some personal news: tomhomanisabitch.com

*reads post* *post is actually just abyssal gazing* *post stares back*

I love this because it’s like us, going to the gods for help when we’ve run out of all natural options, not knowing if they’ll help us or kill us and wear us as a scarf, but hoping they help us because that’s what it means to have faith. Weirdly.

Newly unsealed internal communications from Meta reveal senior staff saying Instagram is a drug and "We’re basically pushers." The new court filing reveals Meta staff allegedly worked for years to obscure the social media platform’s potential dangers from parents and children.

Reading "Careless People" was a GAME CHANGER for my personal values around social media use.

bluesky checked the IP addresses of pro-turkey posters and they're all posting from hungry

I do not want to create an account for a one-time purchase. Yes, I want a bag. Yes, I want a receipt, printed out, not emailed or texted. No, I will not download your app for future weak discounts. Please just let me be a customer like it’s 1987

Hundreds of Starbucks baristas and labor organizers blockaded Starbucks' largest distribution center in York, Pennsylvania, halting distribution of syrups, coffee beans, and other supplies to the entire northeast. This escalation is part of @sbworkersunited.org's ongoing strike.

and for the venn diagram of "interested" and "not a tech nerd" people youtu.be/gDR6V5OdnYg?...

If you want the meat and potatoes of what that means, you can read the article But the tl;dr is that even cutting-edge law enforcement tools can't crack the nut that is @grapheneos.org (and google is the only company making phones that can do this lol) biggo.com/news/2025091...

Fun Fact: The @grapheneos.org team only builds stuff for Google Pixel phones. Why?? Oddly enough, one of biggest names (& perpetrators) of surveillance capitalism (google) also makes the BEST (and only) phones that the team considers private enough to work with. grapheneos.org/releases

LET'S FUCKING GO

It's no secret that 2025 has given Americans plenty to protest about. But as news cameras showed protesters filling streets of cities across the country, cops were watching those streets through different lenses: Flock Safety license plate readers that tracked every car. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Utah?! Care about water?! Beyond fasting and praying FOR MOISTURE?!???????????!? Tickle me intrigued.

#booksky 📚

Don't get me wrong, Trump is NOT good at what he does BUT if there even is a theme at all to any of his 2 terms IT IS BEST UNDERSTOOD THROUGH THE LENS IM THIS BOOK I'm telling you. This and its predecessor will rewire your brain

If there was a way to scatter plot all the rambling bullshit chaos Trump and his ilk are constantly putting out AND THEN if you draw a line through the points to try and connect as many dots as possible in a desperate attempt to make sense of any of it IT WOULD LOOK SOMETHING LIKE THIS

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The common person wasn't ready or deserving of the power that comes from being able to store unlimited text messages. Back in my day you had to choose which messages and conversations were really worth the phone space. (Which is a great privacy/security measure, btw. Just saying. ; )

They had me do anti-racism training at the Target I worked at. Can't believe they didn't snap their own neck with this 180. Target can eat shit and die. There's a reason traitors rot in the lowest levels of hell.

READ "THE AI CON" by @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social They have the answers we seek.

They are trying to replace human workers so they need robots that can navigate a worksite and use tools like a human.

Like okay great you hate ads and especially how it seems they're listening to you. But like HOW much does it ACTUALLY bother you?? Would you delete facebook over it? Even just delete the app off your phone? Most people aren't willing to do anything. Hmmmm. . . Seems like you don't actually care.

It's not enough for me to just "log out" and forget it I need to do my part at literally DESTROYING anything valuable they have about me. My entire life at this point is less about security and privacy and more about just being a small pain in the ass to the data collection industrial complex

Love that online security/privacy is a concern for people. I'm more worried aboout the fact that no one seems to care that all that data ALSO feeds and enables AI. Like, I don't just NOT do meta products cause I don't want personal info online, I ALSO DON'T DO IT CAUSE I DONT WANT TO FEED THEM

You're either trying to create a mind, which would then (upon waking) deserve rights and autonomy from you. OR You're trying to create something that IMITATES a mind, but has none of the drawbacks (up to and including having wants, needs,desires, or even boundaries!!) Either way it's bad

Today is my birthday! 🎂 If you like my work and want to make my day, I only ask that you share my art and stories with someone who might enjoy them :) Or trick your gullible friend for a minute. That's also a good one.

AI doesn't have goals or dreams or desires. AI does not yearn. AI does not love. AI has no will or passions. We may not know what consciousness is, but AI is NOT IT.

I thought people knew/expected this? The worst harassment I got on X in the last while was when I said that some of the best creative users of llms I knew were poets and that this was entirely understandable. People couldn't understand that I had not written "llms should replace human poets".

The American Anthropological Association is currently meeting in the hotel where I’m saying, and never has any group of people looked more than an association of American anthropologists.

THE MORE YOU USE YOUR LIBRARY THE MORE MONEY THEY GET SCARCITY IS A MYTH LIBRARIES ARE BUILDINGS OF ABUNDANCE SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY AND GO GET YOUR FKN LIBRARY CARD

friendly reminder there’s this cool place where you can borrow everything from books to video games to movies to comics to power tools FOR FREE they are called PUBLIC LIBRARIES and they are the coolest place in your town guaranteed

just 1,000 more drops in the bucket of "convenience = fascism"

I’m howling.

👩‍🌾 Grab your tools

ain't no fuckin way

My most woke opinion is that the whole point of society is to collectively help each other. My taxes should be going towards housing and feeding everyone. No one should be without food or shelter. Rich people should be contributing more towards this. It shouldn't even be controversial!

CONSIDER GETTING LIBRO CREDITS AS GIFTS FOR YOUR LOVED ONES AUDIBLE CAN SHRIVEL AND DIE IN THE DIRT

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shit you not this is like half the battle of quitting vaping/smoking I YEARN FOR THE MOUTH FIDGET

chewing gum is just a mouth fidget

finding out recently that almost all the words in the dictionary are not IP and are in fact open source/public domain was an absolute game changer for me as a writer

"Greeks living in Afghanistan were Buddhist 500 years before China and a thousand years before Southeast Asia" is one of those things that sounds made up but is in fact true

i'm still really upset about those buddhas getting blown up

[completely ignoring the scales involved] this is where I will put the jacuzzi

Coming back to this because we really need to get into our heads that the stuff that's "wow-ing" the AI world is stuff pretty much any human can do. They're making it code a rubik's cube and then solve it. HUMAN'S INVENTED THE DAMN THING. AND THE PLASTIC IT'S MADE FROM. WE CAN DO THAT SHIT.

IN CONCLUSION, AI WILL ALWAYS REQUIRE EXTRA STEPS OR UNNECESSARY FAFF IN ORDER TO DO THE SAME THING BECAUSE YOU ALWAYS HAVE THE OBSTACLE OF EXPLAINING YOURSELF IN SUFFICIENT TERMS TO GET EQUAL TASKS DONE WITHOUT INCLUDING A SLOPPY HALF-BAKED "BRAIN" INTO THE PROCESS

“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.” Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter

For anyone interested what things look like INSIDE the bubble. (spoiler alert: it's delusion) Ever since reading "The AI Con" I'll never interact with this content the same youtu.be/dtBvh1nIAM4?...