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A wonderful essay on Ai by Stephen Fry.
stephenfry.substack.com/p/ai…
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100 year-old Transhumanism.
This is "Mechanical Head (The Spirit of Our Time)" by Dada artist Raoul Hausmann, 1920.
An early vision of a materialist machine-human & a prediction of the systemic dehumanisation to come in the 20th Century.
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Today I was crossing Hollywood and Highland, where peds & tourists cheered a just-married couple celebrating in the middle of the intersection while a fire ravaged a strip mall down the street.
I've lived in LA my whole life, and this is the most LA candid I've ever snapped.
“The trivial is as deep as the profound because there is nothing in creation that does not go to the profound.”
— Robert Duncan
lol nothing to see here
Cop29 CEO filmed agreeing to facilitate fossil fuel deals at climate summit dlvr.it/TG4HyZ
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This is what Oligarchy is about. Jeff Bezos, the 2nd wealthiest person in the world and the owner of the Washington Post, overrides his editorial board and refuses to endorse Kamala.
Clearly, he is afraid of antagonizing Trump and losing Amazon’s federal contracts. Pathetic.
Breaking News: The Washington Post said it would no longer endorse candidates in U.S. presidential elections, breaking with decades of precedent. The Post’s chief executive said the paper was “returning to our roots.” nyti.ms/4eWYHMv
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I wrote about how Peep Show paved the way for Succession, and Jesse Armstrong's searing insights into corporate bullshit, moral depravity and petty ambition. Feat Consultio/Consultius, Jaws the shark and the wanton discarding of iPads inews.co.uk/culture/successi…
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A Dutch way of saying “we’re on it” or “we’ll take care of that for you” is we zullen dat varkentje wel even wassen. It means “we will certainly get that piglet washed”
* read on for more porcine phrases from around the world (a big pig thread)...
“I wonder whether the middle classes are feeling their own power waning; that, unconsciously, they’re projecting their doom for their own class status onto the world.”
— Adam Curtis on climate change discourse
“The more we preach “better habits,” and the less we adopt them, the worse off we feel. Starting the day checking email in bed somehow feels *even worse* when the world is telling we’re a loser for doing so. Judgement compounds our predicament.”
— @KleinKleinKlein