www.404media.co/manyvids-por... Let's talk about Parahuman relationships! To get hit in short secession with parasocial, and now parahuman relationships is a tough draw for humanity. It's like the superorganism version of endocrine disruptors.

My people!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Finally! Trump wins the Nobel Irony Prize

A good companion piece to "On Bullshit." It also calls out issues in tech that have been on my mind: deadsimpletech.com/blog/essay_o... A bit of an echo of Upton Sinclair: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"

Are you frustrated with your elected officials? The good news is we’re heading into a primary season where we get to determine the leaders of the Democratic Party.

Not from the Trump administration or the bipartisan Congressional leadership, however. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Remembering today the first Cyberpunk book (nonfiction) I read. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing... In 1985, it presages the social media dopamine feedback loop, and likely leads to one of my favorite Cyberpunk novels, "Gun, with Occasional Music," the daily news is only music, relating the vibe.

At least we can just call it Out Burger. www.the-independent.com/life-style/i...

here you go, @chromecow.bsky.social You can't add humanity to AI any more than you can add humanity to a stick of charcoal, paint, or Gimp. These are tools, not tool-users. No art lies in a tool. Photoshop can't make art; it's not awake and has no opinons.

Embarking on another vanity-project war, seems like a great day to revisit the Utah Philips/Ani DeFranco album The Past Didn't Go Anywhere. open.spotify.com/album/2IqT02... www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHcQ... Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it. -Mark Twain

See how this works? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This is the budget resolution that Republicans have voted for. Another reminder that we have socialism for the rich, harsh capitalism for the rest.

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.