Happy #LibSpill Day for those who celebrate.

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

it's like our entire sense of morality has been filtered through the act of consumption, and the highest good we can imagine is feeling good and clean and pure as individuals, unpolluted by the obvious evil are around us meanwhile, real change requires the kind of work you need a drink after

starting to feel like there's a direct relationship between the growing obsession with lifestyle hygeine (no drinking, no caffeine, no sex, obsessive working out and looksmaxxing) and the inability to meaningful moral stands on issues of actual import

Can never get used to seeing snipers on our public buildings live.thepoint.com.au/2026/02/the-... (Photo: @mikepbowers.bsky.social )

In the wake of a massive confirmation that the tech industry’s run by deranged pedophiles, not a single tech platform should have the balls to start demanding ID and enacting invasive policies. Yet they continue. They’re the ones being outed as dangerous and we’re the ones being regulated.

This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"

"I'm more used to signing missiles but with the similar shape I'm sure I can make it work." chaser.com.au/general-news...

Okay, I’ve heard all the criticisms. I agree now that my plan to create a Jonestown on Mars was foolish and dangerous. I will instead be building a much more achievable Jonestown on the Moon

An incredible turn of events here. 10/10, no notes. 😂

I very genuinely do not think that Australia's media industry can be classified as any other than fully supportive of police violence, because you have to actively, consciously and knowingly work to frame what happened as general "violence mars protests" rather than "police violently attack protest"

It wasn’t impossible - the cops where there to incite violence. And Albanese (and everyone else) knew this would happen and he let it.

Why are so many platforms punishing adults for wanting to be adults instead of just making parental controls and telling parents to monitor their own kids. Why is discord rolling out a "teen by default" mandatory ID system. Why the fuck do you need that information. Why are you making this my issue

“libertarians tried to warn you” no they fucking didn’t, don’t bullshit me

Something to remember as you watch this footage is that NSW Police approved the antisemitic National Socialist Network demonstration outside of NSW Parliament House.

Post a banger that isn’t in English youtu.be/sDeMfL8Ib9A?...

And sure, Not All Men. But somehow, Always Men! None of us, ever, earn a free pass to untouchable sainted allyship, because too many guys have decided they've slogged their way past the velvet rope and can now spend their credit. Watch for these shits, take them down, never wave anyone through

Someone made a list On Here recently that was "the writers it's ok to still stan" and like, no! Don't ever! There is no person, no matter how much you think they're a great guy, who deserves that, because ten years ago two of the big Feminist Allies were Whedon and Gaiman and don't get fooled again!

When you see unhoused people asking for money what you should see is a fracturing of the social contract where an issue (housing) that should be addressed on a municipal or statuary level is instead foisted on individuals in a way designed o put callouses on their souls

man I’m sorry to be all corny here but when I see a “the city is beautiful! There’s more to it than homeless people!” I gotta say you know who’s also beautiful? People who have no place to live & are trying to get by in a system that has turned its back on them & if you don’t see that that’s on you

Is craftivism performative? Yes. That's the point. Resistance includes a public demonstration of opposition at accessible events with a low barrier to entry. The red resistance hat pattern has raised $300k for the people of Minnesota. That's not effective?

I appreciate ATOMFALL's commitment to the two great British SF/F genres - nuclear pessimism and folk horror. SOLDIER: Now that the reactor's exploded, you're under martial law. Obey or be executed. VILLAGER: Right you are! <turns to friend> Wanna built a wicker man? FRIEND: Too bloody right I do.

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Just because good news is worth celebrating: There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection. HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.

Richard Dawkins. Steven Pinker. Lawrence Krauss. Jonathan Haidt. Robert Trivers. Prominent atheists and scientists who have pushed anti-trans propaganda for years. They all had ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Some received huge research grants and island trips, and all of them benefited from their ties.

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

NEW: Here's the list of the 144 processes Centrelink has flagged as operating unlawfully or erroneously There's so much to go through, including more false debts, failures to record ppl's circumstances & income properly, & the whole-scale fuck-up of Rent Assistance www.aph.gov.au/api/qon/down...

If you’re not following the case of Steven Feldman, AI Lawyer, your missing out

To recap the White House's official position, the racist video was posted erroneously by a staffer and they took it down, but even if it was posted on purpose, the outrage would have been fake because the post was fine and inspired by the Lion King

None of us on are on the admin’s alt-text level

Here is a thing: There were several years when I was one of VERY few journalists seriously covering harassment and abuse issues in comics (and by extension sometimes video games). During that time, I became the Person People Told Things To. (cont'd)

This is only related in a sideways manner, but: the story of any small slice of humanity is the story of humanity, just boiled down and distilled. So: In 2020, we had a lot of conversations about harassment at SF/F conventions, and Isaac Asimov came up several times.

it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world

Another acceptable title would have been: "Australia to return a portion of the billions it stole from East Timor under a gas deal we secured by bugging their negotiating team".

ugh thanks @amyremeikis.bsky.social for making me realise I don't follow sa on FB fuck the partner income test and partner welfare rates

I’m an actual 10,000-hour-ass expert on Greco-Roman mythology and there sure are a lot of jerkoffs out there loudmouthing about how some movie choices are not historically accurate to the period of once upon a fucking time

I’m sorry but what did libertarians think that the anonymous money laundering racism coin that you could only functionally use for illicit activity was doing other than this, exactly

apropos of nothing in particular, @lilashapiro.bsky.social gave us a tremendous piece of journalism last year, and it's always a great time to revisit it and thank her for the work she did in bringing these stories to light.

Ep 301 of Leverage Redemption S3 had a villa in France full of evil billionaires colluding to pillage trillions in public goods who were keeping a small town activist in the basement until they could execute her led by a guy who admired Putin, and we did not, in fact, go hard enough. Apologies.

get it right

The public library is an essential component of a 21st-century left political project as an example of both what is already available to us and what can be improved upon in the future. The library is a public good, and it is free as a public service. I want more people to make the connections.

All in all I'd have to say I don't enjoy being ruled by semi-literate perverts with infinite money

People in the Arts Use Public Domain Materials for Something Other Than "Thing That Was Cute -- now it's SCARY!" Challenge

every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds

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Hi are you one of the most successful writers in the world? We would like to take all of your skills, commoditise them, and thereby remove your unique voice for twice the pay you could make at Trader Joe’s.

Just your regular reminder that John Howard never pushed back against Pauline Hanson and One Nation policies. He embraced them, which is how he outflanked them, while also setting the stage for what the Liberals are today. The myth that he 'pushed back' truly needs to die.

hey remember when Microsoft tried to change all of Windows into this format saying that the future of everything was going to be tablets and touch screens, then everybody said nah it will not you're just wrong and pretty bad, then it mostly of got phased out, anyway that but now for AI in everything