Phosphenes

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2026-04-03 21:22:46 UTC

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[@beka_valentine](https://kolektiva.social/@beka_valentine )
There's a real material danger too. Whatever human society develops in space will resemble the culture that founded it.
If it's this one, oh shit.

2026-03-20 18:29:31 UTC

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Wow. Was this in the 1970s?

2026-02-17 15:27:21 UTC

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Zombies coming! Zombies coming! Press press press press press

2026-01-28 12:16:37 UTC

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Yep I'd like my own private bird dog algorithm to sniff out feeds that match my tastes. It could even run on my own desktop computer and not bother anyone else. Trading them like baseball cards does sound fun.
Regarding OP question about why Mastodon is still small:
1. Obvious network effects. Nobody's there so nobody's there. This will slowly improve. (But the people who *are* here are really interesting!)
2. Not a business so no marketing.

2026-01-18 13:48:34 UTC

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Man enshittology is headed to become a college major. Gonna look weird on LinkedIn resumes.

2026-01-17 13:35:19 UTC

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This was the exact plot of a recent Black Mirror episode. A woman gets a life-saving brain implant and the implant company keeps degrading her service and charging higher fees just to put back functionality they take away. It doesn't end well.

2026-01-08 16:49:42 UTC

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Have you seen Benn Jordan's 'You Are Witnessing the Death of American Capitalism'? It reminded me of your work, but with animations.
I especially liked the private equity fish that converts companies into turds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqtrNXdlraM

2025-09-16 18:04:14 UTC

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It would be nice if Mastodon expanded the character limit by about 10X though.

2025-09-04 13:40:34 UTC

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Imagine a plot like Idiocracy but AIdiocracy, where someone wakes up in a future where all books, movies, music, art and architecture are created by AIs, and all *consumed* by AIs. Humans are asleep or dead behind their curator bots.
Everything runs, but it's all nonsense. Billboards sell plates of cooked toilet paper, stairways go in circles, boy bands play car crash sounds by stuffing string into their nostrils. Machines guess what humans want and the machines approve.

2025-08-23 13:04:31 UTC

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I'm thinking 5 dimensions. 10 4D 'faces'.

2025-07-26 16:10:04 UTC

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The media did exactly this back with the Melissa virus. Microsoft created a giant embarrassing security hole, which a depressed guy exploited to stage an email popcorn fight (when he could have done much worse but chose not to).
Instead of owning their reckless blunder, MS framed the culprit as some evil genius hacker, so the only possible solution was to throw him in jail for years. Not THEIR fault. 🙄

2025-06-30 23:31:03 UTC

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Yes, strikes can stop the whole machine.

2025-06-28 22:39:24 UTC

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AI data centers are big and give off lots of heat. They are probably easy to find and wreck.

2025-06-23 19:04:27 UTC

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It is becoming apparent that billionaires are a threat to national security.
So if taxation makes them leave the country: don't threaten me with a good time.

2025-06-23 16:08:11 UTC

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Cue open source Community Mesh propaganda...
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/733/525/558/475/183/original/918917d312711a3d.jpg

2025-04-04 17:44:08 UTC

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I realize this is VERY unlikely but it preys on my mind...
If police and military paychecks all bounce, what will oligarch property rights mean with no one to enforce them?
Are their fortunes sustainable if they have to buy their own armies?

2025-04-04 14:12:17 UTC

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I wonder if things can fall too far for even the rich to come out ahead.
EG, what happens when banks collapse, and dollars are toilet paper? Or, what happens when mobs simply seize land and no longer recognize property titles?
What happens when the cops and military no longer protect the wealthy and their claims of ownership?

2025-04-01 15:06:52 UTC

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Even in person, your records all go into a computer, which WILL be leaked some way, legally or illegally.
I never tell therapists anything private anymore. Generally avoid them where possible. Bad idea? Yes, but few other choices.