If you are a parent and have teens, check to see if their school is allowing TPUSA to set up a club; and make sure your children and their friends know that TPUSA is a cult. They lie, and manipulate. Speaking from personal experience, I spent 10 years in a cult.

Lots of folks curious at finding themselves oddly rooting for a Church — esp. THAT Church, an outfit that deserves its criticisms. To them I say, ROOT ON! Not for any Church, but for knowledge, expertise, & consistency over equivocation, bluster & the dipshittery of poseurs. Such is NEVER a sin.

Check that fine print #Mississippi...

A frustrating moment in a long struggle: academics & journalists who insist they share your concerns about AI, which is why they want to find a “human-centered” AI. Yes, right after we locate the human-centered nukes. I’m not looking for a better way to work with AI. I know which side I’m on.

"Studies suggest youths are more empathetic and less narcissistic than in the past, as well as more open-minded and inclusive." bsky.app/profile/mich...

it's weird to be numb and incandescently angry at the same time

Hey if you're a young adult in the US pay very close attention to the moment because in shockingly few years the popular account of who did or said or supported what right now will be at times unrecognizable. Don't let that break your brain or just you, as a person.

Gentle reminder that if the good people of Minneapolis can risk their lives confronting armed officials who are abusing their power, then so can the politicians we elected to represent our collective voice. Going on vacation is a giant middle finger to all of us, and so cruel to Iranian civilians.

Lol I was about to say exactly this hahaha

Happy Easter! I’m back! The most important thing I want to share today is this new @benwildflower.com icon, an abolitionist anastasis icon showing Jesus harrowing the Hell of imprisonment, which is BREATHTAKING. (I commissioned this piece.) Proclaim resurrection and liberation, friends!

“He’s unwell,” “he doesn’t belong near power” are as beside the point as “he shouldn’t be allowed to do this.” They’re callbacks to an order that’s been broken. We know fascism is wrong. We must after 10 years move past the part where we keep rediscovering it daily with new shock.

Here it is folks, the best Easter meme.

"What the right wants is a camera,but a camera that can be aimed at realities that do not exist. A camera that can show you the world as you have decided it must be, with the unimpeachable authority of the documentary image." Wow.

Amen.

Esquire couldn’t book this actor for an interview so fed previous responses through a couple of thief machines and ‘interviewed’ a digital photocopy. Including asking personal questions about his dad. People need to be sued and then fired for this.

i'm an athiest so i don't want to speak for anyone but what an honor it would be as a servant of god to be fired by a drunk sadist under the thumb of a guy best described as "dumb antichrist"

True story: James Madison’s final public act was to warn the 1829 Virginia convention that if they allowed white men who didn’t own property to vote, that they’d all vote to tax rich slaveholders until they were forced to free the people they enslaved. Just in case you thought any of this was new.

In case you were wondering: Yes, there is a Jonathan the Great Tortoise angle to the Pam Bondi firing news.

One of the least surprising things I have read: Megan McArdle using AI extensively to do all those pesky tasks that she prefers to skip, like “fact checking” and “understanding what she reads.”

✨🎥 NEW – Change-Makers: "Everybody Wants A Village" (Nobody Wants To Be A Villager) A look at the main reason I see organizations fall apart: a lack of peer support. And how easy it is to give that support 😀 (Many examples from my life that felt good to get into 😅) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxU1...

Caging and deportations are the devil’s work. Liberation and welcome are what Jesus, the leader of the cosmic jailbreak, invites us to join. Which side are you on?

what people sound like when they say i asked claude

I'm so proud to be in this number 😌

I guess boycotting Harry Potter feels pretty trivial to me, because I'm an adult. if someone told me I shouldn't eat Gerber's baby food, I'd be like, that is no problem. I'm way ahead of you

Surely I have a scientist or nerd following me that can assist with this?

One of the sales pitches of AI in education is that it lightens our load, but I find that it makes so many mistakes and hallucinations that it isn't actually useful in the long run.

I wish everyone could see that LLMs are designed to make you happy and not give you any sort of fact.

For bluegrass and Levi’s 501s and popsicles.

i think i am going to choose to refuse to accept this kind of moral suicide. for spongebob squarepants and all our national heroes. for the new york knickerbockers and the buick grand national. i refuse to surrender that to these freaks and their moral nihilism

When it comes to AI, people seem to routinely, and serially mistake novelty for meaning. Sora is an amazing novelty. It doesn't appear to be particularly useful relative to its costs. This was apparent at its introduction and yet we were told it was the future of video.

OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚

Half a dozen dumb jokes flashed through my mind--why'd they put a wig on the bot?--before I realized the joke's on us. Melania will leave but that fucker is going to keep coming. People who know the one on the right is a fascist will defend the one on the left to the end.

On Michael Ian Black

Don't mistake incompetence for accident. The degradation of your social media feed, the collapse of your news, the defunding of your school—it is all functional. They are happy to rule over the ashes, as long as they are the ones holding the match.

Jesus Christ Bernie ask a human

This is laughably obvious to anyone who has kids, honestly. Finding and relying on childcare is one of the hardest parts of being a working parent! Anything you do to mitigate that, even a little, is beneficial.

People keep saying “oh so you want OPEN BORDERS” as some kind of gotcha and like. Yeah. When I was a kid you could just drive into Canada. On accident, even. It was great, and I think we should do that instead of kidnapping children. Normalize being normal instead of being kidnapping weirdos

they are sick fucks

When the metaverse came into being, we were told it was the inevitable future, and we must adapt or be left behind. As we bury this nonsense, let us remember that we decide what the future is, not the tech bros who stand to benefit from our acquiescence. No slop.

If you’re fortunate enough to have retirement or college savings, you can look at your losses since Feb 28 and have a rough estimate of how much fascism just stole from you to pay for bombs to kill actual human beings who might also have liked to retire or go to college.

New piece for The Nation on the ubiquity of "performative" and "virtue signalling" as terms of derision. "Citizenship ... is inherently performative and that abandoning the performance of democratic life means courting democratic collapse." www.thenation.com/article/soci...

I’m sorry, the suffering is infinite and things are genuinely fucking dire, but it is truly hilarious that the nazis ran into the middle east while screaming “logistics and diplomacy are fake and gay” and now they’re trying to ask everyone else to fix the strait of hormuz because tfw no more THAADs

I was reading an article about how workers keep waiting for AI to reduce their workloads and wonder why it's not happening and in fact they are now expected to do MORE work. I feel we have fundamentally failed to communicate what capitalism is to a lot of people.

Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”

Mmmm, yes, very deep, much philosophical wow, let me counter with: The people building concentration camps will always be my enemy

Hard same. By the time we figure out that teachers and students must both be human, we may have dismantled education as we know it.

Apparently AB-1900 is in front of Cali legislature and yeah call your reps about it: (Stolen from @coreymbarnes.com off insta, apologies bud)

NO NO NO YOU DON’T GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL tell everyone you know www.freetaxusa.com