It's so darkly funny that AI genuinely has a massive user base but companies are investing in it like it's an infinite money glitch and destroying AI and themselves in the process.

A DIY Circuit That Lets You Hear Protons Sing

one thing thats crazy about the current era in the states is that it is clear across most domains that science got processed by a lot of people as "traumatic encounter with the real" and now they are just making decisions based on that trauma. elon, peter, anti-vaxxers, all the same problem

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

cloudflare's on-duty IT staff bangs on the doors which I have padlocked from the inside as I calmly break open lava lamp after lava lamp and drink the contents

Broke: Banning tiktok because it's from "Communist China" Woke: Banning tiktok because you people refuse to wear headphones on the bus

Thinking back to how people were like “wow marvel villains are so underdeveloped, they just look at the screen, kick a puppy, and say yeah im a bad person” now that so many public figures have done more or less the same thing

as someone says in the replies, there’s a difference between narratives you find PLEASANT and narratives you find VALIDATING. many people are quite attached to dark, terrifying, pessimistic views of the world and find it validating when those views are reinforced. it’s about catharsis not happiness

This is a dust devil... on Mars.

its really maddening that we act as if 1) complex humanistic skills are just something that the ol' boy can pick up without any effort while 2) having a perpetual freakout about Why Johnny Can't Do Humanities

there's a weird double standard where it is socially acceptable to be bad at math ("it's not for everyone") and its a crime that people can't do content analysis of media. it comes from the sense that math is something too esoteric for normies to master but everyone is equally able to do reading

One of the huge perks of working at a software company is, when there's something about the product that bothers you personally, you can get your hands dirty and find out why it's basically impossible to get fixed

thank God this country's finally being run by Real Men

Big day at U.S. District Court in D.C. where Sean Dunn, the D.C. Sandwich Guy, is on trial for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer. Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss. 'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.

Watching the gigantic corporations that dominate our economy become increasingly disconnected from such basic concepts as "we should make products people want to buy" and "making money is a good idea" is slowly driving me insane

So tired of people using the term "theft" in the context of copyright law. Copyright infringement is not ethically or legally equivalent to theft in any way. Even if you are staunchly opposed to it, you should be able to see the difference.

Who was it that used to refer to the RW masses as "programmable meatbags"? They were told inflation is the Most Important Thing, so they dutifully echoed that back. Then they were told immigration is the Most Important Thing, so they swung that way, like a school of fish.

It occurs to me that the Republican Party would have no choice but to openly side with scammers (because...same people), and they'd convince 45% of the country we have a Right to Scam. I think a lot of "temporary embarrassed millionaires" would also love to be scammers.

This is too good #EnergySky

you cannot keep doing this without eventually becoming misanthropic and feeling that the values you grew up with are meaningless and the people around you will excuse anything as long as it doesn’t personally inconvenience them

They called them Near Abroad Direct Action Operations, NADA Ops. The "joke" in the CalSec cafeterias, which made its way out later in the hearings was that "What does the operator say when asked if there are civilians in the area? Nada...oops!". Even decades later, Arizona didn't find it funny.

the assumptions made about the target audience by making the first two items "OnlyFans' and 'child support' are kind of incredible

Great news: In the lawsuit we filed, a federal court just ruled that the Agriculture Department acted unlawfully by refusing to use its emergency fund to make SNAP payments. It has until Monday to deliver a plan to pay benefits. This is a major step toward making sure 16m kids don’t go hungry.

THERE ARE MORE OF US THAN THERE ARE OF THEM

Large crowd at this No Kings just like the last one. Think about how much better the crowd pics would be if all of our public space weren’t roads…

i am going to try to give a framework of my own understanding which laypeople can understand.

Also, yesterday's derided pop culture is tomorrow's high culture

The homeschool lobby is at it again... The child sex criminals get the most attention, but this law also requires homeschool parents to provide diplomas, because withholding them is a common tactic for controlling children after they turn 18. www.spoonbeltandrod.com/p/law-bannin...

It’s 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousnesses of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4

/3 I've been trying to get the Vice President of Procurement to sign a contract for three weeks and he keeps sending it back with CAPITALISM IS A DEATH CULT scrawled on it. I think it's in blood.

I will not back down. Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power. What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

i do not think that destroying an object is wrong. i think that treating a thing like a person exclusively for the purpose of dehumanizing it is insane behavior.

#Ukrainian border guards showed the talisman of the Sea Guard boat - the cat named Eleonora. They said that when she was still a tiny kitten, Eleonora jumped aboard a boat, and since then, has spent more time at sea than on land. 📹: State Border Guard Service of Ukraine

Sometimes I think how dope I would be as an interstate drug smuggler. Driving top-trim late-model Toyota Camry with 3k mile dealer service intervals. I will be pulling so much money I would (?) have car insurance. Maybe even a license plate. I dream of this stuff in my sleep. I would CRUSH the game.

ultimately i think the central thesis of trumpism might be true nihilism, just the absolute disdain for the idea that anything matters at all beyond winning an argument in the eyes of your supporters. there is no such thing as competence. there is only loyalty and occasionally bad press. that’s it

These are tough times for those of us who have the neurological wiring where it's really fucking important to us whether or not something is true.

this mentality is, ironically, one of the main reasons we're losing the tech race with China on much more important things, like clean energy

We basically live in a world roughly equivalent to if nobody in the media had heard of political Islam after 9/11 and had no intention of learning that it exists or even listening to anyone attempting to inform them of it.

So this is apparently how it goes these days: (violence occurs) TRANSPHOBE: It's the evil violent trans people who have done this! (perpetrator revealed not to be trans) TRANSPHOBE: Ah! Nevertheless -

At NatCon, there were two topics dominating everyone’s discussions: the imminent end of the right’s support of Israel — and the existential threat that technology posed to Western civilization. I wrote about the second discussion. www.theverge.com/politics/773...

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

i was also doing this the second guy just beat me to it

New Github first: Someone has posted a suspicious .zip on one of my Github issues.

I heard what people were telling me. Belief in whichever god is actually NOT of primary importance to me. The primary issue is whether the gods of Judaism, Islam and Christianity would actually be worthy of respect, let alone of "worship", were any of these to actually exist. (Also of primary >

We're gonna make the One Platform To Rule Them All which is absolutely never going to be a giant target for feuding groups of people who all want us to do mutually contradictory things no siree

I remember attending a church thing in high school—get out of class and have free cookies if you listen to us for an hour—and they were explaining that lying was always a sin even if you were doing it to save a life and I WHAT

Illinois stands with Ukraine today, and always. Slava Ukraini!

yes, the actual communication problem democrats have is that they are afraid of conflict and voters, correctly, think they are weenies because of it

The RESTful API model brought us less SOAP, less SOAP is good.