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aobate.bsky.social
hello it's me, I'm a bird and a writer, etc (author of “Evie of the Deepthorn”; PhD in annihilation; more here: www.andrebabyn.com)
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reading a lot of end of the world type-shit lately and think it was Agamben who said it is easy to feel superior to those who don’t know what’s happening but that when it happens they become like innocents and I don’t know why I’m thinking that exactly, over and over. mostly I hate that I have to

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Brecht on writing truth under fascism/capitalism (he sees the former as a unfortunately inevitable development of the latter)

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is there a better advertisement for the superfluity of most cars inside a city with good public transportation than the number of them still locked under snow in Montréal after the storms?

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yeah he laid off everyone testing the public water supply and now many children will die and also hospitalizations for easily treatable diseases will increase and uh the little coffee shop near our offices will probably go out of business and there will be numerous other knock on effects, but, uh

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silicon valley executive: the sky isn't the colour of a television set tuned to a dead channel. our start-up disrupts that

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if you are followed by a vortex of catastrophe it is possible that it is just your wake

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you could definitely out-perform a guy who made his money camping a URL! but I don't believe this is earnest advice, just bullshit and obfuscation, part of establishing a consensus from business "leaders" (oxymoron lol) that AI can replace human labour

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I’ve never seen so much snow

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the second part of this sounds like a joke but there is literally a metal gate that you have to be buzzed through, often a long line of people standing there with the groceries they already paid for, and it's hard to explain how uniquely humiliating that feels

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getting robbed by Galen Weston in the self-checkout line but I’m the one who has to beg the security guard to let me leave

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I won't be satisfied until the AI can predict exactly when I need to go the bathroom and release a corresponding chemical neutralizer into my smart-wear undergarments. otherwise what's the point

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we’ve got to cut staff in order to make up for the budget shortfall and not the nine million dollars a year we are currently spending so that students can cheat with AI

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I don't think this is still embargoed but Draft Kings will be unveiling a new Manning Brother in an add later in the game. It's not a bit they made up for an ad, either, they crafted a real guy using proprietary Manning DNA. They call him Slumper and it sounds like a freight train when he breathes.

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Read this essay this morning and continue to think about it, aligns with a lot of thinking I’ve been doing in regard both to what it means to be “Canadian” in this moment and to try to make art that speaks back to Canada in anything but the most anodyne way

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Stop diagnosing yourself all the time. You are alive. You are okay. Somewhere outside, an opossum is nosing around in some leaves, looking for something to eat, hoping not to be seen, despite the naked glare of its body in the passing headlights.

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On this official pub date of It Must Be Beautiful to Be Finished, a reminder that while we're distracted by trade talk, Trump is stripping away the rights of those with marginalized bodies. Stay vigilant people.

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update on this—still plenty of AI, but in the last week a lot of rightwing anti-liberals groups + explicit Zionist propaganda from a page called “Australians for Israel,” so sad to report that Meta is well and fully cooked

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I am douing my part to fight Trump's tariuffs and adding twenty-five perceunt more u's in everything I wriute

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don’t worry, all of my friends to the south—I read a book a while back that was all about how fascism can’t happen in the United States. Can’t remember its title though

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my sources confirm that Tár has received a pardon from Donald Trump and will soon be conducting her first performance in the United States since she was unfortunately cancelled by the woke mobs

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further evidence AI is just another way of enforcing corporate emphasis on the “safety” of trends—instead of challenging readers or creating a market for new & interesting work they aggressively cede ground until all that’s left is anodyne pablum

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the year is 2050. crime is legal. non-crime is illegal. welcome to crime world

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