I recognize I am an extremely rare holdout in that I have been so hardline anti-AI that I have still yet to use a chatbot willingly, but uh, I feel like every other story I read is about how all the consumer-facing stuff is a mental illness particle accelerator www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

UPDATE: there’s an entry about the rat hole of Chicago!!!!!! This book is incredible!!!!!!!!!

Polymarket has created a market that would monetize a nuclear attack amid increasing concerns that bets are happening among government insiders who can make military decisions. What stage of the apocalypse is this? polymarket.com/event/nuclea...

Influencer's fleeing Dubai right now.

So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for: - Who takes over; - Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation; - How to defend US bases in the region; - Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and - How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.

Polymarket has created a betting market on the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone involved in this should be put in prison for life.

Did the tiniest amount of self advocacy today and finally just agreed when someone offered to make a recurring meeting masked instead of just saying I'm used to being the only masked person in the room. It's a meeting of disabled students yet it was still mostly maskless.

please sum up the electoral bench of the contemporary Republican Party

I know that I sound like a broken record but I think once this society was ok with accepting mass covid deaths just to be able to eat at Applebees then all bets were off.

Congratulations Substack on your new partnership with Polymarket! And to those publishing on Substack, is this really the tool you want from the folks who take part of your revenue?

Did you know that the bees that need saving are NOT honeybees? Honeybees are the dairy cows of bees. People brought them over from Europe to make us honey. The problem with honeybees, esp in resource-limited ecosystems (like hey! cities!) is that they compete with our native bees for food.

For Christmas @brbomg.bsky.social got us a new blender and now that we're having a warm spell I've been trying out low FODMAP smoothie ideas. No banana is tricky for texture, but a mix of lactose free yogurt and frozen fruit is decent. Today was mixed berries and spinach (I have extra I need to use)

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19. This CD lived in my car's CD player for probably 6 months straight right after I got kicked out of my mom and her abusive boyfriend's house, and I would play it incredibly loud while driving faster than was safe when I was really upset.

Even though this makes Buffett look generous, a fun fact is that if you have 100 billion dollars, you can give away 99% of your money and still have enough to spend $27,000 a day for 100 years. Giving away that much of your wealth has no impact on the comfort of your life.

we will greet them as liberators

If true, then wow.

We gotta bring back Flossie.

given the existence of skeleton and luge, i postulate the existence of two other, yet to be discovered, winter olympic sports

caltrans told me highway 1 had to close because of rockslides barely a month after it reopened so i asked how many times they’ve closed it and they said at least 50 times so i said it sounds like they’re just feeding the highway to rockslides and then their civil engineers started crying

you can really blow some minds with “actually there was an entire library and research institute for queer / trans history, science and medicine founded by a Jewish sexologist but the Nazis destroyed it in the hopes of exactly this outcome, ie future generations not believing trans people are real”

holy shit, y'all, 'never attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity' but this tests the limits!

This is probably ok

My commute home: missed my bus, missed my train, couldn't get a seat on the train until halfway home, and the escalator up to the station was broken

Groundbreaking: Scientists have developed an antibody nasal spray that can neutralise all influenza strains and has shown early promise in human trials, raising hopes for protection against future flu pandemics. www.newscientist.com/article/2514...

If you haven’t already, delete your TikTok

Islay says thank you to anyone who can donate or share!

Hey y'all, my stepsister and her wife are in a tough spot with their beloved pup, Islay, and could use any spare cash people could give to start her treatment. The vet needs money up front before they can start, and heartworm treatment needs to start as soon as possible to work! gofund.me/d73ee2d1e

Every time I walk past this bit of fallen tree I can't help imagining it scuttling around, crablike, after sundown, and getting up to no good.

I walk thru the mall a lot lately (don’t ask) and I just saw some bonafide mall goths. had to stop myself from clapping for them like troops in the airport

Cafe at The Portland art museum has Rothko no. 5 cakes. Something intellectually meaty about seeing the painting in person, and then eating a cake copy. The complete experience. Full spectrum.

Correction... press pots are now $10. Silly of me to assume basic IKEA home items haven't gone up 43% in a few years.

I have a poster from the 1980 Winter Olympics hanging in my office, from back when Olympic mascots weren’t under pressure to be in peak physical condition.

From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X) "Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal? Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail… Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you. Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."

Finneas is better at political messaging than 99% of the Democratic consultants in DC.

A seven nation asskicking by Jack White, bravo rockstar

For those keeping score at home:

Over the past two weeks I've begun to realize that rich people only started funding chatbots once they could no longer email Jeffrey Epstein

The fact that *not one* person in Harris' camp can explain why they shouldn't launch their fucking media operation on the Substack platform is... probably all you need to know about that endeavor.

JD's hard drives probably look like this:

I would love to pass this along to one or two former coworkers in particular who, although probably not deliberately, utilized many of these techniques with the expected results.

Hey y'all, my stepsister and her wife are in a tough spot with their beloved pup, Islay, and could use any spare cash people could give to start her treatment. The vet needs money up front before they can start, and heartworm treatment needs to start as soon as possible to work! gofund.me/d73ee2d1e

Westboro Baptist Church tried to make an Anti-Luigi Mangione poster but it just looks like Luigi is threatening billionaires and goes unironically hard af

Kiddies who made it out of the ICE dungeon report sighting a schoolmate. Before this, the school district had no information on their whereabouts. The family has now been connected with a lawyer. Youngsters who escape a govt dungeon are the only way to track abducted children? This is fine!

Judge Blackwell continues: "Having what you feel are too many detainees, too many cases, too many deadlines, and not enough infrastructure to keep up with it all, is not a defense to continued detention. If anything, it ought to be a warning sign."

If you want to read the transcript of the February 3 hearing where Julie Le had her "this job sucks" meltdown, now you can: drive.google.com/file/d/1FnY2...

DHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was “involved” in a gang shooting. Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.

Not-fun fact: Being queer is punishable by death in Uganda due to American evangelicals lobbying the Ugandan government. globalaffairs.org/commentary/b...