Here is a politician making a sensible and honestly pretty mild statement akin to wishing for “world peace” during the Miss America interview section. The responses are predictably and tiresomely deranged.

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal cuts

Kinda seems like Bad Bunny is luring every dimwit ICE officer in the country to one spot so all the immigrants in the country can have a day off

The Talmud has a straightforward answer as to why we should do good deeds. To get into heaven? No. Rather, the reward for the mitzvah is the mitzvah.

I think "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" exemplifies American culture more than any other art piece. Most cultures' folklore involves cautionary tales warning people not to tempt the devil. The American version has the challenger win because he is way cooler than the devil. Yea, that sums it up.

You don’t need to leave these shores to point out a dual state. You also don’t need to leave this century.

mayor of Chicago.

I would vote for an Accountability party with a focus on making the government accountable to the people, restoring regulation, breaking up monopolies, and punishing those who have blatantly broken the law. including and especially these AI fuckers.

One of my pet theories is that along with the complete lack of accountability for people in positions of power blatantly lying, one of the biggest reasons for *all this* is the refusal of the US government to shut down large businesses for blatant violations of laws and policies.

I’m really glad to see this from psychiatrists. He was coming for psychiatry. He was coming for everybody’s meds.

As a historian, I truly like the "foreverized pastness" part of this. And I agree, on a daily basis we are floating towards a permanent establishment of badly manipulated memories. A plural of nonsense histories. #skystorians

it's funny how in the You've Got Mail era Barnes and Noble was the bad guy and now i'm like "i love patronizing local, in-person, actually-book-focused business Barnes and Noble instead of buying books on Amazon"

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

it truly astounds me that there is not a company policy of Shutting The Fuck Up and maybe a memo sent out of when to especially Shut The Fuck Up. i don't know darrin. if he's a UI guy, i doubt he has any say in t&s, so WHY is there not leadership enforcement of comms discipline to protect staff!?

i gotta say i almost kinda feel bad for darrin getting dogpiled like this because i didn't even know he existed until now. the vibe i get from his posts in this thread is someone who just woke up from a coma and doesn't know that a large part of the english cluster is mad at the devs. bad time, man.

A reminder, as people trust AI more and more...

We have a creepy stalker in the San Francisco Bay Area who uses these to produce homeless exploitation clips for social media. We are only at the beginning stages of how these glasses will be used to harm people.

some of the worst shit I see is from antitheists hassling Jews because they refuse to believe every religion/denom doesn't operate like the worst, most authoritarian strains of Christianity.

I don’t really mean this sarcastically: if this isn’t what you voted for, what, specifically, were you voting for?

"Helium Shortage: We need to stop using MRI machines so that more children can have balloons for birthdays" ass article.

part of the whole promise of bluesky, the reason we put up with lax moderation, was that we could moderate ourselves, and choose what we wanted and didn't want to see, and apparently that's a problem now that we don't want to see silicon valley's latest worthless garbage

Those AI pics and videos don’t make y’all spirits itch?

this begs the question of what race AI actually is. if nothing else, it's an interesting thought experiment because it tells us something about how we construct race. I'd say it's pretty impossible for something to have a race without having a body, since we judge race based on physical features.

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends tech weirdo: and shitheads np: no just my friends tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender? np: we just want to hang out and goof around tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then np: no shitheads tw: not following

Look I get that it's not sexy that the Florida facility was closed via an environmental lawsuit but Al Capone got taken down by tax evasion. Not everything is sexy!

erin is back, which is good, and I do think the “this was a mod error based off people brigading and reporting erin’s post in bad faith” explanation is likely correct but honestly at this point I don’t understand why there isn’t an extra layer of review for prominent accounts because of optics

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

hey my autistic peeps, I need your expertise. I am thinking about getting myself ear protectors for at home. we both work at home in a fairly open layout condo, and I think often I would really prefer silence to trying to drown him out with music in my ears. what do I need to know to choose well?

no. we do not use victims as props to punish their oppressors/abusers. what the actual fuck is this? if you want to think like them, go be one of them and stop pretending to be one of us.

JUST IN: Chicago journalistsa re suing DHS and ICE over force used against reporters: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Almost every one of these civilians will sue. And almost every one will win—as no thought was put behind the abuse of them by this government. The litigation will stretch from coast to coast and extend decades. Folks do not realize the mountain of lawsuits coming. It could paralyze our legal system.

Do people realize that Trump and Miller are creating so many valid civil causes of action that taxpayers will be paying billions of dollars—if not tens of billions—to their innocent victims and their families over the next 25 years? America will be digging itself out of a hole for decades to come.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a new mRNA vaccine that has been shown to suppress abnormal blood vessel growth in the retina, offering hope to MILLIONS of patients with age-related vision loss. The vaccine triggered strong antibody responses that REDUCED retinal damage by UP TO 85%.

I train karate at the community centre by me that serves low income folks, and it's a free class, the more the merrier, but I know a lot of people would *never*. I make invites but also set expectations because folks are fragile.

just found out if you tell the staff at PDX you have autism they will let you borrow a nice laminated plane spotting guide unique to our airport with comprehensive charts and diagrams. that's fuckin service

i went to a tech/social change conference in late Nov 2016, and we spent so much time talking about what “safer” organizing could look like under tyranny we talked to folks from the Philippines about how all data could be compromised, how we’d have to pass notebooks and encode church sermons

Every comment on this post is no, no one wants a data center in uptown Charlotte or anywhere else for that matter

Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government.... On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames time.com/7323442/sout...

"the Bad Faith Threshold" is a great coinage. The first wave of comments on a post, from those who do actually follow you, is usually interesting or fun or both. But the later waves are of scolds, humourless reply-guys, "sorry to be pedantics", "whatabouts", and "why are you insulting".

SHE’LL BAN LINK BEFORE JESSE SINGAL??????

A federal judge temporarily blocked the deployment of any National Guard under the Trump administration’s control inside Oregon.

So has the wizard book lady melted down over snl making fun of her yet, or nah?

lock in friends. look out for each other. we're gonna get through this together.

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

Could this help? azhdarchid.com/jay-graber-c...

One thing that's happening in Portland that Fox News won't tell you is that aggressive, drunk, right wingers have shown up at the ICE facility trying to start fights and the protesters there have not taken the bait. Therefore the story has become "look how Antifa-friendly the Portland police are!"

so these people who are supposedly in romantic relationships with AI are, uh. . .

really should get around to writing my take that "AI uprising/robot uprising" fiction is just barely sublimated fear of domestic slave revolt

Trump is sending California National Guard troops to Portland. California is going to sue. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...