Just want to tell a story about the day I was proudest of Kat's campaign, and why I'm so excited she's quadrupling down on it. One day when she was running, a potential constituent reached out to her. She needed baby formula with a specific protein in it ASAP, but she could no longer afford it.

"In the name of efficiency, it just makes sense for you to turn over ever greater portions of your thought process to this seductive helper, never stopping to ask yourself what it is costing you. You are a nice person and your job [] deserves to be easy. There, there."

Correct. Expanding copyright to fight the AI industry is a huge mistake. Expand collective bargaining rights instead, and labor will be able to fight back on behalf of the entire working class.

Democrats: We only have 3 justices on the court! They have 6! It's not our fault! two of the three democrat supreme court justices: Actually we think you should be able to browbeat children into saying they're straight to appease their insane parents

This is a white-hot, hair-on-fire emergency. And there isn't a moment to spare. State Dems must stop ICE from stealing the midterms @doctorow.pluralistic.net pluralistic.net/2026/03/31/a...

There really is no pleasing the NYT, is there "I'm all for protest, but not property destruction. What happened to civil disobedience?" "Blocking the roads is not the way to win hearts and minds" "This peaceful protest is too small to do anything" "This large peaceful protest is...too large?"

Had a dream that I was on a team exploring another planet. For some reason Zohran Mamdani was on the team. He made fun of me for not knowing much about sports, lol. We found an alien computer that looked like a server rack with comically huge cables. Always nice to sleep in on a Sunday.

It doesn't stop there. It would require keeping data for auditing and providing a token for connecting age verification checks by apps and websites to the data. The law is a privacy disaster and exposes minors to being exploited by leaking their age bracket to apps and websites.

Brazil's authoritarian age verification law became active this month. It won't be implemented by GrapheneOS. Complying would require integrating a mandatory process for each user where a third party service checks government identification and confirms a match using the camera.

🇮🇷🤔🇺🇸 Iran-linked hacking group Handala hacked FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal email and leaked photos and documents online.

I say this as someone who writes 15,000 to 20,000 words a week: skill issue. It takes practice to write! You need to write more! Writing make you think better! More word do better thought! Then think more good thought and word better!

this is the second "how I use AI as a journalist" piece in the last 24 hours and both are entirely disqualifying for those involved, embarrassing stuff

Are US-based VPN users at risk of being treated as foreign surveillance targets?

The posters on r/claudecode are screaming like they’re being stung to death by bees because their rate limits are no longer allowing them to spend $2000 for $200, but are likely still spending $500+ a month. They will not pay the real costs bsky.app/profile/bill...

Looking forward to the next housing crisis

Oh gods, my childhood just cringed so hard it strangled me in my bed in a nursing home.

Yes. Hate speech laws are usually unconstitutional here in the US, and impossible to enforce regardless of what country you're talking about. Mandated interoperability is the answer. When people have real freedom of movement between online social networks, you have a self-correcting system.

it's funny

Trump thinks Vance is an experienced middle east negotiator because someone told him JD frequently has intercourse with Ottomans.

"What you made with Sora mattered" is one of the least true things that has ever been written

Exhibit A, the only exhibit you will ever need

Wtf

Ban prediction markets, and hunt down anyone that starts one. Seriously. They're like end-times shit for human society.

This is why on my phone, Android Auto and Waze have auto updates disabled. I keep a note with the last version I know is good; so in the event that they do end up getting updated for whatever reason, I can uninstall and sideload an older version if the new one is broken or just sucks.

Let’s get gas to $8/gallon and see what happens.

I am HERE for this rant

We need more of this. Age verification laws are another extension of fascism.

Today, they are teeing up an AI crash that'll make 2008 look like the best day of your life: pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p... The old aphorism has it that "every billionaire is a policy failure." It's true, but incomplete. Every billionaire is a machine for producing policy failures at scale. 63/

I'm not a political consultant but i feel like dems could probably get a lot of leverage out of pushing for green technologies that would wean the us off being dependent on oil in this particular moment

My sons, Aryann and Grokulus, love to visit local establishments and shoot at the feet of service employees, causing them to "dance." Do you like this. Is this relatable

2006 internet: RSS feeds, forums, communities of hobby blogs, where people post about interior design, fashion, and music for free 2026 internet: sponsored content, paid partnership, buy my merch, try my supplements, invest in my crypto, click link in bio to unlock the secrets of life for $30

Top tier headline lol

GOOD

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

(By all means, get angry at people who intentionally use slurs. None of this is to say that you should tolerate - or be subjected to - language that is intended to dehumanize you.) 17/

The words people use matter (I care a lot about words!) but they matter less than the things people mean. Keep your eye on the prize (metaphorically) (for avoidance of doubt, there is no prize) (both the prize and the eye are metaphors). 16/

What's more, devoting your energies to "correcting" other people's allusive language makes you a boring, tedious person. Sure, you can have a conversation with a comrade about making inclusive word choices, but interrupting a substantive debate to have that discussion is *unserious*. 15/

Someone needs to send an ambulance to X

In an effort to remove big tech's fingers from every little part of my life, I switched from SwiftKey to FUTO Keyboard a while back. Free and open source. Can recommend.

We don't do this out of moral consideration for Unix. Unix is inert, it warrants no moral consideration. But billions of users of free operating systems that are resistant to surveillance and control *are* worthy of moral consideration and we set them free by seizing the means of computation. 29/

The fact that Unix was born of a convicted monopolist who turned the screws on users at every turn isn't a reason to abandon Unix - it demands that we reverse-engineer, open, and *free* Unix: pluralistic.net/2025/01/20/c... 28/

But *people* want to be free, and liberated access to information technology is a precondition for human liberation itself. Promethean leftists don't reject the master's tools: we *seize* them. 27/

even a "small" nuclear war between pakistan and india would kill 1/4 of all human life (100m immediately and ~2 billion via famine) a u.s.a. vs. russia "big" war would kill 3/4 of all human beings within 2 years: 300m in the first 30 minutes, then 6 billion starve we need to deescalate, everywhere

Everything about this picture is how I pictured trump's second term

Every update makes my devices worse. Give me a device that will never update. Make updates illegal

wait!

I moved the entirety of my 401k into a stable wealth fund the other day. I've had my finger on that trigger for a while, figuring I'd have to pull it whenever the AI bubble bursts. Didn't anticipate there might be a different crisis big enough to justify that first. 🙃