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Danny Montez @dannymontez.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Night walk 📷Nikon F2 w/24mm f2.8 🎞️Cinestill 800T #nikon #nikonf2 #film #35mm #cinestill

Danny Montez @dannymontez.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Been a while since I’ve had something to post! Trying out Eastman xx, love how contrasty it is. 📷Nikon F2 🎞️Eastman Kodak xx #believeinfilm #nikonf2 #eastmanxx #filmisnotdead #blackandwhite #brighton

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Feral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism @feralcommie.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

We're back to that old sick pattern again. 300-400 in a day is a large massacre, 50-100 is just the daily 'normal' massacre. All through last year the numbers were so consistent that it felt calibrated. Over 100 would reach the media, less than was just 'meh'. The price of non-Western life

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Danny Montez @dannymontez.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Spring can’t come soon enough. 📷Praktica MTL5b 🎞️Silbersaltz 50d #believeinfilm #analogue #35mmfilm #spring #silbersalz

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Feral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism @feralcommie.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Cutting 35 years of everyone's life expectancy by destroying the infrastructure necessary to maintain human life is mass extermination, but slowly. Gaza has been turned into a giant death camp, and the damage is already done.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 11/02/2025

Tech has stopped being about helping YOU do things - it's now a means for management consultants to use software to penetrate/monetize every aspect of our lives, all while expressing growth to the markets. This is the growth-at-all-costs Rot Economy. www.wheresyoured.at/what-were-fighting-for/

Technology has, in many ways, stopped being about "using technology to help people do things," or at the very least "help the user do something that they want to do." Software has, as Marc Andreessen said it would in 2011, eaten the world, and has done so in the nakedly-cynical and usurious way that he wanted it to, prioritizing the invasion of our lives through prioritizing growth - and the collection of as much data as possible on the user — over any particular utility or purpose. Andreessen and his ilk saw (and see) software not as a thing that provides value, but as a means for the tech industry to penetrate and "disrupt" as many industries as possible, pushing legacy providers to "transform themselves into software companies" rather than using software to make their products better, describing Pixar — the studio that made movies like Toy Story and Inside Out that was acquired by Disney in 2006 — as a software company rather than a company that makes something using software.
I realize this sounds like semantics, but let me put it another way: software has, for the tech industry, become far more about extracting economic value than it has in providing it. When the tech industry becomes focused on penetrating markets (to quote Andreessen, "software companies....[taking] over large swathes of the economy") there's little consideration of whether said software is prioritizing the solution to a problem.

Nowhere is this more obvious than the software we use in our professional lives.
Microsoft Teams is one of the single worst products l've ever used, because Microsoft's goal isn't to make it easy to have digital meetings, but to make a product good enough and cheap enough to make it easier for your boss to buy the entire Microsoft 365 Suite, even if most of the parts of said suite kind of suck.
Here's another great example: Google Drive. Google Drive is absolutely fucking awful. The people responsible for designing Google Drive's user interface should be made to explain themselves before a judge. Why can't you sort files by size?
Why does it only show image and video thumbnails when viewing a folder in a grid layout? Why, when you attempt to move a file to a folder, are the suggested folders — literally the first window you see — always, without fail, wrong?
The proliferation of software throughout society has been led by the stewards of the Rot Economy, as software - along with its associated managed services — can effectively proliferate infinitely, and can take advantage of how many corporations are run by management consultants (and filled with middle managers) that don't do any real work or have any true connections to the problems they solve.

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Danny Montez @dannymontez.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I tried pushing HP5 and it wasn’t great as most photos didn’t come out. There were a few on the roll though. 📷Nikon F2 🎞️Ilford HP5 #believeinfilm #35mmfilm #filmisnotdead #analogue #ilfordhp5 #brighton

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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

That Trump is normalising the notion of a forcible eviction of an entire people from a patch of Middle Eastern land does not seem to bother Netanyahu. Caught up in his genocidal mania, he cannot even discern what a lethal notion this is for Israeli Jews. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

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Trump wants US to ‘take over’ Gaza after ethnically cleansing Palestinians

Trump unveiled shocking plan for Gaza at news conference with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu after White House meeting.

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Danny Montez @dannymontez.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Not quite in focus but I like it for some reason? 📷Nikon F2 🎞️Fuji Eterna 250D #believeinfilm #filmphotography #filmisnotdead #fujieterna #35mmfilm #analogue

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Danny Montez @dannymontez.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Another summer holiday snap. 📷Agfa Optima 335 🎞️Kodak Vision 3 50D #believeinfilm #kodakvision3 #filmisnotdead #agfaoptima #35mmfilm #analogue

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Danny Montez @dannymontez.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I take too many photos of the West Pier. 📷Praktica MTL5b 🎞️Silbersalz 50d #believeinfilm #filmisnotdead #35mmfilm #analogue #filmphotography #brighton

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/01/2025

I'm so sorry I can't stop laughing. OpenAI, the company built on stealing literally the entire internet, is crying because DeepSeek may have trained on the outputs from ChatGPT. They're crying their eyes out. What a bunch of hypocritical little babies. Cry more, freaks. www.ft.com/content/a0df...

OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor
White House AI tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theft

OpenAI says it has found evidence that Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek used the US company’s proprietary models to train its own open-source competitor, as concerns grow over a potential breach of intellectual property.
The San-Francisco-based ChatGPT maker told the Financial Times it had seen some evidence of ‘distillation’, a technique used by developers to obtain better performance on smaller models by using outputs from larger, more capable models. This allows them to achieve similar results on specific tasks at a much lower cost.
OpenAI declined to comment further on details of its evidence. Its terms of service state users cannot “copy” any of its services or “use output to develop models that compete with OpenAI”.

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Danny Montez @dannymontez.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Some photos from our trip to Croatia. 📷Nikon F2 🎞️Kodak Portra 160 #believeinfilm #filmphotography #35mmfim #kodakportra160 #croatia

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Danny Montez @dannymontez.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

First post! Screaming into the void. Put a roll of HP5 through a YashicaMat I took a bit of a gamble on from eBay. #filmphotography #film #mediumformat #filmphotographyuk #ilfordhp5

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