Cyberluddite
@cyberluddite.bsky.social
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A ferocious dilettante with the savage conscience of the bourgeoisie.
Expert layman, resting podcast voice.
A ferocious dilettante with the savage conscience of the bourgeoisie.
Expert layman, resting podcast voice.
Pinned
I wonder if the thought "Am I evil?" ever crosses their minds.
Like music catalogs, literary estates are now targeted by private equity
Langston Hughes’ literary estate now belongs to International Literary Properties, which says a Harlem Renaissance licensing program is next on its list
Langston Hughes’ literary estate now belongs to International Literary Properties, which says a Harlem Renaissance licensing program is next on its list
Private Equity Is Coming for Authors, Dead or Alive - The Ankler
Like music catalogs, literary estates are now targeted by investment firms and changing how Hollywood will deal with IP
theankler.com
September 18, 2026 at 5:14 PM
I wonder if the thought "Am I evil?" ever crosses their minds.
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Every time a tanker rotates in or out of the region, or a B-1 sorties from the UK, it costs about $200,000+ in jet fuel.
Obvi much less for fighters, but each F-16 patrolling to shoot down Shaheds costs probably low 5 figures in gas.
Obvi much less for fighters, but each F-16 patrolling to shoot down Shaheds costs probably low 5 figures in gas.
Basically, the US arrayed 100 tankers and 100s of strike fighters and even flew B-1s out of the UK in order to hit a very limited selection of targets in coastal Iran, to essentially 0 strategic effect and arguably 0 tactical effect either.
September 18, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Every time a tanker rotates in or out of the region, or a B-1 sorties from the UK, it costs about $200,000+ in jet fuel.
Obvi much less for fighters, but each F-16 patrolling to shoot down Shaheds costs probably low 5 figures in gas.
Obvi much less for fighters, but each F-16 patrolling to shoot down Shaheds costs probably low 5 figures in gas.
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If your business requires me to create an account, verify my email, accept seventeen cookies, download an app, and solve a captcha just to buy one thing, I no longer want the thing.
September 17, 2026 at 5:35 PM
If your business requires me to create an account, verify my email, accept seventeen cookies, download an app, and solve a captcha just to buy one thing, I no longer want the thing.
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This article about Jared Kushner represents the complete corruption of America. It's no "deep state." We're an open mafia state now.
archive.is/DrzdN
archive.is/DrzdN
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September 17, 2026 at 2:30 PM
This article about Jared Kushner represents the complete corruption of America. It's no "deep state." We're an open mafia state now.
archive.is/DrzdN
archive.is/DrzdN
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[completely silent meeting room]
Kash Patel: I’ve never had sex with a horse.
Kash Patel: I’ve never had sex with a horse.
September 17, 2026 at 5:43 AM
[completely silent meeting room]
Kash Patel: I’ve never had sex with a horse.
Kash Patel: I’ve never had sex with a horse.
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The only prediction about the AI crisis I feel confident making is that the crisis will involve the one thing that every American crisis involves: oligarchs and politicians attempting to rob the poor, while corporate media depicts that as the only prudent course of action.
September 16, 2026 at 9:09 PM
The only prediction about the AI crisis I feel confident making is that the crisis will involve the one thing that every American crisis involves: oligarchs and politicians attempting to rob the poor, while corporate media depicts that as the only prudent course of action.
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Especially the kinds of things one learns these days.
September 16, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Especially the kinds of things one learns these days.
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Is there a word for cyberbullying when it happens in real life?
September 17, 2026 at 12:36 AM
Is there a word for cyberbullying when it happens in real life?
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The best place to be when It happens would be a music venue mid-concert. A little drunk. A little sweaty. The news rippling through the crowd as people’s phones light up. An abrupt halt to a banger before the announcement is made from the stage. Everybody kissing like it’s V-J Day in Times Square.
April 3, 2026 at 4:06 PM
The best place to be when It happens would be a music venue mid-concert. A little drunk. A little sweaty. The news rippling through the crowd as people’s phones light up. An abrupt halt to a banger before the announcement is made from the stage. Everybody kissing like it’s V-J Day in Times Square.
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Alaska senators question legality of state land transfer for possible Mat-Su data centers, writes @corinne-smith.bsky.social for @alaskabeacon.com alaskabeacon.com/2026/09/16/a...
Alaska senators question legality of state land transfer for possible Mat-Su data centers | Alaska Beacon
The prospect of data centers in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough has raised public concern and scrutiny of a proposed state land transfer of nearly 20,000 acres to the Alaska Industrial Development and E...
alaskabeacon.com
September 17, 2026 at 12:31 AM
Alaska senators question legality of state land transfer for possible Mat-Su data centers, writes @corinne-smith.bsky.social for @alaskabeacon.com alaskabeacon.com/2026/09/16/a...
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It's genuinely fascinating that the US president keeps announcing that he just flat out doesn't know what trade is, he legit doesn't appreciate the concept of exchange and instead views economic activity through the lens of a dragon attempting to maximise its gold hoard to sit upon.
September 16, 2026 at 9:27 PM
It's genuinely fascinating that the US president keeps announcing that he just flat out doesn't know what trade is, he legit doesn't appreciate the concept of exchange and instead views economic activity through the lens of a dragon attempting to maximise its gold hoard to sit upon.
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the worst part about this is that a lot of the damage will be permanent
by the time we can turn the research funding back on a lot of folks will have unsurprisingly and not unreasonably decided that they should leave this area of research because it will never be reliable
what a huge waste
by the time we can turn the research funding back on a lot of folks will have unsurprisingly and not unreasonably decided that they should leave this area of research because it will never be reliable
what a huge waste
NSF has reduced the research budget for all atmospheric, ocean, and earth sciences by ~80%.
80%!
A lot of us will not be conducting new research or training new students for the foreseeable future.
80%!
A lot of us will not be conducting new research or training new students for the foreseeable future.
September 17, 2026 at 12:57 AM
the worst part about this is that a lot of the damage will be permanent
by the time we can turn the research funding back on a lot of folks will have unsurprisingly and not unreasonably decided that they should leave this area of research because it will never be reliable
what a huge waste
by the time we can turn the research funding back on a lot of folks will have unsurprisingly and not unreasonably decided that they should leave this area of research because it will never be reliable
what a huge waste
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Can you believe 2026 is almost half over already
September 17, 2026 at 5:02 AM
Can you believe 2026 is almost half over already
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Austin Tice: Assad regime planned US journalist's kidnap for weeks, BBC finds
Austin Tice: Assad regime planned US journalist's kidnap for weeks, BBC finds
Austin Tice’s abduction was approved by Syria’s former leader Bashar al-Assad, a source claims.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 17, 2026 at 5:09 AM
Austin Tice: Assad regime planned US journalist's kidnap for weeks, BBC finds
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Big news: The family of Tierra Walker, who died after she couldn't get an abortion, is suing a slate of Texas actors in state court, including AG Ken Paxton. They say the state ban is unconstitutional.
This is the first suit of its kind.
19thnews.org/2026/09/texa...
This is the first suit of its kind.
19thnews.org/2026/09/texa...
Tierra Walker died after she couldn’t get an abortion. Her family is suing Ken Paxton
The case, filed Tuesday, argues that Texas’ near-total abortion ban violates the state and U.S. Constitutions, which “prohibit state actors from killing their citizens.”
19thnews.org
September 16, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Big news: The family of Tierra Walker, who died after she couldn't get an abortion, is suing a slate of Texas actors in state court, including AG Ken Paxton. They say the state ban is unconstitutional.
This is the first suit of its kind.
19thnews.org/2026/09/texa...
This is the first suit of its kind.
19thnews.org/2026/09/texa...
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you ever think about how you're an extremely complex and occasionally horny pattern recognition machine replete with weird coding errors that must nevertheless fight for survival against entropy, unpredictable emergent phenomena, and adversarial agents in an unknowable universe
Yeah me neither
Yeah me neither
September 17, 2026 at 3:11 AM
you ever think about how you're an extremely complex and occasionally horny pattern recognition machine replete with weird coding errors that must nevertheless fight for survival against entropy, unpredictable emergent phenomena, and adversarial agents in an unknowable universe
Yeah me neither
Yeah me neither
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Texan's Pro Bowler Middle Linenacked Fined For Hind Rajab eye black.
September 16, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Texan's Pro Bowler Middle Linenacked Fined For Hind Rajab eye black.
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“There’s no other nation, only Somali people in Guantanamo Bay, in the prison,” he told me. “And when we ask them why we are here, they tell us…Washington…ordered to keep Somali people in the Guantanamo Bay.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo
“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”
www.motherjones.com
September 16, 2026 at 6:00 PM
“There’s no other nation, only Somali people in Guantanamo Bay, in the prison,” he told me. “And when we ask them why we are here, they tell us…Washington…ordered to keep Somali people in the Guantanamo Bay.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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🤯 🇺🇦 A Ukrainian grandmother picks up a Russian ambush drone and removes its fiber-optic spool, effectively disabling it on the spot.
September 16, 2026 at 3:18 AM
🤯 🇺🇦 A Ukrainian grandmother picks up a Russian ambush drone and removes its fiber-optic spool, effectively disabling it on the spot.
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You haven’t seen a ship like this before(!): China’s New Giant Submarine Drone Mothership
www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...
www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...
China's New Giant Submarine Drone Mothership - Naval News
A new vessel spotted at a Chinese shipyard is likely the world’s first mothership designed to deploy submarine drones. It represents the latest piece in the puzzle of China’s undeclared effort to deve...
www.navalnews.com
September 15, 2026 at 8:34 AM
You haven’t seen a ship like this before(!): China’s New Giant Submarine Drone Mothership
www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...
www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...
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Why is this increasingly a thing you have to agree to to function in society?
September 16, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Why is this increasingly a thing you have to agree to to function in society?
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“Canada is European because they speak French"
*all of the Francophone diaspora*
*all of the Francophone diaspora*
Oh Oh Really
ALT: Oh Oh Really
static.klipy.com
September 16, 2026 at 12:19 PM
“Canada is European because they speak French"
*all of the Francophone diaspora*
*all of the Francophone diaspora*
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"the author of that harry potter story leads an insane cult that's captured much of the media in this country" is a different person if you're in the UK or the US
September 16, 2026 at 11:31 AM
"the author of that harry potter story leads an insane cult that's captured much of the media in this country" is a different person if you're in the UK or the US