An egg salad sandwiche ys the perfecte foode for when you are feelinge downe. An egg salad sandwiche wil not make you feele bettir, but synce it ys a sandwiche that doth looke a litel depressed itself it wil be goode companye and be able to sympathyze.

"The decorations included an archway that read 'Seeking Truth to Save The West,' underneath the words 'Presented by Meta' and the company’s logo." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I'll say it again microblogging platforms are generational products and the reason these spaces will never be "cool" again is because WE'RE OLD

Prepped the footprint for a new large garden and moved some baby sapling trees and cleaned up the raspberry patch and pruned the Japanese maple and I will fckin deadlift your dad

I wonder if Amazon/warehouse consumerism will make big box franchises obsolete in the same way big box franchises made shopping malls (mostly) obsolete.

Does anyone else find it wild that in this moment *language* is literally (LITERALLY) the most powerful force in the world? Large Language Models are pure language and we're losing our minds about it

"oh hey I'm pivoting to AI too" *waits for my value to quadruple*

Quick reminder that PM Carney's entire strategy is rampant private extraction and privatization (irreversible), via a self-imposed nonstandard Structural Adjustment Program with the IMF she-what.ghost.io/carneys-davo...

NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty. "People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.” futurism.com/artificial-i...

The offloading vs augmentation conversation re: genAI is too generous, the framing needs to be parasitism vs symbiosis – who gains and who loses

Mom's practicing her theremin agin

you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of

So the e/acc movement is a bit of a Tyler Durden thing hey? Kind of an "if you want to live act like it" thing?

Cutest thing about poppies is they're like goldfish in that they grow to the size of their habitat (within limits obvs), so if you start them too early indoors like I always do you end up with the teensiest little flower garden

Sneezing so hard I fall backwards on my chair

Unpacking memetics and the dawning realization that they're effectively replacing community and culture. An unassuming, "low brow" social phenomena that we've somehow collectively found ourselves at the mercy of. she-what.ghost.io/on-memetic-i...

“This is the Strait of Hormuz in the data economy. If you want to make a change, this is where you cut it off. Anything short of that is theatrical political posture.”

Returning to an old save and feeling good about my past self's horse naming choices

Mikisew Cree First Nation Billy-Joe Tuccaro spoke about the impact that toxic chemicals leaching and spilling from the oil sands is having on his people. Every Canadian should listen to what he has to say. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Realizing online "communities" are just memeplex clusters hahaha oh no

What about an AT Protocol social app where you have to walk across hot coals to read posts

Google has created a misinformation crisis. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Oksana Levchenya, Pac-Man and Cossacks, 2022. Hemp thread and natural dyed wool

Reminder: they are never as powerful as they want you to think they are

If you understand that the purpose of these products is to pollute the public sphere, this kind of usage makes perfect sense.

Men doing the one-eyebrow-raised thing is a symptom of a semiotic virus and I'm afraid nothing can convince me otherwise

AI companies: WE MADE AI AND EVERYONE SHOULD USE IT Everyone: We don't want to AI: YOU HAVE TO OR YOU'LL DIE Everyone: *Begrudgingly fiddling* AI: WRONG. YOUR SECURITY IS FUCKED NOW Everyone: Oh no AI: PAY US MORE FOR PROTECTION OR DIE

At a certain point of wealth, what is being pursued seems not to be wealth, but the ability to make other people suffer. What's being pursued is immunity from human decency; the ability and even the right to be depraved with impunity. They get off on the suffering. www.the-reframe.com/where-it-ends/

Okokok can a parasite be conscious?

FUCK DAMMIT

Cutest mouse house in my garden aaaaaa!! The mouse put the door right by the sign eeeee I die

I don't think the "AI dreaming of being human" trope is particularly tight because we STILL can't fly, live underwater, or travel through space without hefty augmentation, meanwhile mushrooms can do all those things

The federal government has ended funding for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. See how Indigenous leaders are standing up for the cause, tonight on APTN National News. Watch live: www.youtube.com/@aptnnews

Holy shit, this is really going viral. Already in the NYT crossword!

You're welcome, delivery guy who just watched a lady wearing headphones with long curly hair in a kaftan and slippers elegantly slide though a 2'x2' interior window to access her entryway and receive the package

I love how manual photoshopping has become an archaic mode of creation and also how my shitty photoshopping skills never improved over 20 years and also how shitty photoshopping is a joy many refuse to embrace

*Holds a cardboard tube to my mouth and aims it at the nonprofit sector* WHAT DOES NONPARTISANSHIP MEAN UNDER AUTHORITARIANISM

I'm not a political analyst but there's something about Putin

Going upstairs to the upstairs realm, where everything is upstairs

Framing cravings as a form of loneliness like I'm really lonely for kettle corn right now

Apparently, collaborating with AI impairs unassisted performance because it optimises on short-term goals not long-term. The frame is the trick; you can't actually 'collaborate' with a synthetic token machine at all. Myth-making masquerading as critique ⚠️ arxiv.org/abs/2604.04721

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

Reading Simone Weil's 'On The Abolition of All Political Parties' and it is hitting. "The first objective and also the ultimate goal of any political party is its own growth, without limit."

Gonna start taking JoJo out for a pre-bedtime ceasefire (inevitably shortened to cee-cee)

New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more. They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom. www.theverge.com/news/908401/...

Guess he chose a mix of the first two options. Pragmatic, as it were.

Oh look Carney is consolidating power by absorbing one of the most racist anti-abortion magats in the house. What could this mean.

Oh dang if you set your webpage favicons to something black it makes dark mode tabs invisible, like a gap-toothed tab bar lol