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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
forestine@sunny.garden wrote:

reminder when you think "wow i can't believe so and so did all that at such a young age!" the answer is probably nepotism

"what have i done with my life" well you haven't been surrounded by connections your whole life

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Ewan Roy

Ewan represents the America that never was—academic, socialist; think the progressive era and the green new deal, etc.

The Academic Left, as an American power structure, is the most critical of the current conservative rulers, but when it comes down to it, will fiercely defend the status quo from radicals.

Ewan is the epitome of the righteous indignation and monopolization of morality from this faction of the left. He's talks a lot of blood money, but his hands are not clean.

Ewan wearing a hat and overcoat. Over the shoulder shot. "my brother is an ex-Scott. An ex-Canadian. An ex-human being. But he is still my brother."

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Circa Feb 2022 I list out my top 5 Succession episodes. I think I need to revisit.

Top 5 Succession episodes so far 5. Austerlitz (Con's Ranch) 4. Retired Janitors of Idaho (Shareholder's meeting) 3. This is Not For Tears (The yacht episode) 2. Nobody is Ever Missing (Shiv's wedding) 1. Prague (Oh, Honey Badger)

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Me: this is Shakespeare 😭

Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse Every scene of SUCCESSION: Kendall: What's the play, the vibe? Marco Polo titfucking us around the Cape of Good Hope? Shiv: I mean...sure, if your nose is sewn onto the back of your ballsack(scolding look) Roman: (raises eyebrows)Looks like we're takin a looong whiff of taint

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Me lmao

richie owens @iamRichieOwens Succession: "187 per share. 50/50 cash stock." Me, not knowing what that means: "Holy fucking shit"

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

adri @succcssion one week without succession. started looking at stock photos of business people just to feel something

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

A small quick digression of memes

Macy Rodman @MacyRodman People are like "this moment from Succession was so iconic" and the screenshot always looks like this Photos of stock images of people in offices huddled around a computer.

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

I passed out last night like at 830 so I left the thread with "Marcia is Israel" lol sorry.

Anyway, check out this Vanity Fair cover of Succession composer Nicholas Britell.

Britell breaks down how he composed what is probably the best TV show score ever made (imo at least).

It's really interesting!

https://youtu.be/X0WzqanwlG0

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Do y'all like Succession? Have I shared my Succession Theory of Everything?

How every character is an allegory for a specific American power structure or concept?

Okay, first. I just want to say that I love this show so damn much. I've never watched a show that begs for analysis as much as Succession. It's so well written it makes me not want to be a writer because who could ever top this show?

Okay, okay. Let me take a stab at this 😬 I can't promise it'll be as good as it is in my brain.

Promo photo for succession. Father is sitting in the middle with his kids surrounding him. There's a painting in the background.

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Caroline Collingwood

So, if Marcia represents Israel, then Logan's other ex-wife would also have to represent something too, right?

Right!

Logan Roy's ex-wife Caroline is a British aristocrat. She symbolizes the past relationship between the British and Americans.
Together, Caroline and Logan birthed Roman, Shiv, and Kendall.
Or, Great Britain* and the USA birthed the three major political ideals—conservatism, liberalism, and, whatever Kendall is (we'll get to him 🙂).

*Or UK, or England idk

Caroline smoking a cigarette. Shiv is in the background unfocused. "Truth is, I probably should never have had children"

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Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
debread@yeen.town ("DeBread :blebraccoon:") wrote:

Flight attendants had to move my giant yoshi plush to an empty seat in the back because it was taking too much room in the ceiling compartment, look at what they did to him 😭😭

My huge yoshi plush wearing flight safety equipment with graham crackers and jack daniels

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

But, it's her dynamic with Logan and his children that really sell the idea that Marcia represents Israel in Succession.

Through the show, Marcia possesses a sort of undefined, unofficial authority. She has Logan's ear, and is privileged to sensitive information. Logan financially supports her, and she has enough leverage to demand more money.
Logan's children often fight with him and each other, as they feel Marcia has too much influence.
Worth noting: Marcia is played by a Palestinian woman!

Photo and profile of Hiam Abbass BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION FULL NAME Hiam Abbass BORN November 30, 1960 Nazareth, Palestine

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Marcia Roy has a mysterious history. She was born in Beirut, and moved to Paris after the Lebanese civil war.

The show does not explicitly state what Marcia Roy did in Beirut before moving to Paris. But based on history and timing, it's possible Marcia provided intelligence to Israel leading up the Lebanese Civil War.

I even think the writer's based Marcia on The Beirut Spy: Shula Cohen

https://www.aljazeera.com/video/al-jazeera-world/2017/10/17/the-beirut-spy-shula-cohen

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pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

The budget makes no sense.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/12/this-is-what-it-feels-like-to-be-a-rogue-state/

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 billion. First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says

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dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

OH: "printers do faily things"

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
jackeric@beige.party wrote:

@fromjason also this one
https://youtu.be/dw7alNjkYro?is=not

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Boosted by db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕"):
matuzo@front-end.social ("Manuel Matuzović") wrote:

“WordPress is faster by accident than SPAs are on purpose” @csswizardry.com #webDayOut

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Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
pndc@treehouse.systems ("@pndc") wrote:

RE: https://furry.engineer/@RavenLuni/116215793192975189

It was supposed to be labelled "Lynx Africa".

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
nyhan@fediscience.org ("Kate Nyhan") wrote:

Maybe someday I will be as forthright as @researchfairy (whose long-ago post about how, even if LLM output is correct, it's not worth the harms experienced by data workers/moderators in the course of training the model, has stuck with me for years)
But until then, at least I can point to external guidance as I beg people to slow down a little.

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Boosted by ratatui_rs@fosstodon.org ("Ratatui"):
orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

Here is how you can run complex CLI tasks easily! ⚡

🛠️ **TuiSage** — TUI for running mise tasks

💯 Fuzzy search, dynamic completions & embedded terminal execution

🌀 Supports any tool that expose --usage specs

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/mgood/tuisage

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #mise #task #runner #productivity #terminal

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
elizayer ("Elizabeth Ayer") wrote:

It would be great if I could go a day without seeing an article that points to the need to unionize.

I'd rather not think about @beep 's book at all, to be honest.

https://ethanmarcotte.com/books/you-deserve-a-tech-union/

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

RE: https://mas.to/@trendsbot/116211553284922724

When USSR was crumbling, factories were also paying workers in products they manufactured.

This is AI bubble companies trying to print own money. Printing your own money only works if you find a way to make it necessary. That's what taxes do, for example (recommended reading: David Graeber's "Debt").

Here:

👉 "printing money" part is paying employees in tokens

👉 "taxes" part is requiring employees to use AI in their day to day work (thus making tokens necessary)

:blobcatpopcornnom:

#AI

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dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

RE: https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/116215671334701959

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
infobeautiful@vis.social ("Information Is Beautiful") wrote:

Six ways to divide England *linguistically*

by @starkeycomics

This infographic titled “Six ways to divide England linguistically” presents six distinct maps of England, each illustrating a different regional linguistic variation through color-coded regions and corresponding legends, beginning with the term used for evening meal—red for “Tea,” blue for “Dinner,” and yellow for “Supper”—followed by the playground game played at school, where yellow represents “Tig,” light blue “Tag,” red “Tick,” orange “Tiggy,” and dark blue “Tap”; the third map shows regional terms for a medium-sized lump of bread, using green for “Bun,” red for “Roll,” brown for “Muffin,” blue for “Bap,” yellow for “Cob,” orange for “Teacake,” and light blue for “Barm”; the fourth map explores whether “scone” rhymes with “gone” (green), “probably gone” (light green), or “alone” (orange); the fifth examines whether “put” and “but” share the same vowel sound, with blue indicating they rhyme and green indicating they do not; and the sixth depicts the most spoken language across regions, with blue for English and orange for areas where Old English is mixed with Scots and Viking influences; each map uses clear color coding and simple labels to highlight how everyday vocabulary and pronunciation vary across England’s geography, and the image credits @samesamebutdifferentblog and @starkeycomics.

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

AI bot network Facebook buys AI bot network Moltbook

the dumbest AI bubble acqui-hire this week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%5FUGaMXRawDU&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260311-ai-bot-network-facebook-buys-ai-bot-network-moltbook - podcast

time: 5 min 46 sec

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/11/ai-bot-network-facebook-buys-ai-bot-network-moltbook/ - blog post

headless robot running very fast!

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Boosted by jwz:
SnoopJ@hachyderm.io wrote:

hearing gullible 20-somethings say "this technology DOES have good use-cases, like in medicine for example…"

is going to turn me into the fucking Joker

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Boosted by jwz:
mawhrin@circumstances.run ("flere-imsaho 🇺🇦") wrote:

it is not a good day to be a conscientious user of modern technology, no.

i just read the financial times article (archive) on the use of confabulation machines in war planning, specifically the scope of use in target planning, and it's bad, bad, terribly bad.

even if it is what we suspected anyways, knowing the lack of ethics of the tech companies and the bloodthirstiness of hegseth & al.

there is no hope for this industry.

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Boosted by jwz:
coral@empty.cafe ("Coral (bleached era)") wrote:

the FT reports today that the US Military is using an AI kill chain, built by Anthropic and Palantir.

They use it to launder inadequate evidence into kill decisions no-one can be blamed for, to perpetuate a terror program where it's impossible to tell who counts as a "combatant". And they will kill you, your children, your neighbours, and your children's entire school, for reasons you will never know.

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Boosted by jwz:
r_flash@mastodon.r-flash.eu ("Adam P") wrote:

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jpm@aus.social ("I love this, so I") wrote:

@zzt for real, I wonder what they’d do if they encountered U+130BA ?

https://unicode-explorer.com/c/130BA