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Has LinkedIn turned into a cesspool of temporarily embarrassed billionaires fermenting fascist revolution or is that just me?

Meta and SV as a whole will spend the next 2-4 years trying to make you forget they took their masks off and revealed their contempt for the public. Don't let them fool you. They are careless people who only value things that make them money, and they'll happily prostrate themselves to power.

I for one can't wait for the unofficial cross-marketing deal between the communist developers radical new rpg and the Australian take-away chicken franchise.

Gold Class was such a criminally underrated band. It's You is still an incredible album 11 years later. Would love to know why we never got a third album out of them. goldclass.bandcamp.com/album/its-you

There are a few different reasons you'd restructure a business this way but if you decided you wanted to exit the games industry and spin off an acquisition you obviously paid too much for 3 years ago this is the textbook PE 'bundling' play.

5 years of @lowtheband.bsky.social's HEY WHAT! These ten pieces—each built around their own instantaneous, undeniable hook—are turbocharged by the vivid textures that surround them. The ineffable, familiar harmonies of Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker break through the chaos like a life raft.

Hey @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social, not to detract from the seriousness of this report but is there a reason that everything Claudia Weisenberger 'writes' is clearly written by Claude AI? Claudia = Claude is a bit on the nose; has anyone verified she's even real?

No bees as the weather warms. Hives once perched at the edge of the industrial estate. Now they sell cheap used cars there.

As it is Skynet Day, it seems as good a time as any to share that data center based LLM Ai is caught in a death spiral which is going largely unreported in the media. In short, major insurers are creating carve outs for Ai, refusing to insure it, causing corporations to abandon its front facing use.

FYI fellow Aussies -- @readingsbooks.bsky.social is still the only place you can pre-order this online. Amazon AU still doesn't have a listing for it 🤔 and none of the retail chains have bothered to stock it either.

- Built new product category worth $20B annually. - Release PervertPods which are indistinguishable from the original products. - Assume that users of the original products will be fine being associated with PervertPods. Apple & RayBans are running uncontrolled experiments in brand destruction.

This week is reading @ghoulpus.bsky.social stories and letting them live rent free in my head, gnawing at my brainstem as they gestate in my ventricles. Just insanely good stuff.

Big “I’m upset that I am not the first search result” energy.

Having listened to all three playlists now I regret to discover I am 60% Noel and 40% Rona.

Not the cheese banks! When will the madness end!?

Saw the reaction to Terry Godier finally sinking into the consequences of his AI-slop existence and was so grumpy about it I had to write a thing: blog.wells.ac/2026/08/swea...

Almost like mega-pastors are just pop-therapists...

Increasingly convinced the opening of The Odyssey is a callback to Planet of the Apes.

waiting for the bit of this #730report where they remind you Epstein and his paedophile groupies started the trans-panic deliberately.

I can just imagine how much shit Pauline would lose when she realises the best meat pies in her former electorate are made by a lovely old Vietnamese lady. Most of what the media claim is the 'ONP demographic' in Darra still prefer Bahn Mi though.

Ronny Chieng has become Mean Waiter. Or was Mean Waiter Ronny Chieng the entire time?

Micah Bornfree cooking his brain on AI is probably the last person I expected but it's wild how quickly he pivoted from the spectacularly clear writing of 'The End of Protest' to deeply impenetrable substack posts about how AI 'works'.

What the actual hell. It's almost like private employment services think any assistance at all would remove the 'discipline of the market' -- making anything even a tiny bit easier would stop you getting off your arse and getting a job.

The Devil Wears Prada is a beat for beat remake of the Princess Diaries for adults. Is this a known thing? Am I just the last to figure it out (again)?

Meanwhile Digital Health Festival starts Wednesday and there isn’t a single timeslot I can find where someone isn’t explicitly selling AI into the healthcare sector. #DHF

An alcoholic failson who fires black employees and hates catholics? Seems pretty obvious Hesgeth is a klansman right?

This is a more muscular Christianity than anything Mark Driscoll or the Acts 29 bros could possibly conceive.

I am just going to say it. Last.fm is the panopticon for hipsters.

I have a theory that what will ultimately kill these chatbots is legal liability. Insurers will see these kinds of lawsuits and a massive unmitigated risk and insist that the C-suite are kept the hell away from them. And the C-suite are of course the primary boosters of AI slop.

A secret technology corrupted by monstrous figures is slowly eroding the institutions which rule over the world from within, you say? Seems a bit derivative of 1950’s fantasy. What did you say it’s called?

Takes slop to make slop...

Saw someone describe AI as 'industrialised mediocrity' and yeah, that tracks for me.

Butlerian Jihad Now!

Twirling, twirling ever rightward, into oblivion.

“Trust me bro, we’re slowing down the rollout because we’re good people bro, please keep adopting the slop machine, its inevitable, bro. Please, I have so much exposure.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I'm sure the ADL is shocked, shocked I tell you, that the leopard has decided to eat their face.

Sure seems like the collective political establishment of the Commonwealth want to go down as the Neville Chamberlains of the 21st Century.

Apple Music out here trying to help me take my own advice but jokes on them because I own literally every other format.