Trying to win elections with bigotry-lite candidates is awesome. You gain nothing, other people suffer and die, and all it costs you is your principles and your soul. Very pragmatic, very adult.

I mean, cmon.

Repeating my old Twitter adage: Is it "discourse" or is it one very loud wrong man we can all block?

No version of the state will ever save us, but if we are properly disposed and empowered it is possible for the state to serve us in a way that is actively beneficial.

I was literally there when it happened and there was a lot of criticism at the time

Excellent.

She was not! They were afraid to even move her, but Aymeric had been waiting in Sharlayan and he was the one to do it

There’s so much wrong with this article — factually, tonally, & in its framing — but the most disturbing to me is the unexamined use of “unity.” Who was white Christian America united AGAINST, Ron?

So here's what I see in a two minute scroll of my following feed: - News article out of Gaza - Several sex workers I follow - Conversation about a boxing match - Conversation about German immigration policy - A bot that remixes things from Mass Effect - Jokes from friends - A review of Fury Road

some dope earlier this week tried to gaslight people by saying the pushback on AI mirrors the pushback when the internet went mainstream and no it fucking does not! people were excited about the internet! ffs it wasn’t 100 years ago, a lot of us were THERE

Reminder that the following you insist you have to stay on Twitter for is meaningless. Ghosts, bots, and dead accounts.

It's important to note that capital makes choices that are not necessarily wise, good or efficient choices, merely ones that best advantage those who control capital. The invention of the automobile did not *have* to lead to, say, the choice to destroy minority neighborhoods to build interstates.

If you don't think this face on that body could launch 1000 ships.... you just don't like women my dude

I genuinely do not see a reason not to outlaw the distribution and hosting of AI video generation

Co fucking signed 🤬

"oh so you think Valve should ban more games not less" what I think Valve should do is have a clear policy for what it will and won't sell on its store, and then actually follow that policy, so I can decide if I want to support that sort of store or not

Rep. Eugene Vindman is doubling down on the forced outing of transgender students and though he says he "disagrees" with defunding schools that support trans people, he voted for it anyway because he really likes the forced outing portion.

Any time anyone ever tells you that the biggest companies in the world wouldn’t waste hundreds of billions of dollars on AI, show them this. This is the core profit center of one of the largest tech companies in the world, and it’s run like a sloppy pre seed startup in the web3 era

Today is the last day to comment to the FCC that LGBTQIA2S+ names, stories, identities don't need a warning label. This new potential rulemaking is an attempt at criminalizing the mere fact of being trans or otherwise queer, in the name of discrimination, bigotry, and persecution. Tell them no, now.

I already have to check search results to see if they're trustworthy, why would I want to add another level of untrustworthiness to my searching, my time on this planet is short enough as it is. "Oh you just have to prompt correctly" - OR, I could just fuckin' do a search, I spent 30 years on that.

Got an hour at my gate before boarding AMA

hello, it's me, I am daughter

I may have cried a little www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As Spring comes to an end, Neva begins 🤍

Happy World Goth Day! All my love to those who find beauty in the ruins and the dark things Photos/dress: @gloomth.bsky.social #gothic #altmodel #corset #vampire

The company would rather "negotiate" with lone individuals over whom they have nearly complete leverage than with experienced negotiators backed by the collective power of like-minded employees. This letter shows that, in the words of Neil Patrick Harris from Starship Troopers, "They're afraid!"

🧵I swear to goodness this is why racists don’t want people to learn Black History. Long story short…this was put to bed when the white lady that stole Esther’s act had the audacity to sue Betty Boops creator for “stealing her act”. Once in court it was proven allthatsinteresting.com/esther-jones

The claim that AI will be used to boost productivity and improve everyone's lives would have just a little bit more credibility if the big tech companies weren't already using AI exactly as every knows they will, which is to fire people and extract more work from those remaining.

Just verifying this as a 1990s teen boy who was a big fan of Ms Williams. Would go to war for her. Checks out.

in the credits AND credited properly. someone did not do "additional writing" if they did the plot design, character design, dialogue, quests, item descriptions, and scripts. can you imagine being credited as "additional actor" just because you didn't play the protagonist? come on.

It’s amazing to watch the professional journalism class dance around this:

This. God, this. It is such a manufactured panic and it started the moment they lost the fight over gay marriage. Support trans rights because it’s the right thing to do and also because this is all just a fascist push

London Devs who've been published, come look at this👇

The genAI industry in two sentences.

There is a heinz 57 puppy for adoption near me. His name is Beans.

In light of the recent bullshit guidance, let me tell you about disabled toilets again, in solidarity with trans folks.

I’ve never had a single problem sharing spaces with trans people, they’re just people living their lives for fucksake. I do have an issue sharing spaces with transphobes, people who think women’s bodies should be policed.

This whole thing about "what proportion of the population can we sacrifice to fascism to stave off fascism that's already here" is the result of too many people mouthing off about equality and then building a big tent with people who are fine with some designated other not having equal rights

Remided of when I was working as a cabbie. Had an officious lady telling me as I drove around town that the area was overrun with muslims and if it continued, they'd outnumber Good British Citizens soon. Through the whole trip, including a stop in the town center, we didn't see one non-white face.

I’ve said it before and will say it a few more times. When Trump 2.0 came for accreditation I knew we had crossed into a different era of white reclamation. Precise, focused, stealth. Anyway, you probably don’t want these reforms.

lol. That absolutely, positively does not say “Yankees.“

This is true! It’s because they don’t have to pay us as much or offer healthcare or benefits if we’re contractors. I know I’ve said it a million times, but these companies couldn’t be doing more to encourage us to unionize if they TRIED.

This photoshoot we did with Apple a couple of years ago was a delightful experience. Unpacking’s accessibility and representation are two topics very close to my heart and I appreciate Apple giving me a chance to centre them in this piece.

sad about Destiny; significantly sadder about the team

The despair I feel cannot be overstated. The fact that I knew that this was coming immediately after the announcement makes this worse.

Man this level of misconduct should mean anyone involved in anything except falling on a sword and making it right should be sanctioned and also fired.

Wake up, babe. New touchstone games media par just dropped.

1. In a startling development, 8 Congressional Democrats crossed party lines to give Trump the power to pull school funding for supporting trans people. We list them in our latest article. Gonzalez (TX) Cueller (TX) Davis (NC) Fields (LA) Gillen (NY) Kaptur (OH) Gluesenkamp (WA) Vindman (VA)