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[sleepiest soldier 𓅇🔻 @pajamamon]

“you can mimic their actions but once you mimic their thoughts it’s fucking over for you” is real af

[𝓓𝓮𝓵 @delonperc]

I’m not the ‘misses social cues’ kind of autistic. I’m the ‘detects every social cue, every micro-expression, the tension in the room, the power dynamics, and a mysterious third layer of vibes so I end up buffering like an overloaded laptop because I’m trying to work out which reality everyone else is operating in’ kind of autistic.

[Liz Franczak @liz_franczak]

@investmntwanker Reading Marx in order to understand ~his experience~ with capitalism

[Praxis @praxiss]

I’ve had this bit of Eagleton on my mind for a while now. Hes making the case that in a decent society nobody would need to sit around explaining how domination works, because people would be appalled at the idea. And when he imagines someone calling that naive, his answer is++

[“paula” @paularambles]

You see, what fascinates me about “remember to not smile” is that he needs his pain to be witnessed. He suffers at 4am, okay, fine, many people suffer. But then, immediately, he makes a slide! He gathers the entire company! He writes an article! Is it not clear what is happening here? Suffering without an audience simply does not count. This is ideology at its purest.

We see here the old Protestant trick in its Silicon Valley form: success alone is vulgar, almost pornographic. My god, you cannot simply succeed. It must first be purified through unnecessary suffering. So you get this obscene reversal where pain stops being a cost of the product, and instead becomes the product itself. The developer documentation is, how do you say, merely the byproduct, the excrement of the true production, which is the suffering. As Hegel already knew, and here I think even Lacan would agree, although perhaps not, the true obsession is always with deserving success.

Here I must tell you this old joke from Soviet Union. A worker says: "we pretend to work, they pretend to pay us.” Now here it is inverted, which I claim is much worse. They are paid perfectly well, wonderfully well, and so they must pretend to suffer. Do you see the perfect madness of this?

And now, the ultimate obscenity. Imagine the company succeeds while everyone leaves at 5pm. Catastrophe! Total ontological catastrophe! In this worldview, I am tempted to say, failure would almost come as a relief. Failure means you simply did not suffer enough, go back, suffer more. But success at 5pm? This cannot be explained.

So when he says "remember to not smile," this is a desperate command of the superego. If you smile, we will all discover the pain was never necessary.

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

Reminds me of AVClub TV review commenter (handle "Zodiac Motherfucker") on the themes of The Sopranos. One of the greatest of online tv rants:

[๋.๋๋ ࣭ ⭑resor๋t ࣭enjoyer๋ ࣭ ⭑ @idmpredator]

Some one smarter than me could probably explain what it means that the infinite subspace beneath reality has transitioned over the last century from a library to an empty, decrepit, office

[Will Self @wself]

https://t.co/2TTLj4ehZe

[Rory Blank @BoneJail]

Rise of The Machines

[Will Manidis @WillManidis]

https://t.co/aHOHtb1rcW

[Will Self @wself]

https://t.co/AJCrWLS9Kb

[Slow Riot @gocomplex]

https://t.co/goB8kOfBor

[ً @endokuu]

The animation’s called Time Fight by Terkoiz

If you haven’t seen it, go watch it.
If you alredy have? Well watch it again!

https://t.co/n8XvTXce01

[Slow Riot @gocomplex]

“Somehow JJ Abrams returned.”

[Bloody Disgusting @BDisgusting]

Jenna Ortega and Glen Powell will star in sci-fi movie THE GREAT BEYOND from director J.J. Abrams.

WB will release the mysterious film November 13.

[Slow Riot @gocomplex]

Me and some friends wrote some things about the films we watched in 2025. Includes: Predator: Badlands, One Battle After Another, Avatar: Fire and Ash and Toy Story 4. Enjoy! 😘🙏

https://t.co/8KGTpdxicc

[pHiycrtyl @iycrtylph]

it really doesn't seem like actors today learn to pretend how to be someone else. instead, what they learn (& get very good at), is how to display unspoken thoughts on their face (which is not how real people actually behave)

[Ryan Moulton @moultano]

Why artists so often end up communists:
1. They make pure public goods.
2. They only make money due to a legal kluge to fit art into the market. (Copyright)
3. They would do it on their own regardless.
4. The work they do on their own is better than what the market asks them for.