Reposted by B.Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 27/09/2026As Slobodian put it, “the tech barons may not care about democracy, but democracy cares about them.” I'll take that final word, thx @eduardoelreportero.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/technology/n...theguardian.comDemocracy blindsides Silicon Valley’s power players looking to transform the world with AI‘The push against datacenters speaks to the frustration of people who don’t feel they are making the choices in their lives’ 213546
Reposted by B.James Boxall 🇨🇦🍁 @jamesgis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026“For them, the messiness of democracy has no function or utility. It is only bad code.” Quinn Slobodian Well worth Sunday morning coffee read. #Ai #TechBros www.theguardian.com/technology/n...theguardian.comDemocracy blindsides Silicon Valley’s power players looking to transform the world with AI‘The push against datacenters speaks to the frustration of people who don’t feel they are making the choices in their lives’ 0164
Reposted by B.Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility 5776132097
Reposted by B.Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 25/09/2026This is the book to watch out for, out Feb 2027 bookshop.org/p/books/the-... 0386
Reposted by B.Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 22/09/2026"If you start...from the perspective that AI does not inevitably replace humans in the dissemination and discovery of knowledge, so much as it reorganizes relations among them, then you begin to start asking questions that are systematically obscured by Machine God Thought." 0121
Reposted by B.Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 22/09/2026"the metaphor shrinks rather than expands your horizons of the possible, forcing you to focus on the single overwhelming question of what Machine Jesus is going to do as soon as he descends" www.programmablemutter.com/p/machine-go...programmablemutter.comMachine god metaphors eat your brainThere are other ways of thinking about AI 2265
Reposted by B.Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The meme I started is being replicated and now is using Seattle area coffee shops. So proud 1164684711
Reposted by B.Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 22/09/2026Calling the Linke in Berlin and their Mamdani candidate. This is your job and all of your job for the next five years. 112
B. @borisanthony.net · 22/09/2026In an overpriced ramen spot in deepest P-berg, overheard a young German dude describing how he built a personalized horoscope generator platform (using LLMs of course). 100
Reposted by B.Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 21/09/2026One strange way I've noticed my writing reflexively shift in the Anslopocene is that I've become obsessed with mercilessly editing myself. People are just hurling 5,000 word essays into comment sections, all thoughtless, corporatised, dark grey gruel. 51219
B. @borisanthony.net · 20/09/2026I see your 5D chess and raise you hyperbolic outside billiards youtu.be/kL9BTbIGxLg?...youtu.bei’m so bad at billiards that i ended up in the hyperbolic planeYouTube video by 2swap 000
Reposted by B.Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 18/09/2026“Scholars have groped for what even to call this dire diminishment of intellectual capacity. “Human enfeeblement” has been proposed, and alike “cognitive surrender” and even “cognitive extinction.” (You could also call it, “losing your mind.”)” - Jill Lepore www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...thecrimson.comArtificial Education | The Harvard CrimsonMachine conversation is not free. It comes at the cost of our common life together as teachers, learners, and researchers, colleagues, mentors, and friends. 48936
B. @borisanthony.net · 17/09/2026Checking into a staff-less hotel. Receptionist was via an iPad video chat. I'm in a Whatsapp channel with the hotel's AI chatbot. 000
B. @borisanthony.net · 14/09/2026In the aftermath of the Berlin Senate hack, the official online business registration portal still has a page header that says "SenWTF" Let's see if the residence permit organ of the same body accepts my PDF print of my record's output. 🤪 010
B. @borisanthony.net · 13/09/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUb4...youtube.comTemple Of The Dog - Hunger StrikeYouTube video by TempleOfTheDogVEVO 020
B. @borisanthony.net · 09/09/2026Our internet connection's been down since noon and I'm about to go foetal... or feral... haven't decided yet. 000
B. @borisanthony.net · 07/09/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRpi...youtube.comDon McLean - American Pie (Lyric Video)YouTube video by DonMcLeanVEVO 000
B. @borisanthony.net · 07/09/2026Ah sad news from back home, from another lifetime. Rest in power Susan. Will be at Biftek in spirit…🤘🏼🎸🍻 montrealgazette.com/entertainmen...montrealgazette.comObituary: Montreal rock photographer Susan Moss’s life ‘surpassed my dreams’She chose medical assistance in dying: 'I’m really at peace because I didn’t think I was going to live old' 010
Reposted by B.Robin E. Field @robinfield.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Work as Wendell Berry writes: 116943
Reposted by B.Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Lines drawn. The first step to make European citizens realise they’re at war is to tell them they’re at war.bbc.co.ukGermany says Russia behind Leipzig airport drone attackA drone carrying an explosive device was discovered at the airport close to Ukrainian cargo planes on 4 August. 521501560
B. @borisanthony.net · 01/09/2026IDK if it's just in Viennese German or generally, but "theater" ("Teh-Ahh-terr") can be used to sarcastically refer to "a scene" or "drama" or "clown show"… That's how I mean it when I speak of "Security Theatre" A clown show in a culture of fear. 000
B. @borisanthony.net · 30/08/2026I can hear Claude's influence in at least the three languages I am fluent in. Youtube is flooded with people reading Claude-generated plausible-sounding jargon-riddled striated-staccato nonsense in every language. And fascinatingly the pattern is identical across english french and german. 010
B. @borisanthony.net · 30/08/2026That time of year again… Our Berlin attic loft will be available again, December to April docs.google.com/document/d/1...docs.google.comBerlin Loft - Winter 2026-27Thinking of spending some time in Berlin this winter? Or relocating to Berlin soon and need a place for the first few months? Our Berlin loft is available for sublet, winter 2026-27 “Anmeldung” possib... 035
B. @borisanthony.net · 29/08/2026youtu.be/XxjYE8oW3REyoutu.beMe explaining AI to my friends 😂YouTube video by Kingsley Low 000
Reposted by B.Feral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism @feralcommie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026 09031
Reposted by B.Y.O.L.O.0311 @yolo0311.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Forcing people to live in power outages in 100+ degree weather for days while feeding energy to data centers is a form of political violence. 734851040
B. @borisanthony.net · 21/08/2026static.klipy.comHulk: I Was Made For ThisALT: Hulk: I Was Made For This 000
B. @borisanthony.net · 20/08/2026How is it possible that RTT to a Dreamhost server on the US west coast is almost 3x faster than to a Hetzner VPS 400km south of me? 🫠 010
Reposted by B.Ben Fry @benfry.com · 20/08/2026Felt obligated to pick this up just as a thumbs up to the author for its title, but I'm half an hour in and we already have this banger from Paulina Borsook: “As many political schools of thought do, these techno-libertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect.” 0122
Reposted by B.Alaa Al Khourdajie @dralaaclimate.bsky.social · 17/08/2026New publication in Environmental Research Letters: overshooting 1.5°C then cooling back down does not undo the damage. We map where, for whom, and through what mechanisms temporary overshoot becomes permanent loss. Paper (OA): iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... 1/12 2174109
B. @borisanthony.net · 19/08/2026Ping Pong anyone? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px9F...youtube.comPing Pong Op - Tada Hitori (HD)YouTube video by Manro 000
B. @borisanthony.net · 19/08/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENLd...youtube.comJack White - G.O.D. And The Broken Ribs Parts 1, 2, & 3YouTube video by John Wheeler 100
B. @borisanthony.net · 19/08/2026A diagram is worth a thousand words (of documentation). Probably more. 000
B. @borisanthony.net · 19/08/2026Not me spending my weekend writing a shell script that really should just have been an Ansible recipe. 🤣 000
B. @borisanthony.net · 19/08/2026Not me wasting an hour just now adjusting the lightness/saturation of a few more tokens in the already overly-customized syntax highlighting of my IDE 🤣 000
B. @borisanthony.net · 17/08/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFGG...youtube.com"Work Until I Die" - S.G. Goodman Live From Relix Studio | 09/27/22 | RelixYouTube video by Relix 000
Reposted by B.Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Solar is about to overtake wind. Generation is set to rise ~600 TWh in 2026, matching last year's record, putting it second only to hydro among renewables. And renewables together are on track to out-generate coal this year. 571744537
B. @borisanthony.net · 10/08/2026Do you like… www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag0X...youtube.comViolent Femmes - American MusicYouTube video by ViolentFemmesVEVO 010
B. @borisanthony.net · 08/08/2026It seems almost uncanny that Claude et al came around just as web standards and browsers finally got their shit together. Not to mention the availability of high quality frontend frameworks. Everything "Just Works" now, everywhere, and looks so clean... 1/2 140