Rich Puchalsky
@richpuchalsky.bsky.social
freelance librarian
anarchist
anarchist
Why should people be suckers for a system that isn't designed to teach anyone anything in any case? Those 40-50% not doing anything -- are people giving them Fs? Or are they being graded on a curve so that they will get the job certification stamp that society demands from them no matter what?
November 29, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Why should people be suckers for a system that isn't designed to teach anyone anything in any case? Those 40-50% not doing anything -- are people giving them Fs? Or are they being graded on a curve so that they will get the job certification stamp that society demands from them no matter what?
Biden committed genocide -- but what's the big deal, right? American Dream still lived through that.
November 27, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Biden committed genocide -- but what's the big deal, right? American Dream still lived through that.
It's not anti-American -- America has behaved this way in every historical era. It's anti- the dream of America that foolish people still believe in and that lets the actual imperial state persist.
November 26, 2025 at 10:05 PM
It's not anti-American -- America has behaved this way in every historical era. It's anti- the dream of America that foolish people still believe in and that lets the actual imperial state persist.
A blue check means that you were in Epstein's flight logs
November 26, 2025 at 9:53 PM
A blue check means that you were in Epstein's flight logs
If the same thing keeps happening whenever you interact with people, maybe you are the problem
November 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
If the same thing keeps happening whenever you interact with people, maybe you are the problem
What's "incredibly dark" about him imagining a conversation? The US has been a gerontocracy since the days when Reagan's wife's astrologer made war and peace decisions, and we were lucky that the astrologer did. In addition to Reagan, Biden and Trump have been not all there. They are figureheads.
November 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
What's "incredibly dark" about him imagining a conversation? The US has been a gerontocracy since the days when Reagan's wife's astrologer made war and peace decisions, and we were lucky that the astrologer did. In addition to Reagan, Biden and Trump have been not all there. They are figureheads.
This was good because I finally figured out how to turn off autocorrect in Email
November 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
This was good because I finally figured out how to turn off autocorrect in Email
It's our entire society. You can't blame it on a few people at the top: this is what America is and always has been.
November 20, 2025 at 10:05 PM
It's our entire society. You can't blame it on a few people at the top: this is what America is and always has been.
Stanislaw Lem wrote this already (The Futurological Congress)
November 20, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Stanislaw Lem wrote this already (The Futurological Congress)
It takes one despot to undo the effect *in one country*. Fortunately the US is not one of the important countries, it was long ago clear that the US was going to be pushing fossil forever -- at least from when Obama pushed fracked gas as a transition fuel that we were never going to get rid of.
November 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM
It takes one despot to undo the effect *in one country*. Fortunately the US is not one of the important countries, it was long ago clear that the US was going to be pushing fossil forever -- at least from when Obama pushed fracked gas as a transition fuel that we were never going to get rid of.
In part that's it. In part it's even worse.
This explanation posits rational, selfish capital-owners, but capital-owners now generally believe propaganda put out by a subset of capital-owners who wanted to preserve sunk cost investments. They created a cultural belief among themselves.
This explanation posits rational, selfish capital-owners, but capital-owners now generally believe propaganda put out by a subset of capital-owners who wanted to preserve sunk cost investments. They created a cultural belief among themselves.
November 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
In part that's it. In part it's even worse.
This explanation posits rational, selfish capital-owners, but capital-owners now generally believe propaganda put out by a subset of capital-owners who wanted to preserve sunk cost investments. They created a cultural belief among themselves.
This explanation posits rational, selfish capital-owners, but capital-owners now generally believe propaganda put out by a subset of capital-owners who wanted to preserve sunk cost investments. They created a cultural belief among themselves.
Every large retailer orders its employees to smile, and almost no one working there would smile otherwise.
November 8, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Every large retailer orders its employees to smile, and almost no one working there would smile otherwise.
You can't really have a right to be safe, because human existence is inherently unsafe. People have different risk tolerances, but the actual amount of risk is not always controllable.
I agree with you about "feeling safe".
I agree with you about "feeling safe".
November 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
You can't really have a right to be safe, because human existence is inherently unsafe. People have different risk tolerances, but the actual amount of risk is not always controllable.
I agree with you about "feeling safe".
I agree with you about "feeling safe".
The American people shaped the current moment. Dick Cheney was not a Great Man of History who magically had the ability to make everyone go along with his particular representation of elite interests. Americans are a bad people.
November 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The American people shaped the current moment. Dick Cheney was not a Great Man of History who magically had the ability to make everyone go along with his particular representation of elite interests. Americans are a bad people.
inevitable that Teen Vogue would either be owned by someone who decided to become Trump affiliated or be bought by someone specifically to close this down
November 3, 2025 at 8:40 PM
inevitable that Teen Vogue would either be owned by someone who decided to become Trump affiliated or be bought by someone specifically to close this down
I'm a data librarian. You do not need a "data center" in order to have an Internet, or at least you certainly don't need to build any new ones.
The good metrics that we have are that people who understand what is going on see that it's all hype and nonsense for infalting a bubble.
The good metrics that we have are that people who understand what is going on see that it's all hype and nonsense for infalting a bubble.
November 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I'm a data librarian. You do not need a "data center" in order to have an Internet, or at least you certainly don't need to build any new ones.
The good metrics that we have are that people who understand what is going on see that it's all hype and nonsense for infalting a bubble.
The good metrics that we have are that people who understand what is going on see that it's all hype and nonsense for infalting a bubble.
It's 0% / 100%. There is no "AI" use for genuinely important functions, or if some sucker is trying to use it for them then everyone would be better off if they didn't.
November 3, 2025 at 1:07 PM
It's 0% / 100%. There is no "AI" use for genuinely important functions, or if some sucker is trying to use it for them then everyone would be better off if they didn't.
This time they're gonna get Kevin Bacon
October 31, 2025 at 7:18 PM
This time they're gonna get Kevin Bacon
A large majority of War of Terror era wars (except the aggressive war on Iraq) have been on entities that may or may not exist. The US would make up an entity and some guy eager to expand his network would say "Oh yeah I'm the boss of International Terror."
October 31, 2025 at 4:55 PM
A large majority of War of Terror era wars (except the aggressive war on Iraq) have been on entities that may or may not exist. The US would make up an entity and some guy eager to expand his network would say "Oh yeah I'm the boss of International Terror."
Most academic work can use LLMs because most academic work is of no particular value to anyone
October 30, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Most academic work can use LLMs because most academic work is of no particular value to anyone
No. Nostalgia is remembering good things about the past; bitterness is remembering bad things about the past. They may both be falsified memories to some extent. But the biggest barrier to progress is not that we remember the past.
October 30, 2025 at 4:40 PM
No. Nostalgia is remembering good things about the past; bitterness is remembering bad things about the past. They may both be falsified memories to some extent. But the biggest barrier to progress is not that we remember the past.