As a goof, we should all sign into AI programs and insist all we want to hear is Free Jazz until we break Clippy. C'mon you fuck, play me something like Ornette Coleman's First Take, but not so streamlined. Make is messy, not clean like the original is. Do a Salvador Dali, but make it wacky.

a fucking pedophile sexually abused nearly every prospective and actual Olympian gymnast for over two decades, and the political discourse is hyper-fixated on the hypothetical unfairness of trans girls competing with cis girls

enough emails. stop it

Historical context. youtube.com/shorts/WH5zY...

We can differ in opinion, until it encroaches on fascism; at that point, you’re wrong. They've found many ways to rig & cheat, & there is no limit to what they’ll attempt. Double-check voter registration often, & be prepared for new ID requirements. They'll make it difficult, to disenfranchise. ✌️☯️🌱

HUGE no on this. Make your phone calls. They are trying to use the SAVE Act to do an end run around court rulings blocking them from accessing state voter rolls:

Random follow-up musings: I’m discovering after a month and a half into this unofficial “physical media” project, I’m much more than likely to watch a movie I own in my hands (whether from a buy or a rental from my public library) than streaming it. Even if I rent the stream for $5.99. (🧵1/4)

Thread I did a while ago. I just you to be able to listen to your music without breaking the bank!

I've banged the drum on these before, and I will do so again. You don't have to spend a lot. Give me your budget and I can get you to audio land. You can get the player in that picture, the SD card and some decent ear buds for about $100. For $300-500 you can get something really cool.

If your legislation to stop "voter fraud" prevents 21 million legitimate voters from voting, your legislation itself is voter fraud.

i think a campaign geared toward what people online were arguing about in 2022 is probably not going to work out

Newsom is terrible and we shouldn't be afraid of saying it. Every effort should be expended to ensure this worthless hack won't be the Democratic nominee.

I don't post on Substack because I already have my own site where I post stuff, and have done for 27 years, and because Substack makes a lot of money off Nazis and fascists and I'd really rather not, thanks. I do have an account there but it's to secure my name. It has a cat photo.

it is of vital importance that we start calling stupid ideas and stupid questions and stupid people “stupid” again

And yet, every day, our most prominent Democratic politicians, scholars, public intellectuals, universities & university leaders, & other civil society organizations continue to use his platform as their primary social media outlet. One cannot help but notice this & draw conclusions.

Yes, we will take our once in a generation satirist with the world’s strongest case of senioritis and challenge him to an internet duel is remarkable thinking, CBS.

In the memory of The Reverend Jesse Jackson, say it sometime today, "I AM. SOMEBODY!" youtu.be/iTB1h18bHlY?...

The US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, a pioneer of progressive Democratic politics, close ally of Martin Luther King Jr, and two-time candidate for the presidential nomination, has died at 84. See his life in pictures: bit.ly/3OxOT3f

Okay. but... how much per month? Does the little mirror guy come with or is that extra? Is that a drawer with a pillow? Is that just attached to the floor? The floor appears to be both concrete and carpet. Housing is expensive, knock $800 a month off and I'll take it.

Someone brilliant recently said, "Companies are annoyed they have to go through you to get your money." And I think Dems are the same way. The DNC/Dem leadership is annoyed they have to appeal to voters to get our votes. They think they're entitled to our votes simply by being "not the GOP."

The open racism you guys have emboldened, megyn

there is a subtle yet repugnant hint of ecofascism that unites takes from supposed leftists and liberals like “getting rid of people’s dependency on USAID is worth the human cost” and “air conditioning is a needless luxury, and some people will just have to die of heat to stop climate change.”

"is now really the right time to be defending marginalized people?" is quite the illuminating question.

I’d love to get every single Democrat on board with “abolish ICE and dismantle DHS” but you’re going to need some votes from folks who don’t want to embrace that particular rhetoric and good news “there’s just too much corruption we’ve got to dismantle it to solve the problem” is sitting right there

The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

It is legitimately so ridiculous that there is a category called “rude” here where the mods decide which grown ass adults are too rude- it’s so silly

Human beings have made music for tens, probably hundreds of thousands of years, with their voices, bodies, and literally anything else close to hand. IT IS AN DIRECT AND UNFORGIVABLE INSULT TO THE CREATIVITY OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT THAT WE NEED THE RESOURCE-EATING PLAGIARISM BOX TO FUCKING DONIT FOR US

I think a lot about how nobody has thrown a shoe at Trump yet and then I remember that was an Iraqi journalist who did that to Bush and yeah I guess no American journalist covering the federal government has the spine to do that

ICE killed a teacher in Georgia today when they chose to chase a man who posed no danger and had no criminal history.

Here it is, your moment of zen.

A congressman says something like this and nothing happens. Someone criticizes Israel's acts of genocide and terrorism and suddenly "antisemitism is out of control!"

Massie not backing down.

Unrelated I've been losing my mind at this figure skating videographer for a day now. www.instagram.com/reel/DUxzy9k...

Just because I keep seeing those "I checked this piece and it's written by AI" - this is an old article of mine, before AI was available. So could we not?

REMEMBER: All the "Don't use em-dashes" "don't use rule of three" advice because it makes your writing "look like AI" is because they stole actual writers work, and their "predict the next thing" stuff just simulates what WE FUCKING DO. Keep writing well. Use every style and trick you have. Fuck AI.

This looks like someomne committed textbook libel and is now trying to throw Clippy under the bus to escape liability. I'm not sure I am willing to take an admitted liar's word that this is an accurate timeline or that there was no malice. This is why maintaining trust is important.

Their "more efficient" process than having writers write: • AI identifies possible stories • Reporters do further reporting and produce notes • Another person uses AI to generate a story from the notes, then rewrites/"tweaks" • Another person fact-checks/edits • Reporter reviews

Stay safe out there y'all

And the hits just keep on coming: RIP Frederick Wiseman, another legend of American cinema

Wildly fluctuating prices used to be a hallmark of collapsing economies but are now proof of Business Genius Innovation

You must learn to hate the aristocracy as much as it hates you.

"DHS Secretary Kristi Noem made a special trip to Arizona just to get a bunch of shit wrong about our elections. “Maybe your staff is terrible. Maybe they briefed you wrong,” said AZ Secretary of State Adrian Fontes." www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/false-a...

Pure moral panic. How, precisely, would a child who experiments with a different haircut or pronouns get “locked in” to a trans identity? The parents who had no problem letting her identify as trans suddenly restrict her from identifying as cis? It makes no sense.

Yes. The irony here is Miller-Vance-MAGA's theory of the case was that ordinary people share their view that immigrants threaten "community." But their solidarity toward immigrants turns out to be so strong that not even Miller's deliberate use of state violence and terror is capable of rupturing it

The current book ban movement is, at its core, a movement to defund the public good. The necessary bigotries were a feature of that, not a bug.

The scientific finding is not repealed. That's not a real thing that can happen. But you can choose to pretend it didn't happen, much like a cancer patient can pretend they didn't hear the results of their biopsy.