Reposted by Downstairs Eddie Cliff @cliff.leaninto.it · 13hNo one wants to hear this but video games are the gym of the mind 828027
Downstairs Eddie @downstairseddie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Alan Kohler's article on AI being a "new lifeform" is literally the meme 021
Reposted by Downstairs Eddie anachronox.txt @anachronox-txt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Kiss me. Burp. 001
Reposted by Downstairs Eddie Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Best Of 2000AD cover what I did #dayofdredd 301967315
Reposted by Downstairs Eddie depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026 4852661251
Reposted by Downstairs Eddie Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026The before and after it's even more haunting. 3529061648
Reposted by Downstairs Eddie Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map. 9653023276
Reposted by Downstairs Eddie anachronox.txt @anachronox-txt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Are ya sad because you're all alone? 011
Reposted by Downstairs Eddie Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This video was filmed in Palestine. My heart struggles to comprehend such cruelty and the heartbreaking disregard for human life. No human being should have to endure this. 5629451403
Reposted by Downstairs Eddie Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026Alan Moore knew where all of this was headed back when Thatcher and Reagan were running things! 318350
Reposted by Downstairs Eddie deus_ex.txt @deus-ex-txt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026You are American? Did they throw you in the canal? 0134
Reposted by Downstairs Eddie anachronox.txt @anachronox-txt.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I wasn't sure what to bring as an offering, so I brought my rubber duck. I've had it since I was a kid. I used to take it to school in my pocket and the other kids would point at my pants. 001
Reposted by Downstairs Eddie videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 06/09/2026gaming chair (1994) archive.org/details/comp... 419048
Reposted by Downstairs Eddie anachronox.txt @anachronox-txt.bsky.social · 02/09/2026My hands just got really clammy. Wanna feel? 001
Reposted by Downstairs Eddie Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 01/09/2026This essay talks about the left's vision for technology, the "alliance" between left and right-wing anti-data center movements, politics of refusal, democratic control over the AI infrastructure buildout, China, industrial policy, and more. www.thetechbubble.info/p/the-future...thetechbubble.infoThe Future Is Not Tech-ForwardOn artificial intelligence, data centers, technological politics, and who gets to build the future. 410137
Reposted by Downstairs Eddie anachronox.txt @anachronox-txt.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Hey, if anyone ever attacks you, try scooping their eyes out with your thumbs. 001
Reposted by Downstairs Eddie Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 18/08/2026via al jazeera 2415143
Reposted by Downstairs Eddie Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/08/2026New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...404media.coWe Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training FacilityWe placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. 12537932367
Reposted by Downstairs Eddie Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 15/08/2026It’s official: the Nerd Reich podcast is getting banned from YouTube….the week of my book launch! Incredible timing, since I’ll be all over the media next week talking about tech fascism. They can delete my account. They can’t stop my work. Buy the book: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne... 13534541293
Reposted by Downstairs Eddie elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 14/08/2026The British press is by and large one of the most revolting institutions I’ve ever encountered. They hounded him to death for hate and clicks. He had two kids. F-ing monsters 6692189
Reposted by Downstairs Eddie Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 10/08/2026In outrage and anguish, we mark the one-year anniversary since the Israeli military deliberately killed five beloved Al Jazeera journalists: Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqea, Ibrahim Zaher, Moamen Aliwa, and Mohammed Noufal. 510244
Reposted by Downstairs Eddie maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 03/08/2026It's not a coincidence that everyone still whining, in the year of our lord 2026, about covid lockdowns are all people who should be forcibly locked in their homes with all the doors and windows bolted shut from the outside while the rest of us just quietly forget that they ever existed at all 11808116
Reposted by Downstairs Eddie Veerender Singh Jubbal @veerenderjubbal.bsky.social · 01/08/2026 437338926562
Reposted by Downstairs Eddie The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 19/07/2026Aliens (1986): USS Sulaco, art by Syd Mead "James Cameron sketched a kind of submarine affair, but long and flat. I followed that cue and came up with the SULACO." 615827
Reposted by Downstairs Eddie Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 04/07/2025I dunno, maybe you also needed to see this seven month old video of Sam Neill asking you if you want to fly through some lavender like a bumblebee x: www.instagram.com/reel/DE1XGxD... 51426518
Reposted by Downstairs Eddie Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 13/07/2026I call for a national holiday in Australia and New Zealand as we mourn one of the very best human beings of the past century, who also happend to be quite a dab hand at acting. Mine is one of so many broken hearts the world over - what a fucking mensch. 121141225
Reposted by Downstairs Eddie deus_ex.txt @deus-ex-txt.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Who wants to smell the difference between xenon and radon? 0113
Reposted by Downstairs Eddie Spudley Boo-Right 👻 @spudleydo-right.bsky.social · 10/07/202654 years ago today, July 9th 1972 Israeli occupation forces assassinated Ghassan Kanafani in Beirut. He was a Palestinian communist and revolutionary, the spokesman of the Marxist-Leninist PFLP, and the man who tied Palestine to Vietnam, Cuba and Algeria as one struggle. 19541
Reposted by Downstairs Eddie Pat Caruana @patbcaruana.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Wait? You're telling me that the social base for fascism is the petite bourgeoisie??? 🤯 48226
Reposted by Downstairs Eddie Jim Malo @maloism.com · 19/06/2026The new McCarthyist era of the Australian press has completely hamstrung its ability to react to Hanson. The Gaza war and journalists' inability to hold their organisations to journalistic principles since 2023 cost newsrooms the lived experience and perspectives needed by silencing the oppressed. 210240
Reposted by Downstairs Eddie Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026I just learned that the term "carbon footprint" was developed by BP to offload responsibility for climate change onto individuals. Something like that's happening in higher ed with AI. Institutions capitulate or dodge; students are submitting; & they believe it's their individual failing. 7/ 142940662
Reposted by Downstairs Eddie David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Musk functionally ran the US government for 6 months last year and managed to: increase spending, slash services, kill 100,000s, and help nurture both Ebola & Screwworms. Yet somehow no one mentions this when they talk about the company he is going to take public this week. 7661152597
Reposted by Downstairs Eddie Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 29/05/2026Paramount+ wanted to use the image on the left as a poster for the wrath of Khan, so they used everyone's least favorite technology to generate the rest of the image. 21974122069
Reposted by Downstairs Eddie Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 11/05/2026this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't. 991272886878
Reposted by Downstairs Eddie Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Just had Canvas stop working as I was typing comments on a student paper. I now can’t access anyone’s work or grades. Strangely, this never happened back when I used a grade book and had students email me their papers, a system no shareholders extracted money from. 593472991
Reposted by Downstairs Eddie James Davenport @jradavenport.com · 05/05/2026So I think this is interesting... ELT (the largest optical telescope ever, currently being built) and the Sphere in Las Vegas are approximately the same size and cost, roughly speaking 840363
Reposted by Downstairs Eddie Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 04/05/2026What the hell www.newyorker.com/culture/prog... 10346051228
Reposted by Downstairs Eddie Rasheed Abueideh - Now crowdfunding Dreams on a Pillow 🍉 @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Excited to share that Dreams on a Pillow now has 1000 wishlists on Steam It doesnt seem like a big number, but it means that 1000 of you want to learn and follow the story of Khadra, that touches all of us Support launchgood.com/1948 Wishlists store.steampowered.com/app/4438850/Dreams_on_a_Pillow/ 011757
Reposted by Downstairs Eddie US National Gemini Office @usngo.bsky.social · 30/04/2026From @noirlabastro.bsky.social: a longtime resident of Cerro Pachón in Chile. While they are not part of the operations team, they are well-adapted to high-altitude environments and very comfortable around world-class astronomy. #astronomy 📷: Gemini/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA 015043
Reposted by Downstairs Eddie Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/04/2026why would I want to talk to an LLM trained on thousands on Victorian texts when I can read the texts for myself? I don't get it, what is the appeal? 1014022
Reposted by Downstairs Eddie Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 24/04/2026Can't tell me all these corporations did not grok that token cost will eventually rival then exceed human labour cost, right? There's no way these people get paid that much to be shocked Pikachu at capitalism eating them next on a low-supply product they made themselves dependent on. Embarrassing. 1632136
Reposted by Downstairs Eddie Rasheed Abueideh - Now crowdfunding Dreams on a Pillow 🍉 @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social · 23/04/2026I am thrilled to announce that Dreams on a Pillow has wrapped up pre-production and we are about to start full production. We can’t do it without your support. We are starting our second round of crowdfunding, to support us you can find out more here www.launchgood.com/1948 291712974
Reposted by Downstairs Eddie Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026This is real 25336421086
