fuck sam altman forever for taking away the last places where we could engage in good faith: the creative arts, which should be a testament to human ingenuity. i am so mad that everything i read or listen to or admire is now tainted with doubt. do you understand? he is a thief of joy and i HATE HIM

flipping through a proof of yet another book from a somewhat well known liberal voice diagnosing “where the left went wrong” and i’m struck, again, by the fact that a large part (if not most) of the liberal commentariat simply does not believe that the political right has agency.

CAVALL GOT THE JOB. AND THEY'RE STARTING HIM AT A LITTLE HIGHER PAY THAN THEY HAD IN THE JOB DESCRIPTION

Hired a lawyer to help with my SSDI appeal and I can *feel* how annoying I'm being already but it's so scary that I only have 60 days to appeal. The lawyer's assistant is being very patient with me and prompt with replies, though, so at least I feel like I picked the right representation.

Tried to spatchcock a chicken. Got frustrated. Tried to put it in the refrigerator. Broke a plate. Had a meltdown, screamed at the walls for a couple minutes and scared my sweet pup Penny. I do not like today.

“In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political, I must listen to the birds. And in order to hear the birds, the warplanes must be silent” - Marwan Makhoul

"Is there any significance to filing this lawsuit on 4/20, Mr. Patel?" "Of course not. I mean. I mean, what I meant was, what's 4/20?"

If Democrats in power are not using every lever they have to obstruct Trump now, why would you believe they would do it later?

I want a pillowcase full of Halloween candy that tastes like it did back then. Oh wow it turns out SHE was the one who snatched my friend's pillowcase as we were walking up a hill in East Oakland in 1998 omg you did it for ME.

Hello I am CEO of EvilCo, a branch of Umbrella Corp, and no we’re not the Umbrella Corp from the games we were just inspired by them, you’re not gonna to believe this but we have just released a company memo that says we’re not good human beings

Look, for my money the absolute game changer technologies right now are batteries and biosciences, not statistically modeling a mid conversation, but you do you.

Mamdani: "What are we fighting for?. When you look back at the history books of our party, 100 years ago we had a very clear vision of what we were fighting for. It's sad that for too many Americans, when they want to look for ambition in the Democratic Party, then have to turn to a history book."

Yeah geez weird impossible to know I guess

One of the biggest lies in American culture is that the wealthy got wealthy by making morally good choices (ie working hard) and the poor got poor by making morally bad choices (ie being lazy and irresponsible) and that they both deserve what they got.

I have the sound off on my computer and smooth jazz playing on the stereo and I have to say it does something to this series of pathetic scenes.

$75 million: Amount Amazon spent to acquire & promote Melania $75 million: Cost of the 246-foot yacht Jeff Bezos bought to follow his 417-foot yacht $100 million: 2025 loss by Bezos' Washington Post, which recently cut 40-plus percent of its staff The numbers our AI overlords don’t want you to see.

My friend Matthew will be needing additional surgery. Anything you can give to help with medical costs and costs of living will be appreciated. They have given tirelessly of themself to save disabled people like me. Even just sharing this will help slow them that same love and support in return.

People keep blabbing that Congress is "so divided" but they're never divided when it comes to these three things: 1) Supporting Israel no matter what it does 2) Covering for Jeffrey Epstein and his network 3) Supporting Big Tech, including technofascists, and taking their donations

the president of the united states is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system

people will be like "it actually takes some patience and careful checking for errors to make sure that chatbot returns the text you want" and what you're describing is a waste of your time dumbass. use your human brain to do stuff instead of arguing with Smarter Child for it

DoorDash Grandma isn't a paid plant. (For that, you need to be paid!) Instead, her story is far worse. She's a depressing example of how MAGA cultists have internalized the lies that justify their own oppression. An analysis. www.salon.com/2026/04/17/t...

The proper response is to simply not treat the cocaine-fueled fantasies of a billionaire sex pest as if they have any merit whatsoever, and simply not get caught up in a stoned freshman philosophy 101 argument with the stupidest fucking people who have ever lived.

The billionaire sex pests pushing generative AI keep spinning up badly remembered science fiction scenarios of apocalypse, as both advertisement ("we are literally creating a god... it might be too powerful!") and as a way of shifting the conversation from its actual real world harms it already does

I wish the tech industry a very deep and long lasting crash that breaks this thirst for permanent high growth from greedy investors. We should break them until they learn to have reasonable profit expectations and make investments based on safety instead of vibes and hype again.

Cavall had his job interview and they kept him for an hour and a half and seemed really enthusiastic about him so fingers crossed he gets an offer! They said he'd hear either later today or Monday.

Every day a different billionaire says the most horrific movie villain thing you've ever heard but this guy and a grandpa from Vermont are the scary ones because they want to tax them

If there are any Democrats who are thinking of running for the presidency on 2028 on anything less than a clear agenda of widespread prosecution for this administration's corruption and fundamental structural changes to ensure it can't happen again, they should just stop right there.

Facebook says my account is suspected of "automated behavior". Y'all I have not posted on my own account in a decade and the only time I do post is maybe once a month on the No Buy group.

because CD players, walkmans, and VCRs usually fucking worked and did precisely what was asked of them without relogging in and syncing and re-entering passwords and getting confirmation codes and doing 2FA with out TV and phone and clicking a fake "remember me" box that's fucking why

A man actually got in my mentions to tell me that it is morally unethical to make generalizations about a heterogeneous body of people. Reader, the group of people in question was software developers.

Okay. I know Hegseth is dumb as a box of rocks. It does not surprise me that he doesn't know that an army marches on its stomach. It DOES surprise me that this was even a decision to be made? The military has a budget of eleventy trillion? Logistics for food has surely been long automated? WTF?

The Art of War is very funny once you understand it for what it actually is, which is Warfare 101 For Dipshit Nobles the intended audience is exactly people like Pete Hegseth

Witherspoon is repeating a talking point the AI industry had from the start. Learn how to use AI to do your job instead of doing your job. The idea being if they replace 5 copywriters with one AI prompter, you want to be the AI prompter. No one addresses what happens to the 4 unemployed people.

it is astonishing how often I think of the phrase "if you howl, you're hit" on Al Gore's internet

And it doesn't even protect children.

The way Bluesky is working today is reminding me of how dial-up internet used to be. Remember when you used to type in a website URL and then go make yourself a snack because it was gonna be 5 minutes minimum?

The most frustrating & disheartening aspect of life these days is that the shitty things shitty people do ... work. They're rewarded. Over & over again, we are collectively reinforcing the lesson: you can do this shit. Try it. To take just one example: Elon buying Twitter. It worked.

I spend a not insignificant amount of time thinking about how we have tasked two women of color with being the voices of conscious while their coworkers ransack the constitution, and we expect them to smile and be collegiate while it happens

1. people reflexively blame AI for problems because it's obviously harmful in many domains 2. Bluesky (now "entirely AI-coded" acc. to staff) keeps breaking 3. AI is blamed. Devs say no, it's web service issues, scold AI-blamers for their ignorance 4. devs admit it was actually AI code at fault lol

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nothing online works for shit anymore. everybody who knows how to work computer is unemployed. we are stuck with these losers shooting up peptides while they vibecode their claude dongle

Say what you will about the technical problems with Bluesky today, the anticipation of a softly red banner popping up with the legend "Forbidden" across it has given the doomscroll a sexy little frisson.

As a woman with a female gaze, simply do not do this. We don’t want this. We want Magnum PI. We want ‘79 Knicks. We want to see what your leg day do.

It's been well-documented that people who want to use AI believe it's useful for every field EXCEPT their own. Writers generate images with AI but don't think it can write, artists generate descriptive text but don't think it can design. There's a notable exception: developers think AI can code.

Five tweets up from this one Jay is proudly saying that Bluesky devs use Claude code. Those two things are probably unrelated.

I think there are two key takeaways for Americans from Peter Magyar’s ouster of Orbán: 1. We must rally overwhelmingly behind the 2028 Dem nominee 2. We have to be ready to send people to prison if we win My latest for @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/two-lessons-...

Good messaging, yes. More of this.

We need a Senate jester. Just a comedian up there whose job is to mock people who say shit like this until they're too embarrassed to see straight. "Yeah it's a university in Cambridge, dude, are you okay?"

it is honestly remarkable how the average Senator is, I would argue, about 10 percent worse than if you literally selected them by lottery.

Me: I just think Billionaires: Ew gross why