Callum Fauser
@cfauser.bsky.social
Concerned, but powerless. Husband. Father. I edit magazines for a living. Yes, that's still a thing.
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Perfect Tom Stoppard story from DTel obituary:
His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”
His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”
November 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Perfect Tom Stoppard story from DTel obituary:
His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”
His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”
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“I was just following otters.”
November 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
“I was just following otters.”
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your 14yr old nephew is addicted to at least 4 different gambling apps on his phone where he's actively betting daily on the outcome of individual skirmishes in a real life war happening on the other side of the globe
November 27, 2025 at 9:32 AM
your 14yr old nephew is addicted to at least 4 different gambling apps on his phone where he's actively betting daily on the outcome of individual skirmishes in a real life war happening on the other side of the globe
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seeing LLMs as "ideology that can pretend to be a person" helps make it clear what "talking to chatbots" accomplishes: Althusserian "interpellation"
I do, of course, have a paragraph from "Why We Fear AI" for this
November 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
seeing LLMs as "ideology that can pretend to be a person" helps make it clear what "talking to chatbots" accomplishes: Althusserian "interpellation"
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Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
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lol she got his ass and he knows it
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
lol she got his ass and he knows it
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I know people think Musk only bought Twitter to help the rise of fascism.
While that’s important, I still think it’s secondary to his primary goal, which was to own the place where his fans praise him.
With AI, Musk’s use of the platform for love and validation is only getting more transparent.
While that’s important, I still think it’s secondary to his primary goal, which was to own the place where his fans praise him.
With AI, Musk’s use of the platform for love and validation is only getting more transparent.
November 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I know people think Musk only bought Twitter to help the rise of fascism.
While that’s important, I still think it’s secondary to his primary goal, which was to own the place where his fans praise him.
With AI, Musk’s use of the platform for love and validation is only getting more transparent.
While that’s important, I still think it’s secondary to his primary goal, which was to own the place where his fans praise him.
With AI, Musk’s use of the platform for love and validation is only getting more transparent.
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LA: “They took a US citizen father out and left a toddler in the backseat. Two heavily armed border patrol agents got in that car and drove the child and the vehicle away.”
What are we doing?
What are we doing?
November 5, 2025 at 11:07 PM
LA: “They took a US citizen father out and left a toddler in the backseat. Two heavily armed border patrol agents got in that car and drove the child and the vehicle away.”
What are we doing?
What are we doing?
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Tolkien fought in the Battle of the Somme. He saw the horrors of war, and the moments of bravery and fear within it up close.
And after all that. ALL that. He wrote Lord of the Rings. He declared true bravery and masculinity to be love, friendship and humbleness.
Musk is everything he hated.
And after all that. ALL that. He wrote Lord of the Rings. He declared true bravery and masculinity to be love, friendship and humbleness.
Musk is everything he hated.
October 29, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Tolkien fought in the Battle of the Somme. He saw the horrors of war, and the moments of bravery and fear within it up close.
And after all that. ALL that. He wrote Lord of the Rings. He declared true bravery and masculinity to be love, friendship and humbleness.
Musk is everything he hated.
And after all that. ALL that. He wrote Lord of the Rings. He declared true bravery and masculinity to be love, friendship and humbleness.
Musk is everything he hated.
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Adverts should be representative of traditional British families.
October 27, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Adverts should be representative of traditional British families.
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I like to think that this map of all the regional names for woodlice in the UK could also be a map illustrating the new tribes of humans to be found on the same landmass after The Great Digital Crash and ensuing breakdown of society.
October 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
I like to think that this map of all the regional names for woodlice in the UK could also be a map illustrating the new tribes of humans to be found on the same landmass after The Great Digital Crash and ensuing breakdown of society.
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"This magic ring is the secret to everything" "Why" "It binds the other rings" "What do they do" "Grant power" "What sort of power" "Power to rule" "Be more specific" "...." "If I'm in a fight, can I use them" "Well, they make some short people invisible" "Just invisible?" "No! also hurt and sad"
October 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
"This magic ring is the secret to everything" "Why" "It binds the other rings" "What do they do" "Grant power" "What sort of power" "Power to rule" "Be more specific" "...." "If I'm in a fight, can I use them" "Well, they make some short people invisible" "Just invisible?" "No! also hurt and sad"
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I remain convinced that AI is fundamentally a labor-punishing technology, not a labor-replacing one; the point is to force existing workers to accept lower wages & worse conditions because of the threat of a replacement that’s not practically possible at scale
October 23, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I remain convinced that AI is fundamentally a labor-punishing technology, not a labor-replacing one; the point is to force existing workers to accept lower wages & worse conditions because of the threat of a replacement that’s not practically possible at scale
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You know how billionaires end up with severe cognitive deficits as a result of becoming surrounded by yes men who constantly tell them their every idea is genius? What if we made a bot that just does that to everyone. I think that would be a good idea.
October 17, 2025 at 5:00 AM
You know how billionaires end up with severe cognitive deficits as a result of becoming surrounded by yes men who constantly tell them their every idea is genius? What if we made a bot that just does that to everyone. I think that would be a good idea.
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The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.
October 16, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.
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Repairing the airship Graf Zeppelin’s hull during a flight over The Atlantic, 1934, by Alfred Eisenstaedt.
October 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Repairing the airship Graf Zeppelin’s hull during a flight over The Atlantic, 1934, by Alfred Eisenstaedt.
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They will paint these Young Republicans as children while legislating that actual children be treated like adults in the justice system.
Because, again, MAGA decides who gets to be a child.
Because, again, MAGA decides who gets to be a child.
He already said he's cool with it www.yahoo.com/news/article...
October 15, 2025 at 12:19 PM
They will paint these Young Republicans as children while legislating that actual children be treated like adults in the justice system.
Because, again, MAGA decides who gets to be a child.
Because, again, MAGA decides who gets to be a child.
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IMF warns of rising odds of 'disorderly' global market correction
www.reuters.com/business/fin...
"Global markets are too comfortable with risks, including trade wars, geopolitical tensions and yawning government deficits"
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Non-banks "now holds roughly half of the world's financial assets"
www.reuters.com/business/fin...
"Global markets are too comfortable with risks, including trade wars, geopolitical tensions and yawning government deficits"
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Non-banks "now holds roughly half of the world's financial assets"
October 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
IMF warns of rising odds of 'disorderly' global market correction
www.reuters.com/business/fin...
"Global markets are too comfortable with risks, including trade wars, geopolitical tensions and yawning government deficits"
Also 👀
Non-banks "now holds roughly half of the world's financial assets"
www.reuters.com/business/fin...
"Global markets are too comfortable with risks, including trade wars, geopolitical tensions and yawning government deficits"
Also 👀
Non-banks "now holds roughly half of the world's financial assets"
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a foundational belief of the modern right is that there is no such thing as organic disagreement with their policies, it’s all directed from the top down
they just can’t conceive that ordinary people find them horrifying
they just can’t conceive that ordinary people find them horrifying
Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."
October 13, 2025 at 2:48 PM
a foundational belief of the modern right is that there is no such thing as organic disagreement with their policies, it’s all directed from the top down
they just can’t conceive that ordinary people find them horrifying
they just can’t conceive that ordinary people find them horrifying
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One of the wildest issues AI creates is that it makes people who shouldn't do things they don't understand, do those exact things believing they understand.
guy in a legal advice reddit wants to know how to get out of paying google the money he owes them after vibe coding one of his apps into running 40 times a second for several days straight, but says it's not his fault bc they should have stopped him by making it harder to use
October 11, 2025 at 11:39 PM
One of the wildest issues AI creates is that it makes people who shouldn't do things they don't understand, do those exact things believing they understand.