“Reporter” here is the correct word, because there are no actual journalists covering Trump.

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I’m trying to be less negative, but there are a few too many divers on social media who keep posting videos of themselves touching sharks in open water because some dipshit who named herself “Ocean” decided to popularize physical contact with wild animals.

trans rights actually aren't extra rights they're just the same rights everybody else has that you're trying to take away from trans people. sorry you have trouble with this, but it means you're a bigot not that we're wrong.

I think it should be customary for parents to pick a name for their child that lasts until they are 18, at which point they get to pick an adult name for themselves. I think the understanding should be that becoming an adult includes the autonomy to decide for yourself who you are.

This deep sea creature is as sharp & clear as broken class, & can grow as long as your hand. This giant amphipod, (Cystisoma) only has two colored body parts: the dense orange stomach/egg pouch, & two MASSIVE eyes, which are a glittering holographic orange layer completely covering its head. 📽️ MBARI

Here’s the thing - while I do like Apple products because I like the overall operating environment, you’re not going to convince me that designing every device with slippery, frictionless, curved surfaces that have no natural grip zones or traction isn’t the *least* functional choice possible.

I’ve been going on a daily walk and today there were many snail friends on my route. Here is one I stopped to say hello to:

I can’t begin to explain, the older I get, how little I want to argue with people about my film taste. I will gladly tell you if I like or dislike a film, but the second the discussion turns to why I should feel the opposite, my only desire is to nope out of the entire conversation.

Give Sarah money. Sarah gives back ten fold in energy, science education, and to communities all over the country. Just do it.

Did schools stop teaching people the difference between being laid off and being fired? The number of people I see online saying “fired” when they mean laid off has reached a point where more people are using it incorrectly than not.

We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

Happy birthday to John Brown, who knew exactly how to handle the south’s “Peculiar Institution”

I think I will always be biased against hiring managers and recruiters because I cannot help but question how a person finds joy and purpose in the sifting and judgment of human souls forced into desperate conformity by a system of wage labor that promises exploitation masquerading as opportunity.

At this point (really whenever but particularly in this political climate), if I see someone I follow “joke” about imprisoning or eradicating an entire category of people (like an entire gender, for example), they’re getting blocked. It’s fucking toxic & gross no matter who you’re talking about.

Successfully replaced the battery in my 2015 MacBook without breaking anything 👍 (We’ll ignore how long it took me to realize that the reason it wasn’t sitting flat anymore was because the original battery was swelling 🤫)

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There isn’t a hell hot enough.

I haven’t been everywhere and I can nonetheless tell you with confidence that there is no nation on earth in which all of its people are anything less than human beings with their own rich internal lives and stories just like anyone anywhere else.

There are people online talking about what a boon the skyrocketing price of groceries has been for helping them slim down their waistline and I really don’t know how anyone is maintaining any level of composure anymore.

The long-term effect of the Cambridge Analytica scandal is that corporations assume algorithmic psychological manipulation is viable, which explains why my TikTok feed keeps throwing me accounts covertly espousing bioessentialism via gender stereotyping thinking I’ll eventually get brainwashed.

I went and saw Project Hail Mary last night and it was everything I wanted it to be, and seeing so many people on social media obsessing over it is absolutely giving me life. I want to go see it again.

I can agree that machine learning is a useful innovation with many applications. I have yet to be convinced that LLMs and Generative AI (as specific subsets of machine learning) are a net positive for humanity. I mean even if you trained them with data that *wasn’t* stolen, I still don’t see it.

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If the algorithm on TikTok is able to filter by detected content, then I want a toggle button where anytime it detects an account in which the sole output is a person talking about how much money they make by telling other people how to make money it just permanently auto-blocks them.

Much like when I (a huge Douglas Adams fan) first heard it was *Max Landis* of all fucking people doing the Dirk Gently series, I had a very similar reaction when I found out who’s animating the Firefly reboot.

I’m actually fully convinced I got out of the film & television industry just in time. The job market sucks, but man do I never want any part of that in my life again. Absolute poison.

Simply staggering how many dollars and hours and resources and mailers and yard signs are going into these elections to determine which people should go do nothing in Congress

I sure love living in a reality in which you can only survive by having a profitable reason for being.

hate living in the time of "the worst people do an evil thing incompetently"

My power move is that I woke up today. I heard someone say that your inner world does not require anyone else’s endorsement and I felt that in my bones. I’m choosing joy.

Artists keeping prices low to maximize accessibility is good to a point, but there is a threshold beyond which you are doing more harm than good by creating unrealistic price expectations and devaluing the work.

i know people are intentionally lumping things like spell check in with AI to make opposition feel ridiculous but honestly don't push me. i'd strangle clippy with my bare hands if it meant getting rid of AI

Nothing that comes out of the mouth of Sam Altman poses a single benefit to humanity on any level for hearing it. There is not a thought nor idea in his head that is a net positive to the overall fabric of society. We are, as a people, measurably worse for giving him any fraction of our attention.

For a country that is dead set on pushing christofascist propaganda, it’s wild how many elements of modern tech and politics are identifiably sacrilegious.

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douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

“Get on the bus that’s going the right direction, none of them are going to drop you at your door” is the kind of centrist anti-thought said by people who fail to recognize that all of the buses are headed to a detention center.

You could actually structure your moral code around the idea that law enforcement doesn't exist to execute people. You don't have to create perfect victim narratives, you can just refuse to accept that the state gets to kill people.

I don’t know why this is so hard for people but people you have to repeatedly call and beg to ask them to oppose murder in the streets will never really be on your side

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My stance will continue to be that any creator that wants continued respect should be treating generative AI like it’s radioactive.

I’m not being a cynical doomer or intentionally obtuse, I’m just asking if there is any point or line beyond which the general public might start to consider that nobody currently in a position of federal government is actually representing their interests or well-being.

I don’t understand why people are still appealing to the lawmakers when the supposedly divided political parties are both telling everyone to remain peaceful and compliant while government-sponsored terrorists shoot citizens in the face.

Trying to live my life so that when I die it’s a “pour one out for a real one” scenario over a “rest in piss” situation

I know everything is *gestures vaguely*, but we really do all need more whimsy in our lives.

If the government representatives of a population are willing to vote away the rights of their own constituency, I would argue that said population does not actually have representation.

Purity/modesty culture, much like gender essentialism, is not feminist and never will be. The modern social push for these ideas is thinly veiled conservatism and it stands fundamentally opposed to the ideals of feminism.

we did it! a perfectly structured democracy. it's got checks, it's got balances. this thing is made to last. there's only one weakness: bad guys. if somehow some bad guys who don't care about decorum got elected they could basically just tip the whole thing over. luckily such men are unelectable