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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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Benjamin Leggett @drelbs.online · 06/10/2026

Really interesting that all these right-wing fascists decided that purging voter rolls would keep them in power all at the same time, wonder who suggested that idea to them.

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Benjamin Leggett @drelbs.online · 06/10/2026

Whenever anyone that the internet has formed a parasocial relationship with does something bad and is outed, you are doomed to see a bunch of spectators who clearly haven't thought very much about this stuff before try to reconstruct penal theory from first principles, every time.

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Benjamin Leggett @drelbs.online · 06/10/2026

"You can't have restorative justice without legal punishment, though!" That's exactly the point being made. "What does restorative justice for these people look like?" -> It looks like nothing, like jack shit, in the absence of legal consequences.

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Toussaint Egan @thesaintoftous.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You can tell Control Resonant wasn't made in America by the way there are billboards all across Manhattan promoting awareness about climate change, unionization, and suing your employer for wrongful termination.

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Bloody Redneck Lefty With A 🔪 @rednecklefty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The latest wrinkle in techno-feudalism: Jus primae noctis and droit du siegneur.

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Benjamin Leggett @drelbs.online · 26/09/2026

Hmm really interesting that all the billionaire-owned tech outlets are mysteriously refusing to run a paid ad for this.

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 25/09/2026

halo is a grand epic vision of post 9/11 us militarism that was the biggest thing in the world for a hot minute. true american soft power asserting itself as the 360 stole games console dominance away from japan. all pissed away to nothing because microsoft cannot see its value it can only Extract

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 25/09/2026

rotating an idea that halo is the defining media franchise of the 21st century. i look at how its been mismanaged for 20 years, no one working on it has a job, its games don't even sell anymore but. they cant let it die. the IP must continue. everything becomes halo on a long enough timeline

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Benjamin Leggett @drelbs.online · 25/09/2026

Capitalism is an evolving virus that ultimately desires to keep itself alive, destroy opposition, and optimize its own function to a vanishing point of total annihilation of everything that isn't itself. AI cultists claim to be afraid of things like this, but carefully scope their fears to AI.

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Benjamin Leggett @drelbs.online · 25/09/2026

Telling you that AI will ultimately destroy us all while remaining mum about the fact that all of their fears are also true of the artificial system (capitalism) that inexorably compels them to keep building it is an intentional distraction away from that artificial system's harms and ultimate goals

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Benjamin Leggett @drelbs.online · 25/09/2026

All of the systemic dooms that AI cultists claim to be afraid of (paperclip theory, roko's basilik) are already demonstrably true of the capitalist systems that act as the superstructure driving LLM development.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

GenAI evangelists: there is no deskilling. You become as a god, a machine god, you- Every GenAI CEO: no one needs to know how to read and also I don't know how to put my pants on anymore

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Benjamin Leggett @drelbs.online · 17/09/2026

Insecure code isn't new, not having a blameable entity to hold responsible for it is very, very new for middle management, and they aren't sure what to do about it.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

an ai slowdown, whatever that is and for whatever reason it's now being proposed by the musks and altmans -- it's lucky for them that the danger is becoming apparent right around the time all the free money is becoming significantly less free

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𝐟𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐠 @ruleo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

pop a perc for charlie kirk 🙏

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’m sus of anything that people want so bad that they even use child porn to try to sell it. *See latest Meta ads for AI apps problem

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 08/09/2026

werner herzog on AI filmmaking (from here www.indiewire.com/features/int...)

Q: A couple years ago at IDFA, I saw this movie "About a Hero," which is this partly Al-generated hybrid documentary that tries to recreate the atmosphere of your films.

A: The intention of this young filmmaker was never to remake any [of my films], but making something in the spirit. And I immediately said, "You will fail. It is such a stupid idea. It's phenomenally, abysmally stupid. I will not take part in it." He wanted me to explain things and have my voice in it.
I said, "You are alone. There's such a thing as free speech, which I respect. So go ahead and fail." And it is a failure, period.
It's so standardized that Al can step in because there's not real storytelling. It's mimicry of something that has happened before. And I welcome Al to replace all the idiots who are into nothing but repeating, repeating, repeating until it's ad nauseam.
When it's ad nauseam, please, please, please let Al step in and do the job.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

"A.I." boosters vs "A.I." critics

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Benjamin Leggett @drelbs.online · 07/09/2026

You do have to offer a positive left-wing populist platform as an alternative to a negative right-wing populist platform. Every time. For every policy. The center-left would prefer this was *not* the case, because they value policy inaction, but it is the case, and is inescapable.

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Biggest problem with modern Looney Tunes, even COYOTE VS ACME (which I like) is that Bugs Bunny has been sanded down into a mascot. You watch him in the 40s or 50s and he's a freaky lil dress-up pervert who is down for anything. Assigned diva at birth. Nowadays, he's just a regular guy. Not my Bugs.

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Benjamin Leggett @drelbs.online · 01/09/2026

I think the degree to which people are thirsting after and obsessing over GTA VI is both completely understandable and deeply sad.

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Centrist Sisyphus @centristsisyphus.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Further, voters got Orban out despite a system rigged to prevent exactly that. Numbers, we need overwhelming numbers.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Voters got Orban out. Voters got Bolsonaro out. Voters got Trump out in 2020 (though other voters put him back in). Further back, voters got Pinochet out. You have to willfully shove your head in the sand to say voting can't do anything about this. In fact, it's probably the best way.

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Benjamin Leggett @drelbs.online · 27/08/2026

The wide color gamut stuff here is gamechanging, I've played thru 3 games with it in an RC build, it make DOS games look incredible with fantastic scanlines, and that's not something I say lightly. I've been playing DOS games in dosbox for decades. www.dosbox-staging.org/releases/rel...

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0.83.0 - DOSBox Staging

DOSBox Staging is a modern continuation of DOSBox with advanced features and current development practices.

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Benjamin Leggett @drelbs.online · 26/08/2026

If you're going to use slurs to describe something, keep it to billionaires, the only group that will never deserve protection and cannot actually defend themselves effectively.

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Hello, it is me, Kira. :) @kirabira.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

She also really debunks the common justifications about religion, region, and age. Your grandparents and parents have shitty values because they have shitty values, not because of anything else. They could do better. Anyone can use their eyes to see the world and have the correct read.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

that's what's really going on. the real businesses here (Microsoft, etc) are hanging around and dabbling and waiting for the day the adults come and feast on the bloated carcasses of the many losers

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Benjamin Leggett @drelbs.online · 25/08/2026

I don't mind people donating their money (LLM credits) to put useful bits of open-source code out there. But if you then beg for *donations*, why the fuck would I give you a dime? I could spend that money on credits my fucking self. If all *you're* donating is cash, asking for cash is a grift.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...

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Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah

An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 21/08/2026

I dunno, I don't think "this conventionally attractive blonde white woman who has spent years working to gain unparalleled access to and influence over the most powerful man in the world is somehow not fully responsible for her choices" is the feminist position some people seem to think it is

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 20/08/2026

I'm sorry but "a huge number of NYC cabs now are remaindered EVs running grey market software written by some dude in a garage" is the most cyberpunk thing I've ever heard

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Worked out my anger about the craven dismissals of the 2020 protest movement over at The Nation www.thenation.com/article/acti...

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Jeff Grubb @grubb.wtf · 20/08/2026

I like to go in the chats of the guys on Tiktok that show off their game collections and repeatedly ask them to show Flipnic for PS2 until they ban me

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

its why the DNC superfans do it! theyre just as powerless as you are. by telling you "im to the left of che guevara, BUT, 'defund the police' will NOT play in peoria! be smarter!" they feel like they are taking control of the situation. team leaders eagerly aping the regional managers

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 19/08/2026

it's the worst kind of managerial logic, actually taking a position is scary and risky so just nitpick something like tone so you are registered as having offered group feedback no matter how irrelevant to the overall project

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

due respect to max, it's become clear that all they have is "message." this is why your more deluded DNC superfans/blue maga types tone police the way you say things so eagerly. they're aping their heroes, who comma-fuck every word in order to appear to say something but in fact say nothing

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Benjamin Leggett @drelbs.online · 19/08/2026

This is so easy to do and has so many upsides, the fact that every Democrat *hasn't* been doing it in public, in Washington, in Congress, in the press, constantly for years, is an indictment of their uselessness as an opposition party.

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Jean Kayak @jeanniepep.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

"90s food fads were crazy" I murmur as I take another bite of my High Protein Pop Tart

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Benjamin Leggett @drelbs.online · 17/08/2026

ResetEra, but where you can bully very stupid people/children.

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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We 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.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 12/08/2026

many of u appear to be trying to play a sophisticated game of chess while your opponent is pointing a gun at you and also pulling the trigger on the gun pretty frequently and you're being shot by the gun a lot

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Benjamin Leggett @drelbs.online · 09/08/2026

Simply put, sex scenes don't seem to fit anymore because culture now favors paint by numbers movies.

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Benjamin Leggett @drelbs.online · 09/08/2026

My take on sex scenes in movies is that a lot of the movies you people like are so safe and stupid and formulaic they don't need sex scenes inserted. If you were making more fringe pervert cinema generally, the way you should be, this wouldn't be a question.

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