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Founder and Futurist @ refuturing, Bourbon Enthusiast, Recovering Political Theorist, Former Musician, Kentuckian recently returned from exile in Austin. Revolution is not for the sane.
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I walk the corner to the rubble that used to be a library Line up to the mind cemetery now What we don't know keeps the contracts alive and moving They don't gotta burn the books they just remove 'em While arms warehouses fill as quick as the cells Rally 'round the family, pocket full of shells

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Prime would much rather give you shitty, overly-expensive seasons of crap shows like Citadel and Rings of Power than decent programming like Wheel of Time, The Peripheral, Outer Range, etc. Honestly, I worry about its ability to sustain Fallout.

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

Currently being serenaded by the horniest bunch of cicadas I've heard in a long time. Ah, Kentucky.

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Hey, where are all the higher ed people in my Skyline who were just telling me last week how not bad for the environment generative ai is? Hello? mashable.com/article/ener...

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Vulture has ranked Ghost Protocol as the best MI movie and I am losing my goddamn mind.

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Capital should be required reading these days. That and Polanyi's The Great Transformation. Oh! And Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class! Ok so basically everyone should study political sociology.

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God, can you imagine what’s going to happen when a college or university registrar uses some LLM to build its course catalog? And has an “Agent” for students to register them for classes that reference this fraudulent catalog that another “Agent” loaded into the SIS? cc @jonbecker.bsky.social

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Now that they’re backing down from actually using AI to replace labor, they have to find some way to claim they’re an “AI-First” company I suppose.

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Brian Eno calls on Microsoft to cease its partnership with Israel and pledges to donate the original fee for his Windows '95 chime to victims of Israel's genocide in Gaza

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Kristi Noem would have failed my Intro to American Government class for sure.

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I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, but it depresses me seeing so many smart people (whom I really respect) beginning to fall for the Agentic AI bullshit. I mean, I see them on here wrestling with their better instincts in real time.

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Jesus. The number of cold call emails I get from people claiming to have seen my profile on LinkedIn when motherfucker no you did not LinkedIn deleted my account in January for pointing out that Elon was, in fact, doing what we all saw him do. We deserve better sales outreach.

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👋 Hi, we’re Unbreaking, a volunteer-run collective working to document our current moment of institutional collapse and its human costs—as well as the pushback and resilience work already underway. We believe this is critical work for building and retaining political agency.

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Eno diary, 18 May 95: I’ve spent 3 years gazing at computer screens & it has got me not very far. In my next studio, as an experiment, I’ll have no computer set-up. The thought of going in in the morning & not switching on is thrilling & daunting..have noticed a strong anti-computer feeling around."

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People out there impressed by Microsoft’s NLWeb announcement conveniently forgetting the days of Google CSE on enterprise/commercial sites. This isn’t an AI revolution, it’s a reshuffling of the search engine decks by people who forget history.

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Man, if you think the Web is bad *now,* just wait until Microsoft turns the entire web into Google AI Search. news.microsoft.com/source/featu...

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For a writer this is essentially intellectual torture. Done to you on purpose, by a product made for writers. It’s like if they made a paint canvas that squirted you in the face with a stream of water every time you brought the brush to it

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I really would have preferred NOT to reality-test the World's Most Prosperous Nation Governed by the Village Idiot scenario, but here we are.

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Wasn’t this the plot of The Running Man (book not movie)?

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

If we were a sane country with a functioning government, we’d roll back these system to before whatever the DOGE kids did to them.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

So basically the Death Star was destroyed because someone in the ISB accidentally added Dedra Meero to a Signal chat. Let this be a lesson.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Just hit the feed reader equivalent of Inbox Zero. It's Miller Time!

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"The rise of the 'red supply chain,' which includes companies like BYD, [electronics firm] Luxshare, [acoustic parts maker] Goertek, and [semiconductor company] Wingtech, is of geopolitical importance." restofworld.org/2025/apple-c... Adding Apple in China to the book queue.

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