For me it’s that plus the huge environmental impact of AI plus knowing that really the only problem that mass AI adoption solves is billionaires having to pay wages for specialised non-manual labour. Everything is piffle.

As a lawyer I’m getting a daily machine gun of come-ons to use AI in legal research, have AI draft my documents, let AI suggest my arguments, AI can take a flying fuck at a rolling seven-fingered doughnut

100% true for legal work

I’ve never apologized for being white. I also don’t work to cover for the horrors that white supremacist bigots and terrorists have committed due to their, um, pride in this skin tone. This fella needs to figure out the difference because we’re moving backward fast here.

started / going

Ideas are not a resource that the games industry needs generated. You cannot shoot a nerf gun into a studio and miss someone without a thousand great ideas. It's never been a problem for any of us. Just ask us. Fuck sake you evil bastards just admit you don't want to pay for staff.

The most damning indictment of our society is the fact that those photos even exist at all - That so many rich and powerful white men became so comfortable with their own impunity that they never thought twice about posing for photos with their monstrous child trafficking friend.

Don't directly quote Trump challenge. Not saying his words don't matter, but he loves nothing more than the sound of his own voice and the context-less repetition of his most outlandish claims. You can talk about what he's saying without using his preferred language to do it. Fuck that guy.

Don't be dissuaded by the fact that this long read is making rounds with developers - the writing is very accessible for the technologically inept as well, and it's a fascinating reflection on the history and nature of human communication more broadly as well.

@katiejgln.bsky.social substack about women's skepticism re AI is great, comparing women's adoption rates of AI to adoption rates of similar tech and citing all my favorite sources about the ways AI tools systematically reinforce bias. open.substack.com/pub/thenoosp...

Every time I see a suggestion that AI will solve world hunger, or climate change, or poverty, I have a mini-stroke. Our problem is not a lack of solutions, but lack of political will to implement them, made harder by promoting the idea that some more palatable solution awaits just around the corner.

As a white blond woman, when I see people like Elizabeth Holmes and Olivia Nuzzi succeed, my imposter syndrome goes haywire - is all my success attributable to a society that just won't let me fail? I genuinely breathed a sigh of relief seeing American Canto flop so dramatically this week.

This is SO interesting - a mushroom with no known psychoactive compounds that produces remarkably consistent hallucinations of tiny people a la Gulliver's Travels. With references dating back to the 3rd Century of the same hallucinations!

FUN FACT FRIDAY: SOCIAL SECURITY EDITION 📣 Did you know: In 2025, millionaires (and billionaires, and trillionaires) pay the same for Social Security as someone earning $176,100? 😲 Say it ain't so @moniquemorrissey.bsky.social 1/

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

The titular wokeness being rolled back is the Civil Rights Act of 1964

I say this as someone whose entire job is finding the narrow use cases in which AI is actually useful: All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.

"Today’s microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow’s microwave will be able to cook an entire Thanksgiving Dinner. Ten years from now a microwave may even be able to run the country."

As awful as this, the focus on whether the woman was complying obscures the more important issue: in a democracy, there should not be armed agents demanding to see papers of every passing person.

villains monologuing about all their sociopathic motivations while the heroes are captive serve two narrative purposes: the first is delay while the heroes come up with a plan; the second is that it relieves the audience of any guilt for enjoying the forthcoming violence against the villain.

Geneticist here. Anyone telling you that they can just change intelligence (which isn't what IQ measures well anyways) by fiddling with a few genes is just straight-up grifting, it doesn't work like that. And yes it's basically definitionally eugenics.

Remember to thank Rebecda Black today for inventing Fridays, we honor her today on Black Friday

PSA (unrelated to *all this*) Take that turkey out the freezer babes.

You used to be able to drive up the tarmac to the plane, keep your shoes on, sit more than 2 inches away from a stranger, wear a goddamn jacket and recline the seat without paying extra. I'm in a sports bra in case I'm forced to strip at security.

The human condition.

This is absolutely extraordinary. Almost 9 million people live in Tehran. The city is built on land that is sinking in places by a foot a year.

Is there any point, when you’re threatening to break a judge’s car windows so you can detain the teenage Supreme Court intern he’s driving home for protection, that you’re like huh, maybe I’m the bad guy?

made this for your sharing convenience

Basically what Mom & Dad said 👇🏾

Capitalism is a system whereby the poor are systemically exterminated so Elon Musk can build a machine that tells everyone he is a greater athlete than LeBron James large numbers of people think this is the best and only way to organize society

I know this is the cost of progress, and that the progress is real and that's why it is this bad now - but with it feels like with every year since about 2015 we excavate a fresh new low of our society's contempt for women and girls. Before the weight of the past dirt has had time to settle.

People who cannot work still deserve to live. (which requires access to safe food, housing, and healthcare at minimum) Insane for any of this to be controversial in 2025

What could be worse for Trump than releasing the Epstein files?

And it would help this effort if every Dem said something along the lines of "We *know* he rapes women. The only question is does he also rape girls."

Democrats at every level of power could simply repeat "he must resign" over and over and over again. It's what the GOP would do if the situation were reversed. Further erode his power by pushing him to lash out more.

When you've never interacted with a gull, frankly! Bold ass birds, all of 'em.

look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry

Yes really — the “we asked this guy. He doesn’t actually know jack shit but he’s rich” model of reportage really needs to go

it's insanely funny for people to be talking like this about New York of all places, the city with a big metal lady in the harbor holding a sign that says "we love immigrants"

The lesson here is have good principles and stand on them. Stand for something that isn't power!

This is a longstanding, thoroughly disproven lie. Vance is carving out a little niche for himself as the guy who tells vicious, racist lies about non-white people to massage the egos of white nationalists. And the *specific* lies he tells reveal he’s well versed in white nationalist propaganda.

Notable that the people carrying Trumpism don't act like they believe they're carrying out the will of the public, they act like dictators terrified of a spontaneous uprising so swift and massive it overwhelms their protective services before assistance can arrive.

We don't cast off one segment of society to save ourselves. It's a betrayal of everything we're trying to defend. It's a cowardly kind of self-preservation. If your plan for escaping this bank robbery involves deliberately killing a few of our fellow hostages, maybe sit this chat out for a while?

I keep seeing people say, oh, trans people must take a hit for the greater good and, first of all, no, you don't get to discard someone else's rights and second, we know from past experience that marginalized communities like theirs are merely the first to be targeted. They'll come for you next.

Change one letter. Ruin a candy. Stickers.

Further support for my 5th grade student elections theory of government: it doesn't matter how smart people are or how obviously the candidate js lying. If you promise the electorate free popsicles on Fridays, the majority will close their eyes, cross their fingers, and vote for free popsicles.

i feel like basically every culture has stories about treasure that turns you mad for some reason?

Yes, they’re using the shutdown to turn off SNAP benefits. No, they don’t have to.

Bernie's wrong. Lots of nations don't have borders. What needs borders is a nation-*state*. It's not the same thing at all. The talking point uses fear to help people forget that a nation-state can have open borders. But open borders is the correct policy, and our nation-state should have them.