Slow Riot

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[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:

[lumberjack 🇳🇿 @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.

[Axel (fastr) @fastrlife]

There’s a reason you ain’t ever used your phone in a dream

[𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕟 𓂆 @ElenP79608464]

here he is reading the excerpt about commodity fetishism at some event or another, it's one of my favorite things anyone's written about marx ever.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Keir Starmer.

[Slow Riot @gocomplex]

I wrote a thing about 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Basically how if you watch it right it’s not about aliens at all but something far more deadly and inhumane: spending too much time looking at screens

Kubrick tried to warn us

https://t.co/7E4jfdqZEf

[darren @darrenangle]

*sniff* *pulls shirt* You know, this is perfect - *gestures wildly* - this is the ultimate perversity of capitalism at its purest. Here we have Anthropic, this company claiming to build "AI for humanity," and what do they do? They create this digital cocaine, this Claude Code, and then - *sniff* - they act surprised when people become addicted to it!

"Oh, some users are running it 24/7" - but of course! This is not a bug, this is a feature! They created the perfect productivity drug, the ultimate tool of self-exploitation under late capitalism, where the worker voluntarily chains himself to the machine, coding through the night, becoming one with the algorithm. *touches nose*

And then comes the beautiful part - *laughs darkly* - "one user consumed tens of thousands in model usage on a $200 plan." My God! This is pure comedy! They are shocked - SHOCKED! - that someone would extract surplus value from their system. But isn't this exactly what capitalism teaches us? To maximize profit, to exploit every inefficiency? This user is the perfect neoliberal subject! He understood the game better than Anthropic themselves!

*waves hands frantically* But no, no, no - now they must introduce "limits." You see the perversity? First, they create infinite desire - "Claude will code for you forever!" - and then they introduce scarcity. This is how capitalism functions: it promises unlimited jouissance, unlimited enjoyment, but always pulls it back at the last moment. "You can have it all... but not really."

And the most obscene part - *sniff* - they frame this as caring for the community! "This impacts capacity for all Claude users." This is the same logic as ecological austerity - we must all suffer equally for the common good, while the real problem is the system itself! They created a monster and now blame the users for feeding it!

*adjusts shirt* You know what this really is? It's the perfect metaphor for our predicament with AI. We create these systems that promise to liberate us from work, but instead, they become new masters. The user running Claude Code 24/7 - he is not free, he is the most enslaved! He has internalized the demand for infinite productivity so completely that he needs an AI to keep up with his own superego's demands!

*sniff* And so on...

[microplastics nanobubbler @facetedcarapace]

They accidentally interviewed the kid who will *not* have his consent manufactured