Reposted by George McKieDavid Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Hilarious and deeply insightful writing by @brianphillips.lol. 3043371668 0
Reposted by George McKieJordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Increasingly it seems like every billionaire is simply Sauron from Marvel: 2458 0
Reposted by George McKieJordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Perhaps the problem with buying pipelines industry doesn't want to build is that the resources they are carrying are uneconomic on world markets and we should stop allowing politicians to lie to the public about that? No? Then perhaps the Conservative Party can have an original idea. 172 0
Reposted by George McKiejamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/10/2026I'm sure X is remarkably friendly if you aren't the target of racial slurs and harassment campaigns. Anyway, I wonder how many "niggers" I'll have to sift through if I start posting there again? 1253275289 0
George McKie @promeritum.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Sites that only use cookies for essential functions such as logging-in users don’t need the popup. If a site has a popup, it’s because they want to do data collection. 010 0
George McKie @promeritum.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Call me crazy, but I blame the websites thst want to sell tracking information to the data brokers. 130 0
Reposted by George McKieFreedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 09/10/2026Yes, it does, IDF. You denied killing U.S. reporter Shireen Abu Akleh in 2022 until evidence forced an admission. Then you murdered hundreds of journalists in Gaza and denied it all over again. Want credibility? Let international press into the Strip. 1124587 0
Reposted by George McKieshaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 27/09/2026language model programs have no conscious intent or ethical understanding and they never will. you can program them to say they do, but they fundamentally cannot 281769294 0
George McKie @promeritum.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Nice to see that Vince Russo landed on his feet. 000 0
Reposted by George McKieTim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever 40120623117 0
George McKie @promeritum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Some linear decks had indexing. They used (basic) optical sensors to detect the gaps. Tended towards the mid-range, price-wise. 010 0
George McKie @promeritum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Best Heritage Minute ever made. Still gives me goosebumps. 010 0
Reposted by George McKieLuke Stark @lukestark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Tech companies are trying to use the ELIZA effect and cute animation to sell you devices that will surveil you constantly, convince you they're your best and only friend, sap you of your cognitive capacities, and push your purchasing habits and opinions in whatever way they please. That's it. 24216 0
Reposted by George McKieCatelli @catelli.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"Anthropic warns AI may pose 'existential risks to humanity' in IPO filing" "Invest in us, so that we can end humanity, and you won't recoup your investment." is the strangest sales pitch. www.msn.com/en-us/techno...msn.comMSN 183 0
George McKie @promeritum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026@shadowtodd.bsky.social Ricks Derringer and Springfield, is there a Gentrys OHW coming for the Wrestling Album trifecta? 000 0
George McKie @promeritum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Taylor Swift releases new songs and your world is suddenly a brighter, happier place. 020 0
Reposted by George McKieKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility 6079102231 0
George McKie @promeritum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I’ve watched eight of these in their entirety. 110 0
George McKie @promeritum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The buildings themselves are a problem. Alongside other problems. 000 0
George McKie @promeritum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026When that bubble bursts, everything a value inside these buildings will be destroyed or scrapped. There will just be a hastily built cheap shell left scarring the face of the Earth. They are not “data centers“ in the classical sense. They are cancerous tumors. 100 0
George McKie @promeritum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026No one is trying to build hundreds of general purpose data centres across North America. Because there is no demand for that much general purpose server space. Only the AI bubble is driving these construction projects. 100 0
Reposted by George McKieJustin Ling @justinling.ca · 21/09/2026The AI doomerism being pushed by the tech oligarchs is meant to reinforce the idea that AI is inevitable, unstoppable, and impossible to regulate. But it's not. It's just going to require that we go back to global cooperation, hard as it may sound. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...thestar.comJustin Ling: It’s the nuclear bomb of the 21st century. This is how we can control itReining in AI will take international co-operation. 510424 0
George McKie @promeritum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Oh I drank it. Haven’t done it since I was eight. We moved, so I can draw a strong temporal division there. 010 0
George McKie @promeritum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I used to add milk to apple juice. The acid would curdle the milk into little blobs. I don’t remember it tasting good, but it looked cool. 100 0
George McKie @promeritum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Techbros desperate to keep the bubble inflated because their wealth is entirely contained within it. “In six months this will have the power to destroy humanity. Sure that sounds bad, but do you want China to be the only one with that power? Better keep the money flowing.” 020 0
George McKie @promeritum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Nice head shop you got here. Sure would be a shame if the city barricaded the storefront with concrete blocks. 011 0
Reposted by George McKieSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 18/09/2026i would have hoped that "recruiting young idealists via harry potter fan fiction for a non-profit that is mostly concerned with who they can have sex with" clearly indicated that this was a predatory pattern i am pretty sure anyone objecting has developed toxic sex-positivity, which baffles me 234226 0
Reposted by George McKieDoug Pennington @morfaleji.bsky.social · 16/09/2026A tornado inside a hurricane inside a firestorm. Agenda-setters would allow virtually nothing else to be discussed on the natl level 13520143 0
Reposted by George McKieAnna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 16/09/2026CBS takeover failed, gas prices astronomical, food prices correspondingly astronomical, AI backlash growing, Iran war total quagmire. The only success this admin has had is protecting sexual abusers from accountability and making bank from crypto schemes. 21709145 0
George McKie @promeritum.bsky.social · 15/09/2026In this context “behind” means “are not throwing money at us”. 100 0
Reposted by George McKieve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 09/09/2026I think the best way to think about the Omarchy stuff is not a bunch of companies donating millions of dollars to a Linux dotfiles project. It’s a bunch of companies donating money to a political advocacy project with goals like getting minorities out of open source and eliminating the Roma. 210035 0
Reposted by George McKieNeovagina Evangelion @gammarae.design · 09/09/2026AI isn't a human extinction threat. Billionaires are. AI is just a way for them to do crime and claim the computer did it 03918 0
George McKie @promeritum.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Apple III, Lisa, Newton, Pippin, Cube, Cylinder, Vision, Duo 000 0
Reposted by George McKieFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 08/09/2026“Elon Musk destroyed USAID as a mechanism for killing off as many of the global poor and non-white as he can before they kill him first (as he, insanely, believes)” is not a conspiracy theory. In truth, it’s very hard to conclude anything else. 7838611025 0
Reposted by George McKieLauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Our problem is treating these grievances like they’re reasonable concerns You want to cede from Canada because there were theoretically tampons in a bathroom you didn’t go into and nobody made you look at or touch? You know they have tampons in the grocery store too, right? 0287 0
George McKie @promeritum.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Cut a corner off, and then explain to the cashier it’s actually worth $100 because of the corner’s powerful memory of the rest of the bill. 000 0
George McKie @promeritum.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Thousands of years ago I opted for Django over Rails because the deployment machines already had mod_python installed. Still the most “dodged a bullet” moment of my life. 000 0
Reposted by George McKieJulie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Gloria Steinem died with fewer rights than she had during her lifetime. That fact needs to be front and centre of every media report, every dedication, every discussion of her death. 5851231735 0
Reposted by George McKieJames McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 01/09/2026The John Ternus era at Apple begins the same way that the Tim Cook era at Apple ended. In full collaboration with Donald Trump. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comApple Maps Renames Lake Ontario ‘Lake America’ After Trump OrderApple Inc. renamed Lake Ontario “Lake America” on its maps service, following a similar move by Alphabet Inc.’s Google, in the wake of an order from US President Donald Trump. 35326 0
George McKie @promeritum.bsky.social · 01/09/2026There is no distinction. English, French, Pascal, C++ — slop is slop, regardless of language. 0152 0
