Good blog from @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social. It's this, for me. No amount of boosted efficiency will offset the fact that "AI" is going to make life more grueling, expensive, and speculative for us. It's been Silicon Valley's playbook for like, 20 years.

Four months in jail because *her mom* overstayed a visa while applying for a green card. I’m sitting next to my 9-year-old daughter right now and the idea that anyone would put her in jail at all for something like that…no words

Freedom.

We shouldn’t laugh. She’s basically saying “never trust someone who is rude to the waiter” and you know what? She’s right. Voters are much smarter than the poll-watchers give them credit for. They’re making judgements about honesty and character. And that is very rational.

You can completely uninstall/disable copilot on Windows. Your system and local search will run faster afterward. www.howtogeek.com/how-to-rip-o...

Instead it (a) legitimizes the opposition’s viewpoint and (b) emboldens them, demonstrating that concessions can be wrung out of you if people just yell at you enough.

Again and again, over the 25 year period that my book touches on, liberals think that if they give a little bit of ground, it will work like a steam valve, let off the pressure that’s building up in the system, and the issue will die. It never, ever works.

The targeting of trans adults in a new round of state level bills is just driving home the lesson I learned over and over while researching The Perfect Moment: compromising doesn’t really work. Horse trading does.

Lots of people lost their jobs over this. Students lost badly needed resources. And the people who got f’d over were disproportionately already marginalized, underpaid & trying harder than they should’ve had to just to do their jobs in environments that were uncaring at best if not outright hostile

good thing so many schools over-complied in advance🙃

Am confidently informed by my genZ children that Oingo Boingo is the official band of the queer youth. As someone who went to college in Los Angeles in the 80s I cannot get my head around this. They were such a frat boy band at that time and place.

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

Y'all do understand that "I'm not a bigot, but I won't vote for a black woman because people are bigots" is still bigotry, right? This is exactly the logic that got us where we are today, folks. Please do better.

My favorite thing about the US healthcare system is the way that any specialty medication requires approximately 30 phone calls during which you give the insurer or pharmacy no information they did not previously have, just confirming the same stuff over and over until you die or give up.

Yes! This is why I can't get worked up about AI - I already lived through virtual reality and the Segway.

Well which is it? Are you for birthright citizenship or against?

The more I think about the DC press slagging AOC for a lack of FP depth while Donald Trump is President, twice, is making me angry enough to explode. The fuck is wrong with the journalists that they're like this

Listen I know I am a bit of a screaming harpy about AI but there is just no reason, when I am trying to set up a default printer for my new laptop, for Windows to send me to an AI-assisted web search instead of just fucking doing it. So far my experience of AI is that it makes everything dumber.

I am fairly certain whoever chose the images for the Johnson County (TX) Sheriff website told AI to change some people to women in their fabricated pictures, because well, zoom in. (H/t to my student studying this sheriff this semester).

I’ve seen this person get retweeted by MAGA influencers like Benny Johnson. He’s not kidding. This is a real political goal he is pursuing. He has 425,000 followers on Facebook.

She said ICU nurse and legal observer Alex Pretti tried to massacre ICE agents. May she never find peace until she atones for all the lies she's told about innocent people.

FB memories remind me that sassycrass/Fiqah passed away two years ago this week. I will never stop missing that beautiful force of nature.

This thread is the we are going to win thread, is the kids are alright thread, is the STOP ICE thread, is the civil society rising thread; read it through.

One thing that sucks very bad is that everyone, and I do mean everyone, people you like, are using Claude to write their NSF and NIH grants even when it's against the rules, and also, the process is no longer reliable or merit based, and like no I'm not going to do it, but fuck!! FUCK!!

The former "progressive" now fascist is a fantastic paying grift. Let's assume every out of no where person running for office is on that path if they can't show years of work on progressive issues. A few workshoped statements or campaign ads don't cancel out the base grift assumption.

As a former public defender who represented thousands of people, I can’t stop thinking about the contrast the Epstein files raise. I watched 1000s face swift, devastating punishment for far less serious conduct — poor, marginalized, & presumed dangerous from the start.

Watch this.

If in a country of 330 million ppl you cannot find a second candidate without a nazi tattoo then just cancel elections and stop the pretense, you're fully cooked

we have winemoms saying "yes, Kirk deserved to die". Black voters and winemoms are not going to vote for the guy that tried to whitewash Kirk

Not really sure how you can see Evelyn Normielib (D, Texas) setting fire to a facility that might have the possibility of becoming an ICE concentration camp and despair about how Dem primary voters are gonna pick Gavin "We are Charlie Kirk" Newsom as the nominee

The average wine mom (who is the exact person who votes in Dem primaries) is regularly saying things that are against the terms of service of every social media platform but also 1A protected speech, they will see one clip of Newsom buddying up to Steve Bannon and then ask both to face the wall

if you make "getting a beer with your friends after work" inaccessible to people who work at the grocery store then what the fuck do you suppose is going to happen

"zoomers are killing the bar industry" oh interesting was it zoomers who decided a drink should cost seventeen dollars

Motion to stop calling it 'culture wars' when one side has culture and the other has nothing but malice, banality, and vulgarity. Call it 'attack on culture' idk, something else though

Anyone who had genuine concerns about youth gender medicine would staunchly and wholeheartedly support social transition. Let kids explore their identities to see what works for them! The fact that this movement opposes even pronouns and haircuts shows that it's just bigotry all the way down.

They already had their medical transition taken away. Suicide rates in trans children increased massively after that. And now they cannot have a true name, pronouns, clothes, haircut. They are unpersoned. Just thought you should be aware.

Just a reminder that the Trump admin calls immigrants who’ve fallen into drug addiction “the worst of the worst” criminals, no matter how long ago their addiction problems.

This is breathtakingly awful.

She is an empty suit, of course. And an absolute nasty piece of cornbread. She is also, to my somewhat trained ear, absolutely, positively terrified here. She is either intimidated by the process or deeply anxious about her relationship with her boss. Or both. But she is terrified.

Ken Paxton would not recognize a law if it bit his dick during dinner.

just a heads up brother, you call my man Pip a fool of a took one more time and I'm throwin' you in that chasm myself lil dog

calling it now: newsom bombs in iowa, but does well enough in new hampshire and nevada to not call it quits right away, then procedes to completely eat a humiliating amount of shit in south carolina and drops out.

Listen, our grandparents rationed food and raised victory gardens; my kid and I are foregoing season 3 of School Spirits because fuck Paramount/CBS. (Might wait until the whole season airs and then binge it during a free trial.)

The algorithm just sent me two country songs in a row plus a third a little later celebrating murdering your husband. If I were a conservative white guy I'd be scared. (My husband is lovely, he has no need to worry.)

Kevin Kiley thinks he's going to save that seat.

This is El Paso, where the airspace has been shut down without explanation for ten days btw

As more files from the Epstein case are released, I'm sickened by the extent of his depravity and his connections to so many powerful people. Governments around the globe are being shaken by the mentions of their leaders in the files, and the U.S. should apply the same scrutiny to our leaders.

Finding out that top execs from both LifeTouch and Chuck E. Cheese are in the Epstein files has pissed me off in a way that I didn’t think was still possible.

once again, the ancient and quirky institution of the grand jury stands up for liberty when all kinds of modern institutions have failed.

Absolutely. Here's from the weekend.