My crankiest old man take is that referring to all art/entertainment/journalism/criticism/comedy/advertising as “content” helped pave the way for broad-ish acceptance of AI slop.

I was airdropping some files from my phone for to my work phone and not prepared for the flashback to playing with dolls and the Now Make Them Kiss of it all.

I celebrate the body positivity of whoever designed this hotel bathroom with three walls of mirrors.

The U.S. government handed a 3-year-old to an abuser to torture him to death, and then his mother was allotted one hour for his funeral.

Ossoff: He settled the suit with himself to create a $1.8 billion slush fund so he can cut checks to cronies and Jan 6th foot soldiers. The same men who sacked the Capitol. Donald Trump's brown shirts . He pardoned them, and now he wants you to pay them.

happy Pride Eve to all the people who are about to paraphrase this tweet from 2022 or repost it with my name removed as if it’s a thought they just had themselves

i think this is accurate and worth thinking about. A D vs D governor's race would all-but guarantee a wipeout of Rs in all the competitive House seats in CA and in a bunch of other swingy downballot races

Hey Rabbinic Bluesky, I’ve been hearing some Catholics are requesting religious exemption from using AI based on Pope Leo’s teachings. What would be some Jewish positions on AI based on our texts?

🎉HUGE NEWS! Following relentless advocacy from our immigrant communities, New York State passed a budget with new protections for immigrant New Yorkers! 🧵

Me twice a year trying to get a Manhattanhenge picture.

This is how your email finds me.

It’s so easy!!

They’re turning the entire federal internet apparatus into a galaxy of phishing sites that are controlled by the president and do not adhere to any federal privacy or disclosure rules.

"“I’m here to tell you the mission of your generation is to destroy AI,” said Chieng." news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

E. Jean Carroll didn't just "accuse" Trump of sexual assault. She won a civil lawsuit against Trump for sexual assault. A jury found that Trump sexually assaulted her. She deserves for us to call it what it is.

All of it is just people starving

Reporters don't talk enough about how Republicans do not consider Democratic voters to be fully American.

Instagram is showing me nothing but dad pub accounts and I feel deeply attacked.

The situation is already bad enough. The answer isn’t force-feeding. The answer is to abolish ICE. (2/2)

That could be anywhere between one and three people.

Ok this is a truly great tweet

I refuse to go to Win11, but this bullshit is in Windows 10 too, I disabled it immediately, luckily someone clued me in a while back when it first rolled out. Settings > devices > typing > typing insights to disable it. Happy to have my stats sit at 0. They keep saying it's inevitable, but hiding it

Spain is one of the only major countries to have consistent left-coalition national leadership from before Covid- which means they have been able to move forward on progressive energy policy. And results show why progressive leadership is better.

Rowling, Forstater, Davies and your ilk; take a fucking bow you absolute dangers metro.co.uk/2023/05/25/i...

i love her make her president

50% of American workers say they want to join unions, but 10% of workers are IN unions. Where’s the disconnect, you might wonder? The game is rigged. www.epi.org/publication/...

Sonny Rollins, one of the most influential Jazz musicians of our time, died this afternoon. He was 95

This photo of Andy Kim in the moments before ICE gassed everyone at Delaney Hall is going into the history books. We need more of this from our electeds.

they’re shooting crowd control munitions at crowds that include multiple members of congress, the governor, and a sitting united states senator. they fired pepper balls at the senator. they cannot and will not be reigned in by democracy, whatever’s left of it.

These are the moments that remind us why we fight. We won’t stop until we #FreeThemAll 🦋

- MTA bus speeds in & around the decongestion zone increased 2.3%, reversing years of decline & delivering more reliable trips. - Ridership grew on routes through the decongestion zone: subway trips +9%, local/select bus +8.4%, express bus +7.8%. - Greenhouse gas emissions in the zone fell ~6.1%

"Liberal democracy is not just majority decisions bounded by rights. It’s also about the care with which decisions are made...[we should] evaluate evidence and deliberate in a reasoned way." Interesting @polphilpod.bsky.social on UK turn against trans rights: www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

Bucky is enjoying the rare Triple Pets from my sisters and I

Went to an anti AI datacentre protest march today and a friend of mine got a picture that summed it all up

they should make a holiday for carly rae jepsen. everyone would call it carly day jepsen

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bad back safe ways to sit down

I was going to say this is crazy but it’s not. There is a book by a medical sociologist called Dying of Whiteness about the supremacist politics some voters choose over their own lives (literally) & now we have a government that is using the same logic to make national policy.

That's what you socially maladroit capitalists get!

On his birthday, we remember the great (and Academy Award-nominated) Paul Winfield, who played Captain Terrell in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Captain Dathon in the classic Next Gen episode "Darmok."

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BREAKING: Judge Waverly Crenshaw dismisses indictment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia based on selective and vindictive prosecution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

www.politico.com/live-updates... republicans poisoned the smithsonian women's history museum bill because they're ideologically opposed to women, history, and museums in that order

A friend did the maths on this and noted that in the last 5 years there has been one hostile news article for every ten trans people in the population total.

Quote with a fictional band that is not Spinal Tap.