Too many drivers basically view bicyclists and pedestrians as NPCs and not as real humans they could turn to mush with their cars.

like maybe the public would be getting less frothy and toothy about this if big tech hadn’t spent the last three years constantly threatening the public with impoverishment and feudal control, idk

Homeless debtors' prisons? Homeless convict leasing? Homeless chain gangs? That is what Louisiana is one step closer to after yesterday's vote.

Watching this for the 30th time just to see reporter’s facial expression, I realized “outmogging” sounds much better coming from him because it sounds like a reasonable Australian term rather than gross incel shit.

Yikes. Another good reason to avoid Target. I wonder what other companies are using AI for security.

This is such a disturbing example of how technology can distort and amplify abusive behavior. It reminds me of how victims are often labeled hysterical and have their body language analyzed by pseudo-experts. Now these tactics are being replicated by a biased chatbot people pretend is an authority

This kind of thing at Substack (including their Nazi problem and trans hate problem) are why my newsletter is at Ghost.org and always has been. Andrew Tate is a spectacularly vile human being accused of numerous violent crimes against women and hugely corrosive for young male minds.

NEW: WebinarTV, a site that scrapes Zoom webinars without permission, has downloaded and posted Zoom Webinars for anonymous addiction recovery meetings, support groups for caregivers and people who suffer from chronic illness, and a meeting of nudists. They then get turned into AI podcasts.

The future is here, and it’s awful.

May Victor Orbán simply be the first in a string of countries engaging in overdue housecleaning by kicking their authoritarian leaders to the curb.

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

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The woman being murdered in the video Trump posted was an immigrant. Her name was Nilufar Yasmin. She was from Bangladesh. Trump is weaponizing her death against communities like hers. Outstanding reporting from @pabloreports.bsky.social for Migrant Insider. migrantinsider.com/p/her-name-w...

EFF, one of the country's leading defenders of online speech, says goodbye to X. good! with its credibility, this should be a wake-up call to every american journalistic outlet & politician. you're only feeding the beast by remaining, there is no genuine 'free speech' arg to stay.

they're also often written by the same people who write glowing profiles of the assholes who want to kick teenagers and college students off of social media, the primary tool used to organize protests

you do not have to hand it to tucker carlson or marjorie taylor greene or alex jones or megyn kelly. they're all rats who see trump as a sinking ship and they're getting ready to jump in preparation for their next act. you do not have to fall for it.

The leftists I see irl ARE doing something radical; they are creating and strengthening networks of support outside current structures of power. It doesn't get much attention because it's not violent or flashy, it doesn't get clicks. It's not throwing Molotovs, but it's radical as fuck.

I'm sure I've posted about this before but whatever, here's a new thread on the subject: why it does not bother me in the slightest if my clients did what they are charged with doing.

From now on, before anyone in the U.S. says anything, other countries should ask: "Do you condemn your fascist regime?" So many people here expect everyone to first condemn X regime to speak about any injustice. Let's see how it feels when the shoe is on the other foot.

🇱🇧🔴112 people killed in Israeli strikes today across Lebanon, mostly in Beirut. 837 wounded. This is the latest and not the final count from Lebanon's health ministry, in one of the deadliest days of the ongoing war between Israel and Hezbollah.

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Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

I love everything that’s happening here. Get this book!

Seems like this decision will kill people as the climate crisis exacerbates wildfires, etc.

reminds me of "HOBBY LOBBY'S ROBBY HOBBY: HAMMURABI"

I joined Amanpour & Company to talk about why "working homeless"—a term that should be a scandal—has become an ordinary fact of American life. 40% of officially-counted homeless people have jobs. And that's before we get to the millions who are rendered invisible, who are never counted at all.

I used to love spending time on Pinterest, but there is so much AI slop on there now that it's lost the plot.

jonny over on masto doing god's work: > anthropic [is running] an ENTIRE AD CAMPAIGN around "Claude code is written with claude code" and after the source was leaked that has got to be the funniest self-own in the history of advertising because OH BOY IT SHOWS. neuromatch.social/@jonny/11632...

My university: "Copilot is Microsoft's AI-powered productivity service that uses large language models (LLMs) to help you create content, analyze information, summarize documents, and complete tasks more efficiently." Microsoft: LOL

I really think you should read Tara's essay on the way Audre Lorde's quote about the master's tools has been misread in tech discourse. It's one of my favorite reads of late @tarakiyee.bsky.social! tarakiyee.com/on-the-enshi...

Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter.” www.ft.com/content/744e...

Hi. It’s Ivette again. I regret having to do this, but I have 19 days to stay in shelter. Staff told me to call local shelters in 9 days for availability. Please #reskeet my gofundme. I’m trying to raise funds for a studio apartment. gofund.me/6b9b92d2

Pray for me, as I have been alone in this house with 7 tween girls for three hours and have all night to go

“These protests are really a good opportunity to see that you’re not the only person, especially in a red state, it’s really easy to feel like you’re a blue dot drowning in a red sea." - Rachel Breslin, 27 at Jackson, Tenn. No Kings with her dog, Ellie. tennesseelookout.com/2026/03/28/a...

Solid weekend

I just heard my 10 y.o. say, "I'm a furry too."

15 and then you see it: , the US has diversified the disciplinarian apparatus… and nothing else.

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5 just how routine and normalized the answer to EVERYTHING in America is more cops, more cops, more cops. To do every job. TSA unpaid? More cops! Congress can’t budget? More cops! To *me* there is intimidation by their mere presence, but I feel like their PR move is not to conjure fear but normalcy…

I am beyond tired of “in the weeds” convos that fail to reckon with the horrifying truth that the AI & Big Tech industries’ will to power is among the proximate causes of the US’s accelerating descent into autocracy. “AI” is both the motivation and the instrument of authoritarian consolidation.

Similarly, referring to “AI” as an actor rather than a tool serves to absolve people and institutions of accountability. I’m struck by how many so-called leaders seem happy to treat widespread “AI” adoption as a fait accompli, an act of God or natural phenomenon that can’t be contested, only managed

*snort* ICE is checking ID but they’re so fucking incompetent that each one has a TSA person standing over them to walk them through it, largely defeating the point.

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It's tiresome that JK Rowling being awful often leads to shaming adults who read children's or YA fiction. The only people who need to be shamed are Rowling herself and anyone who contributes to her personal trans-hate fund. And haven't we had enough low-brow vs. high-brow discourse?