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the AI industry is going to have us maintaining the current gaming PCs like Cuban cars
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Thought follower, Dunning Kruger expert, professional bloviator, amateur musician and photographer. Hiding under an atmospheric river in the PNW.
Franklin LópezRight off the bat: I loved the #BadBunny halftime show.
Yeah, I could do without some of the over-the-top sexy shit — but let’s be real, that’s his bread and butter. I’m not excusing it, just saying: if that’s all you saw, you missed the whole damn point.
From the very first image — people cutting sugar cane — this was political as hell. Sugar cane isn’t some random aesthetic. It’s the industrial agriculture imposed by the United States after they took over Puerto Rico in 1898. That was the moment communal farming was destroyed and Puerto Ricans were forced into brutal export agriculture for U.S. profit. That history matters.
The entire performance was an homage to the island I grew up in. The neighborhoods, the sounds, the colors, the references — there’s so much nostalgia packed in there I honestly can’t even list it all. They went down the fucking list. Every Puerto Rican I know was watching this with tears in their eyes.
And maybe most important of all: he did the whole thing in Spanish. At a time when Spanish has basically been criminalized — when people are afraid to speak it in public, afraid of having the “wrong” accent, especially after years of Trump-era racism — that alone is a massive political act.
I need to rewatch it because there’s so much going on, but I wanted to put this out there now. Because I already know a lot of people aren’t going to get it at first glance.
But make no mistake: this wasn’t just a halftime show.
It was a huge cultural and political moment — and for Puerto Ricans especially, it meant a hell of a lot.
¡Pa'lante!🇵🇷✊
JA WestenbergI keep watching people who used to write 10,000-word explorations of complex topics now produce dozens of disconnected fragments per day, each optimized for immediate engagement.
It's like watching someone who composed symphonies decide to only make ringtones.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-case-for-blogging-in-the-ruins/
The Case for Blogging in the Ruins
In 1751, Denis Diderot began publishing his Encyclopédie, a project that would eventually span 28 volumes and take more than two decades to complete. The French government banned it twice. The Catholic Church condemned it, Diderot's collaborators abandoned him, his publisher secretly censored entries behind his back, and he worked
Once again, Cory Doctorow makes some excellent points about AI: https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/#u-washington
Etienne JacobI just fixed the code of this animation from 2023
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A comic that I will think about every day for the rest of my life, probably.
(Sauce: https://analognowhere.com/_/ogmxha/ )
Merlin Mann"It's by a group of gentlemen from Athens, Georgia called 'R.E.M.'"
This TV episode from 1983 was a big moment for a lot of us.
R.E.M. Performs "Radio Free Europe" & "So. Central Rain" | Letterman
The Athens band makes their network television debut.(From "Late Night," air date: 10/6/83)#rem #michaelstipe #letterman Subscribe to Letterman: https://bit....
This is one of the weirdest, and most complicated, pop songs of the late 80s: https://youtu.be/vg2CkEgFgXk
