Why aren't more people talking about the ICE surge in Memphis? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I was like, that's it. that's it exactly. that's why I hate means testing. that's why I hate moralizing about access to medical care or what if that homeless guy just spends this money on drugs. we shouldn't help people because of who THEY are, we should do it because of who WE are. it's so simple

WHERE DO I VOTE

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

minnesota gov. tim walz has signed a bill banning prediction markes (kalshi, polymarket). first state-level ban of its kind. (sports betting via traditional/mobile sports books is still illegal here too)

“We’re not excited to see these advancements in AI if it means it’s going to pollute our environment, spread misinformation, track us and take our jobs.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Hey, if someone says “get in the gaping maw,” you don’t ask questions, you just say “yes.”

lol okay, wow, I guess I struck a nerve… not a lot of Gaping Maw fans out there.

congratulations, graduates. i'm honored to speak at your commencement. this is a proud moment for you, your family, and your friends. the future is in your hands. and the most important task of the future is to feed the Gaping Maw (students start booing, one student yells "fuck the gaping maw")

Incredible. Author of book on truth in the age of AI uses AI for book, which generates fake quotes from sources including my wife. Actual Kara Swisher quote, which somehow she got the NYT to print: “I also sound like I have a stick up my butt, according to ChatGPT" www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/b...

We’re watching all the tell-tale signs of authoritarian takeover and people are waiting on them to slide on armbands. The mechanisms are all sliding into place, in full view, and most people haven’t been properly prepared by education or even popular culture or history. It’s maddening.

Love when sweet Solomon pays us a visit. Also: true facts.

TFW, if you had read L'Estranger when it was assigned in your high school French class, you wouldn't have wondered for 37 years what that one Cure song was about.

this is a masterpiece

No money for pediatric cancer research but there's $1.7 billion for people who beat cops and smeared feces on the walls of the US Capitol.

When you travel on the 0.028% of tracks in the USA capable of supporting 160 mph, it feels good to see what train travel was like in Japan in 1964.

This is legitimately bananas. First books, now guitars? Recalling and destroying joy.

My policy is if I find out you use AI in your writing I get rid of all your books cuz you're a fuckin scab.

Sarah Gailey: Submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the river of teeth Gailey: it's about the most dangerous game of all Stephen King: is it man? Clive Barker: what kind of question is that, steve? of course it's man Barker: it's always man Mary Shelley: phht

I have never owned an actual Stratocaster but three times in my life I have been fortunate to have owned lovely guitars that Fender is now trying to sue out of existence. A terrible look for a legendary brand. RIP to my PRS, Ibanez, and G&L s-styles, wherever they may be this morning.

Saddest time *for white people* * Police killings are lower than they were a few years ago when Biden was in charge. Vigilante killings of Black people are much lower than during reconstruction, or even the 80s👍🏿 * Everything is better than during slavery👍🏿 * Homicide rates lower than under Biden👍🏿

They're heeeeerrrreeeee

The Welsh devil is as dumb as a rock. Every time he helps the locals build a bridge, in exchange for the soul of the first to cross it. Every time they send a stray dog across instead of a human. (Alternately: Ol' Nick lives to sit down after a nice day's evil with his rescue dogs.)

“missed the ai wave”? motherfucker what are you talking about? these dipshits were in on the ground floor. so tired of moving goalposts so that corporations don’t seem completely idiotic and useless while also being extremely harmful/destructive in myriad ways.

So, uh. The current version of Bruce Wayne spent seven years wandering the world training to become Batman. Among the folks he trained with were Shaolin Monks, Giovanni Zatara (Zatanna's father), some random Brazillian crime lord, a couple of Japanese masters, and Ra's al Ghul.

“are you willing to participate in nonviolence? Because if you only demand it from others, you're not nonviolent. You're just hiding behind the bully and giving the victim a thumbs up while they get pounded. That's a violent position if I ever saw one.”

So Maryland sent two mail-in ballots to a bunch of people, apparently including me, and the first one might have errors. Great. What could go wrong 😵🗳️ elections.maryland.gov/elections/20...

Not to be a whole ass mf, but my wife and I are literally doing the opposite of what our parents did and she's actually happy in school and has a positive outlook on everything. We both came from high pressure overachiever families and we do absolutely none of that overscheduling bullshit

[You are encumbered and cannot run] [You drop: Greatsword of Frost] [You are encumbered] [Warning! Dropping Prince Tim will abandon his questline!] [You drop: Prince Tim] [Quest failed! "Tiny Kingdom in Need"] [You are encumbered] [You drop: (1) of (14) Cheese Wheels] [You are no longer encumbered]

oh how i pine for the halcyon days of yore, when people still pined & knew what ‘halcyon’ meant 😬

WTOP had a story today about Black job losses in the DMV are double the regional average because of DOGE.

What non-superhero fans don't understand about my love for superhero comics is that they are weird and they used to be even weirder. I don't like MCU so much. I like that comic runs used to go on for like 100 issues and the whole time I'd be like, what the Hell am I reading???

Every time a doctor has asked "Is it okay if I use AI take notes for me," they seem completely caught off guard when I say "no." But...no. Obviously no. Like there aren't already enough mistakes in my medical record without adding hallucinations. N-O. No.

sorry I seem distracted just have to keep checking my phone to see if one of my freedoms is being arbitrarily taken away

Shut up and go make some art that no one is asking for

Great post! 👍 You don't seem to care about the connections between protopunk, punk rock, post-punk, hardcore punk, and new wave. Or you're simply unaware of them. 😝

I really love it when an artist I follow gets insanity levels of obsessed with [thing they like] and will not stop drawing it. It's so very charming. Go girl give us one billion drawings of that little freak in your head who I know nothing about. He's my blorbo in law now

I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down.

Doesn't feel too out there to say that every hour of work "saved" by AI just becomes someone else's hour of work.

I am actually okay with being touched to indicate I need to move aside in a noisy/crowded club, but if you try to barge directly through my physical form I am going to plant my feet like a tree next to the river of fuck you and you are going to get a nosebleed

I don’t know what to tell you, man. I’m a medieval historian, and, in my field, if you don’t check your sources (and your sources’ sources) you are just asking to be taken for a ride by some bored 19th C. aristocratic English antiquarian with a penchant for inventing history.

Voici mon texte extrait du rapport pour celles et ceux qui veulent le lire plus facilement (vu qu'on me l'a demandé directement). (Je dois mettre le texte 2x pour avoir le alt complet)

🐸 [Id 1 to 4 : A wood carved plump, grumpy rainfrog on a workbench, next to a carving knife. Its eyes are painted with black, burnt yellow, grey and white paint. It has buttcheeks.]

It turns out that having someone who is playing a significant part in dismantling the agencies where kids parents work (or worked) ain't a winning plan...

For the record, this proposal specifically targets gender identity. You have until May 22nd to submit a comment

I sincerely hope that people in the quotes popping off about the nationals fan base, when these assholes with the sign are almost certainly out of towners to a city that is 95% not this, have called their representatives about ending the federal occupation of a place without representation.

People have already memory-holed how critical #TeslaTakeDown was. It was the earliest decentralized set of protests in the second term as early as Feb 2025 at a time when most people were shell-shocked and Dem leadership was cowering and capitulating. And it pushed Elon out of the WH.

I do think that how people behave towards a trans person is a good litmus test of their character overall. There's currently very little social cost to being low-key transphobic, so assholes feel freer to let their asshole flag fly when we're involved. But IDK.