i think a (perhaps underappreciated) aspect of this whole situation is the extent to which every elite profession is filled with people who excel at drawing attention and want to be famous more than they want to do the actual job

“The world’s 7 richest individuals are all now powerful media barons, controlling what 🌎 sees, reads, and hears, marking a new chapter in oligarchical control over society and striking another blow at a free, independent press and diversity of opinion.” www.mintpressnews.com/the-seven-ri...

BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from immigration detention after a federal judge's order Thursday, his attorney's office says.

Really useful analysis of data to show how many people are going to ICE detention from local jails. These arrests are less visible to the public - as compared to raids or street arrests -- so we don't see the full scope.

Cory Doctorow : "We need to make tech workers unionized again ...  because tech workers that aren't working behind a keyboard, those tech workers, they're peeing in bottles or being injured at 3x the national rate in an Amazon warehouse. That's how tech bosses treat workers they're not afraid of."

this is crazy, these people are 2nd grade-level liars

When I’ve written about Elsa chatbots and Marvel actress deepfakes, people always eagerly respond that Disney will surely sue the AI companies. Didn’t happen. Instead, they joined forces with them. You can’t trust corporate America to do what’s right, not even for them, once they smell money

The Americans in the replies and quotes acting as if Trump has turned their honorable nation into a common oil thief are driving me into despair. Come on man...

When you hire a white man because they’re a white man that’s not identity politics. Identity politics is when you get hired and you’re not a white man. The anti wokeness hysteria was always a backlash to integration of white collar jobs bsky.app/profile/jami...

Marjorie Taylor Greene switched her vote on the NDAA because she got a promise from Republican leadership to put up a bill that would make providing gender affirming care to minors in any capacity a class c felony.

If you want a primer on the Network State, I spent some time with a group hoping to make one this summer: www.wired.com/story/tech-b...

your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️

Chic hits #1 today in 1978 with “Le Freak”, a song originally titled “F**k Off!” — and written after the band was turned away by the bouncers at Studio 54. “We go back to my apartment really pissed off,” said Nile Rodgers, “and Bernard starts singing, ‘Ahhh, f**k off!’ .. and that became the hook.”

I’m going to go out on a limb and say it isn’t good that the federal government is calling people “sodomites”

Yep it totally sounds like this show has been "desexed" www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

NEW: Four sources tell @mzeff.bsky.social that OpenAI has become reluctant to publish research on the negative economic impacts of AI, including job displacement. At least two members of OpenAI's economic research team have recently quit over that perceived pullback.

when the waymo car's detectors malfunction and it speeds up to hit you surely is the better choice 🙄

Watercolour sketch at the pier

They are now targeting people who did everything by the book and were literally at the ceremony where they were going to become citizens... "Immigrants lined up to become U.S. citizens in Boston on Dec. 4 were pulled from line by USCIS officials moments before the oath ceremony"

Daniel Kaluuya confirms he is developing a ‘SPIDER-PUNK’ animated film. “Those Spider-Verse films, they speak to me… I think the filmmakers and the animators are some of the best storytellers in the game” (Source: Deadline)

#明日方舟 #アークナイツ チョンユエ

Desscaras #IchitheWitch #魔男のイチ

Once again the oh so predictive powers of “the market”

Shot and chaser

disgusting, especially given the continuing history of shamelessly taking from other countries

ふわふわギャウ

seeing if i like a different angle

I’m old enough to remember the strike that happened a whole year ago because companies like Netflix claimed they don’t have enough money to pay residuals to actors for their work. Netflix has $82 Billion to buy Warner Bros.

Talked to the Mad Men special effects foreman holding the puke hose about all the (usually) invisible creative work that goes into making grounded TV feel real

this shit is always so much more depraved and insane when the people pushing this horrific agenda are not white brits themselves

"The democrats need to be open to people who experience hardship and the people who cause it."

It's also about an insane echelon of elite media that is totally indifferent to the basic facts of the people they lift up. She got a vasoline-lensed feature profile in the NYT weeks ago!

I wrote about CNN partnering with a gambling app that lets you wager on famine in Gaza, what this shift portends in our media, the obvious moral hazards of this arrangement, and “news” as politically impotent, disempowering spectator sport

Astonishingly, I think the only time I've heard the Columbine Shooters being outright nazis was when Last Podcast On the Left covered them. They fully rejected the narrative that they were bullied loners and showed that they were essentially Timothy McVeigh style terrorists

he'll definitely get the medal of freedom

一緒に帰りたい

apparently there is someone out there in the world w the first name tesla

i'd go even further and say there is a reason even nixon kept this kind of stuff to himself. you would have to go back quite a bit to find a point at which is acceptable for a president to say anything like this *in public*, to say nothing of in the oval office.

wow the spotify wrapped design is hideous this year

The World Cup and Olympics should absolutely be relocated from the US to a country that is safe for foreign travelers.

some days at work i feel extremely socially inept and just constantly embarrass myself

She shouldn't have to keep doing this by herself. She is supposedly a member of a political party and every single one of her *colleagues* should be BLASTING the fascist in chief. ALL OF THEM. Where is the solidarity???

Some ocs and their armour :^) #fantasy #characterdesign

Undisputed

Office Cithis ☕️ #ダンジョン飯

This is what frustrates me so much about these articles: Propagating the narrative that large numbers of kids are faking disabilities is just going to result in a world where disabled people are *even more* scrutinized when they ask for accommodations!

people turning to ai chatbots for romance is crazy because you have this thing that you pump affection into that will mirror it back to you and say affirming and aspirational things to you that it never has to follow up on & it’s like these people have never had an egirlfriend on gaia online

They’re using it to compose the least diverse most “optimal” classes with a smoke screen