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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

You have me mistaken for someone who gives a hoot about your opinion.

Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Jag vill tillägga en sak (som du kanske täcker senare i tråden, men jag har inte kommit dit än): BeMyEyes, en app som gör att seende via telefonen/kameran kan hjälpa en synskadad med enkla vardagssaker som navigation eller hitta rätt produkt på en hylla. www.bemyeyes.com

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Ayn Rand reviews children's movies “Mary Poppins” A woman takes a job with a wealthy family without asking for money in exchange for her services. An absurd premise. Later, her employer leaves a lucrative career in banking in order to play a children’s game. —No stars. Brilliant by @newyorker.com

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Ayn Rand Reviews Children’s Movies

“Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory”: An excellent film. The obviously unfit are winnowed out, and an enterprising young boy receives a factory.

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

This is how we get entities stronger than nation states. This is what dystopian sci-fi has warned about. The US may pat themselves on the back and say "the largest two of these are American", but that fails to realize that we're Dr. Frankenstein and capitalism is the monster we brought to life.

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

De ger prenumerantrabatt och gör reklam för den.

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Bara en passus, igår såg jag att ETC har samarbete med Östgötateatern en NATO-kritisk pjäs regisserad av en Putin-vän som skrivit detta bl.a.: www.svensk-ryska.se/2024/05/vad-... Otroligt osmakligt, och hade jag haft kvar min prenumeration så hade den rykt nu.

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Vad Putin måste ha vetat och vad han inte kan ha vetat

Här kommer en text om fred som framfördes vid årets årsmöte av vår medlem Richard Turpin. Vad Putin måste ha vetat och vad han inte kan ha...

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

A problem that should make Americans panic is that oligarch owned media is complicit in the takeover: In a live interview on CNN, Temu Goebbels claims that Badgolf Shitler has "plenary authority" (absolute power). CNNs upload to Youtube of this interview has the quote and glitch edited out.

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From the PublicFreakout community on Reddit: Stephen Miller glitches and shuts down after saying too much

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

These stories about US Gestapo (aka "ICE") are incredibly depressing reading. Most of this isn't covered by international news, and if it were the US would look like what it is: a police state under a fascist government. www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/...

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Om jag stötte på en knapp i skogen som bara hade den skylten så hade jag nog tryckt på den bara för att se vad som händer. Okej, den skulle gärna få säga "You'll probably survive this" om jag är på gott humör.

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Pop culture is more of a meta-medium than a genre, and has its Beethovens and Da Vincis in the shape of creators like Lana and lillywachowski.bsky.social, Mike White, Mike Schur. Thank you for reading my impromptu TED-rant.

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Trans Giantess.

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

The Wachowskis are not one hit wonders either. "V For Vendetta" and "Sense8" are also their gifts to humankind, and both with both aesthetic and essence. One thing I love about Sense8 is that it doesn't assume technology as proxy for progress. It's a story of evolution of consciousness.

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

In that way, The Matrix is very similar to The Good Place (which I would also classify as techno-shamanism). The latter makes moral ethics accessible in a 25 minute sci-fi comedy/drama format.

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

The Matrix is a work of art with both aesthetic and purpose. It gives us tips on how to self-actualize, my favorite being when the Oracle points to the sign saying "temet nosce" in response to Neo not knowing if he's the one. It opens ways to think about questions only you yourself can answer.

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Making of The Matrix required an army of artists, in addition to Lana and lillywachowski.bsky.social artistry. Example: "Bullet time", where the camera pans around the character while in slow motion, was created for this movie. It is a moment of movie making history.

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Trans Giantess.

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Side note: sadly, the term has been misappropriated by those that failed to look beyond the surface of The Matrix, and is then used as "redpilled" - this indicates having it forced upon you. Your mind, your choice.

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

You don't even have to seen the movie for it to exist in your subconscious. One of the most popular colloquialisms for seeing the true-true, or waking up to reality is "taking the red pill". The scene where Neo chooses is iconic. It's about setting out on the path to self-actualization.

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

And here's where I come to my main argument why pop culture has our geniuses equal those of yore: Consider the sheer influence of The Matrix. A 90s movie that still reverberates strongly in the collective subconscious. Its relevance is so strong because we haven't gotten the message in 26 years.

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

I also think there is such a thing as shamanistic storytelling. This is what Alan Watts did successfully. That's when you tell stories in order to unlock doors, to hint at options, to guide people on whatever path they might be. When it entertains, storytelling is wielding influence over minds.

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

The difference between them is that while art can be accidental, storytelling is not. It always has a purpose: to entertain, to educate, to warn, to inspire … Well performed it always moves, and if it's masterful it lingers. It lingers in our minds, and in the collective subconscious.

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

I'm not saying that all pop culture is art, far from it, I am saying that pop culture has contemporary Beethovens in people like Mike White. Conducting a large team to bring a vision of a masterpiece that moves with both subtlety and drama, that is art. (And in White's case also leadership)

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

As mediums got more advanced, so did the stories and their creation. And as the world changed, so did the stories in a way that isn't backwards compatible. You can explain the Epic of Gilgamesh to a contemporary person, but it's hard to explain The Office to an ancient Sumerian.

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Side note: This collaborative work of art took longer than our contemporary civilization including Ancient Egypt has existed. Art, if only beauty for the sake of it, seems to be part not only sapience but consciousness. Just look at peacocks, the club winged manakin, or puffer fish.

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

At the very base of it, art is supposed to make us feel something. In most forms, it's also storytelling. Handprints in a cave added over almost 8000 years, say "all of us were here".

A cave with sand-colored stone covered with hand shapes outlined by paint in hues of red and brown. A few hands are inverted, where the hand is colored and surrounded by a light halo.

This is Cuevas de las Manos in Argentina, a cave where humans have created this work of art between 7300 BCE and 700 CE - a period of 8000 years.

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

In a wider interpretation of finer arts, pop culture is pulp fiction, all of it - with the few exceptions that confirm the rule, like Warhol. There's an implicit hierarchy in the wider interpretation, meaning that some artists are more than others just because of the medium they create in.

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Short context: I have thought about this for years since I'm writing a sci-fi series that starts out in a contemporary setting. The alien studying humanity utilizes pop culture to teach her species human communication and idiosyncrasies.

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

I didn't know what to use Bluesky for, but now it came to me: this is where I'll post my occasional philosophical rants about #popculture. Like why it is existential in nature. And why "finer arts" is elitist if used in another way than as a reference to "old arts".

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Den enda rimliga reaktionen på denna diskussion www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifne...

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Kishti Tomita - Orimligt (remix)

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Ja, det är nog lite väl dramatiskt med utrotning. Jag är bara uppgiven av alla rapporter kring klimatförändringarna som innehåller variationer på ”snabbare än förväntat”. Mänskligheten klarar inte marshmallow-testet 🫠

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Eftersom vi är på väg mot 3°C uppvärmning 2050 om vi inte tripplar den insats vi gjort de senaste 30 åren, så tror jag att det kommer vara en färgkombination som bläckfiskar använder för att berätta om de dumma tvåbeningarna som utrotade sig själva. Källa: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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The history of a + 3 °C future: Global and regional drivers of greenhouse gas emissions (1820–2050)

Identifying the socio-economic drivers behind greenhouse gas emissions is crucial to design mitigation policies. Existing studies predominantly analyz…

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Jag med. Det är dessutom apokalyps-säkrad mjölk, eftersom kackerlackor är längre ner på kanariefågel-i-gruvan-skalan för jordens livskraftighet än människor. Så länge människor finns, finns också kackerlackor. Jag undrar hur biomassan av kackerlackor för en liter mjölk står sig mot en mjölkko.

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Alltså förlåt, jag glömde slå på notiserna här. Det lilla jag är på sociala medier (utanför Reddit) är på Mastodon. Jag hittade en tjänst som gör att man kan följa Bluesky-konton från Mastodon och tvärtom. Hoppas det var något fint! Jag hoppas också att allt är fint med dig och familjen <3

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Jag hade ingen aning om att Fokus skiftat så. En av de bästa sakerna med att bo i obygden är att jag kan stänga av omvärlden när jag inte pallar med den.

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

New nickname for Pee Wee German just dropped, courtesy of Badgolf Shitler’s officials: Crazy Uncle Felon This will get under his skin in the most delicious way. Can’t wait for the infighting to really get going. futurism.com/trump-offici... #ElonMusk #BillionairesShouldNotExist

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Fed Up Trump Officials Are Calling Musk "Crazy Uncle Elon"

According to Rolling Stone's sources, Musk has been given the nickname "Crazy Uncle Elon" by State Department officials.

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

There were a couple times during first six months when we seriously considered rehoming him with someone more experienced with traumatized dogs. I'm glad we didn't. He is the first non-human that I love. We chose to double down and adopted his brother, Ori. But that's a story for another time.

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

He was cautiously friendly with humans, very submissive to both humans and dogs (except with certain breeds that still to this day make him so afraid he panics and becomes aggressive). He is still claustrophobic, and hates being caged or cratered. I ain't going to lie, it's been tough at times.

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Not much is known about his first six months, but a lot can be inferred from his behavior and past injuries. He has a deformity on a fang that indicates being attacked by a dog at 4-6 months of age. His nibbling indicates he was weaned off too early. He was terrified of cars and full parking lots.

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

We adopted him through SOS Animals, a non-profit working with homeless dogs in Spain. I can warmly recommend them! Over the four years we've known each other, we have built up trust and established a language. I've gotten glimpses into his past. He has learned how to cohabitate with humans.

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

This is Dante (named after Dante in Coco due to similar levels of derp-ness). He was six months old when he was taken off the streets by animal control in Torreveja and put in a killing station. The Municipal Animal Shelter rescued him, and he spent the next six months there. #DogsOfBluesky

A first-person perspective of me laying on the chaise lounge of our couch, in a room with blue wallpaper with a pattern of white sailing boats.

On my legs is the upside-down head of a black-and-white dog who is looking right into the camera. His teeth are more like teef, and the upside down pose makes him look extra derpy.

In the background, on the wall a TV is displaying the Mercenaries menu from Assassin's Creed Odyssey, and to the right of it a window where we can glean a snowy landscape.

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

The way UHC is structure and works is tantamount to corporate death panels. This is a libertarian dystopia straight out of Murderbot Diaries. youtu.be/jZQpsy768-8

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Insurance Watchdog Coalition

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

They are so afraid that the First Amendment is out the window: Florida mom arrested for saying ‘Delay Deny Depose’ on call with BlueCross BlueShield health insurer after being denied her medical claim abcnews.go.com/US/florida-w... She didn't even say #DenyDefendDepose

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Did you know that @nytimes.com has an active bedbug infestation? Definition: www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?t... Backstory: www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/c... #Bedbugs #journalism #DenyDefendDepose

Headline from an NY Times OP-ED by Bedbug Bret Stephens, with the title "Brian Thompson, Not Luigi Mangione, Is the Real Working-Class Hero"

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

This is true for every country on Earth, change my mind. #DenyDefendDepose

Sticker saying ”The only ministry destroying this country are the billionaires.”

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Health insurance executives in the US are afraid (and completely delulu). Look at this pledge that someone working at a health insurance consultant was asked to sign. Note that point 5 only is about executives. www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/c... #DenyDefendDepose

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From the antiwork community on Reddit: My friend got asked to take a pledge saying health insurance executives are good

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Here's a Swedish word du jour: "Morsgris" - (lit. "mama's pig") a person who is spoiled and pampered by their mother, and overly dependent on her especially in adult age like Pete Hegseth.

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

The US is on a speedrun any% from democracy to kakistocorporatocracy. Case in point: Health care insurer in the US won't pay for anesthesia if your operation goes on for longer than they think is valid. www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/a...

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Anthem Insurance will cap anesthesia coverage at certain time limits for CT patients

Anyone with an Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield plan will soon have to pay out of pocket for anesthesia if a surgery or procedure goes longer than expected, according to the American Society of Anesthesi...

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

This explains perfectly the strange political landscape in Sweden where the Liberal Party traditionally has been lumped in with the conservative parties. They both want the same thing: individual freedom, which somewhere between liberal and conservative becomes justification of selfishness.

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Det är kanske det vi ska göra nästa sommar. Jag har läst om hur man skolar in kattungar och hundar med varandra. Jag är mest orolig för att våra hundar är så otroligt entusiastiska, men det ger sig ju om man låter dem vänja sig på rätt sätt.

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Min dröm är inte komplett förrän vi har två katter (och två åsnor, eftersom Mike vill ha det) som kompanjoner till våra två hundar. Ends problemet är att vi måste skaffa katter som är väldigt hundvana för att våra två hundar är en del att hantera (och älskar katter)

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