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@adcock_brett And how are we supposed to feel about that actually? Ecstatic

We’re entering Day 7! We’ve been running close to a week 24/7 and fully autonomous We’ve sorted over 180,000 packages and have been running continuously, without failure, for 144 hours

@BrianRoemmele I mean it's obviously tied to the continuous overgrowth of corporate power. And what

Facts don’t matter to the anti-data center political party. They are a part of the new Luddites the Anti-Clankers. They wear masks and smash things.

@Spreeathen1 Zumindest musste er nicht wieder heulen

Der Brandmauer-Dienstag kompakt: Friedrich Merz beschreitet den Gang nach Canossa, besucht die versammelte SPD-Bundestagsfraktion, die von ihm „Demut“ einfordert, bekommt von Matthias Miersch einen alten SPD-Schal mit der Aufschrift „Zusammen ist unsere Stärke“ umgehangen und zitiert anschließend Joschka Fischer, um vor der AfD zu warnen.

Das Problem heißt so oder so Massenmanipulation. Es kann sein, dass man mit einem höheren akademischen Abschluss rezeptiver wird für Befehlsempfang von Autoritäten mit wissenschaftlichem, staatlichem, jedenfalls institutionellem Gütesiegel. Man lässt sich dann freiwillig indoktrinieren, solange es von der richtigen Stelle kommt, mit offiziellem, fundiertem Anlitz. Für mich ist es sogar ein Glaubensersatz, wichtiger Unterschied halt, dass Menschen und ihre Erzeugnisse immer fehleranfällig sind, Gott hat dieses Problem nicht. Aber selbst (blinder) Glaube mit religiösem Eifer und verzückter Unterwerfung an den perfekten Schöpfer ist gefährlich, eben weil wir Menschen die Gläubigen sind, mit all unseren schrecklich schönen Makeln. Am gefährlichsten ist aber als Mensch an Menschentand wie an Gott zu glauben. Das kann ja nur schief gehen. Wir brauchen den Pragmatismus des Wissens und die Demut des Glaubens gleichzeitig. Das wäre weise, glaube ich

Das sogenannte „Intelligenz-Dilemma“, in dem westliche Akademiker stecken: Voll arbeiten müssen und sich keine Kinder leisten können. Der Film „Idiocracy“ beschreibt das genial. Wären Trevor und Carol weniger „intelligent“, würden sie einfach Kinder bekommen, Carol würde zu Hause bleiben und alles würde trotzdem laufen. Am Ende ist dieser Typus zu intelligent, um einfach Sozialleistungen zu beziehen, und nicht intelligent genug, um das System zu durchschauen, in dem er mit seinen Steuern die Kinder der (migrantischen) Unterschicht finanziert. Ja, in der Regel stützt dieser Typ Mensch mit seinem Wahlverhalten auch noch das ihn ausbeutende System.

Es ist ein Fehler die (eigene) Berichterstattung und die in ihr repräsentierte "Öffentlichkeit" mit dem eigentlichen Land und angehörigen Leuten gleichzusetzen und dann aus der eigens konstruierten Realität zu "berichten". Journalismus und Fiktion lassen sich so immer schwerer auseinanderhalten. Die inzestuösen Beziehungen zwischen "der" "Zivil"gesellschaft, "den" Medien und der Politik tun ihr übriges. Das Erzeugnis ist schwer behindert und ohne dauernde finanzielle Unterstützung nicht überlebensfähig

Ein Wal verschwindet auf hoher See – und hinterlässt ein verstörtes Land. Die Geschichte von #Timmy beginnt als Tierdrama, endet aber als schonungslose Diagnose deutscher Befindlichkeiten zwischen Romantik, Moralismus und Massenemotion. cicero.de/innenpolitik/d…

@consequence Nice supporting real people and not just animating everything

Drake employed $15 million worth of projection equipment and 300 people to "ice out" Toronto's CN Tower in celebration of his new albums. consequence.net/2026/05/drake-…

@zhao_dashuai Interesting

How the poison of western feminism invaded the Chinese film industry. A Chinese film turned Jodi Arias into a film star.📜 A Chinese director (Qin Xiaoyu) made a film (Her Heart Beats in Its Cage) The film is about a female murderer, Zhao Xiaohong, navigating her life after be released from prison for murdering her husband. But the most ridiculous thing, is that Zhao Xiaohong starred as herself in the film. In 2009, Zhao Xiaohong stabbed her husband to death during a mundane altercation. She claims she was the victim of domestic violence, but the court sentencing never mentioned any domestic violence, nor did any family members from either side. Nor were there any physical evidence of domestic violence like injuries or past reports. The court ultimately convicted her of intentional injury causing death. With a 15 year sentence. She got out in 10 years after "good behavior". Even before her release the film crew somehow got permission to film in the prison she was held in. The filming took place before 2019, and it coincided with 2 judicial officials in that area who was latter imprisoned for corruption. Not only that, the mother and son of the murdered husband was enticed by money to act in the film as well, doing a performative work to "renounce hatred" for the murderer. So how can this happen? The Chinese entertainment industry is a giant money laundering scheme, money goes in from investors, they produce the "product" using idols with large fanbase (pretty girls and boys with no talent only looks). They then sell these products to steaming platforms for profit, and the fans of the idols go on review platforms to give it a high rating. While normal audiences are forced to watch these garbage. So the lack of high quality film and tv series from China has very little to do with censorship. Name me another country that allows murderers to profit from their own crimes. But I wish the censors killed this film from the start. "Her Hearts beats in its Cage" is not strictly the product of capital (investors), it' the product of something far worse, the Hollywood Woke Mind Virus, specifically Woke Feminism. The film won awards at the San Sebastian film festival endorsed by the western film industry, not only to spit at the justice system of China, but also to promote the legitimacy of murder using the excuse of domestic violence. EDIT: The murderer's social media has been banned, all screening of the film has been paused pending investigation. If serious crimes are found, rest assure there will, she might flee to the West and become a "champion of democracy", Western media will portray her as a "victim of CCP oppression".

@martianwyrdlord Yes but the deception is failing increasingly, maybe because it isn't needed anymore at this stage

Normies assume everything that entered the news cycle over the last century was completely spontaneous, when the truth is that most events of any cultural or political significance were carefully stage-managed by informal cadres of activists, publicists, lawyers, journalists, bureaucrats, and security professionals. Most of the time this was relatively out in the open, in the sense that the commies would happily teach you how the sausage was made in their workshops, of course of presenting it all as heroic, canny culture jamming. But the average apolitical normgroid just sees the headlines, which always give the impression that the spontaneity isn't controlled. Which the communists count on. This is their way of lying to everyone without *technically* lying.

@polizeiberlin Das kenne ich aus meinen Videospielen

Wer kennt diese Frau? Am 26.11.25 soll sie einen Mann in ein Wohnhaus in der Aronsstraße in #Neukölln gelockt haben, wo er dann von mehreren Männern überfallen, ausgeraubt und ohnmächtig zurückgelassen worden sei. Foto & Infos: berlin.de/polizei/polize… Hinweise zur Frau oder zur Tat: 📞(030) 4664–573111 (zu Bürodienstzeiten) 📞(030) 4664-571100 (außerhalb Bürodienstzeiten) 📧dir5k31@polizei.berlin.de ^tsm

@IterIntellectus Yea sounds like a stretch

oxytocin promotes ethnocentrism that’s the same hormone that floods women’s brains when they feel loved, when they give birth, and when they’re breastfeeding that’s why women with good parents, good relationships, or who are good mothers are more conservative than the rest of them

@Music @charli_xcx If I send you a dm will you promote my album release just for being nice?

New music from @charli_xcx is on the way...

@ComicDaveSmith Cool

Today. Noon. Fuentes.

@SVG__Collection Good reference for mixing. Brilliant sound (and great songs too in my opinion)

“Random Access Memories” by Daft Punk was released 13 years ago today.

@hackaday What to do with it?

Asimov is an Open Source Humanoid Robot For the Rest of Us ift.tt/SYTwe65

@Will_Tanner_1 Didn't the US literally kidnap all the German scientists and this is how they became so scientifically advanced?

The funny thing is that German involvement in Huntsville did create a unique southern American and German blend of engineering excellence As Charles Murray records in Apollo: “What made this Germanic conservatism and precision remarkable was that by the late 1950s most of the people from Huntsville who were behaving this way weren't Germans at all, but the Americans who had been hired to work with them. Most of them were men from the small towns of the deep South, graduates of nearby engineering schools like Auburn and the University of Mississippi and Georgia Tech. The result was a combination of Germans like Eberhard Rees or Karl Heimburg or Walter Haeussermann—distinguished and courtly, talking about "ze vay ve do sings," very models of the rocket scientist—and Americans like Alexander A. McCool of Vicksburg, Mississippi...”

@pleometric Thank you! Some stuff to think about

I've seen musicians try two different approaches. The "industry standard" is to have a highly clippable section of the song set to a meme. See the attached video for an example (keep in mind this is most likely a paid campaign). The second one is they make intentionally bad music so it becomes meme (Hound dog, "Homer Drops His Donut") and you can convert some of the attention, like 0.001% into people who listen to your serious stuff. Then they repeat the humor -> serious loop. See: "Jon Mud" on IG or TT, he does these bizarre AI creatures with his face and sets some videos to his own music.

I would like to explain the latest batch of viral videos I'm working on to the bemused brainrot-curious reader who is not familiar with "the culture". Why are these characters, mixed with this song, going viral? It's all about connecting infinite referential mirrors. What makes this video interesting are not its individual parts but the signifier links it draws. Let's look at the individual parts: ONE: The song is a Brazilian funk or "pancadão" song called MC Lan e MC WM - Sua Amiga Vou Pegar, these days part of what's broadly referred as Brazilian phonk or just phonk (not to be confused with the original phonk, a Memphis-derived genre from the early 2010s built around chopped Three 6 Mafia samples, cowbells and lo-fi tape hiss and etc. The Brazilian version comes an entirely different lineage and got its name adapted from “funk” to “phonk” exclusively because the names sounded similar. It has a similarly menacing posture but swaps the rap cadence for funk's 4/4 with kicks on 1 and 3 rhythm and a much heavier, distorted 808 synth sound). Phonk is often used for its exaggerated reverb feeling bass lines to signify power, style or simply "aura", which you can take as a shorthand for poise, coolness, being de-bon-air and a general detached positive feeling of high status. Aura. Because most users cannot understand the Portuguese lyrics (which are often quite vulgar and sexual), the singing takes the characteristic of a chant, something to be appreciated entirely for its sound, texture and gravitas. The vocals are just another instrument where you can appreciate the menace and swagger of the delivery directly without the cognitive friction of meaning. Non-Portuguese-speaking audiences are not missing anything they were supposed to get, they get “the vibe” that matters, which is not lyrical. These songs are often paired with (male) characters that are taken to display these traits like American Psycho's Patrick Bateman (yes, yes I know that’s the opposite of what you should feel about the character), Peaky Blinder's Thomas Shelby and a menagerie of anime characters like Satoru Gojo (Jujutsu Kaisen), Yujiro Hanma (Baki) and Goku and, really, any male character that is just a little bit cool. TWO: The man in the suit is a minor Family Guy character called Tom Tucker. The reference comes from a scene where Meg sees him walking through her school and says "It's Tom Tucker from the news!” We then cut to her POV, where he is walking in slow motion with soft romantic music swelling and birds chirping, the whole love-at-first-sight trope. Then a camera crew member off-screen yells "hurry up Mr. Tucker," and we get to see he is not walking in slow motion because Meg is infatuated, he is just walking that slowly in real life. Only the music and the birds were in her head. The gag is built on the viewer recognizing the romantic-slow-motion trope, briefly accepting it as the scene's reality, and then being shown that we (and Meg) projected the trope onto what is actually just a man walking very slowly. HA! The original gag is already about projection: a neutral image (slow walk) being assigned an external meaning (romance) by a viewer's pattern-recognition. This is what makes the edit-culture appropriation work so well. The clip got stripped of its context, paired with phonk and text overlays (AURA or “Me and the boys going to detention”), and retroactively assigned a new meaning, only this time it’s the cinematic nonchalant walk, the slow deliberate gait that signifies a man who knows he's the most important thing in the frame (ta la any 1980s Schwazerneggerian action movie hero walking away from an explosion without looking back, every yakuza boss entering a room, every western gunslinger approaching the duel). The edit is ostensibly projecting a trope onto a neutral image. The first projection was romance; the second projection is aura. Family Guy clips and gifs are easy to access and repost, which makes it a readily available and easy to use building block. The show has, through sheer volume of output and over two decades of YouTube and cable TV saturation, become a kind of public-domain visual library, a default vocabulary that any editor can pull from knowing the audience will recognize the source without having to be told, and we can just keep loading meaning onto it. THREE: The character in the background is Tom, from Tom and Jerry, doing a pose made famous by an iShowSpeed fan who encountered him during a livestream. By quickly and correctly identifying Speed by his full legal name ("Darren Jason Watkins Jr"), she showcased herself to be a true fan, which he responded to with his characteristic exaggerated reactions. The pose the girl hit, with the knowing look to the camera, produced a perfect “aura moment” complete commitment, zero irony, the unshakeable conviction that what she was doing was the coolest possible thing to do. As a result, the clip then got endlessly edited with "aura 🥶🥶🥶" captions to canonize it. Aura, in this lexicon, is not granted by the universe; it is summoned by the person's own belief that they have it and by displaying the correct attitude. Tom is also dressed as the previously mentioned Thomas Shelby from Peaky Blinders, which is itself a double signifier. The name match (“Thomas”, get it?) and the suit-and-flat-cap costume turn the cartoon cat into a stand-in for the perhaps most used "high-aura" male character of the past decade, the brooding gangster patriarch whose every cigarette drag has been set to phonk, cinematic scores and electronic music a thousand times over. On top of that, he is made entirely out of chrome, a popular trope of asking ChatGPT (one of the few AI tools people have easy and broad access to) to render things out of very high quality materials to indicate "rarity" or "status" like diamonds, platinum and etc. A sign that itself descends from a longer lineage of in-game cosmetic rarity tiers (League of Legends, MMOs, various skin economy freemium game, the Fortnite battle pass, the Pokémon shiny, dacha games and etc) where material finish is the visual shorthand of value. So "chrome" or "platinum" Tom on top of all previous signifiers signals a “maximized” or “maxxd” version. The image is suppose to invoke the superlative highest possible tier, rarest-drop, legendary-rarity version of aura, the way a kid in a playground would describe their dad as not just strong but the strongest in the world. FOUR: Finally, the background black hole calls back to the original Tom image, where he is surrounded by the universe itself, having ascended. The character has transcended the diegetic frame of his own cartoon and now exists at a cosmological scale, with the black hole standing in for the kind of unmotivated, vibes-based "cosmic" imagery that has become the default background for any video trying to signify that something Big is happening (the same visual motif that has powered comic book characters, anime transformations, video game power ups and anything wants to feel grandiose or “epic” without specifying what about). The black hole means significance in the abstract. At this point I think you understand the mechanism at play here. None of these references resolve to a stable meaning on their own. Tom Tucker is “cool” only in the very short context in which his image served as a substrate; he was convenient footage to pair with a song, and the absurdity of doing an "aura edit" on such a minor, strange character scene makes it all funnier and easier to share. Tom-the-cat is doing the aura pose > the aura pose comes from the iShowSpeed girl > the iShowSpeed girl was cool because she correctly played her part in an established bit of a large streamer with the correct timing and theatrical flair > the bit was cool because it was a shared convention unified by a popular central streamer figure > the convention existed because phonk edits had already trained this exact scenario to be read as confidence-plus-detachment as aura > the chrome finish points to AI image generation quirks > the AI image generation style can be mapped to gaming visual rarity shorthands; the gaming rarity tiers point to a much older logic of precious-metal-as-status. Each step on the referential chain is propped by the one behind it, and the one behind it is propped up by the one behind that, so on and so forth. There is no natural endpoint, the entire structure functions more akin to a network than a linked list. If you stop at any single point and ask "but why is particular signifier cool or funny or interesting”, the answer is always "because of the thing behind it.” It’s hyper-citation, Here, what matters is the structure of the whole rather than the content. This is structure is what I mean by infinite referential mirrors. The rate at which a concept is referencing, remixing and calling back to another is what’s interesting. In other words, It’s the velocity that matters. The chain of recognitions, each "I get that reference," and the cumulative effect of getting six references stacked on top of each other a short span of time gives you the feeling that you are participating in something dense and alive, because it allows you to recognize the shared meme ecosystem of the platform that you are participating in, even if only a glimpse of it. You are inside the culture rather than outside it. The brainrot-curious reader who watches this video and feels nothing, has “failed” to understand the joke because they are outside the hall of mirrors I am describing. You can only get the magic if you step in and start counting the reflections: the song, the suit, the cat, the chrome, the black hole, the transitions the video uses. You are looking at connected parts of this network of symbols and at the speed at which one image hands you off to the next. The entire thirteen-second clip is functioning as a single compressed referential payload that decompresses in the viewer's head into a small private essay exactly like this one. The video allows you to recognize yourself as someone capable of decoding it, and that recognition is the reward. That’s why media like this goes viral.

@Forstler1 Eine Inspiration zu entschleunigen

Die gute alte Zeit. Dieses Foto hängt in der Gaststätte Schlosswächter in Colditz. Vermutlich zeigt es die historische Gaststätte in den Fünfzigern/Sechzigern des vorigen Jahrhunderts. Sie wurde nach der Wende abgerissen und neu gebaut. Bierkästen mit "Getränkeindustrie" gab es in den frühen DDR-Jahren. Kleinstadtidyll, völlig aus der Zeit gefallen.

@zermatist In most peoples heads an artificial barrier was built in their mind. They're literally imprisoned in their heads

The funniest thing about the explosion of lazy and dumb conspiracy theories is that they're coming at a time in which the reasons for government incompetence and/or evil are easier to perceive than ever. It's almost like people can't handle how obvious everything is.

drake has released three albums

@chartdata Oh WOW. Thanks for this incredibly important factoid. I will definitely by the album AND make a bet on polymarket

Drake mentions Polymarket on new song “Shabang” from ‘ICEMAN’. “Shorty keep askin' the date She tryna finesse Polymarket for bread”