celebrating the good parts of america today. if you don’t think there are any good parts, just look to all the stuff the fascists are desperate to stifle

Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

dreamcast forever 🌀

People who spiral out overusing LLM chatbots are really just experiencing the kind of brain-damaging stream of unconditional validation that’s always been the norm for the hyper-wealthy, which explains a lot.

I'll say this until I'm dead. The whole conservative project has been about the conversion of public spaces to private ones, ones where groups can be excluded all in the name of individual choice. And if you hear the phrase "tragedy of the commons," you know who you're talking to.

I swear, "a pope from Chicago excommunicates a Nazi-adjacent sect" is like a cut scene from The Blues Brothers

NOT FUCKING MULLVAD GOD DAMN IT www.tumblr.com/3liza/820613... circumstances.run/@davidgerard...

this quote you're about to see everywhere, I don't think it's real. here's the video it's supposed to be from www.youtube.com/live/ho_Zmwg... and here is a transcript gist.github.com/david-crespo... nothing like this is in it. which makes sense because it doesn't sound like him at all

Ursula K. LeGuin, "American SF and the Other," 1975.

This, from 1941, is JD Vance.

to give you an example of how fuck-o the job market is right now, this week I received a rejection letter from a company that I applied to in October 2025 moved from the "ghosted" section in my notes to the "declined" section, so there's that at least

At some point this claim from white rurals and their advocates that "You can't get along with different people" means that they are the different people with whom we cannot get along.

is it good when one of your named showcase partners immediately "reviews their collaboration" with you less than 3 hours after a showcase.

"Ben owns a farm. He employs 100 workers. His total payroll is $10 million/year. One day, he buys a mule, which provides the worker who uses it with a modest 10% productivity gain. Ben fires 99 of his workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1,000% productivity gain..."

They hate gender studies for the same reason they hate legitimate journalism: They don’t like people pointing out what they’re doing.

*taps earpiece* I'm hearing there is in fact a big club in which you ain't.

if you own a Roku device, you should plan to replace it, or at least alter how you use it if you have a Roku box, look into a cheap (used?) PC w/ a wireless keyboard. if you have a Roku TV, do the same, and disconnect your TV itself from the network that's what we did when Walmart bought Vizio

he's going to try to sue the Weather Channel over this

It can't be overstated how he really doesn't know how anything works but was mythologized as a supergenius engineer by a shitty press

The situation in Belfast is so illustrative of so many basic things you need to understand about imperialism, racism, and anticommunism

a little on the nose for capitalism that the world’s first trillionaire is a nazi conman

“If he would do that to me, he would do that to anybody” cornyn had a front row seat to trump treating other people exactly the same way for years and only now has come to this startling realization if u were wondering how fuckin self deluded these guys are

It isn't about who is deserving. It's about whether civilized societies permit the the government to carry out premeditated killings (they do not), and whether the government is capable of doing so fairly, justly, and under equal protection of the law (there is zero evidence that it is).

this article is circulating with a COMPLETELY bullshit framing and clickbait lie about it, the "ai cybersecurity" firm is actually training AGAINST AI and the conan series is about helping people spot deepfakes and other gen-ai material, beginning with the famous robert smigel video mouth sketches

disney announces live action remake of that friday when you were 13 and your bff brought a note from their mom so they could ride on your bus home and mom said you could order pizza and go in the pool and watch terminator 2 and stay up until midnight

The raw milk thing is proof that you can trick conservatives into literally eating shit and liking it bsky.app/profile/prop...

I can look at my partner's cutting machine and think, "you may be a temperamental and finicky little mechanism, Cricut Maker 3, but you're not a fucking LLM, so I'm cutting you some slack"

A Brief History of Reviewing Things on the Internet, Vol. II

is it Benzo's eighth birthday today, maybe he's a rescue so we can't be sure, but this is the day that the shelter estimated so we're running with it he had a long walk to the pet store today to get treats and toys, and now he is crashed out we love you, Benzo #dogsofbluesky #chihuahua

Please enjoy this graph from a FT article explaining that AI hasn’t added any value (no, debt and circular investment isn’t value) It has produced More Stuff, it’s just the Stuff isn’t useable or fixable. Welcome to the age of everyone making apps no one uses

I will say from now until eternity that sexual violence is *core* to the fascist project. Scratch a Totenkamf tattoo, find a guy who's okay hitting and raping women

Being old and childless and completely out of touch kicks so much ass. I think about it every time I see a poster for some guy I never heard of. I regret being online. There’s so much more stuff I could not know about if I didn’t put my mind to it

A Brief History of Reviewing Things on the Internet, Vol. I

What's happening with Platner is why you hop off the bus at "he has a nazi tattoo"

has any man ever been more vindicated? x.com/stuartbuck1/...

Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026

the thing that traditional finance learned from cryptocurrencies is that you need as many bag holders as you possibly can to prop up your worthless “assets”, it makes the leeching of wealth from a desperate and fearful middle-class to the already absurdly wealthy much easier

Ted Chiang is one of our best modern SF authors because he _understands_ things, and can explain them in terrifying clarity. this skill also applies to his non-fiction and this article is no exception

if you ask google what basically any combination of words is, its AI will confidently go on at length as though they're something that exists, synthesizing numerous sources to "support" it. i seperately asked it about the ergodic, differentiable, and support vector machine approaches to childrearing

I know that our little man's Bluesky account has more followers than I do (which he deserves, really), but I'm sharing this here as well. Any reposts would be hugely appreciated. #dogsofbluesky #chihuahua #gofundme #mutualaid

this is an excellent piece of microfiction

the primary social crime of the near-future will be making people feel bad for refusing to think

PSA: Bluesky's new auto-tagging moderation stuff is a disaster. Disable it. Go into Settings on the Bluesky site and enable adult content and set everything to Warn at most, which makes posts opt-in. Hide just vanishes posts. Then go into Advanced/Bluesky Mod Service and do the same on everything.

It all goes back to the Gamergaters. MAGA saw the online engine of incels and losers and just folded it into what "masculinity" is. You can be an undatable failure, but as long as you hate women and minorities, you're an alpha now.

Called this back in October

On the moon.