The insistence on making these robots bipedal is probably the most obvious giveaway that it's all a big carny gimmick

as someone with two children who are talented at math and need (especially the younger one) a lot of help with social and emotional stuff this makes me want to scream please help your children learn to interact with the world, it will make their lives (and everyone else’s!) so much easier

My alma mater did something ... good?

Wait do I have it correct that Joyce Carol Oates said Musk was a shell of a man with no joy in his life and he totally saw it and said "No I'm not" and now he's searching the titles of different movies he likes and replying "great movie"

Let my gravestone read "PUNCTUATION GOES INSIDE THE QUOTATION MARKS."

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

Trump is 30 points underwater. Dems swept the special elections. People know the GOP is responsible for the shutdown. So the Dem Senators pulled out their big guns... and shot themselves in the foot.

HE'S APPEALING TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES THAT HE BE ALLOWED TO STARVE AMERICANS

Did women ruin the workplace?

Once again: this is not what “feminism” means.

Let this sink in. The President of the United States is now appealing a court order forcing him to feed starving children.

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

Please read and share: The Dept of Ed plans to remove the only public notice of changes to states’ implementation of IDEA’s requirements regarding significant disproportionality, concealing critical information about changes to a state’s process to identify racial disproportionality in special ed.

No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison. So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

"I unequivocally reject identity politics" i scream, right before selecting my five gallon cowboy hat for my Fox Business interview.

Should women be hated as witches or patronized as overgrown children? The paper of record debates the two available options.

Was this the best use of my time today? No. Is it the most amusing way I could have spent the last 90 minutes? Absolutely. Pattern is free here: bit.ly/4nGGCGc

To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

The ADL has decided to treat fascists as allies and progressives as enemies. For a group that is tasked with protecting American Jews, that is a world historic fuck up. I will never forgive these people for their moral decrepitude.

Surprised he heard about it.

I am really trying to get people to understand how much what is happening to our children in Chicago with regard to ICE abductions is like school shootings/gun violence: the random and massive exposure to this particular violence will imprint on a generation and no privilege can fully shield you.

The USDA is the fail safe for SNAP. They have a contingency fund to ensure it’s covered in the event of a shutdown. They’re refusing. Grocery stores stepped up to try and help by offering discounts to any SNAP recipients and the USDA told them they had to stop. Starvation as a policy choice.

US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say

When the suspects appear to be white guys, it’s not a bombing — it’s an intentional explosion.

i hate that AI has now caused me to question the authenticity of cute animal videos online, which is my primary use of social media. i don't even know if this baby penguin actually wore a beret to go buy a tiny baguette in paris

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Few people outside North Carolina have heard of Paul Newby, the chief justice of the state’s Supreme Court. But Newby has had a huge impact on America and his state. He’s done this with the goal of delivering what he’s called “biblical justice, equal justice, for all.” THREAD 👇

people? you mean americans? you mean you think americans are going to think “i should pay much more for something i was paying far less for last month?” americans who live in the united states?

Trump has fired Dr. Carla Hayden as head of the Library of Congress and is now attacking the U.S. Copyright Office in retaliation for a report on the use of A.I. and copyright. action.everylibrary.org/locpetition?...

📣 IF YOU HAVE A LITTLE FREE LIBRARY TURN IT INTO A COMMUNITY PANTRY ASAP IF YOU ARE ABLE

The people yearn for (democratic) socialism (this one will make you cry)

how it feels to do physical activity after the age of 35

This is a real thing that a judge had to say to the Chief of US Customs and Border Protection.

It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities. [Cartoon by Jesse Duquette]

While you’re here, please take a moment to read my article about Rodney Taylor, a disabled double amputee who’s being held in solitary confinement by ICE. He was two days away from receiving new prosthetics when they grabbed him. He’s been detained for months & there’s a petition to get him out:

but don’t take away from that the idea that food banks are useless. they’re going to feed people- not going to feed them enough, and not going to feed enough people, but food in mouths. anything you can do for food banks right now isn’t at all wasted, it is more sure to be useful than ever

there are a bunch of smart people correctly saying that we can’t replace SNAP with food banks, and that’s true, because we can’t replace SNAP with anything that doesn’t basically look like SNAP, and we certainly can’t do it in a week

A president so stupid that one of the great intellectual achievements of his life is “passing” a dementia screening. A president so narcissistic that he can’t stop bragging about passing that dementia screening as evidence of his immense genius.

“A tiger, an elephant, a giraffe…”

He is 100% convinced the dementia screening test is an IQ test, just like asylum seekers came from mental hospitals.

imagine this level of telling on yourself. the layers

This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.

Food insecurity is ALWAYS a political choice. Famine is ALWAYS manmade. People go hungry because of other people’s decisions. We have more than enough food for everyone, and enormous amounts of it are wasted—literally thrown in the garbage—on purpose.

*blowing up the statue of liberty to build a highway* erm I thought you libs were supposed to be YIMBYs

This is what Leadership Culture gets you: people in charge with no skills, no knowledge of the thing they’re supposedly in charge of, and no incentive to mitigate risk, betting the future of the institution and everyone in it on whatever shiny objects they recognize from skimming Forbes.