There are moments the mask is removed, and all the lies evaporate. This quote by a District Attorney in California is incredible. He says the volume of shackled poor people brought to court--what he calls the "cattle call"--makes it impossible to consider them as individuals.

though some searches reveal disturbing news of human remains found in a freezer in Tempe, Arizona, which is unrelated to standard appliance use but highlights extreme scenarios

This whole fucking thread, man...

Bruh what the effing eff man what the actual hell.

While I was in prison, I was the food procurement clerk. It was my job to work with the first cook to design the daily food menu and then make sure the men were fed on a budget of $2.60 per person per day. How I helped make the best Christmas prison meal, a thread.

I read the headline & was like lol & then read the author & yelped like a kicked dog

my doctor sent me this pdf???

"Blame the Jews, not me!" has been how those in power have gotten away with their bullshit for centuries and centuries-- "Scapegoat and distract while we rob the bank, exploit the masses, prove useless in the face of pandemics + natrual disasters" has been the MO for a long, long time, friends.

very funny and cool that this project torrenting all of spotify has way more interesting stats than Wrapped

Now that classes are over and I can think about other things: I have an album ready to drop and need a 3rd party physical release for it to count towards my tenure portfolio. Anyone out there want to put out an album of infrasonic architecture drone in 2026? Happy to share a preview link.

Let me be a other vote for "Bugs Bunnying" to be the verb for tricking an AI agent into doing things for you that it should not.

Highly amused by the stories of companies using agentic AI chatbots to run their internal company stores, only for their employees to immediately Bugs Bunny the chatbot into giving them free stuff www.aiweirdness.com/when-a-chatb...

Can’t find a way to write this that doesn’t sound like a twee bromide but genuinely, if your end of year review is that you survived painful things happening in your life & the world, stayed empathetic in an inhospitable environment & treated yourself & others decently then that’s achievement enough

Not a bad way to spend the afternoon

These walls that kept me safe

Shockingly, this bill would have failed were it not for the 3 Democrat defections.

Captures so much of what it’s like to be here now. Thanks, @phileil.bsky.social pvdeye.org/grappling-wi...

Laughter to the point of tears every time I think of this.

Adoption isn’t actually supposed to be about sourcing babies for people who want them. A just system wouldn’t be accountable to you at all. It doesn’t owe you an alternative.

Both RI senators voted to dehumanize trans people. Seriously, can we get some primary challengers lined up? We need to get rid of all of our congresspeople.

I think it's important not to misunderstand what these social media platforms are. They are not public arenas where we bravely take on reactionary forces in honorable combat. They are apps that expose you to stress and thereby simulate the feeling of having done something useful

The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

Noticing that Democrats are passing “right to die” laws before passing “right to housing” or “right to healthcare” laws www.nprillinois.org/government-p...

the brits should be so embarrassed by their transphobia, they got completely bamboozled by an American evangelical plot. they think they’re so much smarter than us but they got turned into a country of jug hooting bigots without even needing to be told it’s what God wants.

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

"You shouldn't make art for the money" buddy I'll take it one step further and say we shouldn't have to labor for capital at all but in the meantime pay an artist

Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial." "Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."

A wild and frustrating pattern that I see over and over and over again is that it is ridiculously hard to fully bankrupt the ultra-wealthy. For some reason, once you cross a certain boundary of wealth, people will just never stop bailing you out.

I played Horses this weekend and I wrote down some messy thoughts not only on the game but especially on the specter of formalism that emerged to haunt us all for a moment. transgamerthoughts.com/post/8023277...

The summer of 1995, Pulp Fiction played at the $1.99 theater in Bristol, RI for three months. Every time we found out someone we knew hadn't seen it, we'd go again. I don't know how many times I saw it, but I had all the dialogue memorized.

Me when I cite myself:

Pardon me, but can I perform competence for anyone tonight?

Israel cannot break ceasefires, they can only “test“ them by killing dozens of people

completely enthralled by Theodore Gordon’s book “The Composer’s Black Box: Making Music in Cybernetic America” -especially in resonant in our current man-machine era.

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

Alice fucking Wong never had a “job,” scraped by on freelance gigs, had to win a MacArthur to keep from being warehoused in an institution, and got laid off a week before she died by Teen Vogue… …and this dipshit Nuzzi gets like one of the few writing gigs in America? At Vanity Fair?

Last Non-Event* of 2025!!! Tomorrow inside Boston City Hall – 3 great local/local-ish artists: YOONA KIM (ajaeng), RETRIBUTION BODY (custom subs & modular synth), SADNOISE (custom electronics & modular synth). FREE, but RSVP requested. 7:30pm *parties not included www.nonevent.org/concerts/202...

This Soviet cassette of Depeche Mode's Speak and Spell strangely makes it look like a classical album. The cyrillic text reads "Instrumental-Vocal Ensemble 'Depeche Mode' Directed by Vincent Clarke". No, seriously.

Oh hey, not for nothing but WBUR thinks you should come see me play at Boston City Hall on Saturday night. www.wbur.org/news/2025/11...

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015 What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?

Could a quote possibly be more on the nose for Bari, the Ellisons, the Trump movement, or this whole era in American life than "what's the point of standards"? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

I'm playing in Boston City Hall this coming Saturday and I think it is going to be a really great show.

The best way to support our troops this Veterans Day is to recognize that the Military Industrial Complex uses the economic and carceral drafts to send vulnerable kids to kill and destroy peoples of the Global Majority across the world, and ending imperialism means our veterans stay alive and whole.

going back to ringing the bell that Trump's win in 2024 wasn't because of a huge cultural shift to the right, especially among young voter blocks that went for him, as much as it was a general frustration with Biden, with centrism, and with the lack of a clearly articulated positive vision from dems

Mr. Obama sir we tried to tell you that you were running with a bad crowd (billionaires), they’re bad news www.cnn.com/2025/10/31/p...

Some of my old consulting colleagues at Acentech were interviewed for this article on the scourge of pickleball noise. I do not miss consulting, but I do miss the paycheck sometimes.