I cannot imagine how hard I would laugh if I saw this dude in real life

Happy mother's day to single men with pets. I see you.

My most sincerely held belief is that if more anti-social assholes got their shit rocked every time they tried to pull stunts like this, the world would be a better place

A good cautionary tale for when someone claims that trusting data analysis done with an LLM is good because it’s “objective.” In this example, Copilot apparently decided to ignore the data it was given and just run with all the subconscious biases its (human-made) training data inevitably gave it.

This is exactly right, with one caveat: the reason "no it'll never fucking happen" is there (I bet) is to try (probably not successfully) to stave off dozens of annoying people replying just that. Except that impossible things become possible all the time, and it starts with saying what should be.

Our jihad against antisocial assholes has begun

industry built on unpunished mass-scale theft continues to perform mass scale theft

If poor people do this because they need water to live, they get fined into even more desperate poverty

This is what we mean when we say that "AI safety" is a eugenicist project. They fear an ultra-powerful AGI that may kill us all. Meanwhile, this Colossus 1 data center is already killing Black people in Memphis.

I think MTG going against Trump is useful in a “let them fight” sense but if you actually think she is on our side and isn’t still an antisemitic bigot who is aiming to take over the MAGA movement from Trump I don’t trust you as far as I can throw you

Dickhead apparently said "I'm rich, I can pay the fine," but was unaware that the fine would be collected with a series of punches to his skull. Some things money can't buy. www.surfer.com/news/tourist...

Thinking about the Strait of Hormuz got me thinking about how I was never straight with you. When things got serious, I ran, and I’m sorry for that. I hope you’ll make this deal and we can get back to being us. xoxo

#OtD 9 May 2012 Vidal Sassoon, "anti-fascist warrior hairdresser" died aged 84. As a teenager in London he fought Oswald Mosley's fascists in the streets with his hairdressing scissors, as part of the militant 43 Group. Learn about the group in our pod: workingclasshistory.com/2020/02/17/e...

Good time to re-listen to the @coolzonemedia.bsky.social Behind the Bastards (Opposite Day) John Brown episode. open.spotify.com/episode/6PHV...

We should fully fund science.

"I learned about eating a women's ass at the super bowl. This was a first time for me.”

Apparently there are real people arguing that AI will IMPROVE our idea of a “shared reality” because they think AI tells everyone the same things. People have no fucking idea how this technology even works (or, I’d argue, doesn’t)

Happy birthday to John Brown, who knew exactly how to handle the south’s “Peculiar Institution”

dc taxpayers who don't take the train or bus should have their taxes septupled

JK Rowling is now represented by a trans person in the Scottish parliament. Absolutely incredible.

They put one of yours in the hospital, you put out a statement about how disappointed you are. That’s the centrist way.

the fast food chain white castle is older than italian unification

this is the closest I've ever come to actually suggesting a "one neat trick" suggestion for anything, but I'm so serious here. the Virginia Constitution gives the legislature the power to set retirement ages for judges "REGARDLESS OF THE TERM TO WHICH ELECTED OR APPOINTED." make it 54 right now.

I really fucking needed this. Not as bad as my client, who's been locked up by ICE for over a year. But his case really hurt and I needed to win it for him and for me.

We have a year’s worth of economic data since Liberation Day, when President Trump announced much higher tariffs on most imported goods and countries, and the data are definitive; the tariffs have done significant damage to the economy.

Fascists succeed in general because they are willing to take stuff, break rules, get violent, while most of their opponents are not Fascists lose, in general, because they pick (at least) one fight too many with someone they didn't expect to fight back

It’s very important to note (because the people this will affect are already prone to anxiety!) per the article the FDA has no authority whatsoever to do this and in fact drug companies can simply refuse to comply - and have done so with other drugs as recently as last month.

Virginia speaker of the house going "we respect the decision of the supreme court to disenfranchise millions of voters" really is the perfect distillation of the Democratic party

do any religious texts mention golden idols anywhere

Air traffic Control is in crisis, planes are crashing, TSA lines are around the block, airlines are going out of business. And this fox news bozo went on a seven month-road trip while we were paying him to be transportation secretary? Do I have this right?

Texas eliminated 5 Democratic seats with no voter approval. Louisiana suspended election with no voter approval. Tennessee erased last majority-Black district with no voter approval. But VA Supreme Court blocks redistricting map approved by 3 million voters www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Californians when they hear about Virginians having their duely passed ballot measure overturned on an idiotic technicality after the fact:

This administration ended work from home policies that caused many federal employees who can't afford DC price to leave government. In the meantime, Cabinet Secretaries treat their jobs like a side hustle to their brand building.

me in 2013: gerrymandering is one of the most important issues facing the country, we should not improperly represent states. we cannot let what scott walker did to wisconsin become the norm me in 2026: destroy every elected republican

The most hilarious part of this is that the recall only affects 173 total vehicles, because that's all Tesla's sold of its rear wheel drive model.

My entire lifetime has seen Republicans benefit from every structural bias in the system: two republican presidents elected while losing the popular vote,the senate being biased towards small rural conservative states,house and state legislatures being heavily gerrymandered, and a captured SCOTUS.

ok but we’ve learned laws don’t really matter anymore, the governor should just act and sign the new seats into law just like texas and florida. fuck it

insane every blue state in the country needs to pack their own state Supreme Court immediately if the unelected law wizards want to make donald trump a god-king with a 30% approval rating their power must be broken at every level

Oh come the fuck on man how come every morning it’s more Airbud shit to wake up to, except the dog can only play basketball if it’s racist or whatever

I think a lot of people are underestimating just how politically radicalizing this stuff is, when you see what the right is getting away with, including with the blessing of the Supreme Court majority

Not an isolated incident @thetnholler.bsky.social stole a video I took of ICE officers mooning a Minnesota crowd several months ago. Never responded to DMs, never responded to comments asking them to credit. I self-funded that trip and shot that video in -10 degree weather Fuck those guys

there's a reason woo is comorbid with fascism and it's not because hitler specifically loved the occult, it's because magical thinking is inherently reactionary

the idea that trans people are not legitimately the gender they are is, i assert, a very mainstream idea among democrat POLITICIANS

Judge Colleen McMahon (74 years old) has an objectively better understanding of LLMs than every single person affiliated with DOGE, including (ahem, especially) Elon Musk.

"Jews and Black people" is how you say "cosmopolitan communists and race hustlers" in English.

The ascendancy of the “white moderate” to the place of eminent reasonableness in discourse&politics was always going to lead here, as King told us plainly in 1963. We’ll just keep walking this road until we decide to unmake white supremacy - even the polite kind.