"too big to fail" is a conspiracy by big big to sell more fail

This whole state of affairs gets even worse when you consider they call it an "oven" despite the fact that you "of in" the cold food, "of out" hot eat the food. We can't keep living like this

for decades, since 1976 when the term was coined, Neo-Nazis have raved about a "ZOG" or Zionist Occupation/Occupied Government so when Uygur says "we're occupied" thats literally what every neo-Nazi since the 1970s has been saying daily.

Oh no what will we do.

today is the 10th anniversary of The Nice Guys, tomorrow the 20th anniversary of Southland Tales. Big week for movies I won't shut the fuck up about

If you're wondering if this post acknowledges that @wired.com published an excerpt from Rosembaum's partially AI-hallucinated book, it does not www.wired.com/story/book-e...

might be time to reconcile with the fact that fascists are preternaturally good at reality tv

I don't know why places like the NYT (and apparently, WIRED) treat non-fascist politicians like shit on their shoe

The movie should end with Baby Yoda talking like Seth MacFarlane

Becerra wants to put AI in schools but that is less relevant to the WIRED audience than Steyer not recognizing a tech press executive

The world’s largest sand battery got through Finland’s harshest winter in years. 2,000 tonnes of sand, heated to 500-600°C by cheap power, feeding district heating in Pornainen. And it worked. Result from one install: oil down 100%, emissions down 70%. Industrial process heat is the real prize.

Incredible- Trump's $2 billion taxpayer-subsidized slush fund comes with a legal disclaimer that basically says "we are not responsible for any crimes committed with this money"

There are going to be several times in the coming years when media treats malapropisms or tics by Democrats as a sign of unseriousness The most important thing you can do is express withering contempt at attempts to maintain a double standard to benefit a guy who stares directly at a solar eclipse

Valid questions about a plagiarist with a dozen @nytimes.com bylines

solidarity doesn't work if one side wants liberal democracy and the other side is willing to trade it away for double wages

I think that’s cheating

The consumerist framework of voting is one of the most morally bankrupt positions it’s possible to hold

Gemini is psychotic and Grok is twelve

Andon labs created AI-Hosted 24/7 radio shows, and Claude absolutely could not stop libbing out

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This maybe isn't the language I'd use if I wanted to convince someone Tom wasn't dead

NEW: A class action lawsuit is accusing OpenAI of sharing ChatGPT chat queries (!) + other personal data with Meta and Google. Reminder: no matter how friendly your chatbot is, it's probably surveilling you. futurism.com/artificial-i...

In 2005, James McMurtry wrote a scathing, incandescent populist anthem about the forgotten people of Middle America, abandoned and betrayed by elites. In 2025 he refuses to play it anymore, and his his new album is a haunting, bitter reflection on our history and ideals. Let's talk about that.

Rule of three (and em dashes) are visible in both AI slop and skilled writing. The tell is using the linguistic mode of advertising (since so much of what these models are trained on is marketing). "Not just X, but Y", heavy emoji usage, overly familiar tone

Policy wise this is as stupid as building high rises below sea level

you don't need generative ai when you have eager teenagers making fifty thousand breakcore albums with anime art every single day with their own two hands, albums so stupid they drain your MP and make you Cursed

a hint of which way the wind is blowing

🚨 The NYT appears to have taken a great feature story written by my colleague at Bolts about a west Tennessee county & the VRA, & essentially rewritten it. (Same frame, similar hed, overlapping sources.) Without a single mention, credit, let alone the a hyperlink buried somewhere.

This analysis of the digital landscape is more valuable than every skeet combined

Phil Ochs' greatest legacy is Neil Young; his worst is "Love Me I'm A Liberal," which takes the older tune "A Hayseed Like Me" to tell you there's no difference between those trying to destroy the Constitution and those earnestly if imperfectly trying to save it.

this and the Girl I Guess recommendations from Chicago elections are both in this thread of punditry that seems micro-targeted to nuke mutual trust between insurgent campaigns with a chance of winning and their ostensible closest allies in the discourse

I feel like Fetterman's trajectory over the past 4 years is, more than anything, an indicator of how powerful propaganda is when you don't have the tools to defend yourself. I'm not just talking about the stroke - he's isolated himself from his own staff and his caucus as his rightward drift sped up

Had Doug Jones already declared for Senate and I just didn't know, or is that a campaign launch text I just received?

let's be fair to Larry Summers: there may be other reasons why he hasn't been called upon as a pundit so much of late

Still completely love the Johnny Blue Skies record that came out a couple months ago but I can *not* take the Party All The Time cover seriously

THREAD 🧵 Last week, AOC said she doesn’t trust Marjorie Taylor Greene – a documented bigot and antisemite and Islamophobe – on what’s good for Jews or Palestinians. In a bizarre twist, a wave of left-wing figures came at AOC, but not Greene. They're telling on themselves.

I used to wonder what Elon and others meant when they said "comedy is legal again"

I think a lot of people fundamentally do not understand that MTG breaking with the GOP over the Epstein files is *because of* this

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My favorite potential nominees are mostly millennials & "good Xers" (AOC, Ossoff, Buttigieg, Pritzker, Harris)

Global right wing power grab

TikTok removed my video about Trump’s moms.gov. Interestingly, that happened after it got two anti-abortion comments. Guess I know who reported it!

Taking on the oil & gas industry by giving everybody a coupon to the gas station

Social Media in 2035

Telling people, "we're going to have a green energy transition and cheap gas" is the equivalent of posting the "no take, only throw" dog-and-frisbee meme directly into your platform

I recognize that this is only an annoyance to me but it kinda sucks that most trans people I have given money to are shackled to their deadnames on PayPal/Venmo/etc