Posts by aram@aoir.social
(DIR) Post #AwhDbNflUgBM5mkBeq by aram@aoir.social
2025-07-31T14:30:31Z
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Engineered tech dependency is violence https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/30/zuckerberg-says-people-without-ai-glasses-will-be-at-a-disadvantage-in-the-future/
(DIR) Post #AwhDxahpiV1esxImYa by aram@aoir.social
2025-07-31T15:11:55Z
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@aral @onepict Oh great idea, I’ll make one.
(DIR) Post #AxjYLZG5BR3iXtT2w4 by aram@aoir.social
2025-08-31T14:06:34Z
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The president of the United States is posting messianic apocalyptic threats to the propaganda platform he owns and there's not a word about it at NYT, @washingtonpost, @CNN, @npr, or @CBSNews.Only real coverage I've seen is by @thedailybeast.
(DIR) Post #Ay28kyXFR4rhNKBpKK by aram@aoir.social
2025-09-09T15:04:19Z
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@internetarchive I was just thinking the other day about the time MTV’s front page was a giant map of the USA made out of raw beef (circa 1999-2000?), and wondering WTF that was all about!
(DIR) Post #AyEd2EiGcSTKsce10S by aram@aoir.social
2025-09-15T15:02:32Z
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In 2022, I worked with 14 DC-area musical artists whose work had been stalled by the COVID-19 epidemic, using a mobile recording studio and a small grant from the Humanities Truck Foundation to produce free studio-quality recordings. We took a lot of video and interviewed everyone.The full archive of the project is now available at @internetarchive. Check it out:https://archive.org/details/outofourshells
(DIR) Post #AyZRQJ7owpfm8xJTCC by aram@aoir.social
2025-09-25T14:32:06Z
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So an AI chatbot, riddled with factual inaccuracies and engineered by a Nazi plutocrat to promote right wing disinformation, is being integrated into federal agencies’ decision-making processes.Cool. Cool cool cool cool coolhttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/technology/grok-xai-government-elon-musk.html
(DIR) Post #AylulFtRO81gliRm0u by aram@aoir.social
2025-09-29T16:31:52Z
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You spend years warning about this stuff......and then they just come out and admit it in public......and still nobody cares because they're too busy worrying about trans Cracker Barrel labubu vaccination immigrants eating their petshttps://fortune.com/2024/09/17/oracle-larry-ellison-surveillance-state-police-ai/
(DIR) Post #AzXlLBj2gis0JV9fs0 by aram@aoir.social
2025-10-24T18:44:46Z
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It's just metaphors all the way down
(DIR) Post #AzaQcLt0eHFJBc2XU8 by aram@aoir.social
2025-10-26T02:06:22Z
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Back when they invented the DHS after 9/11, many of us in the US said "Dept of Homeland Security? That sounds like some dystopian Nazi-ass shit"And all the Voices of Reason were like "stop catastrophizing, we need to come together in these trying times"Flash forward two decades andhttps://gizmodo.com/dhs-little-dark-age-nazi-video-2000676359
(DIR) Post #AzaREjzLUAT6wTJCmu by aram@aoir.social
2025-10-26T02:15:39Z
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@futurebird hey-o!
(DIR) Post #Azdr2mGmSIO9xGSCBc by aram@aoir.social
2025-10-26T19:38:07Z
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My 15yo made a leech mask for #Halloween. Color me impressed. And terrified.
(DIR) Post #AzfghKGEmlyDmSFgJs by aram@aoir.social
2025-10-28T14:05:34Z
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The pragmatist oligarchs have now decided that fighting #ClimateChange is a lost cause.https://www.nbcnews.com/science/climate-change/bill-gates-climate-change-memo-rcna240225
(DIR) Post #B06qideCnL8GkxDrqC by aram@aoir.social
2025-11-10T14:50:23Z
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Your good news of the day https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rejects-long-shot-effort-overturn-sex-marriage-ruling-rcna241113
(DIR) Post #B0aLUje29Bp0TCrmcK by aram@aoir.social
2025-11-24T13:23:20Z
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What is your favorite example of someone navigating our data-saturated world in a way that cares for others?More specifically, who should @jesse and I be interviewing for our new book on #DataKindness?
(DIR) Post #B0pF6D6XnIYYFEWVbE by aram@aoir.social
2025-12-02T03:21:04Z
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Imagine having a billion dollars and wasting your time doing anything other than:1. Reading novels in the bath2. Making art3. Traveling4. Cooking and eating5. Giving heaps of cash to awesome people and institutions who need it
(DIR) Post #B1EajC4uV1LwLQBfua by aram@aoir.social
2025-12-13T19:08:13Z
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Donald fucking Trump wants to go to a football game in Baltimore so they SHUT DOWN EVERY ROAD AND HIGHWAY AROUND THE CITY until his plane lands and he gets to the stadium. It's been over half an hour.What an asshole.
(DIR) Post #B2mfwHZmuDaogI0iWm by aram@aoir.social
2026-01-29T16:27:31Z
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It’s bonkers that MacBook Pros are still shipping with 0.5 or 1TB of storage, unchanged for years, even though:1) storage prices have 📉 precipitously (AI bump notwithstanding)2) MacOS has gotten bloatier and bloatier3) file sizes keep 📈, esp photos/vidsWhere do folks store their photo libs?
(DIR) Post #B2mfwPlmRVwI5ngPKa by aram@aoir.social
2026-01-29T16:33:57Z
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I mean, come on
(DIR) Post #B2mnOcUFSAP3K0sY5o by aram@aoir.social
2026-01-29T17:39:43Z
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@louis All true, but appalling, considering the MPB is marketed as a media production platform.
(DIR) Post #B2ogu0ESuKRsa5QxKy by aram@aoir.social
2026-01-30T15:02:47Z
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Way to bury the lede, NYT and every other major news organization.