We’ve found it. It cost the world a trillion dollars to discover, but literally the saddest, most pathetic shit in all humanity has just happened and you, Elon Musk, ARE that sad, pathetic shit.

There is something really wrong with people who need workers to be not just competent, but slavishly fake-happy. "Slavishly" used on purpose, bc that's where this grotesquerie comes from.

Finally getting “Sleepy Trump” articles and it only took nine months. Better late than never I suppose.

Please. Everyone. STOP publishing AI pieces that are this credulous and confidently, comically incorrect about language models It is HURTING people. REALLY This is the worst take that I have seen in any major outlet, and - frankly - feels a bit like it was written by AI

Related: This week, AgainstHateSubreddits, acting on a confidential tip, filed reports to Reddit to shut down a subreddit that encouraged suicidal ideation & planning, & a second similar subreddit, (curently Privated), we expect to be closed by Reddit imminently

every sunday, from pulpits in megachurches across america, white evangelicals cry out about some imaginary persecution of christianity. but i can’t stop thinking about the pile of rosaries collected by a janitor at a border crossing or the priest turned away at the gates of the detention camp.

I do think the expectation of vulnerable people to perform cheerfulness and gratitude is intrinsically tied to RW and fascist values; evangelical leaders brag about beating their kids for not smiling enough, Trump demands obsequious deference as he tries to become dictator

Nobody wants this. People do want human contact and they do want the kind of recognition and connection you get from being a regular at a mom-and-pop shop. But you cannot manufacture that or mandate it by corporate fiat. If it’s not authentic, it’s actively off-putting.

Target really should have researched what happened when Safeway did this, 27 years ago. (forced) “friendliness is frequently misinterpreted by customers who stare, leer, proposition and even grab workers.” www.sfgate.com/news/article...

Like James Dobson telling the world he was convinced some woman smiling at him from another car at a stoplight was trying to convince him to commit adultery. Like, dude, far more likely that her favorite song came on the radio than she even noticed you.

This makes me want to avoid Target even more so; that's way too much forced contact when I'm trying to run errands.

"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper. They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer. If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help." 🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.

It should go without saying that trillionaires should not exist.

I feel like Sandwich guy's defense attorney may have majored in creative writing in college, because these 2 sentences are just absolutely beautiful.

Today's highlight of "Man Up: Conversations on Gendered Hate in the Digital Age", @milleridriss.bsky.social talks with Rachel Louise Snyder and Kaethe Morris Hoffer on how online conspiracy theories and intimate partner violence affect the real epidemic of sexual violence in the U.S. Listen here:

Jurors determined that the man who threw a footlong sandwich at a federal agent in viral online footage this summer was not guilty of assault. The Trump Admin previously tried to hit him with a felony, but a grand jury refused. Sandwich guy innocent

oh man we're at the risk of total sandwich carnage! also lol @ "a source familiar with lunch"

People on the far right are literally citing the fact that a lot of women voted for Democrats, and instead of saying, "hmm, maybe we should try to rethink how not to alienate them," they're saying, "let's repeal their right to vote." Via @aselrod.bsky.social

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The Zuckerbergs set up an unlicensed school at their massive compound in Palo Alto. Then, as @carolinehaskins.bsky.social reports, their neighbours revolted. (Note: this article is free for all to read because it's based on FOIA documents. Consider a subscription) www.wired.com/story/mark-z...

Surprisingly common stance On Here

It took me a while to figure out how to change setting because every time I changed it, it changed itself back, I finally figured out that I had to verify myself as an adult first by giving bsky my birthday I did not give them my real birthday because I'm cautious but I'm definitely an adult

Interesting interview on all sides. Little known fact is that people in the school-shooter network discussed in my pinned thread were the ones who pushed Grok to create the extremely explicit rape stories about Will; they also harass other people in this way.

Important work and findings from @skynewsrss.bsky.social with methodological details

MrBeast hates Zohran because if people have access to basic necessities, it will demolish the Giving People Those Necessities As Part Of A Saw-Inspired Game Show industry

"Don't get too excited, because-" Nah, how about you shut the fuck up. All the way up. Let people have a crumb of joy, you miserable fucks, my GOD. I promise, you can go back to posting "We're so fucked" and then not doing anything to stop it thrice daily tomorrow.

Honestly anyone who has an issue with this can fuck right off (I can be multifaceted)

FBI says criminals are posing as masked ICE agents. Who except for everyone could have predicted this?

Federal prosecutor, in his rebuttal, is in the tough position of hoping the jury forgets about the hundreds of MAGA folks pardoned by Donald Trump for vicious assaults on law enforcement on Jan. 6 and takes a sandwich case seriously.

The officer, defense says, was given and kept "not one but two gag gifts," including a plush sandwich and a "Felony Footlong" badge on his lunchbox.

“This case, ladies and gentleman of the jury, is about a sandwich.” Closing arguments from the defense in the DC sandwich guy case are now underway.

A new episode of the Spirit, State and Society podcast just dropped. Note that all these episodes are free. You can also catch them on YouTube and Substack. open.spotify.com/episode/3WpU...

More like the Defamation League

Great thread and smth I’ve tried to articulate as well: we do still have effective information resiliency and people do have the ability to be informed about reality despite all the intentional fantasist rot. We need to extrapolate on what is working and not give in to an idea of information doom.

What shocked me most about the death threats sent to teachers in Arizona in recent days was that they didn't come from extremists on fringe platforms, these were sent from seemingly regular people on Facebook. Here's a sample of what they sent: www.wired.com/story/arizon...

Finally cut ties with someone I've known since our homeschool kid days because he said we're about to have another 9/11 now and it was really the last straw after too many other things

Who wants to go in with me to buy it? We can ramp up the Book It program and bring back the buffet

School boards are especially worth paying attention to in that regard, bc they took over those boards not by winning hearts and minds but by strategically targeting relatively influential positions that got relatively little public attention. As soon as they GOT attention, everyone hated them.

A New Yorker cover shouldn’t make me feel like this, but here it is, making me feel like this

Mamdani: "Yes, aunties."

My roots are here, there are quite a lot of people who have been openly fascist as fuck for decades in the name of Christian Nationalism, but more people who are pushing back

in case anyone hasn't watched the full thing, do it. it's a damn treat. I don't think I realized it until now, but I'd been waiting my whole life to hear a politician sound like they want the people to govern with them

most cursed liminal space

there is no conflict between telling the honest truth about where we are right now and having hope that things can still be changed for the better. we don’t have to pick

I logged back in on my phone to be here for this I love all of you people We are going to build lives worth living, in communities and states worth living in, in a country worth living in, in a world worth living in

woke 2 gonna be wild, yall

The crashouts are already in progress and they are delicious.