wenn man einen "neutralen" podcast moderiert in dem rechte gäste von der community gefeiert und linke gäste fertig gemacht werden dann moderiert man vielleicht keinen neutralen podcast sondern einen rechten podcast
i do not care if Trump's comments result in nothing tonight. no one who even thinks of saying the phrase "a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again" should be allowed to operate an ice cream stand, nevermind the most powerful office on the planet
one of the more underratedly depressing things about capitalism is how many smart peoples brains it completely wastes. like people who could be curing cancer are instead spending their lives tweaking algorithms to make instagram serve me ads for a mattress 3 weeks after i buy one
The tech overlords want you alone, plugged in, and addicted. Loneliness is the new digital currency because the more they isolate and the more they immiserate, the more likely you are to give them your attention. AI is about control.
I can definitely recommend a Prospect Park run on a beautiful day such as this. 💯 I can’t, however, recommend this lecture on Russell’s logical atomism. It’s almost as if, when you try and put the world into little boxes, you’re left with incalculable excess and lack 🫢
Als Agnostiker habe ich mich aus reiner Feigheit nicht am Papst-Bashing beteiligt. Die Angst vor dem jüngsten Gericht überwog die Geilheit auf ein paar schnelle likes. Ich bin gespannt wie ein Flitzebogen, ob sich dieser move langfristig auszahlen wird.
COMEDY NERDS: The comic (the trickster, 𝐼𝑙 𝑀𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑜) is a vital figure in society, the gadfly jester able to voice what others can't, the button-pushing rebel challenging conventional wisdom and speaking truth to power.
ALL COMEDIANS:
"Businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of successful businessmen."
— Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
Spending a month on Bluesky has made me recognize a fight we need to be having right now. Not liberal vs. conservative or whatever, but respect vs manipulation.
For all the good and bad of Twitter, I can’t help but see many of the ways it is constantly trying to manipulate me.