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Oil burns in 1834 the same way it burns in 2034, show me a tesla robot that can operate 50 years from now.

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They were obssessed with lineage, land, gold, metal, and oil because those were things that would still be useful 1000 years from now. Sam Altman doesn't believe in a world beyond his death and fundamentally thinks most other humans shouldn't exist. It's not ego, it's religion.

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Gilded age capitalists built mines, stone buildings, monuments, roads/railroads, and got their names on maps because they looked at 6000 years of human history and went "Those are the things that actually last and matter so I will steal them". Every nvidia GPU will be in a landfill within a decade.

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The 'AI death cult' allegations make a lot more sense if you think about how Sam Altman would rather die a martyr in a world where 99% of the population has died in some catastrophe, while an actual capitalist would be like "are you fucking mad then how would the robots build my pyramids?!!"

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A handy mental picture is that gilded age capitalists dreamed of vast empires of land, gold, oil, population, and monuments that would last millenia. Modern day tech CEOs dream of being immortal sephiroth flying through the cosmos alone using the power of a dead planet as his vessel.

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You can tell if someone is a technofeudalist fascist or just a run-of-the-mill capitalist if you offer them slaves. The fascist will refuse them because they don't like the idea of being around lesser humans that might trigger an empathy response. The capitalist will immediately put them to work.

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Jason @envinyon.bsky.social · 9h

Raw unfiltered capitalism doesn't actually prefer a white collar service economy, it wants company town child slave labor for pyramid-building and generational resource dynasties. Today's billionaires waste precious resources on AI and robotics instead because they actually want people to die off.

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So the more people that play the demo, the costlier it is to run What scalable business model

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Kv3-298, 1/1 2026

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Almond @almondsquirrel.bsky.social · 10h

Dario's basilisk: you have to treat LLMs as sentient and conscious today on the off chance they usher in a government fascist enough to retroactively punish anyone who didn't contribute to its creation.

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Almond @almondsquirrel.bsky.social · 10h

Like, yeah, capitalism causes all sorts of social ills but what America has right now (few/no free markets, inefficient wealth extraction, bad labor productivity, inability to create capital resources) is something weirder, worse, darker, and far more techno feudal than capitalist.

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Almond @almondsquirrel.bsky.social · 10h

The US has actually been very bad at capitalism (state protections for the owners of the means of production) for a few decades now and it mostly comes down to protecting financialization (wealth parking, monopolization and debt financing) over actual capital accumulation.

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Allison McKenzie @allimack.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"To be forgotten is worse than death" - Freya Crescent #ffix #ff9

Freya Crescent from Final Fantasy IX
She is leaping and attacking with her spear

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 20h

there was a bit of drama at the end because security wouldn’t let people leave the theater during the Q & A. But when the would-be exiters made a scene, they opened the doors. I imagine the heavy security had something to do with Gibney (the director) and St. Clair (Elon’s ex) being there.

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Almond @almondsquirrel.bsky.social · 21h

I think if you fantasize about the future of media being a star trek holodeck you should also be shipped many lightyears away from earth and have the fruits of your labor used to pay for UBI.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 09/10/2026

Kind of a buried lede in the results of this Supreme Court approval rating poll from Marquette: Overall support for Supreme Court expansion, which even Democratic politicians were dismissing as "radical" just a few years ago, is now at 53 percent today.marquette.edu/2026/09/marq...

Proposal Favor or oppose
Favor Oppose
Enforce strict ethics code for justices 89 10
Limited terms for justices 79 21
Increase number of justices 53 47
Marquette Law School Poll, national survey: Sept. 2-9, 2026

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ossoff is definitely not listening to Yglesias/Klein/PodSave reactionary centrist crowd, he does not think his marginal voter is a white-supremacist, and that is what makes him such an attractive candidate to the vast majority of US who are not white-supremacists.

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walking mirage @wolf.observer · 23h

is it possible to convince AI boosters that mathematics and science don't exist as human pursuits with the primary goals of producing papers and proofs, or are they just Gone

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

valkyrie profile, screenshot, playstation (1999) www.mobygames.com/game/3860/va...

(styled yellow text font): technical arts energy is charged
(styled larger green text font): purify weird soul!!
(styled smaller blue text font): step on it press button
enemy hp bar down the bottom of the screen
graphics of a young woman/girl standing tothe left of graphics of the playstation symbol buttons overlaid over other sprites.

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Oh yeah, 100%. The 40-60 year olds who were making Austin Powers and the Scooby Doo movie and That 70s Show were definitely trying to capture their childhood nostalgia. Except now those aesthetics are more known by that era than by the original era they were copying.

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1959 chair that most people would commonly assume is from 1999 now

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nicogothi @nicogotchi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Case in point I bet most zoomers would assume this TV is from 1998-2002 because of how many millenium era cartoons and movies were just nostalgic for the late 60s

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awright its nice out i accept fall lets frolic

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I guess this is like all those 90s-2000s Parody films that were trying to parody late 50s/early 60s aesthetics but are now just a weird quirk of their own because the average person doesn't have living memory of what media 50 years ago was like.

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Void-BOO!!! GAh!!!! (AKA Jess Voidburger) @voidburger.com · 08/10/2026

There is a bigger gap of time between today and Young Frankenstein than Young Frankenstein and the 1930s-1940s era of film that it was trying to be a nostalgic parody of.

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Had to take another goddamn break from Double Team

"These monks have been collecting information on Rome for 500 years"
Old guy hands hover over a cyberpunky keyboard

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Mr. President, a SECOND Nate Silver Fursona has hit the internet

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1/x Two of the best-known coats on any high street began as working kit for sailors on cold decks. Both carry names from my little corner of the North Sea: Duffel, a small town near Antwerp, and the Dutch word "pij". The story of the duffel coat and the peacoat. #maritimehistory

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

When it comes to productivity, "measure twice cut once" is generally more efficient than "cut 10 times and ask someone else to figure out which cut works best"

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Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

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chungris @chungris.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

do you think this was a genuine question

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Sora Dez 🦊 @soradezwolfox.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

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