Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide. And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft. What does OpenAI offer the world?

Was in a bookstore today and saw a dude in shorts sat on a footstool in the philosophy section reading Aurelius' "Meditations". I wanted to point at any of the hundred books behind him that would speak to his experiences far better, but then realised he wasn't actually reading the book. So I didn't.

...Despite the fact they are obviously grilled

Sorry to do litmus tests but I want candidates who understand and say out loud that the big tech industry is a hive of evil charlatans who get rich pumping poison into the world

"Don't let them eat cake. Or anything else." www.bbc.com/news/article...

OVER A MILLION USERS DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT EVERY *WEEK* what the fuck are we DOING here

I'm so sick of being told "Things will not and cannot get better, so just suck it up and vote for this utterly mediocre person/party" www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

If you watch these two for smart political analysis you're a fucking idiot.

Have returned to Silksong after taking a break to play scary games for spooky season and holy shit this game is still amazing. The most miraculous game to come out in the current video game climate. Incredible. Cannot praise it enough.

Your move @coldwarsteve.bsky.social

The fuckers got away with it. The company. The people who made the decisions. All of them. They got away with killing hundreds for the sake of a few cents per share of increased earnings. 🤬

To quote Joe Strummer: "It's time to take the humanity back into the center of the ring and follow that for a time. Greed, it ain't going anywhere. They should have that in a big billboard across Times Square. Without people you're nothing."

This thread is both hilarious and deeply repulsive given the raw racism and fascism on display from the Right. It's also funny to just watch these n@zis stamp their feet and invent a host of things that aren't true and will never happen.

Did anyone make a JoJo Silwa joke? Because there might still be time.

Proud husband of one of those 56% (We live in one of the red counties too so I'm even more proud)

Bluesky is very much "The Vibe" this morning. Feeling very 'early Twitter'.

It was always true and remains true. People are good, actually.

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

Remember, remember the 4th of November 😉 Eat shit, fascists

While this is certainly alarming and distressing for those of us against fascism, this is *terrible* polling all round. 27% for the leading party is appalling. If this indicates anything it's that an actual populist party with the right message could waltz in and clean up.

Fair is foul, and foul is fair

I'm so sick of politicians and centrist pundits saying dumb shit like "Be realistic" when reality for the majority of people today is a living hell. Why the hell would anyone want to be realistic right now? The right aren't. They're completely divorced from reality and are in power everywhere.

if everyone keeps listen to people like ezra klein the democratic party nor the left will ever win again. this type of framing and mindset is a failed ideology

Suffering from an acute case of “I ate too many Cadbury’s Giant buttons from the sharebag”

From a Brit living in the US: Americans, you have no idea how isolated you are. It's so hard to get news, information or updates from outside the USA without a VPN. Seeing as the internet is now the main medium with which the majority of people interact with the world, limiting it creates ignorance.

A poem by me for spooky day. Happy Hallowe'en!

So, it's war then? America is going to war with Venezuela? Unprovoked? Jfc

One of my favourite meals my Mum made was her chilli. No one else did it quite like her. Delicious.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Derek nailing it, as usual

Getting AWS adverts fed to me on the regular with the tagline "AWS Proven", in a transparent attempt from Amazon to say "We still work, honest! Please god trust us!"

How It's Going: Death monkeys are not in fact death monkeys

Didn't realise that when loud and proud fascism reemerged, making an unequivocal antagonist for the development of the human race and society, that so many people in opposition to it would spend their time fighting amongst themselves.

The NY Times and WaPo may be lost causes but holy shite look at PEOPLE out here absolutely killing it with 100% unvarnished truths 🌟

It's rare that I say a 'Last Week Tonight' episode undersells the corruption/idiocy behind a story but their Bari Weiss episode absolutely barely scratched the surface of her hubris

I wrote this last Hallowe'en about the state of horror today and where it's going and so far I haven't been proved wrong. medium.com/counterarts/...

Because I keep seeing that video of Newsom offering bland anger about the President, I feel the need to point out: just because he's vocally against Trump doesn't mean he's the solution. We don't need a "Trump of the Democrats" we need the *opposite* of Trump.

I'm sick to death of ultra HD 4k interpolated fps blah blah. There is no benefit to it and if anything it makes everything look more bland and fake.

Enjoyed Midnight Mass but Mike Flanagan needs a better editor. Waaaaay overwritten. Still, it built well to a satisfying climax which is a vanishingly rare thing in modern film/TV. The closest thing to a Stephen King novel in a visual medium I've seen, and it's not even an adaptation.

Wake up, babe, the least subtle visual metaphor in history just dropped

Mum's obituary in today's Guardian paper. She was a cool lady and I miss her a lot.

The rich forced AI on us because they couldn't get away with actual slavery so they had to tech-ify unpaid labour and resell it as an 'innovation'

The #NoKings protests should really be putting paid to the idea that the ultra right-wing fash are a "silent majority", but instead an incredibly loud, broadcasted and desperate minority. We have the numbers, fellas.

Alan Garner is a formative writer for me. If you have a kid who enjoys being scared, get them his books. Or tbh if you’re an adult who likes scary fantasy, they hold up. I re-read Elidor recently and it’s so eerie

Genuinely incredible. First bit of "Will benefit mankind" news I've seen in years.