Fair Working Apathy feat. Emiliano Mellino
Emiliano Mellino from TBIJ joins us to discuss the upcoming (and some might say shortcoming) Fair Working Agency, and we ask the perennial question: will it stop bosses from ripping you off? But first, we look at an article praising an innovative business owner for giving himself the early stages of AI psychosis.
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Since everyone totally cares about this, nate, the big radar plane is the E-3 sentry, its a platform from the 60s, Boeing [orchestral horror jumpscare sound] is developing a replacement called the E-7 wedgetail. It does not have a wedge tail, i dunno if thats a bird or what, its just a newer smaller airliner-y fuselage with a long box shaped aesa radar on top instead of the E-3's spinning disk, theoretically more able to detect modern stealthy aircraft, Australia is already using them and they seem fine but im sure Boeing will find a way to fuck up the ones they sell to the air force
Good song
Uncritically Support to Sick Dads. Never felt more seen.
Uncritically Support to Sick Dads. Never felt more seen.
Emiliano's combination of london and italian pronunciation produced a heretofore unheard "innit"🔥👏awesome accent
the computer has turned itself into the kid's dad and this guy into an abused servant who has to ask computer permission to acknowledge that his kid exists otherwise he gets lashed for impropriety
dig the song!
The relationship between that Nguyen fellow and his AI genuinely reminds me so much of The Index from the Project Moon verse. Prescripts and all.
God Milo would have done so many accents on this episode
this 'AI turns you into an llm' feels like the thing I fall into within a couple minutes when i try to use the web search chatbot offerings: I end up asking it about its own output to get it to address the contradictions, so in other words I'm doing basic critical thinking skills at it, operating as a kind of menial intellectual labour reverse centaur; like it's not even a trillion dollar rubber duck anymore, it's a trillion dollar machine and i'm its volunteer rubber duck. like i'm not super self-aware here, but i struggle to relate to what level of self awareness somebody is operating on if they do this and figure it's all cool
Well the most prolific AI fucker at my work has the Sherlock theme as his ringtone for everything so that should give you a clue.
Serial Experiments Lain mentioned
let's all love lain
Woah, I did NOT expect second homes to have bars
The guy from the article is living like a member of the Index jfc.
Second Homes is sick any chance of a physical style release?
Yes! we're looking at doing CDs + tapes for live shows late this year, and we're eventually going to try to do a vinyl release as well (it's just that it's a long process and very expensive)
Look, if billionaires want to book a vacation to see the inside of the Chernobyl sarcophagus, we should let them
"Yes, Mr Musk, they do say that licking the elephants foot can cure impotence. Worked for Bezos!" Chernobyl tour guide
The aircraft with the giant radar dish on it is called an AWACS. I'm sorry that I know this, but growing up with the world's largest airplane nerd for a father has some side effects.
The Kegsbreath bench video with sounded suspiciously light for 315. He also posted a video benching clearly light bumper plates (10kg plates, so a total bench of around 80kg). Barely hits it. Zero chance the 315 bench is legit if he can barely hit 200.
Totally agree. I think the plates on the inside have 10kg written on them. The form is all off. He’s not tight enough, his lats aren’t engaged, his grip is way too close.
Trashfuture reinvents Georges Bataille's Accursed Share while talking about an imploding submarine lmao
I will never forget when the flu rampaged through my husband's navy ship in the mid 10's and they were all mandatory beta cuck vaxxed. It took 2 months for them to stop doing double duty to cover all the sick leave.
they should make other parts of the military optional too, actually. You should be able to just opt out of a deployment or an especially annoying maintenance chore because you don't feel like it. Actually the whole military should be comprised of enlightened individuals seeking optimal self-interest
Everything is compumpter
l'm guessing that RIley didn't intend this, but l heard "Once in a lifetime experience" and my brain immediately gets Byrned and starts intoning There is water at the bottom of the ocean Under the water, carry the water Remove the water at the bottom of the ocean
6:41 - the thing Nate is talking about is the crossing the line ceremony. It's mostly crossing the equator. It's a rite of passage, which is just a way of saying ancient ritualized hazing. There is some cosplay, including a "royal baby," i forget why, but that person has crossed the line before. There is a tradition of crossdressing-ish related to that, but historically all branches did some kind of cross dressing thing. Hung Cao is one of those Christians who is terrified of not fitting in with other Christians, so he's performing "the MOST Christian," and it's such a shabby performance. It's the Navy, man, let people cross dress as a bit and swim through garbage water, if you can't accept that as tradition, maybe this isn't the job for you.
Like the people with AI girl/boyfriends, I have to wonder whether these tech guys would be so excited about the machine replacing them if they could no longer control the machine
I think they would. This is a little complicated to articulate, but I think what's important to them is the "person" setting the terms for their life has no dignity or restraint. It's a similar thing with total submission to fascism. It justifies their way of being as it's annihilating it.
Ben Elliot was out there doing praxis. Respect.
The Wife of Bathysphere’s Tale
going through a big redundancy process at my employer (no prizes for guessing the sector) and been thinking about tribunals a lot recently
finalist at the Losing Your Coding Job to AI playoffs 2026
I finally know where the feature is from, which Genetikk also used in their debut album <3
That shit with the AI is Deleuze/Guattari masochism! Becoming a fully integrated node of a mechanism that allows forces to pass across and through you. Dude is fucking deterritorialising his selfhood, but his dom is capitalism. Becoming-cancer.
They were obviously crossfit Instagram plates!!
He cant actually do any pull ups!
Jack Kirby could have never predicted people willingly doing the anti life equation on themselves holy shit
Hearing about people completely surrendering their lives to grandiose hallucinated visions is changing my appreciation for Dune
Puhleeeez he wouldn't do a Mishima. He'd do a Crusader & get himself Richard Lionhearted. Or at the very least he'd get Jesuit in Japanese
That's just like mechanical esoterism.
happy may day 🌹