when you look at the things people are doing now on their phones it makes you wonder if there was some new kind of virus a few years ago that makes people dumber every time they catch it

I do weird grocery budget accounting because I'm a dork and my mom taught me to do so growing up and my groceries were up 16% total this week compared to the last time I bought each item, with the oldest item on the list from 5 weeks ago Incredibly glad I stocked up on meats in my freezer

If a federal judge, appointed by Trump, can call him “simply untethered to facts,” our White House press corps can as well. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"you have to treat the computer like people" why don't you try treating people like people

ai advocates genuinely get confused about people dismissive of the capabilities and personhood of ai because the AI bot that advises users to eat rocks or hang themselves IS smarter than them and has a better grasp of morality than they do

if you think chatbots are alive or self aware then i think you would be easily fooled by a tunnel painted on a brick wall

yall feel more sympathy towards a string of code than the genocide victims yall kick off your platform every day.

Nazis tackling a rabbi and dragging him off is a bit too on the nose for even me. Good lord we're so far gone.

When will our media start to grapple with the fact that our president has dementia and cant tell fact from fiction

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Sick of these radical activist leftist judges like the guy we specifically chose for the position a few years ago

idk man, if you’re getting to the point where you’re accusing prosecutors, judges, and metro police of being the enemy, i am skeptical you have achieved the kind of consolidation you need for this kind of a project

I think 996 is completely sensible if all the employees doing it are impossible to lay off or fire under any circumstance short of the company going under and they have the same salary and bonuses as the CEO, as well as revenue share and stocks. Oh, what? That's unreasonable? Shame.

Only tech dudes would reframe the relentless management exploitation of their time and talent as a feature, not a bug. They're self-exploiting, and then they'll be tossed aside when their value is depleted. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/b...

Quite literally the first thing I saw on my timeline earlier was the n word. Hard r. Thousands of likes. Use twitter if you want, it’s not my business to moralize on that. But anybody who pretends it’s anything but this is lying to themselves

It is the same undercurrent and I would argue that this is the urbanized mirror to what ranchers and farmers have been doing to latino workers for generations. Simply call in la migra when you don’t want to deal with the labor anymore. This time it’s anyone with a complaint about their tenant.

$50,000 signing bonus and the explicit promise that you work for a president that values personal loyalty over everything will do amazing things for people who otherwise wouldn't have imagined themselves on the business end of a weapon for uncle sam 5 years ago

ICE gassed members of the Chicago Police Department sent to protect them from protesters

Sometimes you’ll see an Asian guy at the ren fest dressed in a period appropriate non-European outfit, and it’s always a flex, but there’s always a half second when you first see them from behind where it could be a white guy making the worst decision on earth.

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!

"climate change will kill more than the population of gaza therefore ignore gaza for climate change" is rhizomatic lesswrongism

"Just use '-phobic' '-ist' words and I have an argument that the left will have to take seriously, or else they will look like bad people!" they believe, because to them these are not actual descriptive terms about power imbalances but magic words that give the user instant moral highground.

This is one of those cases where someone is using as many leftist signifiers they can as a disingenuous bludgeon to give their own grievances the thinnest gossamer layer of victimhood. It's very similar to how the right believes that minority groups are actually the privileged ones (now), etc.

Turns out that if you are unwilling to stand up for others on a broad and universal set of values then you don’t really have those in other narrow contexts. If you instrumentalize suffering and other people, then you’re taking the position of the executor. Decisions being hard != abandoning them.

I think this is a useful and educational contrast because it mirrors the precise logic used by a wide spectrum of bay area technologists, many who were/remain nominally left wing, that allowed them to rationalize right wing politics as an instrumental necessity to stop the AI doomsday.

Notice that he doesn't mention the unprovoked ICE attack on protesters at Broadview—who were already complying with the commands of police—probably bc his state cops assisted in that violent attack. He prob thought he could prevent the troop deployment by helping ICE police protesters. Didn't work.

3 Oct 2025 -- CBS, long known as the Tiffany Network for its new excellence, is bringing in anti-trans lesbian Bari Weiss as head. Weiss resigned from NYT, citing its “illiberal environment, to start the Free Press, which frequently features transphobic pieces. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

It'll never be lost on me that a particular subset of the liberal commentariat in both North America and Western Europe were deeply infatuated with this woman up until the very moment she decided to talk about that one issue you're still basically not allowed to talk about lol.

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

As the AI bubble falters, they’ll do the same minority invoking language as did the NFTers and crypto people did in the last bubble

“'The fact that we don't have money to pay journalists, but we have money to pay Bari Weiss between $100 and 200 million is indicative of what the Ellisons' true goal here is,' a network correspondent said. 'And it's not journalism.'"

lol

important for us in the US to note: even a solidly right wing government can't ignore this.

Once again the invisible hand of fate has guided my car through the front window of a mattress store

bsky ceo's crashout shows they can not handle simple criticism, so keep doing it. bsky wants the marginalized people that built this site to shut up or leave, don't give them an easy way out

There it is

greta ily what an outfit

*A Republican lawmaker objected to reference to Charlie Kirk holding “often racist and controversial views” in local Alaska news *The corporate owner took down the story and edited it *The journalists resigned This feels like more and more of our media now. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

The owners removed factual information about Kirk's views. The owners said the piece fell below their journalistic standards, but refused to saw what was wrong about the piece.

For example the GOP lawmaker, a Christian nationalist, said it was "prejudicial" to label Kirk a Christian nationalist. But it is a factual statement. He was labeled Christian nationalist by mainstream media! Christian nationalists embrace him! He espoused their views! www.akmemo.com/cancel-cultu...

can we agree this is not at all what we meant when we wishcasted a "lowtax speedrun?"

Israel today, Israel tomorrow, Israel well maybe not anymore

American intelligence officials have now confirmed to CBS News that Netanyahu ordered the drone attacks on the Sumud flotilla while it was docked in Tunisia, an attack launched from Israeli Navy submarines off the Tunisian coast.

dude has absolutely no interiority. he is constitutionally unable to just hang out. it’s just selling selling selling selling

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

i love that the average republican is a conspiracy theorist now

dude showed up with a copy of fortnite on the fuckin switch lmao

"Bussiere’s retirement came hours after Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth held an extraordinary gathering of top military officials in Quantico, Va..." thehill.com/policy/defen...