Democrats let tech fascism in the door. Never forget that. Not by losing elections. But by consistently welcoming bribes, corruption, infiltration and takeover from the tech industry. For decades.

American Jew, here. Rabbi, actually! AIPAC is not, in fact, "Millions of people." It's a lobbying *org* that spends a lot of money to influence lawmakers with the goal of getting substantial military spending to another govt., & associated goals. US Jews are a *people*, with diverse opinions!

Welp readsludge.com/2026/06/22/p...

we need to be absolutely clear at every opportunity that tech becoming more expensive is a direct consequence of the generative AI boom and that it doesn't even affect just consumer devices too. if the steam machine ran $350 over its intended price point imagine what it's doing to medical devices

I'm not sure I've ever seen a single sentence go downhill this far and this fast

I grew up with Alan Greenspan being treated as a sage voice of economic reason. Then I discovered he spent his early career as a fully paid-up Ayn Rand cultist (part of the 'collective' who read Atlas Shrugged in manuscript) and I realized that he was just another libertarian loon.

Game failure? Layoffs Game success? Layoffs Game delayed? Layoffs Game delivered? Layoffs Game announced? Layoffs Game unannounced? Layoffs Game good? Layoffs Game bad? Layoffs Game AI? Layoffs Game no-AI? Layoffs Game hated? Layoffs Game beloved? Layoffs Money cares more for layoffs than games.

turns out being deliberately antagonistic towards the people who elected you in order to court people who would under no circumstances ever vote for you is not smart

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

Happy Father’s Day! Today I’m thinking about all the families who cannot celebrate this day the way they deserve. I am thinking about all the fathers who were abducted by ICE and stripped from their kids and families. Fathers who are grieving. Fathers whose children are grieving them. 1/

Note to Self: Make anime about an abandoned rental store manned by a Robot girl that turned light blue because she waited for her owner in the store window for 400 years & became sun faded. Call it something like "Over-Do", & have the character act out VHS tapes they find like in be kind re-wind.

I’m an writer and I don’t use AI because, as you might recall my mentioning earlier, I’m a writer.

this seems like standard NYT stuff until you realize it’s in an *obituary*

hello my fellow podcasters, Audacity is running a survey and as you'd expect, there are AI questions on there! Very leading questions, at that! Tell them you do not need AI baked into this useful recording/editing software! thank you! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

saw Toy Story 5 last night and appreciated how it wasn't just another emotionally exhausting funeral for the series. full review here: letterboxd.com/bobservo/fil...

Contact a physical if you got the perpetual for more than four hours.

even removed from context, this pic is hilarious; team algae

The last episode of The Amazing Digital Circus is up on Youtube. I saw it in a theater a couple of weeks ago, it's worth seeing again now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVy-...

The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle. -Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925

It's really shocking that a young woman who had such a strong career, starring in multiple films, died of poverty while Disney sucked the marrow of one of her movies to the tune of $1 billion. When we say socialism or barbarism: this what barbarism looks like.

The New York Gay Men's Chorus performing at a get-out-the-vote event is infinitely more effective than cynical jerks online mocking political activity. We need earnestness and community, now more than ever. This sort of performative cynicism to prove how cool you are needs to be abolished.

I sure as hell do.

I keep trying and failing to write a good Juneteenth post, like I do every year. Donate to a Black person's #mutualaid today. or any day. that's the best I have. Sorry if it was terrible.

💔💔 Daveigh Chase, star of ‘The Ring’ and the voice of Lilo in Disney’s ‘Lilo & Stitch,’ dies at 35. She was homeless and living in Los Angeles near the hospital where she died, the Los Angeles General Medical Center, according to her father www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

thought about getting a cat but for all i know it'll stand up and put on some gloves and shoes and call me egg bitch and kick my nuts. this must be what pokemon fans feel like seeing new starters

Part of the reason I felt spurred on over the ~33 months it took to make Namco Museum Museum was because I kept getting routinely annoyed by the endless flood of low effort "read Wikipedia at you" retrospectives. The more boring YouTube videos I saw, the more insane and refocused I became lol.

Mrs Welcy was caring for her sick cat Choice and lost 1 of her jobs because of it She's trying to feed her 2 small children, pay rent and electricity and cover vet care for rescued cats Please if you can help even a little, let’s keep her power on It hurts to see how hard things are for her 💔

RiffTrax is turning 20 and we want YOU to be a part of it! www.rifftrax.com/20th-Anniver... Submit a short 30 second video saying either what RiffTrax has meant to you, or sharing your favorite riff from the last two decades. You might make it in to a video celebrating 20 years of RiffTrax!

"ADMINISTRATION REGISTERS RECORD GROWTH" wapo.st/4vWAPAW

It’s been five years since Alex Jones lost InfoWars to the Sandy Hook families. As the verdict came down, he asked: “Do these people actually believe they’re getting any money?” He hasn't paid them a penny. Well, The Onion is going pay them anyway. The new InfoWars begins July 2nd at 8 p.m. ET.

pulling this shit in indie ball is grim. hating gay people so much you'd rather go back to working at autozone than be a professional athlete is insane

It's 2026 and everywhere has free Wifi, like McDonalds (hasn't worked for several months, no staff will even try to do anything about it) or Mellow Mushroom (customer wifi "works," but literally every website is blocked)

hey, this is a fairly nerdy news item, but you should absolutely know about it. (looks like there are links in other posts in the thread.) the Post Office is really contemplating not delivering ballots unless states expose their voters' data to DOJ. I hate saying read that again but, read it again

We were the only UNIONIZED employees he’d ever had, too. I am broke as hell now, but I’ll never regret saying this: EAT SHIT, YOU PATHETIC TWERP. No matter how much cash you accrue, you’ll never know the joy of solidarity. Your life is empty, and you’ll be remembered as a warning to children.

With anti-Black racism, no Black life is safe. Not even a baby. Not even a baby. Not even a baby. His name: Kohen Kartier Wiley. www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippi-...

A lot of historical errors are the fault of assumptions, misunderstandings, and games of telephone. To give you an example of how this sort of things happens, let's take a look at the persistent myth that Batman '66 happened because a TV producer saw a showing of Batman '43 at the Playboy mansion.

the southern poverty law centre controlled the tech industry

The Gavin Files: When he's not busy fighting against the billionaire tax, our slick-haired hero is killing environmental regulations for data centers. He just "shot down legislation to require the facilities to disclose water use." Data Center for President '28! www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

"The mere existence of trillionaires is a major political and economic problem, probably the defining issue of our time," writes @gabrielzucman.bsky.social. "When the power of wealth is wielded by sociopaths, the consequences are a matter of life and death."

Ah but you see strangers on the internet told me no landlord would do this gothamist.com/news/57000-r...

Come on, Gland.

Please donate. It is extremely hot outside and if I die, you won't be able to read my posts. I won't be able to write more because I will be a corpse. (Just explaining for those of you who are too rich to know anything.)

Nobody clicks your share buttons: ankursethi.com/blog/nobody-...

Does anyone know why Metafilter shows the mobile version of the site on my tablet, even though I have Desktop Site set to on in Firefox?

Does anyone know why Metafilter shows the mobile version of the site on my tablet, even though I have Desktop Site set to on in Firefox?

it's like this basically

I was at a trans social last night and six of us at a table spontaneously broke out into singing A Giant Woman from Steven Universe together