this guy is a loser and a lightweight and people should tell him that to his face every day

an extreme cautionary tale for any newsroom leaders who are convinced AI has a place in theirs:

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Counterpoint: No I will not

Car owners store their unused vehicles on city roadways at tax payer's expense, taking up space that belongs to all of us. Why the hassle for restaurants? Oh right. Car owners store their unused vehicles on city roadways at tax payer's expense, taking up space that belongs to all of us. Why the hass

We speak with journalist Karen Hao, author of Empire of AI, about the Trump administration’s alliance with tech billionaires, efforts to regulate artificial intelligence technology, and rising local opposition to data centers across the United States.

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 May HuffPo House Reps pass bill forcing public schools to out trans students to parents with EIGHT Dems: Henry Cuellar (TX), Donald Davis (NC), Cleo Fields (LA), Laura Gillen (NY), Vicente Gonzalez (TX), Marcy Kaptur (OH), Marie Perez (WA), Eugene Vindman (VA).

Yeah, y'all: we told you it would. LLM based "AI" concatenates strings of next-most-likely tokens. It bullshits. It makes shit up. An inventory situation where the systems need to "count" & "report" doesn't *change* that fundamental architecture; so why are these people continually surprised by it??

The fact that the response to the George Floyd protests from the party that benefited from them was to double down on funding the police and then building training centers to improve their ability to police cities where a large part of their political base lives is just too on the nose.

DON'T MOURN, ORGANIZE!✊ On May 20, 2026, Meta performed a mass round of layoffs, eliminating approximately 8,000 roles. In response, the elected Executive Board of the Alphabet Workers Union-CWA Local 9009 released the following statement: www.alphabetworkersunion.org/press/alphab...

😊 Seeing Brad Lander leading Dan Goldman 57% to 23%, with only 20% undecided 🫡 Getting Brad to 70% by Primary Day to move Palestinian liberation politics forward in the US and instill fear in the hearts of all pro-genocide members of NYC's congressional delegation

NEW — My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AI’s inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice. Give it a read:

Crisis pregnancy centers are terrible and as local reproductive health providers close, they are gaining an even bigger foothold.

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Frank was an extreme disappointment … same as all queer politicians who cannot affirmatively stand with trans people and for our lives and rights are likewise, extremely disappointing. LGB so-called “leaders" who cannot stand with their trans bretheren are self-interested and a disgrace.

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Jamelle Bouie writes that each US president molds the presidency in his own image and Trump has constructed a "government as protection racket and the president as mob boss". [kottke.org]

Me: Why is there an exceptionally high density of Google bullshit in the news this week? Me: Oh, it must be Google IO. *sigh*

Last year I put together a guide to help people get off US tech — and that includes Google. There are a lot of alternatives there they will help you make a plan to pull away from Google services, and all the rest of them too.

This is eugenics too.

This is what they've done.

It's not a "settlement." "Slush fund" doesn't even do it justice. It's a reward for ransacking the Capitol in an attempt to steal the election and it's an incentive for people to do it again. Call it the "traitor fund" or something like that.

The ripple effect of demolishing USAID just keeps getting worse and worse. Absolutely no fucking reason to have done this and the entire world is suffering.

"Stop Tech Fascism" Sticker seen in downtown Chicago

"We can't feed the poor, but we can fund a war" Seen in Inverness, Scotland

Burundi's Sada Nahimana notches the first top-100 victory of her career 6-3, 7-5 over Ajla Tomljanovic to reach the second round of the WTA 250 in Rabat. Faces Panna Udvardy next!

A lotta folks don't want to admit we ain't free. We ain't. Not when Marco Rubio is using the State Department to pulp the First Amendment.

Welp, Morris communications pulled Charlotte magazine off of the Internet, here's the last version of the site thanks to the legends at @archive.org: web.archive.org/web/20260415...

Over a year ago, I spoke with @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social about Dreams on a Pillow for a piece that was killed before it could be published. I am honored that he was willing to take the time to speak with me again in spite of that and tell me about his beautiful homeland: kotaku.com/upcoming-ste...

Over a year ago, I had a call with @duckvalentine.bsky.social talking about Dreams on a Pillow. At that time the article was killed by executives. She was brave enough to fight against that, but it was out of her control I chose not to talk about it publicly to protect Rebekah from what could happen

I say it all of the time because it's true: Islamophobia in the U.S. is absolutely one of the most tolerated forms of bigotry. It's everywhere, routine and rarely challenged. It's not surprising that teenagers who swim in this water from birth would also be Islamophobic.

Attended a graduation recently where the official made a point to thank the students she had contacted to ensure she could accurately pronounce their name. What a small act, taking the time to do something right, but those acts are WHO YOU ARE to other people. It's what they remember about you.

Big protest and march at Brooklyn Criminal Court and outside Brooklyn DA Gonzales's office in protest of this woman's treatment today. Organized by the Association of Legal Advocates and Attorneys, UAW Local 2325.

Billionaires, you DO have agency in your future. Of course, the question is not WHETHER the rich get eaten, it's how. SOMEONE will make decisions about whether your wealth is whittled away through a wealth tax, or through hefty lawsuits and fines finally holding you to account for externalities.

if you have a nice office job and are mad about the LIRR strike, just nut up and say “this worker does a job I feel is beneath me personally yet makes more money than I do, and I find this infuriating”

imagine hating on striking workers because they “already make too much money.” so interesting to see which jobs are seen as deserving of high wages

I don’t know that it’s appreciably worse than Anything Else Going On Right Now, but learning that my tax dollars are about to fund a billion-dollar slush fund for Trump sycophants and literal January 6 insurrectionists is filling me with a new and special flavor of rage

My very unpopular opinion is that this framing won’t play well in the South. And it might still matter. But what do I know?

this is such a problem in modern online journalism. a local outlet does amazing reporting and actually shows up to record the words said for the original report and then dozens of national publications with skeleton crews paying writers peanuts swoops in and gobbles up all the views and ad dollars.

Think of how much stronger your lungs get by struggling to breathe clean air.

Greg Raiff, CEO of a private jet company, wrote an article in Fortune ringing the alarm that Mamdani might be about to tax private jet use. I then read a separate interview with him in which the following two sentences come in back to back answers.

Some of you have internalized austerity. Free yourselves.

Every week or so I think about the fact that the cops/government shot a white man, Alex Pretti, in cold blood and nothing has happened to his murderers. The murderers still have their jobs and the unarmed white man is a cautionary tale for white people to not challenge the white supremacist state.

Your tax dollars paid for this event freedom250.org/celebration/...

Our co-op's recent solar battery project is briefly profiled in this article from @appvoices.org 🌞

People have already memory-holed how critical #TeslaTakeDown was. It was the earliest decentralized set of protests in the second term as early as Feb 2025 at a time when most people were shell-shocked and Dem leadership was cowering and capitulating. And it pushed Elon out of the WH.

April Barber Scales was incarcerated as a minor but granted clemency after decades. The North Carolina governor recently denied dozens of petitions; she says at least one applicant, “surely to God, would have deserved a second chance.”

White collar workers are literally their customer base. AI boosters seem to have a compulsion to insult their users with specious "predictions" of the future of work / the economy that are thinly veiled threats. "Use our product or get left behind," but also "AI will make you obsolete"

It's a good day when a genocidaire dies, though he all but evaded justice.