Tired: slop Wired: slorp

One of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?

AI is the lynchpin of the whole political project. It’s the container for the parallel governance they have promised each other. I truly think that they are surprised that people don’t like it…and that they can’t yet wholesale punish everyone for not liking them.

Congrats to the winners, & it's great to be a finalist! That Song for the Continuous Present has continued to be a finalist/semifinalist several times in the past few years gives me hope...and the obstinate courage to keep sending it out.

Few things buttress my faith in humanity like this loathing. The fact that the AI overlords have so miscalculated what we would think and whether it would matter is fun too. A bit like the Trump Administration's miscalculation of how Minneapolis would respond to invasion by a thug army.

What I’ve dared, I’ve willed; and what I’ve willed, I’ll do!

Hey, let's use a thing destroying the planet to "save" the planet, well, um, theoretically it *may* save the planet, er, um, uh, or mitigate the damage by .045%...meanwhile, let's build more data centers! 🤑🙈🤑

This is what ecocide looks like.

if not war then why war shaped

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, by Umberto Boccioni, 1913, (cast 1931 or 1934), 📸 by Wang Zhao

I guess if you’re Josh Hawley and you’re the kind of person who flees in terror from a riot you started the courage of ordinary people must seem befuddling

they don't make tiny violins tiny enough

Often start off in the usual fashion, get a bit weirder, happen on luck, choose the wrong thing repeatedly, & then everything works out in the end. Wordle 1,678 6/6 (also, sometimes, life in general 🤞) ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

one of the weirdest things about the current moment is how the national media have to pretend like they don't know what this is about. official government social media accounts are posting about racially cleansing America and they have to pretend like it's not clear who the bad guy is.

Liberals say that Trump's personal Gestapo is destroying our democracy. They're wrong—Trump's personal Gestapo is destroying our republic.

If you are a foreign president who commits crimes overseas, America will come get you, arrest you, and lock you up. But if you are a US president who commits crimes here in the United States, America will give you immunity from prosecution, reelect you, and bribe you with billions of dollars.

N Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller December 30,1946

This combination in fact describes most people in charge.

The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.

How this Christmas will be different for single digit billionaires.

Moving from meme to officialdom via Wikipedia... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar-a-L...

It’s so wild how the wealthy are destroying the Amazon that potentially has the cure for all the cancers in favor of an Amazon that’s creating new types of cancers

Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important. We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."

If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand” Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.

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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

Everyone is hope scrolling now

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

fixed that for you

Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

if you're not where you want to be as an artist or entertainer and didn't come from money or an industry family try to remember that it was never an even playing field to begin with and you're probably doing great considering

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

Someday, we're gonna find out that the decisionmaking went like this: Mamdani proposes city-run grocery stores. Conservatives say it'll never work. Mamdani supporters point out that DOD runs a bunch of grocery stores. Hegseth decides to close them to own the libs.

Tom Homan took a bag of cash from an undercover FBI agent the right way. by Ezra Klein

this exists it is called thinking

When will the people who run civil society orgs grasp this?* When will (non-fascist) owners of news outlets get it? When will (non-fascist) leaders of university systems understand? People need to move together. All parts of society. Gain momentum from each other. *I did see 100 foundations' PR

Destroying the planet in search of a computer program powerful enough to count the 'b's in blueberry

As a parent, as a human, this family deserves a settlement against ChatGPT that should put them out of business.

I got the complaint in the horrific OpenAI self harm case the the NY Times reported today This is way way worse even than the NYT article makes it out to be OpenAI absolutely deserves to be run out of business

some guy who won the Nobel for particle physics or something is going to get black bagged by an 11th grader named Bracen Walmart

I truly intended this just as an email and not a public thing but fuck it we ball. The New York Times is not alone in its culpability but it is deeply culpable and its near-monopoly status in our blighted American media ecosystem allows it to do what it does.

It is really telling that billionaires have enough to buy anything they want and the thing they want is fascism.

I dunno, they seem to blossom under his abuse and there is the sunk cost of hating everyone but him for a decade. I’ll believe it when I see it

End-Song by Fanny Howe

Wow. So he votes to gut Medicaid and throw 17 million people off of their healthcare and then dumps his Medicaid related stock to cover his own ass? That’s just evil and cruel.