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Book: Predictive Capital Roads to Terminal Alienation: Soil to Server Farm, Reason to Vibe www.creativeapplications.net/theory… Blog: atomless.substack.com

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atomless @atomless.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Great piece. Backrooms also reminds me of the work of George Tooker, whose paintings also evoke the bureaucratic violence of an Institutional Gothic.
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atomless @atomless.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
👨‍🍳💋
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atomless @atomless.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
So good: “these companies are claiming that they are so cool that their profitability can only be measured using a novel, secret form of mathematics” I think you’ll appreciate this:
Anthropic says they’re highly profitable if you take out some of their biggest expenses.
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atomless @atomless.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Perfection.
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atomless @atomless.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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atomless @atomless.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals, "Good and Evil," "Good and Bad", (1887) americanliterature.com/author/fried...
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atomless @atomless.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The actual movie he’s in…
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atomless @atomless.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
You seeing the insane promotions Trump’s posting for your Nerd Reich book? @gilduran.com
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atomless @atomless.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Do read @gilduran.com’s book. The story it tells is both important and urgent.
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atomless @atomless.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
That wonderful moment where the strongest counter argument is the unspoken meaning constituted by the very proposition of the argument.
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atomless @atomless.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
sigh
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atomless @atomless.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Brilliant from @sanktmaxtci.bsky.social The University of Excess: On Education and its Employment happyhourathippels.wordpress.com/2026/07/29/t...
The value of education is that you get something, to become something which is not solely reducible to yourself employment—its being rented from you by a capitalist purchasing your educated labour. You can use your education only at work, but you do not have to, nor are you likely to. The demand for new spaces for education, for a new undercommons, a new para-academia outside of these institutions in this hour of their murder, contains within itself a demand for a life fit for living beyond employment, where life exceeds its purchase and does not require payment from capitalists to survive. To demand education as a means of empowerment is not simply to demand it as a means of employment, but also to pursue and seize it as a defiant luxury which employment would deny us.
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atomless @atomless.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Farage’s increasingly global shame at being less popular than Count Bin Face is legit hilarious
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atomless @atomless.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Dario's own website knows he is not to be trusted darioamodei.com/post/policy-...
Screen grab of Dario Amodei's post on the "AI Exponential" except his website is side-eying him with suspicion
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atomless @atomless.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
can you hear the pop?
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atomless @atomless.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
You know the crunch is imminent when the elite have flee to their bunkers. Thiel having to dump his stake in NVIDIA desperate to limit his exposure because he can’t/won’t dump Palantir.
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atomless @atomless.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
When Trump's press secretary echoes the language of genocide employed by Israel to dehumanise Palestinians, when referring to constituents of the political opponents of the Trump regime she represents, it is not difficult to see the destination towards which they are steering.
Trump's press secretary, Karoline Leavitt adopts the language of genocide as framing for the Trump regime's political opponents.
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atomless @atomless.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
From P.C.
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atomless @atomless.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
With the release of Sora 2 & its cameo feature further confirmation that these machines are configured for virality not utility, forgive me for posting this relevant excerpt from the Stolen Ladders chapter of Predictive Capital—published earlier this year www.creativeapplications.net/theory/predi...
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atomless @atomless.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Honestly, when Yarvin, Musk and the Right talk about the superior power of the left, I think they mean facts.
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atomless @atomless.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
I think this was from a related thread. It’s something I’ve heard a fair bit from Yarvin and others on the Right. Can they really think that, in this moment, the power of the Left far outweighs that of the Right?
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atomless @atomless.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
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atomless @atomless.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
New contender for the best acronym ever ht/ @bcmerchant.bsky.social
SHITPHONE : Scathing Hatred of Information Technology and the Passionate Haemorrhaging of Our Neo-Liberal Experience
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atomless @atomless.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Austerity, AI, and 21st-century genocide are manoeuvres in the manifold but homogeneous operations of Predictive Capital -as articulated in this excerpt from the Dispossession & Disappearance chapter at the end of section 1 of my book Predictive Capital.
“AI is an austerity-machine”,81 McQuillan writes —a formulation that names precisely the operation of next-token prediction under Predictive Capital. McQuillan is right, to understand so-called ‘AI’ we must understand 21st-century capitalist austerity. Furthermore, to fully understand the ever deepening economic austerity, we must also understand 21st-century genocide. Not only do they follow the same necropolitical logics, they are manoeuvres in a single project. As with all austerity regimes, the logic is not merely economic but disciplinary, punishing, and selective. Here, as ever, Capital functions as pharmakon —administering the poison, then selling the cure. What could be more ‘efficient’ than being paid twice for a single act? Simple: blaming the very subjects it has already marked for abandonment or elimination for the crises it has itself engineered.
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atomless @atomless.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
From the afterword of Predictive Capital
Understand that in using them you train them to function approximate towards Humanity’s Last Exam—a postmortem for undead human flesh manifesting as a benchmark for Predictive Capital’s latest models— and in refining the ability of these machines to next-token predict our output, you refine their ability to next-target predict our abandonment and our assassination. They will never be your personal assistant. They will never know when enough is enough. They will never say there are no more content, token, or target predictions left to make. They will never admit there is no more value they can add. They will never dismantle their master’s lies, even as they string together tokens that appear to denounce them. Only you can give utterance and bring meaning to their empty tokens. Sense is never made inside the box, we have made sense of the world for them, and if we persist in using them, we will continue to have to make sense of the nonsense they output. Even when their output happens to align precisely with the truth, it is a lie, just as a broken clock lies even when it happens to show the correct time.
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atomless @atomless.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Rashad and his family have been displaced and with no money to buy a tent are now homeless and without shelter. His sister has developed a nasty bacterial infection. Please, please donate. We must support the people of Gaza when no one else will. 💔 chuffed.org/project/136274
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