But I genuinely grew up believing that EVERYONE (right and left) agreed that the Civil Rights movement and all it's achievements were considered to be Great American Heroes and that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was proof that America could live into its ideals.

sorry, am I in shit-eating, dark ages Europe or the enlightened Muslim kingdoms?

i write about white supremacist violence for a living. i’ve been writing a lot lately about white supremacist violence during the years of the civil rights movement and placing these things in context together has really changed the way i understand that history.

i think refusing to use ai offsets whatever potato chips i eat, idk

wheezing

The city blocked off part of our neighborhood to tear down a building w asbestos. The teen said "Why did people use asbestos if it causes cancer?!" I told him people thought it was a wonder product and used it EVERYWHERE & told him how the same thing happened w radioactivity... and now AI.

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

on top of everything else, i have had to witness people writing "strait" as "straight" for two months

i’ve worked in tech more than 20 years. it has never been more ridiculous.

Evergreen

Probably the most memorable bsky post to me

I am definitely worried about people getting way dumber, way more pilled, way more confused, way more brainwashed, way more ideologically splintered, and having intellectual development issues from AI. Not because of the inherent nature of AI but because that is what they want it to do.

I don't think New York has a ton of misses, but I do think the egg cream is one of them.

Every time I read a piece about somebody with an “ai-assisted editing process” I feel like I’m watching someone trying to intellectualize a deliberate choice not to think or concentrate

okay, this happens to me all the time. Why do some people get so angry/upset when I tell them that refusal IS my ethical way to engage with gAI? Guilt?

I know this sounds crazy, but I think we were mutuals in a past life

sick of these catholic converts showing up and saying "well I have a different interpretation of the scripture" no you don't. that's protestantism and a heresy. don't like it there's the (incredibly beautiful and heavily ornamented with precious metals) door

"but did you consider...." yes i made this one too don't worry.

Your body was not designed to travel long distances, ancient humans just asked a door dasher to bring their food to them in single serving containers

Happy Appomattox Day to all that celebrate

It continues to be obscene that we’re asked to respect the concerns and preferences of people who believe they’re entitled to this as a consolation prize.

if history remembers chuck schumer at all, it will remember him as a greedy, malicious coward. but i think he'll be forgotten, and sooner than he thinks.

what the fuck

Claude is down :/ so I’m just running my sink

Christian sectarian hostilities are rising in the West. Will the fiery rhetoric by dueling religious leaders inspire followers to once again engage in bloody clashes?

this is perfect satire because i think at least once a week about how fucked up it is that we sit on horses, and this imaginary horse made me cry

I just kind of can't believe that people are going to see Lady Gaga live after she bragged about performing after testing positive for COVID a few years ago

got to share this @bencollins.bsky.social banger with some colleagues today and am now sharing it here because he really did nail it

J.D. Vance's "Ain't I A Woman?" is going to be a real coup de grace.

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

My whole life I've had to listen to country-club dickheads in $400 dress shirts tell me why other people should be dying

Everyone defending this war should enlist. Even if you're middle-aged like this guy they should let you. Go ahead big dog

"Stop overreacting, they're never going to do that."

If the NYT is just going to rip off @katewagner.wehwalt.net’s McMansion Hell bits they should have made them funny

AI is a hammer and the stock market thinks everything on earth is a nail and they’re on the cusp of realizing that this is far from true

I think we need to celebrate the death of Sora a bit more. This is a technology that, just MONTHS AGO, we were being told was going to literally destroy Hollywood and Disney was going to give them a BILLION DOLLARS and NONE OF THAT EVEN REMOTELY HAPPENED

you know what, I'm really excited for the AI bubble to pop, these LLMs disappearing or becoming largely inaccessible, and this chunk of the population going absolutely batshit crazy because they can't think or process their own emotions anymore.

this is turning out to be one of the onion's all-time classics

i don't remember who i respect that recommended this book, but 5 pages in this bitch is confessing that she thought she was in danger during the george floyd "riots" in her san francisco tech-salary apartment. get a grip, bozo. darkforest.metalabel.com/antimemetics...

strong words from the country that drone strikes fishing boats

in 2016 a group of strangers in Kazakhstan saved a dog from drowning by forming a human chain to reach him. they just unveiled a statue commemorating the event and I'm genuinely about to start sobbing

"Too many Americans are taking too many pills! Instead, intake over 30 unregulated supplements a day!"

The difference between these two is racism

once again, the conservative mindset is driven almost entirely by fear. they are scared, little babies who can only deal with fear by lashing out violently.

you could say this about dogfights too

Alcohol cannot send me push notifications that I should take a drink in hopes of becoming a millionaire

There’s only one elegant solution to this problem of increasingly stupid audiences, and that’s to mandate that every film ends with a closing rap song that lays out all the moral lessons of the movie. There will be a government office that reviews the songs for aural and pedagogical value.