I cannot wait to read this.

whats so crazy to me is the only job that chatbots could actually eliminate right now is ceo, every company could save millions today right now by replacing their ceo with a computer program that just parrots what other ceos say

As a former StoryCorps facilitator, this is fucking disgusting. End the project already, Dave. You created a good model: you encouraged people to sit and do oral history for 20 yrs. Turning StoryCorps into a surveillance capitalism nightmare is not worth the money to keep the project going.

Marwan Barghouti is the most popular Palestinian alive and has expressed support for a partition along the pre June 1967 borders into a separate state. Barghouti has been in Israeli jail for two decades and is routinely tortured and even threatened with murder by Israeli politicians and guards.

God, this is really good. Especially since grappling lately with both my own experience currently teaching in a mostly tech-free way, and supporting my sister in navigating what to do with my nieflings and their screen time.

At a time when mass surveillance and autonomous weapons companies like Palantir are openly announcing their plans for violent world domination, it is crucial that our attempts at “big tech reform” don’t actually give them more power—ie via government mandated age verification/identity software

People been trying to warn the public about this man for a decade and a half but her the fuck we still are

And private corporations don't have that mandate, so yet another example of why public goods need to be public!

4 out of 5 Roman emperors agree

Andy, stop. You're so much better than this!!

The Uk needs a version of Hot Ones but for desi food called Curried which is hosted by Tim Curry, there you go, I just made your network eleventy billion dollars

I hate these people. I hate these people in a way that I had previously reserved only for my childhood bully and her mother.

like maybe the public would be getting less frothy and toothy about this if big tech hadn’t spent the last three years constantly threatening the public with impoverishment and feudal control, idk

the thing about our current moment is that yes, the anti-AI and anti-big tech people are getting very reactive nowadays - but have you seen what they’re *reacting* to?

Right, people have in fact noticed that the big AI companies aren’t actually doing anything to ameliorate the social impacts they keep talking about.

"particularly Christianity" is lifting to failure here.

Really good 🧵 that honestly I could send my students and just tap out for the next 6 weeks.

📺 April 19, 1987: The animated family named the Simpsons debuted on the Fox network comedy/variety half-hour “The Tracey Ullman Show” as a series of shorts. At present, Fox's “The Simpsons” is now in season 37, with over 800 episodes produced.

“They’re not racist per se” people would implore, hearing none of that now that we’re only accepting white South Africans as refugees

The Strait of Hormuz was open for less than three Scaramuccis

👇🎯 Yes but it needs to go further: - No shadow docket - No clerks - No building - Riding the circuit We can debate necessary structural reforms like more seats & such. But first, immediately, the next Congress needs to strip these Wizards In Robes of every perk & power not explicitly in Art. III.

For all those looking for a good laugh. Best cat adoption advert I have ever read.

The job market collapse rightly gets a lot of attention (actually, in many ways it doesn’t get enough) but the political landscape in which people write, research and teach history in general and histories of empire, race and slavery in particular is unrecognizable from what it was even a decade ago

Kash Patel’s Punisher logo custom yellow Nikes are the most embarrassing thing I’ve ever heard about a 46 year old podcaster who works in law enforcement and competition is fierce

yeah it is critical that dems win the senate

I will join. I don't like any of it but my hatred for this Hillwilliam cosplayer is deeper and more abiding than my hatred of that fucken church.

well there is a precedent but you won't like it

Where is the lie? But also, people like to think they are special, and what they are going through is special, and if there is anything historians can establish with tedious frequency it is that no, none of us are special and historical precedent echoes and coughs its way through the decades.

There is nothing to be gained by pathologizing evil and I don't understand why so many people have this impulse.

Once again, the right is openly admitting that the entire focus on trans youth is to ultimately ban all gender affirming care for adults. All the credulous reporters and institutions that helped launder this right wing project are responsible. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

My dying words before the flood swept me away: “It’s not bias when you objectively analyze the data and conclude that something radical must happen or else a whole lot of people plus our entire agricultural system are going to be harmed and also the reason for flood is climate change.”

"Such guidelines give the product that we are calling AI a futurity, a legitimacy, a standing so seemingly permanent and inevitable that they merit a place in the manuals of our places of work."

TBH Dems' plans should be Land Back. A far more secure and just plan for the future.

I’m going to be annoyed for life by the way people convinced themselves that opposing things like racism and transphobia meant you’d been “duped” by elites.

They’re still eating better than people in ICE concentration camps.

The best thing about this is nobody's favorite dinosaur is the apatosaurus. THE UNNAMING FAILED IT'S A BRONTOSAURUS EVERYONE KNOWS IT'S A BRONTOSAURUS

Quite a flex to turn up at the presidential palace, get him to confirm you as prime minister, call him unfit to serve with no moral authority, tell him to resign, and then pose for a picture

This “-maxxing” and “-mogging” stuff comes from an ugly place and has never been particularly funny. But what about if *I* adopt it, but ironically,

Every new right-wing publication is named The Daily Constitution and pays a dozen writers mid-six-figure salaries thanks to backing by the CEO of fascism. Every new left-wing publication is named Lazer Sword & pays fifty contributors $300 a month, funded by laid-off journalists donated buyout pay.

its so cool that literally every job now is understaffed by 30-50%. its great because i didnt want whatever it was done well or with any care at all. but please keep raising prices anyway

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A most basic principle of human rights tbh

What if we just cleared Congress of all the abusers and sex pests this week what is stopping us who cares what party they are in

one of the faster career disintegrations we've seen in recent memory

“It's a shame that the Pope has made the Catholic Church political” is one of the most amazing sentences ever uttered by a politician. Elite stuff. Arguably the most wrong a person could be, including rejecting basic arithmetic.

religious literacy — not to be confused with “religion” as such — is a civic good.

If you are a person like me, who loves cleaning extremely gross things bc it's so satisfying, let me recommend taking apart your washing machine and cleaning the coin trap. IT IS DISGUSTING. Never have been happier.

Sure. But don't forget last year's Polish presidential election. We should be glad whenever the forces of democracy defeat fascism. But winning a battle is not winning the war. Democrats didn't learn this lesson in 2020. We can't afford to forget it now.

the funniest thing rowling ever said was "if your rights are ever under threat, I'd march with you" before unleashing probably the biggest attack on our rights in british history

On that note, always remember that Bolsonaro was voted out, tried to do a coup, failed, was tried and convicted, and is now under house arrest. And Duterte was constitutionally banned from running again, arrested by the ICC, and is currently awaiting trial in the Hague.