgs: validation.
I've made a decision, and invested some effort into executing it. Now I need you to validate that decision.
If you find any problems we can still fix, we'll fix them. But if you find problems we can't fix — don't.
I've made a decision, and invested some effort into executing it. Now I need you to validate that decision.
If you find any problems we can still fix, we'll fix them. But if you find problems we can't fix — don't.
It’s worth noticing that the AI push comes in the form of threat marketing implying inevitability, not in the form of problems that it will solve or benefits to adoption. Also, ‘it makes stuff up so you have to check everything.’
December 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
It’s worth noticing that the AI push comes in the form of threat marketing implying inevitability, not in the form of problems that it will solve or benefits to adoption. Also, ‘it makes stuff up so you have to check everything.’
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Okay, so AI rips off artists without compensation or permission and uses absurd new amounts of energy when we already use so much it threatens climate catastrophe, and the results are full of errors and misinfo because it’s just fancy probabilistic autocomplete, but is it profitable? Absolutely not.
December 13, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Okay, so AI rips off artists without compensation or permission and uses absurd new amounts of energy when we already use so much it threatens climate catastrophe, and the results are full of errors and misinfo because it’s just fancy probabilistic autocomplete, but is it profitable? Absolutely not.
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I understand there’s talk of his decline. In general we don’t get involved in that. But something is wrong here. I’m serious. He’s very good at the camera. He was. He was always very conscious of the camera. 25 years ago he’d never do this. Five years ago he wouldn’t.
December 12, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I understand there’s talk of his decline. In general we don’t get involved in that. But something is wrong here. I’m serious. He’s very good at the camera. He was. He was always very conscious of the camera. 25 years ago he’d never do this. Five years ago he wouldn’t.
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This is your annual reminder that if you are in the US and have FSA funds that you won't use, Menstrual products are covered by FSA funds and can be donated to food pantries and shelters.
December 11, 2025 at 11:40 PM
This is your annual reminder that if you are in the US and have FSA funds that you won't use, Menstrual products are covered by FSA funds and can be donated to food pantries and shelters.