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Tequila Sunset @barbelith.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Fun fact am Rande: Die wollten ja in der echten Biosphere 2 - dem Vorbild für den Biodome - filmen, aber der Manager war dagegen. Wer war damals der Manager von Biosphere 2? Steve Bannon, mittlerweile besser bekannt für andere Dinge.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Economist John Kenneth Galbraith didn't live to see the "effective altruism" movement, but he knew the type and read them for filth.

John Kenneth Galbraith:
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy: that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

hello im the CEO and i can’t do anything without the support of the simpering vizier that lives in the computer. in order to keep collecting an offensively meager paycheck you too must consult the vizier regularly. don’t worry he has lots of uses other than just hopefully putting you out of a job

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Tequila Sunset @barbelith.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This thread explains a lot of what I'm seeing in my work environment currently. A lot of people in IT are just going mad antropomorphizing the text extruding machine.

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Tequila Sunset @barbelith.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

RT if you’ve never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Tequila Sunset @barbelith.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The Grapes of Wrath. Great prose, easy to read, and still so very relevant today.

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Tequila Sunset @barbelith.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

And then reread from the beginning again and again, while the Alectopause lasts. There is sooo much to discover in these books.

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Tequila Sunset @barbelith.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Should probably decorate my workplace with those. Getting increasingly convinced that getting fired would be worth it by now.

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Tequila Sunset @barbelith.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

There's also Zenith, which is Morrisons's stab at doing a Miracleman. Interesting to compare and contrast.

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Tequila Sunset @barbelith.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps hatte ich damals einen kleinen Crush auf Sarah Alexander

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Tequila Sunset @barbelith.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: The Trick Taking Game was legit great

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Tequila Sunset @barbelith.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Will ja die Joy nicht schmälern, aber bei MZB gibts ganz andere Probleme als nur ein wenig verstaubten Feminismus. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_...

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Marion Zimmer Bradley - Wikipedia

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Malte Engeler @malteengeler.de · 20/06/2026

Es gibt viele Gründe "KI" abzuschalten: Extraktivismus, Neokolonialismus, Lohndruck, Deskilling, Verdummung uvm. Für die @taz.de habe ich einen anderen Aspekt fokussiert: Die entmenschlichende Gewalt, die in jeder Musterreproduktion liegt. taz.de/Denken-wie-d...

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Denken wie das verbreitete Mittelmaß

KI ist fundamental unvereinbar mit emanzipierten, egalitären und freiheitlichen Gesellschaften. Dabei handelt sich nicht um einen Designfehler, sondern sie ist so gedacht

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Aubrey is agonizing over book two 💖🏳️‍🌈 @clericofthevoid.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Just shouting out Libro because I do love buying an audiobook and having the money go to my local indie bookstore 💖

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 28/05/2026

“Appearing Productive in The Workplace — No One's Happy” nooneshappy.com/article/appearing-p… > The slowness was not a tax on the real work; the slowness was the real work. It was how the work got good, and how the people producing the work got good

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Appearing Productive in The Workplace — No One's Happy

AI can produce work that looks expert without being expert. The failure arrives in two shapes, and both are reshaping the workplace.

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Tequila Sunset @barbelith.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Mein momentaner TBR-Stapel. Innerhalb meiner Genregrenzen mittlerweile halbwegs divers, aber historisch gesehen hab ich schon sehr männerlastig gelesen. Ich arbeite dran.

Ein Stapel Bücher:
Prophet Song - Paul Lynch
There is no Antimemetics Division - qntm
Deshalb kann ich nicht fort - Aiki Mira
What moves the dead - T Kingfisher
The Westing Game - Ellen Raskin
Hild & Menewood - Nicola Griffith
Chain Gang All Stars - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Revolutionary Demonology - Gruppo di Nun
When there are Wolves again - E. J. Swift
The Hainish Novels and Stories - Ursula K. LeGuin

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Tequila Sunset @barbelith.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Nah, you're doing Grant dirty. They love super heroes, all their DC work starting with JLA in the mid 90ies were big love letters to the genre. Their work feels way less cynical and much more heartfelt than whatever guys like Millar and Ellis put out.

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Tequila Sunset @barbelith.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Replace movie with comic book and even then it's a stretch.

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Tequila Sunset @barbelith.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

The most cursed job description

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 14/04/2026

The seven step “They nerfed my AI!” cycle: 1. An LLM tool is released. The company claims it’s a miracle that will change everything 2. Early adopters try it on straightforward tasks, find it seems to work, though they don’t really check it. “OMG! It’s a miracle that will change everything!” 1/5

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Tequila Sunset @barbelith.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

A bit more out there suggestions are "Wir Sind Das Volk" (east vs West Germany from 1945 to 1989), "13 Days" (a mini Twilight Struggle about the Cuban Missile Crisis) and "Watergate" (Nixon vs the Washington Post)

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Tequila Sunset @barbelith.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

The COIN games have interesting settings but are mechanically a bit procedural (and most require 4 players). Cuba Libre is probably a good entry to the series. Sekigahara is a 2 player game about the unification of Japan that plays reasonably fast and has somewhat atypical mechanics.

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 05/04/2026

I've been seeing people say the harms of "AI" comes from shitty people, not the tech and that the shitty people will go away after the bubble pops. While the first part is true in the strictest sense (contrary to claims, these are not autonomous systems) it's not really true in a practical sense

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Bree Lundberg @breelundberg.com · 03/04/2026

I’m completely sick and tired of hearing about HP but this article is excellent. “What you feel in your heart towards the series is almost entirely irrelevant. What matters is what you do, because J. K. Rowling is out there doing a lot of things.” defector.com/its-time-to-...

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It’s Time To Grow Up | Defector

HBO’s new Harry Potter TV series is premiering this Christmas Day. Under current plans, it will last at least a decade. The trailer looks like the original films were run through an AI generator, but ...

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Tequila Sunset @barbelith.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Wenn Englisch ok ist, ein paar Empfehlungen: A Meal Of Thorns: Host mit wechselnden Gästen bespricht ein Werk, meist SF oder Fantasy. If Books Could Kill: die Hosts nehmen bekannte Pop-science und Selbsthilfebücher auseinander. Shelfed by Genre: sehr nerdige deep dives zu Genreklassikern

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Tequila Sunset @barbelith.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Night Watch ist wirklich ein Meisterwerk. Aber ehrlich gesagt ist jedes Buch zwischen Guards! Guards! und Making Money absolut lesenswert. Die ersten paar sind noch etwas holprig und bei den letzten merkt man halt schon die Krankheit. Aber dazwischen hatte der Mann einen unglaublichen Lauf.

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Craig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 01/04/2026

I know a number of authors, being one myself. Know how many of them are using AI? Literally fucking zero. But "AI evangelists" have a vested interest in pretending otherwise because "everyone is doing it and lying about it, so YOU should definitely do it" is the only angle they've got left.

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

From my new piece concerning the Anthropic settlement: catvalente.substack.com/p/blood-mone...

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 16/03/2026

"The two worlds of programming: why developers who make the same observations about LLMs come to opposite conclusions" www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/the-two... It comes down to whether you think "more of the same" is a good thing or a bad thing for software.

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The two worlds of programming: why developers who make the same observations about LLMs come to opposite conclusions

Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 09/03/2026

LLMs exaggerate and exacerbate existing market and industry dysfunctions. They've hastened media's descent into fabrications and clickbait, accelerated the devaluation of writing and illustration. And in software it has fuelled an existing crisis and exposed a divide at the core of the industry 1/n

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Tequila Sunset @barbelith.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Donna Tartt - The Secret History und The Essential Patricia A. McKillip

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 01/03/2026

Didn't know I needed this today, but turns out I did. Maybe you do too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fyu...

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ROSALÍA - Berghain (Live at The BRIT Awards 2026) ft. Björk

YouTube video by RosaliaVEVO

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tante @tante.cc · 19/02/2026

So don't feel like you cannot be a luddite if you like technology, like working on it. Caring about your fellow human beings' wellbeing and not some corporations bottom line makes you one. Believing that tech needs to be evaluated on what effects it has and that we have a choice makes you one.

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Rainer Sigl @rainersigl.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Die Gefahr, dass AI euren Job macht, ist verschwindend klein im Vergleich zur Gefahr, dass euer Chef glaubt, dass AI euren Job machen kann.

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

🔵 This week's comic IN WHICH Mickey Mouse is reunited with his dog in the public domain, but it doesn't go quite like either expected... BROUGHT TO YOU BY the Inner Hive, including long-time member Steve Alcott & new member Billie on Thames ( patreon.com/rubenbolling/membership ) READ IT RIGHT HERE👇

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🎃🎃 Hel-LOU-ween 🎃🎃 @louiseankers.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Truth. The unexamined life is not worth living but measuring it out in coffee spoons ain't it either

@lichthauch / Twitter screenshot

The man who sleeps nine hours and eats clean and never drinks and exercises daily is the deadest man i know btw. his bloodwork is immaculate and he has nothing to say. the body is a temple and no God showed up. meanwhile the ones who actually see things are running on four hours and cigarettes and something chewing at them from inside that wont let them become vegetables. consciousness is expensive it costs health. you pay with the body. the flame eats the candle thats the deal

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Tequila Sunset @barbelith.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Be careful what you wish for (it was bad). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wat...

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The Watch (TV series) - Wikipedia

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Tom Schaffer @tomschaffer.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Die Version der Gestapo in Medien prominent als legitime Schilderung zu einem Vorfall zu wiederholen, wenn Videos sie als absolute Lüge entlarven, ist kein Journalismus.

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 18/01/2026

I stopped trying to debate software developers on LLMs a while back. It's fruitless. Even if they could be budged on empirical grounds, they are explicitly fine with using tools that are themselves deeply unethical.

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Aysha 🔜 Cancon @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

All the arguing of hope vs. doomerism is making me tap the sign

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ceej @ceej.online · 11/01/2026

By now, asteroid 2026 Dreadstone has impacted the Indian Ocean, sparking a firestorm not seen on this planet since the K–Pg Extinction Event. Most people just want to be with their families. Here are three ways effective business leaders can leverage targeted KPIs to turn tragedy 😔 into triumph 💪

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 08/01/2026

It really sucks sitting down to work a job I have to have because the technofeudalism incarnation of capitalism and a police state will throw me out on the street and kill me if I don't make money, while elsewhere in my country that same police state is executing my fellow citizens with impunity.

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