Every time someone I respect and admire asks "have you seen what AI can do? Have you played with it?" I feel like Wesley Crusher being chased around the Enterprise with a headset in STNG S5 E6, "The Game."

found a good one.

Raspberries deserve the career strawberries have

I fully and wholeheartedly support every single country who used to be an ally of the United States now telling us to go f*** ourselves.

I’ve posted it before, but it feels evergreen The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

The amount of misinformation we’re getting about an incident that just occurred in front of 1,500 news reporters is truly the metaphor of our generation.

I got unbelievably close to this magnificent fellow on my way to work. The perks of the PNW!

Never Again must mean Never Again. To Jews, or to anyone else. (3/3)

He’s just like @danielpicus.bsky.social fr fr

the Democrats need to announce that anyone who drops a bomb on Iranian civilian infrastructure will die in prison

Reminder to next dem government: take all of SpaceX’s federal contracts and give the money back to NASA.

what people sound like when they say i asked claude

really can't be said enough that this case was decided by the same court that decided plessy v. ferguson. if they could have found a plausible rationale to limit birthright citizenship they would have done it. but there is none! the text is as clear as constitutional language can be.

If you make under $184k, you pay a 12.4% Social Security tax rate. Everything after that cap is exempt from the tax. So if you make $1 million per year, you pay about 2.2%. And it's 0.002% for billionaires. If we lifted the cap, Social Security could be funded for decades.

fuck

Trump is the best example of what the American Empire is at its core.

Francis Fukuyama : wrong on history, wrong on Halloween decorations, but right on gaming PC builds and the only actually existing rule of the rules based international order (get nukes asap)

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26 NO - 41% YES - 38% UNSURE - 21%

The fascism is killing us, some faster than others, but nearly all of us either way.

It is so damning of US news media that so many outlets refuse to just straight up say that Senator Tim Sheehy assaulted an activist. He did not "help" Capitol police. They did not need his help. He wanted to assault the guy and did. He should resign.

“But what about the need to teach students to be literate in AI?” In 33 yrs of journalism & 15 of teaching, I’ve learned that there are any number of lawyers, doctors, politicians, generals, & CEOs—& yes “elite” students—who are only semiliterate in their native tongue. Let’s worry about that.

Polymarket has created a betting market on the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone involved in this should be put in prison for life.

Patrick Blanchfield always gets right to the heart of the matter with painful eloquence. Read him!

i don't think it's good for news organizations to partner with organizations they should be investigating as avenues of public corruption

this is basically a classified information eruv

*me dying in a nuclear war* this isn’t going to work on me, I’m too focused

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

I will simply reiterate what I have said for years, namely that whatever their utility when it comes to individual psychopathology, the ideas of repetition compulsions and the death drive are super clarifying when it comes to the libidinal economies of settler colonial imperial violence

its cool and reassuring how the only actual rule in the rules based international order is “get nukes as fast as possible”

probably too much to ask but I would simply like to live in a world not run by psychopaths perverts and idiots intent on justifying their opportunism and evil by appeals to reenacting primordial cosmological Battle Myths of which the ultimate and most archetypal is the end of the world itself

We will not be forgiven for this.

the way "preemptive" strike is more meaningless than it's ever been, an obvious fig leaf daring anyone to say the emperor has no clothes, feels so dangerous

Every so often there’s a thread full of tangible joy and whimsy on here. This is one of them.

I'm begging my fellow politicians, Illinoisans, and Americans to realize that right now, we aren't fighting over policy or political party. We're fighting over whether we're going to be a country rooted in empathy and kindness — or one rooted in cruelty and rage.

Almost 20 percent of trans people in America have had to move because of an organized program of government persecution. “Let that sink in” is a vintage quip, but apposite here.

The Supreme Court:

The family resemblance is so cute

More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...

We need effective judicial remedies to guaranty our digital liberties. This requires federal and state legislation to guaranty our right to sue federal agents for damages when they violate the U.S. Constitution. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression. CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school? DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town. C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name? DR: Now look

I did not have ICE attempting to violate the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and nearly causing a diplomatic incident on my risk register and you know what, that’s on me.

Three faces that have been in my mind all month, and will likely never leave—and sadly, there will likely be more. People need to start thinking really hard about what’s going on, and as an artist there’s a lot we can do. Abolish ICE!!!

The really cool and good people list

this is completely insane and more people need to say that doing this is completely insane

Digital sovereignty matters.

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

Minnesota is the best of us.

I'm sorry, abolishing ICE is now off the table as the centrist compromise. The floor is now The Hague.

New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.