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--- Too many side projects. --- Systems Design / Digital Architecture / Web Slinger --- Chair in a Room / Room in a House / House in a Town

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B. @borisanthony.net · 13h
Double dare the Orange Buffoon to rename Canada "Kanukistan"
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 27/09/2026
As 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...
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Democracy 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’
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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.com
Democracy 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’
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B. @borisanthony.net · 27/09/2026
`alias rebooty='sudo reboot'`
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I 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
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B. @borisanthony.net · 25/09/2026
Rewatching "The Wire" first time since it aired So good.
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 25/09/2026
This is the book to watch out for, out Feb 2027 bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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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."
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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...
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Machine god metaphors eat your brain
There are other ways of thinking about AI
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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The meme I started is being replicated and now is using Seattle area coffee shops. So proud
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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 22/09/2026
Calling the Linke in Berlin and their Mamdani candidate. This is your job and all of your job for the next five years.
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B. @borisanthony.net · 22/09/2026
In 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).
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 21/09/2026
One 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.
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B. @borisanthony.net · 20/09/2026
I see your 5D chess and raise you hyperbolic outside billiards youtu.be/kL9BTbIGxLg?...
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i’m so bad at billiards that i ended up in the hyperbolic plane
YouTube video by 2swap
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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...
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Artificial Education | The Harvard Crimson
Machine conversation is not free. It comes at the cost of our common life together as teachers, learners, and researchers, colleagues, mentors, and friends.
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B. @borisanthony.net · 17/09/2026
Checking into a staff-less hotel. Receptionist was via an iPad video chat. I'm in a Whatsapp channel with the hotel's AI chatbot.
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B. @borisanthony.net · 14/09/2026
In 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. 🤪
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B. @borisanthony.net · 13/09/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUb4...
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Temple Of The Dog - Hunger Strike
YouTube video by TempleOfTheDogVEVO
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B. @borisanthony.net · 13/09/2026
Psych evaluation based on playlist analysis
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B. @borisanthony.net · 13/09/2026
Networked Taste Profiles. Power local recommendation engines.
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B. @borisanthony.net · 09/09/2026
Our internet connection's been down since noon and I'm about to go foetal... or feral... haven't decided yet.
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B. @borisanthony.net · 09/09/2026
Must read. Wow. 🙌🏼
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B. @borisanthony.net · 07/09/2026
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B. @borisanthony.net · 07/09/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRpi...
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Don McLean - American Pie (Lyric Video)
YouTube video by DonMcLeanVEVO
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B. @borisanthony.net · 07/09/2026
Ah sad news from back home, from another lifetime. Rest in power Susan. Will be at Biftek in spirit…🤘🏼🎸🍻 montrealgazette.com/entertainmen...
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Obituary: 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'
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B. @borisanthony.net · 05/09/2026
.de and .no TLDs (domains) now require KYC ... 🤪
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Robin E. Field @robinfield.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Work as Wendell Berry writes:
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Lines drawn. The first step to make European citizens realise they’re at war is to tell them they’re at war.
bbc.co.uk
Germany says Russia behind Leipzig airport drone attack
A drone carrying an explosive device was discovered at the airport close to Ukrainian cargo planes on 4 August.
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B. @borisanthony.net · 01/09/2026
IDK 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.
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B. @borisanthony.net · 30/08/2026
I 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.
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B. @borisanthony.net · 30/08/2026
That time of year again… Our Berlin attic loft will be available again, December to April docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Berlin Loft - Winter 2026-27
Thinking 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...
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B. @borisanthony.net · 29/08/2026
youtu.be/XxjYE8oW3RE
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Me explaining AI to my friends 😂
YouTube video by Kingsley Low
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Feral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism @feralcommie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A large torch but with a dim light labelled "das capital, karl marx" and a small torch with a bright light labelled, "9 to 5 dolly parton"
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Y.O.L.O.0311 @yolo0311.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Forcing people to live in power outages in 100+ degree weather for days while feeding energy to data centers is a form of political violence.
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B. @borisanthony.net · 24/08/2026
Black Sabbatical Rolling Boulders Rage Against the Industry
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B. @borisanthony.net · 21/08/2026
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Hulk: I Was Made For This
ALT: Hulk: I Was Made For This
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B. @borisanthony.net · 20/08/2026
How 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? 🫠
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Ben Fry @benfry.com · 20/08/2026
Felt 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.”
Cover for “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy” by Gil Durán
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Alaa Al Khourdajie @dralaaclimate.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New 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
"Three stacked panels sharing a time axis. Top: global temperature rises past 1.5°C, peaks, then declines (the overshoot pathway), with a flat permanent-exceedance line at the peak for comparison. Middle: biophysical responses to the same trajectory diverge; some track temperature down, some recover with a lag, one keeps intensifying. Bottom: socioeconomic impacts of the same biophysical change diverge by adaptive capacity; high-capacity systems recover, while one crosses a dashed adaptive-capacity threshold and never recovers: the permanent overshoot legacy.
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B. @borisanthony.net · 19/08/2026
Ping Pong anyone? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px9F...
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Ping Pong Op - Tada Hitori (HD)
YouTube video by Manro
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B. @borisanthony.net · 19/08/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENLd...
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Jack White - G.O.D. And The Broken Ribs Parts 1, 2, & 3
YouTube video by John Wheeler
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B. @borisanthony.net · 19/08/2026
A diagram is worth a thousand words (of documentation). Probably more.
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B. @borisanthony.net · 19/08/2026
Not me spending my weekend writing a shell script that really should just have been an Ansible recipe. 🤣
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B. @borisanthony.net · 19/08/2026
Not 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 🤣
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B. @borisanthony.net · 17/08/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFGG...
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"Work Until I Die" - S.G. Goodman Live From Relix Studio | 09/27/22 | Relix
YouTube video by Relix
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Solar 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.
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B. @borisanthony.net · 10/08/2026
Do you like… www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag0X...
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Violent Femmes - American Music
YouTube video by ViolentFemmesVEVO
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B. @borisanthony.net · 08/08/2026
It 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
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