It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

Sometimes you read old writing and some phrase pops up like "the yellow man is our brother in humanity" or whatever and you're like, hmm! but then like "ok he's confused but he got the spirit"

So I think I can say this as a Chinese person, "understanding someone in the context of their time" is great if it's because they said "Chinaman" in statements like "Chinamen should have the same rights as you and me" and not if they said like "Chinamen are lazy and must be ruled by their superiors"

The landscape of this country would be entirely different if the Reconstruction Era electoral wins secured by newly freed Black folks had never been stifled by lynchings and pogroms. The violence now, after decades of wins for queer, trans, Black, Brown, disabled, and migrant folks, same energy.

Marley was dead; to begin with. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

Back by popular demand, because we all live in hell now eatf.art/hell

Snow was falling on Riverside, great white feather-puffs that veiled the cracks in the façades of its ruined houses; slowly softening the harsh contours of jagged roof and fallen beam. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

In a happier world, I would spend so much more time thinking about Barry White than Bari Weiss.

my crankiest news opinion is they shouldn’t let you put your byline on a single opinion piece til you’ve done ten years hard labor covering local government meetings that make you want to pull your eyebrows out one hair at a time

Id go back to Usenet before I went back to mastodon. I do not need people yelling at me for not putting cat pictures behind trigger warnings or unwanted Linux advice

Someday, we're gonna find out that the decisionmaking went like this: Mamdani proposes city-run grocery stores. Conservatives say it'll never work. Mamdani supporters point out that DOD runs a bunch of grocery stores. Hegseth decides to close them to own the libs.

If your response to Jewish people being stabbed to death and mowed down by a car in Manchester is “Gaza” you’re a charlatan and an antisemite and you need to get in the fucking bin. I’ve had enough. Jews have had enough. And you’re no ally of the Palestinian people if you behave like this.

In WWII, one side exalted the "warrior ethos" and the other side built a giant bureaucracy that made its soldiers as comfortable as possible and used firepower over human lives. Guess which side won?

Medicare, as of today, will no longer cover telehealth visits. I can’t imagine a bigger slap in the face to our patients.

Wealthy, racist white people don't use public transport because they're wealthy and racist, not because it's dangerous. Ordinary people do this shit all the time.

Love the cognitive dissonance of seeing so many of my fellow Jews going “if I’ve hurt or harmed you in any way this year, please tell me so I can make amends” while they get ready to spend most of the next 24 hours packed into crowded buildings where nobody is masking. *stares in immunocompromised*

Regardless of how many cats you have every cat owner only has 2 cats. A sweet little angel who can do no wrong, and a wanted fucking felon.

"I want to look up into your lifeless eyes and wave like this. Can you and your associates arrange that for me Mr. Morden?" - Vir Cotto, Babylon 5

Is it weird that I was relieved to find out it was an exhumation in progress? I fully expected to click through and read about swastikas spray painted on headstones. nbcboston.app.link/zFbwDdk76Wb

he watches movies and sees special forces with 8 pack abs and no girls allowed and he thinks that's what builds lethality. and in those units maybe it does. but that's not what makes the US military lethal. what makes the US military lethal is overwhelming technological and logistical superiority.

2 years ago I worked on a project to restore a 1920s WHS railway station bookstall. It was in pieces & in a bad state. A colleague & I found old photos of it in the WHS archive at @themerl.bsky.social which helped the restoration work. Look at it now👇 Full story www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

In food history, we notice how super-refined foods--gelatin, vienna sausage, white bread--lose class and become horrifying once they become industrialized. Suddenly, fingermarks in bread dough demonstrate skill, not clumsiness. Post-chatGPT, I'm feeling this about writing. Smoothness feels gross.

Saudi Arabia has a history of brutally executing talented writers who tell hard truths, which is why absolutely none of the comedians performing in Riyadh should fear for their safety

Here it is, your moment of bike lane zen: City of Austin using an extruder to squeeze out a concrete bike lane barrier. flic.kr/p/2ruTvZ2

I do not want to enable location services. I do not want to create an account. I do not want to sign up for special offers and news about your product. I would like to engage in a simple transaction where I give you money in exchange for a good.

Your beloved has brought you a plate of eels. This is good news! Right? RIGHT? Well...in premodern England eel was a common enough meal that it sometimes got used to disguise poison. What's that, you ask? Is it it time for a thread about murder-by-eels? Yes. Yes it is. 1/5 🗃️🧪

I miss when the usual format for finding out about new bands was an article in their city’s alt weekly, which I could read in 5-10 mins and answer most of my questions. Gimme something short but appreciative written by someone I’d prolly be friends with if we lived in the same place, lol

Because you deserve nice things,one of my favorite wholesome videos. Today we celebrate Madeline Kahn on the 83rd year of her birth with her duet of Sing After Me with Grover. I honestly do not want to be friends with you if Madeline or Grover or Madeline and Grover together do not make you smile.

A producer told me once she has to warn young crewmembers to avoid being alone with Aykroyd. "Not because he's a creep, he's a gentleman. But if you let him strike up a conversation the next thing we know all the PAs will be huddled in his dressing room learning how humans evolved from dolphins."

MORETA: DRAGONLADY OF PERN (1983) Acrylic on Masonite - 44” x 32” I had my painting hand in a cast for six weeks prior to doing the cover painting for the fourth book in Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern series. 1/4

Looking for a tiny adventure or two? I'm relying on the #TurtleOfCalm to keep me housed and fed while I get my jewellery shop back up and running. Over 150 different wallpapers to choose from - or grab a bundle for a big discount. ko-fi.com/turtleofcalm... #Helpsky #💕💸 #Wallpapers #Photography

My personal timeline is full of autistic people trying to explain that there isn't more autism than before, it's just that we're better at detecting it, and there's nothing more autistic than hoping explaining something at length will help matters when nobody is really listening.

I'm a little too old to be part of the Reading Rainbow generation and *I* got chills seeing this! So exciting and so great for kids :)

“Nobody had ADHD when I was in school” means “I ignored or picked on those kids.”

the sinclair charlie kirk tribute has 71K views nine days after it was supposed to preempt jimmy kimmel by comparison, this antique toaster restoration video has 102K views after one day

“Nobody knows in America Puerto Rico’s in America!”

It is a problem for the rest of us that his brain is coming unspooled. If it was not being made everyone's problem, it would just be a thing that happens. But as it is happening to all of us, in a way, and would not be if our government weren't evil, yeah that one's an issue.

This should be the rule for the entire world.

Import Poland’s liberal press corps. They overthrew communist dictatorship, and just got them out from under a decade of right wing, illiberal party rule.

it’s super cool and not at all stressful to live in a country whose entire federal government is now directed by an elderly man’s dementia and the schemes of his inner circle

is this a real life is this just fantasy caught in a quote thread can't escape mediocrity

ANU's Professor van Haren, said: "Inhaled heparin is anti-viral, anti-inflammatory and anti-coagulant. There's no other drug that has that unique combination."

"Let's see what's out there..." It was 38 years ago today (Sept 28, 1987) that "Encounter at Farpoint" had its premiere broadcast, introducing Capt Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-D. I'm proud to have been a member of the team who made the show at Paramount.

You probably know this image; it's often used to show that medieval people were emptying chamber pots out of their windows. But is that really what the scene shows? Read my analysis on wordpress; fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/09/29/a... Or on substack: fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/analysing-...

Yeah, like, the whole situation is awful. But this man, he escaped, and these fuckers looked stupid. I will take that win. And I hope he remains safe and has someone at home to hold on to, because that *is* a terrifying near miss. But I will take that win.

"out of the three mass shootings today,"

A reminder to ALL law "enforcement" Virtually EVERY time to go out to eat, YOUR FOOD is within spitting distance of an immigrant

You can do it entirely without confrontation, any woman who survived junior high can tell you how to do this. Make them entirely unwelcome and deeply judged without uttering a word. Freeze out ICE.

sucks shit that we spent 22 years building up a federal force of masked goons to do disappearsnces and despite democrats holding the white house for 12 of those years never scaled them back