Surly JBW
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
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"You know why most film makers are liberal? Because our job is to make you care about situations & people. And to do that, we think a lot about that kind of shit & channel it into our work. You don’t care about other people? This is not the job for you."
~ Duncan Jones
#scriptsky #filmsky
~ Duncan Jones
#scriptsky #filmsky
December 16, 2025 at 6:13 PM
"You know why most film makers are liberal? Because our job is to make you care about situations & people. And to do that, we think a lot about that kind of shit & channel it into our work. You don’t care about other people? This is not the job for you."
~ Duncan Jones
#scriptsky #filmsky
~ Duncan Jones
#scriptsky #filmsky
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Big Mama Thornton talks about recording "Hound Dog," which would become her best selling single. And a key moment in Rock N Roll history.
Big Mama Thornton would've been 99 today
Big Mama Thornton would've been 99 today
December 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Big Mama Thornton talks about recording "Hound Dog," which would become her best selling single. And a key moment in Rock N Roll history.
Big Mama Thornton would've been 99 today
Big Mama Thornton would've been 99 today
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the way that ai is being advertised now is that everyone has to pretend to be incompetent and incredibly incapable and useless at everything
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
the way that ai is being advertised now is that everyone has to pretend to be incompetent and incredibly incapable and useless at everything
Great thread
I really think a lot of centre-left Labour-supporting people, if they truly want to change the government *and* get genuine progressive/left policies over the line, need to brush up on the history of the ACT Party
I'm quite serious
I'm quite serious
December 9, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Great thread
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When we talk about physical media, we are often only taking about personal collections but a big part of shunning the current digital ecosystem is supporting your local library. Not just for print books and periodicals but for movies, games and other medias too. Get. A. Library. Card.
December 6, 2025 at 9:12 PM
When we talk about physical media, we are often only taking about personal collections but a big part of shunning the current digital ecosystem is supporting your local library. Not just for print books and periodicals but for movies, games and other medias too. Get. A. Library. Card.
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Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?
November 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?
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"The wolf tells us that brick houses will never work and straw is the ultimate building material."
November 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
"The wolf tells us that brick houses will never work and straw is the ultimate building material."
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Pre-writing your enemy's obituary in case you go first is top-tier hating
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Pre-writing your enemy's obituary in case you go first is top-tier hating
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Just told my 10yo daughter about #DickCheney. She had tears in her eyes. And then she did the Wakanda pose and said "#Dickanda forever"—which is the sort of pop culture cross-over I can celebrate.
November 4, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Just told my 10yo daughter about #DickCheney. She had tears in her eyes. And then she did the Wakanda pose and said "#Dickanda forever"—which is the sort of pop culture cross-over I can celebrate.
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Andrew Cuomo hosting a seance on CNN where the spirit of Jeffery Epstein endorses him
November 3, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Andrew Cuomo hosting a seance on CNN where the spirit of Jeffery Epstein endorses him
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kindness is free. for an ad-free kindness experience, upgrade to kindness+ starting at $15.99 a month
November 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
kindness is free. for an ad-free kindness experience, upgrade to kindness+ starting at $15.99 a month
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someone on reddit found the facebook group richard bunce is a part of and they're just nazis. and the reporter who did this story failed to mention that because i guess research is hard.
November 4, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport
www.economist.com/internationa...
"In London cyclists now outnumber cars in the City by two to one and in Paris, they outnumber motorists across the whole city. In Copenhagen bikes account for almost half of commuter journeys to work and school."
www.economist.com/internationa...
"In London cyclists now outnumber cars in the City by two to one and in Paris, they outnumber motorists across the whole city. In Copenhagen bikes account for almost half of commuter journeys to work and school."
Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport
Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war
www.economist.com
November 1, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport
www.economist.com/internationa...
"In London cyclists now outnumber cars in the City by two to one and in Paris, they outnumber motorists across the whole city. In Copenhagen bikes account for almost half of commuter journeys to work and school."
www.economist.com/internationa...
"In London cyclists now outnumber cars in the City by two to one and in Paris, they outnumber motorists across the whole city. In Copenhagen bikes account for almost half of commuter journeys to work and school."
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Ex-Partner returns with their debut album Lore-Core, a blitz of textural landscapes crashing into Tony Drent’s fragile, distinctly Aotearoan voice, a union which frequently degenerates into lush, dream-like scenes resembling a Safdie brothers film soundtrack or a lost microgenre of the Bloghouse era
October 31, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Ex-Partner returns with their debut album Lore-Core, a blitz of textural landscapes crashing into Tony Drent’s fragile, distinctly Aotearoan voice, a union which frequently degenerates into lush, dream-like scenes resembling a Safdie brothers film soundtrack or a lost microgenre of the Bloghouse era
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Donald Trump is pursuing a third presidential term the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
October 31, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Donald Trump is pursuing a third presidential term the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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Where is Ja Rule? What does Ja make of this?
October 28, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Where is Ja Rule? What does Ja make of this?
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DJ Khaled don't eat pussy, he ain't even winning a Verzuz against his wife boyfriend
October 28, 2025 at 2:32 PM
DJ Khaled don't eat pussy, he ain't even winning a Verzuz against his wife boyfriend
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October 27, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies
October 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies