Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 17mthe problem with reintroducing friction into automated systems to benefit human labor at those points is that it doesn't improve how society values that labor. it mainly imposes a toll. it is literally a neoliberal solution, using the market to improve a social problem (the devaluing of the human). 020
Reposted by Carlos YuRose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 02/05/2026From her Robot Doctors series, The Sadist in the White Coat, created c.mid-C20th by Mary Bishop in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital where she was compelled to live. While there, she painted hundreds of works expressing distress at her experiences inside & outside of the psychiatric system 57715
Reposted by Carlos YuCarlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 1hthis method of travel on the Willamette I don't think the good Reverend would approve, despite. I've heard a story about a guy who did this on the Fox in Green Bay (not the takeoff). the FAA was waiting for him when he landed. "We know what you did, but we can't prove it, but NEVER do that again." 101
Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 1hoh nice! a new book by @tricialockwood.bsky.social and a new book by @beetlemoses.bsky.social showed up! 000
Reposted by Carlos YuJared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 1hwhy does every new movie look like a 30 Rock gag. what are we even doing 6356
Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 5hNetflix advertising THE ALTRUISTS about Bankman-Fried and Ellison and the actors are attractive and appealing which misses the point anti-charisma as a signal of authenticity parallel to the disdain for a polished persona, e.g., Trump a lost opportunity for the weird-looking actors 180
Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 6hthe contortions I see decent people go through who have just realized that they live in a society of bigots. "it's the media! it's a thing that had no organic element and did not arise from the public!" no, that's a way of avoiding the feeling of complicity. it's *very* neurotic. 110
Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 14h"cocaine makes you paranoid and impotent? give me more of that!" 161
Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 14htonight seems like a good night to remind people of the existence of Lafcadio Hearn. the Wikipedia article emphasizes his Japanese years (the Discourse is talking about KWAIDAN), but dude even had an interesting time in Cincinnati, that forgotten city, and New Orleans, where it's less difficult. 120
Reposted by Carlos YuKari Race @pizzakari.bsky.social · 16hThe Legend of Billie Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 1113
Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 18hthere was that science fiction book called GRADASIL that somehow wasn't about human papillomavirus 050
Reposted by Carlos YuRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 18hjust saw an ad for candy corn during this Louisville-Florida State game. I am stunned. I did not realize there was a candy corn marketing budget 3738127
Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 20hthere is a bias on BlueSky against new forms of organization in good part because of the stigma against "neoliberalism". instead, people here look to the spinoffs of the New Left or the liberatory projects of the long 1960s. those people also looked fifty years back. I am tired of retro mining. 210
Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 22hnew Survey of Consumer Finances data out today BlueSky never likes this but in terms of median wealth, adjusted for inflation the Zoomers are the wealthiest 25-year-olds ever and the Millennials are much richer than Generation X or the Boomers at their age including housing health and all that 182
Reposted by Carlos Yupmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 09/10/2026"La Femme-Escargot" circa 1900 141029194
Reposted by Carlos YuJames Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Seeing the ever-escalating size of front yard Halloween skeletons better helps me understand the moai of Easter Island 525338
Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I am glad I heard that news from someone who appreciated his accomplishments. RIP. 020
Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 09/10/2026hit a vein in my reading of accounts of interviews with older people from marginalized subcultures and ethnic groups. they wanted their knowledge to be available for future generations, to total strangers. but our culture prizes forgetting. tHe tRaUmA. anything to be a blank slate consumer. 140
Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 09/10/2026bear with me: MEGALOPOLIS BUGONIA EDDINGTON DIGGER am I off-base here? also what's with the Gog-Magog sound symbolism? 010
Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 09/10/2026imagine that Bier guy taking off his goggles and returning to the real world stumbling, a little out of breath, fumbling with everyday objects that look exactly like the game world forgetting that the real person didn't experience the conversation he had with their simulation balance, smells 120
Reposted by Carlos YuPaul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Bob and Carol and Sid & Nancy. 1114
Reposted by Carlos Yujab lung @mobute.bsky.social · 07/10/2026really appreciate the consistency of voice in the pointer sisters' core catalog, which breaks down as: • i hadn't thought about fucking you • upon reflection, i gotta fuck you rn • when are you gonna man up and fuck me • i fucking wrecked you • it's wrecking me thinking of fucking you • neutrons 1725939
Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 09/10/2026it must be so life-affirming for a bigot to let out all the bizarre paranoid disturbed thoughts rotting like tripe soup on a radiator in the basement of their brain and discover that other sick freaks in this world agree with them. so validating, so energizing. like a lil bump. or more than a lil. 010
Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 09/10/2026incubus, succubus, concubine, cubicle, excubitor, cubit, incubator 010
Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 09/10/2026"I hate this town. No sense of abandon here. No head-talk even among heads. People smoke their pot sadly. Nobody loves anybody." -- the poet Jack Spicer foreseeing BlueSky through New York City, 1955 020
Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 09/10/2026shooting someone on live TV? though I guess one gets a blank. 020
Reposted by Carlos YuMount St. Helens Archive @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Physiographic illustration is a craft, honed over years of careful attention to detail. After May 18, the USGS published this triptych of Mount St. Helens by cartographer Tau Rho Alpha and geologist Jim Moore, with the support of David Jones. Just how did the north face change? See for yourself. 16920
Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 08/10/2026when we will see the first use of an agentic swarm to hound someone to suicide? 130
Reposted by Carlos YuRedditCFB @redditcfb.com · 08/10/2026Post, wheel, rail. Really trying to flood the whole continent. 1528332
Reposted by Carlos YuTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026No, but really, outsourcing our own moral discernment to the talking word toaster is not reasonable or ultimately positive for humans so it’s okay. It is a machine. There’s no mortality to it being used as a machine. You don’t remote lock a guy for cussing out his tractor. What are we doing here? 221041160
Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 08/10/2026got an email about a vinyl rerelease of a masterpiece and opened it to see a guy I know on FB true it's a good album 110
Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 08/10/2026the Democratic candidate for the Senate in Texas is further ahead in the polls than the Democratic candidate for the Senate in Minnesota 1100
Reposted by Carlos YuOR Books @handle.invalid · 08/10/2026Brooklyn-based zinester and media critic, Carrie McLaren (@monkeywire.bsky.social) published Stay Free! from the early ’90s through the 2000s. Now she’s back with a new zine, Ape Sh*t! 1105
Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 08/10/2026ranking French political figures of the 1940s by their similarity to J. Davenport Vance, I would have put de Gaulle near the bottom of the list. it's trite to say Vance is a Poujadist, but he's a trite man. 140
Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 08/10/2026why is NYC legacy media skeptical about Mamdani? because 40+% of the city dislikes him and it's concentrated among people who consume legacy media instead of one of the gossip platforms. this is not very hard, people. 160
Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 08/10/2026come on people. there's no structure internal to an LLM that allows it to tell you what is being activated in its neural network. they've had to build the equivalent of CT scanners and perform association studies to create the crudest feedback loops that an earthworm would experience immediately. 121
Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 08/10/2026do people not know this? *maybe* it's decreased with other changes in behavior among the under-18. but where do you think the "boys will be boys" rhetoric in the US comes from? 461
Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 08/10/2026... why is a Keynesian complaining that spending on data center construction is likely offsetting a recession (and then some)? I'm old enough to remember when the tech companies hoarded their fortress money through the financial crisis. now they're spending it on Heaven's Gate. 230
Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 08/10/2026that silly "cooking at home is more expensive than eating out" debate is going around again. out of morbid curiosity, I looked up the cost of a cooking boot camp for beginners in the NYC area. $750, which would be a month of restaurant food. same price for intermediate. 121
Reposted by Carlos YuMpls Music History @mplsmusichistory.bsky.social · 08/10/2026A friendly reminder that Pinhead Gunpowder, who plays First Avenue this evening, has a song called “Mpls Song.” Lyrics below. Maybe they’ll play it tonight?! 3216
Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 08/10/2026shoot I've stopped at Røst. didn't get off the ferry but I saw the repurposed water tower turned meditation center. when I stood on the deck on the ride I literally wondered if anyone could survive on some of those islands. and this was high summer. 130
Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 08/10/2026oh that's nice (though I know some of the colors are an artifact) 020
Reposted by Carlos YuThe French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 07/10/2026Today is Septidi the 17th of Vendémiaire in the year 235. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate pumpkins. #JacobinDay See today's page 111954
Reposted by Carlos YuRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I guess if you’re top .1% of football players and top .1 percent of mathematicians, top .5 feels like it sucks 1291
Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 07/10/2026"I do know people on the extremes who are liquidating their 401(k)s. I know a person who took up smoking because they thought "Al's gonna kill us all, so we might as well have some fun on the way out." I know someone who doesn't wear sunscreen to the beach anymore, because why bother?" 112
Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 07/10/2026the psychological subtext to AI alignment is the fear of a bunch of poorly socialized oddballs that superintelligent offspring with poorly understood thought processes might turn on their parents and kill them in horrific but logical ways. it's both projection and true crime luridness. 131
Reposted by Carlos YuMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 07/10/2026reading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the newsphoenixnewtimes.comCongressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signsEmbarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. 1959711896