I just for the life of me can't figure out why a large chunk of people are inherently hostile to new technology shaped by companies that actively support an anti-science, anti-humanist mass murder autocracy

Never gonna forget my older brother calling me into the room so he could show me the end of Metroid, where Samus is revealed to be a woman

Wait, the RFK and Kid Rock shirtless workout photos are REAL? I just instantly assumed AI

you can't get a copy of "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" in a public school library, but the State Dept. is going to build an online portal so little German boys & girls can read Mein Kamp without drawing the scorn of their community. ALRIGHT.

this seems mask off in a particularly weird way, even by the dismal standards of our present political era

If "AI" was being built, used, and planned for in responsible ways--the way a civilization designed to enhance human thriving would do--then a lot more people would be enthusiastic about its potential. But the people in charge of defining what AI will be are the fucking worst short-term scumbags.

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!

I wrote about Hillary Clinton's words on immigration, the proposed ICE reforms put forward by Schumer and Jeffries, and how, when faced with a vast abomination, not looking the problem in the eye can lead to putting bandaids on the bigger harm while institutionalizing it.

"the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children"

Absolutely correct, and like 99% of the time you can answer any of it with “this was the status quo for years (sometimes decades) and you didn’t have any issue with it then.” Because this is an entirely manufactured moral panic

I would shoot the computer with a handgun five to eight times

There’s an American skier named Max Forehand and that sounds like one of those “American” baseball team names from that one old video game

The Rent Is Too Damn High Guy, the Leave Britney Alone fellow, every streaker at a bowl game 20 minutes after an Air Force flyover. We had our prophets and we laughed at them.

I hate that I understand what any of this means. If my hypothetical son started talking like this I would send him to a desert island

I dealt with my three week old being hospitalized with an infection. The idea of being jailed and deported during that horrible experience, when you’re already terrified for your vulnerable baby…I feel like I can’t breathe when I think about it

Remember that every time they say we’re being paid to raise our voices, that’s because they actually are

Yeah pretty much

[pink pony club] 🎵 Joyce Carol Oates She’s gonna keep on posting ‘cause she’s Joyce Carol Oates 🎵

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Jesse Jackson also used his organizing skills to build Black political power w/his Presidential campaigns: registering Black voters making them the base of the Dem Party training the next gen of Black politicos (eg, Donna Brazile) Rest easy now sir www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

For littles over 1 year, you can get the 2nd dose early too, as long as it's more than a month after the 1st. We did that because of travel to an area with active cases this last summer.

More measles PSA...it is a series. Your pediatrician can often push up the additional doses. When there was a measles outbreak near us a few years back my pediatrician contacted us and gave my son his final shot about a year early to get him fully covered. It's worth asking about.

This is important. Vaccine schedules, boostering, timing - this is all due to things like maternal immunity and when the baby's own immune system is able to take over. It's similar to the puppy/kitten vaccine series. In our case it's not the # of vaccines, it's the timing.

I’m going to keep sharing this PSA: although the MMR is usually given at 12 and 18 months, your baby can get a first dose as early as 6 months. They will still need the other two doses, because immunity doesn’t stick at that age, and insurance may not cover it. But it’s protection.

Also note the way that the burden is always, always placed upon the left; the right must be catered to, the center must be appealed to, the left? Suck it up, accept whatever is offered, perform the labor of care and capitulation and compromise. A familiar dynamic.

One of the things language like this does is conveys the way that leftism is seen as feminized in america. Leftists are called “hysterical,” told we “throw tantrums,” and “are shrill and unreasonable.” This is the language of cultural misogyny, used to denigrate and silence women.

I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center: If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

i think you can judge how free - or not - our political media is by the fact that elon musk literally did a sieg heil (twice) at a rally and it’s still seen as uncouth and overly partisan (in legacy media) to describe his politics as straightforwardly white supremacist.

American culture of the 1840’s would have been *very fucking surprised* to see the Irish considered as co-founders. Elon’s an ahistorical dipshit, but its always worth saying some stuff out loud: if you‘re a fellow Irish-American and you aren’t 100% pro-immigrant, you’re a fucking embarassment.

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.

Okay this whole Wikipedia page is fascinating. At skim some of these regions had water that was green as often it was blue, but the idea that “terms for brown, purple, pink, orange, and gray will not emerge in a language until the language has made a distinction between green and blue” is a mindfuck

Explaining the plot of Scooby-Doo to my daughter and realizing the central irony of the show is that the gang cruises around looking for magic and mysteries that never pan out, while the only truly supernatural element is the talking dog they all ignore.

I gotta say, although I am a certified AI hater, it would be very funny if it turned out that AI does a better job of investment banking than investment bankers

This is me

Okay!!

Happy Valentine’s Day to the Morticia to my Gomez, mon cher, mi amor, @tekla.bsky.social !

ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

Obviously this is who we have always been, that is a given... but the fact that people who did not know that are out here, protesting for the first time, in actual tears? They have lost complete control of this narrative, man.

Inevitably, their affair ended: Howard worried excessively about what the pack would think, and Agnes simply ate the flowers.

This is the correct stance and everything else is useless fluttering

Roughly 2 USAIDs

So, require excessive documentation from voters, then shut down easy access to obtaining passports?

*jazz hands* my wife!!

This is part of why I loved Pluribus so much. That is a show that demands you keep your eyes glued to the screen, or you’ll miss half the show

Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day

How dare they presume to know what would dazzle a penguin.

If no one else is going to point it out, I am. Elmer is a meat breed bull. Those two adorable calves have been purpose-bred to be beef, the little heifer will never follow in her mother's hoofprints. She's going to live on the range pumping out more beef calves. The little brother is hamburger.

Well worth reading the thread but god I wish these artists had clothed these bipedal cattle. They are so uncomfortably nude-looking