a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,

My latest reprinted in @truthout.org. "If you’re hurting, struggling, or sputtering inside right now, I want you to take a moment to see what I see."

All the shit the BBC has pulled in the past few years and the director and CEO are stepping down because they made Trump look bad 4 years ago. Whatever dude.

Arming and organising a bunch of people and giving them the right to deploy force in civil spaces is not an effective remedy to the vast majority of the things we consider to be "crime" and the application to this kind of thing is at best a backwards attempt to justify the police's continuation.

We have to talk more how transphobia has taken strong root among well-to-do journalists & politicians when in both the UK & US, the evidence is that voters do not share it. The demographics of transphobia are people least likely to suffer prejudice in their lives. Richer, maler, whiter, straighter.

New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.

Enthusiasm level update: the woman handing out Cuomo flyers on the corner said “you can just throw it away if you want”

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

The premium segment for episode 80 is now online, enjoy ❤️ www.patreon.com/posts/videog...

Shocked and surprised. It's not like anybody could have predicted exactly this. Oh wait, I'm being handed a note..

One way to protect yourself is to unsubscribe. And to treat it with derision when people cite those publications like accurate sources.

YouTube continues to be a substantial force for evil in the world despite my great videos. It's hard to imagine but it's true.

Tbf this is the worldview of the median Daily Mail reader so he's playing to his fans over here.

🚨 1/ SCOOP We all know Pamela Paul is not a good journalist. But in her (poorly argued) WSJ screed on the alleged "growing divide" in LGBTQ circles abt trans rights, she reports ESPECIALLY badly—including abt Jose Arango & his boyfriend who dumped him. Paul didn't talk to the boyfriend. I did.

This kind of reporting that is just intentionally trying to stoke public hysteria in one of the safest countries in the world should genuinely be illegal. So much of our far right politics is people living in small towns who have been convinced by the press that they're about to be murdered.

great thread about how to think about & appreciate an absolutely singular filmmaker

The political and media mainstream have allowed 'the left are just being hysterical when they call literally anyone a racist' to become such a common-sense idea that I fully believe some conservatives are joining the party in a state of total denial about their beliefs.

Interesting paper! When you ask people about the most important issue "facing the country," they often say immigration. But when you ask them about issues facing them personally, it doesn't crack the top 10. This indicates that voters are reacting to media narratives, not their own experience.

no wonder CEOs think everybody’s jobs can be replaced by AI. their jobs are generating bullshit

Cigarettes used to be cheap enough that you could give a whole pack out to each trick or treater instead of just one or two loosies. Failed fucking empire

the key to understanding today's moment in journalism is specifically a subset of elite journos at NYT/Free Press/WaPo who basically adopt the position of the main character of NIGHTCRAWLER (2014) when it comes to their role in the news

My latest. "Do not allow your values to be captured and contained behind a screen in a cycle of inactive reaction. Jailbreak your cynicism and isolation, and escape your devices. Bring your hope, rage, and potential into the world."

There's a whole segment of great Victorian paintings that can be described as 'dark reimaginings of Greek myth' and you could say they're the 19th century version of creepypasta where there's a spooky version of a pokemon game in which Gary dies.

Controversial take but Leonardo da Vinci kinda goes hard as a painter? You heard about this?

the elite class becomes easier to understand when you realize they think everybody is as dumb as they are

*screams*

i condemn this

i wish they would add the crinkly stuff to my enclosure. some of the other specimens got crinkly stuff and they look hella enriched

Free Press reporter discovers that being an amoral dickhead can cost you friends: defector.com/free-press-r...

i've been hacked, all my apes are gone please help me by listening to this episode

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Episode 80 - THE SPHERE THE ORB and why movies suck. Sorry we kinda forgot we're supposed to be a videogame podcast for a bit, whoops! Enjoy! pnc.st/s/videogames...

59 - Spider-Man 2: So Smart! w/ Justin from @librarypunk.bsky.social We learn the beautiful lessons of the Disney corporation: it's not a big deal to beat up your girlfriend if she's being crazy, gay people do not have sex, and drones are very cool! soundcloud.com/agabpod/59-s...

Topping up my ever dwindling 'Not British' juice like it's the last oxygen tank on the ship.

She called out world leaders for sitting by and watching a live-streamed genocide without taking action.

BUTLERIAN JIHAD NOW

Unfortunately for them, there is such a huge gulf between public opinion and government action that these protests aren't going anywhere. They should probably take it up with the guys who are addicted to enabling genocide.

One first step people should do to respond to this is start using the “report a speed trap” function in Apple Maps to report where ICE is operating. Make Apple party to the attempt to protect people.

what's funny is, as always, the liberals and progressives are ruminating over this and grappling with it long after the people who swore this meant a whirlwind would be reaped have completely forgotten about it. you can forget about it too!

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

This whole 'does it serve you' turn in language recently is extremely creepy. Performatively demonstrating your power over an inanimate object. Yeah I guess you can do whatever you want, like be a dumbass.

teaching about AR6 today

Cronos is a lot of fun and the vibes are impeccable but doing this 'the communists made us LOCK DOWN and RATION because of a pandemic isn't that EVIL' routine in 2025 is truly crazy work, what the fuck are you guys talking about.

Italy's largest union is calling for a general strike on Friday in protest of the treatment of the flotilla

Bruh I was curious what actually got said so I googled Emma Watson and it's just a flood of headlines about how Rowling epicly owns ignorant 35 year old child for not hating trans people. Our media sucks so bad.

Let me try one of these

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

The Riyadh festival stuff is funny, people learning in real time that comedians for the mostpart are not principled political actors and just like money. Americans when the tv people aren't real.