It’s going great.

Remember: we were never given credit for being right about crypto, we were never given credit for being right about NFTs, we were never given credit for being right about the metaverse and we will never be given credit for being right about AI. Fuck 'em up anyway.

Wrote about the college kids booing AI, and how, in a moment rife with economic precarity, affordability crises, and collapsing job prospects, AI has become a new avatar of American capitalism

They’re doing reparations for the January 6 guys.

This is precisely what she was hired to do: take over the most respected news program in the country and turn it into another propaganda arm of the corporate right

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

Rewatched EX MACHINA (2014) again and, boy, that movie not only holds up, but it even better in the age of current so-called ‘AI’ hype. Just nailing now-contemporary issues relating to gender, sexuality, ‘AI’ psychosis, tech bros, and more.

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Some of y’all use revolution the same way some evangelicals use rapture.

This is a very good thread about AI.

The animating principle of the Republican Party is racism, most specifically anti-black racism.

CNN airing this the exact day Ted Turner died is amazing for the man’s legacy.

Once again, I argue college professor is THE most hated profession in the country, as they are consistently attacked and belittled by both Dems and GOP.

What the hell www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...

Kids should be learning that AI output isn’t trustworthy, where it really comes from, and how it’s disrupting our ability to tell what’s real. They shouldn’t be learning that AI will make them more efficient or do their work for them because it can’t. That would be propaganda, not education

Teachers: "Please help us get AI out of schools, it's ruining education!" Students: "Please don't make us use AI, it's ruining our lives!" Politicians: "We hear you and we want to help you harness the power of AI." #NihilismAndTechnology

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"as Washington leans on education to manage workforce disruption" Education is not workforce training. Education is not workforce training. Education is not workforce training. Education is not workforce training. Education is not workforce training. Education is not workforce training.

In 1979, Mattel sold toy Battlestar Galactica fighter ships that fired a tiny spring-loaded "torpedo." One 4-year old choked on it, and the entire line of torpedo toys was recalled and never sold again.

If you scroll past this fast enough, you can recreate Eadweard Muybridge’s “The Horse In Motion”

O Grogu, Where Art Thou?

Any mainstream journalist going to talk about violent political rhetoric anymore, or have we moved on?

The Senate passed the Voting Rights Act renewal in 2006 by a vote of 98-0. The Supreme Court majority gutted it on the grounds that the Justices personally dislike the impact.

. @aoc.bsky.social responds to this trend: "BOOOOO" "This race to try to see who can be exempt from participating in society is not a conversation that I'm interested in," she tells me, calling it an uninspiring message. "I'm a Great Society Democrat, and I believe in building that together."

This👇🏽 deserves to be posted 100 times but I’d be labeled spam.

This is always a dumb idea, but doing it now, after several tournaments showing the lack of cinderellas and upsets, is really brain dead. This is going to crash the value of the brand so hard.

I say again and again. My students don't want to use GenAI. They get so upset when it comes up. Then I hear "ahh, but the students who aren't showing up to you class are probably using it." ...O...Okay? Students with bad habits have adopted other bad habits?

The president he is shilling for has pardoned 1600 people who tried to change an election with violence…

“the number one job of national security would be to protect the commander in chief” kind of gives the whole autocracy game away.

The main reason I support transit is that many people should not be allowed to drive and that shouldn't be immiserating to enforce

It’s pro wrestling. ‘Good show, everyone. See you next week.’

Donald Trump called Somalis “animals.” He said Haitians eat dogs and cats. You fucking journalists had a party with him and now you want our sympathy. Fuck off.

“Political violence” is a nearly meaningless phrase in an era where grave harm is so routinely caused by political institutions that it doesn’t trigger an ounce of introspection

I posted this not long before what transpired. Make of that what you will…

This is more disquieting than anything I’ve heard from the actual Trump administration. The entirety of mainstream American press is in a room… continuing a party where, moments ago, (allegedly) a man made an attempt on the president’s life. It’s all a game. A performance. Nothing is real to them.

If this was, in fact, an active shooter situation, treating it like a minor inconvenience so you can go back to your fancy dinner is the most end-stage American capitalism display I could possibly imagine

Backstage at a wrestling show This is what a ruling class looks like. None of these people are ‘enemies.’ They just play them on TV.

As a father of a young child… this makes me so sad and so angry all at once.

Honest answer: There are enough people in this country and in key positions of power who believe they can personally benefit from this fact. There are few ‘true believers.’ It’s grifters from the top to the bottom, and everyone thinks they’ll win.

So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out

Time to invest in guillotines…

Baseball is completely silly, no one should take it seriously, and that’s why it’s fun.

“Well the Strait is closed… again.”

It isn’t easy given how destructive he has been, but it is deeply important that we never, ever forget that Donald Trump is, and always has been, a colossal goober. Just, absolutely unmatched goober behavior. Our children and grandchildren must be taught this:

the explicit promise of mass pardons for all crimes committed for the sake of the president is the most corrupt act in the history of the presidency

"AI is garbage, bro, it gives you wrong answers like half the time and the other half the time makes you stupid." Overheard a middle schooler chastising a fellow student for suggesting they use AI. Whole middle school herd started mocking the AI kid. ...We need to let these kids at the tech bros.

“Why aren’t college students protesting” stories are almost always wrong (they are protesting), omit crucial context (they were brutally punished for protesting before), and somehow suggest that 19 yr olds have more moral responsibility than elected officials three times their age

You will never guess what actual, serious question this tangent is in reference to…