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Comfortably Numb

@numb.comfortab.ly

lol

The Pirate Bay search returns zero results for Melania 2026

February 3, 2026 at 12:50 AM

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The Daily Show

@thedailyshow.com

Elon saw the Christmas joy on his kids' faces and immediately asked Epstein to get him the f**k out of there

February 3, 2026 at 6:58 PM

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JC

@supernintendo.bsky.social

wint @dril
in a world where big data threatens to commodify our lives,. telling online surveys that
¡ "Dont know" what pringles are constitutes Heroism

February 3, 2026 at 5:56 PM

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Josh Gondelman

@joshgondelman.bsky.social

The release of the Epstein Files really lays bare the evils of (among other things) networking.

February 1, 2026 at 7:49 PM

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d.ly

@dly.bsky.social

what I’m learning is that rich people need more hobbies

January 31, 2026 at 5:11 PM

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Tom Reagan’s Hat

@rufustsuperfly.bsky.social

Monday coming

January 25, 2026 at 4:56 PM

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mtsw

@mtsw.bsky.social

They didn't like Biden and they like Trump. That's the key difference.

Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 11d

If Biden had urged an ally to take a certain action and then, one week later, threatened them with a trade war for doing exactly that, mass media would be running nonstop coverage questioning his cognitive fitness.

January 24, 2026 at 5:36 PM

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Sean T. Collins

@seantcollins.com

"priests say they never signed up to be martyrs" okay see here's the thing,

NPR @npr.org · 17d

The Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire told priests protesting ICE to get their wills and affairs in order. Some praise the bishop, while other priests say they never signed up to be martyrs. n.pr/45TIwwT

Amid ICE clashes, New Hampshire bishop urges clergy to prepare their wills

The Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire told priests protesting ICE to get their wills and affairs in order. Some praise the bishop, while other priests say they never signed up to be martyrs.

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January 18, 2026 at 2:46 PM

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oafish but nice

@swolecialism.bsky.social

I kinda think Michael Mann robbed a bank once just to prove he could do it to himself. He was obviously never caught

January 18, 2026 at 4:23 AM

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Nash

@radiodeadair.com

"I also believe that we, as a society, will face a violent paradigm shift as a result of the AI bubble bursting, because it revealed how many people do not understand stuff."

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 19d

I am terrified that the end of the AI bubble will be magnitudes worse for the global economy than the dot com bubble, and for society at large. So many people have been so confidently wrong, and I'm not sure what happens when that becomes impossible to ignore.
www.wheresyoured.at/dot-com-bubble/

Depending on how right I am, I worry that the following will happen:

NVIDIA will lose anywhere from 40% to 90% of its revenue in a relatively short amount of time, which will annihilate the value of the S&P 500.
Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta will face massive, multi-billion dollar impairments within the next few years.
Oracle will face potential bankruptcy or at least a severe, horrendous series of layoffs and restructuring efforts to try and right the ship after agreeing to $248 billion in lease obligations primarily to get the revenue from its $300 billion, 5-year-long deal with OpenAI, a company that is going to run out of money in the next year.
Venture capital is going to take such a severe haircut from the AI bubble that it will effectively kill any chances of raising a round after Series B for many, many years.
Those $178.5 billion in data center debt deals will be predominantly underwater, leading to massive losses for private equity and banks (leading to a chill in effectively all debt markets), and massive job losses across the many, many construction projects that have started as a result of the AI bubble.
If OpenAI or Anthropic can manage to go public, every investor will lose out as they collapse under the weight of their bullshit assumptions. Every partner, every company relying on them, every infrastructure provider will be burned.
I also believe that we, as a society, will face a violent paradigm shift as a result of the AI bubble bursting, because it revealed how many people do not understand stuff. The amount of bosses, influencers, movie stars, politicians and other individuals of note that have fallen behind generative AI and claimed again and again that it can do things that it can’t and perpetuated myths that will lead to massive societal harms both today and in the future have revealed themselves as fucking frauds.

Large Language Models are a global gaslighting experiment, where inefficient and questionably-functional software can convince you that it works because you managed to manipulate its handles with the right prompts — explaining away its failures as you go, and getting increasingly agitated with those who don’t agree with you that you’re living in the future.

This piece forced me to live in the past for hours and hours and hours, and all it taught me is that people are desperate to compare this era to another as a means of explaining away the bad habits and specious ideas of a tech industry run by fucking influencers and management consultants.

By comparison, the Dot Com Bubble was sensible, built on good ideas executed by greedy people rushing to do things based on ideas they didn’t understand.

The AI Bubble is happening in a remarkable era of digital information and connectivity that allows us to process and analyze details at scale and with speed, and everybody who inflated this era should — and by my fucking sword will be made to — experience inextricable, permanent shame for the horrors that will follow as a result.

And believe me, even if I’m half right, things will likely be so much worse than when the dot com bubble burst. I don’t see a scenario where anything survives the collapse of CoreWeave, let alone the collapse of OpenAI. I don’t see a scenario where any more than a few AI startups survive, and if that happens, there won’t be any customers for those GPUs — not that anywhere near enough existed to fill even a tiny percentile of the demand that currently exists, or for the capacity we’ve already built.

On some level, I hope I’m wrong. I just don’t know how anymore.

Anyway, see you next week.

January 16, 2026 at 9:24 PM

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Dr Hugo Z. Hackenbush

@novacula-occami.bsky.social

“Diceva”. Lei.
Spero falliate presto, inutili pagliacci.

January 14, 2026 at 6:36 AM

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James

@james.tarnation.lol

every day i wake up and there’s more information. i’ve asked several times for there to be no new information but people keep making new information.

January 12, 2026 at 12:51 PM

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derek guy

@dieworkwear.bsky.social

i had eight hours of sleep and stayed off twitter and my depression went away

January 9, 2026 at 7:01 AM

Fede

@siamoacavallo.bsky.social

GODO

il Post @ilpost.it · 27d

Degli NFT non è rimasto quasi niente

Cinque anni fa c'è stato chi ha pagato centinaia di migliaia di dollari per l'immagine di una scimmia che oggi ne vale un decimo

ilpost.link

January 8, 2026 at 11:35 AM

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J.M. (But also Nemo)

@alamhigo.bsky.social

Today is the last day that you can repost this image

December 31, 2025 at 7:48 AM

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derek guy

@dieworkwear.bsky.social

thinking about "Brother Lobo," a Twitter user with an ancient warrior avatar who said we need to defend objective beauty, but turns out he wears vibram five fingers

Brother Lobo on Twitter writes: "We live in a world without taste because taste requires judgment, and judgement requires hierarchy. We’ve been taught to reject both.

Taste is slowly cultivated over time through exposure, repetition, comparison, and the willingness to say This is better than That.

The modern world wants everything to be flat, interchangeable, and instantly gratifying.

Real taste excludes. To have taste is to beleive in an objective reality. To turn one thing down in favor of another. To say no to inclusion."

In a separate tweet, he writes: "Vibram El X Cross (tan specifically)

I said no particular order, but this might be my favorite “shoe” of all time. It’s one of Vibram’s most minimal male designs and easily the most comfortable shoe they’ve ever made. It’s the lightest shoe I’ve worn and extremely pliable. I’ve worn through three pairs. And by worn through, I mean I put quarter-sized holes in them and had them repaired multiple times. I’ve used them for everything from daily walking to hiking the highest mountains in the Northeast. Sadly, they’re no longer in production. You can still find limited sizes of the black colorway, but the tan version was superior and is no longer available."

Attached are some photos of the shoes. They are structureless, slip-ons that show the shape of the wearer's toes.

A photo of the shoes being worn with jeans.

December 31, 2025 at 10:14 AM

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Ygrene

@ygrene.bsky.social

[being murdered]

murderer: *murdering*

Me: (realizing i won’t ever have to go back to work) thank you for this

December 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM

Fede

@siamoacavallo.bsky.social

la quantità di gente attiva su linkedin durante queste feste é impressionante, ogni volta che prendo in mano il telefono ci sono nuove notifiche

December 28, 2025 at 12:57 PM

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Eoin Higgins

@eoinhiggins.bsky.social

the last decade of the tech industry and America

James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · Dec 27

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

December 27, 2025 at 5:40 PM

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Bruno Dias

@brunodias.bsky.social

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"

You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

December 27, 2025 at 2:06 AM