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Paulina Borsook 'The most virulent form of philosophical technolibertarianism is a kind of scary, psychologically brittle, prepolitical autism...It’s an inability to reconcile the demands of being individual with the demands of participating in society … these technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect' #siliconValley #culture #bookstodon #literature #cyberselfish https://www.wired.com/story/paulina-borsook-profile/

i've not seen this film since i was too young to have a clue what i was watching, really looking forward to seeing it again 'Frontman Graham “Suggs” McPherson remembers tracking shots being filmed “by a cameraman in a trolley or on a bicycle”; overhead shots involved “someone hanging off a stepladder”. Robinson rarely sought permission to shoot locations, guitarist Chris Foreman describing their mindset as “do it quick enough and they can’t tell you to stop. By the time some jobsworth comes along, you’ve already finished.” It was a vibe they’d learned as teenage delinquent graffiti artists' #madness #london #twoTone #skahttps://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/sep/21/madness-take-it-or-leave-it-baggy-trousers-nutty-boys

RE: https://journa.host/@mathewi/116880822345977642

'while Norway is a much smaller country than Australia, it has accumulated a $3 trillion sovereign wealth fund by heavily taxing the same gas companies that say they won’t invest in Australia if the government taxes them. Maybe Australia should ask Norway to negotiate with the big tech companies on our behalf'

'When all else fails, “murdoching” is “simply continuing to assert something as true as if no one has ever shown it was false...Instead of it being a way to hold power to account, Murdoch saw it as a means of holding individuals to account”' #polycrisis #media #murdoch https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jul/01/andrew-dodd-matthew-ricketson-getting-murdoch-book-bullying-factory

Anne Pasek @Aepasek@scholar.social 'What are the rules of the road for building AI data centres responsibly? And are such rules, to the extent they exist, appropriate for this new type of infrastructure?' #publicPolicy #ai #polycrisis #environment https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-hamilton-just-hit-pause-on-all-ai-data-centres-this-is-big/

This piece is so exceptionally good I'm willing to bet it'll be included in collections years from now. It is an historically good, extraordinarily well crafted piece of writing. 'when evidence proliferates, and visibility increases, while political evasion persists, we face a different obstacle entirely. The facts are out there, but their implications are repeatedly refused. It is a cultivated imperviousness to what is already known' #palestine #israel #gaza #manufacturingConsenthttps://www.equator.org/articles/moral-stupidity-gaza-palestine-abdaljawad-omar

Arundhati Roy 'For the first time in years, it feels wonderful to be Indian. Just when hope seemed lost, they came. Young roaches riding in on the rain. The progeny of the unholy union between a judge and a joke' #india #cockroachParty #democracy https://thewire.in/rights/cockroach-democracy-unarmed-and-dangerous

'Auschwitz itself is invoked as justification for a new genocide. The effect is to leave the Holocaust-centred Western moral order in tatters, no longer able to conceal or contain the glaring crimes committed by the Israeli state and its American backer. In the current period, ‘Gaza’ bids to replace ‘Auschwitz’ as symbol for the worst human atrocities of our time'

'facts are shocking, and perhaps confusing: the plotters had far-right views, but hoped to kill Republican officials. They chose their targets with the help of a leftwing website that tracks politicians who receive donations from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee...one of the plot’s alleged ringleaders, Abraham Alvarez, 31, is reportedly an undocumented immigrant from Mexico' #farRight #usPol #trump #alternateTimelines https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/27/trump-assassination-plot-ufc-fight-tycen-proper

RE: https://aus.social/@oscarjiminy/116819559904262896 'technology transfers from the US in particular were absolutely critical to seeding the development of what became the industries that these countries were very famous for in subsequent decades. Now, what’s interesting about the cases of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan — and I think this is the big contrast with China, and this sets the stage for what makes China’s case so interesting and so important — is that in the case of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, they were of course close cold war allies of the US' #technologyTransfer #technology #competition #development

'there was a concern that Russia could lash out if Putin thought he was under pressure as the war shifted to the skylines of Moscow and St Petersburg' #euPol #geopolitics #hybridWarfare https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/26/russia-provocation-baltic-states-poland?CMP=share_btn_url

'China has moved up the value chain. Its companies aren’t supplying basic components anymore. They are global brands in their own right, and western officials are looking on anxiously as Chinese batteries, cars and drones become increasingly sophisticated. Now, western policymakers are asking the same question their Chinese counterparts were asking years ago: We’d like to beat them. Should we be joining them?' #china #internationalTrade #geopolitics #politicalEconomy https://www.ft.com/content/6f535527-2d49-4a7c-9bb5-31bafef6bbfa?syn-25a6b1a6=1

@infoseclogger@infosec.exchange @maddiefuzz@masto.hackers.town @briankrebs@infosec.exchange very.

RE: https://scholar.social/@natebowling/116976065066476739 'In states that have legalized sports betting the average citizen is worse off. A 2024 UCLA study found that legalization is associated with lower average credit scores, increased debt collection instances, and a rise in bankruptcy filings' #auPol #gambling #publicPolicy

@Star12Mt anything by le guin tbh

@lzg at risk of labouring the subject, this is part of the bigger picture imo the agency being attributed in this case is not so much to the tool itself rather the marketing (propaganda?) around it's usefulness/efficiency/power. that is entirely the result of this campaign to normalise all these claims, in addition to some of the more absurd claims that give the more mundane assertions more weight than they deserve. all the discussion around the singularity and adjacent bullshit is part of this dynamic. it's absolutely the fault of anyone who swallows this shit if they lose work as a result of that passivity but the scale of this cultural coercion is probably unprecedented and operates an explicitly affective frequency I don't want to suggest we should valorise cartesian binaries but i think we lost something when we turned our back on that principle and the right wing insurgency's as much a product of that as the idiots giving openclaw root priviledge on their systems

'The unease with AI comes amid growing pessimism about technology’s impact on student learning and mental health. Social media and educational technology companies are facing lawsuits filed by parents and school districts over allegations of addictive algorithms and data privacy breaches. Some parents have been pressing for far fewer screens in schools'

'Greenpeace UK warned that an “unchecked AI boom” would mean higher energy bills, more stress on water supplies and “a new lifeline for fossil fuels”... “Before being swept along by the enthusiasm of tech billionaires whose profits depend on this expansion, we should pause and ask ourselves whether it’s worth the price"'

'if tilting tax settings that have had a demonstrable effect in increasing inequity is communism, someone needs to read a few books...But the bigger revelation in all of this is that the right has been left with nothing but faux cries of communism because, for the most part, it agrees with the budget'

'In its regional operations, the UAE’s goal appears to be to anoint leaders it can do business with and prevent the rise to power of forces hostile to it. Sudan has precious port territory across the Red Sea and a trade route that the UAE covets...Sudan is also rich in gold, most of which since the war began has ended up in Dubai, one of the world’s largest retail gold markets'

@TechTangents@dialup.space that translucent colour trend was thanks to jobs but even the half assed efforts to jump on the bandwagon were better than the beige

@bencourtice@aus.social 'intercepted by Israeli navy personnel in *international waters*' https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/30/at-least-six-australian-activists-detained-by-israel-navy-after-gaza-flotilla-boats-intercepted?CMP=aus_bsky

@arclight @rhelune @lzg for entertainment was a retroactive qualifier maybe to claim they don't provide support on that basis, maybe legal dpt gave them a fright (i don't know the story)

@rhelune @lzg @arclight very dark humour and yet entirely plausible what a shitty world we’ve built

@mike805@noc.social the opec story's as much about the cartel as anything else but it covers things like economics of uae v saudi the saudis have to fund their tourist vision, uae have a more modest idea of how to ensure they've done all they can to make the best of what looks like demand that may well peter out before reserves're exhausted immediate demand is a seperate issue to decarbonization strategies and europe have to take care of immediate need that's been screwed by the changing relationship with the us (who objected to and obstructed the nordstream projects). on top of that there's existing infrastructure covering the northsea fields – it's not wholly new investment to exploit market opporunities

‘the Quality Technology Services (QTD) facility had two industrial-scale water hookups that weren't being monitored. "One water connection had been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and the other was not linked to the company’s account and therefore wasn’t being billed," Politico reported’

@lzg hard to argue with that

@arclight @lzg you’re anthropomophising yourself there absolving the ai of responsibility

@arclight @rhelune @lzg and further to that, was it a feature to erase a user’s data wholesale? if not the it’s a malfunction (nevermind the malfunction of reason to give a tool like this root). if it’s a malfunction there’s not much question that it’s the dev who’s to blame imo

@tiotasram @Star12Mt i'm not sure, she lays out functional social systems

@mike805@noc.social ok, further to the above i typed the reverse to quality in my original reply – switching back to characteristics v heirarchic cats, shale oil is 'sweet' and gulf oil 'sour' us refineries are calibrated to gulf oil characteristics. the further point was that shale fields are limited and produce for an average of 3 to 4 years, that there is a limited supply of shale vs gulf supply which is not comparable upshot is that your idea to invest in recalibrating refinery infrastructure (something i'm in no position to assess the economics of) is in pursuit of refining shale that is in very limited supply. it is just an absurd thing to suggest tbqh

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange @infoseclogger@infosec.exchange @maddiefuzz@masto.hackers.town have you ever retired a human by mistake?

'Virtually nonexistent in nature, plutonium was first synthesized in late 1940 and was the Manhattan Project’s first-choice material for an atomic bomb...But as Lab scientists desperately tried to work with it, plutonium’s weird behavior, defying basic metallurgy and common sense, was slowing progress down'

@mike805@noc.social UAE've been keen to leave OPEC in order to better fund a decarbonized economy while oil demand is still good 'Producers that are able to pump more crude, and can tolerate lower oil prices, are expected to abandon any limits on crude production in favour of monetising their remaining reserves before demand for fossil fuels begin to decline' https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/28/uae-quit-opec-oil-exporters-cartel-donald-trump re who knows, i like to think folks who've dedicated their professional lives studying a specialty area know better than media opinionators who might harvest high yield clicks on the back of a comment like gulf supply's in undisclosed decline (in addition to a likely kickback from some fracking lobby)

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange @infoseclogger@infosec.exchange @maddiefuzz@masto.hackers.town may i ask you a personal question?