I wonder how many high school yearbooks are getting printed right now with Charlie Kirk meme senior quotes lmfao

A Tennessee man who was jailed for 37 days over a Facebook post he shared after the killing of Charlie Kirk agreed to a $835,000 settlement with the sheriff’s office, his lawyers said. nyti.ms/4tKTI8c

Track AIPAC endorsed candidates are getting worse than AIPAC endorsed ones. My kingdom for the Israel-Palestine issue to get taken over by serious, moral adults instead of being dominated by bigots (of either side).

Ohhhhh my god

Asked Meta AI to give me some memes and it spit out these deeply unsettling bangers

The past few years have slowly convinced me that technocracy melding with and replacing some aspects of democracy might be the only way forward - it's going to be SO tricky to figure out how to pull this off effectively in a way that preserves our freedom, but I don't think we can run from it either

Jeffries slams the Virginia redistricting ruling: "We're still going to win two seats minimum in Virginia. And then we're going to work as hard as we can in advance of 2028 to restore that 10-1 map, because that's what the voters decided would be appropriate moving forward."

Gotta love how the world's newest fault region of frequent earthquakes is in... North Jersey

This is funny and all, but I do find it increasingly odd/worrying how large dedicated media outlets, especially in tech, seem to be devoting themselves more and more towards shallow gossip rather than reporting on... you know, technology

They should refund the degrees of everyone who jeers at the mention of AI

Y'know that actually explains a lot about the weird not-racism and not-slurs that show up in AI discourse.

The grid used to create so much harmful air pollution per unit that if you naively assume data centers were just drawing from the normal grid, their 2030 PM2.5 emissions will be less than half their all-time peak in 2006. Coal is just so crazy bad. NOx is a different story.

The hilarious thing is that the Internet moral panics only ended *when the AI ones started!!!* This was fucking 3 years ago at most! We were even still talking about how horrible it was that it was replacing all our jobs!

If voting weren't anonymous, I wonder how drastically American politics would change - like, you'd have tens of millions of people who would suddenly have to feel shame, but I wonder if this would hurt Democrats or the GOP more... I'd predict the latter more broadly, but it's hard to say

Unapologetic C3 - it keeps bringing absurd revolutions to every field you can imagine (especially once you understand that "AI" doesn't just mean LLMs), and that stuff has mostly had a wonderful effect on the world thus far

I remember trying to read The Iliad when I was 14 and just giving up after I got like 20 pages in, because it seemed like the shit was genuinely never gonna end with all that "Little Joe of Shitbottom, son of Joe the Elder, died from an arrow to the knee" over and over and over and over an

YOU VOLUNTEERED THREE TIMES YOU DELIBERATELY CHOSE THIS INSTEAD OF COASTING ON YOUR TRUST FUND BECAUSE YOU WERE BORED

I had the unfortunate luck of finding one of those threads on here where thousands of people harass someone for not saying that Democrats are actually the most transphobic entity in existence, and that they were way better in the 60s... the right-wing psyops have completely rotted this site already

It is really funny that the biggest AI haters are the ones who have poor reading comprehension and stoop to recycling other people's dead memes without a hint of self-awareness

The sign of a truly annoying hit song is that nobody even brings it up anymore after it's gone - like, Rumor Has It was such a plague that we can't even laugh about it to this day

This is going to give me a seizure, not out of photosensitivity but out of pure incomprehensibility

the inability to face this among IR analysts and geopolitical pundits is in large part because the strongest lens for understanding Trump are personal psychology, gender, and race, all of which have traditionally been weak points of understand in the field.

I feel like the giant unspoken motivation behind the push for an edit button is the embarrassment of pushing another notification to everyone in the thread by making another post that corrects a small typo

Whenever you see polls of Democratic, Republican, and independent support, the final election results always match up *perfectly* if you add 100% of the independent tally to the Republicans

People will call this based and not realize that Openclaw bloat is driving a massive amount of the current power draw in datacenters

Who wants to join my penis fencing league

One one hand, I've been craving a return to much stronger social media moderation akin to what forums have traditionally had... On the other hand...

Man he is just a weak poster now, the real AI brainrot is the way that it's turning its haters into frustrated cranks

I wish we lived in a world where people understood that fiction isn't just a bunch of coded moral lessons with strict meanings

This is genuinely some of the best performance art I've seen in years, it's fucking hilarious

I think this is unironically an explanation for Murc's Law - Democratic controversies are so boring that it genuinely pisses people off, but Republican controversies are so horrific that they become juicy and fun instead

Lmfao this is the funniest thing ever holy shit, there's absolutely no counter to this

1. Person posts real Monet, claims its AI. Gets a massive thread of people calling it terrible slop and explaining why it's so bad. 2. Other person punches all of their critiques about how bad the real Monet is into an AI to improve it to match their standards. 😂

I'm ashamed of you. Get off my tip

Pretty wild way of burying the lede that Ringo is going to release a Pierrot Lunaire recording... beautiful stuff is coming

God I hate how much AI generated art there is out there, and they still can't even get the fingers right.

Texas law has an exemption barring the release of information on donors to state schools. Texas gives out sideline passes for football to donors who give over $1 million. Texas law does not have an exemption blocking the release of who got sideline passes. www.foiaball.com/p/texas-long...

I get that you don't hear about spates of musket murders or whatever, but I feel like everyone is trying to dunk on this as if the modern human body would be no more affected by the primitive musket than if it were a flyswatter... like, no, it'll just end you

Seattle, Portland, SF etc all ought to be havens for trans people, immigrants, anyone threatened by fascism But we can’t protect our neighbors if we don’t have enough affordable homes for them to live in Building more housing is not optional

Platner would have voted no 💀 I'm telling you all he's gonna be even worse than the shit we have there right now

I've seen people on here go smol bean and cry about how site moderation is targeting their safe haven of harassment where they've been forced into exile, but they're literally the ones who always end up having a second account on Twitter that they still use lmfao

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I should make an advanced deepfake account where I pass off AI art as having been sketched by my own hand, and constantly fill it with angry references to "how much I hate AI" - everyone would say they loved the art then LMAO

Paint It Black is cool, but my god is it the peak of Jagger Wattpad - my go-to for worst lyric ever is "like a newborn baby, it just happens every day!" This is arguably true of a few other Rolling Stones songs with great grooves, but lyrics that try WAY too hard to be edgy and shocking

I hope I'm not being too cynical, but it's been depressing for me to find out that a solid 95%+ of the U.S. really does only hold progressive-looking beliefs out of mindless retribution/jealousy - like, I should never have to pay any taxes myself, so that's why it sucks that corporations dodge it!

Another twist to the Politico story on the data center causing low water pressure: There was this great local reporting on the issue that found that the complaint about low water pressure was coming from a private well that the data center didn't even draw from thecitizen.com/2026/05/11/b...

I honestly want to write a study on the critical environment of the surrealism of today - you'd think that modern institutions would be more receptive to bold artistic absurdity than in the past, but we still reject the validity of Internet-based pieces no more undignified than Duchamp's Fountain

Elsevier forces academics to sign over the rights to their intellectual property in order to profit from them indefinitely, while providing no services of value. They are, sincerely, one of the reasons I hate copyright in all its forms

Part of what makes this guy dangerous is that he knows exactly how to be an effective slopulist, which is an absolutely terrifying quality in a Nazi