also 'reluctantly accepting this shitbag because there's no choice' and 'defending this shitbag' are very different things

GREG DAVIES: seems like a kind of a shit task. Everyone just seems like they're going home normally. ALEX HORNE: well before you say that let's have a look at how Odysseus did. cut to panel of AJAX, MENELAUS, AGAMEMNON, and DIOMEDES who are all staring at ODYSSEUS with his head in his hands

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

A lot of attention is paid to craft traditions in Western Europe and North America, such as handsewn Hermes leather goods and bespoke Savile Row suits. But the uneven focus leads some to believe that things made outside of these places are low quality. This is not true. 🧵

It's simpler: stop using gen AI. Full stop.

Well, it happened. A client disregarded my advice about using generative AI and guess what? It gave them bad advice AND the judge ruled that by using it, Client waived confidentiality and ordered us to turn a bunch of private stuff over. STOP USING GENERATIVE AI FOR LEGAL THINGS. I BEG YOU.

They said this to Native people too. On our own Homeland they’re still occupying and stealing.

And here we are. Suffering the worst here. Suffering the worst there. While you waste time arguing about nothing. Kamala as a procrastination device. Because you don't actually want to do the work or acknowledge the problem.

There is so much anger for a group that doesn't exist. There is no group of white people who respects and is concerned for Palestinians but hates Black Americans. There is no group of white people who respects and is concerned for Black Americans but hates Palestinians. Racists are racists.

Our current Acting CDC Director said his entire plan for pandemic preparedness is to fire everyone responsible for it.

The trope of the "angry environmentalist" is basically a form of severe pathological reality-denialism from centrist journalists who cannot process or understand at any level we are talking about something universal, physical and just fundamentally extremely unavoidable, here

Fascists succeed in general because they are willing to take stuff, break rules, get violent, while most of their opponents are not Fascists lose, in general, because they pick (at least) one fight too many with someone they didn't expect to fight back

this is correct. we so often choose to not fight when we might lose, rather than taking the risk and getting caught trying. older example: the biden wh's response to dobbs. “well, our executive action is guaranteed to be overturned” — and? do it anyway, lose, and show the courts are partisan.

By this logic, Tekken 2 made me a jeet kune do master

the fundamental job of journalism is to report facts & uphold public trust, which is rapidly eroding. brushing off the careless use of AI to spread misinformation shows why that is. this kind of conduct needs to be treated as a serious violation & called out as absolutely unacceptable.

it's a violation of the NYT's own AI policy, and it's also not disclosed that AI was used to report the article. how many other articles at the @nytimes.com contain AI-generated misinformation that's gone unchecked? www.nytco.com/press/princi...

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

This is the funniest joke ever made

Threatening to hurt people who don't vote for you should be instantly disqualifying

people fucking died for the voting rights act. to wave it away with a magic wand is just so grotesque

/8….is very capable and experienced writers deliberately imitating his style within the bounds of briefwriting. Deliberate evil, in other words.

/7 By the way: this wasn’t written by Trump. If you say it sounds like him, you mean that the idiom and capitalization and grievance sound like him. But the spelling, sentence structure, and organization are much better than his. So what it sounds like…..

The concept that "a community manager should be available to be harassed when I don't play any of the games they manage communities for" shows just how much of whiny, entitled, crybullies they are. No one owes you their time, especially when your entire online presence is bigotry and AI slop.

A reminder that access to throwing harassment at developers is not included in the purchase of a video game. Many of us obsess over critique, but we know the difference between critique even if its worded emotionally, a streamer using us as a punching bag for clickbait, and someone harassing us.

It just keeps repeating, doesn't it. Quite frustrating.

Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia— AOC: Wah wah wah. We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no. What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.

1. Trump has weaponized the FCC to control the media under his autocratic rule. Now, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr is turning the agency towards his next target: transgender characters in TV shows. He seeks to change the rating system to penalize trans characters. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Guess, how many journalists did Israel murder in Lebanon today? And how many ambulances trying to save those journalists did Israel attack today? This brave woman was murdered, represents less than 0.5% of the journalists Israel has murdered, and just one of half a dozen murdered this month.

Also SO MANY PEOPLE want to vote and are struggling because they have to stand in 10 hour lines or they need ID that is expensive/hard to obtain or they can't get off work and the absentee process is confusing. Start with folks who already WANT to vote but just need help ffs!

Like... I'm sorry, but to win future elections, you need a good chunk of the people who sat out in 2016 or 2024 to vote for you, and I just don't think that sneering at them and saying it's their fault that things are the way they are right now is going to win them over, even if you truly believe it

"You let someone get into office..." That's a lot of responsibility to be dumping on people you acknowledge are already pretty close to you in beliefs. Instead of berating them, you might consider what you could do to appeal to them, since, like you said, they agree with you on 90% of things.

Setting aside whether he's right or he's wrong, I'm just not sure that it's a great message that will encourage people who sat out one of those two elections to vote in future elections?

^that’s the thing i worry about most. they’ll do well in these midterms, and they’ll think it’s approval as opposed to a directive for big change. so they won’t take the latter seriously and we’ll be back here with a pres. vance.

the standard for dems is so low right now and these national dems still can’t clear it.

🛎️🛎️🛎️

one of the most insane aspects of all of this is that "a wide ranging government crackddown after a handful of newspaper cranks said insane things based on misunderstood cherrypicked papers" is considered illegitimate in every field of endeavor except this one

hahahaha yessss the Great Wind-Down begins. lol fwiw, I'm pretty sure "Remove unnecessary entry points" is PR spin for "it's super expensive for people to hit our LLM, & giving it out for free til now has been predicated on the creation of dozens more data centers, none of which are being built"

not a single thought in that fuzzy little brain

@fcpnchstds.bsky.social Do you not find your community's toxicity to be a liability for S&Box, a game that requires attracting talent to develop user-generated content? A collection of messages from the S&Box community, from TODAY. For reader context, yellow names are staff. #s&box #politics

The sad truth is that the Democratic Party aren't interested in progressive change. They want a return to the status quo ante, when we were all miserable but the fascists weren't blatantly stripping the country for parts and profit.

Every day is Chesterton's fence with these people.

Closing my eyes during every establishing shot in a movie/tv show, if it was important it would be part of the scene

I do not take booktok seriously and I never will. What the fuck you mean the epilogue and prologue “aren’t part of the book/story”???????

Hey did everyone see Clavicular get his ass beat after he challenged a cancer survivor leftist to a jujitsu match, who said as he was choking him out ‘this is for all the bullshit I gotta watch on my fucking feed’… we need more of this not more podcasts