A lot has been written about how generative AI may lead people to believe that fake things are real. But more attention should be paid to how it can lead people to believe that real things are fake. Meet the "liar's dividend": www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

This President is truly a sick, diseased human being Give us minerals or we murder your citizens This is Hilter-Stalin levels of genocidal policy, continuing the mass murder he started cutting off USAID support but now with pure imperialism quid-pro-quo attached www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/h...

Even without that follow-up, "I support the same things as Donald Trump says he does but thought he was lying about it" is a hell of an admission from somebody trying to persuade Democrats of anything

‘Good Oscars, Good Oscars,’ Repeat Nominees In Forced Post-Ceremony Handshake Line

Well, Sinners didn't end up with Best Picture, but it still won Best Lead Actor, Original Screenplay, Original Score, Cinematography, and... the men's tournament at Indian Wells?

People describing these doge staffers as "not understanding" piss me the hell off. They understand perfectly. They are grown ass adults with agency and full charge of their facilities. the issue is it's an emotional reaction of a collection of '-ism' and they are being asked to justify it.

It's more obvious when they use bombs, but it really should be stressed that this administration had already killed well over 400,000 children and 200,000 adults before they even started using their military. The scale of death here is difficult to wrap your head around.

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:

Once again.

"it's a distraction" = "i don't feel personally affected by this". also we're all one medical emergency away from living on the streets if we aren't already there so who the fuck is even needing more 'distractions' at this point. they aren't distracting you they just want to kill everybody

Every major disaster in this country over my lifetime has been self inflicted by right wing ideologues with just enough complicit or inert Democrats to enable or ratify them. That's why we've been on this doom trajectory for the last ~50 years and it'll keep getting worse if that doesn't change

the fecklessness of establishment Dems comes from the fact that they agree with much of what Trump is doing. they want aggressive immigration enforcement. they want to blow shit up in Iran. for them, Trump is a sin eater who's brashly doing what they've been trying to do politely for a generation

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

I can’t help noticing that the “AI-boosted growth path” there seems to be exactly the same trend line as the last 150 years

people wondering "how we got here" consider John Yoo, who built the 'legal' framework for George W Bush's torture program, the Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at Berkley University, is treated as a Respectable Source by the media when he should be rotting in prison for crimes against humanity

So, Gavin, you gonna tell us what you actually plan on doing about affordability and whatnot, or do you just want us to stop noticing that you're the same type of terminally-spineless neoliberal that paved the way for Donald Trump?

Frankly, generative AI is being given too much credit for devaluing art and labour. Dipshits who think the Idea Guy is the only one doing real work and everyone else is a mere technician who should be grateful they're allowed to be there at all have been a thing for as long as art has been a thing.

I’m sorry, did the closing ceremony seriously work a bass drop into the *French national anthem*?

I will only forgive Connor Hellebuyck for this if he gets a cup for the Jets

I hate hockey now

Hearing a bunch of rich white dudes insulated from consequences saw other people as their rightful property & want to control the media isn't news, it's what they've always done. In the open. They don't hide it! The conspiracy theorists miss open cconfessions. They're the LEAST correct people!

If Nick Fuentes was a fictional character, people would complain that it's a way-too-on-the-nose caricature and his own fans would call it anti-white propaganda.

Kinda Fucked Up that in our lifetimes we've gone from "never share personal info on the internet" to "hand over your identity to the most incompetent corporations imaginable".

Okay, barely five minutes into Canada v CzechRep women's hockey and the ref has already dropped the puck only to immediately blow the play dead and try it again twice, that's cool. thebeaverton.com/2021/11/i-be...

Mariah Carey was singing Nothing Is Impossible at the Olympic opening ceremonies TWO DAYS AGO

DAMN, that was a good punt

Damn, that was a good punt

A lot of posts about Sbowl ads that aren't airing in Canada, meanwhile up here Fanduel is still advertising their "bet on the coin toss" promotion halfway through the second quarter

I appreciate Fanduel running their "bet on the coin toss!" ad immediately after the coin toss

This is what the real poison of AI adoption really is. It poisons the collective consciousness of the job hiring scene, where they devalue the experience and skills of their staff with the false notion that they can "just get the AI to do it instead". This attitude sickens me to no end. Fuck AI

I gotta say, after the Paris Olympic opening ceremony, I’m a little disappointed Milan didn’t give us Mussolini hanging from a gas station by his ankles to introduce a performance of Bella Ciao by Lacuna Coil

I AM FURIOUS. Adobe Animate remains an industry standard for TV animation. Star Trek: Lower Decks was made in Animate. Haunted Hotel was made in Animate. My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic was made in Animate. And because you can't buy a permanent licence anymore, it'll just be gone.

If you've ever heard me say "I'd never cheer a player injury" I need you to know that I was lying

I’m not allowed to safely use a public bathroom because a literal island of pedophiles said trans people might be sketchy. … and somehow that’s barely a sliver of the things that happened thanks to a literal island of pedophiles making stuff up.

Still can't believe the latest Epstein Files release just casually confirmed the anti-SJW movement was planned by pedophiles. "The entire reactionary anti-woke backlash was masterminded by child traffickers" is the kinda shit I'd say as hyperbolic agitprop, but it was true the whole time.

I think what both the second Trump administration and the Epstein files have taught us is that there’s very little need of covertness or secrecy if everyone with power pretends you aren’t doing what you’re doing when you openly tell them what you’re doing

Every major website/company now: Yeah if we find out you post or look at a boob we will freeze all your accounts without warning The CEO of every major website/company over Gmail: Oh Jeffrey you are simply a hoot. Lovely spending time with you on Party Pervert Pedo Island Jeffrey Epstein: yeag ,

Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About https://theonion.com/democrats-sick-of-being-blamed-for-cowardice-on-issues-1847675639/

Ah so the people with guns get to be anonymous but the people actually protecting others get fed to the right wing harassment machine, is that it? bsky.app/profile/dbra...

Just a rant, expressing many of the same frustrations I know you all share with me already anyways.

This is from the NYT masthead editorial about the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. The highlighted line invalidates not just the editorial, but the very idea of newspaper editorials crafted by the consensus of a board. Better to publish nothing at all than to publish a line like this.

These polls aren't weighted by how much people care. Cost of living is bad, but I'm a lot more concerned by the early stages of genocide going on, and if you're desperately trying to avoid talking about it, that comes across as complicity.

None of that polling evidence actually supports "well anyways, what about the price of eggs, huh?" is an effective way for a politician to respond to camera footage of civilians being hurt.

Very interesting thing going on where I see dozens of people screaming about Europeans trying to collectively shame Americans but not one actual European shaming Americans I don't doubt it exists, of course, just kind of a wild dynamic to wake up to

also reading that took me way longer than 5 minutes you monsters

trump getting his feelings hurt by european leaders is the culmination of this new type of guy that emerged in the last decade or so: guy who goes out of his way to be a huge asshole who then gets really offended when the people he's being an asshole to don't like him

That's what I get for being unusually hesitant to block somebody, I guess