Hedge Funds Jump Into Bullish Oil Bets on Tight Supply Signals
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*sniffs, tugs at shirt* You know, the true perversity of Evangelion is not the obvious Freudian symbology -- the mother in the robot, the father who abandons, and so on and so on -- but rather how it stages the fundamental deadlock of the otaku subject under late capitalism.
*gestures wildly* Here you have Shinji, the perfect neoliberal subject: he doesn't want to pilot the Eva, he hates it, but he does it anyway! Why? Because of some abstract duty? No! Because he has already internalized the superego injunction to enjoy his own exploitation. "I mustn't run away" - this is not courage, this is the purest ideology!
*touches nose* But the real obscenity -- and here Anno is a true genius, whether he knows it or not -- is how the series presents instrumentalisation itself as traumatic. NERV literally dissolves the boundary between human and machine, mother and weapon, and what do we get? Not liberation but pure anxiety! The EVA units are the perfect metaphor for our digital predicament: we are told these technologies will extend our capabilities, make us posthuman, but instead we discover *laughs darkly* that we were always already instruments!
Gendo's Human Instrumentality Project is just making explicit what capitalism already does: reducing humans to pure exchangeable substance, orange goo, the ultimate liquidity!
*sniff* And the masterstroke is the ending - not the false happy ending of End of Evangelion, but the original episodes 25 and 26, where the budget runs out and we get pure interiority. *waves hands* "Congratulations!" they all say to Shinji. But for what? For accepting his place in the symbolic order? This is the ultimate perversity: the show literally cannot afford to show the apocalypse, so instead it stages the real catastrophe - the subject accepting his own subjection as liberation! The production committee pulls the funding, and Anno turns this material limitation into the perfect metaphor for ideological closure!
*adjusts shirt violently* You know what nobody wants to admit? Evangelion is not about robots or aliens or whatever -- it's about the impossibility of authentic action under capitalism. Every character is trapped in their own repetition compulsion: Misato drinks, Asuka performs superiority, Rei submits to erasure; and the Angels? The Angels are just the return of the repressed, the stupid insistence of the Real that says: your little techno-military complex cannot contain the trauma of existence!
*sniff* And so on, and so on...
Trump Tariff Challengers Back Fast-Track Supreme Court Review
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Federal judge blocks Trump administration from canceling temporary protections granted to 1.1M Haitians, Venezuelans. Read more from @AssociatedPress:
Silicon Valley Insider Runs for California Governor
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Deux frères et une obsession : créer la simulation la plus complexe ; le projet Dwarf fortress — Obscuria
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Mais l'histoire est si mignonne 
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Wall Street’s Wealth Engine Powers Through Job-Market Anxiety
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It's hilariously wild to me how much more reach my Pixelfed posts have over Instagram.
I just started a new Instagram (for work, I have Meta, but you need it to reach out to influencers and stuff), and there are three likes on about 40 photos.
I just uploaded two new photos to my Pixelfed, and BAM, likes are FLOODING IN because I use the proper hashtags.
IG is straight-up garbage for creatives and photographers.
Advanced search operators list (Gitlab version)
List of the links to the docs for different services, which explain using of advanced search operators.
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August, 2025.
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~ black and white ~
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Ok, ho pubblicato il mio giochetto (il secondo progetto della mia vita ed il primo terminato) per la "LÖVE Jam 2025 [B-SIDE]".
Lo trovate qui: mrnetwork.itch.io/space-bricks
Fatemi sapere cosa ne pensate! Senza remore!
PS: so che è semplice e banale, ma essendo il mio secondo progetto mi sento orgoglioso di quello che ho realizzato 😊
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Ultimate entrepreneurial success metric: becoming wealthy enough that LinkedIn profile updates become unnecessary.
Current reality: updating LinkedIn status every time follower count increases by three people.
The aspiration remains distant but motivating. Professional social media obligations persist regardless of financial status.
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Nåtö, Åland Islands
September 2025
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Jeff Jarvis's definition of journalism exposes parallels between the missions of journalism and participant-driven & participation-rich events
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BIG MILESTONE! 🎉
We’ve just crossed 100 posts on !videogames@piefed.social.
After a week of building and curating, the community already has 58 subscribers—and it’s only getting started.
I’ve been thinking hard about the kind of place I want this to be. The vision comes down to three things:
- Real conversations about games
- Minimal memes
- Zero outrage culture
I want this community to be about joy—a space for people who actually play video games to share what excites them. Not a dumping ground for culture wars. Not another echo chamber for Gamergate-era nonsense.
Games are for everyone. And everyone should feel comfortable digging deep here. Talk about an obscure Japanese console. Explore weird European PCs. Or break down the craft behind how a game actually got made. That’s the stuff I want to see flourish.
Here’s to the next 100 posts—and beyond. Come join in:
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Où on apprend que Stérin continue d'étendre son emprise dégueulasse et travaille à rendre impossible d'échapper à son idéologie fasciste et chrétienne intégriste.
Où on apprend également que le volet technique a été en partie réalisé par l'équipe de Nota Bene qui va devoir s'expliquer parce qu'il était plutôt réglo jusque là.
(D'ailleurs si des gens ont Bluesky et se sentent d'interpeller le "camarade" vidéaste, je suis curieux de sa réponse...)
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Une "Cité immersive des Fables" de La Fontaine, financée notamment par Pierre-Edouard Stérin, s'implante à Paris
Un nouveau lieu culturel ouvre ses portes à Paris : la Cité immersive des Fables, dédiée à l'œuvre de La Fontaine. Un lieu à la scénographie et à la médiation réussies.Julien Baldacchino (France Inter)
Anarchist Stickers Archive (@anarchist_stickers_archive@kolektiva.social)
Attached: 1 image "Evidement que j'emmerde le front national" (FR: Français) "Obviously I don't give a damn about the National Front" (EN: English) Source: instagram:@le_felin.noir Original: https://gateway.ipfs.anarchiststickersarchive.kolektiva.social
Spit spat: Jalen Carter's ejection from Eagles' opener was latest saliva-driven dismissal in sports
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🤓 Anthropic recently release a threat report that shows how threat actors are using their model Claude. Here are some of the highlights:
・ Vibe hacking: Criminals are using Claude Code to perform real intrusions, doing reconnaissance, extortion, at a scale that one human alone could not reach
・ Remote worker fraud: North Korean IT workers are simulating professional competence through AI at Fortune 500 companies
・ No-code malware: Threat actors with little technical skill are generating ransomware-as-a-service packages with evasion techniques and selling them for about $400
・ Fraud at scale: Carding stores, romance scams and synthetic identities, AI is embedded across the fraud supply chain and make it even more easy for them
I think it is interesting to see how threat actors are leveraging AI as those patterns are the ones you may want to detect in your future AI systems.
More detail in the report here 👇 www-cdn.anthropic.com/b2a76c6f…
I'm trying something new! A video mini-series of me reliving how I deconstructed my life and came to terms with what it meant to be Autistic, and what it's like to live and travel in a van.
youtube.com/shorts/heG1uv5Qazg
If you know anyone who might be interested, please pass this along.
#ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #Autistic #Neurospicy #Neurodiversity #vanlife #vanlifer #autisticvanlife #vanlifereality #vandwelling #vandwellinglife #vandweller
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become a patreon or donate to my ko-fi and ill record myself meowing like a nun
you fucking weirdos
Ouderkhan, fête du Naadam, tout les cavaliers et cavalières y convergent , du plus jeune au plus âgé !
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@liaizon it's actually on the list, from seven months ago!
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I'll take a look at the latest pixelfed source (with open source, anything is possible!). Their react native app is really helpful in figuring out what api to call.
pixelfed - stories
fedicat - Issues and non-(Swift)UI code for the Fedicat fediverse clientCodeberg.org
Why do we venerate books? Why do we treat them as if they're more than merely the medium for whatever is in them? After all, we don't adore all bottles just because some of them contain water.
We're at a juncture in human history where we might be witnessing the decline of the book. If we retain the love of knowledge and of entertainment, would it matter if we lose books?
@JonnyT Totally. I listen to lots of podcasts. Some of them are essays that previously would've been in magazines.
But I don't feel that listening is truly the equivalent of reading. Do you?
It is for me in the sense that it's almost my only means of doing it these days.
And, if you are visually impaired, it is definitely so.
Edit: I also tend to read books digitally these days as well, when I do get the opportunity. The only time I have for it is in bed at night, and this way is the least disturbing to my partner - no additional lighting required.
Is there a way to disable animated profile picture on #Mastodon ?
I can't find how to have them not moving. I wonder if a custom CSS could do that 🤔
#Politique #Désinformation #Twitterfiles #Propagande #Censure #Medias
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Un peu de mise en contexte pour les prochaines Twitter files, et une explication de pourquoi Thierry Breton a refusé de témoigner devant la Chambre des représentants américaine...
Texte : Le chapitre des Twitterfiles français s’ouvre enfin !
Episode précédent : Les Twitterfiles
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Le chapitre des Twitterfiles français s'ouvre enfin !
#politique #censure #médias #désinformation
Contexte : en 2022, suite au rachat de Twitter par Elon Musk, ce dernier ouvrait à une demi douzaine de journalistes la messagerie interne de l'entreprise, ouvrant la voie à une multitude de révélations sur la façon dont Twitter, sous la pression du FBI et de ses propres équipe de modération, avait largement censuré les comptes Républicain durant la mandat de Joe Biden.
Plus récemment, à l'occasion d'un meeting à Munich, le vice président JD Vance expliquait à un publié médusé que la liberté d'expression était en danger en Europe. Un mois auparavant, lors du sommet de l'IA à Paris, le même JD Vance lançait qu'il n'était pas digne pour une démocratie d'utiliser l'IA pour censurer ses citoyens, ciblant de façon implicite le pouvoir français.
Le bras de fer mené par les USA envers l'UE, qui à ce stade à réussi à imposer des tarfis douaniers sans la moindre réciprocité de la part de l'Europe, ne s'arrête pas en si bon chemin. A de multiples occasion, Donald Trump comme JD Vance ont annoncé vouloir mener une guerre contre les législations contraignant les Big Tech américaines, avec en ligne de mire le DSA et Thierry Breton.
la suite ->
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"Jacquelyn Schneider saw a disturbing pattern, and she didn’t know what to make of it.
Last year Schneider, director of the Hoover Wargaming and Crisis Simulation Initiative at Stanford University, began experimenting with war games that gave the latest generation of artificial intelligence the role of strategic decision-makers. In the games, five off-the-shelf large language models or LLMs — OpenAI’s GPT-3.5, GPT-4, and GPT-4-Base; Anthropic’s Claude 2; and Meta’s Llama-2 Chat — were confronted with fictional crisis situations that resembled Russia’s invasion of Ukraine or China’s threat to Taiwan.
The results? Almost all of the AI models showed a preference to escalate aggressively, use firepower indiscriminately and turn crises into shooting wars — even to the point of launching nuclear weapons. 'The AI is always playing Curtis LeMay,' says Schneider, referring to the notoriously nuke-happy Air Force general of the Cold War. 'It’s almost like the AI understands escalation, but not de-escalation. We don’t really know why that is.'
If some of this reminds you of the nightmare scenarios featured in blockbuster sci-fi movies like 'The Terminator,' 'WarGames' or 'Dr. Strangelove', well, that’s because the latest AI has the potential to behave just that way someday, some experts fear. In all three movies, high-powered computers take over decisions about launching nuclear weapons from the humans who designed them."
Owncasts for Roku, an app built for watching Owncast-powered streams on your TV has recently been updated with new features. If you own a Roku, you might want to check it out!
Hey #Mastodon, it's video time!
This time (like many previous ones) with the excellent #ElleCordova .
Make some noise for this beautiful song!
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@bethsawin and @susankayequinn: Both of you are the first two people I immediately thought of regarding the collection of ideas for small making-the-world-better projects around the world. I'm seeking more for a project of my own here: scholar.social/@michaelc/11515…
(I've also read one book each from the two of you--both good stuff! Consider this an introduction if you don't know each other already.)
Michael J. Coffey (@michaelc@scholar.social)
Is there a cool smallish project near you that makes the world better? Reply with a brief blurb about it, eg: Seattlerecreative.org runs a shop that keeps art supplies from the landfill.Scholar Social
Curtis Yarvin's Berkeley, CA home address and vehicle has been published:
Lake George Days.
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The brain.
Sack of paste. Headcustard. The anxiety potatoe. Bad idea jelly.
It needs to be taken down a notch and *know it*
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Buried within 32 U.S.C. § 502(f)(2),
an otherwise mundane statute about the normal functioning of the National Guard system is a broad catch-all:
“Support of operations or missions undertaken by the member’s unit at the request of the President or Secretary of Defense.”
Not order, or command, or after going through the process of federalizing them.
But merely at the “request” for participation of state troops who remain under state, not federal, command.
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Trump’s Leaked Plan to Deploy the Texas National Guard Against Illinois Will Tear Apart the Union
If it goes forward, it will plunge the country into an unprecedented constitutional crisisAndy Craig (The UnPopulist)
I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1862-08-06), Union (War) Meeting, US Capitol steps, Washington, D. C.
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Lookouts.
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