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Waiting to see if anything human makes it out of the near-future

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@JutlandGhost $200? Might be a second copy about to be available 🤔😆

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The “best coffee” app does not have a listing for @grind South Bank or @Calico (Lower Marsh) which is criminal given the scarcity of good coffee in SE1.

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@johnedenuk started reading but ran out of time. Saved for later. Hello!

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@TowerofAdam1 any person in any country should be free to follow their faith if they so wish. Trying to mandate faith is, honestly bonkers. I’m fascinated by Christianity, but my next big read is MacCulloch so my interest is more historical than theological

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@TowerofAdam1 I read this. Thank you. I was aware it was happening and meant to take a look but forgot. I appreciate your take. I don’t think there is anything Christian about Christian nationalism. Any merging of politics and faith smells like theocracy to me.

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I liked how the performative aspect of influencer culture was used as a dark-mirror of societal expectations on women to “perform” in their allotted roles. The ending was clever, if somewhat brutal.

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Add me to the list of people who claim Yesteryear as a five-star read. A withering critique of modernity and its pathology of retro-mania and back-to-the-land philosophy.

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@Robkearney1981 @default_friend I completely agree. Having to drive to shops, restaurants, everywhere in fact. Absence of theatre, galleries, music venues. Lack of public transport. Total lack of vibrancy. I could cope with the countryside. I do not cope with suburbs. I work from home but commute to leisure.

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@signulll Once, Twitter was the solution to this and I found my tribe. Made real-life friends of them. Now, Twitter is part of the problem, it’s just white noise and self-promotion (largely).

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@default_friend what if years of validation by internet and social media echo chambers which has eroded critical thinking has enabled a maladaptive relationship with permanently-validating AI systems 🤔

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Kala, by Colin Walsh, was pure devastation 😭😭😭

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@default_friend I’ve been thinking about AI a lot and your internet maladaptation theory and how it could extend to AI. Your writing makes my brain hurt less. I think I paid for your Substack but I’m always too overwhelmed when I open that app to read anything.

[Minor Compositions @minorcomps]

Raoul Vaneigem has died. He leaves us no instruction manual, thankfully – only an insistence that everyday life can still be stolen back from work, boredom and obedience: in argument, song, drink, dance, love, revolt and the invention of new poetry.

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Before I made myself angry, I was going to say that LinkedIn is the best evidence to support my suggestion that social media should be made illegal for adults.

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Every "professional" who uses AI to post those stupid shitty, overly long posts on LinkedIn is DIRECTLY responsible for the this new horror of mass destruction of antique literature. If re-ingested that AI-slop would collapse frontier models, so this is what those maniacs chose to do.

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Every "professional" who uses AI to post those stupid shitty, overly long posts on LinkedIn is DIRECTLY responsible for the this new horror of mass destruction of antique literature. If re-ingested that AI-slop would collapse frontier models, so this is what those maniacs chose to do.

[Billi Ramirez @billiramirezdev]

AI companies are buying books and destroying them.

A process called destructive book scanning in which a machine rips from the book the spine and scan the page one by one.

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@2000trees was so good this year that even now I am not fully over it being fully over

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@imstacei @2000trees They have a payment plan, if that helps at all. I think the discount still applies. Hopefully you get there, one way or another!

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@satyanadella I thought the responses to this would be interesting but in reality they are 99% AI slop.

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@fullpeltmusic @2000trees Haggard Cat silent disco, this was an unexpected treasure. Cancer Bats and High Vis memories are making Monday at work feel bearable. Frozemode continue to be underrated.