None of this is industry naivete

Keep this in mind as we start seeing more and more large scale outages from AWS, Cloudflare, Github, etc. These are the companies hoping to increasingly automate their systems with AI

I am on my knees begging climate people and energy people and housing people to just this once pass the puck to where they are skating to, not where they are at. This is the fight, here. The whole game is physical infrastructure. It is car-enforcing land use all the way down.

Please do not feed personal information to chatGPT. Please do not tell it where you work and live and how to get money from you. They know that TurboTax is easier than doing it by hand and cheaper (mostly) than going to an accountant. That accountant had to sign ethical standards. ChatGPT can’t.

Just this week I had to interrupt a phone call my mother was on with "the Inspector General" ma'am, the inspector general of what exactly?? Why is he on the phone with you? What? I had to drill her several times. The bank is NOT GOING TO CALL YOU. Neither is the IRS or social security! Never!!!!!

“If you're arguing against us while using our language, we're winning." –GW Bush advisor Matt Dowd as the proto-fascist “war on terror” raged

Julia #Klöckner ist eine der einflussreichsten Frauen Deutschlands – auch in der #CDU. CORRECTIV hat ihre Social-Media-Aktivitäten analysiert und ihre Wegbegleiter befragt. Das Ergebnis: Neben unpolitischen Beiträgen teilte sie auffällig oft Inhalte von #rechtspopulistischen Akteuren.

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

I donated. It's an amazing program. Use it every day.

Friends, I'm in tears over this. Sheila is the first editor I ever worked with. I was 20. She deserves better bosses than this. She and Trevor and Sheree have all proven themselves again and again to be really good and decent people in this field. MRM should not use them as reputation shields.

Capitalism is incredible. Sorry, former teacher, your retirement fund is gone because 5 guys who've collectively never worked a full hour told the banks to put all the money in the country into virtual girlfriend futures

in the last 5 days these laid-off VIBE staffers have only made it to 31% of their GoFundMe goal after being laid off. please show them the same support you showed Teen Vogue!!

Another setting to fix -- I've just discovered it wasn't the app I was in but my computer changing "maybe" to "mabe", "they have" to "the have" and "us" to "s" before my eyes. I hate the era we're in so much.

Nothing is a better demonstration of the anti-scientific nature of banning trans women from sports than the fact that the IOC's OWN STUDY found no evidence trans women have any advantage over cis women in sports, but they're planning on going ahead with banning us anyways

Trump is a piece of shit and his supporters like him because they are pieces of shit.

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These books are great! They made me cry a bunch

The good: I start my new W4 tomorrow. The bad: My new gig pays *monthly* at the end of each month and I'm starting at the beginning of the period, so I wont get paid until New Years. There's 12% or $8407 left to close out this ENTIRE campaign. I REALLY need a hand to hold onto the gig.

Knowing the key to understanding right-wing politics in the US is understanding wrestling, they see government as kayfabe, I will ask my more wrestling-adjacent friends if this MTG/Trump break is a face turn by MTG (still a racist anti-semite, don't get me wrong) or a false break like Musk/Trump.

On the "small reproductive cell vs. large reproductive cell" thing that Kansas Republicans are also so fond of -

Okay. Story time about the tropey arrows in indie spaces because buckle up, we're going to talk about this and I'm going to get banned from several writers' groups as I do. The scene: a kickstarter covered in blood splattered images. The advice: Add a cutesy trope graphic 🧵

I WANT TO HOST ONE OF THESE

Popping in to Bluesky on this fine morning to say that "fountain pen drama" that so many people are referencing relates to Ferris Wheel Press (FWP). Countless people asked for comments on their JKR collab, founder ignored all questions wrt the LGBTQIA+ community. (mini-thread)

Given that for my entire life the most insane far-right viewpoints in this country at any given time have become the GOP mainstream position within five years, the fact that the Edges or Fringes of the right are now open blood-and-soil Nazis bodes ill for the future.

Y'all, its like I have been saying. This isn't a redemption arc, it's an attempted coup. She is setting herself up for when time, age or scandal takes him down.

this is a very important part of her legacy, her support for Palestine. one of the things i will always remember is that one of Dr. Refaat Alareer’s last liked posts on Twitter before it turned into x and removed like history is a photo of Alice.

those of us laid off from Teen Vogue were really fortunate to complete our fundraising goal — the laid-off staffers at VIBE deserve the same support, as Black media outlets and journalists continue to be targeted and discriminated against in “austerity” measures

I want you to get vaccinated if you can, for everything that you can, to protect both yourself and those who cannot. I used to have this argument about the flu shot. People I know were all "well i'm young and in good health so i don't need to." Do you care about anyone who is not those things?!

For the fifty billionth time: I don't want society to shut down. I want you to mask at the fucking hospital, bus, airport, school, and grocery store, if you can. If you cannot, I want everyone else to, to protect you.

www.gofundme.com/f/alice-wong... here’s where to send funds to continue Alice’s legacy <3

In Xanadu did Newton-John A stately roller rink decree…

I have no words for the incandescent rage at the casual erasure of disabled folks, because this shit happens far too often. @sfdirewolf.bsky.social was fierce about living life & speaking truth in ways we can all learn from. Honour her memory by masking up & protecting public health.

if the enemy of my enemy is MTG that means i still have two enemies that i hope end each other somehow

Just an incalculable loss from which we won’t soon recover. Alice was the best of us and I hope we all do (or keep doing) the kind of good work that burnishes her memory. Fuck ableism. “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”

Glad I got to become disabled in a world that already had Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social in it. I learned so much from her incredible writing & activism. May her memory be a blessing, & may we all continue her work. Easiest way to do it? WEAR A MASK. Protect yourself & the vulnerable around you.

Jesus [texting]: good news 2 poor. freedom 4 prisoners. sight 4 blind. set oppressed free. cancel all debts American Christian receiving text: [throws phone off cliff]

aesthetically horrible yes, but fascinating on an anthropological and cultural level - to an American, there is nothing more worthy of contemptuous dismissal than a burger that turns out to be nothing

REP. MASSIE (a Republican): “Trump will protect you if you vote the wrong way… if you vote to cover up for pedophiles — but I would remind my Republican colleagues this vote is going to be on your record longer than Trump is going to be president.”

the only good accent work on earth is old money transatlantic american to make fun of rich people accent

Dear God Maybe this occurred to everyone else already, but I just realized that the tech bigwigs sided with Trump because they had become so Roko's Basilisk-brained They treated Trump like their imagined future malevolent A.I., and now we're all fucked

One of the only constructivist churches in the world, in Kouvola, Finland, is scheduled for demolition because the declining population of the town no longer matches up with the cost of maintenance. See things while you can.

The union is asking that you not patronize any Starbucks, even ones that aren't unionized, for the duration! Time to find your new favoriteocal coffee shop. To donate to their strike fund: sbworkersunited.org

Because German laws about Urheberrechte are *very* strict!

Disney has an iron policy: never pay royalties to artists if they can avoid it, legally or not. As witness the LucasFilm/Fox novelists' lawsuit of a couple of years ago: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/star-wars-author-royalties-disney-1234951422/

Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"

Anthem BC/BS came back, 10 months later, and decided that it was going to deny me and my son's rabies treatments, after already approving the claim last December. Denying a claim where if treatment were not given, results in death 100% of the time!

Did I just get a spam message request from "bluesky support"?

Can we just take a minute and acknowledge that our POTUS is right OUT IN THE OPEN lobbying Congressional members to vote against releasing the Epstein files?! Like... what the fuck else does anyone even need to know?

Sadly, the most obvious "tell" that these deportation videos are AI generated slop is that the ICE agents show their faces.

No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?