okay finally picking up dispatch

Since ChatGPT came out in late 2022, over *half a million* tech workers have been laid off. That fact, and their voices, aren't really shaping the conversation about AI, and what "AI" really means in culture. So I started to get into it: www.anildash.com/2026/01/06/5...

I created an Apple Shortcut for iPhone that lets you quickly generate accessibility alt text for images using Apple’s Private Cloud Compute model — it’s accurate & the prompt is based on Harvard’s alt text guide Download here: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/61a09e98865b48118b91334d1ae0ddb5

i need to rebuild my feeds and everything after deleting my account, what are you favorite bsky feeds and labelers? ty

tidy little bash alias you can use to keep yourself from eternally googling how to kill the hanging process at :3000 :) henry.codes/writing/a-on...

just laughing and crying to myself remembering the months it used to take to get a single content change pushed through for wh. gov

sorry christmas pikachu i think today is the day you come down

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

ah man a cold brew from compass was the only thing that kept me sane when i worked in dc

2026 goals for every soul on this website

building something just to play around with bsky oAuth and being able to give specific things it can edit is very cool

I hate, hate that we're gonna go through another round of "well, it says something that I *believed* it could have been true" about the viral but utterly fake "I'm an engineer at a food delivery app" Post that was riddled with absurdities obvious to anyone in the profession or even adjacent to it

welp, it's the new year so glitch is fully shut down! the URL redirects to the blog, (glitch.com) was truly a delight to get to build for that community 😭

“Veruca Salt-ass administration” is truly spot-on.

happy new year! the administration is cutting off $10B in TANF, child care and block grant funding. They're targeting blue states (California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, and New York). obviously those states will sue, but that would be a massive blow to CA (which unveils it's budget in... days?)

this is genuinely a very clear situation: - trans woman on bluesky posted about a curvy video game mod she saw on twitter - she was dogpiled for hours - she eventually responded poorly - she deleted that post & apologized - the harassment continued - she has now deleted her account great job 👍

BREAKING: CBS reports that 2,000 federal agents are deploying to Minneapolis for a 30-day surge. In light of this news, please invite as many friends, family and neighbors as you can into community defense & rapid response work. We need everyone & we need each other. www.cbsnews.com/news/minneap...

On my annual winter e-break I came to the conclusion that basically every facet of our lives has gotten worse because a majority of people now primarily "live" online and thus only experience the world in the abstract. The loudest voices online/in culture aren't actually living real lives anymore.

love this, but I'd recommend getting Narcan trained in your area if you're going to carry it around, it's a little nerve wracking to use the first time irl

regret to inform you that the hobbit man sucks

"When people are—essentially randomly—either approved or denied for SNAP, workers who get access to SNAP work *more* over the next three years." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/when-volat...

yes!!!

watched the new drag race. ru paul looked incredible in that belt thing. the girls this season all seem pretty good? cardi b should replace the hilarious ross mathews

does this........ explain things

I honestly think at this point it makes sense, rough for MN dems who now need to find someone to run

lol this guy blocked me for pointing out that this isn’t an apology for calling for someone to be doxx’d. another thin skinned poaster

Keeping the social safety net as small and as punitive as possible helps to ensure that there will always be a steady stream of people for employers like Bezos to exploit--people in such a precarious position that have no choice but to take whatever underpaid, overworked job they can get.

going through my old amazon purchases that go back to 2007 and wow i was such a mean girl!! i had these sent to my boyfriend at the times ex's house, who was stalking me and writing weird anonymous things about me on livejournal

We have published the following update to our article following an email response from the New York Times. Trans News Network has a policy against platforming bigotry. As such, we have declined to publish the Times' statement which included blatant transphobia.

In America the fourth-richest man uses his newspaper to print columns about how the poor have too many sweets

Two Aliens Looking At Bluesky

The WaPO editorial equates error rates with fraud, and applaud Trump laws that will penalize states for error rates. Either they don't know that is incorrect, or they don't care. Here, @pamherd.bsky.social explains what error rates actually mean. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-big-be...

good news everyone

Yup, a major political faction decided winning mattered more than the continued legitimacy of the institutions that make winning mean anything

i want to rent out my local theatre a few times this year just to make them screen movies i wanna see on the big screen again, starting with MARIE ANTIONETTE. what else can i make them show that will just be me and another insane person in the theatre

Right to repair is even harder for incarcerated people.

this thread is WILD, there are 5000 entries for “most bluesky”

i really wish that bsky would add a download button for videos but until then cobalt.tools this is the best tool i've found to do it

catching up on jeopardy! and really enjoying the time & space they're giving this contestant from the CFPB to talk about her work and the important things the agency did

They’re back!!

i’m sorry, what

Given everything happening right now, I updated this article with options for weather apps, web forms, and translation services — along with some tweaks to existing categories. I hope it helps your transition off US tech!

There is no one more qualified to say this. It's real. Verified account of Reality Winner.

highly recommend grabbing some of these to give out to folks!!

my “i’m not going to get stoned in january” decision is being tested today mightily

"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.

as a member of congress, first I’d like to say that what happened was bad. things like this should not happen. in summation: someone should do something. thank you and god bless america

do they have X up with “venezuela” in the search box. what a joke

Well, it was either all this or another black person in a Star Wars movie

This is indistinguishable from statements that the Russian opposition would make to Putin 15 years ago.