Avatar Fire and Ash is out now

God only exists when it is convenient for me to mock him

pope leo i urge you to start the righteous holy war against AI

@iarmha1reacht Woah! Holy heck!

I would happily pay more council tax if my council replied to imbeciles in this way.

@chatpileroan Nah dude they got grass. They GOTSTA

it’s probably quite scary being a cow because what if a ufo comes down and beams you up cause there’s no grass up there

ethan hawke once again talking against ai, and highlighting the importance of human creativity: “it’s not the painting, it’s the energy behind the painting […] when we start making things being about perfection you’re just belittling the experience of life”

It’s so funny how TV was so successful for decades, and then everyone was like what if we broke it all, and now they’re coming back around. Like okay.

The Weekly Industrial Worker, Seattle, Washington, April 6, 1918

FOR THE RECORD: I am not suicidal. I would never disappear for extended periods of time without notifying friends, family, and social media.

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." — Frank Herbert, Dune

The Daily Worker, Chicago, Illinois, December 3, 1919

KEEP IT GOING!

"you don't pirate for preservation purposes you pirate because you want free shit"

this

President Catherine Connolly has warned that "the consequences of a 'might is right' mentality are now "crystal clear before our eyes" amid a period where "countries can be invaded at will, or threatened with invasion" rte.ie/news/2026/0121…

They're literally just admitting it...

He’s the only mayor in the country who’s poked his head out from the bunker and realized that coalition that held up the 60+ years of Boomer NIMBYism is just… gone.

🦔 A group of Princeton researchers is calling Big Tech's extraction of human attention "human fracking." The analogy: just as oil companies pump high-pressure chemicals into the ground to force out petroleum, tech companies pump endless streams of addictive content into our faces to force out attention, which they collect and sell. 70% of the world's population now has a smartphone. Globally, people spend close to half their waking hours looking at screens. Among young people in wealthy countries, the number is higher. The essay argues this is "a world-spanning land-grab into human consciousness, which big tech is treating as a vast, unclaimed territory, ripe for sacking and empire." The authors point out that environmental politics didn't exist in 1950. By 1970 it was a global force. They argue a similar shift is coming for attention. People across the political spectrum, left and right, all agree something is wrong with a world where everyone scrolls endlessly through algorithmic feeds while trillion-dollar corporations deploy military-grade technology to keep children hooked. My Take The fracking metaphor captures the extraction mindset. Oil frackers don't care what happens to the land after they've pulled out the oil. Tech companies don't care what happens to your attention span after they've monetized it. The externalities get dumped on individuals and society while the profits flow to shareholders. This connects to everything I've been posting. AI is supposed to deliver productivity gains and free up human time. Instead, the same companies are designing systems to capture as much of that time as possible. The product isn't AI. The product is us. Our attention is being fracked so that someone else can sell it. And just like with oil, we won't fully understand the damage until the landscape is already ruined. Hedgie🤗