Even if you fully intend to vote for whoever the Democratic nominee ends up being, there’s a huge difference between doing that quietly in November 2028 and loudly announcing it years in advance with zero conditions attached.

A religion with a core part being where you enter a little booth and reveal your shortcomings and failures to some old guy can't go wrong.

I swear you can just *feel* this in life and culture, without understanding it.

My food pantry struggles to make rent. Churches are the most widely available 3rd spaces.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Trying to imagine being someone making calls for this poll.

Signal is an encryption company, not a messaging application company. It becomes clearer every day.

Who benefits from publishing totally fake papers then attributing authorship to real people? My good friend and colleague Jess shared today a paper she did not write, in a different field, and appears to be about life/death medical matters. Is this the "AI revolution" in science in action? Well...

A better world is possible. A stranger, more perplexing one too.

Every word beyond "we can't be political" was also wasted claptrap. Every answer regarding Palestine I've watched is like a live debate *practice* where more framing needs to be developed. It's 1/2 baked artspeak deployed to dodge.

Need more whistles to warn people of Smart Glasses.

This should be published in a major outlet.

not putting Zohran in the center here is… a choice

Wild how the US is entering the part of the decline slope where it's obvious, is largely self-made, tons of people see it, and yet it will almost certainly continue. If I was in my 20s and didn't have lots of familial ties to the US, I'd be considering where I want to invest my existence.

Pam Bondi seems a bit cracked. Not sure how it plays to maga loyalists, but seems like she's doing poorly on both substance and style.

I remember going to the beach 10 years ago, and it was the first time I ever saw a group of openly queer teens just enjoying the sun. It brought hope, made me feel like we were turning a corner. Still waiting I guess.

Into mindfulness is chill. Really into mindfulness is the opposite

Movie grass

Privilege without responsibility is the American way!

whai-ai-ai-aild horses or like, cubes, or whatever

Laura Loomer: "Look at all of these lulu lemon *whores* preparing to raid tombs!"

YouTube auto translation seems dubious here.

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

So we're clear (because the press is apparently incapable) this is a fake competition investigation designed to help local right wing propaganda broadcasters consolidate and increase their power over whatever's left of local U.S. news

As has been the case for the last 4-5 years, the best ways to make money via AI in descending order in the consumer market: - Sell training/hustle - Advocate religiously - Rail against Actually using it is the smallest and riskiest margin.

I wouldn't mind living in horrible times so much if they weren't so stupid. Or if being smart weren't performatively praised. Like if it was back when people hated you if you were clever, I'd have figured out the true shape of the world much earlier.

J6ers are such a tempting comparison for all manner of rabidly fervent people, but it almost never serves well.

Rough Mazlows hierarchy of the left: - rev now (almost 100% posters) - rev someday - unsure about rev, but gov is fascist is illegitimate - what's the rev? Nonviolence is #1 ...losing steam here. I think ultimately views of property damage and religious adherence to nonviolence are the big dividers

This editing in Charlies Angels is chefs kiss

My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.

Any creative knows the joy of working with a counterpart who can interpret sketches, and the pain of the literalist who has seemingly no sense of imagination, visual or otherwise.

It must be so awesome to be on the right and know you can completely change the tenor of media coverage whenever you want by doing the equivalent of fake throwing a tennis ball to your dog

Prime subscriptions are 99% lazy and stupid in terms of shipping.

Shopping at Amazon is hard to avoid in some categories. I often look stuff up there and then buy on eBay using the item titles as search terms. Also Newegg, buying direct from places like anker.. but one trick is that you can just save small items in a cart or list until you get free shipping.

These are the worst people empowered to do the worst possible things. I really do not see how we can have a functioning democracy & keep DHS.

I am so interested to see how the same press that lost its collective mind over a tan suit, eating ice cream, falling off a bike, the way a woman laughed, and other meaningless bullshit protects him, and normalizes this despicable, racist, disqualifying behavior that would end any other presidency.

I mean, it's well and truly documented. If not the entire landmass, the American gov continues to violate treaties around land use into the 21st century. There's the John Wayne line about "them not doing anything with it." And there's race science, to declare that it can't be trusted to others.

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

I wonder how many messages were exchanged in just the period before presidential run/presidency. If gates got up to what he got up to with 3000... well, that's just another damning implication.

LinkedIn career badge that says "not in the Epstein files"

Been thinking a bit lately how "successful" open source software that has "wide" consumer adoption is fairly limited. FOSS is the ideology, git is a technical measure, but collaboration has so many other difficult layers to navigate.

I can't stop laughing at Dutch.

"Implicated via deed or silence" is big bucket indeed.

If I had a one-way time machine ticket I'd take back furry porn to the 18th century. Smash that butterfly effect button.

Gpt 4o mini has ideas for the MR key on my typewriter.

Though they seemingly are. Odd.

Every conspiracy theorist is like "yeah, they're shipping kids in dressers on wayfair," but as soon as a victim of actual sexual assault comes forward, they're like "well, what proof does she have? There's no evidence for that claim."

Elon Musk is claiming he’s risked everything to protect kids from sexual abuse mere weeks out from laughing while his AI chatbot was generating nearly 8,000 sexual abuse images per hour that overwhelmingly targeted girls and young women