Whether it’s Ken Paxton committing multiple felonies or James Talarico ordering a vegetarian taco, both Texas Senate candidates have troubled pasts.

it is very well-known in the business world that people fuckin HATE metered pricing they even resist per-seat pricing, which makes sense, even wen it's like "pay $7 for this employee to get at least 5-10x that in value in saved time/extra revenue"

A lot of great thoughts in this thread. We talked so much about psychological safety in the last 15 years of the tech industry. Now we have companies making targeting software for war, rolling back DEI, and mandating AI coding tools.

*rubs foreheads* This has been a years-long headache because Bluesky PBC decided to just not deal with powerful fascists joining and pissing off a lot of their users. Like maybe it wasn't politically viable to get rid of them, I don't know. But what they did was a pretty bad way of handling it.

If you think CEOs are always smart or remotely connected to the actual work they do, I challenge you to listen to Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella or Mark Zuckerberg talk for 10 minutes. You probably haven’t listened very intently, and once you do so it’s impossible to take them seriously

The result of AI boosters getting booed at commencement will NOT be them getting a wake-up call about AI skepticism. They will just stop speaking at commencements. But that’s a small win!

Ever notice how these guys never say anything specific? Or give an outcome resulting from this alleged time saving? How much actual work do you think Ken Griffin does every week? How much insight does he have? It’s the same shit as with remote work but replacing “serendipity” with the speed of AI

"Waived confidentiality" by using AI... Thinking now about the push for therapists to use AI & big companies trying to develop "AI therapists"

Pretty sure this is a missing variable problem

Your tax dollars paid for this free swag I got when I arrived at Trump's Prayer Jubilee on the National Mall

Your tax dollars paid for this event freedom250.org/celebration/...

Birth rate discourse is like “It turns out if you give women more choices, they’re less likely to make ones that make their lives harder.” Which is really helpful in figuring out how we can improve society somewhat. But instead people are like wow giving women more choices was a mistake

He's holding on in hospice care just to be a bigot.

we're getting a rental car while ours is in the shop, and this is the most chaotic shit I've ever seen. this lady just said they need a car that can handle carrying "1000-1200 pounds of coins". what the fuck do you mean by that. what are you doing

She committed treason by attempting to overthrow an election. Her getting nine years instead of the chair was mercy.

it is just absolutely unfuckingbelievable that bernie sanders hired this unemployable nazi to be his press secretary

GitHub Copilot allowed this guy to spend $25 for every dollar of subscription, or put another way, $11,432 of tokens for $451

Editor: You get those photos of Steven Spielberg and E.T.? Photographer: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked. Editor: what

These people are terrified. They know they’ve pushed too far too fast and are going to face a huge backlash from voters. So they’re trying to stop people from voting.

Got a notification from a medieval copyright lawyer

it was mentioned on an episode of Ill Conceived a while back that most of the decline in birthrate has come from a cratering of *teen pregnancy*. so when some crusty fuck like RFK yaps about birthrate decline, he's mad that high schoolers aren't interrupting their education w/ a baby anymore

And doing it in response to pressure from Trump makes it worse.

Thinking about the developers who freaked out when Claude briefly moved Code to a $100/month tier instead of a $20 one

the services sought for detransition are quite literally the same ones sought for transition. detransitioners work in tandem with us on advocacy. there aren't enough people to keep a detransition-only clinic busy. this should clue you in that this clinic will not be used for consenting detransition

Meanwhile, those currently paying token rates - big enterprises - are blowing through their annual AI budgets in weeks. CFOs are already saying that they need to reduce budgets, as this token spend is entirely experimental, and companies are worried. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-what...

GitHub Copilot moves to token based billing on June 1, and its users have now got a calculator that shows how much they've been actually burning every month - some $39-a-month users have spent $1500 to $5800 in tokens a month. Microsoft's subsidies are insane. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-what...

I used an LLM to generate a little code for the first time this week. I needed to write a short shell script and I don't do it enough to really remember the specifics. I was tired and I'm like "just ask duck.ai". I gave me my five line script. I regret it.

It’s extremely funny for a guy who starred in a show where Greece looks like your friend’s backyard to say this

Colorado Democrats are only one vote short of two thirds in the state senate, and if you can’t flip at least one Republican who’d do it just for the lulz you’re not trying.

Spent 2 hours in a very long line today, in the hot sun to sign a petition to recall our horrible Louisiana governor. When we left, the line was just as long as when we got there, if not longer. The people of Louisiana have had it.

Some people might call this “a breathtaking example of corruption completely at odds with the intent of the Founders” or “a declining autocrat recruiting his own personal army for future treasonous purposes” Probably not the NYTimes, but some people

Trump confused Taiwan with Iran, and the New York Times has again erased it from the account of Trump's presser because it's embarrassing to him They framed it instead as "Trump Says He and Xi Talked Extensively About Taiwan"

This almost certainly not him mishearing "cisgender" as some think. When Talarico was opposing a trans sports ban, he notably pointed out there are six common biological sexes. I'm sure that was in the opposition research file that Trump got.

Why is she ever getting released?

One of the things that helped expedite fascism in America is how the alleged opposition party has been more than willing to give fascists more power.

Somehow this is a year old despite it being something I should have been sent 2000 times. I’m going to start using the phrase “brain-only” a lot in various bits

Things like this puzzle even more than enrage me tbh, it strikes me as such a frankly weird failure to read the room I’m not even talking about morality or ethics, I just mean that as far as I can discern, all the predominant cultural winds are against this. AI is cheap, cringe, ugly, fake

saw this on an ACT UP poster from 1988 at the Poster House museum today. the more things change :)

good thing tomorrow is whiskey friday

File under “true but not true like you mean”

I used to feel a little bad that The Onion is about to surpass WaPo in print subs and stopped promoting the membership as a direct foil until today they came out with “Do POOR BABIES deserve DIAPERS???” so therefore

The scientific explanation is that AI is just as sexist as the men who trained it.

Fun fact: when we do our anual farm safety protocol rehearsals, Tommy the cat plays the role of the puma.

Also the entire annual California budget is $350 billion. $20 million to help parents is basically a drop in the bucket.

Legacy media needs to be destroyed. It has no redeeming qualities. Or, apparently, charisma.

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

may these fuckers rot in hell

Every time I open Bluesky,