There's a party up there and you're not invited (unless...?) #edenring #art

i didn't realize how literally she was pulling wires without understanding them. manually typing shit into the prompter lmao

If Trump dies richer than when he became president, with his Supreme Court justices still in power, without he himself ever facing consequences, with the 1% keeping all their gains, with the ICE budget in tact and without any prosecutions of ICE or his admin he didn’t lose. He won. Understand that.

the democratic party of california is just the republican party. this includes nithya raman.

And yet when some of us told y'all this is what he was doing, it was straight-up ignored, and i still don't see the plurality of dem politicians saying they're going to actively Do something about it, if and when they get back into power.

The Moonlight Greatsword isn't just a staple in Soulsbourne and Elden Ring, but a staple in nearly every From Software game making its debut in the first King's Field game released in 1994 and even making its way to the Armored Core series.

Wife: The way you know AI is a scam is that the same party and people who have been waging war on public school funding for 50 years are now pushing to spend tax money to get AI into public schools and saying they're doing it to "level the playing field" or so "kids don't get left behind"

Today marks five years since I first posted my Friend of Garak design anywhere online. To celebrate, all my Garak merch is on sale, along with select other items, now through May Day. willburrows.art/shop

The guy who made this truck said he wants to colonize Mars. He’s gonna make so many astronauts’ heads implode.

Straight-up GOP racism.

After acquiring the hospital treating your grandfather, Microsoft has announced it would be pulling the plug on a number of patients’ life support, including his. paletteswap.site/dif...

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

though they fucked up on sexual ethics so keep that in mind...

NEW: Pope Leo XIV told the world’s press today that the Catholic Church’s moral imagination has long been too narrowed to sexual ethics — and that war, migration, and human dignity are the “much greater, more important issues” of our time.

There are recent reports showing the huge amount of money LAPD costs the city in misconduct settlements alone. Staggering numbers. @pplscitycouncil.bsky.social, @stoplapdspying.bsky.social and @filmthepolicela.bsky.social do a good job covering this.

I can't express how little I care about monitoring, much less controlling what people buy with their food stamps

NOPE NOPE NOPE. Healthcare discrimination is rampant, and there is no way that I would want an unknown company to have sensitive information about me that they could sell to the government or highest bidder. As always, the researchers have a much more thorough discussion of this via the link.

LAPD operates the largest municipal law enforcement air fleet in the nation. 17 helicopters, 90 personnel, costing $128,000 per day ($50m annually). 16,000 flight hours 762,000 gallons of fuel producing 7,400 metric tons of CO₂ annually. 61% of flights are unrelated to high-priority incidents. 🌎♻️

A 2023 study by @controller.lacity.gov Kenneth Mejia found that the majority of LAPD helicopter flights are used not for urgent incidents lile chases, but for routine patrols (overwhelmingly hovering over minority neighborhoods), transportation, and ceremonial events like graduations and retirements

WOW

"ChatGPT’s 4o model [the model Eddy used in this video and the one users said was basically genocided when OpenAI discontinued it this spring] was extremely credulous. [It] validated the existence of a malevolent mirror entity, suggesting the user contact a paranormal investigator for assistance."

AI is great at vomiting up boilerplate and pretending it is useful information. Speculative bullshit as root cause analysis. Thanks. Real fucking useful to give me paragraphs of trash and the only thing useful is the screenshot.

Imagine spending your life standing outside the club, desperately trying to impress the KKK bouncer

"Waymo has told advocates that expecting it to respect bike lanes is 'too high a bar' because customers expect to be dropped off in them." To be crystal clear, it's illegal for a car to be in a bike lane. It doesn't matter what Waymo's customers expect; the company shouldn't be doing it.

There's some seriously fucked up shit on these peoples' phones, you can bank on that

My latest newsletter: Cory Booker went to Michigan and told the voters who sat out 2024 that the problem was them. I don’t think this is good strategy. www.readtpa.com/p/the-scolding

The New Yorker put a spotlight on Sam Altman’s compulsive lying. It’s not a great look for tech media that echoed his statements. @karlbode.com joins @parismarx.com to discuss “CEO says a thing” reporting and the need to hold tech CEOs accountable. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/325_...

Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil was killed today in a targeted Israeli strike. The IDF fired live rounds and stun grenades at the Red Cross ambulances trying to reach her. She is the 4th journalist killed by Israel while in the field since 2 March. Photo via X @HindRFoundation.

louisiana can't help but stay losing betting on fossil fuels.

is it the one who complained his phone didn't work because it got too hot but he submerged it in a pool *checks and finds I'm now blocked* helllll yeahhhh

I don't like the AI memes regardless of who uses them and how because intentionally or unintentionally when you generate that stuff, due to the locations of data centers, what you are engaging in anti-Blackness and actively harming southern Black people who go through & have been through enough.

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The AI bubbles longest gift will be showing how easily some people gave up any morals AND technological sense Just to be close to power and money

Fuck Troy Baker you colleague selling two faced Booker DeWitt reheating bitch.

What gets mandated in NY gets sold everywhere. A surveillance requirement for 3D printers, buried in NY's budget bill, wouldn't just affect NYers. It would become the de facto national standard. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

When the violent truck looting was confirmed to mostly be conducted by the Israeli-armed and funded drug smuggling mafia of former ISIS-linked crime boss Yasser Abu Shabab, we just stopped talking about truck looting as a high-level problem.

But the whole time we had to maintain a fiction that it was Egyptian organized crime and/or Hamas, neither of which made any sense, and that it was Hamas attacking the trucks when they entered Gaza and ripping them apart to get at the cigarette cases secreted within. Which also made no sense.

For most of the time I worked on the Gaza humanitarian response at USAID, this smuggling ring was the bane of our existence. It dramatically impacted price and market stability in Gaza and made the truck drivers jobs far more dangerous. We all knew it was the IDF running it.

I always thought Sun Tzu's "Art of War" was a little simplistic and obvious but it turns out yes, you do literally need to tell the Secretary of War "you need to feed your troops and keep them from being wiped out by preventable diseases"

This also reminds me to say that AI is opposed to all literacy it's anti intellectual and destroys all learning if we allow it to Exhibit A bsky.app/profile/oliv...

Keep this in mind next time Dreher opines on welfare, the state, and minorities.

Here's what a senior homeland official told me about their development of ICE smart glasses: "It might be portrayed as seeking to identify illegal aliens...but the reality is that a push in this direction affects all Americans, particularly protesters." www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

NEW: Flight data reveals that the LAPD's "Drone as First Responder" program—sold to the public as a public safety measure—is in fact being used to spy on anti-ICE/anti-Trump protests in Los Angeles. theintercept.com/2026/04/20/l...

ghoulish

In a totally predictable turn of events, Elizabeth Warren swings from falsely claiming Indigenous ancestry to enthusiastically endorsing a weirdly obvious nazi. What a career...

Larry Ellison’s TikTok forcing “AI Remixing” onto their entire user base without their knowledge or consent is a really great microcosm of what US tech overlordship looks like — and why the backlash against this technology is only growing.

democrats are okay with losing to republicans. what they're not okay with is losing to the body politic. that is what cory booker is actually saying in that clip.

. @marisakabas.bsky.social @tarapalmeri.bsky.social, and I were invited by @juliaangwin.com to sit on the opening panel on the main stage for the @journalismfestival.com and when the question of objectivity came up, well, I didn’t hold back.

this sows discord and blames the audience for not agreeing with his vision. it's a very authoritarian message: if you didn't vote for me, YOU'RE wrong. you don't get your voice, you have to accept ours. how fucking dare you blame the voter in a democracy?

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement