Reposted by @radkataz.bsky.socialTim Heidecker @timheidecker.bsky.social · 04/11/2025anyone else think this whole Dick Cheney death narrative is a little... off? ex-VPs just don't suddenly die. I have questions and so should you. 78102276
Reposted by @radkataz.bsky.socialmore mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 25/10/2025not cool man, my dad died during the events of Tenet... yeah, he fell into a guard tower 566671
Reposted by @radkataz.bsky.socialBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 25/10/2025One thing I like about AI is how I’ll search for “ESPN” and then the browser will be like “AI Powered Search found you the website for ESPN” and I can marvel at the wonders of Tomorrowland 1570549
Reposted by @radkataz.bsky.socialHoratio Pornviewer @stuntbirdarmy.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Also your English teacher may not really be qualified based on some of these couplets 0491
Reposted by @radkataz.bsky.socialBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 27/09/2025there's a tendency in parts of the left to believe that 'community' is the answer to everything but communities are often horrendous! 631417131
Reposted by @radkataz.bsky.socialcomfort foods @primpker.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Many of you would fall into the trap of the antlion if you were bugsized. Consider yourself fortunate, mammal. 27711
Reposted by @radkataz.bsky.socialCottage in the Woods @cottageinwood.bsky.social · 03/09/2025I miss when websites could be art. I don't want a clean design and a user-friendly interface. I want to get lost in a digital labyrinth, I want to spend hours on "StumbleUpon" like a deep sea diver exloring the lightless trenches, I want websites inspired by dreams and hallucinations. 🌙 58512
Reposted by @radkataz.bsky.socialDirect Luminosity @directluminosity.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Ghost jobs are a real danger for people living paycheck to paycheck. Someone teetering on the edge of poverty may spend precious hours, transportation money, and emotional energy applying to positions that don’t exist or are already filled.fortune.comMore than 80% of recruiters admit to posting ‘ghost jobs’ to juice their talent pool and business reputationCompanies are trying to improve their reputation at the detriment of job-seekers. 552089817
Reposted by @radkataz.bsky.socialInterurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 30/08/2025Few people have realized that the erosion of the average quality and reparability of consumer goods over the last couple of decades is going to absolutely create a crisis as tarrifs and other stupid policies prevent us from replacing all the artificially cheap shit we've been buying. 716132
Reposted by @radkataz.bsky.socialceej @ceej.online · 30/08/2025my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy 344179113652
Reposted by @radkataz.bsky.sociallizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 30/08/2025you can't get deals anymore like you used to be able to because everything is owned by a company rather than "some guy" and companies don't work like that. companies bought out all the guys. which is hard for me because i was raised to seek deals at the expense of all else 834330
Reposted by @radkataz.bsky.socialJustin Jackson @justinjackson.ca · 30/08/2025When everyone's optimizing for the algorithm, all content becomes copycat content. Originality gets replaced by mimicry, and what's left is a mediocre porridge of tasteless work. Where’s the good stuff? Where’s the creativity? Where’s the uniqueness? 129413
Reposted by @radkataz.bsky.socialBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 29/08/2025this is correct though the entire career - what we know of it - of Wallace Fard Muhammad is a crazy story, ending with him being chased out of Detroit after one of his followers performed a human sacrifice. we have no idea what happened to him afterward 7718
Reposted by @radkataz.bsky.socialeminemerald fennell @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 29/08/2025this is a real job ad. i am not exaggerating or cutting this off misleadingly. this was put out there in all seriousness 176910
Reposted by @radkataz.bsky.socialReconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Fundamentally the American public is convinced there is rife cutting of a "line" for legal immigration that just doesn't really exist and are really upset about 836835
Reposted by @radkataz.bsky.socialWandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Also, friction solves a *lot* of the larger problems with AI. Which amount to "enabling stupid people to do difficult things." Sometimes, the gates serve a purpose. 071
Reposted by @radkataz.bsky.socialSam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 27/08/2025A similar comparison is probably the gambling apps. Gambling was around long before draftkings and polymarket but being able to access those things from the device in your pocket made them way worse and if all the legislation does is make it harder to access it probably still has positive outcomes 1517
Reposted by @radkataz.bsky.socialSam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Realistically speaking you can't "just ban AI" but you can put more friction between the user and the interface which would probably be very effective because the generations (boomers and zoomers) most likely to annihilate their brain with AI have no idea how computers work 712516
Reposted by @radkataz.bsky.socialWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Some individual politicians have the voice to pull it off, but yeah no govt agency should be ~fun, hard agree. Like I’m willing to accept the downside risk of losing stuff like the consumer product safety commissions fun posts if it means no shit like this. 3884
Reposted by @radkataz.bsky.socialMaterialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 26/08/2025you are a government agency, not a memes page. have some fucking decorum. 216213
Reposted by @radkataz.bsky.socialMaterialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 26/08/2025one of the ways I've become more conservative is that I simply do not believe the government should be communicating like this, over and above the ideological content 746642
Reposted by @radkataz.bsky.socialJordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 26/08/2025we've created a social system that makes it impossible for anyone to act in accordance with their ideals. 3424
Reposted by @radkataz.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 24/08/2025I don’t think word choice is magic the way some of you do. I teach and write for a living, so I sure don’t think words are powerless. But I suspect some people treat word choice as very powerful because it’s something they can control, while the big societal forces that got us here they can’t. 712312
Reposted by @radkataz.bsky.socialDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 24/08/2025CEO on LinkedIn: "I don't screen for credentials, I screen for passion. I don't look at degrees, I look at dedication. I don't see prior experience, I see positive potential." Candidate: "Amazing! And what does your outsourced HR software filter for?" CEO: "Oh credentials, degrees and experience." 733475436
Reposted by @radkataz.bsky.socialZack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 20/08/2025In this morning's newsletter, I wrote about an under-appreciated problem for liberalism — its total failure to cultivate young talent www.vox.com/on-the-right...vox.comHow conservatives help their young thinkers — and why liberals don’tLiberalism has a serious pipeline problem. 68558122
Reposted by @radkataz.bsky.socialWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 21/08/2025I don’t disagree with this overall, but man, compared to later developments Pokémon go seems positively utopian. People were going for walks in the real world, losing weight, exploring their neighborhood, meeting their neighbors and having this fun common experience. 2558242
Reposted by @radkataz.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14/08/2025That's definitely a factor but it's also the thing where they rhetorically claim to be an ally or impartial arbitrator of employees when they are instead actually tasked with working in management's interest exclusively. 93457
Reposted by @radkataz.bsky.socialCapt. Jack Sharrow @sharrows.bsky.social · 12/08/2025The whole Job search industrial complex is the most broken process and the rich don’t care bc they’ve never done it and all the poors are too exhausted from searching to band together to fix it so it will never get better send tweet 1331644
Reposted by @radkataz.bsky.socialSarah Kelly @sarahkelly.bsky.social · 11/08/2025I’m totally with you on the “my humanities degree taught me how to THINK” train, but my experience with employers is they don’t want you to have a wide breadth of knowledge and the ability to learn. They want you to have a degree in Doing This Particular Job. 713814
Reposted by @radkataz.bsky.socialandy™ @andylevy.net · 05/08/2025“look i don’t care what it’s about just give me 300 words” 752075179
Reposted by @radkataz.bsky.socialJason K Pargin, author @jasonkpargin.bsky.social · 04/08/2025Can we talk about what a laughably overrated author H.G. Wells was? The only work of his I've consumed is the 2025 adaptation of War of the Worlds starring Ice Cube and to be honest I've seen all I need to 1718321
Reposted by @radkataz.bsky.socialDan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Yes, this. On the one hand, it's a media problem: the media supply is poison. So we can regulate the supply or change the balance. But more importantly it's a bowling alone problem: Stranger danger, uber-suburbanization, rents, commutes, etc close or make inaccessible places of socialization. 1212
Reposted by @radkataz.bsky.socialpixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 30/07/2025I would rather die than create an account to continue 6578631444
Reposted by @radkataz.bsky.socialWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 29/07/2025You already sort of see this with education honestly. There are plenty of things wrong with the liberal education establishment, but the other game in town is people who want to burn public education down to the ground and sell the ashes. No one interest in critiquing the establishment in good faith 528935
Reposted by @radkataz.bsky.socialBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 28/07/2025wall-e was mistaken in thinking that the future would be marked by *physical* dependence on robots rather than mental dependence 1035346
Reposted by @radkataz.bsky.socialPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 28/07/2025There is a certain kind of burglar who sees an object and says "I don't see the use of this, let me steal and pawn it." The man he sells it to is, of course, Chesterton's Fence. 34211
Reposted by @radkataz.bsky.socialPatrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 24/07/2025it's a lot safer to let freddie make up a guy to get mad at. otherwise he chooses a real guy to get mad at and then makes up a reason 1218511
Reposted by @radkataz.bsky.socialutopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 14/07/2025“Every school functions as a prison now”, “it is functionally illegal for people under 18 to congregate without strict adult supervision outside of their homes and schools”, “most extracurriculars cost large sums of money for non-trivial involvement” huh i wonder why kids are so anxious & lonely 9954191
Reposted by @radkataz.bsky.socialutopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 14/07/2025“Why do people use corporate therapy legalese to communicate basic feelings now?” I Have Bad News About That 141520
Reposted by @radkataz.bsky.socialutopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 14/07/2025Mark Fisher really did nail half of this stuff, we’re just living with his ghost now. 328611
Reposted by @radkataz.bsky.socialutopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 14/07/2025It’s just like the rise of therapy. It is not that therapy is wrong but there is absolutely a parallel “lack” to be seen in social structures and activities where people no longer have previously routine social outlets for their own personal struggles. Professionalization replaces socialization. 249737
Reposted by @radkataz.bsky.socialutopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 14/07/2025Effects are extremely hard to control for on this long of a longitudinal line, but it boggles the mind to believe that this doesn’t have a strong correlation with the development of suburban sprawl in the same half century. Car dependency, the hazards for children to be outside, it’s social death. 658353
Reposted by @radkataz.bsky.socialAlex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Yes! Please specify in writing that your donation can only be used to support "The University of Texas Insect Collection", otherwise all that good beetle money ends up being spent on vertebrates or something. 26713
