“It wasn’t about race or LGBTQ… I just voted to lower prices.” 🙃

I think we need to celebrate the death of Sora a bit more. This is a technology that, just MONTHS AGO, we were being told was going to literally destroy Hollywood and Disney was going to give them a BILLION DOLLARS and NONE OF THAT EVEN REMOTELY HAPPENED

What does “U.S.” refer to, specifically, in this sentence? What about “Pentagon?” Because without that specificity, this isn’t just incongruous; it’s unintelligible.

"Tenure-track faculty have not received salary increases in real dollars for the past decade." 😬 And then we wonder why we get headlines like this... www.chronicle.com/article/when...

Deploying ICE at airports is to normalize their transition from being a special operation targeting immigrants to being an entity that polices all. This is the production of the American Gestapo, one institution at a time.

It’s Opening Day in Cincinnati, which is a city holiday where EVERYONE wears Reds gear… Except my three year old daughter, who insisted on wearing a Cincinnati Cyclones jersey. Girl loves hockey 🏒🥅

America was designed as an economy cosplaying as a democracy. As soon as an enslaved workforce was no longer available, we turned to slavery by other names in our social policies as the stick and technological innovation as the carrot.

This dude teaches “Internet Law” at George Mason and is asking the CSAM-generating machine to tell him if an obviously AI image is real… and believing it when it says it is! If no student in his class calls him out on this, what are we doing?

picture, thousan words, etc etc

ICE officers getting paid for standing around doing nothing while TSA employees work without pay is a pretty succinct summation of where we're at right now

Dems are never, ever going to regain the public's trust on immigration so long as this is the kind of imagery they are using to represent immigration. I don't even need to read this to know it's stupid.

I think it is really important for us to understand just how big of a defeat the We Are All Charlie Kirk thing was, because I don't feel like there has been much writing about the larger meaning of it

My rabbits? Frightened.

A few years back, a friend of mine and I discussed how Robert Mueller’s report essentially said he couldn’t indict a sitting president so it asked Congress to act, which it didn’t do, while the January 6 committee asked the DOJ to take action on a former president, which it didn’t.

More Pride flags popped up in windows on Boston university’s campus today. People are distributing them. I really don’t know where the administration thinks this will go.

“My god, we’re making big pants.”

My completely unprompted “we’re doing extremely well in Iran” statement is raising a lot of questions already answered by my completely unprompted “we’re doing extremely well in Iran” statement.

Google is now screwing with the 10 blue links in traditional search and rewriting headlines - including ours - to be the worst kind of slop. This sucks so bad www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

I can’t endorse this enough. It’s so frustrating talking to almost about about “AI” when they aren’t being specific or clear what they mean. It literally makes effective conversation impossible.

This is a fascinating amount and order of words that essentially boils down to a sociopath describing why he’s a sociopath.

If anyone ever refers to Republicans as or barely implies they are fiscal conservatives or the party of fiscal responsibility, just know you can ignore their political statements forever.

“But how are we going to pay for it?” asks no mainstream pundit or reporter…

no one teaching college is paid enough that they are receiving appropriate compensation for the damage to our work process inflicted by AI adoption. no one *except maybe B-school profs who use it to generate assignment prompts and then do their grading, idk

wait. wait. everyone hold on. i've solved it

More seriously: when you get people who speak honestly -- as I do think this person is doing -- what you see is that a lot of the people who get involved with this stuff really do so for basically frivolous reasons. it's a game, then it's a livelihood, then suddenly it's Real and not funny anymore

I discussed this ad in my media studies course… and boy I wish I had this added context. Still - there’s always next semester!

“We need to learn how to talk to each other” 🙄

It's hard to internalize the fact that the administration really does believe the Iraq war was "woke" and that they would be able to easily defeat a substantially more powerful nation simply by being based chads

If you want to talk about LLMs being of use to people who aren't Musk and Altman and Zuckerberg, you have to talk about *power*, and how others could have it. You have to describe a credible alternative political economy. The bits and bytes don't actually mean shit without that.

Great example of shitty citizenship - both national and international. You don’t get to “opt-out” of politics or discussions thereof, especially when your country is the most powerful and influential on earth.

If you want to understand contemporary American politics, don’t go to the Political Scientists. Go to the Media and Culture scholars.

There is a lot of stupid here, but what the hell is a “politically correct war?”

If you took $1 billion and gave it to the endowment of a different small college each day, they could each provide a free college education to several hundred students per year in perpetuity. Instead we are using that money to bomb schools and kill students in Iran, for no clearly stated purpose.

very aspect of life in this country is designed so that people do not form bonds or relationships with other people, it's wild to watch in action. Never seen divide and conquer applied this rigorously to a domestic population that is not under foreign occupation

we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping

Just for posterity… this is from two days after he started an illegal war in Iran

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

This is precisely it. The use of ‘AI’ in military operations isn’t to conduct better operations; it is to have a convenient scapegoat at hand when things go wrong to avoid responsibility

This obviously very stupid but is it also smart? We’ll talk to some liars after this break.

The entire millennial identity is being prepared and groomed for a version of the world that stopped existing by the time we reached it we slammed into a horizon painted on a brick wall like fucking looney tunes

After a US-Israeli strike on a girls’ elementary school in Minab, Iran, rescuers dug through the rubble for survivors. The death toll is still rising, with more than 80 confirmed dead so far.

If you want to “Share an Opinion” with Congressman Landsman through his official website… I’m afraid they’re having some issues

This so-called Democratic Congressperson is posting comments indistinguishable from Republican propaganda. He’s my district representative, and I will do everything in my power to get him out of office.

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

What the genocide in Gaza reinforced is that there are no "civilians" when it comes to Israel and the United States. The rest of the world learned the same lesson and the consequences are going to be felt across the world.

Killing scores of children at a school for… some unknown fucking reason. It’s not a war when indiscriminately killing civilians. That’s murder. News outlets calling this a ‘war’ are laundering US/Israeli crimes.

just really feels like their win condition is simply the fact that killing people makes this administration feel powerful and they’re reasonably confident Congress won’t stop them from just blowing shit up for funzies as long as they can get away with it

CBS is propaganda. Proceed accordingly

Dems don’t lose based on policy. They lose based on performance.

A thing I strongly believe, but that was only obvious in retrospect, was that drive-time talk radio was the most valuable propaganda platform in history and a big reason we got into this mess we're in now was because conservatives dominated it in the 1990s and 2000s