Optimus robots will just kinda follow criminals around and make sure they don't commit crimes again, so we can eliminate prisons. These are all things Elon Musk is literally saying.

Optimus will be built at a rate of a billion units per year and eliminate poverty

Optimus is going to be "bigger than cell phones"

Most of the Tesla shareholder proposals are like "Tesla is an incredible company, but maybe we should make sure we have some basic accountability or make sure we aren't exploiting child labor" and the board recommends against all of them

finance guys on twitter are like "can't believe zohran hired lina khan. she wants to make it illegal to bundle memecoin futures into junk stocks and sell them to public worker pension plans. the public won't stand for it."

My retirement savings these days is my copy of yesterday's NY Post

Southwest sent me a notification to change my flight to a much much better flight and I found out it's because America Airlines has ceased all operations and now the entire American airline sector is over capacity for the holiday season

I was thinking about Zohran’s transition team and today’s anti-feminist piece in the New York Times, and my mother’s book on the first generation of women to work in the city government in New York City. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

That the stupid fucking space force flag is right behind them is what makes this look like a history painting from the future

there's definitely an essay in this, about how this entire generation of right wingers have spent their entire career smashing the drywall and kicking the legs out from under polite society, seemingly so sheltered that they honestly never considered that it might end up affecting them too

a new furniture store opened up in our town and my wife was like "that place looks like a front, it has front lighting and the only thing you can see through the windows are lamps." she didn't notice the best thing about the store, which is the name: AI FURNITURE HD

Or as it’s known in internal documents “Phase Two”

The unionization of digital media was and is so important, and we gotta start reminding the bosses that it’s the floor

Also, if Britain is now basically incapable of action without the permission of a bunch of bond traders, is there some kind of long term plan to get us back to a situation where the public can at least theoretically decide? Preferably a plan that is not “another fifteen years of devastating cuts”.

“The students are already using AI so we need to use AI too” okay 10 years ago you thought youths were eating Tide Pods and I didn’t see anybody chowing down on those in the break room at work.

I know there is a shutdown on but can we get SOMEONE on the heart attack gun who can AIM

if you can't handle journalists asking clarifying follow up questions you have no business managing reporters. go run a dick's sporting goods

oh, did a politicancollapseball happen?

Now might be an especially good time to read the novel and/or listen to the podcast for...reasons

Whoops

maybe shoulda held on to that anti-mamdani money for a rainy day, huh

this ad feels portentous

“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion” futurism.com/artificial-i...

Saw the truck that fixes your posting

wrote about ai real estate listings for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/cult...

“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’” @reuters.com #Chicago www.reuters.com/world/us/bor...

None of the 31 Moms4Liberty candidates won either

no, No!

Bail reform not only made New York more just, it also literally made it safer. Too bad our elected leaders, public safety officials, and the overwhelming majority of the press are so deeply invested in a narrative entirely divorced from empirical reality. hellgatenyc.com/bail-reform-...

Sorry, the heritage foundation guy who's out there harassing single women and employees who are a different denomination of Christian than him is absolutely embodying the foundation's values and it's the people complaining about it who should maybe think a little harder about why they work for him.

In my brief time as an op-ed editor (<year), Brettbug Stephens argued Ashkenazis might be genetically superior, & Tom Cotton called for violence against George Floyd protestors. Some of us were constantly pushing back. I met with Sulzberger multiple times. Lip service was given, nothing changed.

Okay here is a question, like why aren't the fines that accompany violations like this just "equal to the revenue you received from the violation plus 10%"? Like is there a rule that it has to be a specific number instead of just "all the money you made from doing crimes"?

Lake Kaindy is a valley lake made by flooding in Kazakhstan, whose water is so cold that it preserved the spruce trees that grew in the valley for over 100 years. Underworld environmental design drop for you!

In 1974, working minimum wage at Mcdonalds, you were getting paid close to $15/hr in 2025 dollars. When people talk about earning $5 an hour for normal jobs back then, that's $34.85/hr after inflation.

our people yearn for transit