I'm not saying we should kill tech oligarchs, I'm saying we should imprison, torture and maim tech oligarchs while forcing them to watch in anguish as their assets are sold off to fund homeless shelters, orphanages and utilities infrastructure, and *then* kill them.
“Millennials are the only normal generation” theory continues to remain undefeated. we are the only ones that didn't get our brains cooked by the computer
There once was a hitman from Sweden
Who was, on the motorway, speedin’
His mark goes unwhacked,
For in ironic fact,
The killer’s the one who’s left bleedin’
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That part of the Hunger Games where Philip Seymour Hoffman proposes broadcasting floggings and executions intercut with mundane celebrity trivia, except it's floggings and executions of ICE agents intercut with more floggings and executions of ICE agents.
The man's skeletal injuries looked like a train hit him, but he died in 1304 CE. At #ppa26Berlin last week, @uniofbradford.bsky.social scientist Jo Buckberry concluded he was likely whacked by a flying boulder, making him the first confirmed trebuchet death in the archaeological record. @science.org
@paintedsky.ca add me to those as well, every municipality of fewer than 4,000 people should be flattened by fuel air bombs. We're bringing Agent Orange to Knockemstiff
Congratulations to everyone who said it would get this bad. Your prize is watching everyone who disagreed now claim no one could have predicted it would get this bad.
Today I wrote in a client note: "It's why humans have Carnegie libraries, the Guggenheim Museum, and Stanford University, but not a Leonardo da Vinci prize for best laddered bond porfoilo for an annuity
We don’t dance on the grave of NFTs enough. I had a year where I was repeatedly told by bozos I was going to be irrelevant and extinct for not embracing them, I should be allowed a victory lap.
Seriously I nearly dropped out of my social sciences degree because the writing - that students are meant to emulate instead of laugh at - looks like this:
So a thing that has happened in parallel - and I'm not sure if it's related - is academic writing increasingly walling itself off through impenetrable writing. Academic books from 50 years ago are short and readable. Modern ones are three times as long as they have to be and use words like praxis
It's very visible in media but people are being fired at a high rate in basically every industry as far as I can tell and seniority has no impact on this process. I can't help but remember all those think pieces about how millennials need to 'have careers' and 'show some loyalty' to their employers.
when the AI bubble finally collapses and everyone who spent a year smugly hyping it suddenly has to come crawling back with their tail between their legs, i just want to say i am not going to be the bigger person about it. i am going to be meaner than you can even believe
what if there were repercussions for being super wrong, like what if we ostracized the nft people or the knockout game people when it became clear they were stupid and wrong