For well over a decade I find myself thinking "when did we forget to dream?" every time I see a grandiose bridge or like the Hoover Dam. Virtually all of US infrastructure is crumbling because "there's no money" despite the endless budget for cops and wars. It's… disheartening.

If I'm being charitable, I'd say I don't think the goal is to build suicide machines, but suicide machines is definitely on the far side of the spectrum of what they *are* trying to build: something so alluring that you never want to use anything else.

"But Claude is good at code!" is a "Mussolini made the trains run on time" argument. Idgaf if it's good at code bc it's bad for humanity and is being sold by unscrupulous billionaires who are destroying the planet and democracy.

My friend wrote a song that's catchy as hell and also has been stuck in my head (laudatory) for nearly three weeks. Everyone must listen to it and sing it to their friends and children and play it whenever they're feeling bad instead of great about shitty art. 🎶 you don't have to be so perfect 🎶

…muttering to myself “this is why the luddites went after the machines”

If it really is true—if Block really only needs 60% of its workforce to complete the work they’ve been doing previously—they could have just as easily given everyone a three-day workweek.

👀

Downside of dog-friendly ferry cabin: twin beds. Upside of dog-friendly ferry cabin: I got the top bunk.

This wording implies the tech industry is working on their tools ("AI", search, etc) to not repeat disinformation and bullshit, and I am having a really hard time believing that to be true. The arms race against spam is not the same as the arms race against lies. The latter doesn't seem to exist.

The Wisconsin Senate is voting on S.B. 130/A.B. 105, a problematic age verification bill that effectively bans VPN access to certain websites. If you live in Wisconsin, now is the time for you to contact your State Senator and urge them to vote down this bill. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

"the left is ignoring the usefulness of AI" no it's more like it is kind of central to left leaning politics that causing massive negative externalities for your own personal convenience is a shitty way to live. you're just saying you do not like the implications of this position

I gasped

“Happy Valentine’s Day” the acute sinus infection said to the flu. At least that’s how it’s gonna go in my house.

Working and interacting with Italian professionals on a regular basis now, I’ve never been more sure that if you need them to pipe down, convince them to sit on their hands 😆 (I *really* enjoy my Italian colleagues, in case it isn’t crystal clear)

Progress at any price is the watchword of today. Because they are essential to present prosperity and future development, no sum seems too excessive to pay for data centres. Profiteering by promoters, outrageous behaviour by tech CEOs, all must be accepted as by-products of an essential service.

This reminds me: in the past year it has become clear to me that effusively apologizing for being American is like spending five minutes to interrupt a conversation to apologize about pronoun misuse. You’re making it about yourself, not the impact. Your own Americanism generally is not the point.

this is profoundly accurate. quite frankly, saying stuff like this is one of the most accurate tells for “I am a person who has had exceedingly limited to zero experience outside of the U.S..”

I’ll be honest I read this headline/pull quote and genuinely mistook it for a story about modern day re-usage of Underground Railroad safe houses to protect people from ICE and what the fuck, USA. What the fuck.

Take the money from the gestapo ICE and instead build the train ICE

Kinda Fucked Up that in our lifetimes we've gone from "never share personal info on the internet" to "hand over your identity to the most incompetent corporations imaginable".

"Don't worry about the Discord thing, it's only NSFW servers and channels that will require age verification! :)" I could remove every speck of risque imagery/topics from my community and there's still a 50% chance we'd get flagged just because we're openly queer. It's not actually about the kids.

Proposal to rename "AI Agents" to gremlins in the _Nightmare at 20,000 Feet_ tradition.

PSA your tech conference talk title should never, ever start with "50 Shades of…".

I *loved* football. I lived football. I still love the Green Bay Packers as a Wisconsin nonprofit. But I haven’t been able to stomach it for a decade. The most banal plays are enough to make my stomach turn knowing the impact it has on those young men’s brains. And the impact on their families

Had an opportunity at a policy event today to completely earnestly ask if this was the year of Linux on the desktop.

✊

this whole thread is excellent. in general: stop telling people not to do things you know they’re going to do! if you want to be helpful, start by understanding what people are going to do, then give advice on how to do it as safely as possible. abstinence-only security guidance doesn’t work.

Delete TikTok

Fuck ice so hard

The “feels like” temperature in Minneapolis is -34°C (-29.2°F). That’s so cold that Minneapolis might have considered closing the schools regardless because it’s too cold and the busses won’t start. And still people are out to stand up for their neighbors and protect their city from the invasion.

I have friends and family in the Great Lakes region, and no one is Okay. They’re just… consuming news and feeling worse. We know doing something is better for your mental health than doing nothing; share me your resources for what people all the way out in the exurbs can do to help their neighbors.

Taking this another direction: 🤔 I should have a phone tree.

Lotta hyperbolic-sounding numbers in some recent papers I’ve seen. For example: in a meta-analysis of 97 *million* people, infection with SARS-CoV-2 increased chance of new-onset autoimmune disorder (especially vascular & connective tissue) by 49%. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41452424/

I am still trying to recover from the emotional damage of 2016, all the other years since then are in a queue waiting to be processed.

Fuck yeah black panther party.

🇳🇱 🇳🇱 🇳🇱

How many naps in one day is too many naps

January is always about 50 days long… 🧶 #knit

Were I a trillionaire, I would end hunger and illness and need and then I would give the rest of my money to Lana and @lillywachowski.bsky.social to keep trying new things in the hopes they make something as inspired as Sense8

Timeline cleanse: oh no, Cheddar has been locked in the biscuit factory (If you turn the volume all the way up you still won’t be able to hear his audible-to-me purrs but you might be able to hear Watson snores in the background)

Given the repeated pleas I’ve see to stop posting the snuff videos, this is an appreciation post for all y’all I follow. I’ve read every skeet not caught by my own (pretty light-touch tbh) filters and have not seen a one. ***Do not force yourself to bear witness when you are already radicalized.***

One of these made me gasp audibly. It’s a cartoon, and cartoony. But it’s graphic.

In all the horrors, do not forget that we take care of each other. That meeting people with different backgrounds makes life more interesting. Don’t let them take our joy of connection. We are all brothers 🥹

Black mask smashy smashy is not the **only** way to be anarchist - Mutual aid - Community self-defense - Direct action - …a diversity of tactics Do what you can, in your place and within your means. And support other people doing the things you can't or won't. We need the whole damn toolbox!

the world is dark and full of terrors but free zine mail is dazzling and full of cheer! 1. go to forms.gle/1zpDmK93w2B9... 2. choose a zine 3. sit tight 4. do a little dance when the mailperson arrives!

The US is an aggressor nation run by a dictator who runs roughshod over the rule of law to suit his own whims.