Computation empowers people. It is unfortunately up to the people involved to act appropriately.

This is inconvenient information, but there is not one kind of AI/ML technology that only does the good use cases and a different kind of AI/ML that only does the bad use cases

“why the fuck are we invading Venezuela” should really be on at least a couple of chyrons

The burn I will never recover from is my teenage daughter informing me that sometimes when I laugh I sound like Lego Batman....and then showing me an edit she made to prove it

People want to believe that the GOP’s electoral success in red states is the result of dirty tricks and gerrymandering instead of the sincerely held beliefs of a majority of the population because a mechanical issue is easier to fix than wrestling with how to make people not believe what they do.

Hey @schumer.senate.gov, the Bailey's said to tell you "retire, bitch"

Ok it's early but... what? Tarrant county, you finally awake?

If you see someone stealing food - no you didn't.

Doomerism is chickenshit. an embarrassment to every ape that threw a rock at a bear to protect the tribe. if you actually believe this doomer shit what are you posting for? it's chickenshit and i will have no truck with it. you had something better to do with your life than make the world better?

LLMs are a great tool for letting you kind of do something you don't know how to do. the problem is that knowledge of whether it is a good idea to half-ass something is highly correlated with knowledge of how to do the thing correctly.

[dumbest moron you'll see today voice] Heh. Signal's not secure because the messages display on the screen 😏

There aren't a bunch of people waiting like unmolded clay to be radicalized, everyone already has some ideas they've sunk into, you've got to bring them from those ideas over to better ones through hard work and patience with people who suck during the process.

Go ahead and go to a No Kings protest. Take and post selfies, it's fine. Don't photograph anyone else's face without their permission. You don't need a burner phone. But turn off FaceID and touchID on your phone. Write your lawyer's phone number on your calf with a sharpie.

Don't sit or kneel in front of riot cops. Sitting puts your head at rubber bullet height. Sitting makes it hard to run away from vehicle attacks. Don't point protesters out to the cops. Don't hand protesters over to the cops. Mind your business. What did you see? You didn't see shit.

If I wanted to disrupt a protest, I'd start a rumor that the regime was going to send agitators to infilitrate the protest and act up. Then I'd sit back and watch them all act like cops and turn on each other. We go through this every 3 years and it works every time.

if you listen to an audiobook it's fine to say you read the book and anyone who disagrees is just being obnoxious

the virtue signalling vs. not discussion just strikes me as a social drama that makes sense within the class of people that don't think they have anything else at stake in these discussions other than clout, some of whom also can't imagine any other way of relating to these discussions

every once in a while somebody suggests changing the language around SMI to try to mitigate the stigma. what if schizophrenia or psychosis was "altered perception syndrome" 1980: what if manic depression was bipolar (it doesn't work. the problem is not in the words. it's in the fear and hatred)

I was initially disappointed to read this. Then I realized that if it doesn't get made last film in the series would be "Fast X: Part 1" with no part 2 and would end with Dom driving his car down and exploding dam. I can't think of any ending more fitting for the series.

A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o

I am telling you this is the best city in the U.S. and it’s not even close

every time one of those "look how evil ages you" posts goes viral you get a reminder that much of us have heuristics for navigating the world that aren't much different from that of a middle ages peasant

CUBS WIN

The revolution won’t be televised but the treason sure is

Since the Ezra & Ta-Nehisi discussion is still happening: the main point I think most are missing is that Klein is saying the role of the journalist-intellectual is to do strategic politics, whereas Coates says the role of the journalist-intellectual is to tell the truth

Enron's energy deals might be "circular." They're also smart business.

No better time to post Hunter S. Thompson on 9/12/2001. www.espn.com/espn/page2/s...

He died like he lived, being racist and running his fucking mouth. May his memory be a warning

Kinda sucks that the leopards are eating so many faces and their only opposition is the Leopards Are Eating Your Face As A Distraction Party

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

I reposted this without knowing that Dobson had died, I just think this is always a relevant thing to say. Having said that, I'm going to be getting *biblically* drunk this evening to celebrate the death of my childhood demon.

Fuck you James Dobson

Hey Texas School Districts! If you put up posters of the 10 Commandments in all of your classrooms because #txlege told you to, a Federal Judge just dropped an injunction telling you not to. So get them down ASAP

There is a certain type of woman who honestly, truly believes that men cannot be victims of sexual assault or harassment and thinks it's funny to do things like grope them in public, and I always feel like women in general need to do a better job of calling it out when we see it.

need people to understand that accepting or conceding that he has the authority to do these things is tantamount to giving him the authority, and so your preemptive dooming is actively counterproductive

Ghost v6 is fucking good. ghost.org/6/ Seriously, if you're still on Substack and on the fence about leaving you gotta get off of there. Ghost just wrote a love letter to you.

Private equity and foreign buyers are not the people gumming up the works at every city zoning meeting. That would be old hippies yelling about trees and Gen Xers who don't want multifamily buildings next door

"Republican congressperson in danger of being gerrymandered out of existence takes bold stance against losing his job."

Goddamnit www.texastribune.org/2025/08/04/i...

The people who deeply hate or misunderstand Eddington are going to be the same people who yell at strangers on Bluesky about "tRump." It has many flaws, but I think it's up there with Civil War for me as a fairly accurate and unflinching mirror of everyone's bullshit.

9/11

tired of typing insults, so here is a reply meme free for personal use