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butterfliesinmybrain @secondskeleton.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Posting and then deleting and then posting and then deleting and then going back to bed

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butterfliesinmybrain @secondskeleton.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

I'm thinking KOTFM, zone of interest, drive my car, banshees, great freedom, aftersun

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butterfliesinmybrain @secondskeleton.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

kelsey mitchell has such a beautiful arc to her shot

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Trapped O'Brien, Please Free Me From This Prison @radobrien.myatproto.social · 28/09/2025

ok this breakdown of AI writing indicators is incredible. Huge shout-out to the Wikipedia community for this

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Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia

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butterfliesinmybrain @secondskeleton.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

I hate that the fever's jersey is just Stranger Things

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butterfliesinmybrain @secondskeleton.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

what is your pick for album of the year and why is it eusexua by fka twigs

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butterfliesinmybrain @secondskeleton.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

god loves you but not enough to save you

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

becoming fully beaudrillard pilled. realizing the entire project of 5-4 has been in many ways detailing how conservatives have built a simulation of academic and legal scholarship, in order to live in a hyperreal world in which the constitution demands white supremacy

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butterfliesinmybrain @secondskeleton.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Just in case you needed further validation, harpers.org/archive/2025...

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The Ghosts in the Machine, by Liz Pelly

Spotify’s plot against musicians

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butterfliesinmybrain @secondskeleton.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

if you haven't unsubscribed from the nytimes or wapo yet, what the hell are you doing

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 13/09/2025

One of the defining issues of our era is that nobody knows when they’re getting worked anymore. We don’t know when we’re getting worked by advertising, we don’t know when we’re getting worked by media, and we don’t know when we’re getting worked by bad actors.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

An economy that is turning towards almost exclusively graft, speculation, fraud and gambling to obtain wealth, which is basically what we currently have, is going to only create more conditions that lead to social isolation and violence.

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butterfliesinmybrain @secondskeleton.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

I am in an Ethel Cain abyss and may never emerge

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 05/09/2025

Whatever CCS *could* be, it is and always has been a fossil fuel industry technology, designed to extend the lifespan and expand the scope of the combustion of coal, oil and gas, and worsen overheating. New @lindseygulden.bsky.social paper here -->>> www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Since 2005, fossil-fuel interests have spent $954M lobbying the US government on CCUS, yielding major legislative wins.
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Groups tied to fossil-fuel use or sales made 89 % of CCUS lobbying expenditures between 2005 to 2024.
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Industries used to justify CCUS (e.g., steel, cement) spent just 1/24 as much on CCUS lobbying as did the fossil-fuel sector.
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Half of all CCUS lobbying expenditures came from 15 entities, each with direct financial ties to fossil fuel production.

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butterfliesinmybrain @secondskeleton.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

International competitive events bring out the jingoism in me like absolutely nothing in the world and I don't even follow any sprots

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🏴🚩 Trans Kafka (any pronouns) 🍉🍉🍉 IS A REAL HUMAN PERSON! @alexpetrovnia.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

violent misogyny is a prerequisite belief for fascism and I just am begging anyone who doesn't study feminism, gender, child and domestic abuse, etc, to please just believe us when we say domestic and sexual violence is how they learn to dodge accountability to enact institutional violence later

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

If you cannot go to the bathroom at work, you cannot go to work. If you cannot go to the bathroom at school, you cannot go to school. This effectively bans transgender people from a broad swath of public life in the UK

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The Infinitely Prolonged @wowbaggert.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

The incentive structures are all totally decoupled from "being right" or "providing real business value." As long as you can hype an idea enough to pump and dump, the venture capitalists continue to make money. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped?

I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry.

Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto.

It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

You can't "bring people together on this" because one group thinks that trans people are human beings with rights and dignity and the other group wants to forcibly detransition them or execute them! There's not a middle group you are going to reach with these people!!

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

The problem, in other words, is entirely about debt, not the actual costs of providing rental housing. The problem is that building owners expected rents to rise faster than they turned out to, and took out bigger loans than the actual rent increases could justify.

The numbers are dire for the Signature loans CPC is supervising. Signature specialized in making rent regulated loans to landlords who intended to renovate apartments and raise rents. When the 2019 law made that strategy impossible by sharply limiting rent increases, the finances of those buildings cratered.

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butterfliesinmybrain @secondskeleton.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

We taught exactly one generation how to use the computer

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butterfliesinmybrain @secondskeleton.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Since slumdog millionaire came out the value of $1mm has gone down by ~50%

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butterfliesinmybrain @secondskeleton.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

I don't like that AI has made dubious my use of the em-dash

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 01/08/2025

Tesla is being hit with $329m in damages for a crash in which the human driver says he knew Autopilot wasn't self-driving. This is super important, because it shows that Autopilot's design and marketing can induce inattention even when drivers consciously know they are supposed to pay attention.

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butterfliesinmybrain @secondskeleton.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Obligatory "by the time a price signal appears your system is already in crisis"

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butterfliesinmybrain @secondskeleton.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

I cannot believe Ezra Klein is as dumb as Abundance suggests he is. It's kind of profound

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butterfliesinmybrain @secondskeleton.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

zohran is /so fucking good/ at this maybe the best 100-second campaign spot I've ever seen

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

If it took 8 days to build a massive concentration camp in Florida then it means they could build and house the homeless at any point but choose not to

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