Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

The teenager told officers he was a U.S. citizen, but an officer broke the car’s driver’s side window and detained him. In a video, the boy can be heard telling an officer that he is a citizen, to which the officer replies, “Get out of the car” and “I don’t care.” www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

if elon just hired an Inverse Jester (guy hired to listen to his jokes and pretend they're funny) we could solve every problem except how to keep the inverse jester from killing himself

Anti-solar NIMBYs aren't beating the accusations of being pretty dim bulbs. "Extracting from the sky" is a good one

maybe i am going insane

lot of people on this website are debating back and forth how "realistic" a general strike is. meanwhile the brave heroes of the GOP house caucus are showing us what praxis looks like

If you have a GOP rep and you’ve been holding off on contacting them because what difference will it make, you could be the reason the funniest thing happens

Like, the very first rule of doing anything at all creative is *you have to give a fuck about it* Using genAI is proof you don't.

Went from "You fool there is no bubble" to "Of course there's a bubble...and you're surprised?" REAL quick

I heard there was a Cohen song, And all the Christians got it wrong, But you don’t really get the meaning do ya? ‘Cause you see its about getting laid, It’s sex, and love, and Jewish faith, But all the gentiles heard was “hallelujah!”

#Comics #Bluey #MST3k

and all so he could avoid the consequences of his actions, remember Musk did this cos USAID was investigating him for turning off starlink in the Ukraine during a major operation against Russia. 600,000+ people died so Elon Musk can avoid punishment for his stupid actions.

DOGE is disbanding after an estimated 600,000+ people died in other countries because of USAID cuts to lifesaving food and medication. Elon Musk will go down as one of history's' most prolific mass murderers of children. Anyone driving a Tesla is supporting a nazi.

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.

There are some truly unhinged bits in the piece about Glasman, as to be expected when dealing with Glasman, but seriously what the actual? That's...one hell of a conflation of terminology.

This is brilliant

Elon is feeding entire families in Bangladesh who are just pumping out AI slop to halfwits In Oklahoma. It’s actually really funny when you step back and take a look at things

oh whoa the models aren't just getting better and better consistently huh

somebody on here suggested awhile back that a pretty compelling 2028 Democrat campaign promise would be "on day one I will deploy a WPA-scale army of forensic accountants across every square inch of the federal government" and I think about that every day

1) good, they should be prosecuted, they are responsible for countless deaths 2) always very funny when these people realize the extent to which their billionaire patrons could not possibly give less of a shit about them

ME: *passing around a bowl of spaghetti* and here are his guts *passing around a plate of meatballs* and his eyeballs *passing around a plate of garlic bread* and his uh crackly femurs

since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.

I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.

Not only are generations fake, they’re also something we basically invented a few decades ago. Compare when generations occurred (shaded areas) with when we settled on their names. From this week’s newsletter: www.howtoreadthisch.art/ample-exampl...

Don’t know the reason/the reason

evergreen

Imagine being one of those CEOs or school presidents who bowed down to this weird old man, then realizing he doesn’t like you as much as he likes this guy who didn’t bow at all

The last several years have convinced me that what zombie apocalypse stories are really missing to emphasize their realism is granola moms and twitter bros screaming YOU CAN'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO as they sprint outside and hug the nearest zombie while filming with a selfie stick

“The robots are people too” is a dead giveaway. They don’t actually believe this any more than they ever believed a corporation is a person. What they believe is that false attribution of “personhood” abrogates the actual architects of this theft and fraud from legal consequences.

AOC on MTG retiring: "She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office."

This supposed traditional artist and musician followed me. Despite having an explicit "fuck ai" in his bio, something about him set off my bullshit detector. So, I checked out his Bandcamp. Over 70 albums and EPs, all done since March of this year. Come on, man, at least be subtle about it.

every year someone does a study that’s like “we gave 100 homeless ppl money and their lives improved” and every year the government kills that guy

I've always been convinced that video podcasts exist to force creators to be reliant on a closed distribution platform. Podcasts are built on tech (RSS) that nobody can own. Every major tech company has wanted to migrate podcasts to something proprietary, but it never sticks. Video is their answer.

marjorie taylor greene couldnt handle a single week experiencing 1% of the harassment that someone like ilhan omar probably experiences every day, in significant part because of her. she is weak and a coward and will rot in hell imo

ICE was always bad and should never have existed!

When you fail a saving throw vs charisma

Some people seem big mad that Mamdani didn't bitch slap Trump or something, or maybe just ghost him. And that's cool that's good, people should push politicians. Fuck yeah. But in reality he's a goddamned Mayor, and his job is to serve NYC's interests. Today he did.

Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.

donald trump endorsed zohran mamdani before chuck schumer lmao

My favorite piece of content today.

Again: The sell-out battles of the 60s-90s were not wrong. We were on to something.

They are so funny. Our neighbors are being stuffed into unmarked vans, and they’re all like let’s vote against a term we probably can’t define instead.

This pedestrian bridge between a parking garage and a Home2 Suites by Hilton does *not* need to go this hard.

re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"

AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.