To the “AI is useful” crowd, it might certainly be in theory, but we can’t ignore that it is being shaped by right wing extractive logics mired in cultural hierarchal commitments, that have very little interest in a utility that serves a broader social good.

lol my best friend just told me this morning she used to confuse the two of these men lol

so there are SOME jobs they don’t want AI to replace

TRAGIC: this cat has no father

he has lived in this house for eight years but still enters every room with the confused energy of a substitute teacher who has just learned there is no lesson plan

Some stray thoughts on gap-filling. Take them for what they are 1. Gaps in archives are not like rips in clothing; they don't have a well defined and wholly known, or in the broadest sense wholly knowable, shape or extent. You can't cut a patch for them or fill them with putty and smooth them over.

as a person of dead-parent experience i genuinely am not bothered by mother's/father's day e-commerce emails anymore but WOW "In six days your dad will or won't be opening a gift from you. Which is it going to be?" was a real loser, zingermans!

One of the reasons I don't take the "what about the rapists?" objection to abolition seriously is because after 250 years of the current system, an allegation of shoplifting is met with deadly force and a rape conviction gets probation. And the punishment for shoplifting is way, WAY more common.

For Vogue, I talked to Ramell-Correen Frederick, aka Cheeks, who embroidered Knicks gear in the streets of Brooklyn after Game 5. He uses a 104-year-old hand-crank, chainstitch embroidery machine that he named Jessica.

I disagree wthis STRONGLY. The pandemic was a wealth transfer upwards. Members of the working class did not engage in a moral failing of crypto magic beans; their wealth (which they briefly clawed back a bit of) was stolen again by Bidenomics. The Child Tax Credit etc shoulda been a new DNC fooor

i saved this in my phone but i don’t remember why

so small he only need 1 popcorn

Obviously this is a terrible idea but also I think we need an immediate moratorium on LLMs using bi flag colors as they are not worthy of the aesthetic

you see, the nazi tattoo is excusable because he is anti-israel

These racist motherfuckers burned a cross in Grant Park in Chicago. This is a death threat to the Black community that invokes generational terror. But the coward who slinked away after lighting this is weak, and our city is strong. We stood up to ICE. No one here is about to cower.

“Perps name is Donny T, goes by John Barron on the dark web. Real sex pervert, walks in on underage girls, sticks his hands in privates, total groper. My source says he hangs out at MSG.”

taking a class about kabbalah in 16th c. safed is one of the dumbest choices i've ever made, but i'm also thinking about kabbalah meme jokes so ... it's still one of the dumbest choices i've ever made

ah, yes, to be doubted by someone who works on "ethics and social agency related to Social/Relational AI systems"

Palantir exec Mehdi Alhassani is one of five executives at ICE contractors who donated the most amount of money to members of Congress. And he went from Fullbright to Obama, to National Security, to fascism. And still donates Dem.. because there's no disconnect. inthesetimes.com/article/immi...

was thinking this morning that how emerging leaders respond to the struggle at Delaney Hall should be understood as more consequential for progressive politics than fandoms constructed around symbolic working class white men

SNL skit: andy rooney is brought back to life to duke it out with bari weiss

no, the era of democracy of the last century is radio and tv. there’s another 125 years here that was the era of cheap daily newspapers.

Probably worth noting that the era of fascism was also the era of radio, and the era of Jim Crow was backed by pro-segregation newspapers.

imo the primary anxiety behind "boys need positive male role models" is the necessity of ensuring that boys grow up to be men rather than something instinctively felt to be worse, i.e., not a man. you know. like a woman or a queer lol

Really lovely piece by my colleague @bryanagraham.bsky.social, who watched Game 1 of the NBA finals with some of the men incarcerated on Riker’s island

”i ended up in a job i hated for 22 years because i wasn’t able to say no,” very inspiring golden handcuffs there

one way ppl are excusing platner is by calling it a “nazi tattoo“ (& suggesting that antisemitism is not a current concern). nazis were white supremacists & eugenicists & killed queers, sick & disabled, & non-white ppl (including jews). the ensemble of beliefs has real analogues in the US now.

new: last fall, usa hockey quietly banned transgender people from playing in many local recreational leagues. here in chicago, a local lgbtq+ hockey team is pushing back. from @dmbrown-tboy.bsky.social for the @chicagoreader.com's pride issue (hitting stands this week!):

as a Millenial I am old enough to remember that the slogan for the previous wave was literally "not me, us"

they’ll never delete my Consumer Financial Protection Bureau tramp stamp

are you just going to do this for every generation

many know this but just to say it: this shift in public attitudes didn’t just *happen*. the same forces trying to boil our planet are funding tranpshobia … atmos.earth/political-la...

Finally! Something that you actually can treat with ivermectin. 🤷‍♂️

I point this out to say that “AI” is most legible in the context of technological advancements in labor busting and the least legible as a productivity or efficiency tool.

I want to say one thing about this. This has been the hiring process for low wage workers for awhile. Wal Mart et al have been using automated job application systems to gamify everything from postings to schedules. The crisis, such that it is, is that it is now happening in middle skills jobs.

NEW: I've uncovered an AI slop mill quietly backed by U.S. Special Operations to push military propaganda across Latin American and the Caribbean disguised as a lifestyle content brand. theintercept.com/2026/06/02/l...

This video camera study showed that less than 5% of people on bikes broke traffic laws while riding bikes, yet 66% of people did so while driving. And perhaps even more importantly, if you REALLY want even MORE bike-riders to obey laws, build more protected bike infrastructure. Via @carltonreid.com

I rode so hard for Cracklin Oat Bran as a child that I often just ate it straight out of the box with my hands

lol

we don't have a masculinity crisis. we have a patriarchy crisis. patriarchy creates and sustains male unhappiness with its dogmatic, toxic, rigid definition of masculinity which says the worst and most undesirable thing a human can be is female which is how we get insults like "Low-T Talarico"

if you want me to believe that your understanding of liberal education isn’t actually biased, you probably shouldn’t call the Tanakh “the Old Testament”

my timeline is basketball & protestors getting assaulted at Delaney Hall

HELL YES BROTHER

this is bisexual erasure!!!!!!!

NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️

Likewise, we could run so many incredible universities with the faculty who have been kicked to the curb. There is demand for good teaching, good writing, and good art. There is no will by capital to support it.

It went a bit under the radar compared to the encyclical but the Catholic Church recently released a report decrying the harms of conversion therapy and encouraging greater listening. For all their flaws, and there are many, that’s a very welcome development.

Posters for Harry Kellar (1849–1922) the hugely popular US magician who inspired the likes of Harry Houdini, and reportedly acted as model for the bald-headed wizard in the The Wonderful Wizard of Oz published in 1900 — http://buff.ly/2pqza4I

why nick bilton and not me