Reposted by izeasjoe @shariauncle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026increasingly feels like my Perfectly Fine liberal arts education was an artifact grabbed fleeing a burning temple 322903478
Reposted by izeasJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind 992123745
Reposted by izeasBen Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“We’re losing billions and we’re making a product that’s an existential threat to humanity” is a hell of sales pitch www.ft.com/content/c768...ft.comAnthropic warns of ‘existential risks to humanity’ in IPO prospectusLong-awaited S1 filing reports Claude maker lost $8bn last year on $4.6bn in revenue 20320106
izeas @izeas.xyz · 25/09/2026which one of your cretins made this post show up on my feed. i am on bluesky specifically to avoid these sorts of subtrivial psychodrivel slopnuggets. "can i bring a drink to an interview?" what the fuck kind of question is that? "is a hot dog a sandwich?" go look at a fucking leaf 120
Reposted by izeaselia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible 25150233944
Reposted by izeasBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026So literally "Allahu akbar," only in English 964321609
Reposted by izeastunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place. 426174343862
Reposted by izeasjesse, head of endorsement deals at Boingo Wireless @killgoldfish.bsky.social · 26/08/2026As always 08616
izeas @izeas.xyz · 22/08/2026"you're lying": no they aren't "stupid": mean, but debatable— Perspective from a STEM professor at an AI-forward university: The juice ain't worth the squeeze. There can be no positive value in using these *products*. Unethical through and through. We deserve better. The tech deserves better. 100
izeas @izeas.xyz · 19/08/2026"a tool no different than a hammer" exactly! remember when the Amazon hammer manufacturing center came online and became the single worst source of pollution in the United States? 011
izeas @izeas.xyz · 16/08/2026displaying passion mate concern about the systems at a university is often met by fence-sitters as an overreaction at best, mental instability at worst. I expressed concern to my director about how deeply our university is entrenching itself with corporate genAI and he told me to go to therapy 04810
izeas @izeas.xyz · 11/08/2026Cover songs I want to hear: "I Think I'm Going to Kill Myself" by those two assholes from Good Charlotte 010
izeas @izeas.xyz · 11/08/2026did Faine write this before or after news came out that Harry Potter adults forced the relocation of a planned undersea cable—whose new route now endangers Bronze Age human remains—simply to save Dobby's gravetheguardian.comHarry Potter fans force relocation of £430m undersea cable to avoid Dobby’s ‘grave’Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh beach 193
Reposted by izeaseddietg51-42.bsky.social @eddietg51-42.bsky.social · 09/08/2026More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are trans athletes in youth sports. 85101722926
izeas @izeas.xyz · 09/08/2026The year is 2039. Humanity has reduced fossil fuel consumption by 77%; mycelia eats through PFAS in the soil. Hope. But upon discovering upwards of 92% cows are evil, beef and dairy consumption immediately skyrockets, and the climate is doomed to bake under a pillowy film of bovine methane 000
Reposted by izeasAnna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 09/08/2026If you have so much work to do that you feel you need AI in order to get it all done: you don't. You need a union. 212554806
izeas @izeas.xyz · 31/07/2026apparently @hankgreen.bsky.social you can't do it without relying generative slop and getting it wrong because you're "so busy" so maybe it's best you don't do it at all 031
izeas @izeas.xyz · 28/07/2026has anyone asked Armand Assante yet about his take on Nolan's Odyssey 000
Reposted by izeasRima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Madison police kill man in broad daylight in front of witnesses wisconsinexaminer.com/briefs/madis...wisconsinexaminer.comMadison police kill man in broad daylight in front of witnesses • Wisconsin ExaminerA Madison police officer shot a man several times, killing him during an arrest for allegedly casing cars in the Willy Street neighborhood. 21051530
Reposted by izeasBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 23/07/2026I watched the video. It was an execution. The officer cannot claim negligence or an accident because he fired three rounds into the man's head. Incidentally, the officer almost shoots his partner (and may have), as you can see the other officer suddenly jerk back after the first shot is fired. 4378128
Reposted by izeasSami Schalk @drsamischalk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Police murdered a Black man in the street in Madison WI today. Shot point blank in the head while on the ground, tased, and surrounded by four cops. It looks like an execution. Multiple videos circulating online. Things are about to get very bad here. 20692883852
Reposted by izeasTom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 18/07/2026What would be super cool is if people stopped inventing apps and training robots to ruin our lives and instead invented a type of cat food that doesn't squirt ungodly gravy all over my wrist when I open the package it comes in. 3344764
Reposted by izeasEd Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 10/07/2026ICE shot and killed a man in Houston with no criminal record who was not even their target. They pushed him off the road. And now he is gone forever. ICE is a domestic terrorist organization. We need to abolish ICE now and stop Trump’s murderous thugs. 432390783
Reposted by izeasLaura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 05/07/2026This has been the most spiritually bankrupt celebration of anything I've ever seen and that's it, that's our 250th. We don't get to go back and redo it, this one's in the books: Temu Arch, cheesy architecture, horrible displays, AI everywhere. Far right propaganda. Jokes at our expense 323947775
Reposted by izeasizeas @izeas.xyz · 26/07/2025everything we create is our child. your house, its roof leaking, looks up to you for answers. #poetry #micropoetry 031
izeas @izeas.xyz · 24/06/2026If only you resisted the billionaire white supremacist coup of this country as much as you resist candidates outflanking you to the left! You left the door wide open to candidates who hate the party because your would-be voters have grown to hate your spinelessness and pandering to R defectors 010
Reposted by izeasAeon Magazine @aeon.co · 22/06/2026Where Confucianism sees success as a result of individual effort, the Daoist philosopher Zhuangzi sees a more fragile reality. In this illuminating Essay, Christine Abigail L Tan examines where Confucianism goes wrong, finding similarities in the modern ideology of meritocracybuff.lyZhuangzi and the case against meritocracy | Aeon EssaysThe idea that success is deserved has great traction in the world. But Zhuangzi argues that it is a deeply flawed notion 22413
izeas @izeas.xyz · 22/06/2026anyone else notice the word "foodway" creeping into use? am i a curmudgeon if i say that that word is an absolute stinker? e.g. "those two cultures have similar foodways" sounds corporate, like some dopey low-level exec contrived it bc he couldn't think of the real word: "cuisine" 000
Reposted by izeasJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Are the vibes around the World Cup and America rancid? You better believe it. But the truth that sounds over and over is that the problems are the systems and the state actors and the institutions and the corporations. The people underneath it all are good and loving and caring. 28411
Reposted by izeasUrban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 24/05/2026This is worth reading, for excellent communication & story-telling. “I’m driving less. I don’t want to see the world through a driver’s eyes any more. Before I began driving less, I had long had a melancholic sense that the city lifestyle I lived was cut off...” #UrbanTruth From @irishtimes.comirishtimes.comI’m driving less. I don’t want to see the world through a driver’s eyes any moreBefore I began driving less, I had long had a melancholic sense that the city lifestyle I lived was cut off from the seasons and nature 5333114
Reposted by izeasKaz Coyotl 𓃦 @mow.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Japan: We’re going to die off as a country because of population decline… 😭 Immigrants: Can we stay here, integrate, and continue to be valuable members of society? Japan: Haha. No. Moms: Can I have the support and benefits when I have a child? Japan: HAHAHA. No. 141244305
Reposted by izeasAlex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan @undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 23/05/2026YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK 6085402316198
izeas @izeas.xyz · 13/05/2026common vector i see for hating bsky is thru the type who thought they had a "brand" on Twitter, even if they were fully deluded in thinking so, and them not being able to immediately recreate it here. take it from me, someone who wasn't shit on Twitter and ain't shit here: here is fine! 1448
Reposted by izeaskat @katbamkapow.bsky.social · 13/05/2026heard a guy say "you have to access it through the portal" and i was momentarily struck by how sad it is that what he said is so boring :( "accessing it via the portal" should be wonderful. we deserve that at least. it should be cool to access it via the portal and instead it sucks shit 5185781941
izeas @izeas.xyz · 12/05/2026i'm off! summer break! now to convince my nervous system that yes, it's true, i'm not beholden to work! 010
izeas @izeas.xyz · 11/05/2026slightly increase a band Radiohead & Shoulders honorary mentions: Upper MGMT Multitool Jefferson Airline ME3 (sorry this one is really bad) 10,012 Maniacs Against Us! 111
izeas @izeas.xyz · 05/05/2026those voices that the genAI models use...i'm not the only one that hates them, am i? they're insufferable! no one actually talks in that tone of voice. except in commercials that try to be cute or clever 000