the only thing we know about homer was that he was blind lol

it's mostly fine to be cruel to an ai chatbot. people have different cold/warm calibrations and some people aren't polite to inanimate objects and that's largely okay and not going to bring down society or whatever.

i've never understood how bitcoin isn't tethered to a bet that people won't find anything better to do with a computer than perform currency calculations, nor have i ever understood how that bet could be correct.

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.

(1/x) my thumbs up on pandora that match this: "i will be one of the greatest" - yll grym. (although i think this is called king's affirmation other places?) "the planets, op. 32: iv. jupiter, the bringer of jollity" (are classical music titles cheating)? "waloyo yamoni - 'we overcome the wind'"

Trump to Harvard: 2 billion $ NYT: Harvard to pay 2B$ Harvard: no Trump: 1B Harvard: no NYT: Negotiations intensify Trump: 200 million NYT: Harvard-Trump reach deal Harvard: no Trump: 0$ Harvard: ok NYT: Harvard not paying! Trump loses. Trump: How about 1B$ Harvard: no NYT: Negotiations resume!

Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)

Men, it's worth pondering that these academic men are the same ones that teach young women straight out of school. These are the men given academic authority over young women's careers. It's really challenging for young women to negotiate the minefield of creepiness these men create for them.

one of my issues with ordering food is that it makes me feel good to click a button and then have food, but i've found out that i can do all the ordering, then see how much it costs and *not* click the button, and then it makes me feel good to not click a button and have $30 and cook something.

maybe if ICE tied for 5th in a swimming event dems would start seeing them as the true threat they are

The massive government funding package just failed badly in the Senate, 45-55. Needed 60. Zero Democrats voted for it. SEVEN Republicans opposed it: Budd Johnson Lee Paul Moody Rick Scott Tuberville (John Thune switched his vote to no for procedural reasons.)

Calling the Gestapo “the Gestapo” is causing the Gestapo to act like the Gestapo.

I have been laughing at this for a solid five minutes.

a kind of weird thing about llm's making the internet a bunch of autogenerated text is that if the training data they use includes targeted harassment at someone they'll perpetuate that harassment. very mechanical abuse cycle perpetuation. bizarre thing i have not seen written about much at all.

nb remember that to call the US you will have to first convert the phone number into imperial units

Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN. "Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."

The Surprising Physics behind Mommy

are you allowed to just shove the dude out of bounds while he's trying to catch the ball i thought that one was called pass interference

I've been studying the history of US, and indeed, global policing my whole career and I can't make it more clear to law makers that this isn't a bastardization of policing, it is its purest form and logical conclusion. The impunity, militarization, deference, legitimacy, racial targeting, etc.

yoooooo steve from stranger things denounced ice those fucks are fucked

just like hand them a piece of paper that says "no, i'm going to". i dunno. get 12 friends and put a wig on.

for every white person murdered in daylight with cameras running there are n non-white people getting murdered in private where we can't see.

at some point i hope the narrative finally starts being "oh these nazis broke every law in order to subvert our elections" instead of "this is the fault of brown people and leftists who exercised their right to vote in a way i don't personally like". i am so fucking tired of the second one.

saving this for later when people tell me we should move on or whatever

This thread gave me a boost of hope I really needed this week

guy who is enough into the strategic elements of the axis and allies boardgame that he roots for the axis as statistical underdogs without realizing how it comes off to other people

i don't always know how to vibe with people who are like [i have awoken to the evils of the empire within which i live] and [we must solve them by unquestioningly supporting the second most racist empire party]. that's a very narrow line to walk.

i am drinking but this is beautiful right

If you’re cold, they’re cold, but you don’t have to let them in. - The third amendment

bluesky's blocking policies lead to some funny situations where there will be some drama going on and you'll see a post you aren't allowed to respond to which is quote-responding to a post you see as blocked. would probably be better just to not see any part of that?

i wrote about laughing at ICE and that one margaret atwood quote about men being afraid of women laughing at them www.patreon.com/posts/148398...

No Ice rally NYC. Photo by JL via Linnell3000 on IG.

How many good mothers on Bluesky ARE the expert?? I’ll start: I have a PhD in ecology. I’m a science communicator: an award-winning creator, strategist, and impact producer. I make stuff for the internet that brings people together 🧪 Your turn! GO OFF, GOOD MOMS OF BLUESKY

accelerationism in a nutshell. usually the US trains terrorists /before/ they start terrorizing the US

i see we have progressed from trump being a president who will start no wars to trump being a president who will lose wars against every individual united states city.

i watch catan analysis videos sometimes and players will deliberately make optically bad plays to reduce the chance that their opponents rob from them on a 7, even in like, some of the strongest tournaments in the world, and it hurts me so much every time.

i love so much that we're reclaiming passive voice for this lol

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some us politics arguments: $10 and -$10 are closer together than -$10 and $0, because they're both two digits and both divisible by 10. since we currently have -$10, adding $10 or $0 will have the same result. it is greedy and impractical to want more than $0.

yeah they've gotten through dehumanizing all the non-white people (the US was largely there before this started) so now they're hitting white people from the weak angles. started with trans whites and leftist whites, now dialing up to gay whites and white women. very open about it all tbh.

In case you’re wondering whether the pro-ICE reactions to Renee Nicole Good’s murder are natural, here’s a comment that was just left on my video. My video about anti-transgender bias at the BBC. I haven’t made a video about Good yet. youtu.be/pWm3dK8tPto

sometimes the social fabric of america being torn asunder has tangible consequences, and other times it just has small stuff like it taking three years to find out steve harrington from stranger things wrote and performed end of beginnings

in 2026 chefs are going to pull out the good stuff they've been saving for an emergency. you can now bake potatoes three times. everything is a sandwich. burrito or burger? why not both at the same time?

common strategy game trap: you want to win but can't tell how. doing [a] helps you win and you can tell how to improve it. you start making decisions around improving [a] instead of winning. i see it a lot, people will be like "getting harvesting is good, and if you get 21 it's a good breakpoint"

climate science is wild because corporations will be like "we invested eleventy trillion dollars based on our understanding of the near future" and then climate scientists will be like "we asked an undergraduate to check [anything] about the near future and it turns out nobody had before"

people will be like "dems have to care about inflation. that's the main thing the general population cares about" and then show you a graph showing that inflation is not the primary issue for 70% of voters.

somewhat impressive testament to the addictiveness of social media that twitter is now a csam and non consensual porn site and a huge number of people haven't seriously considered that it's within their power to stop visiting it.