attuned-to-zero.bsky.social @attuned-to-zero.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I always found it funny that Le Samourai is often thought of as the ur-text of the 'hyper-professional assassin' genre when in fact the whole plot revolves around alain delon's assassin fucking up catastrophically 000
attuned-to-zero.bsky.social @attuned-to-zero.bsky.social · 19/09/2026donated a few bucks to one political campaign and now get a new text or email every fifteen seconds, i had forgotten that contributing any amount of money to anyone has basically the same effect as feeding a seagull on the beach 010
attuned-to-zero.bsky.social @attuned-to-zero.bsky.social · 09/09/2026god it would be great if there was a progressive media organization whose reporters had any subject matter expertise or indeed even superficial knowledge about the things they write about 000
attuned-to-zero.bsky.social @attuned-to-zero.bsky.social · 09/09/2026at last, we've animated a swarm of obsessively goal-oriented autonomous assistants despite not fully understanding how they work, as depicted in the classic Disney musical short film 'Don't animate a swarm of obsessively goal-oriented autonomous assistants unless you fully understand how they work' 031
attuned-to-zero.bsky.social @attuned-to-zero.bsky.social · 09/09/2026does the military typically buy equipment that 'refuses directives'. i understand that in the context of the secdef being an alcoholic neo-nazi you want directives being maximally refused but this seems to be kind of an odd embrace of technological solutionism 000
attuned-to-zero.bsky.social @attuned-to-zero.bsky.social · 08/09/2026who would have guessed a twitter-addicted Journalism Personality who works for semafor is a narcissistic weasel 1144
attuned-to-zero.bsky.social @attuned-to-zero.bsky.social · 05/09/2026sure, but there's no need to pretend to respect them on social media dot com 000
attuned-to-zero.bsky.social @attuned-to-zero.bsky.social · 21/08/2026propaganda of the deed but for incoherent slopulism 010
attuned-to-zero.bsky.social @attuned-to-zero.bsky.social · 20/08/2026It is extremely funny that Trump has an encounter with what is, for him, the sublime, and his instinctive reaction is to make a little taunting jab at an aide. He is truly the apotheosis of the small business tyrant. 030
attuned-to-zero.bsky.social @attuned-to-zero.bsky.social · 18/08/2026i'm sort of suprised we haven't yet seen a European auteur do an existentialist bummer variation of the groundhog day movie concept where you continue to age normally within the loop 010
attuned-to-zero.bsky.social @attuned-to-zero.bsky.social · 16/08/2026it's very funny to have your whole thing be about how political persuasion is actually impossible and pointless and then get huffy and indignant when people don't find you persuasive 020
attuned-to-zero.bsky.social @attuned-to-zero.bsky.social · 14/08/2026rogan is a completely brain-cooked reactionary moron but gillis is highly attuned to the directional attitude of the median uninformed, doesn't-think-of-themselves-as-political suburban white guy 010
attuned-to-zero.bsky.social @attuned-to-zero.bsky.social · 12/08/2026it seems a little silly to ding a museum specifically dedicated to the period 2008 - 2016 for not representing 'the here and now' 0355
attuned-to-zero.bsky.social @attuned-to-zero.bsky.social · 11/08/2026a consistently funny bit people do is post their thoughts online, or, even better, make a career out of posting their thoughts online, and then spend days getting yosemite sam fuming mad when someone else misreads them or reacts negatively or just thinks they're an asshole for some reason 200
attuned-to-zero.bsky.social @attuned-to-zero.bsky.social · 10/08/2026props to the people regularly asking these questions for reminding him that even people who depend on him for their livelihood can't be bothered to pretend to respect him 010
attuned-to-zero.bsky.social @attuned-to-zero.bsky.social · 10/08/2026as the hasan piker discourse grinds ceaselessly on, please keep in mind that he is not the 'joe rogan of the left' insomuch as rogan has like 10x his audience. piker is, if anything, the tim pool of the left. 000
attuned-to-zero.bsky.social @attuned-to-zero.bsky.social · 06/08/2026“Does this person understand the distinction between normative and descriptive language” remains an unparalleled signal for determining whether someone is a crank 100
attuned-to-zero.bsky.social @attuned-to-zero.bsky.social · 29/07/2026unfortunately this not so much a 'kind of guy' as a latent condition that activates in some percentage of guys as soon as they turn 40 000
attuned-to-zero.bsky.social @attuned-to-zero.bsky.social · 28/07/2026leaving aside how stupid this take is, it's so funny to post shit like 'vandalizing a subway car is nbd to a chill and cool guy like me' on bluesky or twitter of all places. fatal incongruence b/t the medium and the message 0271
attuned-to-zero.bsky.social @attuned-to-zero.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Half expecting them to cut to a shot of the fifa box showing infantino pulling the ball off target with a giant ACME magnet 000
attuned-to-zero.bsky.social @attuned-to-zero.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Shakira, the Mariah Carey of World Cups 000
attuned-to-zero.bsky.social @attuned-to-zero.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Argentine solidifying its reputation as the second least sympathetic country ever to lose a war to the UK 000
attuned-to-zero.bsky.social @attuned-to-zero.bsky.social · 08/07/2026the great thing about klickbait ken is that he's not only a narcissistic dipshit, he's also a dogshit analyst and an incredibly shallow thinker 040
attuned-to-zero.bsky.social @attuned-to-zero.bsky.social · 07/07/2026love it when the world cup camera cuts to the box of FIFA officials, all of whom look like tertiary james bond villains who get killed by the main villain to show how crazy he is 100
attuned-to-zero.bsky.social @attuned-to-zero.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Not a soccer aficionado, could someone explain what advantage a player gains by having three-quarters of an inch of his elbow offside such that it justifies calling back a goal. 000
attuned-to-zero.bsky.social @attuned-to-zero.bsky.social · 22/06/2026this guy has got to be the most feckless english leader since aethelred "the unready" 010
attuned-to-zero.bsky.social @attuned-to-zero.bsky.social · 17/06/2026I don't mean to slight the vast beauty and boundless hospitality of our great nation but 90% of the bluecheck X accounts doing the 'wide-eyed European dazzled by the wonders of America' shtick have got to be monetized and farming engagement, right? 000
attuned-to-zero.bsky.social @attuned-to-zero.bsky.social · 08/06/2026"Long Islanders" are New Jerseyans, as are at least half the population of Staten Island. 000
attuned-to-zero.bsky.social @attuned-to-zero.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Philadelphians, New Jerseyans and native New Yorkers are all basically homologous, but only Philadelphians are free from this kind of insecurity and status anxiety 000
attuned-to-zero.bsky.social @attuned-to-zero.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Tim Draper "Six Californias" proposal from ten years ago may have been a complete clownshow but I'd like someone to run the numbers on 3 - 5 Californias. That seems like a reasonable number to have. 000
attuned-to-zero.bsky.social @attuned-to-zero.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Gotta imagine the Bosnian:Qatari ratio in that $13,000 section is a little uneven. 000
attuned-to-zero.bsky.social @attuned-to-zero.bsky.social · 02/06/2026thank god young people don't listen to podcasts, gotta leave this specific kind of smug circa-2018 dipshit behind forever 300
attuned-to-zero.bsky.social @attuned-to-zero.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Hasan Piker is a good-looking wealthy dumb guy who likes talking to people and doesn't really know or understand the details of anything he talks about, he's like the platonic ideal of a Congressman. 000
attuned-to-zero.bsky.social @attuned-to-zero.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Also very annoying and pretentious to use as the point of comparison 'Sejong City', a reference that would be understood by <1% of 'likely voters'. He sounds like he just got back from his semester abroad. 000
attuned-to-zero.bsky.social @attuned-to-zero.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Trying to buy a cool vintage mouse pad for a gift, and it's difficult to find anything with a logo that isn't from a well-known defense contractor or Silicon Valley company. Unfortunately the Soviet computer industry doesn't seem to have produced a lot of branded merch. 000
attuned-to-zero.bsky.social @attuned-to-zero.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Even as we speak, IRGC sleeper cells are fanning out across Raya, looking for Kash & Hegseth's burner profiles 000
attuned-to-zero.bsky.social @attuned-to-zero.bsky.social · 17/03/2026not who i'd have picked to be the first guy to self-identify as an NPC 011
attuned-to-zero.bsky.social @attuned-to-zero.bsky.social · 05/03/2026and they say LLMs can't make art 010
attuned-to-zero.bsky.social @attuned-to-zero.bsky.social · 27/02/2026If I were Elon Musk, or any of his investors, or any of the professional executives employed by him, I think the existential threat I would be most concerned about is not unaligned AI but rather a button in the Pentagon that can instantly kill any defense contractor. 000
attuned-to-zero.bsky.social @attuned-to-zero.bsky.social · 23/02/2026It'd be a nice silver lining if the bad pay, poor working conditions and faint prestige of alt-journalism meant it attracted only the truest of heart, but in practice it seems to attract a greater than average share of incompetent narcissists who run the gamut from grandiose to messianically deluded 000
attuned-to-zero.bsky.social @attuned-to-zero.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Reading the Sam Kriss Harper's piece and I think one thing that should be asked of anyone attempting to analyze the current socio-technical moment is that they be discerning enough not to accept at face value the obvious lies of a child 000
attuned-to-zero.bsky.social @attuned-to-zero.bsky.social · 21/02/2026OpenAI has 571 open job listings. Apparently they are anticipating this imminent fast takeoff will still require them to hire additional software engineers, marketers, technical program managers, and compensation/benefits analysts. 010
attuned-to-zero.bsky.social @attuned-to-zero.bsky.social · 15/02/2026There are currently 3435 jobs listed on the Microsoft careers page, and while I didn't check them all, I have a hunch that most of them involve looking at screens. This seems like a lot for a company that's planning to automate all white collar work in the next 12 to 18 months. 010
attuned-to-zero.bsky.social @attuned-to-zero.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Ed Zitron, a real moron's moron 010
attuned-to-zero.bsky.social @attuned-to-zero.bsky.social · 04/02/2026thank god the normie libs are showing up to take over from losers like this because otherwise there would truly be no hope 0144
attuned-to-zero.bsky.social @attuned-to-zero.bsky.social · 03/02/2026I am a Deweyite at heart but the public's processing of the Epstein Files is putting a lot of points up on the board for Walter Lippmann 000
attuned-to-zero.bsky.social @attuned-to-zero.bsky.social · 02/02/2026To the contrary, this may be the image he tries to project, but I suspect Tooze is actually the type of guy to own a $200 hardwood salad bowl 010
attuned-to-zero.bsky.social @attuned-to-zero.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Link unrelated en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auspici...en.wikipedia.orgAuspicious Incident - Wikipedia 032
attuned-to-zero.bsky.social @attuned-to-zero.bsky.social · 10/01/2026I was embarrassingly off-target on this; I figured he'd have a slightly longer grace period than a week and a half before they turned on him for denouncing Hamas. 000
