There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

Sideman pet peeve: being asked to play a tune on flugelhorn just because it's a ballad or latin tune. You haven't even heard how my trumpet sounds on it yet! It's like adding salt to a chef's dish before you've even tasted it.

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

no ♥️

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

It’s been terrifying to have almost every year in the past 20 years be a lesson in how many people with power make decisions about who lives and dies with little thought or care or even a clear idea as to why they’re doing anything, and it’s terrifying that it seems to be getting worse

What can be said, other than the obvious: this is a deeply stupid war being launched by a deeply unstable and doddering old man and his deeply incompetent administration, and everyone who has supported him and enabled him should feel deeply ashamed.

Paramount should enjoy its growing news monopoly while they have it because when Democrats win back power we are going to break up these anti-democratic information conglomerates. All of them.

They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

Also I'm guessing 70% of those 83% use it for "extend the background of this photo by 10%"

I understand why chatbot cheating happens but every time I read about it I want to gently remind everyone that the point of schoolwork is not for the submission to exist. Teachers are not just greedy for more essays or solved equations. The point is to do the work WITH YOUR OWN BRAIN, FOR LEARNING.

Hey it works! This is a passacaglia I wrote a while back: iancarey.bandcamp.com/track/interv...

The president, who drones on about protecting women’s sports, publicly mocked the women’s gold-medal hockey team. A reminder this was never about protecting women’s sports and it was always about transphobia and misogyny.

turns out almost nobody other than total freaks likes or wants this shit

sales of dipshit freak box lower than anticipated

Inspiring interaction in my class this week: I suggest that a student try to come up with some lyrics for a tune we're learning, but ask, "just please promise me you won't use Chat GPT." She looks horrified and says, "oh GOD no! Lyrics are personal."

Overheard at my house: "Your dream brain sounds about as fun as your day brain"

full of contempt for the "reporters" who sit there and laugh at trump's "jokes"

okay you know what we're doing this why rise of skywalker is the worst crime ever committed against cinema and the very concept of a coherent fictional universe: a thread

Was trying to remember a Will Forte quote from Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie and accidentally figured out how to make Google’s AI tool shut up

They raided the jailed children to steal their letters. The problem, in federal officials' minds, wasn't confining children in prison-camp conditions; it was that the children could tell the public about it.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Roses are red Stem held between teeth I ordered us takeout but it's

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

It does some stuff well but needs constant supervision, and when it messes up, people often don’t know why or how. This makes it both worse and dangerous. I would not structure my economy out of this just as I wouldn’t allow an anonymous man to build my house with materials I’ve never heard of.

My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse

Dream snippets from a fitful night: 1. I have at last deduced how my lingering cough/cold symptoms fit into a sinister global conspiracy! 2. Attending a somber high school reunion at the site of the tragic gorge flood of 1885. But the water is rising—could it happen again? 1/

Kind of gives away the whole game that all the crypto ads this year have been replaced with gambling and AI ads.

VC, founder, dumbass

VA Gov. Spanberger (moderate, was in CIA) and NYC Mayor Mamdani (left, is in DSA) both taking steps to block local law enforcement from helping ICE as it violently violates people's rights is a good example of how the relevant divide in the Dem coalition isn't center-left, it's fight-don't fight.

Doing art badly is good and sacred

I think it should probably be a bigger story that the president of the United States is a raving lunatic

AI Chatbot That Only Responds ‘Huh’ Valued At $200 Billion https://theonion.com/ai-chatbot-that-only-responds-huh-valued-at-200-billion/

Adobe Acrobat I do not want to know What’s New. I do not want to turn my PDF into a podcast with my team. I want to look at the PDF. Please stop

From the editor's note, on a different topic, but I found this extremely on point: "The way the current generation of media barons have treated arts coverage over the last two decades is maybe the single clearest demonstration of their seething contempt for the public..." 1/2

In less than a week the Kennedy Center has effectively closed and our local DC paper has been gutted, both by billionaires. I don’t think immigrants are our problem in this country.

This cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.

Our rights exist in a use-it-or-lose-it moment. If we sit down and shut up because we're afraid of what might happen, it is DEFINITELY going to happen.

It’s doesn’t feel like it right now, but the people are winning and the regime is freaking out.

Missed all the Gen X discourse yesterday, but those of us who are actually in the generation have explained this ad nauseam. We had the ultimate worst bullies and mean kids in our generation growing up, and they were never, EVER checked because adults didn't GAF. Also, Black Gen X is Democratic.

Do one of the things that makes you feel better, because if you aren't doing any of that, you will run down. Today I did some writing. I'm a writer, & if I don't write, I run down. It's very easy for me to forget this, despite decades of knowing it. And so I am here to remind you to do your things.

Wife: AI is Ivermectin. Can't do what it promises to do and awful people sell you on it for other uses and at the end of the day you're still buying Ivermectin.

From the outside, we see snippets of chaos and pain and become consumed by a feeling of overwhelm and helplessness. On the ground, though, it’s busy hands, people finding things to do to be helpful. Productivity and kinship to stave off the doom spiral.

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Musicians: don't use AI art or writing. Writers: don't use AI art or music. Artists: don't use AI music or writing. Let's have some solidarity among working creative people, while such a category still exists!

i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests - nazgul bodycams - morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring - shelob will be the new point of contact

the best time for universities, law firms, corporations, and the fucking democrats, to oppose trump in every possible way was one year ago, but the second best time would be right now

Or think creatively about anything, for that matter