I hope you'll understand that the only way to keep bad and useless shit out of your life is to shoot it in the head the minute it walks in

The longer the mistake has existed the harder it is to convince people to fix it.

I’m also of the mind that utilities shouldn’t be privately owned

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo

The Palantirization of fires is bad.

There are more instances of United States Citizens being detained by ICE than there are of illegal immigrants voting in elections.

As much as ppl got smoke for past generations, at least they kept UTD with current events. I understand the way media and technology have made it impossible to focus for more than 2 minutes, but ppl need to break out of that cycle. Everything is too easy, and it's purposeful.

theyre just all so fucking stupid and we were told we had to be respectful and treat their stupid fucking opinions seriously even though we knew its all bull shit and now here we are

This is the timeline where nerd tech company founders got weird ideas from The Lord of the Rings, but I want to live in the timeline where the nerds all read the Discworld series & launched a green energy company called The Fifth Elephant.

Driving in the SUV “Dad can we listen to Violent Femmes, first album?” Why yes baby. Yes we can.

My other take is that any Justice who writes for anything other than full birthright citizenship should be impeached for that ALONE because that's such a flagrant violation of their oath of office that they cannot be trusted with anything ever again.

….. you just described what I wanted to write my PHD in in a tweet …. I don’t know if I find this awesome because yeah I’m not crazy other people see it!! Or “ does this mean it’s not enough for one”

The greatest trick AI ever played was shifting the conversation to “ AI Governance” from human rights. They have used “communities” to shift all responsibility to the targets of malfeasance

Another big problem with dealing in the System, the System doesn't respond fast to prevent damage from being done and it doesn't make folks whole again after the damage is done.

Every time I see someone talk about how AI products are achieved at "no cost," I feel a flinch echo through my body felt by generations of my ancestors. I know where the road goes when a consuming body is given the privilege of ignoring the true cost of labor.

My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse

Kid was talking a big game about his 30 character iPhone passcode that ChatGPT said would take a supercomputer longer than the age of the universe to crack.

It cannot be estimated. It's the topic of conversation that we have with our users/customers to understand their problems and collaboratively develop the smallest, best solution. The story is not the solution—it's the beginning of the conversation you have to arrive at the solution. 3/5

the systems thinking angle: even when you fully understand “the system” as you’ve defined it, you can always zoom out to a bigger system you do not understand, which affects and is affected by your more narrowly defined system. a fixed “the system” is a convenient fiction

Forever relevant

Be gentle with each other so we can be dangerous together 💛

Just saw a reel on IG that said "the folks who need their own halftime show are the same folks who needed their own drinking fountains"

But now you can just use AI to write the docs. (Now you have two problems.)

Every American needs to watch this:

My body has been super skinny, super chunky, and fairly fit. I have been more critical of my fit body than any of the other bodies. BECAUSE I WAS COMPARING MY BODY TO OTHER PEOPLE. My body has survived wayyyy too much shit for me to criticize it. Now we just being good to it.

If you start up at the gym and feel bad because your body doesn't look like someone who's been at it for a few years (or many years) keep this in mind: At one point, they were you. Some of them looked just like you. Felt bad or awkward just like you. Yet here they are. So are you. Keep going.

I may have a stroke. Someone said protests don’t belong in church and it took every ounce of self-censure within me not to say “Deborah you are literally a Protestant.” A PROTESTant. I assume they think Luther was nailing Bed, Bath, & Beyond coupons to the door.

/5 But Ezra Klein isn’t a liberal. He’s a professional pundit, which he made clear is why he felt kinship with Kirk. Values are not his children, they’re his tools.

ICYMI, I wrote about this very thing www.thenewworld.co.uk/matt-muir-do...

It’s the 1990s. I’m trying to explain many abuses we see at Ruby Ridge and Waco reflect entrenched practices of law enforcement. It’s the 2000s. I’m trying to explain many abuses we see under the PATRIOT ACT reflect entrenched practices of American law enforcement. It’s 2025. Guess the fuck what.

Here's what I expect from Democrats. Their goal is to win big in the midterms. Do some tepid sanctioning of the Trump regime. Then hopefully win the presidency in 28. They want to reinforce that the status quo still works. They don't want to acknowledge the institutions are broken.

“We are not here to save their souls we are here to save the people being hurt”/

Bc a lot of those (mainly white) folks don't hate the machine. They hate it being pointed at them. They want the police. They want ICE. But not this version of it. It's not abolish they fear. It's the idea behind it. Losing their way to control and punish the "others".

"If a kid hits you, tell the teacher." "If your boss harasses you, tell HR." "If the police brutalize you, film it and tell...different police." Your own body is someone else's to protect and defend. Because if you defend YOURSELF, you're "just as bad as your abuser." This is dumb. As fuck.

They came here to prevent their children from being "exposed" to beliefs other than their own. Understanding that helps give perspective to how they move now. It's not enough for them to live their beliefs. They need everyone ELSE to fall in line, too. www.thenation.com/article/soci....

That man owns multiple articles of Kirkland brand clothing, he rides with death 24/7

@brigit.bsky.social omg

Plain and simple my politics is that nobody should be wealthy enough to make their insecurities my problem.

When you’re doom posting about how everything is inevitable and no one can stop them, you’re doing their work for them. Stop that

Reminds me of the James Connolly quote: "We will not blame him for the crimes of his ancestors if he relinquishes the royal rights of his ancestors; but as long as he claims their rights, by virtue of descent, then, by virtue of descent, he must shoulder the responsibility for their crimes.”

it’s all i’ve got

Huh. This little guy looks sort of familiar.

Yo what the fuck short form videos are bad Short-Form Videos Degrade Our Capacity to Retain Intentions arxiv.org/pdf/2302.03714 Ht: HowTown

LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language. It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.