one interesting thing so far about loudly hating AI is the way AI lovers are like "wow so you're just totally closed off to hearing another perspective??" as if their perspective hasn't been relentlessly pushed down our throats with no space to push back (particularly in professional settings)

My TV gets a station in New York that I can only describe as "radical socialist PBS agitprop for 8-year-olds." Today they were showing a program about how the stock market is manipulated by the whims of investors, starring a cartoon dog. I am afraid to ever change the channel in case it goes away.

Hear my cry, world! My precious soulmate is slipping away within hours. I am desperate, fighting for his breath, yet powerless. My beloved Arafat is dying! Please, I beg you, unite, stand with us and donate to save him! gofund.me/df8249776

Public access, the past and future of tv

Salmon are at risk with federal plans to give farmers more water from Shasta Lake, critics warn www.latimes.com/environment/... 🦑🌎🧪🐟

Colbert guest hosted a public access TV show in Monroe, Michigan a day after the Late Show ended. Guest star: Jeff Daniels Special appearance by: Eminem Musical director: Jack White Genius. youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4?...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s election-security czar last year sought to ban voting machines used in more than half of U.S. states by asking whether the Commerce Department could declare their components national-security risks, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter.

The RTÉ story about this said the launch was “mostly successful” and imo space flight is one of those things where you really want to be in that 100% successful range

Fun new detail from a source: The Trump administration appears to be paying the bond for these agents. It also appears to be paying for their private defense attorneys.

There have been some incredibly harmful plays making their premieres on and off Broadway. But because this harm surrounds Natives, we’ve seen no action. The list of signees includes nearly EVERY Native leading modern theatre as well as Tony winners. Will you finally listen now, American Theatre?

We all literally, LITERALLY just watched NASA fly four absolute all-stars the farthest any human has ever been from Earth and back flawlessly, and yet we're still continuously forced to pretend Musk's bullshit catastrophe factory is the future of human space exploration

Company loses money, core assets are falling behind competitors without proper leadership or investment, and owner with dictatorial control is spending all his time running/funding white supremacy around world. Extremely bad for markets to have 2nd absurdly overvalued stock joining Tesla in indexes.

If you acknowledge that the richest man in the world is a Nazi is has all sorts of unsettling implications about the moral valence of success and the arc of society, so it's easier to just ignore it entirely.

sometimes i wish i could find charli xcx interesting.

Why do I read non-US publications? Because they are more likely to deal in reality instead of propaganda. "Mango orchards and coconut stalls are no longer the lush, green and tropical reality of Indian summers — they are turning brutal." India. Too hot for AI? Great question.

please understand that getting covid every year because you don’t want to mask anymore is melting your brain

I'm now staying with my parents in Yuen Long, a transit-rich northwestern suburb of Hong Kong. It's wild how close we are from Shenzhen, and how everything you see in this photo did not exist until after I was born bsky.app/profile/alex...

We found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)

i'm so glad i told you. i wish i had told you more.

NEW: Sports Illustrated was accused of publishing an AI-generated article the content of which was plagiarized from a competitor -- and when we reached out with questions, it deleted the author's profile and entire archive of work futurism.com/artificial-i...

30 Rock’s Grizzwald ‘Grizz’ Chapman has died at the age of 52. The news was confirmed by Kevin Brown, who played Dot Com.

The billionaire owner of Autotrader and Kelley Blue Book who raised eight figures for "Cop City" while lying to readers about his involvement, who also turned Atlanta into the only print paper desert in the U.S., just happened to help Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens stage a 2nd self-coup since 2024

Howard Lutnick made this donation on April 1—four weeks after his Epstein testimony was on the books, but just a day after the quarterly filing deadline, ensuring the donation wouldn’t be disclosed before his testimony. (House GOP also said nothing about it fwiw) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/u...

fun friday night just waiting to see how poisoned the air is about to be. love LA.

If someone wants to leak me a copy of this app (either .apk or .ipa), please reach out on Signal — my username is zackwhittaker.1337 — and I would be keen to run this app through Burp Suite to see how it works. Happy to grant anonymity.

nothing could have prepared me for the part of the Britney Spears DUI video where she offers to make the cops a lasagna. world-historic bribery attempt

BREAKING: POLITICO is shutting down AI "tools" at center of landmark arbitration. wbng.org/2026/05/22/p... #NewsNotSlop

I think Democrats should come out and say Blanche's "settlement" and the Slush Fund generally is one act in a continuing January 6 conspiracy, extending statutes of limitation for another 3 years.

how concerned should I be about this massive vat of chemicals that is about to explode in garden Grove?

Caltech could lose control of JPL for first time in decades

Curios if people in New Jersey and the region thereabouts think that Atlman's barely concealed racist statement towards Hamawy blew her campaign momentum up

The Arlington National Cemetery Memorial apparently has deleted references and information on everyone interred there who wasn’t a white straight man from their database - attempting to sweep their existence under the rug. My thoughts on this obscenity cannot legally be shared on this platform.

They are high on their own supply and this is not going to end well for them. This is mask-off Klan shit. We are a racist country, but they are acting like the frog is fully boiled. And it just isn't.

Last year, there were nearly 700 murder-suicides and family annihilations in the United States — nearly two per day, on average. Our latest dataset, sourced from the Gun Violence Archive:

On Reddit, Orange County residents are very justifiably angry that local authorities are posting vital evacuation information on X and Instagram…which both require accounts if you want to be able to view videos easily and completely. How many people use neither? This has got to stop.

what fresh heap of dogshit are my tax dollars going to now

I need to start drinking again, but the blackout needs to be permanent.

man, fuck this. there goes my renewed interest in Catholicism.

NEW: When Pope Leo drops his new encyclical focused on AI next week, a co-founder of Anthropic will be there to help promote it. Why? Turns out, there was a decade-long effort by the Vatican and the tech world to forge a relationship — w/Anthropic at the center. religionnews.com/2026/05/22/w...

he’s on a mission to prove his haters were right all along

NEW in @laist.com: "Career prosecutors accuse LA city attorney of dropping cases to help donors" Leaked emails show "two supervising prosecutors questioned city attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto's directive to drop a price gouging case against a major campaign donor" This blatant corruption must go!

took a dream about a dead stranger to make me remember what intimate desire and connection feel like.

love a so called "climate nerd" who posts genAI graphs he made. like, what kinda climate nerd? pro-unlivable climate, apparently.

Conversation with my brother, a guy who worked for DoD, NASA, and JPL. Went to MIT. Has been coding since the 80s. Helped get AOL off the ground and developed Google's original search algorithm. Was on the original Android development team. I bring up his CV because he knows his shit. And yet

"Israel just executed Ahmed Hariri in South Lebanon. "He was a paramedic. And a journalist. "Israel deliberately assassinated him in a double tap strike while he was rescuing the wounded. "They drop bombs on civilians. They wait. Then they drop bombs on the rescuers." — Sarah