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ed zitron is a commentary guy with a newsletter, not a mass media news organization. you can just ignore him; that so many people can't is the interesting part.
ed zitron is a slop-generating small language model that turns progressive people into the equivalent of boomers who mainline fox news
ed zitron lies to people for money, yes
September 13, 2026 at 4:29 PM
ed zitron is a commentary guy with a newsletter, not a mass media news organization. you can just ignore him; that so many people can't is the interesting part.
you can have so much fun just on your phone with rootshell for management + tmux for keeping an rc session going, claude mobile app with the code tab (for nice gui), and cloudflare mcp for managing sites
September 9, 2026 at 10:20 PM
you can have so much fun just on your phone with rootshell for management + tmux for keeping an rc session going, claude mobile app with the code tab (for nice gui), and cloudflare mcp for managing sites
kinda crazy the key frame they chose is of the aftermath of a mass murder event
September 9, 2026 at 7:30 PM
kinda crazy the key frame they chose is of the aftermath of a mass murder event
just let people create, unbounded. let their ideas bloom for only themselves, no one or everyone, doesn’t matter.
September 7, 2026 at 12:16 PM
just let people create, unbounded. let their ideas bloom for only themselves, no one or everyone, doesn’t matter.
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Jellyfish dev progress
It can now be grabbed anywhere~
It can now be grabbed anywhere~
September 6, 2026 at 1:18 AM
Jellyfish dev progress
It can now be grabbed anywhere~
It can now be grabbed anywhere~
gaudy, disgusting UI. trashy font. to think you’d spend $100k to stare at this shit is wild to me
September 5, 2026 at 2:50 AM
gaudy, disgusting UI. trashy font. to think you’d spend $100k to stare at this shit is wild to me
today i saw ‘Hellelil and Hildebrand, the Meeting on the Turret Stairs by Frederic William Burton,’ an 1864 watercolor (!) that is only viewable 1hr a day at the national gallery of ireland
August 23, 2026 at 7:12 PM
today i saw ‘Hellelil and Hildebrand, the Meeting on the Turret Stairs by Frederic William Burton,’ an 1864 watercolor (!) that is only viewable 1hr a day at the national gallery of ireland
- the fact that the books are not widely desired is an even stronger case for their preservation imo
- why does anyone want to be on team “destroy human history?”
- why does anyone want to be on team “destroy human history?”
translation: nobody would care about the actual individual books but if we just call them "rare books" we can easily capitalize on the moral panic
August 18, 2026 at 10:31 AM
- the fact that the books are not widely desired is an even stronger case for their preservation imo
- why does anyone want to be on team “destroy human history?”
- why does anyone want to be on team “destroy human history?”
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August 7, 2026 at 2:54 PM
i just think it’s fair that the training of models on normal people’s output should result in UBI, and i don’t think this has to mean you also side with Disney on IP laws
July 29, 2026 at 2:40 AM
i just think it’s fair that the training of models on normal people’s output should result in UBI, and i don’t think this has to mean you also side with Disney on IP laws
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I made a website that lets you cut out old magazines from the internet archive (or any PDFs you own) and make collage art out of them:
✂️ clipart.studio
✂️ clipart.studio
July 9, 2026 at 9:31 PM
I made a website that lets you cut out old magazines from the internet archive (or any PDFs you own) and make collage art out of them:
✂️ clipart.studio
✂️ clipart.studio
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How much you play is my favorite measure of success in this industry. You stop looking up to tech execs (who look miserable) or hyper-growth founders (stressed) and start looking up to independent creative minds who shape a space that allows them to play.
June 29, 2026 at 7:02 PM
How much you play is my favorite measure of success in this industry. You stop looking up to tech execs (who look miserable) or hyper-growth founders (stressed) and start looking up to independent creative minds who shape a space that allows them to play.
@strasser.bsky.social congrats on all the success! i am curious about your use of historical art. how do you go about finding them?
May 21, 2026 at 8:14 PM
@strasser.bsky.social congrats on all the success! i am curious about your use of historical art. how do you go about finding them?
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Inspired by @hankgreen.bsky.social's fun new timeline of photos from the Artemis II mission, I wrote up an answer to a question that's more pertinent these days than it may seem: Why are the Artemis II photos on Flickr? www.anildash.com/2026/04/30/a...
Why are the Artemis II photos on Flickr? - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
www.anildash.com
April 30, 2026 at 5:09 AM
Inspired by @hankgreen.bsky.social's fun new timeline of photos from the Artemis II mission, I wrote up an answer to a question that's more pertinent these days than it may seem: Why are the Artemis II photos on Flickr? www.anildash.com/2026/04/30/a...
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Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state.
That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state.
That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
