If you need a script for getting your company off Twitter, I WROTE YOU ONE. Multiple people have used it, successfully, to explain the legal liability your company incurs by forcing employees to be on a platform with child sexual abuse material. I will help you use it. anildash.com/2026/02/23/t...

Seattle City Council unanimously approves a data center moratorium, making Seattle the biggest city in America to put the brakes on clanker factories 🙌 #Seattle #pnw #pnwlife #Washington

*whispers* "AI" products like Claude or ChatGPT are Silicon Valley's project to undermine democratic values and place themselves above accountability or oversight

THIS IS HOW I WIN!!!!!!!!!!

New post! @nobugsnous.bsky.social, @rcmeg.bsky.social, and I have a short piece in Sweetland DRC's blog carnival 25, titled "Refusal-in-the-loop writing—or, what happened to the field that stood up to TurnItIn, Coruse Hero, Chegg, and paper mills?" Link below.

Yay!!! So excitedbto read this!

It's publication week! My book, Critical Fandom: Representations of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Fan Fiction, is officially out through University of Iowa Press. Use code MESSINA40 for 40% off: uipress.uiowa.edu/books/critic...

hey quick question, am I having a stroke

In failing to defend Canadian cultural policy, Carney is also demonstrating that he doesn’t value Canadian policy autonomy, which is the very essence of sovereignty. He isn’t trading cultural regulation for a tariff deal. He’a trading away Canadian policy sovereignty.

“What if a Silicon Valley-backed music streamer started giving huge paydays to musicians but banned them from performing live” is such a preposterous hypothetical that you don’t even get mad when you read it but that’s exactly what Netflix is doing to film

Nithya Raman took 40% of the votes in today's drop & has overtaken Spencer Pratt for the second spot. She's now up close to half a point. Bass: +15,691 (32.81%) Raman: +19,096 (39.93%) Pratt: +8,489 (17.75%) Pretty safe to say Raman has unlocked a spot in the runoff.

the problem with expecting misogynists to deliver your leftist agenda is that sexism is a plays a huge role in capitalism.

the thing that’s been painfully obvious for years is that unchecked capital accumulation paired with gutting the social safety net and public goods was going to lead to commerce without customers. an economy built on consumption when no one has money to consume.

very few memes getting as much mileage as this one

The race to build superintelligence isn’t about replacing jobs—it’s about REPLACING HUMANITY. Transhumanism, longtermism, accelerationism, and the other Silicon Valley ideologies want to create a new species of “posthumans” to rule the world. This will not end well for us.👇

*when AI has the backing of the federal, along with many state and local governments as well as the investment from the world’s richest people* “I know I’m just a brave and lonely voice in the dark.”

I just keep saying over and over, the point of a PhD is not for a dissertation to exist that didn’t previously exist. The point of a PhD is that a human has learned something.

Unsurprising that the same people who like AI and are DESPERATE to find some use for it miss that they all sound like this selfish piece of shit. Nothing you're doing with AI is that important for this shit to be forced on to others. And yet

Today I have the great Ray Nayler in the Hyperspace, talking about his upcoming novel Palaces of the Crow! renanbernardo.substack.com/p/into-the-h...

The convergent forms and spaces of data centers and detention centers

I just finished Hokum and I just want to know how jump scares still work when you know they’re coming 🫪

normal people do not have nazi tattoos!!!!!!!!!!

Not sure who needs to hear this but admitting you're wrong doesn't kill you instantly

(in the seventh month of defending a candidate who has slowly revealed himself to be a werewolf) so actually I think most guys get worse under the full moon

I don’t know how to tell people that the only way to win, to truly win, is to have principles and bring people along to rally behind advancing those principles. Electoral politics is no exception to this truth. If you elect someone who does not adhere to, or advance, your principles, you cannot win.

A win! Just because republicans change the language doesn’t mean the science changed. Science has proved GAC is safe and effective, which is why EVERY major medical association used it as standard of care…for decades.

Feel as though people will truly never understand his death. He was killed for being an Indigenous Queer Man with a Transgender Partner. Every single one of those signifiers on axis/intersections/marginalizations is extremely important, but it is in tandem all at once not just because he “Gay”.

"The public has swung 49 points against data centers in just nine months" lol heatmap.news/politics/ame...

👇 "when they publish a document about Claude's moral education and have their in-house philosopher do a press tour, we should understand them as asking the rest of us to indulge them in their fantasies."

Being Catholic is extremely normal. One day you’re reading a careful defense of human dignity in a world besieged by tech billionaires & warmongers written by the Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church and the next day the bishop of DC has to tell a priest he can’t say UFOs are demons.

"Americans Have Grown Dramatically Anti-Data Center in Just Months, Survey Finds" gizmodo.com/americans-ar...

you don't like data centers?? but what if i told you they're actually necessary for every app and/or company making your life harder. what then

guys will publish an article with the same title as a woman's book and not cite the book rather than go to therapy

Reminder that Klingons say TRANS RIGHTS BRING HONOR TO YOUR HOUSE

The greatest living American writer has something to say

It is worth noting that the takeover of 60 Minutes, and CBS News, is the culmination of the strategy that was baked into the launch of Substack. This is the thing we were trying to explain was bigger than just "there are nazis on there". www.anildash.com//2024/11/19/...

A company that makes a no-tech, repairable tractor is having trouble keeping up with demand from farmers sick of John Deere's repair monopoly and simply want a tractor that turns on and works: www.404media.co/demand-is-bo...

🌈 Spotify: we made you this fun Pride Month playlist that only funds a little smidge of AI war profiteering 🌈 Trader Joe's: one of the union busting consultants we hired is a little fruity 🌈 Apple: our CEO is gay! Please don't ask us about the factories where our iPhones are made 🌈 Patagonia: ...

The entire reason AI is being deployed in schools is to funnel money out of schools and into tech companies. Whatever reasons you've convinced yourself that AI edtech is necessary, regardless of how "useful" you think it is, it's sole purpose is to pad the pockets of the wealthy.

It's really interesting when somehow a technology isn't political but opposition against it is. Funny how that works

Really wish they would stop laundering terrorist threats aimed at children as "backlash."

The money was always there for the good things.

Corporates now surprised that they are being bait and switched. Who could have predicted this???

Bro, stop!!!

This is a deeply sad attitude, and I have to ask: what is the reason for publishing this?

Really sucks how so many headlines now are just eugenics Mad Libs.

This is why I train (play Balatro every night on my phone instead of sleeping)

i may have lost my mind

I’m having one of those nights when I miss my kid so badly after he goes to sleep. The days are long, the years are short, etc.

Thinking about how all that money could have gone to the SALARIES and BENEFITS of employees (including the ones who were let go) instead of paying for people to figure out uses for AI.