Reposted by Ben CurryJoe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I don’t mean this to be cruel, but there’s just too much air being taken up by people with media or tech backgrounds who think their hot take on consciousness with LLMs is new, and lord it has all been done before and we’re past that. Christ, half the news cycle is yud refusing to read a book. 738364
Reposted by Ben CurryKraken @korpspropaganda.bsky.social · 19/09/2026there is a secret universe within all of us, and the lens with which we view it, and transform it into creative work, lends it its ultimate humanity; this is something AI can never truly mimic 0144
Reposted by Ben CurryBrian Griffith @qlippot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Yeah, I'm particularly fond of how Vonnegut put it. That any creative work is a conversation, that the creator had something to say and when you view it or read it or listen to it, something in you answers. 0886
Reposted by Ben CurryYour Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026we've never had much reason to articulate this before a.i., but a reason we enjoy literature, art, music, etc. is that we know it is one human mind trying to express something fundamentally human and otherwise inexpressible to another human mind 241666399
Reposted by Ben CurryAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia. 5953724313389
Reposted by Ben CurryJesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 29/08/2026“Hyperscaler depreciation expense is set to jump to over $500 billion by 2030, equal to the expected operating profits of all five companies in 2026. But don't worry, EBITDA margins are going to soar, so the ratio of depreciation to EBITDA will barely rise.” - @peterberezin.bsky.social 383
Ben Curry @benjamincurry.bsky.social · 28/08/2026CNBC’s Liesman: “I’m going to say this at risk of my job, Kelly. But what President Trump is doing is insane. It is absolutely insane. It is about the eighth reason we’ve had for the tariffs. And now he’s saying he’s putting 50% tariffs on Canada unless they agree to become the 51st state.” 032
Ben Curry @benjamincurry.bsky.social · 21/08/2026From @evgrieve.bsky.social over on the bad place: The former McDonald’s on west 3rd in Greenwich Village has an interesting new look Apparently this is where they age the barrels of comedy 000
Ben Curry @benjamincurry.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Latin expression for the benefits of taking a hike: solvitur ambulando, “it is solved by walking” 000
Reposted by Ben CurrySteffen Rayburn-Maarup @rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 02/08/2026I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet. 209109782167
Ben Curry @benjamincurry.bsky.social · 04/08/2026James Talarico: “Judaism is Season 1 of the show, Christianity is Season 2, and Islam is Season 3. I'm Season 2— the most violent season. My religion has done more damage to both of those religions than they've done to each other" 000
Reposted by Ben CurryEuan MacDonald @euanmacdonald.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Who's laughing now? Gaming skills will be very important in the drone-based militaries of the future. And you don't need high testosterone to acquire them. 06511
Ben Curry @benjamincurry.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Just took a walk along the beach with Mitch Mcconnell but when I looked back I only saw one set of footprints. When I asked him why, he said "That was when you carried me" and then he took away my health insurance. 000
Reposted by Ben Curryderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 17/07/2026the two outfits for men 84161662516
Ben Curry @benjamincurry.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Anything can be insider trading with prediction markets..... 000
Reposted by Ben CurryCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/07/2026“.. The Florida for-sale market is flashing warning signs: 45% of listings have taken a price cut (6.6 pts above the national rate) “.. 1 in 10 homes are selling for less than the original owner paid.” - Parcl Labs 28634041056
Reposted by Ben Currynoam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Finally, bluesky reaches its apotheosis: ONLY alt text 414402636
Ben Curry @benjamincurry.bsky.social · 26/06/2026@propublica.org kills it with a first-class piece of data journalism. Puts one in the mind of Twain: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." 100
Ben Curry @benjamincurry.bsky.social · 26/05/2026"When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on." — George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia. 000
Ben Curry @benjamincurry.bsky.social · 24/05/2026“If the passage of time is a feature of human consciousness, past and future are functions of the mind.” — Ursula K. Le Guin 020
Ben Curry @benjamincurry.bsky.social · 20/05/2026In short: I used AI to write a book about AI making shit up and the AI made shit up about making shit up, and now I'm in shit up to my neck thanks to AInytimes.comBook on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I. 020
Ben Curry @benjamincurry.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Nikolai Kuznetsov, Joe Liebkind, Luis Martim Aureliano and Reuben Jackson: These four writers have published more than 1,000 crypto articles at sites like Forbes and Investopedia. But none of the four men appear to exist, and the outlets that published their work cannot verify their existence.pressgazette.co.ukProlific finance journalists facing questions over identitiesAuthors behind more than 1,000 articles decline to share evidence they are real. 021
Ben Curry @benjamincurry.bsky.social · 15/05/2026This is definitely a sign of the endtimesnypost.comSquirrels are ‘vaping’ e-cigarettes after mistaking fruity aromas for foodThis is absolutely nuts. 010
Ben Curry @benjamincurry.bsky.social · 10/05/2026“When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.” ― David Hume 010
Reposted by Ben CurryBethany Albertson @albertsonb2.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Tell the kids we use to go days, weeks even, without thinking about the president. 1054129623
Ben Curry @benjamincurry.bsky.social · 02/05/2026A Wall Street analyst has coined a new acronym mocking Trump’s handling of the Iran war: #NACHO: “Not A Chance Hormuz Opens” 000
Ben Curry @benjamincurry.bsky.social · 01/05/2026"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." — Aesop 000
Ben Curry @benjamincurry.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars/Trek, HP, LOTR, Marvel.media.tenor.coma man wearing a helmet and chain mail is holding a sword over his headALT: a man wearing a helmet and chain mail is holding a sword over his head 010
Reposted by Ben Curry21st Century Schizoid Tran @grayathena.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Pour one out for the Hilton staff who are working perhaps the worst shift in food service history rn. 195222223258
Ben Curry @benjamincurry.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Kash Patel scrambling around the WHCA ballroom, downing abandoned drinks as fast as he can 020
Reposted by Ben CurryRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/04/2026The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The fifth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here? 11083071811075
Ben Curry @benjamincurry.bsky.social · 25/04/2026I mean, who among us hasn't fallen asleep of an afternoon with the nuclear codes stuck under our desks? 000
Ben Curry @benjamincurry.bsky.social · 21/04/2026@markhertling.bsky.social: War is not an accounting exercise, and power is best understood not as a static inventory, but as a relationship. Power = Will × Resources. 000
Reposted by Ben CurrySam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 20/04/2026From “The Simpsons” house genius John Swartzwelder, interviewed in The New Yorker by Mike Sacks 3255531450
Ben Curry @benjamincurry.bsky.social · 17/04/2026We should call it Christianist Derangement Syndrome... 010
Ben Curry @benjamincurry.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Look, it would be easy to dunk on my very expensive, staggeringly incompetent sunglasses. Critiquing A.I. these days is like shooting fish in a barrel — poorly animated fish that keep sprouting human fingers inside a barrel that, as soon as you ask it a question or two, reveals itself to be a Nazi.nytimes.comI Feel So Sorry for My A.I. Sunglasses 011
Reposted by Ben Curry(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 11/04/2026One night before the elections the great people of Hungary are on the streets, rejecting the malicious influence coming from Russia, Serbia and certain people from the USA. The crowds are huge across the country. They can write history tomorrow. 592236562
Ben Curry @benjamincurry.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Seduced by Hungary’s success, many on the far right in the US - Trump and Vance in particular - came to see the Hungarian alternative as the next end of history and the way that things would be. @timothysnyder.bsky.social suggests how wrong they were.snyder.substack.comThe Hungarian CandidateIs Orbán's Decline Trump's Fall? 000
Ben Curry @benjamincurry.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Forget about oil, would you please think of the global frankincense markets?! ISM this week: "The U.S.-Israel military operations against Iran have created significant uncertainty for our Omani frankincense imports," wrote a wholesaler.npr.orgHow an ancient resin traded for centuries got snarled up by the Iran warIt's not just energy supplies that have been disrupted by the Iran war. It's also hitting frankincense, a commodity that's been defining trade routes in the Middle East for thousands of years. 000