I don't understand how people are talking about "AI culpability". If I fire off a thousand missiles, I am responsible for the destruction that follows, regardless of whether I picked the targets, delegated target selection to a subordinate, or used a computer

I made a crossword

A boot stamping on a human face for the precise length of time needed to beat the prediction markets

One wrote software for insurance companies, the other was a slam poet

Inspired by "Pillion" to spice up my relationship with some light BDSM (making my partner listen to me fumble through Gymnopédie No. 1)

One of my "favorite" Bluesky features is when people see a blocked post and incorrectly speculate about who is blocking whom

(I always think this "If people had tried to trans me as a teenager, I MIGHT HAVE TAKEN THEM UP ON IT" argument says more about the unexamined inner life of the person making the argument than trans people, but I suppose I would think that.)

you don't see the Front Page all day unless you're trying to. there's more to see than articles. fulfilling, enriching things. watch Bresson films on the Criterion Channel. read Neruda or Pynchon (he's fun!). draw. write. laugh. these days are short, they're numbered and they're YOUR'S. reclaim them

Believing better things are possible is uncomfortable, because almost none of us have ever truly done *everything* we could to prevent the bad things and if the bad things weren't inevitable that means we are each just a little bit culpable for them

they gotta put one of those cones on him so he stops picking at it

I should make a bot that posts "can you believe this horseshit in the New York Times?" every 24 hours

When I was a child I had a panda doll named Moe that was roughly the size and shape of a football. I remember one time, after I lost him at the mall, visualizing the "manhunt" for Moe

I think it would be right for there to be more animals that have bangs

Kalshi refuses to pay out on "Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill" on a technicality

Good as time as any to note that Greg Landsman's primary opponent is Damon Lynch IV. He also has one of the most gorgeous campaign sites I've ever seen and a platform that is incredibly aware of the times we're living in. The primary is on May 5th.

I feel like if the nominal leftists posting about "goyim rising up" had merely blundered into antisemitic comments they'd also sometimes post weird stuff about Catholics, right? "The Supreme Court is controlled by a pedophile cabal, which a decade ago was openly run by a former Nazi"

Jonathan Richman is autistic Bruce Springsteen, but also the Modern Lovers are Massachusetts Velvet Underground

wow, just learned that Robert Moses died 10 years before the release of the song "Life is a Highway" RIP Robert Moses you would have loved that song

We represent groups of workers from Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. Our organizations typically focus on a range of issues, from better workplace protections to the pursuit of environmental justice and the demilitarization of our technology. This is our first statement together.

I keep seeing people refer to Mamdani as a "generational talent". Is this true? I couldn't do what he does but I know a bunch of hot, charismatic people with demsoc politics -- and that's in the tech industry, not typically known for any of those things

Block was a really great place to work for the past four months. Unfortunately, I’m part of today’s 40% layoff. If you need an old hand at web stuff, who has staff software engineering experience at multiple international corporations, hit me up. ❤️

An open letter has been signed by 200+ OpenAI and Deepmind employees, who want their companies to adopt the same restrictions on use that Anthropic has. If this ends up occurring, then the DoD's only option for 'frontier' intelligence will be Grok.

being at home with my parents is interesting because they’re liberal folks and I’ll tell them news and they’ll say, “that can’t be true” which means two things: 1. they wish it weren’t true 2. the reality of this world’s cruelty is too much for them to look at …

She’s been released 🙏🏽

"The 45-second film, made around 1897, was the first appearance on film of what might be called a robot" HELL. YES.

I used to have a landlord who was an ex-cop and had Fox News playing constantly but he was also inexplicably fond of me and was really responsive to any problems I had. This is how I conceptualize Zohran's relationship with Trump

EMERGENCY RALLY TODAY AT 12:00 PM At the gates at 116th and Broadway to protest the detention of an undergraduate from a Columbia University building this morning

I guess this is like the stuff about the Bermuda Triangle and UFOs that we absorbed, right?

The promise of "The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat" fulfilled

I wish the left celebrated noble failure and heroic death less

I spent a significant part of my therapy session last night describing the plot of "Good Boy", the dog horror movie

Still my favorite clickhole article clickhole.com/the-time-i-s...

Now that I'm in my 40s I'm going to start addressing people like "excuse me, young man,"

Ordet Les Demoiselles de Rochefort Mind Game

I had a visitor this morning

I didn't know there were trans raccoons

Trying to figure out why a character on strip law is named after an AI guy on here

Students are being forced to place achievements above education. Once HE pivoted to 'employability' over education and criticality, this was the inevitable endpoint. Many students don't go on to work in their discipline, so why should they know anything about it?

I am genuinely very concerned that this revolutionary technology that will accumulate enormous wealth for its creators is dominated by what looks to me like a millenarian new religious movement. This seems likely to have nearly as many unknown repercussions as the technology.

Trying to put my finger on why this has less of a cultural consensus than "Goofy, Piccolo, and Knuckles are Black"

Ayn Rand if alive 2026: * TERF * "trans is the ultimate expression of freedom" or * he/him pronouns which? debat

I think the solution to gerrymandering is allowing districts to organically reshape themselves via conquest

There is a venn diagram of "We need to believe that AI can develop a real consciousness," "I now adhere to a truly bizarre health routine" and "I need all the money possible and I need it just for me," and at the center of it is "I am terrified of dying and I don't know how to fix that"

Posting on neolithic twitter like "lmao pottery devs spend all their time making charcoal for kiln just to turn clay back into a rock"

One aspect of neolithic life I've decided I'm going to adopt: when I die, bury me in my living room

Hard to believe the same guy invented the transistor and the humpty dance

Despite being back at work, Kickstarter is retaliating against our teammates for our legally-protected strike action from last year. Tell Kickstarter’s CEO this is both ILLEGAL and UNACCEPTABLE