Tanning beds are right up there next to indoor smoking in terms of things that literally not a single normal person wants to become popular again. I’ve known plenty of people who used them, but by ~2000 they were all pointing to themselves as examples of why NOT to use them to teen me & my friends

Yeah man everybody taking out debt to pay for literally everything is a great sign and I’m sure nothing bad is going to happen in the long term when nobody can pay off their credit card debt. If I as a millennial know anything it’s that everybody having debt they can’t possibly ever pay off is nbd.

Apparently today is Raise Your Hand If You'd Be Dead Without Antidepressants Day. ✋🏻

thinking about it just slightly more I feel like this comparison is especially apt given what seems to have set off this particular bout of bullshit was apparently literally a woman on a date vaguely asking a dude about some rumored past conduct

yall I really don’t think we should be preemptively celebrating propaganda outlets and figureheads superficially turning on trump if they’re also doing a compare/contrast that simultaneously promotes vance as like the True MAGA successor or whatever.

If someone has a pattern of dismissing criticism and dodging discussion about it by describing the ppl criticizing them as “crazy” and “psychotic” you should trust that person precisely as much as you would someone on a date going on about all their “crazy” exes when asked about past relationships

Also the @nytimes.com "Meanwhile we at the NYT find RFK Jr's attack on trans ppl and their health care to be entirely credible."

dog shit website, dog shit dev team, dog shit "safety" team; they all use the moderation tools to fulfill their personal grievances

Secret Service shot a kid today

Can’t “evict” them. And excluding them is hella expensive. So what they are talking about is reprising the massive killing spree of the 1870s.

So I get a lot of interior design related spam emails which i actually open and look at for some god forsaken reason and I’m noticing a 50s color palette trend….. idk maybe it’s nothing but it’s giving me bad vibes, don’t like that at all rn

Phil Nichols, Allie Thral, Julian Quiros, and Ezekiel Dixon-Román on literacy, speculative capture, and how literacy is “vulnerable both to cooptation by…AI platforms and to being remade by the preemptive reasoning that animates them.”

I’m not ready to ditch literacy frameworks for technology altogether, but if we don’t consider their vulnerabilities, we risk reproducing narrow understandings of literacy practices that serve Big Tech and deny teachers and students the ability to view refusal as a viable, often necessary option.

Phil Nichols and Robert LeBlanc “demonstrate how an alternate orientation to media pedagogy – one grounded in ‘ecology’ rather than ‘literacy’ – provides a wider repertoire of resources for navigating contemporary media environments.”

Also, resharing this thread on research arguing that literacy frameworks possess serious flaws when applied to technology.

If people need further evidence that "AI literacy" is a Trojan horse tech companies will use to further embed their products into schools and socialize teachers and young people into lifelong customers through industry-friendly lessons on what practicing “AI literacy” looks like, then here you go!

"Burger King is piloting an AI chatbot embedded in employee headsets that will evaluate their interactions for friendliness… " Imentiv advises clients on analysis of candidates’ emotional engagement and personality type." Free: archive.ph/2026.05.03-1... "Step it up lively." - Hartman, Scenes… 📚

Endless shorts about beans and cereal and minimal ingredient noodle dishes. I'm sure it's fine.

The clot risk alone is mind-boggling, without even considering the nerve damage, muscle aches, chafing, bruising, unhygienic toileting, mental injury, and the possibility of further abuse from onboard GEO Group guards. And because they’re now deported, we have almost no way of knowing about it.

This flight made yet another stop, to the Republic of Georgia, that I hope was just for fuel but was probably also a deportation. Meaning people would’ve been shackled for 50+ hours. Longest one I’ve recorded this year. (The longest I’ve ever recorded is 82 hours, in December.)

Can someone let the AP know that violating court orders is not a sign of "executive power. " It is a sign of contempt, lawlessness and authoritarianism.

Openly gloating about building the panopticon, spending a decade+ “chipping away at” the privacy rights and liberty of his neighbors Gloating about earning the ‘trust’ of a private surveillance company while actively betraying the trust of his own community

I think this is a microcosm of what is playing out all over the country. Dunwoody has a "real time crime center" that is "powered by Flock" and has Flock's logo on the wall. It looks like this. Residents have been showing up to city council meetings for the last month FURIOUS

These surveillance regimes are not keeping you safe, they are actively preying on you. "Police are using surveillance tech to stalk love interests…" "Dystopia, here we come?" No, here we actively are.

These surveillance regimes are not keeping you safe, they are actively preying on you.

The big thing that made me more of a lefty throughout my life was this: Meeting different people and having a good time. That's why art school can make you a lefty. Not because art teachers are brain washing you, but simply because lots of different people go to art school.

no but literally ‘art is ~elite~ decadence’ has been a fascist talking point from the jump. fascists hate art and hate artists. art connects us to each other, but fascism depends on us rejecting our shared humanity, so they have to destroy and suppress art as much as possible.

My biggest conspiracy theory is that telling working class people that engagement in the arts is a middle / upper class thing and to do so makes you a class traitor is a psyop to make them disengaged with themselves and the world and the beauty of being human, so that they accept worse treatment.

“To those of you who are silent or think this does not involve you, to those of you who are not troubled by this — or worse, who applaud it — particularly those who are Catholic, I ask you: Do you not see the suffering of your neighbors?”

“At a Friday morning news conference, Boxie choked back tears several times as he spoke about the significance of his promotion. The Black Catholic Messenger, an outlet that covers African American Catholics, said he is the first Black bishop to be appointed in the United States in nearly a decade.”

I am not normally on the side of posting kids on the internet... but every so often...(this is a reposting account) www.tiktok.com/@fortheloveo...

‘lol silly kids you can just go outside and turn your phone off nobodys stopping you’ except people literally fucking are stopping them and they’re all dealing with debilitating psychological issues as a result of being the school shooting generation you condescending empathy lacking fucksticks

Oh right and in case it needs saying, this is nazi shit. Like extremely literally straight up one to one historical comparisons nazi shit.

hey you know that thing I’ve said a bunch of times about how there is a subset of protestants who perceive the catholic church as having a kind of seniority based authority that they both resent and want to claim for themselves branding themselves as “traditional” is one way of accomplishing this

I don't think it's nerdy at all! Especially when evangelicals are re-gearing up anti-Catholic hate and Trump is engaged in a vicious feud with the Pope!

Orban was pretty load-bearing for the global right wing media ecosystem huh

using this post as an excuse to share this video essay that I have not been able to stop thinking about

Increasingly convinced that the core of current dem party strategy is just figuring out which group of people they can throw under the bus as a shortcut to win elections.

iirc, when she started giving her money away, she had like 38 billion. She gave away like 18 billion in a few years time. She's richer now. (I'm going off memory, so don't hold me on those numbers, but the point remains the same) TAX THE RICH. They'll never be able to ever spend it all.

You tell Alexa what to do. Claude tells you what to do.

Imagine you have a nephew who is at risk. They're a good kid but they've got some issues. Would you rather government intervention be a social worker being assigned to them or a cop arresting them? When you vote for these politicians you guarantee the second option being the first choice

“Tele-ICU” are we fucking serious

ICU means INTENSIVE CARE UNIT. Remote monitoring in the INTENSIVE CARE UNIT is wildly inappropriate and unethical. Remote monitoring anywhere is wildly unacceptable, but in the ICU?!?!

some boats are too big. boat should not be like a whole ass apartment building bobbing around in the water. dont like it.

Another nice reason to avoid spreading around pro tobacco propaganda is because some of you triggering cravings in at least some people [me, I’m people] who quit comparatively recently and were already struggling with cravings because of like, you know, everything lmao

The ragebait pro smoking essay needs to be treated like every other kind of noxious propaganda. Rewarding it with clicks and detectable other engagement and spreading its reach via dunking is not worth it. It’s ridiculous and badly written and I get it, but this goes nowhere good

Trying to get on Luigi’s jury like

like getting picked for Luigi's trial. Push that smirk down and go "huh? I don't really watch the news"

If you’re ever part of jury selection and they ask if you hate Elon Musk the correct answer is “who?”

Similar thing happened with cheese for a while just before this, thanks to campaigns pushed by DMI. The pork guys were directly trying to emulate the success of the dairy guys