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“Hype is eating the future, and leaving us the bones.” Sun-ha Hong of UNC-Chapel Hill says the Silicon Valley hype machine systematically “borrows credibility from the future to purchase legitimacy in the present.” The cost, he argues, is a planetary-scale drain on our alternatives.

Brilliant @amyremeikis.bsky.social piece here - absolutely gut-wrenching that Nepal PM's speech got buried under the nonsense of AI doom-hype. thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

I went to go see if the new Musk documentary would be playing in theaters in Japan anywhere, and as a result found this NHK documentary on Musk (and DOGE and Yarvin etc) from 2025 that someone subtitled in English and only has 50 views. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Xz0...

This is another great, approachable explainer on “the rationalist wackos who have managed to take over much of the AI industry, and who now have tons of money and political power.” www.iankduncan.com/personal/202...

Over and over again these AI guys have proven themselves to have utterly childish worldviews, brains stunted by mindbending amounts of privilege. You'd almost feel sorry for them if they weren't actively destroying the lives of, in a literal sense, everyone. theasterisk.substack.com/p/the-effect...

"why don't people trust data centers?"

A lot of people said a lot of things about the ineffectiveness of production limitations for generating greenhouse gas reductions and speeding up renewable adoption for the past decade which were clearly false. May "keynesianism means we have to keep building oil and gas infrastructure" finally die

which do you think is more true: that the median voter mostly agrees with dems but hates trans people, or that the median voter thinks dems are spineless and stand for nothing

I hate doing the "a rollback of trans rights is the gateway for a rollback of women's rights" thing because trans rights are human rights in and of themselves, whatever the impact on cis women. But goddamn I wish more cis women had a sense of history and self preservation.

People will say "we have to sacrifice you to win" and then not win. This is somehow the sacrifice's fault.

Am I the only nerd who keeps reading the “pacing the frontier” stuff and can’t think about anything except Frederick Jackson Turner

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The French translation besides being sexist also completely altered her character and made all the semiotics associated with her inherently malign, especially her tattoos. It seems a minor point, but it shows the power of translation and introducing terms that are supposedly equivalent.

The Kahina myth, a story of a North African Jewish Amazigh warrior queen who repelled the Umayyad because her prophetic visions gave her advantage in battle. According to Iben Khaldun, in the myth she lived to be 129. Besides, the French in their translation introduced her as a Witch.

The notion of witchcraft is a colonial invention. In Arabic, especially in North Africa, the notion of magic as done by a woman would be called a seer or sorceress. These terms do have a lot more neutral connotations and don't imply the same negative view as Witch does.

so you want to be a center-right social media site at the cost of your marginalised audiences, do a little dogwhistling and reap all those monetary benefits? okay. okay. well then you cant be weepy about it on the forum. rule number one write that down

The consistent insistence by the Saudis and Americans that the "Houthis" are "just rebels" is really misleading. If you want to oppose them more effectively, at least start by acknowledging this is a highly effective movement in charge of a state.

One of the ultimate Liberal American exceptionalist moments I've witnessed was when someone complained about how because of this war Trump has started with Iran, Saudi Arabia has withdrawn 200 million dollars it would invest in the New York theatre. Calling it a tragedy.

Just in time for the latest oil price spike, we published our article urging the ECB not to hike rates to fight a supply shock. Europe needs a new inflation governance for shockflation. We need disaster preparedness for essentials instead of increasing investment costs.

btw this is why I love working with @krisknigge.bsky.social because he knows all that shit and so he matches me BEAUTIFULLY; like, in Adios, nobody can really tell where I stop writing the Edie line and Kris starts it. Any time I talk to him about story, he immediately GETS what I'm doing.

I'm also designing a lot of scenes to play out in specific ways. Like, even with Adios, the writing isn't just "the dialogue," it's the way the farm is designed to be a spiral outwards, or how I sequence events, or how I cut between gameplay moments

The better your ear is, the more you understand psychology and character drama, the better for me. I've known people who can write 'good lines' that are just good prose and not really, like, meant to be spoken aloud. To me, like, working with actors, getting great performance, that's what we need.

when Republicans are on the wrong side of a 60-40 issue they double down over and over and over, it becomes the center of political debate, and more often than not the numbers move. when Democrats are in that position they immediately give up

Mixing life water and liquid death to create hydrating malaise

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what I wouldn't give It's neat how people have been wanting this for probably 2+ decades now and no high-profile dem has really done it. I guess you could say Walz started making an attempt with the "weird" stuff, but that got shut down quick.

This is like an order of magnitude better than you're expecting it to be.

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Fun little read, but yes the argument itself is a strongly held belief of mine. Particularly when it comes to the risks of yelling at people for being too extreme, as that behavior is more frequently seen from "big" speakers, e.g. "we have to stop talking about defunding the police" from major Dems.

Damn straight excellent thread! Thanks to @marcprecipice.bsky.social for the reference.

People love to complain about voters being dumb and lament politics being all just optics, but then refuse to actually play the optics game and wrestle for framing. Who're really the dumb ones here?