Xander Flatt

"The distribution of knowledge is the key contemporary task. Knowledge empowers people. If people know the rules and are sensitised by art, humour and creativity, they are much more likely to accept change." - Antanas Mockus

Actually, Bluesky has FIVE different kinds of users...

Among the many, many content warnings; "Contains tobacco depictions".

The working class are the wealth creators, by making things and providing services. The people who own businesses make profit. That's not wealth creation. Banks and government create money not businesses. Giving them tax breaks etc just funnels that money out of the economy.

This would explain why so much media coverage about ai makes it sound like magic and not just theft.

The invincible airplane

Every word of this makes perfect sense to me.

"make the joy of music-making accessible" If you don't actually make the music, that's just music listening.

I started reading "A Thousand Ships" by @nataliehaynes.bsky.social in 2019. For many reasons, I was delayed. I can't even blame Cerce, but I finally completed my odyssey and finished it today. It's an astonishing book. Buy it, read* it and make your life better *audio books are reading

It's just One Beatle After Another

Remember kids; in times like these if you choose Neutral Milk Hotel, you have chosen the side of the Oppressor Milk Hotel.

The Reinhart-Rogoff theory of growth in times of debt came from "spreadsheet errors" and was thoroughly debunked. It didn't stop austerity from happening. They don't care about the correct figures when the wrong ones back them up

If ever there was a time that Donald Trump was offered "super intelligence", he clearly chose the soup.

They went full Clippy. Never go full Clippy.

His brain is even smaller on the inside.

Guys, can you take it again? I had my eyes closed.

I went to see @charlottechurch.bsky.social 's Late Night Pop Dungeon a few years ago and it was hands-down the most fun and entertaining gig I've ever been to.

I ate his liver with some fava beans and a gottle of geer

Cocaine isn't addictive, it just smells really good.

-Once upon a midnight- Beastie Boys: DREARY -while I pondered, weak and Beastie Boys: WEARY -Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten Beastie Boys: LORE

Terrible name for a child.

I think the people today who are convinced AI is thinking are the kind of people who, 25 years ago, would have added 'please' and 'thank you' to their google searches.

It's possible to point out that the new HP series is a bigot-driven, hate machine that will directly fund the oppression and deaths of trans people and that everyone involved is morally compromised beyond redemption WITHOUT sharing the trailer.

The gravity of this statement took a while to catch up with me. I ran over the edge of a cliff and just kept going straight. Then I looked down.

Watching VFX Artists React today and learning that Wētā Workshop no longer has a miniatures division made me so sad. Apparently studios just don’t want them anymore, they all want CGI. So sad

[Exit Queen.]

One of my jobs 10 years ago was cross checking addresses to send vulnerable kids in Edinburgh books from Dolly Parton's Imagination Library. Her legacy cannot be overstated.

Warren Beatty owns the film and tv licensing rights for Dick Tracy, but they will lapse if 10 years go by without him releasing anything. So now, once a decade, he does an interview with TCM as Dick Tracy in full costume just to hold on to them. I respect that.

You want to live like spreadsheet people You want to see whatever spreadsheet people see You want to sleep with spreadsheet people You want to sleep with spreadsheet people like me?" But she didn't understand So I used a pivot table and some charts to turn data into actionable insights

The purpose of a system is what it does. If they wanted to help people, they would. They want to help asset owners.

"Actually we went quite close to some real Bronze Age remains, but we avoided Dobby's grave," Imagine what this fan group could achieve if they tried to combat something as harmful as, you know...

You play as a shade of red: the game is rougelike

Firstly: No, they don't. Secondly: "we attempted delivery of your package from low-earth orbit earlier today but no-one was available to sign for the charred remains"

We reached out to The Umbrella Corporation but no-one in their Racoon City office was available for comments

This is what the future looks like...

If you consider how racist you need to be for musicians that you shared a bill with to start an anti-racism charity to combat your views.... that's how racist Eric Clapton is.

Only just found out about this For the record, you don't get multiple genetic markers and one of the most effective medications known to science with 'social constructs' Channel 4, this is, in scientific parlance, an absolute fu*king disgrace that will genuinely endanger lives #c4 #ADHD

Excuse me while I go and sit down in the museum with the other fossils.

I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

After 800 miles, two taxis, six trains, three missed connections and about 50ft of a mild jog, I finally got my well-read copy of Depraved: The Story of Dangerous Art signed by @daisydixon.bsky.social It changed how I view art. Bought @portybooks.bsky.social signed @bookspacecardiff.bsky.social

Standard bluesky response: In choosing Neutral Milk Hotel, you have chosen the side of the Oppressor Milk Hotel.

If your only experience of food poverty is reusing a slice of lemon for your second gin of the afternoon, sit down and shut up.

Everyone on here be like “oh yes I am a games designer with very strong opinions”, meanwhile here’s Anna age 12 out-designing all of you with her amazing pavement games. G’aun yersel, Anna.

A solid example of "I'm not doing it to change the world, I'm doing it so the world doesn't change me."

But they were all of them deceived, for another ring was made. In the land of Switzerland, in the fires of Mount FIFA, the Dark Lord Infantino forged in secret a Master Ring... One Ring to rule them all!

It makes sense that he'd need to move onto burning more fossil fuels having immediately burned through his credibility and any goodwill.

This is grim. If you show children that they're not allowed to enjoy something because people will make fun of them; all they learn is to hide what they like and to make fun of others. Your children are not a blank page on which you decide what to write.