Reposted by beansKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 20/04/2026I will die on the hill that U.S. culture suffered a grievous and potentially mortal injury when we retired the concept of "selling out" 722727
Reposted by beansUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light? 03812
beans @beanliving.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Camera technology has come so far since the 60s - a lot of detail from Artemis II we just never could see from the Apollo missions. 020
Reposted by beanseleanor @eleanoir.bsky.social · 20/03/2026I wrote about AI and performance for Defector defector.com/the-new-evan...defector.comThe New Evangelists | DefectorIn close-up for much of The Testament of Ann Lee, her eyes brimming with light, Ann Lee seems to be in a persistent state of shuddering. The founder of the Shaker religious sect, played by Amanda Seyf... 1358
beans @beanliving.bsky.social · 19/03/2026youtu.beA dump truck full of moneyYouTube video by tubeornotube 000
beans @beanliving.bsky.social · 13/03/2026A little besides the point of all this but damn this guy should invest in a decent mic or at least not record in an open concept living room with so much reverb. Just because you’re spewing shit doesn’t mean you should sound like shit. 010
beans @beanliving.bsky.social · 04/03/2026It is funny the degree to which all of the SV AI boosters saw Her (2013) and have spent the past 13 years manifesting that as a reality because they got horny for Scarlet Johansson’s voice. 100
beans @beanliving.bsky.social · 11/02/2026“Philosopher” at a tech company is a pretty good cover for “I do PR”. No shame in doing PR, but there is shame in being dishonest about it. 100
Reposted by beansElizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 06/02/2026I wrote about the Epstein files (gift link) www.theverge.com/tech/874721/...theverge.comHow the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeTooThe emails show the “anti-woke” crusaders are afraid of accountability. 212034823
Reposted by beanskarl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 24/01/2026It is genuinely insane to watch capital decide that allowing this shit to go on is better for them than having to allow the FTC to do mild monopoly investigations and require cancellation buttons on websites. 284022744
Reposted by beansGregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 21/11/2025Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again: 432121071
Reposted by beansBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 13/11/2025After an economic crash you always see headlines like What Was Everyone Thinking? What do you mean everyone, most of us are waving our arms and screaming every day, it's a handful of insanely rich assholes who aren't listening 4166651205
Reposted by beansescapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 07/11/2025"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk 124137806927
Reposted by beansAhhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 04/11/2025It’s truly tragic how many of these US war criminals like Cheney never face justice and die in their peacefully in their homes in their 80s and 90s. I want to be happy he is dead but I am not. The million people he killed didnt get the luxury to die how he did. 14589661896
Reposted by beansGav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 28/10/2025At a fundamental level, we have to accept much of silicon valley has gone insane.theguardian.comAn ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’Patrick Gelsinger, executive chairman of Gloo, has made it his mission to advance Christian principles in Silicon Valley 26048821487
beans @beanliving.bsky.social · 02/10/2025This is just the natural next step after the 2001 AUMF and Congress’s continued acquiescence to it for the past quarter century. 100
beans @beanliving.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Happy PTA Movie’s Wide Release Eve for all who celebrate. 000
beans @beanliving.bsky.social · 22/09/2025If Kimmel were really cool he’d do a cold open reenactment of Kirk dying but alas it’s network TV. 000
beans @beanliving.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Every national dem still dreams of slashing social security in some grand bargain with republicans and does not have the brain capacity to see that we are being governed by fascists. 100
beans @beanliving.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Everyone hates Fallon for being a soulless husk, but all of his competition is getting literally canceled for making benign political commentary. So yeah, who’s laughing now? Just Fallon, no one else finds him funny. 000
Reposted by beansRacheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people 3273253186
Reposted by beansPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 17/09/2025what ezra doesn't seem willing to accept is that charlie kirk was part of a political movement that does not think that "we are going to have to live here with each other" and is fact very interested in the elimination and/or subjugation of many, many people 1154904863
beans @beanliving.bsky.social · 14/09/2025The Northern Lights a few weeks ago along Lake Superior. #photography #astrophotography 070
beans @beanliving.bsky.social · 11/09/2025This guy has the same cadence and camera movement of a Conner O’Malley video 100
beans @beanliving.bsky.social · 06/09/2025An incredible amount of evil and media illiteracy going on here but anytime Trump invokes Vietnam I think of this interview:youtu.beTrump: Sex is "my personal Vietnam - I'm like a great & brave soldier" ('97)YouTube video by Original Trumpalicious 000
Reposted by beansCliff @cliff.leaninto.it · 06/09/2025Brendan Eich is a piece of shit for both his political views and inventing javascript 67615
Reposted by beansChris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 05/09/2025For context that's a third the price the RIAA expected a single human to pay for just downloading 24 songs a decade ago (after cutting the ruling down from $1.5m, or $62,000 per song), and that's not adjusting for inflation:theguardian.comMinnesota woman to pay $220,000 fine for 24 illegally downloaded songsRecording Industry Association of America has largely adjusted its anti-piracy strategy to stop suing individual downloaders 522981135
beans @beanliving.bsky.social · 29/08/2025the piano riff in this has drilled into my brainyoutu.beWater From Your Eyes - "Playing Classics" (Official Music Video)YouTube video by Water From Your Eyes 000
Reposted by beansStereogum @stereogum.com · 28/08/2025@deathcabforcutie.bsky.social's 'Plans' turns 20 this Saturday. A look back:stereogum.comDeath Cab For Cutie's 'Plans' Turns 20Someone asked me if I was going to discuss Plans positively or negatively for this retrospective — the album, Death Cab For Cutie’s first for a major label, turns 20 this Saturday — but the discussion... 0519
Reposted by beansKate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 25/08/2025Scoop from me & @joshkovensky.bsky.social: After receiving a subpoena and being threatened with criminal/civil investigations by Trump's DOJ, the University of Michigan's statewide hospital system will stop providing gender-affirming care to patients under 19 talkingpointsmemo.com/news/univers...talkingpointsmemo.comThe University of Michigan Will End Gender Affirming Care for Minors Amid Trump Admin Legal OnslaughtThe Trump administration has strong-armed the University of Michigan’s statewide hospital system... 117644
beans @beanliving.bsky.social · 25/08/2025In a time that feels like the end of modern life, here’s a list of relatively inconsequential things that make life better I hope still happen: 1. a new Jim O’Rourke pop album 2. a new Nancy Meyers’ movie 3. I have a phone that doesn’t have a broken charging port after 18 months 100
Reposted by beansJohn Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 23/08/2025Once again, under the current US mode of production everything eventually becomes a bank or a real estate company 36411
Reposted by beanslastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Until that's done, I think one has to take very seriously the possibility that the regulated markets ideal really does lead to a concentration of economic power that eventually under-cuts the rule of law necessary to sustain itself (a very old worry about liberalism!) might actually have been true. 47511
Reposted by beansPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2025incredibly funny that he renamed an iconic company after the metaverse and now just a few years later that doesn’t even really exist. generational inability to sense where the wind is blowing. 381686136
