Scott Galloway recently told Derek Thompson on his podcast that childbirth is “disgusting” and “unnatural” for dads. I’ve studied fathers' experience of childbirth in my lab for years, and I think Galloway is wrong. darbysaxbe.substack.com/p/scott-gall...

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I'll meet you all back on IRC

Quilicura, Chile, one of the communities I wrote about in EMPIRE OF AI, has launched a brilliant initiative to inspire more responsible AI prompting. Today, don't use AI; ask the townspeople instead: quili.ai. So heartened to see this creative act of resistance.

And yet companies are out here evaluating employees on whether they are using AI enough in their jobs.

Timeline cleanse: The Montpelier Ohio public library employees playing "Go Patterson" (they're @montpelierlibrary on tiktok)

Just pretend like the kidnapped kid is your kid, or, like, your biggest corporate donor. Whatever works, Dems.

this reminds me of the way i’ve seen susan bro speak about her daughter, heather heyer. when a fascist murders your child, you aren’t allowed to just grieve. you have to defend their memory, even their very grave.

I am actually not looking for meaning at my job, I'm looking for a salary so I can sustain my own human life.

Democratic leaders need to fear being branded as collaborators more than they fear being called soft on crime

Chuckling at the people in the U.S. who consistently shit on people who live in "red" states... Well according to others in the world, the entire US is now a "red" state. Not so easy to overthrow authoritarians, is it?

If ICE and genocide and grift and tyranny weren’t enough, this alone should have fire running down every street in America. This isn’t the way to live. We do not have to live this way.

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

I have never in my entire design career been given the latitude to suck as hard as AI does at basic visuals. It's wild that the same companies that will belittle humans over the wrong shades of blue will also just say, "YOLO, post it" when the magical mediocrity bot makes things.

what a shocking turn of events who could’ve seen this coming

One of the more profound lessons I learned during my time teaching was how cruel and senseless our immigration system is. I am absolutely aghast to read that someone had those same experiences, saw that same heartbreak, and then refers to those kids and families as "collaterals". Fucking monster.

be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

All I want for Christmas is a tech job that will not require me to design for or use AI.

Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.

With Hegseth tweeting this ominous announcement/threat, now is a great time to listen to the most recent episode of Collateral Damage.

Me, 24hrs ago: "No, I wouldn't expect to see anyone's nipple as part of a senatorial primary in another state" Today:

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis > It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Brassica is that bitch

Boiled peanuts (generally, though they're reasonably popular in some places) but specifically boiled peanuts from a roadside stand that says P-NUTS, off a 45mph state road in the south, served up from a vat of liquid of mysterious origin and age. Those bad boys hit like nothing else.

In all the endless discussions of LLMs, there’s a point that is, on one level, obvious, but that I feel does not get sufficiently foregrounded: LLMs are transforming material that people have put up on the internet.

Each year it becomes more and more embarrassing to hold degrees from UT.

this is basically the aim of every AI company

I've eaten pizzas more supreme than this court

We're just going to keep having pilot projects like this until capitalism eventually falls. Giving houses to the homeless is cheaper than anything else. Giving people healthcare is cheaper than not. Giving people basic income is cheaper than not. Taking care of society is financially prudent.

imagining a world where young trans girls don't grow up believing their beautiful soul is a contemptible perversion

u guys seemed pretty sure just a little while ago tbh

It's been nice seeing other designers react positively to this. I appreciate knowing my peers agree on this front.

I keep thinking, "If this were another product, it'd be pulled off shelves immediately"

This video is fantastic on its own but it really takes on a certain 🤌 when you see what it's replying to.

the vanilla ones 🤌

It's almost like all those government jobs were there for a reason. www.wired.com/story/usda-a...

Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."

As a fan who owns many copies of her work, I have to say this is her finest work so far.

I need one of these for Zoom meetings.

Reminder as school starts: Teachers spend significant personal money to provide basics for their classrooms. One of the most impactful things you can do to help local teachers is buy off their wishlist or fund a Donors Choose project for them. Markers, scissors, rugs, stickers... anything helps.

looked up the clip just because sometimes people change his words for captions that end up innocently reshared, but upon finding it decided to share the video because hearing him say it makes it 1000% more definitely true and everyone will listen/believe more than reading it written out

wake up babe, a new deep sea colony of worms and mollusks that is thriving down in the Mariana Trench just dropped apnews.com/article/deep...

I suspect the major negative fallout of vibe coding isn’t going to be taking jobs from software developers but instead an epidemic of insecure apps that get hacked with ease

Finally, voting district 25 would connect the sister cities, Austin and Amarillo. I am always saying it makes more sense for me to vote with 25 other counties up to 450mi away than with other people in the Austin area.

In 2024 we had a candidate who didn't care much about trans rights or genocide, and she lost. Why am I supposed to think this is a winning strategy? Because it's an odious white man? Absolutely not. We're here bc we allowed human rights to be put up for debate in the first place.

if you care about government tech, OR about your data & who has it, this is really something