Sorry if I've been swinging wildly between these two concepts lately. These times are really trying.

When folks are selling AI as an accommodation tool for disabled students, they are selling individualism. This individualism is infused with neoliberal whiteness where the disabled person is a consumer & producer only focused on their needs, not part of of a collective political identity.

Please do not ask bookworm if they are going to finish the books they have before buying more. It is very offensive in our culture.

It's the truth. You gotta shame the botlickers!

Lolol, well I guess I am in good company

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

These fools have marinated so long in Content mentality, they have forgotten (or coveniently decided to ignore) that science and journalism ARE the processes. But process can't be monetized directly, so focus on the end product. 😬

If the first adaptation of At the Mountains of Madness is a Minions movie I think Guillermo del Toro might burn down Hollywood.

gender failure gonzo

Huge news: the court has entered final judgement in Oregon v Kennedy (HHS trans youth care ban) and has vacated the Kennedy declaration and permanently enjoined its enforcement to target gender clinics. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Not everything that breaks is technically the fault of vibe coding but the kind of culture that would foster vibe coding is the kind that produces a lot of shit that breaks.

Gross

I think there is something about the narratives that tech people tell themselves about how their industry/engineering will fix the worlds problems that make it especially hard for them to confront their own bodyminds, their fragility, their mortality. And they go just bananas when they realise this.

when you love blorbo but blorbo is owned by one of the most evil conglomerates on earth but also the stuff made for blorbo is made by real people putting love and work into it but also they're probably underpaid but also they probably still wanna keep their jobs 😔

My manager's manager schedules a 7 AM team meeting and I'm about to make it everyone's problem

The other thing is that in a gig economy there is no degree that promises a good career anymore, not because you should have studied computer science or social media management instead of history or Russian literature, but because there are no careers

You ever think about the battle of helm’s deep

there is no politician so irreplaceable that we must overlook sexual misconduct because nobody else could possibly fill their shoes

Like, I get the sentiment, but I'm not a huge fan of seeing so many confederate flags in my timeline, y'all.

Wishing you and yours a very merry Confederate Surrender Day.

Oh we are doing deep, existential depression today? Cool cool cool

Artist: @thelatestkatie.bsky.social

Oh, also the president is a genocidal nutbag, and congress is a bunch of ineffectual yes men. Great way to start a fuckin morning.

Wah! Someone stole my tullips in the night! I planted a bunch two winters ago, and only one bloomed last year, but this week I had like 10 blooming. And some flower thief came through and snipped the perfect blooms off of all of them on the street side of my house! Who does that! 😭

If you don’t stop in mid-sentence to check a thing and then three hours later you’ve learned the entire history of canned food but not finished the sentence, why even be a writer?!

Made a healthy dinner, and it was quite tasty. Hopefully my digestive system won't try to destroy me because of it.

Every. Goddamn. Company.

The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today. Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere. Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.

I have stolen 12T of KitKats that were in transit and which you were probably hoping to buy in Poland forgive me the world is stressful and I needed a break

Pro: I have a diagnosis. Con: I have a diagnosis.

Y'all, I have this same walking stick with bats on it, it's the best cane I own, and I am being SORELY TEMPTED to buy the frog one

You never really hear panicked stories about cops being exposed to fentanyl anymore. Almost like it was a completely fake crisis invented by law enforcement and perpetuated by the media while Biden was in office.

Small note. Mass layoffs like these are also a tactic to devalue the work because workers become more desperate while companies create false scarcity. Do not, ever, forget your worth. Don’t let them win. You make this industry exist. They don’t.

I know I don't have to tell any of you here that ICE is deployed at the airports because he wants everyone to know that they are his personal police force and that he will deploy them anywhere at will.

Please join me for a rousing round of: lol, get fucked aftermath.site/sora-shutdown-...

Anyway, AI is a managerial technology that came out of fields where researchers act more like managers than researchers and this is not a coincidence. It’s fundamentally related to why certain people jumped at the chance to try to build certain kinds of systems that devalued (other people’s) work.

"I have watched the brightest minds of my generation, starving hysterical naked, arguing about whether or not the finale of Stephen Universe was sufficiently righteous on the internet." - @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social (I'm halfway done with this essay so far ✌️🎸🫀🤔💭)

The president should be impeached if they do war crimes

Stunned by all the “ICE isn’t gonna do anything more than what TSA already does” rhetoric. Untrained white supremacists who’ve been told by bosses they’re not subject to laws will have POC and women lined up in front of them to grope and abuse and they don’t even have to chase them.

I am declaring Terry an honorary software engineer for “the trouble is getting the magic to understand what dirt is” alone

I trust ghosts much more for almost all purposes, honestly?

I've got a piece coming out in Dissent that makes this argument with Jeffrey Epstein as a case in point. The moral isn't that a pedophile cabal runs the world, it's that there's a whole class of of people who can afford to be as antisocial as they want.

I feel dreadful today, and it sucks that i can't tell if i have a new illness, a new manifestation of an existing illness, or a side effect of new meds.

People shouldn't feel bad about previously admiring someone when they didn't know about the terrible harms that person committed, but we should challenge ourselves to consider how pedestalizing and prioritizing the legacies of charismatic leaders can create harmful dynamics. That can be addressed.