beans @beanliving.bsky.social · 01/08/2026You can see apartments now from a trail along the river. Horrifying! What’s next, someone living in town who wasn’t born and raised here having opinions about municipal politics!?!? 1130
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 · 04/03/2026Taking knives to do an armed robbery for a robot body is a bit off from your AI hiring a woman to be her stand-in during sex but that’s a difference of degree not kind. 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 · 17/02/2026One of the Olympic pairs skaters used this song for their free skate this year 140
beans @beanliving.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Anthropic’s whole media play right now is “we want to say we tried to not be evil” which is about a good as a play one can make after Google’s “don’t be evil” curdled into “we are evil but you have no choice”. 000
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. 212042825
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. 284021744
Reposted by beansGregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 21/11/2025Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again: 432101071
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 4166641204
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 124137796926
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. 14589611894
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 26048801486
beans @beanliving.bsky.social · 21/10/2025I see your “stats” but think about the one time a month I’ll be going 10 over the speed limit in the right lane and have to brake because someone is turning into the complex. There’s already a crosswalk in that area, my car brain can’t handle any more nonsense. 000
beans @beanliving.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Violife and Follow Your Heart make some really good nut free options, would highly recommend both companies’ parmesans. 010
beans @beanliving.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Barack Obama used the AUMF to assassinate a US citizen but no one made a peep because, well, he was the enemy, laws be damned! www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...pbs.orgU.S.-Born Cleric Anwar al-Awlaki Killed in YemenUpdated 1:30 p.m. ET | White House spokesman Jay Carney said the strike on al-Awlaki was part of a "sustained effort to continue to put pressure on al-Qaida" and that it was a "milestone" -- but not t... 000
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 3273253184
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 1154903863
beans @beanliving.bsky.social · 14/09/2025The Northern Lights a few weeks ago along Lake Superior. #photography #astrophotography 070
beans @beanliving.bsky.social · 11/09/2025youtu.bechristians_in_action.JPGYouTube video by Conner O'Malley 000
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 522971135
