for the love of god, AI systems aren't "just tools that are neither good nor evil in and of themselves". AI systems *are* tools of capitalism. they exist as tools of capitalism. there is no AI system "in and of itself" outside of capitalism

Doesn't it strike you as strange that the people who shout long and loud that America is a Christian nation founded on Christian principles are the very people who don't want Christ's teachings of tolerance, pacifism, and generosity codified in law?

Omg I keep accidentally eating a whole pie

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

My dog and two cats love to throw up on the floor and they represent 60% of the household. As a leader I can't just ignore public opinion so I also throw up on the floor sometimes to stay popular

Not to be controversial but I think we should use tools and resources to make people's lives less miserable instead of more

Die Hard was actually appropriated from pagans

they don’t tell you when you buy a christmas tree at the christmas tree farm that you could take it home, decorate it, and then be relaxing in your living room seven nights later when A BAT suddenly flies out and starts CRASHING AROUND YOUR HOUSE

If you are saying universal healthcare *cant* realistically happen with our current political system and economy you should be advocating for revolution to overthrow that system instead of being ok with no universal healthcare

After buying it for $18.8 billion, Walgreens' new private equity owner has eliminated paid holidays for all hourly workers on Christmas and New Year's. Last year, Walgreens had a CEO-to-Worker pay gap of 410 to 1. Corporate greed that would make even Scrooge blush.

NORAD Santa tracker is Woke

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

It’s going to be really interesting when we’re forced to look back at this time in politics and culture, figuring out how much of it was based on lies people told on the internet

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

to announce to all the world that you won’t run a story if a subject withholds comment is to effectively kill your news organization; you’re just doing PR now

The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas. It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...

claustrophobia is so stupid. let Santa get married.

there are two locally owned boutiques in our downtown, one which offers quality, ethical, artist made gifts that genuinely make you smile, and the other gives off a hostile energy caked in artificial snow and patchouli, and since I am not a shopper, every single year I forget which is which

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

Hi, I'm the CEO of Glorbo, the company who enjoys near unprecedented goodwill in our field, I'm here today to talk to you about our pivot to using the Magic 8-Ball powered by children's bones that everybody hates, I've given myself psychosis listening to the 8-ball aaaaeeeeeiiiiooouuuu

all I want for Christmas is a massive solar storm that temporarily cuts internet and communications systems so that Amazon loses money and I experience what it’s like to not receive an email

Cereal costs $11 now.

I think all of the tech bros should be first to the Mars colony.

I too can consume water and spew barely coherent thoughts, and I don’t even take up that much acreage. Greedy city councils should invest in ME.

can't get over the team behind the mcdonald's ad wanting credit for all the late nights and long hours they spent prompting for clips. you've somehow invented a form of ersatz creativity that recreates the suffering inherent to all creative work without any valuable output or intellectual growth

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

ChatGPT cuts the crusts off my peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I'm a big business boy.

grad school is humiliating. “I can’t I have a paper I need to finish” in my THIRTIES omg grow UP

Teepo's new favourite thing is to get under the bathroom mat.

today’s affirmation: I am within the acceptable range of deviation. I am a perfectly roasted quail. if I was a car the mechanics would find nothing weird or rodent related in my air filter. I am upright. There are no stones or excess debris in my shoes. I still have all my bones.

pals you gotta quit spotify

New adulthood tier unlocked: heading over to my folks for dinner in the middle of a blizzard and dad didn’t even drop a “drive safe.” Going in the ditch trying to cross town is officially a skill issue.

ever wondered why dumplings so good? science says food tastes more mmmm when it is snug as a bug in a rug.

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

It's that time of year

charisma is the one thing all the angry little nerds can’t build and can’t buy no matter how rich they get or how much of society they destroy and I just think that’s beautiful

Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.

When I was young, I thought that when someone in a TV show or movie asked “Are you wearing a wire?” it meant “an underwire bra” Whenever they asked women characters I was shocked at how rude and intrusive a question it was, but it did make scenes where they asked men that much more interesting

I can’t believe how stupid everything is

🎶 old mcdonald replaced his farm with an energy intensive data center, a i a i o 🎶

It has always been so obvious that the backlash to MeToo isn’t about whether the abuse is happening but whether people are allowed to want it to stop

Free speech is more than me being allowed to say what I want. Everyone also has to like it and tell me I'm a smart and handsome boy

#3157 A helpful tutorial

last night at a bar I learned that they improved pinball by making machines that are entirely computers and they’re much better than what we had before

I am prepared to vote for anybody who will stop this