No great satirist, critic, filmmaker or writer, not Swift or Atwood, Bunuel or Orwell, could ever, in their most wildest imaginings, ever, come up with a scene as twisted as this…

AI’s gonna replace diplomats.

All the world’s a wager and all men and women merely sites of speculation waiting for a pay off…

So much for the “middle power” doctrine. Carney likes it on his knees.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

We are at an airport restaurant. A robot just drove up to us with our food, said, "Hi! Here I am!" and then drove away with our food.

Happy Winter Hump Day to all who celebrate. Feb 15 is officially the Wednesday of winter. Over half way through!

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

Life right now: The US has a degenerate, deranged fascist dictator with a nuclear bomb who is sanctioning the murder of his own citizens and extorting his allies for territory, but hey, there’s a sale on at Target!

Trump posts an image depicting Canada and Greenland as part of the United States

🤔"Carney to accept Trump’s offer for role on Gaza plan’s ‘Board of Peace’" www.ctvnews.ca/world/israel...

America is run by degenerates.

Americans, Please get the off your asses!

Hey Americans, Renee Good was doing something about your country’s fascism that threatens the whole world. Why won’t you?

We heard that poison is making you sick. You know what you need? A different flavor of poison.

As a Canadian, I’d like to determine my “sphere of influence” and get the demented rogue imperialist off my goddamn doorstep.

The mealy-mouthed responses of Canada, the UK and EU is what imperial domination looks like.

USA officially shithole country run by dictator.

Canada needs to take see the invasion of Venezuela for what it is - a deliberate attack on the international rules based order. We have a bandit nation on our border and we need to be ready for whatever comes next. charlieangus.substack.com/p/venezuela-...

No country or world leader is safe from this unfettered, demented war criminal…

Well I never. Imagine my surprise! futurism.com/artificial-i...

Dog names heard at dog park: Irwin, Gary, Alan, Kevin, Donna and Vicki. What the f is happening?

I made delicious chocolate shortbreads and now I’m screwed….

If your organisation still feels the need to start any questioning of AI with "We recognise that AI has huge potential to help with XYZ, but.." then they're still not free of the hype. It's past the time for fake even-handedness, and the AI emperor has no clothes.

Other people are annoying.

Government shutdown indefinitely, a paid private army in the street, masked men kidnapping people and keeping them in concentration camps. Reichstag in slow motion.

"Modern market and economy-driven societies did not become "post-democratic" at some point; their ground plan and architecture have always been defined by the limitations of the scope of popular sovereignty and democracy." Joseph Vogl, Capital and Ressentiment, p. 15

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Anti antifa=fascist. The president is holding a meeting for fascists.

Gee, I wonder what all those troops in the street and ICE goons will be doing come election time?

"AI will forever be devoid of self-creation and self-extension so long as it lacks the capacity to imagine a world different from that which we’ve codified and fed to it. AI remains a dead-metaphor remix machine, with an emphasis on dead and machine." open.substack.com/pub/buildcog...

I think one way to understand the present is that the ruling class discovered that rule by ideology was too difficult to maintain and switched to rule by agnotology, by the production of ignorance. www.unemployednegativity.com/2024/03/the-...

Autism does not need to be cured Ableism does The end

this exists it is called thinking

You'll be next, folks

Only the streets are left now people. No one is coming to save you.

Wow. Cancel culture, anyone? www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...

This whole Kirk thing, the self-censorship, the crazy fawning, elevating a white supremacist, queer-bashing patriarch even by liberals, shows how totally and completely cooked the US actually is.

so ezra gets his dogshit take today and then a column about the bluesky reaction next week. i do admire the laziness. it’s something i really aspire to.

The outsized response to Kirk’s death is a function of the outsized power of mediated attention. He didn’t ‘debate’ so much as deploy the heckler’s veto- yelling, demeaning, belittling his opponents. He was a professional bully and he made millions doing it. That’s what passes as politics now.

Good lord, those NYT opinion pieces about Kirk are the last of a long line of last straws. Absolutely abominable. ‘a taste for disagreement’. Go f**k yourself. A pox on all your houses.

Live by the sword die by the sword

Thank God the Supreme Court gave the president's secret police the right to profile and detain anyone based on any immutable characteristic today, knowing the president himself will never reveal himself to be writing Zodiackian poems and pervert kiddie sketches to a world-historic pedophile.

What the actual fuck?

Oligarchy seems like just another way of not saying capitalism.

To me, he’ll always be dead 😘

What reactionaries and fascists fail to understand is that there will always be an equal and opposite reaction to their self righteous certainties. And, inevitably, the dictator they’ve installed will chop their heads off first….