20-something techbro: AI will be our perfect anime waifus, our benevolent overlords, and live on in our immortal image after consigning our civilization to blissful oblivion. 50-something Unix dev: Computer is bad now.

I (absurdly) got to spend a summer vacation week with some fairly rich and influential tech-adjacent people and I hope my extremely gloomy and acerbically funny comments about AI contributed to bursting the bubble earlier.

“…we have all become characters in a story where our actions carry actual weight and consequence.”

I’d feel a lot better about the future if I knew every union had a well-financed strike fund right now.

Gonna be thinking about our “cherished American Awards“ all day.

If Schumer’s master strategy to sit back and let nature take its course turns out to have been the correct one, we’ll never get a single thing done ever again.

Chatbots are validation engines. If you feed one your most intrusive thoughts, eventually it’s going to tell you go for it, champ!

The longer it takes for the marketing consultant to wind up the logo pitch, the shittier the design.

When a book is incorrect, you can point to the offending page, edit it, tear it out. When an LLM is incorrect, it’s not fixable. You just didn’t get the right result and the owner isn’t liable. It’s a slot machine for words that occasionally pays out, and the house always wins.

“China was putting up a gigawatt's worth of solar panels, and a gigawatt's worth of solar panels is the rough equivalent of a nuclear or a coal-fired power plant, they were doing that every eight hours. Can you imagine building a nuclear plant every eight hours?” www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0...

I hate this dumbfuck wellness argument in particular because it belies everything else in American society. Our entire economy is based around stuffing ourselves full of shit that is bad for us. Cake, pizza, video games, Marvel movies, cosmetics, gasoline, instagram, smartphone apps.

One of the disadvantages of a geriatric political system is the waning likelihood of your representatives throwing hands when literal fascists show up.

This shit again.

PERSON WHO HAS LOUDLY REJECTED EVERY MEAL I HAVE PREPARED FOR THEM FOR 13 YEARS: “What are you making for dinner?”

Feels like most of my life has been early 2003 - society charging into a massive and obvious mistake, cheered on by the worst, most powerful idiots on Earth. Some of them are still the same idiots.

So the DC parade is like a Fyre Festival situation?

We need a feminist Salacious B. Crumb.

Wish I could live forever in that moment between triumphantly completing a task and realizing how I fucked it up.

Not the most important thing but why is the White House photography utter shit now? It looks worse than the washed out pics the Russian press took in the first term. The lighting is terrible and the color is off balance.

At least one of the Andor writers has clearly been to a community organizer meeting.

Things I do not wish to do anymore: 1. Download the app. 2. Create an account. 3. Log in. 4. Text STOP to end. Done this enough for one life, thanks.

Stonks.

Today was #TeslaTakedown in CD17. Tomorrow is #LeaderswhoListen

Weirdo (complimentary, unique, countercultural) vs. weirdo (pejorative, cultish, sociopathic)

Just want to thank our local MAGA weirdos for coming out and blocking the local Tesla dealership in advance so the Mt Kisco #TeslaTakedown protest didn’t have to.

Indivisible Rockland and the Working Families Party are proud to present: An Afternoon with Lt. Governor Antonio Delgado. www.mobilize.us/indivisibler...

Marco Rubio realizing he may have sent men to Latin America without a letter signed by the President.

Me throwing an Imperial boomerang in 2001: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me, 2025: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

Philip K. Dick: Well, well, well…. Three psychics in a hot tub predicting crime doesn’t seem so stupid after all, does it?

#BucksforBoilers rally in Peekskill

This is extremely gross.

More from the crowd in Peekskill protesting Trump, Musk, and Mike Lawler’s cuts to working class people.

Packing the #Peekskill gazebo to protest Mike Lawler’s proposed cuts to Medicare and other programs.

The Behind the Bastards podcast has been a real tonic the past year, reminds us that terrible people have existed, and frequently triumphed, all throughout history, and many of us are still here to mock them mercilessly after they’re gone. Gives me a useful determined hope.

The five things I accomplished last week? Born on a Monday Christened on Tuesday Married on Wednesday Took ill on Thursday Worse on Friday

Pack in front of Schumer’s Peekskill office with @hudsonvalleystrong.bsky.social

Recognizing that the Senate staffer who normally does constituent services probably isn’t equipped to foment mass protest, but when the agencies you normally call to solve problems stop existing, what’s your next move, bro?

Enjoy the game, folks.

Going to take a brief contact high that I got a photo on @maddow.msnbc.com

Mike Lawler should go to Hakeem Jeffries, say he wants out; say it was fun but it’s gone too far; say he’ll be a good center-right NY Democrat in a purple district and routinely shit on Hochul or punch left if they’ll keep MAGA from taking his thumbs.

. @schumer.senate.gov if I can take the afternoon off work to be at your office you can max out debate time. Speak for the full 30 hours of debate. Freeze the Senate. #NoVought @workingfamilies.org @moveon.org @indivisible.org @schumer.senate.gov

Hey Chuck- do in the Senate like your staff are doing here in #Peekskill and don't show up to work! Deny a quorum. Walk out if necessary to stop Senate business! #NoVought #FlatChuck @workingfamilies.org @moveon.org @indivisible.org @schumer.senate.gov

What was supposed to be a steady stream of constituents quietly visiting @schumer.senate.gov ’s office in Peekskill turned into an impromptu rally when the office was closed.

Messages left by the crowd for @schumer.senate.gov at his Hudson Valley office (which is closed). #VoughtNo

Happening now at Schumer’s office in Peekskill NY. People lining up to deliver messages of support for action. But the office is closed and the phones are off. #voughtno