What if taxing the rich works?

this isn't even correct, bouncy castles are homes of the bouncy aristocracy, not the bourgeoisie

People don't long for "inconvenience." They long for permanence. And though streaming services may be convenient, people are waking up to the fact that we are paying rent-seeking middle men month after month for things we will never actually own.

Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and...

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2nd grade boys discussing what the biggest dinosaurs were

Who amongst us hasn’t had laser beams shooting out of our ears Or possibly straight through the space where a brain should be Gotta love the 80s

Forget Victorian children, “The American pope closes his manifesto on artificial intelligence by quoting Gandalf” is a sentence that would instantly kill a 2003-era forum user

You, a philistine: "LOL The Firm sure does spend a lot of time setting up that cotton truck in the alley below Tom Cruise's office." Me, a cineaste: "That's just the sort of old-fashioned craft and attention to detail that's missing from Hollywood movies of recent vintage."

Van Hollen is right: Israel is guilty of ethnic cleansing, apartheid, & genocide against the Palestinian people. US officials, under Biden and Trump, who have aided and abetted these crimes by providing taxpayer dollars, bombs and political support to Israel have no place in future administrations.

The Woodworking paperback is OUT TODAY, and don't forget, you can enter to win a FREE COPY. And while Woodworking is realistic fiction set in a landlocked state, I can finally reveal that within the Woodworking universe exists an octopus the size of the Titanic who is bent on revenge!

10min study #art

She's on her way to commit crimes

I mean, he believes it cuz it's true. If they were telling the truth, the story wouldn't keep changing. First, it was gonna make 5 blockbusters a day, 10 bestsellers a week, GTA V with a team of 10 in 6 months. Then, cure cancer. The, replace doctors, therapists, college. They're bullshitting.

I've been on the site for like 90 seconds. The cool Myst games we could have made for less than two minutes of investment in the thievery machine man.

You didn’t “inherit” 43 of my scripts, Anthropic, you stole them.

Seconded. Women and girls are expected to empathize, sympathize, and relate to male protagonists. It's simply presumed we will. I genuinely believe the binds of early misogyny could be loosened in young minds by expecting the same of boys with female protags.

Proposal for Woke2: Abolishment of fake-charity tax-exempt for-profit thrift-store chains. Dissolve Goodwill & Salvation Army entirely. All thrift stores become govt-subsidized free stores

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You can show me all the charts you want saying the economy is fine but if Serpentor is selling his throne because it won't fit into his new studio apartment, shit is not fine

They didn't die while serving in the military, but they died protecting our freedoms from those who would destroy them, nonetheless. Remembering these heroes on this Memorial Day.

Some people claim Pride & Prejudice is the greatest love story ever written, but I think that's just regency bias

I'm not a skilled enough artist to visually recreate some of my favourite dreams, but I did draw this titanic dragonic, somewhat Anubic death god I witnessed rearing up in a massive, dim chamber, sprung from an ancient amulet.

Sunset Boulevard (1950) Dir. Billy Wilder

Dorothy Gale has killed and will kill again (also she has a ziplock of jerky in her overalls pocket)

If we really are in the End Times, at least it’s finally starting to look awesome

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

I did this last year. Dreamed that Pret sold a cookie called Hairy Man. He had a solid choc chest of hair and choc sprinkle body hair. Woke up, drew it, then baked it. Him.

watching a northernlion stream and he said "are you guys gonna see The Mandalorian vs. Groglet" and now that phrase is just stuck in my head. The Mandalorian vs. Groglet.

there's a real core there of "look if this -doesn't- work everything we've ever claimed to believe is an extremely stupid lie, so it must be about to work" centrists discovering that no, really, they have an ideology is always a painful moment

For all the endless hoopla about "Democrats connecting with ordinary people," 99% of which is "Democrats must rigidly adhere to the directives of elite reactionary centrists," Steyer here is talking about an issue in the same way that actual people who vote for Democrats do. Good stuff.

Whoever invented the concept of laying on the sofa doing nothing really knew their stuff

Converting to Catholicism so I can tell my bosses using unregulated AI is against my religion and I will sue them like that cake lady who hated gay people if they make me use it

The way you know Bluesky is not a representative sample is several people are livetweeting their reading of an encyclical

imagine young people exploring identity, problem-solving and choice making in a consequence free environment?! 😱 #dimension20

The fruits of a system that makes affordable parking mandatory and affordable housing illegal. Means-tested free parking -- the vehicle owner can't use it unless they also own a house. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/u...

The idea that emotions/affective states are some extraneous bolted on thing and not an essential information-carrying component of cognition is, like, the Big Lie of artificial intelligence.

What the US is doing to Cuba is more than a humanitarian crisis. It is a genocide as defined by the United Nations. www.un.org/en/genocide-...

Trans people have been using the toilets they want to for decades The only thing that changed was a moral panic Nobodys toilet usage changed, what changed was a bunch of bigots started stamping their feet about EXISTING social norms They want to change the social norms, not anybody else

Since at least the 1990s the norm has been trans men use men's toilets and trans women use women's toilets and this became a very strong norm in the 2010s at least and historically, trans men and women have used congruent toilets without incident (both by passing and by people not policing anything)

The whole thing 🔥🔥🔥

a quick comic about bein’ trans. happy pride motherfucker!!!

This headline is hilarious when you learn that the rocket toppled over in a fiery explosion on landing

Florence + The Machine 2 of 3 for this months Patreon "You left me in the dark No dawn, no day I'm always in this twilight In the shadow of your heart" #art

Millennials: we have got to start talking up the Financial Crisis. The Greatest Generation dined out on the Great Depression for 80 years. If we’re not all out there talking about how we had to have five roommates and sell our plasma to buy ringtones I’m worried we’ll be missing our shot