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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

we already live in a post-scarcity economy

abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

yes I still have facebook, no I almost never use it except to like the odd post that crosses my feed and buy things on marketplace, but lately they have been experimenting on me and making it easier to quit because every time I log in it's like 13 notifications that are never relevant to me at all

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

isn't injecting additional testosterone for no medical reason exactly why Elon Musk and Donald Trump have such strange silhouettes?

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

during WWII the Allies smuggled an anti-facist pamphlet written by Bertol Brecht into Nazi Germany and now you get thirty years just for moving a box of antifa zines

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

just like Charlie Chaplin woke up today in the lap of a monument on the day of its unveiling. oops

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

instead of working on my personality I'm making an appointment to get diagnosed

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

the only crime I see is profiteers driving up the cost of rent and groceries or destroying social services that put vulnerable people out on the street. cops aren't going to help with that

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Neil Surkan @neilsurkan.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Hi Calgary! I'm launching Empties TOMORROW (Sunday) at 5PM! Location: the WONDERFUL bookstore THE NEXT PAGE! With @ryannekap.bsky.social, @annaveprinska.bsky.social, Mikka Jacobsen, and Blair Palmer Yoxall It'd be such a treat to see you there! 🧜‍♂️

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

sorry sir, my father was a vacuum cleaner and my mother was a microwave, and that's the reason all of my essays are flagged as AI

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

yes Logan you're absolutely right, Socrates's suspicion of writing in the Phaedrus is a great argument for why we shouldn't be upset whenever anyone uses LLMs to do their thinking for them

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I know it's been a long time since anyone did this properly but theoretically you give tax breaks to businesses because they bring jobs to your communities. the reality is more fucked but I don't think there's even a theoretical argument for giving tax breaks to AI data centres

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

has anyone else read "The Last Samurai" by Helen DeWitt and thought while reading that there must be a world in which everyone else is constantly talking about this book?

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

when this is all over I guarantee you that generative AI will be seen as having been about as impactful as the introduction of Excel

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

never thought I'd see the turtle who got got by the plastic straw on the other side of the culture war, but found out today Peter Thiel funded him in order to generate resentments in middle America. Now he's got a podcast where he asks innocent "questions" about the ROI on community time and leisure

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

in my ideal world everyone would have a literary magazine and every literary magazine would be a hammer dismantling received assumptions about the world which narrow the field of possibility

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dissected @trepanation.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

1 million people are working together to give me diarrhea using psychic powers

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

last night dreamed I ate cat food and hated it and also that there was a kind of goose called "the nun's priest goose" which was what the Chaucer tale was named after and it looked like a partridge and flew vertically oriented, only sort of bobbing two or three feet off the ground

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

yes! my mind is a wax slate upon which the phantasms of my senses appear

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

nothing more disappointing to me than travelling to LinkedIn and discovering how many of my esteemed graduate student colleagues, some of them former union stewards, have become pampered shills for AI

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

the AI "boom": a gold rush but after you pulled the ore out of the earth it turned out to be copper and the roads had to be destroyed to get there and you came back stupider than when you left and perhaps two or three people out of seven billion made money

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I don't know. what is posting in this time

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

if you're going to impose a large language model over a legacy media institution hijacked by silicon valley vultures, we can at least make it very expensive to run

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

reading Margaret Wertheim's "The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace" because I am becoming especially interested in the late 1990s but finding myself strangely consoled by the possibility that we live in ten dimensions and that every bit of matter is just folded and distorted space

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

ah yes, time for me to borrow an ebook from the university library, which means download it one chapter at a time, because that is how every person in the world reads books, in discrete chunks, like a squirrel raiding a library to line a nest

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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

This should not be shrugged aside. They have stopped with the fake 22 million illegal immigrants things and are flat out saying we want to deport 10's of millions of citizens and legal residents from "third world countries" Basically they are advocating removing 1/3 of the population on a gov site.

Homeland security post The peace of a nation no longer besieged by the third world. A photo of an old 70's tan car on the beach with palm trees swaying in the wind as the surf comes in. with the text America After 100 million deportations.

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

even among really smart folks, i think ppl have greatly underestimated just how much resources the ultra-wealthy have put into culture war bullshit to get us to fight each other instead of them

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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

This is more than twice the amount of money paid to every writer in Canada in royalties who has had their book taken out of a library in the past year.

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

what is better than watching a Mary Beard documentary and imagining yourself walking through all those columns

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

in 2018 TIME magazine was bought by the rightwing CEO of Salesforce (cloud-based tech company) specifically to pull stunt covers like this, b/c tech bros know they have to buy cultural capital. anyway it is a slap in the face that these losers are depicted as labourers when they are grifters, all

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

if the computer can see more bridges that need selecting in order to prove that I am human what do they even need me for

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

It is easy to forget that cooperation and kindness built all forms of community and states run through domination are only a recent aberration. And that this latest emphasis on tech alone is more recent still

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

wow, and you're telling me this only costs 500 billion dollars? every year? what a steal

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Taras Grescoe 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 16/11/2025

All aboard the Kafka Subway! I’ve had dreams like this. Sculptor Michel de Broin took doors from MR-63 métro cars and turned them into this interactive installation at Arsenal Contemporary gallery in #Montréal. Très Inception! www.arsenalcontemporary.com

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to

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Kat Beyer @katbeyer.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Some mornings I wake up thinking this timeline can’t get any weirder, but I am always immediately proved wrong

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

right [now] now all I [wish] want is a [wafer] way to [try] turn [on] off [automobile] autocomplete in [Microsoft] Microsoft [Outlook] Outlook

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

"meet the people saying NO to opiate addiction in their small towns (sponsored by Purdue Pharma)"

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 05/10/2025

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

I'm not sure about this branding but I'm not the billionaire business genius

Mark Zuckerberg presenting his Pervert Glasses for perverts

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

what if instead of becoming incels online wayward young men became obsessed with Kierkegaard and started believing they were the biblical and extreme Jesus Christ. where is the billionaire super-fund supporting that???

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

why is it that one of the worst feelings in the world is remembering a mid band you liked from the early 2000s and then discovering that they have put out fifteen more albums between now and then

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Obvious consequence of coding Grok to say that Kirk has won debates that he’s lost

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

can you imagine applying for VC funding with the idea that not only are there not enough podcasts in the world but that we need to "flood the space" with podcasts made by AI?

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I'm harnessing the unprecedented power of AI to forget how to read and develop a severe mental illness that makes me unrecognizable to those who once knew me.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Just a reminder: The tenth anniversary editions of the original Southern Reach trilogy are still out in the wild, selling well. NYT bestsellers and on a lot of best-of-decade or this century lists. With new intros by Karen Joy Fowler, NK Jemisin, and Helen MacDonald. Buy from you favorite indie.

Southern Reach covers with morphed boar, rabbit, and owl, art by Pablo Delcan.

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Actually further away, more mediated, but with the illusion of closeness. Woolf’s own writing Illustrates this thru her careful attention to mood in others, to subtle shifts and flickering expressions that can only be witnessed and charted in person, exactly what we edit out when we perform online

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abbatial @aobate.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

trump's ponytail in that little photo of him going around has real Oscar Bluth in "Arrested Development" energy

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