Potentially unpopular question: Is the backlash against AI the first big frontier in tech that has broadly been rejected by those on the liberal end of the spectrum? Typically, those railing against progress are conservative. (I'm just asking! I don't think "progress" HAS to have positive vibes.)

inside you there are two wolves:

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.

Checking in on the Pistons score-- oh. I might not be much of a basketball guy but that's, uh, not good is it

'Cat in a cardboard box' Ruskin Spear

Dr. Bunsen Honeydew doing a demonstration of "AI" that goes wrong in a wacky way for Beaker

Now that it's been brought up... the Weather Channel app practically MUST be using AI for these, right?

I’m so excited for this

Crafty of Spotify to come up with a way to do a Wrapped that's not at the end of the year (they're doing your all-time most listened to, which is kind of cool)

You ever just see a bunch of the horrors on here and kinda just ... keep scrolling? like, yeah, that would suck if I gave myself a chance to internalize it

Me at 9 pm

This rules

If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.

Is it just my Bsky app that just loves to refuse to load any video, all the time?

*tasting a noodle to see how soft it is, when all I know about pasta is how to throw it in a pot* 👨‍🍳👨‍🍳👨‍🍳

I guess this is what happens when you mix "postmodern" with "modern." www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

A reminder that Ted Turner (RIP), upon starting CNN, immediately felt the need to record a video that CNN should air only in case of the end of the world. youtu.be/z6f7j1E61sM?...

uh

You know, I think their competition is onto something.

an all time great baseball TV moment

Daffys very role is an unpopular opinion. Chuck Jones said that “Bugs Bunny is who we want to be but Daffy is who we are”: vain, self-centered, terrified at the world and the judgments of others, this plucky duck represents the very darkness at the heart of man’s soul as he struggles against entropy

Today is the anniversary of a great day in global history: the day Bluesky’s Sensual Alf meme began, a curse that still haunts the website. It’s my fault and I wrote about it here: little-flying-robots.ghost.io/how-i-accide...

Artists on strike = signs are immaculate

*some headline writer somewhere scrambling to incorporate 'Spirited Away' into bankruptcy news*

Spirit Halloween has the chance to do the funniest thing.

Never forget that for first 2/3 of the 20th century, access to the ballot box in 1/3 of the United States was controlled by racist death squads. Only AFTER the Voting Rights Act could this country be considered an actual democracy. This is how far SCOTUS wants to turn back the clock.

The Scarlet Letter. I still shudder

It’s not bad enough that we have commercials in our entertainment again, they had to also get rid of any sort of thoughtful editing to transition smoothly from the show to the commercials and back

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME

Once, there was a day that you just decided that you weren't going to check into Foursquare anymore. And you never did again.

That was a rough walkoff to watch.

God dammit Tigers

I hate the Braves. I hate hearing the fans do the stupid war chant.

The Tigers game is my fault, guys. I haven't been watching lately and tonight I turned it on.

The obsession with Jimmy Kimmel must be understood as Trump's increasingly wispy brain having its strongest memories around when Carson was a hugely influential figure, he genuinely thinks if late night hosts on analog TV were nicer to him everyone would love him

Withholding my judgment on Trump putting his face on passports until the Times asks 12 complete morons what they think about it

"Trump is understood as a totem for wealth and prosperity." This reminds me of people in Michigan who said they were voting for Rick Snyder "because he's a businessman." How about... elected positions shouldn't be thought of as a business?!

these focus groups are just further anecdotal evidence for my view that trump is is understood as a totem for wealth and prosperity. these people are genuinely bewildered that he isn’t, and might in fact be a human being with ulterior motives

The NYT look at the average idiot voter just tells us what we knew: dumb people figured that Trump had to be better because he was the non-typical politician "outsider," and that was as much as they ever thought about it. When you think you hate both Dems & Reps, it seemed to make sense to them.

Everything is Trump Cadence. Ah yes, Trump Derangement Syndrome, I believe you can find that listed in the DSM-5

I never trust the NYT's dozen moron gaggles to be representative samples of anything. However, the fact that they have now swapped to diner safari stories about regret voters does say something about the degree to which elite opinion has shifted over the past year.

I don't really need to know what 12 Trump voters think about anything. I doubt they can collectively conjure one (1) coherent thought

just in case anyone needed something to look forward to this week

that's me

i recommend mlb to anyone who’s a baseball fan. if you happen to be familiar with names like jair jurrjens or kevin seitzer, guess which league they played in? mlb. they have a league website and they’ve got brick and mortar stadiums all over the country you can see in person. it’s a legit operation

Baseball giveaways are getting more interesting.

the Mariners emo night shirt says "we write wins not tragedies" and I have to say: that's fuckin INSPIRED www.mlb.com/mariners/tic...

Of COURSE he's wearing Indians gear