Jonathan Speights

Jonathan Speights

@jspeights.bsky.social

Orphaned signifier. He/him.

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Pavel
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Time is not the bottleneck. A worker's influence comes from the fact that their labor is necessary to achieve the business's needs. Any say in setting strategy comes only FROM that influence. Belief that our labor becoming *less* needed somehow converts into *more* influence is hopelessly naive.

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Andrew Engelson
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King county has one of the most efficient, safe and secure voting systems in the US. This is intimidation and nothing else.

KUOW Public Radio@kuow.org

The U.S. Department of Justice informed King County Elections Director Julie Wise this week that the administration is sending election monitors for the Nov. 3 midterms. It’s unclear what role federal election monitors will play or how many there will be in King County on Election Day.

kuow.orgDOJ sending election monitors to WA’s King CountyThe U.S. Department of Justice informed King County Elections Director Julie Wise this week that the administration is sending election monitors for the Nov. 3 midterms. It’s unclear what role federal election monitors will play or how many there will be in King County on Election Day.

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ProPublica
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The U.S. Postal Service has reduced mail pickup at some local facilities, which could affect when your ballot is postmarked. To find out whether your ZIP code is affected, use our lookup tool: www.propublica.org/article/mail...

Jonathan Speights
@jspeights.bsky.social

🔥 "Today, AI is a project of the powerful, implemented in the name of an efficiency that has nothing to do with the good. The lines could not be clearer. A struggle for the future looms, in the university as elsewhere: for genuine knowledge, for humanity, for life."

Jonathan Speights
@jspeights.bsky.social

This passage could be a useful lens to view AI through: "a predator whose body appears to have already eliminated the distinction between instinct and machine logic. The creature does not need to hate its victim. Hatred would almost make it easier to understand."

PopMatters@popmatters.com

“In creating his xenomorph, H. R. Giger fused anatomy, machinery, architecture, sexuality, and death into a coherent biomechanical grammar, designing a visual system that outlived 1979’s ‘Alien’ and himself.” READ: tinyurl.com/HRGiger26

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Jonathan Speights
@jspeights.bsky.social

This passage could be a useful lens to view AI through: "a predator whose body appears to have already eliminated the distinction between instinct and machine logic. The creature does not need to hate its victim. Hatred would almost make it easier to understand."

PopMatters@popmatters.com

“In creating his xenomorph, H. R. Giger fused anatomy, machinery, architecture, sexuality, and death into a coherent biomechanical grammar, designing a visual system that outlived 1979’s ‘Alien’ and himself.” READ: tinyurl.com/HRGiger26

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Jonathan Speights
@jspeights.bsky.social

"Giger’s work is frequently immaculate. Surfaces are polished. Structures repeat with almost architectural discipline. Mechanical precision gives the images a strange elegance that works against the subject matter. Attraction survives inside disgust."

Jonathan Speights
@jspeights.bsky.social

This passage could be a useful lens to view AI through: "a predator whose body appears to have already eliminated the distinction between instinct and machine logic. The creature does not need to hate its victim. Hatred would almost make it easier to understand."

PopMatters@popmatters.com

“In creating his xenomorph, H. R. Giger fused anatomy, machinery, architecture, sexuality, and death into a coherent biomechanical grammar, designing a visual system that outlived 1979’s ‘Alien’ and himself.” READ: tinyurl.com/HRGiger26

Jonathan Speights
@jspeights.bsky.social

"The chestburster...is only the visible end of something that has already happened in private. The real violation began earlier, when the body lost control over what could enter it, what could grow inside it, and what could use its organs as temporary infrastructure."

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Lindsay Beyerstein
@beyerstein.bsky.social

Every billionaire is a loose nuke.

David Gura@davidgura.bsky.social

NEW, from Bloomberg News: “Elon Musk has now given more than $445 million in the current election cycle.”

bloomberg.comMusk Giving Tops $445 Million in Midterm Election Push for GOPWith a fresh infusion of cash to his super political action committee in the first two weeks of October, Elon Musk has now given more than $445 million in the current election cycle and become one of ...
Jonathan Speights
@jspeights.bsky.social

The Macan in front of it also had its hazards on (despite not being in the bus stop) but also expected to be there long enough to install a sun shade. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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The Quietus
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'There’s never been anybody quite like Keiji Haino. Improviser, noisemaker, guitarist, jazz man, poet, vocalist – he’s none of them and all of them all at once...' The Strange World Of… #KeijiHaino #ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive buff.ly/HVF9dQX

Jonathan Speights
@jspeights.bsky.social

All self-driving cars, and Teslas especially, should have an externally visible light/signal/state that indicates when self-driving mode is active so pedestrians/cyclists can regard them with heightened caution.

Cyrus Farivar@cfarivar.bsky.social

S.F. Tesla motorist fatally strikes man crossing highway while car was in full-self-driving mode www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

sfchronicle.comS.F. Tesla motorist fatally strikes man crossing highway while car was in full-self-driving modeA man attempting to cross a Bay Area highway early Thursday morning was struck and killed by a person from San Francisco in a Tesla while the vehicle was in full-self-driving mode.
Jonathan Speights
@jspeights.bsky.social

How many of these folks are people who want to flip sealed phones on eBay for 2x the price?

AppleInsider@appleinsider.com

Apple's first foldable iPhone is drawing buyers to storefronts days before launch, while the first preorders are shipping for Friday delivery.

appleinsider.comiPhone Duo buyers line up days early despite high chance of heartbreakApple's first foldable iPhone is drawing buyers to storefronts days before launch, while the first preorders are shipping for Friday delivery.
Jonathan Speights
@jspeights.bsky.social

The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that friction—for lack of a better word—is good.

Pavel@spavel.bsky.social

This is exactly the principle that has fucked up everything from deli flyers to UX in billion-dollar products Once upon a time, even if you were doing something on your own, it took long enough to do that it made you think about what you were doing! You had time to think "hang on, this sucks."

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Brett Hamil
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This is so draconian. Purpose-built to punish ppl for being broke by shoving em thru a bureaucratic meat grinder.

Guy Oron@guyoron.net

NEW: The Seattle City Council just passed legislation, that while presented as a permitting program, will effectively ban homeless people living in RVs and trailers on city streets. The city doesn't even have a safe lot open yet. Read in @thestranger.com: www.thestranger.com/news/seattle...

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The Tonearm
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“The title 'Rain Dogs' (1985), perhaps Waits’ finest album, attests to this directly. The term refers to dogs who wander outside during a storm, only to have the rain wash away the scents that could have led them home. In other words, rain dogs are objects of pity, not glory.”

popmatters.comFinding a Home with Tom Waits » PopMattersWhen the light hits the music just right, Tom Waits’ body of work unlocks and reveals itself: to be at home anywhere is to be at home nowhere at all.
Jonathan Speights
@jspeights.bsky.social

Bluesky roadmap idea: a feature that assesses long threads and warns before submit when topics have been previously covered. #AreYouSure

Mike Masnick@masnick.com

No nerves left to touch I have answered this silly question over and over and over for days and we finally moved off of it to an actually interesting discussion and suddenly someone jumps in the middle and is like "but what about this thing you already explained dozens of times"

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33 1/3 Books
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🎸 Slayer's Reign in Blood turns 40! Discover how the ultimate metal masterpiece was made. D.X. Ferris's addition to the series includes original interviews with Slayer, Rick Rubin, Andy Wallace, Larry Carroll, and Def Jam insiders. 🤘 Get your copy: https://bit.ly/47iH8EB

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Kate Starbird
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The bad news: The Trump admin's efforts to interfere w/ mail-in-voting were successful in sowing doubt & confusion. The good news: That's not stopping voters who are getting the message to vote early, use official ballot dropboxes, & track their ballots. uwcip.substack.com/p/voters-exp...

uwcip.substack.comVoters Express Confusion Amid a Lot of ‘Noise’ Around Mail-in VotingFor election administrators, it’s been ‘an exhausting rollercoaster ride.’