It's a bit frustrating to be legally responsible for clearing the public city sidewalk in front of my house. There's only two of us, one is sick, I'm disabled, what are we supposed to do 😭 I want to be a good neighbor but my body is failing me

All the traits that you have been taught to value and look for in special individuals - courage, intelligence, strength - are actually collective traits. There is no genius or hero coming to save us from our problems. We solve them together or not at all. Socialism or barbarism.

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

A doctor who witnessed the shooting submits a sworn declaration in federal litigation to halt ICE surge in MN: "I did not see him attack the agents or brandish a weapon of any kind." and "The victim had at least three bullet wounds in his back." Read storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

posting this for no reason

PROTEST ACCORDION

And in case you for some reason feel the urge to smash your Ring camera with a hammer, do take out the battery first 😳

ICE murdered a nurse today

Graphic video of the latest ICE murder in Minnesota

Minnesota is the best of us.

Now: With double digit windchill, thousands marching in Downtown Minneapolis during a general strike. Marching and protest against the actions of ICE. Prince dance party outside First Avenue and the Prince mural - where there’s been many Prince dance parties before. Minneapolis January 23, 2026

Demonstrators as far as the eye can see. Current status of the march in Downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota for Ice Out of Minnesota. They are turning onto 3rd Street from 5th Avenue.

In dozens of interviews, sociologist, UX researcher, and interaction designer Diana Enriquez finds middle managers forced to "feign AI success" in a weak job market—for instance, pretending error-free drafts came from AI tools that actually failed, creating burnout rather than productivity gains.

Oh boy, be careful what you wish for. I burn with rage. My fury knows no bounds and gives no quarter. Every day I wake up cuter and angrier than the day before. Challenge accepted

Um YES

Now that the White House is using AI to edit photos of their political opponents to create fascist propaganda I’m wondering if anyone could have seen this use of AI coming. Okay I’m hearing lots of people did and they were forced to watch corporations smother the masses with the technology anyways

Calling all the PhDs I know to make monumental annoyances of themselves (and honestly, who better)

Love the perspective that LLMs give us a chance to STOP bullshitting each other. If a requested communication can be convincingly generated by an LLM, is it the responsibility of the requester to investigate why bullshit serves? In uneven power relationships, maybe.

This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.

I think we’ve got better and more culturally-varied street food than I could have imagined, cool jackets galore, and drugs that make us think we’re really fast and strong before they kill us.

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

I’m picking these valentines up from the printer tomorrow and will be shipping them all week! Things are DARK. Bring a little silliness to your February with some deep sea valentines. As with all merch on the Squid Facts Shop, sales support @skypeascientist.bsky.social Get em at SquidFacts.net

eat the slop www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

I’m howling.

NEW: In January 2024, a man purchased Meta's newly AI-infused smart glasses. He went on to experience a devastating break with reality that played out across Meta platforms — with Meta AI as his companion, entertaining and affirming his worsening delusional beliefs. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Tell me we should trust AI to give us the facts. Tell me it's a future we can put our faith in. Come at me. I'm right here, waiting.

It's particularly galling to call for ICE to wear body cams when Renee Good's murder literally recorded the whole thing on his phone. He was so confident in his impunity as part of that organization that he recorded and allowed for the release of footage of him shooting a woman at point blank.

Saw a lot of headlines saying "wikipedia is embracing ai" being tossed around tabloids, and I'm pretty sure they were maliciously written to make you feel a certain way about Wikipedia. What's actually happening is that wikipedia is demanding payment for data scraping and the corpos don't like that.

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

Deep-sea sponge appreciation post: Bolosoma is a glass sponge that builds vertical structure in the deep sea, creating habitat for a whole host of life. IN 2025 on dives in Papahānaumokuākea, some had heads nearly a meter wide. 📷 NOAA Ocean Exploration, 2025 Beyond the Blue

what a legend lmao

I do my research by asking all my questions to a 4 year old who drinks thousands of gallons of water a day and loves to tell me to kill myself both accidentally and on purpose

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

@merriam-webster.com How could you 😭 not even an option to toggle or hide the worse than useless AI feature What is a "custom synonym"?? I've been a writer my whole life, I love a good thesaurus, synonym lists are fun to browse. This adds nothing. Does "custom" just mean "based on your mined data"?

As I am often saying, the central pillar of Cantor Thought is Tarpeian Socialism, the idea that in a society of significant size, the occasional slob is going to rob a 7-11 and that's not great, but whatever, but if you're given power by society and abuse it, we push you off a big rock.

Survival and safety: Americans would live 4 years longer. 10,000 fewer babies would die each year from reduced infant mortality rates. Maternal deaths would drop by three-quarters. 85,000 fewer people would die from opioid overdoses.

Family and work: Parents would get 25 weeks of paid parental leave. Workers would get 27 days of guaranteed paid time off per year. We'd work 231 fewer hours per year—nearly six fewer weeks. Net childcare costs would fall by 60%.

If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this: America's problems are solved problems. Just not here. What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

Had a brief dream in which one of the podcast hosts I follow here quoted my post and literally gave me the gold star emoji ⭐ which I am now awarding to myself for real because I'm a good noodle and I deserve it. And here's some for you too! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

ICE agents are, simply put, fucking clowns. Some observations from four days on the ground in Minneapolis. www.garbageday.email/p/we-re-all-...

From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.

I'm going to post the link to the video but not the actual video which autoplays and is utterly brutal. Instead I'm posting the photo of the man before ICE assaulted him. bsky.app/profile/dmbm...

Perhaps the surest sign of AI not being super intelligent is the amount of tailored scams targeting the finances of authors, which is as rewarding as trying to mug a seagull.

I think about this quote from the Luddite movement all the time

Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.

My fellow Type 1s get it 🤣 😭

N.I.C.E. Be more like Canada 🇨🇦

ChatGPT actually did make me smarter. Because I spent so much time researching all of the different reasons to hate it. Never touch the stuff myself.

I just started a Substack where I'll post about culture and technology! It would mean a lot of you checked out my first post, where I argue that consumers don't really want to automate their home if it means working more.