I found @brianphillips.bsky.social's defense of the em dash to be thoughtful, beautifully expressed, and human!!!

i am glad that millennials were exposed to enough lazy, decroded "millennials are killing the X industry" articles a decade ago that by and large our response to people doing the same to gen Z is "so what. mind your business"

i can’t think of a single problem where you’d be relieved that THIS guy finally showed up to resolve it. dispute over winnings on a riverboat casino? bejeweled class ring gone missing? rigged carnival game accidentally let a kid win?

anti-doomer sentence of the day: "Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last" www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

Bruh

you have been visited by "Le Boulanger Quebecois" repost to receive his blessing

This photo. ICE is a gang.

soon, you won't remember anything. your real name, your superpowers, you won't even remember that you're drinking the night pepsi

I cannot over-emphasize how hard I laughed when I got a Daybook jobs roundup email featuring a Waymo listing for a "Community and Public Affairs Specialist." futurism.com/waymo-public...

meanwhile, on quora,

This could have paid for 15 students to attend all 4 years tuition free, or relieved a years worth of tuition for 50+ students

Andrew Yang is like, our nation is clearly in peril, my solution is “the Rizzler”

So wait, this isn't a joke? He's....being serious?

“a sex pest beholden to billionaires who doesn’t even live here will fix this city” is helluva message, Jessica.

there are decades where no posting happens, there are weeks where years of posting happens

Did it "backfire" or did it achieve its goal of flooding a major job market and driving down wages

why do they look like they're in SALEM

Only a handful people in and around the AI system know of its existence. ACS tells neither families, their attorneys nor their caseworkers when the algorithm flags a case. themarkup.org/investigatio...

literally came here to post this lmfao

why does this look and read like they're getting engaged openai.com/sam-and-jony/

Somehow, I only just learned that ICE and DHS are not only airing horrifying ads on the radio (which plays in grocery stores, etc) telling people to "self-deport," but that they're also emailing and sending letters with the same message. Literally evil. nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news...

completely forgot about this futurism.com/neoscope/tru...

my “not white genocide” shirt is raising a lot of questions answered by my

In this article I argue treating LLMs like experts or authors or friends instead of as a conduit to access the insights of nameable others is a mistake, both in terms of dangers and lost opportunities www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Pope from Chicago All things go, all things go

i wrote that one!

absolutely insane that that show is really called "squawk box." 30 rock ass show name

One of the most shocking things I have read for a while: t.co/lg46ijHLDF

Just realized the last time I wrote about Catholic stuff was almost exactly a year ago, when I had to not only yell at this buggy priest chatbot but also accidentally got him defrocked futurism.com/catholics-de...

lactose intolerance has never felt better

you know, my biggest takeaway from this nightmare dystopia is that there really was no reason Obama could not have done actual universal healthcare www.bbc.com/news/article...

these women should star in their own david lynch film, but he's not here to make it ):

I’ll take “headlines that aged like milk” for 1000, Alec www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

I think they're just mad they didn't find the biosignatures first tbh futurism.com/nasa-sign-al...

I feel like M3GAN would actually kill moviegoers who used this variety.com/2025/film/ne...

time apparently really is a flat circle

This is the one simple trick you actually need. futurism.com/neoscope/adh... @noorfromfuturism.bsky.social

i just think it's so neat that the Paper of Record published a how-to on being a peeping tom via telescope in 1990 replete with cutesy illustration www.nytimes.com/1990/11/15/g...

Wtf, I love Thames Water pumping shit into the rivers now

"Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" would be a lovely name for a girl

take me down to the cauliflower city where the trees are gold and the horses bitty

This clip, which involves Sam Altman telling a YouTuber that it was "impossible" to "make videos" (eg, be a filmmaker) 30 years ago due to the hard work of filming, editing, and distribution is.... making me feel like we as a species might be cooked youtu.be/xFvlUVkMPJY?...

aged like milk www.axios.com/2024/01/30/g...

i guffawed @404media.co

. @blondieband.bsky.social

worst day to be following a bunch of Irish accounts

welcome back Jesse Helms!