feeding auditory hallucinations to a person in active AI-induced psychosis

Do you think we’ll see Phil again next season on Very Important People or Dimension 20?

DOGE cut 80% of all Ebola-related contracts, slashing $1.6 million in Ebola prevention funding.

Trump did not reach a settlement with the government. There was no case to settle. He has not created a slush fund. He has colluded with Todd Blanche to steal money from the US Treasury. This is not a “deal.” This is a crime for which Trump & Blanche must be prosecuted. It ia a crime.

reminder that this "settlement" is literally just a crime

This is beyond insane.

Hey - You don’t have to make the enemy of your enemy your friend. Just let them fight.

The most principled figure in American politics: a retiring Republican Senator thinking about their book deal

Now watching. Will I be lost if I haven’t seen DeepStar 1 to 5?

Anybody read the Spring Kaleidotrope?

HAHAHAHAHAHA. I love this for Trump.

Even Finn was like, nope, you were right, way too hot out there, let’s go back inside.

“I would gladly bomb you Tuesday for a hamburger today.”

You know, Optimum, I would be more convinced your tech support chatbots were human if they didn’t repeat, word for word and spelling mistake by spelling mistake, the same lines. Oh, and also if they didn’t just try to upsell me and could actually help with your unstable cable connection.

On the one hand, sure, I get that. On the other hand, though, it’s necessary to regularly remind people that high gas prices—a ruined economy in general—is what fascism and corruption gets you, every single time, even if you’re lucky enough to escape the violence and thievery of it yourself.

High of 94 today, so fuck that.

I feel like there is so much money to be made by the companies who actively opt out of AI.

When you say “two or three days,” does this idiot think that just means “any two or three days in the week,” and not “two or three days from now?” Or does he just not know what day it is right now?

The insurrectionist pedophile in question is Andrew Paul Johnson and it is public record that he tried to silence his victim(s) with promises of Trump millions for J6.

Not that you can believe any of these specs—they’re all no-bid contracts from firms not equipped to do the work and almost certainly lying also to him—but the obvious question is why does he think a ballroom, already in the WH, needs this level of shielding?

This is all the more reason it should never, ever be built.

I guess if I thought the quality of generative AI was good, or even improving, I might feel a little more conflicted about its disastrous cost to the environment, economy, and mental health. But all of that makes it a non-starter for me, even if I didn’t think it was aesthetically bad.

JD Vance Comes Out Against the New $1.8 Billion Fund

It does seem like easily the best of the options, and if I hadn’t just randomly rewatched it a week ago, it would certainly be my vote. #HorrorWatch

All systems operational. But also? Not operational at all.

The man who bankrupted a casino has now also managed to produce the first football world cup nobody wants to attend, there has never been anyone else who ever possessed this level of ability at failing

Well, as long as Trump is sending our money to a good cause…

It would be weird if doing something was an impeachable offense but looting the government to pay for it wasn’t.

Really taking that “lesser of two evils” thing to heart here.

Oh come on, in that same time, Vance could hardly get off the couch.

Also, this seems extremely relevant: bsky.app/profile/greg...

They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.

Well, Optimum has gone back to lousy in-and-out internet service. The live (or so they told me) representative I spoke with online told me there was no outage, until suddenly a couple minutes later there was, and they’d call back when it was fixed, except it’s not just out, it’s on then off all day.

Do you know the one thing that every writer who’s been accepted and published by Kaleidotrope has done? Submitted.

Some strange hidden corners burn too bright in Grant Stone's new story "Diamonds." kaleidotrope.net/spring-2026/...

just googled war wtf why would someone do that

Oh come on, how often on the field of battle are you likely to encounter…checks notes…wind…

It’s kind of annoying that when Word adds a Table of Contents it doesn’t automatically make the Contents a heading in the document.

Stop calling the leisured provincial gentry "working class"

Best case scenario: Trump’s trip to China achieved nothing. Worse case scenario: it achieved nothing except Trump ending US support of Taiwan.

Wait until Mike Johnson doesn’t hear about this!

I may be replying the Portal games again.

Finn is very disappointed that summer weather has been allowed to happen again.

I had 30 pages of citations for my master's thesis. That I did by hand, not using a citation generator. I double-checked every single one. I never even considered including a citation I hadn't confirmed.

I watched 5 movies last week: - State of Grace (1990) ⭐️⭐️1/2 - Career Girls (1997) ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - Under Capricorn (1949) ⭐️1/2 - We Who Are About to Die (1936) ⭐️⭐️ - The Astronaut (2025) ⭐️1/2 I also re-watched—or maybe re-experienced is more accurate—House (1977). www.unreality.net/weblog/?p=14...

So that’s the plan? Every 60 days this drags on, on paper it’s a new and different war? Trump, who lies about all the wars he’s ended, will start a half dozen new ones before the end of the year?

They’re trying to pretend it’s a new war. But both wars are illegal if Congress is offered no say on the matter.