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Writer, editor, digital programmer, sometimes movie critic. CMS@MIT, CRC@NYU. Editorial/programming: @TEDTalks, @io9, @slant_magazine, @livemint, @SundayGuardian. NYC/Kolkata.
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👇🎯 These people will never stop trying to get rich by telling everyone they can learn & teach w/o doing the actual hard work of learning & teaching. They peddle fake alternatives to the hard daily grind of education because they're greedy & lazy. They're charlatans, & we should treat them as such.

submitted 8 hours ago • 5 comments

the fun version of this is when you’re posting about some nerd shit and someone pops up in the comments like “actually I am a world renowned expert in this field and here’s how this works” easily the best thing that happens on social media

submitted 1 day ago • 95 comments

submitted 2 days ago • 263 comments

This is pretty simple: Essential services on which lives depend must not be under the arbitrary control of one person.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Lyft driver picked me up from UNC, turned out he was a medicinal chemistry post-doc in a building near mine, until his grant got cut last month. Worked on novel antivirals.

submitted 3 days ago • 96 comments

imagine a dignified opposition

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

"An ocean-depleting, environmentally catastrophic, industry-leveling, job-killing, anti-creative, and functionally useless pencil," he added in real life. "And you should be ashamed for using me, a dead man, to excuse what you, at heart, know is a specious comparison."

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Since 2022, people like Palmer Luckey and other American makers of extremely expensive, proprietary-technology drones have been making BIG public shows of donating their drone tech to Ukraine, where it's then pretty much never actually *used* in favor of cheap, open source drone platforms

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

I think the concept of “innovation = disruption” has done incalculable damage to the American psyche. Building things is for squares, pussies, and girls. Real men break things.

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

The thing that most demoralizes me is how little any AI company even tries to pretend they are legit and how people at every level have completely bought THE oldest scam line in the books of “ok maybe it sucks but you don’t want to be the *only one* who didn’t buy when it’s good maybe someday!”

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Just finished watching this and it made me feel vaguely ill and possibly more stressed than the creators intended.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

These idiots are going to get multibillion dollar contracts to sell software that doesn’t work to the biggest military in history

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

Think the peer pressure point is key and ties into the coordinated effort to kill off existing small businesses & make it almost impossible for entrepreneurs to survive - AI doesn’t have to function well in a practical sense - it’s a command and control mechanism

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Maybe in relative terms but the global research system can’t adjust fast enough to a shock of this magnitude. It’s going to be no one’s century. So much research will simply not get done and so many people will either leave or never enter in the first place

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

However much power/wealth these idiots get, they're pathologically incapable of truly enjoying it. Million-dollar food budget? Still gotta eat USDA-stamped brown lumps everyday. Cosmic joke that joyless fucks with no taste are the personality types that generally amass enough $ to get nice things.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Genuinely I used to work on similar stuff (not SpaceX). If anybody who isn't SpaceX blew up remotely this much stuff, their contract would be pulled and we ALL knew that. It won't be too long before human fucking beings are aboard, you CANNOT be having explosions at this stage

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

On a Tony Gilroy kick this month and a real highlight was his playful Soderbergh riff DUPLICITY. In which he casually, in 2009, sums up the pathology that’s metastasized so horrifically in 2025. youtu.be/JpUnqFMyBLE?...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

"Our product creates such little value that it is simply not viable in the marketplace, not even as a niche product. Therefore, we must be allowed to unilaterally extract value from the work of others and convert that value into our profits."

submitted 11 days ago • 30 comments

Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..

submitted 11 days ago • 81 comments