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  • The War Against Indie Creators Is Now Getting Dirty

    The company that prides itself in support creatives… is fucking creatives: Apple will make more from Patreon than Patreon does itself. https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-war-against-indie-creators-is

  • Musical Interlude: Deadmau5 – My Pet Coelacanth

  • Why Is the Tesla Cybertruck So Depressingly Ugly?

    That’s the Brutalist aesthetic in a nutshell. People who wax nostalgically over these ugly buildings nowadays miss the point entirely. We were never supposed to love them—that would have defeated the whole purpose in erecting them.  Fear and disempowerment are the intended results.  And that, my friends, is the real purpose of the Tesla Cybertruck design—…

  • This is a shit onion of schadenfreude – AI tech bros worried about AGI emerging under Trump

    So tech bros, instrumental in voting Trump in, are now worried that they’re wild fantasies will come true under Trump: But if it does, as another user noted in a since-deleted post on r/Singularity, Trump’s second term may well “shift the [artificial superintelligence] future into [a] dystopia, not a utopia.” https://futurism.com/ai-bros-terrified-agi-trump Tell me I should have…

  • Why Does No One Understand the Real Reason Trump Won?

    The answer is the right-wing media. Today, the right-wing media—Fox News (and the entire News Corp.), Newsmax, One America News Network, the Sinclair network of radio and TV stations and newspapers, iHeart Media (formerly Clear Channel), the Bott Radio Network (Christian radio), Elon Musk’s X, the huge podcasts like Joe Rogan’s, and much more—sets the…

  • United States of Fear

    Fintan O’Toole has made a brilliant career watching Ireland (his home country) transform itself—its Catholic culture, its vanishing population, its frail economy—into something very modern and profoundly different. And he’s covered our country so well this year. Does he see something of a transformation that’s comparable in the United States?

  • When the histories get written…

    A key element will be how the US managed billionaires vs how the Chinese managed billionaires.

  • Modernity is done

    Time to grow into the next phase…

  • How Virtual Reality Died

    https://www.honest-broker.com/p/how-virtual-reality-died

  • The stories we tell ourselves…

    … lead to the histories we write. Here is another really good call in the ‘the trap of our mental models’ camp: For the love of reason and rationality, please, we implore you this insanity isn’t going to end until you people STEP UP and do your jobs. Give us a better story to replace…