Benjamin Reed (aka Raccoon Fink)

Benjamin Reed (aka Raccoon Fink)

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OSS geek • general nerdery • way too into whisky • I write electronic/ambient/dungeon synth music as Raccoon Fink • he/him

Music: https://music.raccoonfink.com/

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France dropkicked a baldly fascist political coalition out of office, imo if we can’t manage to do the same we should give back the Statue of Liberty

Wow, the rare “triple loser” — that is an exceptional concentration of un-cool in one place. Seems like the kind of thing that could spontaneously create a black hole of loathesomeness.

Am I cooler than the least cool thing imaginable? Yeah, probably.

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Ouch

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It's also wildly inaccurate. Plenty of the base of white christian nationalism is in wealthy suburbs and, yes, cities too. Stop buying this "barefoot hicks" b.s. and realize the fascists are down the street shopping at whole foods.

Honestly I feel deflated seeing the response to “depiction of white Christian nationalism ascendant” be cracks about inbreeding, or glee at concentrating these people in rural communities so they can eat their own

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Quite the accusation over on the other place.

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JUST IN: Polls closed in France. Exit polls show surprise: —Left coalition (New Popular Front) projected first. (!) —Far-right (RN) has lost its bid to take power. Anti-RN front appears to have worked very well. —No bloc close to majority. Follow this 🧵 for results and more:

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The New York times literally running the 14 words in a piece on the print edition main page. “actually they just want to reclaim the values of Western civilization as they see it … with larger families and fewer immigrants” is a mainstreamed version of the 14 words. TNYT is back to its Nazi defense

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Getting owned that hard on the normie platforms is great news tbh

Wow. @nytimes.com has closed their Threads account and left the platform after days of getting just shredded in the replies for their handling of Biden post debate. Now they're getting dog piled on Instagram for running from Threads.

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As the daughter of a Black Vietnam vet who suffered life long pain from a service related injury but was constantly turned away from care by the VA I can’t even bring myself to read this. My father eventually died of a treatable condition at 62 b/c he was sent home to take ibuprofen by a VA doc.

A 2017 internal Veterans Affairs report shows Black veterans were more often denied benefits for PTSD than their white counterparts. The analysis crunched claims data from fiscal year 2011 through 2016. And disparate treatment started after WWI when it was still called shell shock. It continues.

Black veterans were denied VA benefits for PTSD more often than whiteswww.nbcnews.com “Ever since I came back from Vietnam, I knew that I had a problem, but I didn’t know what it was," said one Black veteran.

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We’ve returned to the olden days, when word-of-mouth was the only real way to advertise. As an author, if you enjoy a book, please: tell your friends. Your group chat, your sewing circle, your family WhatsApp, your work Slack, the voice channel of your MMORPG guild, anything.

Hey, so. I understand that this is anecdotal and not research, but. It is WILD how useless social media has become for promo. It's a fucking disgrace, really.

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I want to start an ad campaign: "Instead of high speed rail we got... Theranos." TAX BILLIONNAIRES "Instead of universal healthcare we got... Juicero." TAX BILLIONNAIRES "Instead of clean tap water we got... NFTs." TAX BILLIONNAIRES

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Once again I bang on my drum labeled "there are many studies showing how humans learn best and traditional public school not only does not put that information to use, it often does the opposite, creating an environment that is actively hostile to real learning".

Doesn't the best case for cognitive load management also end up arguing for a radical restructuring of the typical 7-8 period HS school day, which seems is perfectly designed to overwhelm w/ task-switching & too much info in STM?

Every time we have pizza my Nine Inch Nails album art [pizza stone] gains more power.

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The Diarrhea is friends with who?

You may think you have had bad diarrhea before, but have you ever had it make national news?

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Tag! 🤖

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Sliced bread first went on sale 96 years ago today and — here’s the fun bit — was promoted as being the greatest thing since WRAPPED bread.

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My god, the Finns are right, sauna DOES cure everything!

This is so cool! Frog & amphibian have been dessimated by the disease chytridiomycosis, caused by a fungal pathogen. Researchers have realised that the fungi is heat intolerant so little brick saunas for frogs can help kill the fungi! Recovered frogs more resistant to further infxn 🧪

These frog 'saunas’ could help endangered species fight off a deadly funguswww.nature.com How a hot resting spot can help frogs survive chytridiomycosis infection, and the decades-long hunt for dark matter in black holes. Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 3 July 2024

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Remember when some of y'all got real mad at me for doing some back-of-the-napkin math about how much water "AI" likely uses, in light of the fact that they refuse to release their actual numbers? Anyway.

Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.

Generative AI is a climate disasterdisconnect.blog Tech companies are abandoning emissions pledges to chase AI market share

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since reddit is dying i want to share my favourite post about one of my favourite guys ever. i never really posted on reddit, just read stuff, but this post is now behind a locked wall. alt text to follow in a thread since it’s too long to fit in the alt text on the image

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“They want to eliminate national parks” is a very simple way to get just about anyone on the Stop Project 2025 train. Are there much more glaring and life-threatening goals of P25? Yes but even your most bigoted cousin does not want to see the parks system sold for parts.

This!! Start with “they want to end no fault divorce, sell national parks, and ban porn” end with tax structure.

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“OpenAI breach is a reminder that AI companies are treasure troves for hackers | TechCrunch” techcrunch.com/2024/07/05/o... This is, what, the third or fourth OpenAI security incident in less than two years? This is the sort of clown car you get if you're all-in on using LLMs for coding.

OpenAI breach is a reminder that AI companies are treasure troves for hackers | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com There's no need to worry that your secret ChatGPT conversations were obtained in a recently reported breach of OpenAI's systems. The hack itself, while

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If you're worried about brevity in your writing, don't. It took Project 2025 nine hundred pages to say fourteen words.

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genuinely hopeful sign that every big name GOP garbage monster is frantically trying to distance themselves from Project Say The Quiet Part Loud In an Easily-Digestible Bullet Point Format About Which There Can Be No Confusion. this means we should all absolutely continue never shutting up about it

I somehow always knew I’d be a psychic gnome… 🤔

Congratulations, you are now a gnome

@bskyttrpg.bsky.social chooseAncestry gnome

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Forrest Gump introduces Donald Trump to Stormy

remake Forrest Gump with updated references. What if Forrest get iPad. Forrest inadvertantly helps 9/11 hijackers catch their plane. Forrest accidentally kills Antonin Scalia.

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You had me at “exceedingly dry in-jokes for recherché subcultures”

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This is really good. Rebecca Solnit. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why is the pundit class so desperate to push Biden out of the race? | Rebecca Solnitwww.theguardian.com Yes, Biden had a bad debate – but so did Trump. The media is once again repeating the mistakes of 2016

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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

if you’re waiting for everyone around you to wake up, you’ll wait forever. this is how the people grinding our bones to make their bread WANT you to be. paralyzed, alienated & purposeless

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GOBLIN DEEZ NUTS

Congratulations, you are now a goblin