they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

“Hypernormalization describes a state where a false, simplified, or surreal version of reality becomes so accepted as normal that people lose the ability or will to challenge it, even when aware of its untruth, often due to systemic inertia or lack of alternatives.”

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

Magritte didn’t know the half of it

This is where I post from

This app still desperately needs the feature of keeping your place on your feed when it refreshes, and I am going to continue complaining about it

RIP The Internet

Time to jettison @firefox.com

In the early 20th century most people did not embrace automobiles, they preferred existing transpo options but automakers forced their product down everyone's throat by dismantling street cars, etc. This is why it's important to LOUDLY and AGGRESSIVELY oppose ai at every opportunity.

RIP The Internet

“What if the huge quantities of electrical energy and manpower we use to keep the internet stable were devoted in the majority to worthless shit?”

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

What if MTA spent $70 million on operating and maintaining the system rather than guards to stop people from riding the subway that belongs to them (Never mind how much is also spent on cops in the subway and their egregious overtime)

The U.S. spends over $180 billion on cops and incarceration every year. The annual SNAP budget is $100 billion.

what is the point of having Society if we aren't using it as a means to take care of each other

I actually do want a participation trophy for continuing to be alive preferably in the form of 5000$ a month directly from the governmen.

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

We are not guessing about this. There are a metric ton of studies of pilot program and they all show the same thing.

A new study, based on a survey of 1,150 workers suggests that the injection of AI tools into the workplace has not resulted in a magic productivity boom and instead increased the amount of time that workers say they spend fixing low-quality AI-generated “work.” 🔗 www.404media.co/ai-workslop-...

geez good thing we’re only using it for health insurance claims, legal arguments, mortgage rates, teaching students, predicting crime, mental health care, automating government services, fact checking, and pointing out other AI

my point is: you need to be an asshole against fascists weaponizing appeals to social niceties to crack down on “wrongthink” (which is btw extremely correct think) and you need to tell people arguing for decorum and civility to shut the fuck up.

and very important doodle i have no explanation for this it just exists

Facial and biometric recognition surveillance should be banned. Entirely and completely. Continuing to use technology that has, time and time again, surfaced its racist, ableist, and classist foundations is lethal for everyone.

i will never vote for gavin newsom under any circumstances

the humble hotdog evolved from the hotwolf, a culinary artifact we no longer dare confront

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

Tempus do be fugitin tho

And to be clear, the results are the same as the latest several dozen times we did this over the last several decades. It's not a lack of knowledge but of political will.

"...the risk of being murdered underground is... orders of magnitude less than the risk of dying from a traffic accident elsewhere in the US. Cars are deadly, and any transportation policy that encourages their use over public transportation is pretty much by definition anti-safety."

this mf’s vorpal blade just went snicker snack

we have commodified everything. games, movies, everything. its all formulas and tests and feedback. with its history and art design, marathon should have been a singleplayer shooter, or at least shipped with a singleplayer campaign. but those numbers wouldn't stack up the way executives want.

The subway is not scary. Literal children ride it millions of times every day. Fascists and bigots lie about it constantly and have for years because they’re trying to destroy NYC and our subway, and most things wrong with the subway can be traced to their attacks resulting in its underfunding.

For some unknown reason, I spent the evening creating a pixel Fraktur for mice. I don't why my brain picked up the command, but it was kinda meditative.

Is this a dagger which I see before me [Press R1 for LIGHT ATTACK], The handle toward my hand [Press R2 for HEAVY ATTACK]? Come, let me clutch thee [Hold R2 for CHARGE ATTACK]. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still [Press L1 + R2 for PHANTOM ATTACK (expends Ghost Power)].

Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water. A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Your mom has ludonarrative dissonance

everyday we are reminded that the richest, dumbest, and most heartless motherfuckers dictate our livelihood.

so sick of capitalism ruining literally everything

At this juncture I’d like to point out: * we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing * there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world * a united approach could stop the climate crisis But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.

And tomorrow is tax day...a great reminder that we are literally paying for this lawlessness and evil.

This is the only story any news outlets should be running on AI

It me. I’m sickos