shanty
@sbhatia.bsky.social
28, figuring life out. Personal account, all opinions are my own as Just a Guy.
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Convinced some of you are lying about not using ai because I’ve watched your critical thinking degrade in real time
November 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Convinced some of you are lying about not using ai because I’ve watched your critical thinking degrade in real time
4. chinese railway company invents train so fast you can meet god
Every tech article nowadays be like
"Biology makes another step forward curing deadly diseases"
"Computer scientists panic as they cram the torment nexus into something unrelated"
"Engineers make record growth with renewable energy"
"Biology makes another step forward curing deadly diseases"
"Computer scientists panic as they cram the torment nexus into something unrelated"
"Engineers make record growth with renewable energy"
November 16, 2025 at 9:15 PM
4. chinese railway company invents train so fast you can meet god
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“Gen Z has the lowest racial resentment of any generation ever studied.”
Important work from @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social that offers a clear explanation of why there is an intense push to change school curricula to make them more white supremacist
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
Important work from @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social that offers a clear explanation of why there is an intense push to change school curricula to make them more white supremacist
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
The Shocking Truth About Gen Z Voters Is That They’re Pretty Great
Stop panicking: They are the most progressive generation ever, especially on race. If that surprises you, you’ve been listening to the wrong story.
newrepublic.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:25 PM
“Gen Z has the lowest racial resentment of any generation ever studied.”
Important work from @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social that offers a clear explanation of why there is an intense push to change school curricula to make them more white supremacist
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
Important work from @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social that offers a clear explanation of why there is an intense push to change school curricula to make them more white supremacist
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
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OH WOW
YOU'RE TELLING ME ALL THE PROPAGANDA CALLING THE YOUNGEST ADULT GENERATION IDIOTS MAY HAVE BEEN AN ATTEMPT TO DISCREDIT THE LEAST RACIST AND MOST LEFT LEANING PORTION OF THE ADULT POPULATION
SAY IT AIN'T SO
YOU'RE TELLING ME ALL THE PROPAGANDA CALLING THE YOUNGEST ADULT GENERATION IDIOTS MAY HAVE BEEN AN ATTEMPT TO DISCREDIT THE LEAST RACIST AND MOST LEFT LEANING PORTION OF THE ADULT POPULATION
SAY IT AIN'T SO
“Gen Z has the lowest racial resentment of any generation ever studied.”
Important work from @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social that offers a clear explanation of why there is an intense push to change school curricula to make them more white supremacist
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
Important work from @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social that offers a clear explanation of why there is an intense push to change school curricula to make them more white supremacist
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
The Shocking Truth About Gen Z Voters Is That They’re Pretty Great
Stop panicking: They are the most progressive generation ever, especially on race. If that surprises you, you’ve been listening to the wrong story.
newrepublic.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:25 PM
OH WOW
YOU'RE TELLING ME ALL THE PROPAGANDA CALLING THE YOUNGEST ADULT GENERATION IDIOTS MAY HAVE BEEN AN ATTEMPT TO DISCREDIT THE LEAST RACIST AND MOST LEFT LEANING PORTION OF THE ADULT POPULATION
SAY IT AIN'T SO
YOU'RE TELLING ME ALL THE PROPAGANDA CALLING THE YOUNGEST ADULT GENERATION IDIOTS MAY HAVE BEEN AN ATTEMPT TO DISCREDIT THE LEAST RACIST AND MOST LEFT LEANING PORTION OF THE ADULT POPULATION
SAY IT AIN'T SO
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"Suchitra Vijayan speaks to Dr Kalpana Wilson about Gates Foundation, it‘s award to #Modi, and placing it within the larger context of Hindutva fascism and its commitment to neoliberal capitalism and how philanthro-capitalism creates conditions for corporate plunder."
How does Hindutva Fascism and Philanthro-capitalism affect Reproductive Justice in India?
YouTube video by THE POLIS PROJECT
youtu.be
November 15, 2025 at 9:29 AM
"Suchitra Vijayan speaks to Dr Kalpana Wilson about Gates Foundation, it‘s award to #Modi, and placing it within the larger context of Hindutva fascism and its commitment to neoliberal capitalism and how philanthro-capitalism creates conditions for corporate plunder."
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there's this special naivety that afflicts self-styled worldly cynics
"the rw press say voters are concerned by immigration numbers, so if we reduce them, people will calm down"
"the rw press say voters are concerned by immigration numbers, so if we reduce them, people will calm down"
Appeasement. Isn't. Working
November 15, 2025 at 3:17 PM
there's this special naivety that afflicts self-styled worldly cynics
"the rw press say voters are concerned by immigration numbers, so if we reduce them, people will calm down"
"the rw press say voters are concerned by immigration numbers, so if we reduce them, people will calm down"
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Peter Thiel is in the Epstein emails, enjoying himself.
Peter Thiel is an overt, convinced, outspoken Nazi.
Peter Thiel's company is being paid by the UK government to crawl all over YOUR personal data.
Oswald Mosley's grandson runs his UK operation.
You can't make it up.
Peter Thiel is an overt, convinced, outspoken Nazi.
Peter Thiel's company is being paid by the UK government to crawl all over YOUR personal data.
Oswald Mosley's grandson runs his UK operation.
You can't make it up.
How Palantir infiltrated the state
At a moment of national emergency, the government handed our data to Peter Thiel’s controversial company
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Peter Thiel is in the Epstein emails, enjoying himself.
Peter Thiel is an overt, convinced, outspoken Nazi.
Peter Thiel's company is being paid by the UK government to crawl all over YOUR personal data.
Oswald Mosley's grandson runs his UK operation.
You can't make it up.
Peter Thiel is an overt, convinced, outspoken Nazi.
Peter Thiel's company is being paid by the UK government to crawl all over YOUR personal data.
Oswald Mosley's grandson runs his UK operation.
You can't make it up.
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The UK govt: "Hmm, we might have to ban VPNs & a whole range of otehr basic privacy safeguards, to Protect The Children, y'know."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
November 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM
The UK govt: "Hmm, we might have to ban VPNs & a whole range of otehr basic privacy safeguards, to Protect The Children, y'know."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
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Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
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Endless patronizing "but how are we going to pay for it" by people who in their private life were emailing a pedophile to say "money isn't even real lol"
it's been hard to put this feeling into words, but we've spent the past couple of decades being lectured to and patronized by an elite class that spent its free time joshing with jeffrey epstein about his little sex abuse empire while lecturing us about how out of touch we are
November 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Endless patronizing "but how are we going to pay for it" by people who in their private life were emailing a pedophile to say "money isn't even real lol"
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euroids: hahaha Americans are so stupid they can't even read lol lmao
euroids when they learn we are actually right: HOLY SHIT 😳
euroids when they learn we are actually right: HOLY SHIT 😳
November 14, 2025 at 10:39 AM
euroids: hahaha Americans are so stupid they can't even read lol lmao
euroids when they learn we are actually right: HOLY SHIT 😳
euroids when they learn we are actually right: HOLY SHIT 😳
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One reason I'm a radical generalist is that nowadays it is easier than ever to fall into a rabbit hole of specialization, the opportunity cost of which is being pigshit ignorant about literally everything else.
*Anything* now, can become the only thing you know anything about.
*Anything* now, can become the only thing you know anything about.
November 15, 2025 at 1:02 AM
One reason I'm a radical generalist is that nowadays it is easier than ever to fall into a rabbit hole of specialization, the opportunity cost of which is being pigshit ignorant about literally everything else.
*Anything* now, can become the only thing you know anything about.
*Anything* now, can become the only thing you know anything about.
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Something about the tutorialization/hand-holding discourse is that *what* you choose to tutorialize and *how* you choose to do it affects the game's contract with the player.
November 14, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Something about the tutorialization/hand-holding discourse is that *what* you choose to tutorialize and *how* you choose to do it affects the game's contract with the player.
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"We no longer know how to hire people to make our stuff, and can't really be fucked to care about the consequences" is what genAI promises these companies is a thing that is possible to do
It's not, it revulses consumers and potential employees and *loses a shit ton of money* for everyone but execs
It's not, it revulses consumers and potential employees and *loses a shit ton of money* for everyone but execs
November 15, 2025 at 9:53 AM
"We no longer know how to hire people to make our stuff, and can't really be fucked to care about the consequences" is what genAI promises these companies is a thing that is possible to do
It's not, it revulses consumers and potential employees and *loses a shit ton of money* for everyone but execs
It's not, it revulses consumers and potential employees and *loses a shit ton of money* for everyone but execs
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Basically: if someone really hypes up LLM's but can't write a one-liner to automate meaningless grudgework, I find their very existence offensive.
May 19, 2024 at 4:45 PM
Basically: if someone really hypes up LLM's but can't write a one-liner to automate meaningless grudgework, I find their very existence offensive.
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The people in charge, seeing that someone has 30 years of experience making shell scripts: do they see the value in that, or is that applicant passed over in favor of someone with sexy buzzwords?
May 19, 2024 at 4:36 PM
The people in charge, seeing that someone has 30 years of experience making shell scripts: do they see the value in that, or is that applicant passed over in favor of someone with sexy buzzwords?
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One thing that the rise of AI “art” has revealed to me is that “theory of mind” is evidently not a universal human thought process, and many of the people who don’t have it are among the most powerful and influential people in the world.
i genuinely get frightened at how absolutely ape joe rogan goes for AI music. he makes that funk face and bops along staring at every guest while he plays it for them. it scares me to think there are legions of him
completely artless, ignorant hogs who only socialize with other artless, ignorant hogs in 1% wealth social circles, suggesting everyone wants a robot that can take over creating art for them so they can optimize their productive workday. this is the pitch.
November 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM
One thing that the rise of AI “art” has revealed to me is that “theory of mind” is evidently not a universal human thought process, and many of the people who don’t have it are among the most powerful and influential people in the world.
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too much of the economy now is not built around solving a problem or meeting a need
November 15, 2025 at 6:49 PM
too much of the economy now is not built around solving a problem or meeting a need
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Something I wish got challenged more often in this “men in crisis” discourse is the blithe assumption (or sometimes outright assertion!) that everyone’s boss is a woman now. “Women now dominate white collar work and corporate management roles.” No they don’t. That just isn’t true.
Really thankful for this, from @winterjessica.bsky.social—a long-overdue corrective to an exhausting discourse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
What Did Men Do to Deserve This?
Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”
www.newyorker.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Something I wish got challenged more often in this “men in crisis” discourse is the blithe assumption (or sometimes outright assertion!) that everyone’s boss is a woman now. “Women now dominate white collar work and corporate management roles.” No they don’t. That just isn’t true.
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If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
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Paul Krugman only reads blogs and that is why he, unlike everyone else who has been in punditry for decades, has never lost his mind
If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
November 15, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Paul Krugman only reads blogs and that is why he, unlike everyone else who has been in punditry for decades, has never lost his mind
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“WE’S USED TA BE A PROPA EMPIRE, NOW WE JUS’ GOONERS , SAD INNIT???”
November 15, 2025 at 7:24 PM
“WE’S USED TA BE A PROPA EMPIRE, NOW WE JUS’ GOONERS , SAD INNIT???”
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i can’t talk about sports gambling anymore without sounding like a crank but i do believe legalized sports gambling is like 15-20% responsible for our current dystopia
The Athletic polled hundreds of players from across the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL about their opinions surrounding how sports betting impacts players — the responses were haunting.
November 15, 2025 at 3:26 AM
i can’t talk about sports gambling anymore without sounding like a crank but i do believe legalized sports gambling is like 15-20% responsible for our current dystopia