PeoriaBummer
@peoriabummer.bsky.social
Tech ethics and policy, CS education, tabletop games, D&D, indie rock, guitar, and gardening.
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"What happens when an industry spends 15 years telling talented young journalists that personal brand is currency, that access is the game, that being a character in the story makes better content—and then acts shocked when someone takes that logic a few degrees too far?"
The Olivia Nuzzi Comeback Is Everything Wrong With Modern Media
Olivia Nuzzi’s comeback isn’t a personal scandal story—it’s proof that today’s media rewards access, personality, and controversy more than ethics.
www.mediaite.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:14 PM
"What happens when an industry spends 15 years telling talented young journalists that personal brand is currency, that access is the game, that being a character in the story makes better content—and then acts shocked when someone takes that logic a few degrees too far?"
If it takes more human effort to listen to your AI music than it takes you to produce it, why does it exist?
I genuinely don’t understand why anyone wants AI music. What’s the point of music with no human behind it? I don’t understand the appeal.
AI music company Suno valued at $2.45 billion in latest funding round reut.rs/440Tmk7
November 20, 2025 at 6:47 AM
If it takes more human effort to listen to your AI music than it takes you to produce it, why does it exist?
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Filing: Nvidia says it plans to rent $26B worth of servers over the next six years, doubling the cloud spending commitments it disclosed three months ago (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)
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November 20, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Maybe we should have undocumented people deporting the Border Patrol instead.
Border Patrol agent died of cocaine overdose a month after Long Beach arrest, autopsy says
Border Patrol agent died of cocaine overdose a month after Long Beach arrest, autopsy says
U.S. Border Patrol agent Isaiah Hodgson died of a cocaine overdose in August, one month after he was arrested for drunkenly fighting with Long Beach police, according to an autopsy report made public by Riverside County authorities.
www.latimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Maybe we should have undocumented people deporting the Border Patrol instead.
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oh yeah the new york city subway is so fucking scary, you never know what kind of weirdo you'll have to share a train with
November 19, 2025 at 11:49 PM
oh yeah the new york city subway is so fucking scary, you never know what kind of weirdo you'll have to share a train with
I genuinely don’t understand why anyone wants AI music. What’s the point of music with no human behind it? I don’t understand the appeal.
AI music company Suno valued at $2.45 billion in latest funding round reut.rs/440Tmk7
AI music company Suno valued at $2.45 billion in latest funding round
Suno said on Wednesday it has raised $250 million in a funding round led by Menlo Ventures, valuing the artificial intelligence music company at $2.45 billion, as it aims to develop more sophisticated tools for song creation.
reut.rs
November 20, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I genuinely don’t understand why anyone wants AI music. What’s the point of music with no human behind it? I don’t understand the appeal.
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I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
You first, pal. Give up your family’s government health insurance.
Markwayne Mullin: "Reward people for being healthy. Think about this. Healthcare is the only industry that you're not rewarded for taking care of your responsibility. If you think about homeowners insurance, if you're within 500 feet of a fire hydrant, your insurance goes down."
November 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
You first, pal. Give up your family’s government health insurance.
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Have people really forgotten how bad it was? That they could deny you healthcare for pre-existing conditions? That babies born with « issues » had no healthcare? That people lost healthcare over diabetes or allergies or cancer? That we had to pay for mammograms? That birth control cost hundreds?
"Punish people for being unhealthy. Born with genetic defects? Fuck you."
Of course, using Mullin's logic, anyone who comes down with COVID, measles, rubella, whooping cough etc. because they refused to get vaccinated had it coming, so...
Of course, using Mullin's logic, anyone who comes down with COVID, measles, rubella, whooping cough etc. because they refused to get vaccinated had it coming, so...
Markwayne Mullin: "Reward people for being healthy. Think about this. Healthcare is the only industry that you're not rewarded for taking care of your responsibility. If you think about homeowners insurance, if you're within 500 feet of a fire hydrant, your insurance goes down."
November 19, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Have people really forgotten how bad it was? That they could deny you healthcare for pre-existing conditions? That babies born with « issues » had no healthcare? That people lost healthcare over diabetes or allergies or cancer? That we had to pay for mammograms? That birth control cost hundreds?
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I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.
November 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.
Are finding out who Bubba is?
November 19, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Are finding out who Bubba is?
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I preferred it when I had forgotten about olbermann
November 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I preferred it when I had forgotten about olbermann
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when will the lesson finally get learned? #cloudflare
November 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
when will the lesson finally get learned? #cloudflare
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OpenAI is the Bari Weiss of technology
Well.
Oracle’s astonishing $300bn OpenAI deal is now valued at minus $74bn - on.ft.com/4p8LViA via @FT
Oracle’s astonishing $300bn OpenAI deal is now valued at minus $74bn - on.ft.com/4p8LViA via @FT
Oracle’s astonishing $300bn OpenAI deal is now valued at minus $74bn
And suddenly, there may be a reverse Midas at the centre of AI’s circular economy
on.ft.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:48 AM
OpenAI is the Bari Weiss of technology
The final game of the World Series was an eruption of joy and fun on here.
I get why it happens but goddamn do I wish anything could hit as hard on the timeline as something that sucks that everyone hates written by or about the worst person you know. I wish something good or interesting was able to get anywhere near the traction some shit that sucks does.
November 18, 2025 at 9:52 AM
The final game of the World Series was an eruption of joy and fun on here.
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GAWKER! thou shouldst be living at this hour
November 18, 2025 at 1:52 AM
GAWKER! thou shouldst be living at this hour
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writers! you can just have a garden, you don’t have to have a metaphor
November 18, 2025 at 2:08 AM
writers! you can just have a garden, you don’t have to have a metaphor
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We could spend decades pouring the entire GDP into researching whatever caused her to write these words, but we’d never get any closer to an explanation. We cannot understand, and we will never understand. Thank fucking god.
November 18, 2025 at 2:51 AM
We could spend decades pouring the entire GDP into researching whatever caused her to write these words, but we’d never get any closer to an explanation. We cannot understand, and we will never understand. Thank fucking god.
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👀Fitzpatrick said Halligan made two apparent "fundamental misstatements of law" to the grand jury that could threaten the case. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
👀Fitzpatrick said Halligan made two apparent "fundamental misstatements of law" to the grand jury that could threaten the case. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
your last saved meme is your moral philosophy…
November 17, 2025 at 1:50 AM
your last saved meme is your moral philosophy…
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[P] At Thanksgiving dinner, I like turkey just fine, but what I love more is all the surroundings.
Trump shamelessly lies: "Go to Walmart and other companies, and in every case it's about 25% that a Thanksgiving meal and surroundings are 25% lower. That's big fact."
November 17, 2025 at 12:02 AM
[P] At Thanksgiving dinner, I like turkey just fine, but what I love more is all the surroundings.
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Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry
November 16, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry
Strange how the people breathlessly offering this advice never seem to take it themselves.
The plow, the steam engine, electricity — all replaced muscle. AI replaces cognition. If you spend your day “reading lots of stuff and turning it into straight English,” well… so does the machine. The goal now is to learn from history and cushion the blow better than last time.
November 16, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Strange how the people breathlessly offering this advice never seem to take it themselves.
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(spending 9 billion dollars to make a robot say "i have always loved you") hard times create strong men
November 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
(spending 9 billion dollars to make a robot say "i have always loved you") hard times create strong men
