This isn’t actually funny but I keep cackling to myself when people say we should pursue AI because it will tell us how to solve climate change. Like, we *know* how, we’re just not. ::burns so much fossil fuel to ask:: hey AI, what do? AI: “stop burning fossil fuel”

I do love that AI inadvertently confirms that our brains work like a muscle, too — use it or lose it. In this way relying on AI is like using a robot to lift weights, like running a marathon in a Honda Civic. You get nothing out of it.

These assholes back down when we push back. We should push back more often. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/c...

We used to have that tech! It was called journalism, but it got enshittified and was rendered inoperable by private equity and billionaires.

there you go, socialism works

Prophetic! Congrats New York, you earned it. At least we don’t have to watch Timothee Chalimet celebrate.

I hope DEMOCRATS are taking note of the absolute thirst for vengeance out here

GO USA AND THE RULE OF LAW

It shouldn’t be controversial to say that the creation of a “trillionaire” represents a giant and complete failure of public policy and government.

the trajectory of the 21st century feels like the writers of the 20th century were mad we missed what they thought was very obvious symbolism and morals and have decided to just go for it

Pokémon go commit war crimes

NEW: on the eve of SpaceX's IPO, i spoke to folks in the memphis area still fighting the company's polluting data centers there, which are now also being leased by Anthropic "We’re the extracted and exploited colony of what is going to be one of the most highly valued entities in the world"

Very happy for New York City, the country's lovable underdog

So the Knicks win 13 playoff games in a row, a historic run! Then Donald Trump shows up to their first NBA finals home game this century, falls asleep, and they promptly lose lmao.

The mayor is still Muslim, the bagels Jewish, and the Christian Dior, but it might not be Knicks in four.

Really glad Siri is going to be integrated with home cameras, so now we can get neighborhood surveillance with the power of "Apple Intelligence". </sarcasm>

Seeing another round of hope vs. despair discourse play out in climate circles, so allow me to once again put a plug in for rage.

LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Good idea to oppose this hack, but Dems should also be voting against FISA 702 reauthorization because Trump is a fucking fascist. We shouldn't have allowed a turnkey totalitarian state under Obama or Biden, and we sure as shit shouldn't be re-entrenching it now.

I will fucking die mad that we let the stupidest people in society with medieval peasant brain ruin recognizing what should have been a moon landing level triumph

“Oh so you’re always saying the Democrats need to get younger and are a gerontocracy but suddenly you’ll reverse that if the old person kicks ass and the younger candidate sucks?” Yeah I guess, that seems to make sense to me

Probably shouldn't have let a handful of weird business perverts unwind the cultural miracle of American research universities

MIT (endowment: $27B) shuttering three of its four main libraries is one of those news items that just knocks you off balance, auguring, as it does, profound and permanent changes to the entire institutional apparatus of higher education in this country.

oh, guess what: MIT's endowment is <checks notes> $27 billion. That's right: 27 billion dollars. 27 billion USD. Why, I ask, is MIT closing THREE of its FOUR major libraries?

dunno what to do with the fact that Trump is likely to have done more to end US imperialism than any social movement ever

We’re going to be seeing a lot more of this sentiment. Do not trust these people.

. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, at CAP event, on how House Democrats see this moment: “Either MAGA extremists are going to break the country, or we’re going to break them. And our goal is to break them. We will defeat them. We have to beat them electorally and then we have to break their spirit.”

in spite of every administrative roadblock this is going to keep happening, and they can't stop it

"the second gilded age" does sound cooler than "billionaire psychopaths scouring the earth"

The headline isn’t the whole story, as Tahoe’s Liberty Power will be able to buy electricity on a broader market once a new transmission line opens. But still, the tradeoff between AI data centers and actual people is stark. Communities should control their own power infrastructure, not investors.

Pretty cool how one side gets to cheat and the other isn’t allowed to win fairly

Big tech’s climate promises weren’t worth the paper they were printed on. They are interested “changing the world” for profit, not actually saving it. Gates, Bezos and Benioff paid lip service to the science, but the moment the economic and political climate turned they abandoned it for more money.

i am tired of having to listen to dumb assholes just because they have a lot of money

Software is a simulation, it is not intelligent. The people who built it are trying to extract profit from your use of it. Instead of anthropomorphizing “AI”, call it “matrix multiplication” to dissipate the hype.

I wish reporters would stop saying stuff like 'Scientists say we need to rapidly decarbonise to avoid catastrophic global heating' And simply say 'we need to rapidly decarbonise to avoid catastrophic global heating' It's not an opinion, it's a fact

this is the precise sense in which "technology is political"

May Day from Mexico City

Is anyone going to mention that Justices Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Barrett were all young lawyers on the Florida recount case in 2000 when George W. Bush stole the election? They should have recused themselves on all voter suppression & election stealing cases, but such cases are their raison d'etre.

Seen in the TSA line at Logan’s international terminal. What’s extra galling about this, is the CPB One app was originally built to help immigrants make asylum claims. Now it’s used to encourage them to “self deport” for $1000 and some dignity. Huddled masses, fuck off!

REMINDER: From the legendary folk singer, poet and organizer Utah Phillips (R.I.P.) #EarthDay #ClimateSky🔌💡

There was always too much DARPA money sloshing around to have a truly pacifist tech sector, but god it’s so depressing how many nerds are enthusiastically building tools of oppression and violence

This really is the only answer. Our dependence on fossil fuels must end. For our planet, and for our society.

Look, for my money the absolute game changer technologies right now are batteries and biosciences, not statistically modeling a mid conversation, but you do you.

Okay bluesky I need your help I live in Massachusetts. You might think we're a bastion of lefty intellectualism but our state government a clusterfuck of post-puritan real estate bros Reskeet this. Text it to your "friends from home" Help this find every masshole poster who will know what to do

It’s a great moment to remember that in the leadup to this popular uprising, the first major gut-punch was delivered by Budapest Pride. Poetic justice. 🇭🇺🏳️‍🌈

Reminder: they are never as powerful as they want you to think they are

In fifty years when people look back at the past decade or so, the big world-changing technological innovation won't be the chatbot slop machines, it'll be mRNA.

Happy Appomattox Day. Here’s some photos I took of the courthouse where the confederates surrendered. flic.kr/p/2oSQQcr

"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.