Andrew Brenner

@andrewbrenner
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You may have known me when I had more hair, weighed less, and had a healthy liver. If so, I’m sorry for all those things that I’ve done.
Married33 years
Children1
Never in our history have we known more people less.
Pick Your Fighter:
The US military veteran said he “was pepper-sprayed, tear-gassed, had his car window smashed, and was forcibly removed from his vehicle at gunpoint—all while complying with orders and identifying himself as both a U.S. citizen and an employee.” https://ktla.com/news/local-news/disabled-veteran-detained-immigration-raid-speaks-out/

DuckDuckGo is experiencing an “outage” and searches are not rendered; YET, somehow if i turned on "AI Features", it might.

more like FuckFuckNO, amirite?

#enshittification #techbros #fascism

Are you in the UK and opposed to providing ID to use social media in the coming weeks?

There’s an official parliament petition to repeal the Online Safety Act, and it’s already at 13,000 signatures and growing: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903

(Not UK? Please spread the word!)

Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act

We want the Government to repeal the Online Safety act.

Petitions - UK Government and Parliament

"Fuck this, don't die 4 the government"

Vandalised military billboard in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Don't let them bury this story. Trump is a #pedophile. Everyone knows it.

#Epstein #Trump #USPOL

The thing about Epstein is that raping kids is bad, everyone who ever set foot on his island/jet/party house knew it was bad, and they’re all garbage people.

What is also bad is that the current Republican party is doing everything in their power to make raping girls more common. They are making it dangerous to report. They are making it hard to get out of abusive relationships. They are making it hard to survive for young victims.

Fuck Epstein. Look at the current crop of pro-rape guys.

Deep in a New Zealand swamp, scientists discovered an ancient kauri tree that had been entombed for more than 40,000 years—its trunk preserved like a wooden time capsule. But this wasn’t just any prehistoric tree. Its rings revealed something extraordinary: it had lived through the Laschamp Excursion, a rare moment when Earth’s magnetic poles reversed. More alarming, however, was the period just before the flip—known as the Adams Event—when the planet’s magnetic field all but vanished, exposing the Earth to an onslaught of cosmic radiation.

With Earth’s magnetic shield weakened to as little as 0–6% of its normal strength, solar and cosmic radiation surged in, triggering global climate chaos. Ice sheets expanded dramatically, storm systems rerouted, and once-verdant lands like parts of Australia were swallowed by desert. Some researchers believe the event contributed to the extinction of the Neanderthals and forced early humans into caves for protection—where they began creating the earliest known symbolic art. These dramatic shifts suggest the Adams Event wasn’t just a magnetic anomaly—it was a turning point in human history.

Now, the ancient kauri stands as both relic and warning. Its rings carry the silent testimony of a world on the edge, a reminder that our magnetic field is not permanent. If such a collapse were to happen today, the consequences could be dire—satellite failure, communication breakdowns, grid collapses, and rapid shifts in climate. This tree, long dead, still speaks—whispering across the ages about the fragility of the invisible forces that shield our modern world.

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He is searching for a deus ex machina (in a literal, not literary sense)—it’s essentially religious fanaticism and we are all going to pay the price for it.
Seriously how can anyone see this and not assume the guy is literally insane
@thomasfuchs Prometheus stole fire from the Gods and that did not end well. Maybe he should call the other one Icarus 🤔
@sandorspruit @thomasfuchs Hyperion involves a lot of pain if I remember correctly
@stefan @thomasfuchs True. However, I cannot think of a more fitting mythological figure than one punished for his hubris 🙄
@thomasfuchs That's approximately 17 sq/Km, give or take a few sq/Km.

@thomasfuchs It's almost as if you gave a 19 year-old huge amounts of VC money back in 2004, you'd end up with a very frustrated and confused 40-something in 2025.

I mean, who would have thought?

@thomasfuchs this has the same feeling as as “if trends continue 1 in 3 Americans will be an Elvis impersonator”, only this dope has enough money to make this happen.

We are in the dumb times.

@thomasfuchs People just doesn't like to think. They see these monstrosities and still buy the "AI is not that wasteful" discourse.
@thomasfuchs this happened in Rain World I think
@thomasfuchs And will use the power equal to 100 Mahattans.
@thomasfuchs it'll be great when he's peeled off the protective plastic from the roof.
@thomasfuchs did anyone get the blueprints so we can find the exhaust port?
@thomasfuchs
I'm reminded of the line city thing that some petrostate was going on about.
@aral @thomasfuchs yep this as an ultimately religious project to become a virtualized god in a virtualized universe, organized religion 2.0
@thomasfuchs I think turning abandoned data centers into living space is going to be a thing at some point 😃
@ChuckMcManis @thomasfuchs living space, heck, that's a whole Arcology right there.
@ChuckMcManis ~ electric heating ~ !
@thomasfuchs I wonder if we should change Skyscraper index to Data center index
@thomasfuchs
If you're ever asked how anyone could believe the Matrix or Skynet could ever become a reality. Here is your answer. 🤪

@thomasfuchs

We're putting humans concentration camps and building resource-hogging cities just for machines.

Humans are slaves. All of us. The machines didn't even need to demonstrate any self-awareness nor engage in any uprising against us. Rather the machines somehow convinced us to build their world while destroying our own.

The Terminator movies were wrong. There is no "rise of the machines" only a "suicide of humanity."

@jmcclure The AIs that have taken over and which control us are corporations. @thomasfuchs
@thomasfuchs And before we all pay the price - a radical inequality accelerator. Short termism writ large, speed-running the end times.

@thomasfuchs I'd say you're half-right, namely the "we're all paying the price". About the Deus thing, well... I actually don't think any of these bros truly really care if their shit will ever work at all, let alone do what they promise.

They're past that & into literal reality domination. That's why Trump appeals to them so much; he's shown them that reality itself can be bullied.

Zuck doesn't care what's inside a building the size of Manhattan - he cares that his name is on the outside.

@jwcph They’re seeing this quite literally as religion and as a way to cement in their power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism
Accelerationism - Wikipedia

@thomasfuchs the fucking names... 😑
@txo_elurmaluta yeah not a lot of self-awareness there
@thomasfuchs we gotta stop having kids, we can end this in one generation
@thomasfuchs makes sense, considering it translates to “Machine born from an extremely pasty man taking a dump.”
@thomasfuchs
"We are calling the next one 'Rapture'. If that doesn't work, we will be looking at other religions for fitting end-times names."
@thomasfuchs may it go as well for him as his Metaverse obsession did.
@thomasfuchs @lisamelton He is addicted to magical thinking. That somehow the lucky theft he stumbled into 20 years ago will repeat itself because he must be a special boy genius.
Also it feels a lot like FAANG et al’s massive hiring jag circa 2019-21 partly to impress markets that “we’re growing” until they could wait till the right time to impress shareholders with layoffs
Mark Zuckerberg (@zuck) on Threads

We're actually building several multi-GW clusters. We're calling the first one Prometheus and it's coming online in '26. We're also building Hyperion, which will be able to scale up to 5GW over several years. We're building multiple more titan clusters as well. Just one of these covers a significant part of the footprint of Manhattan.

Threads
@thomasfuchs "...and we're naming the last one Icarus"

@thomasfuchs "So excellent a king; that was, to this,
Hyperion to a Zuckyr"

(Hamlet, Act I Scene 2)

@thomasfuchs Hubris and Nemesis will be along shortly