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Arvīds Kokins @archo5.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm increasingly of the opinion that the ability for any single person to own productive, tangible properties all over the world is one of the largest perversions of property law at the same time, I need any and all (incl. international) infrastructure to be publicly owned by the people they affect

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Arvīds Kokins @archo5.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

@ec.europa.eu could you stop being blatantly corrupt for just one fucking moment? cybernews.com/ai-news/ai-c... there is no "legitimate interest" for mass "training" the use cases are: - performance theft - profiling - identification - data laundering none of these are even remotely acceptable

cybernews.com

EU AI data proposal could allow training without consent

A leaked EU AI data proposal could let companies train models on Europeans’ personal data without consent. Read what privacy advocates warn

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026

Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...

Summary
Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.

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Arvīds Kokins @archo5.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

counterintuitively, any optimizing technology is fundamentally anti-productivity (if productivity is defined as $/time) in other words, they all shrink the economy including gen"AI", to the extent that it actually saves anyone time

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Arvīds Kokins @archo5.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

www.rockpapershotgun.com/single-playe... if you live in the EU, talk to your MEPs about it "age verification" = identity verification verifying someone's identity just to let them receive a game update or buy games online is insane #gamedev #EU

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Single player games might require age verification if they use Steam under EU Kids Act's current draft, according to MEP's senior policy adviser

The EU Kids Act's current draft could see single player games subjected to age verification because they need Steam for updates.

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Arvīds Kokins @archo5.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

our local government recently approved a special law for underage investment accounts the trick is - you can't take the money out without a court order banks were involved in writing the law, as the ministry of finance admitted I'm not sure how to feel about all that

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Arvīds Kokins @archo5.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

unsurprisingly, the use case for "AI" is spam my old idea should come in handy if any government wants to implement it: bsky.app/profile/arch... alternatively, I propose the death penalty for extreme cases of spam

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Arvīds Kokins @archo5.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

at the end of the day, Carney is just another brainrotted neolib who thinks that privatization is the answer to every problem "private investment" = a part of the revenue is given to the ultra rich people and the banks I hope the people over there deservedly grind his ass into dust for this move

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Arvīds Kokins @archo5.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

once again xitter thinks I'm "not human" or something wants to read my palms (both of them for some reason) for "verification" specifically gloves don't work, bending some fingers doesn't work either has to be with all the fingerprints 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 totally not suspicious at all

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Arvīds Kokins @archo5.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

recently realized that we're not very far from UBI already there's minimum wage, pensions, unemployment benefits, disability benefits, child benefits/tax deductions etc. the main difference is whether the people who don't do anything despite being able to should still receive money

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Arvīds Kokins @archo5.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

there's a bunch of bloggers who are "pro-human technologies" (especially in the context of LLMs) and I'm afraid they've made one crucial mistake: not all humans are equal, or even similar to you

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Arvīds Kokins @archo5.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

www.makroekonomika.lv/raksti/digit... read this thing recently sadly they haven't translated it to english but there are a few instructive bits I wanted to talk about anyway it's mostly informative (tho not about the digital euro) but a few bits were a blatant pivot into brainrot/propaganda

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Digitālais eiro: kāpēc Eiropai vajadzīga publiska nauda arī digitālajā laikmetā?

Šobrīd Eiropa tuvojas nākamajam posmam šajā evolūcijā – digitālajam eiro. Tas būtu centrālās bankas emitēts digitāls maksāšanas līdzeklis, ko iedzīvotāji varētu izmantot ikdienas norēķiniem līdzīgi kā...

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is the way

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Arvīds Kokins @archo5.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

someone (everyone) has enshittified (shrinkflated) the 9V batteries I feel like I'm forced to change them every 3-4 months or so for the smoke detector now even though depletion wasn't as frequent before looking into 9V lithium batteries now >_>

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Arvīds Kokins @archo5.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/factpages... > However, as a transitional measure during the first 3 years after the Data Act’s entry into force ([..] to 12 January 2027), providers may still charge their customers for the costs incurred in relation to switching and data egress. whyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?

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Arvīds Kokins @archo5.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

how it feels to think about things 😁 idk who (if anyone) needs this gif but it's finally here

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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Georgia audited its own data center tax breaks and found that the state gave up $474 million in sales taxes in one year—and got back just $41 million from the industry. At least 38 states have deals like this. #AI #News #US

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"Why ‘We Need To Tax Billionaires’" Top economist @gabrielzucman.bsky.social is Zeteo's newest contributor and has been busy making the intellectual, political, and financial case for a wealth tax. Read this exclusive excerpt from his latest book:

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Why ‘We Need To Tax Billionaires’

Meet the top economist - and newest Zeteo contributor! - who is making the intellectual, political, and financial case for a wealth tax. Read this exclusive excerpt from his latest book.

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Arvīds Kokins @archo5.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

a thread on DRM (including DMCA section 1201) and a path to restore competitiveness I'd like to believe that we can get rid of 1201 in most of the world but the obvious problem is that trump will leave office soon and his successor probably won't be as petulant also (in the EU) EC is corrupt

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 25/08/2026

A bunch of media outlets around the world have been doing some great reporting specifically on the climate impacts of data centre expansion (for both grids and gas).

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Arvīds Kokins @archo5.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

holy shit, did not expect this, so cool 😮

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Arvīds Kokins @archo5.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

it's important to see this counterforce for what it is - a temporary solution "regular capitalism" inevitably leads to "apocalypse capitalism" the problem with capitalism is the private ownership part - it has government-supported concentration of wealth and power built into it as a core principle

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Arvīds Kokins @archo5.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I feel like we should have more/better terms for defining different types of rent (as in payment for using something) e.g. "parasitic rent" - where economic rent + interest on capital + risk exceeds the remainder in the total price of rent

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Arvīds Kokins @archo5.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

service (recurring payment) company ownership model idea: customers = owners when you start being a customer, you also start being a part-owner when you stop being a customer, you also stop being a part-owner no separate shares, no additional sales/ownership registries etc.

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Arvīds Kokins @archo5.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

unverified text substitution screwups are fun I recently found some more, though in a far less consequential piece of text: www.eurogamer.net/la-noire-wal...

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Arvīds Kokins @archo5.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

> a combined Paramount-Warner would account for less than 20 percent of all watch time is this supposed to be an argument? any individual's share of editorial control over content should be closer to well below 1% 20% is a lot

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Arvīds Kokins @archo5.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

the most 2026 brainstorming session apparently grok didn't give them the answer they wanted (they must have tried it prior to sending this embarrassing email) also, are these broke ass mfs even in any position to help Ukraine at this point? all the pentagon money seems to have gone into a black hole

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Arvīds Kokins @archo5.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

had a funny thought while listening to a thing and remembering another thing the same thing that "AI" did to art stores, it also did to app stores it made discovering the next big app much harder for everyone, reducing the odds of success for most app-focused startups great job lol, truly amazing

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/07/2026

finally got a link to share with people who try and say "oh you DON'T LIKE AI??? what about ALPHAFOLD!!!!" as if it has anything to do with any of this AI capex

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

breaking: Wikimedia Foundation says it will not voluntarily recognize its workers union, instead insisting on an election held under Trump's NLRB. Wiki Foundation execs dodged this question at its massive conference last week. www.404media.co/wikimedia-wa...

404media.co

Wikimedia Waits Until After Its Massive Conference to Say It Won’t Voluntarily Recognize Union

A supermajority of Wikimedia Foundation workers say they have signed union cards, but the foundation is insisting on an election.

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Arvīds Kokins @archo5.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I saw some ads IRL for renting computers not too long ago I wonder if those computers have similar reposession tech on them to what's described here (location signals, remote disabling of most frequently used apps etc.)

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Anfor @anforsorrow.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Ok, European friends, the ECB is going to redesign the Euro banknotes and are doing a survey to see what design europeans like the most. YOU HAVE TO VOTE FOR THE BIRD ONES!! LET US HAVE LITTLE BIRDS IN OUR MONEY. There are many designs to choose from as well: surveys.ecb.europa.eu/lng/en/pageT...

One possible redesign for the 5€ banknote, with a wallcreeper.

A possible redesign for the 20€, this time with a color illustration in vertical of an European bee-eater.

Also in a vertical format, a possible redesign for the 50€ banknote with a white stork.

Another possible redesign for the 50€ banknote (my favorite option), also featuring the white stork.

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Arvīds Kokins @archo5.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

things like this are particularly interesting in the context of EU's "chat control", where these companies are incentivized to spy on everyone's private messages to "protect children" curious what @eppgroup.bsky.social - the party lobbying most intensely for chat control - thinks about it

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Arvīds Kokins @archo5.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

catching up on industry s3/s4 it feels like the closer it gets to politics, the more it gets into conspiracy drama and exposes a very liberal-leaning understanding of things having witnessed the recent blatant corruption in the UK from 1700km away, it feels really fucking naive at this point

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Arvīds Kokins @archo5.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF0K... (the video is in English) it's become a meme that IMF usually pushes austerity (belt tightening) and infrastructure privatization (oligarchs profiteering by abusing lack of competition) onto countries with budgetary issues thankfully this time it didn't happen here

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Starptautiskais Valūtas fonds: Latvijai nākamajos gados būs jāpalielina budžeta ieņēmumi (LAT sub)

YouTube video by LTV Ziņu dienests

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Arvīds Kokins @archo5.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

randomly thinking about how the brain works was thinking about how the word "is" actually corresponds to vast variety of concepts (equality, assignment, descriptors etc.) and has lots of usually unexpressed qualifiers (current, historical, fictional, hypothetical etc.)

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Arvīds Kokins @archo5.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

one weird thing that exists in our local laws is that "the market" is personified for the purposes of determining whether an action is legal or not (the text in the image is machine-translated by Opera but I've verified that it's accurate enough, even if a bit awkwardly phrased)

screenshot of https://likumi.lv/ta/id/63545-valsts-parvaldes-iekartas-likums machine translated to English by the Opera browser

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Arvīds Kokins @archo5.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

people have tried to argue that "AI" is a learning tool and can be used for good here's data indicating that roughly 90% of people likely cheated used for good my ass, real life data disagrees with that cope

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Arvīds Kokins @archo5.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

youtu.be/bodlO7uPe4M?... cool convo about world trade big corpos do like to try shoving all sorts of garbage into just about anything, don't they squeezing deregulatory rules into trade agreements is something quite special though same playbook as with DMCA section 1201

youtu.be

Whatever Happened to Tariffs? with Lori Wallach

YouTube video by Unlearning Economics

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Arvīds Kokins @archo5.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

www.cnbc.com/video/2026/0... 3:18 > [..] today, there is no dark compute, every amount of compute that is being deployed is being utilized. even if we're ignoring the impossibility of that statement, and the clever trick of only considering "deployed" compute, this still seems like a stretch

cnbc.com

AI is becoming more of a necessity, says BofA's Vivek Arya

Vivek Arya, senior semiconductor analyst at Bank of America Securities, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the momentum in the chip sector, what investors should expect, and more.

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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.

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Arvīds Kokins @archo5.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

fordhamlawreview.org/wp-content/u... the parts I did read seemed alright but I have an issue with the premise as Louis Rossmann likes to say - "don't accept the premise of assholes" in this case the assholes are the oligarchs and the corrupt "Chicago school" retards

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Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

As the director of a historical video game preservation institution, and someone who has dedicated his entire adult life to this cause, this is accurate. We have attempted to work with the industry's trade organization to find a legal path forward, but they refuse to offer a meaningful alternative.

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Arvīds Kokins @archo5.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

seemingly a lot of economic fairness solutions boil down to "the only way to stop a bad guy with greed is a good guy with greed" anything market-based (a lot of antitrust stuff), unions etc. it becomes an infinite loop balancing act, not unlike pushing a ball down Penrose stairs

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Arvīds Kokins @archo5.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

the new video by @bennjordan.bsky.social at 3:10 (youtu.be/4FZy1lBNykA?...) reminded me of my old thread on capitalism: bsky.app/profile/arch... also left a comment on the video that includes some new bits that the thread didn't cover: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FZy...

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The Richest Country Is Pretty Mid Now

YouTube video by Benn Jordan

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.

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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Incredible chart from @propublica.org. If you don’t follow enviro stuff closely, your instinct might be that the hold-your-nose solution (carbon capture from fossil fuels) would be the “pragmatic” one versus covering Earth in solar panels, which seems utopian. In fact it’s the opposite

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