Techbros really, really strongly believe in eugenics and genetic superiority and they'll always be able to get funding for it because basically everybody over a certain net worth also believes in eugenics and genetic superiority

This is not dissimilar to how Sandra Day O'Connor described the urgency of intervening to stop Al Gore from winning the election that he won

The reason Shadowrun 4th edition and later feel weird and off is that 1st through 3rd are, like any normal cyberpunk, the future of an 80s that never ended; after that they tried to move the technology forward in a way that reflected the future of 20-aughts technology and futurism and, um, no, wrong

picturing the “we’re showing what the average cop does every shift—no headline-making incidents, just community support, de-escalation, putting their lives on the line” promos and I truly think that cop!the pitt has the potential to be one of the most evil shows of all time.

You cannot make appeasing these people your entire political project.

Just finished this wonderful book, reading about the adventures of trans lesbian nuns has become a real nightly treat, can’t recommend it enough

Current hostility (on the part of politicians and institutional leaders alike) to even looking at the past is strikingly blunt. It touches many disciplines, but denying history is the key issue. The backlash against Bouie’s piece on Enlightenment and then the 1619 Project were public turning points

Banning algorithmic pricing ought to be a no-brainer call for any government: people don’t like to be ripped off, surveilled, or treated differently from their peers. Algorithm pricing does all three of those things.

i just got the surgery (shinigami eyes)! also, hey everyone, i noticed almost all the dates are the same and uh got some bad news

just Roberts appointing himself wizard-king of the US

As ever, two things are true: 1. Caitlyn Jenner is an awful person who does not give the slightest shit about other trans folks and will throw us all under the bus without a second thought 2. If you misgender her, you also don't give a shit about trans folks except as a club against Republicans

WE CHUG DEXIES IN THIS WEB ZONE

Apparently "We can always tell" but trans women have an advantage? I'm losing track of the propaganda.

This is a valid point: whenever you see this sort of high-pressure sales tactic turned on a technology, you can be CERTAIN that it's a fake—actually useful new tech sells itself! And don't underestimate the effectiveness of FOMO as a tool in the hands of a con artist.

In 1999, I was playing a decker in Shadowrun, and tried to distract a guard by hacking a water fountain to overflow, and my GM said "why would a water fountain be on the network? That's fucking stupid. No you can't try." Well it's 2026 and I just want you to know, Phil, that I FUCKING CALLED IT!

"Skirtcurious" rules tho

The Plot to Enslave America

oh, she's topless

Alli does really good work and you should commission her!

this is something that it's unfair and unacceptable to force onto young people but it's also dangerous and harmful to enable parents to have this level of control nothing healthy is going to come out of the sort of childhood these authoritarian freaks want to inflict on their children

Now commission! A rapier, for @gmgray.bsky.social ! This has an avian theme, and I based it on a few historical rapiers~ Sword and weapon comms are always open, for a flat $50!

My political program is: more Sisters less Mercy

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

this was also the pitch for the Metaverse - if everybody agrees to use the Metaverse to mediate all their work and shopping and socializing it would be extremely good for Mark Zuckerberg

Once again: corporate-approved horny. Baldur's Gate and The Witcher and Cyberpunk will not be banned on Twitch, while less lascivious indie games are banned from sale. Horny is an increasingly relevant Cultural Trend, and culture must be consolidated into the hands of capital.

that's how hard it is that even being the hugely popular new mayor of the most populous city in the US only gives you enough of a bump to make $1600

I will remind everybody again that Facebook hired Republican strategist Joel Kaplan and gave him a series of positions of near-unchecked power starting in 2011. He's spent 15 years helping to steer the company as far right as he can. Meta was always a Republican-aligned company.

Crypto, then NFTs, now AI, can we just move on to whatever is next

Teaching at a university and producing critically acclaimed films are certainly not bad ways to make a living, but not exactly what I'd call "elite." Also wild show of hand here that the NYT desk assumes that people who have had success default to putting their kids on payroll?

step one: make sure they are 30 years younger and work directly under you

She gets remarkably close to just saying that women need the feminism fucked out of them because she's an insane natalist patriarchal ghoul.

There is no evidence of Hamas raping civilians on October 7 or after; there is substantial evidence of Israeli raping Palestinian prisoners, however, including with dogs, and then the Israeli people rioted FOR the right to continually raping Palestinian prisoners

After all these years of feeding innocent people to the leopards I assumed my face was completely safe!

there are two games I usually keep uninstalled if not playing because they're debilitatingly obsessive things for me, games I will lose track of time and the outside world for, and they're Rebuild 3 and I Was a Teenage Exocolonist and while they're very different they're by the same developer

My political program is: more Sisters less Mercy

I'm increasingly convinced that surveillance technologies need to be banned; we've clearly shown that we cannot use them responsibly and they must be taken from us like plucking a gun from the hands of a child.

“It's strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses and I apologized to nobody.”

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

You Do Not Hate Congress Enough

This, too. the institutionally-transphobic Vichy New York fucking Times owns Wordle.

The thing about “viewpoint diversity” is it’s an affront to legitimate scholarship. What counts as knowledge should have to earn that status - but right-wingers want cheat codes so their shoddy “research” will get as much hearing as serious peer-reviewed work.

making a croque monsieur with prosciutto and parmesan, i'm calling it a croque non-binaire

That's me in the corner That's me in the spotlight Snuggling my kitten

He's doing good work in a lot of ways but between this and not pursuing the hospitals ending gender care I really do get the impression that Zohran Mamdani's administration lost interest in trans issues completely after getting elected

Today in 1892 Dora Richter was born; when she was 39 she became the first trans woman to undergo vaginoplasty. For decades she was thought to have died in the 1933 sacking and burning of the Institut Für Sexualwissenschaft but only recently she was discovered to have escaped and lived to be 74.

the basic theory of DOGE was that if powerful people said it was fine it didn’t matter what the law said. I think proving that theory wrong is worth significant effort

Mamdani: If the NYC apartment you keep solely for bi-yearly affairs with your mistress costs over 5 million dollars, you gotta pay more tax NYPD officer who’s been on disability since 2006 because he stomped too hard on a lady during an arrest and fucked up his ankle: This is a travesty