It’s pretty hilarious that we’re doing the critics/audience divide discourse again while this is still selling out theaters.

this is what all the social media in the Purge movies looks like

The dystopia of inequality--that high table for the lords and ladies; the dystopia of violence--all the federal guns suddenly on display; the dystopia of incompetence (they had one job: to keep a shooter out); the dystopia of normalization.

Currently watching a movie about a killer space fungus starring Liam Neeson (Cold Storage, it’s great), and I honestly find it far more believable than tonight’s Big Trump News

Is there someone dead in the lobby or is there someone in custody? Was the person armed or not? Did he make it into the ballroom or not? Usually there should be a pretty wide grace period on finding this out, but there are literally hundreds of reporters in the room and nobody knows shit.

they keep throwing reichstag fires that nobody comes to

they are looking you dead in the face while they steal from you

I read Emily Oster's Wikipedia page for the first time and learned that her parents are Yale economists, and her husband is an economist. And well, that's all I'm going to say about that.

JUST LOOK AT THIS FUCKING CORRUPT BULLSHIT

AI is a downpour on our society’s ill-maintained roof. Mistrust, surveillance, broken social contracts, misinformation, info bubbles, exploitation, access divides, climate change: in a perfect house, AI might be normal technology, but instead it reveals systemic flaws by turning them into disasters

Amazing framing. "Even" implies "what hope do the rest of you, less successful idiots, have?" And omg lol

MIT Technology Review asked me to review Stewart Brand's new book _Maintenance: Of Everything_, vol. 1. I went into it with a lot of questions, including about how he'd deal with labor, politics, and social structure. It's a lot worse than I expected. www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/17/1...

Look I am as annoyed as every other parent who has to read the same book over and over to their kid but also it is kind of fun and the repetition is how kids actually learn to read. Offloading to ai is how you build illiterate, incurious kids!

Hi hello. www.techdirt.com/support/ Not only would we never go to such nonsense we've had @karlbode.com mocking it.

Today, I urge everyone to find and financially support an independent news outlet — one that will not be attending a spectacle dinner tonight to schmooze with the Trump administration while they berate the press.

AI identified her as the suspect in a crime spree in states she had never been to. she was in jail for six months before she even got to speak with an officer and they instantly were shown they had no case. she lost everything—her house, dog, car, and was left stranded in north dakota.

The blame goes to #MarcoRubio, #ElonMusk, #RussellVought, #JDVance and #DonaldTrump.

When the richest man on earth murders millions faces no accountability and instead he only gets richer and becomes a trillionaire, I think shoplifting a few fruits at whole foods isn't that big a deal. Of course, the reactionary centrist crowd only gets angry at the latter.

Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers

"We've built a rapid response network to stop ICE detention centers before they start. Receive immediate alerts if a facility is planned for your community and help lead the local fight to stop it..." gtfoice.org

Nice piece from @coeckelbergh.bsky.social! I've got How AI Undermines Democracy in my queue just waiting for the semester to end. So close!

“All they did was kill more people, for less and less.” A stunning, acute, powerful piece by @attackerman.bsky.social www.forever-wars.com/from-lost-wa...

this account is run by a human at NASA JPL who only posts real images with their receipts. it only has 11k followers compared to the 200k the ai slop space account has

"Unsurprisingly, it’s easier to bounce back from allegations if you have a lot of money. Every venture capitalist or investor we identified either kept his job or found a new one." Via @ekp.bsky.social sfstandard.com/2026/04/20/7...

just read a fucking book

I think the person I'm most grossed out by here is Weijia Jiang.

To note: this level of eagerness by others to report on Patel's bad behavior proves that Patel and others in the trump regime are *not* feared, they are *hated*.

Happy anniversary of this not happening

So, War Movie. They’re just making War Movie

I don’t think you should be allowed to make a possession remake at all, and certainly not if you haven’t gone through catastrophic personal crises and a divorce that caused you to behave in ways we would consider cancellable bloody-disgusting.com/movie/394801...

Quick thought after this week's big news: The MacBook Neo is a sign of where Ternus could take Apple www.engadget.com/computing/la...

shoutout to everyone who insisted that weiss was a hyper-competent genius who would work her magic on CBS

Based on a bunch of cases, I'm really starting to hate Filoni. And not for petty nerd shit, for valid "He sure is keen to work with problematic people" reasons.

"where are the student encampments?" here you go!

bring it back 😭 we deserve

“…all I can tell you is that it is a failure when you ask people to adapt to computers. Computers should adapt to people. Asking people to make themselves more legible to software —to turn themselves into a database — is a doomed idea.”

This week on the @engadget.com Podcast, @nateingraham.bsky.social and I dove into Tim Cook’s legacy and how things could change under Apple’s new CEO John Ternus www.engadget.com/computing/en...

this headline is such a great example of “racecraft.” musk isn’t passively posting about “race,” he is actively writing psychotically racist agitprop www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Reposting with alt-text

Uxoricide- wife killer. Why don’t we use this word?

Gleefully harming the climate, air, and water is one the very unlikeable things Trump is doing, and it’s so easy to add a point about that to Democratic campaign messaging about how prices are rising due to his broken campaign promises and corruption. Dems are missing an opportunity here!

Revoking kids' visas because their parents criticized Elon Musk.

It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.

The same night Kamala Harris lost, a Jewish woman won a Senate seat in Michigan and a lesbian won re-election in Wisconsin. And a straight white Catholic guy named Bob Casey lost re-election in Pennsylvania when everyone (myself included) thought he was unbeatable.

And if you'd like to see an actual image of Saturn's polar storm, NASA maintains an online library of its photos: science.nasa.gov/image-detail...

Just FYI there’s an account on here called @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social (with over 200k followers) that is posting a bunch of AI slop (including a “Saturn polar hexagon” with 8 sides) and claiming it’s NASA imagery. If you see anything posted by them, it’s likely fake.

no one has ever looked cooler than Bill Paxton in Near Dark

I mean, you have to strip it of its accreditation at this point, right? As in strip in by tomorrow morning. Texas Tech is no longer a place of higher education at this point.

When the president is a heinous abuser, when many of the most popular celebrities are heinous abusers, when the richest people in the world are heinous abusers, when the people developing new technology are heinous abusers, well that’s how you get a culture that incentivizes abuse

good game folks