I don't write things here. I say things. Writing implies a degree of thought and revision that I don't usually try to achieve in a microblog. Remarks here are thoughts formed in the act of utterance. I can't say that I mean what I say until after I say it.

Hidden, a TikTok-like platform operated by sex workers, is launching as OnlyFans is implementing background checks for performers and expanding beyond adult content. www.wired.com/story/sex-wo...

Gerrymandering

The Gävlebocken cam is live folks, this is not a drill

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

yeah it’s bad that Lizza has been sitting on this for so long but also how cursory and inept was that Vox investigation that not only managed to miss the biggest scandal in the history of American political journalism but affirmatively exonerated her bsky.app/profile/bkel...

Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!

not to be dramatic but this should be a crime

Twitter undoubtedly affected the 2024 election with AI. We don’t need to look outside the U.S. for election interference, though it sure leaves to door open to anyone with money and bad intentions. Right after the 2024 election I wondered aloud if this were possible. One expert certainly agreed.

This article provides more data showing how easy it is to manipulate humans on social media. These researchers rerouted the algorithm on Twitter to push some users toward “antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity”. It only took 1 week to elicit changes that used to take 3 years.

UNBOUND AUTHORS: Leftover copies of your books in the UK (MacMillan) warehouse will be pulped within the next week or two. DM me for a link to the warehouse stock list and contacts. If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split

After years of useless posture advice ("imagine a string pulling you up"???), the only technique that's ever worked for me is to imagine there are laser beams coming out of your nipples and aim for people's heads. It works, and people cannot tell you're doing it

Strange how the ideology of the Minnesota assassin was pretty much dryly noted and dropped, not used as an excuse by politicians to blame half the country for the murder.

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

“… coerced infection—the complete lack of mitigation and the normalization of mass and repeated infection of a debilitating virus—is ubiquitous throughout society.“ open.substack.com/pub/jacobsch...

Far from being an eternal symbol of Pilgrims-and-Indians lies, Thanksgiving was, for a good portion of its history, a symbol of social reform and abolitionism

Among other things, the (nebulous but clearly unconstitutional) attack on naturalized US citizens contained in this screed is a significant escalation.

There is no constitutionally legitimate scenario in which we are being de facto governed by the White House Deputy Chief of Staff using a half-dead president as his sock puppet. We went out of our way to amend the Constitution on precisely this point.

ayo small ribcage big tiddy girlies & partners shopping for them, there are a lot of Cosabella curvy bralettes on unadvertised $20 sale right now, you have to click through the colors to find them, they aren’t labeled as sale colors, I think they’re last ones in stock in their size-color combos

The amazing fratery of #CleeveAbbey #Somerset through the richly moulded 4-centred arch from the lobby #DoorwayThursday

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

The fundamental thing to understand about this administration is the president is a grumpy retiree. He has no interest in working anymore. Which leads to him being pissed that he is getting asked a question, pissed he has to show up and work, the scheming viziers running the show, etc..

Disabled people deserve healthcare. Disabled people deserve housing. Disabled people deserve food. Disabled people deserve support. Our ability to work and produce for capitalism should not determine our value. Disability is not a moral failing. Most people will experience it someday.

Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...

That pirating is *not* what is keeping creator incomes down does not, in fact, justify piracy of creative works!

Trump has never once in his life extemporaneously used the phrase "western civilization." He was once asked about western liberalism and thought they were talking about California Democrats. One of the more blatant tells for a Miller-written screed.

truth coming out of her cup noodles to shame mankind

Only 16% of Trump voters support Ukraine making territorial concessions to Russia and 72% are in favor of selling Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, according to a new poll by The Vandenberg Coalition. 72% of Trump voters also believe the US should help Ukraine and hold Russia accountable.

Clean power growth is now covering all new global demand. Solar and wind generated 635 TWh in the first nine months of this year, exceeding the 603 TWh rise in global electricity demand, and holding fossil generation flat for the year. buff.ly/zRmwAmg #ShareGoodNewsToo

Democrats need to issue a joint statement promising to deport Melania Trump, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, David Sacks and Ted Cruz once they retake power

Unelected and lacking popular support, President Volodymyr Zelensky's chief of staff has amassed a level of power rarely seen in modern Ukraine. Now, he faces a push to finally leave.

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts Warren Zevon Oysterband (twice) Gordon Lightfoot (twice) Bruce Cockburn Boiled in Lead Bonus bands Great Big Sea Al Stewart Barry McGuire Anaïs Mitchell Carbon Leaf

ChatGPT’s signature writing style is everywhere now, and I hate it. It reminds me of when we tried mixing all the beverages at the soda fountain in middle school. We didn’t actually create the perfect drink, we just made a cloying monstrosity that lost everything good about its constituent parts.

"You know, I sort of redesigned the hull a little bit." Thinking about for for decades Al Gore was the lyingest liar who ever lied because he actually understood ARPANET when he voted for it, and said so out loud.

This is a kink. I'm speaking as an *expert* This is 100% a sexual kink.

One of the simplest ways to see that creators aren’t bourgeois is that we don’t, as creators, appropriate other peoples’ labor. We do labor that we can eventually make money from, we don’t make money from exploiting others. It’s the exploitative relation that characterizes the bourgeoisie.

as always, transphobia consumes your entire personality until there is nothing left but deeply offputting garbage

Happy birthday, America!!

We went to the nepotism, insider dealing, and old-boy network factory and we discovered they use their own products!

I have to wonder at the skin tone of the folks this is happening to.

I wonder how much of this is because she got paid far more than her work ought to pay her; and those whom her company exploited get far less (while having to unbalance their lives far more than she does/did)

Other forms of physical labor also!! Harvesting the food we eat, cleaning workplaces and public spaces, delivering EVERYTHING including driving people around, physical health and social care workers from surgeons to physical therapists to nannies

I have to wonder if this ties into the infilling of the Black Sea. www.science.org/content/arti...

It's easy to be numb because it's par for the course nowadays, but repeatedly calling a reporter who asks a reasonable question "stupid" is conduct unbecoming for a small-town mayor, let alone the President of the United States. The press exists to play a watchdog role, not be a supplicant.

Well shit. Another one for the New Year's Eve toast. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

More at Wikipedia (it’s actually a different *galaxy*, not dimension): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read_Al... And you can watch the whole thing on the Internet Archive, if there are weird children in your life or else normal children who might like to grow into weird adults: archive.org/details/read...

Interdisciplinary thinking is more than "this aspect of related field" it's "this completely unrelated paradigm might be remappable to my field (HT @intemporaliter.bsky.social) Ferrari’s Formula One Handovers and Handovers From Surgery to Intensive Care gwern.net/doc/technolo...

The right tool for the job, esp at the beginning is *so* important. It’s the difference between “this us tricky, but interesting” and “Sod this for a game of soldiers”.

Anytime someone mentions mayonnaise, I take it as an opportunity to share the recipe for my most beloved condiment. It's from the Nantucket Open House Cookbook by Sarah Leah Chase, and it is out-of-this-world amazing. You may have to play with the oil proportions a little.