few things annoy me more than seeing a widely reskeeted post that says "BREAKING: some outrageous thing happened" but there's no link to a story, and the person "breaking" the news is some random who follows 20k people.

It’s no guarantee but the first thing you should do if you see an outrageous story that’s just an image or screenshot or video with no link to a reputable source is to check the replies and see if someone is saying “that’s an AI fake.” And then don’t spread it either way because it’s not sourced.

the article is 1) AI-generated and 2) referencing a prediction from The Information about why OpenAI might want to buy Pinterest (for its image repository), instead of competing with it but, there is no confirmation from OpenAI about a sale, or anything even in the works

I truly didn’t mean to start this on a vacation Friday but I can’t let this slide. I have to at least say that a membership organization is not necessarily a civil rights organization and the leadership does not change that fact. I will let it rest for now.

Also, any kind of “rural is better than urban/farming is better than trade” argument has been about half a step from antisemitism for hundreds of years.

The gist. I was going to use Florida as an extended metaphor but y’all know I’m extra.

In his inauguration speech New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani put it best, “For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty."

We're not allowing praise of George W fucking Bush in 2026, even if it's faint comparative praise. Pat Tillman didn't die for that

You find embarrassment and the current animus worse than a genocidaire cum torturer who spent american lives like water, started a gestapo and helped an imperial machine fueled by blood?

You people would let a bag of horse shit in that house if it learned how to say please, and thank you.

Wow

it is 2026 and why have we not yet figured out that indoor fireworks are dangerous

This is going in the hall of misquotes with “Ain’t I A Woman?” (Sojourner Truth never said this in her speech. She did not speak Ebonics; her first language was Dutch.) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ain't_I...

i love that we all love this quote, but she didn't say nor write that it is a misquoted & misattributed. the real quote is by alice walker & from her book, possessing the secret of joy

The Buddhist monks on a "Walk for Peace" toward Washington are urging streamers not to follow them everywhere they go "We don't want this to become something people chase after"

the "source" lol - of course, it's behind a paywall, I can't get through it with my archive site regardless, I wouldn't freak out just yet the operative word in all of this is "predicted" - there have been no official purchases, OpenAI hasn't made any definitive claims yet

Their Monopoly money has to be stopped

Oh I love math suddenly!!

what exactly is the point of saying "black americans," or "black people from america, i hope y'all know you have to fall with the empire. you are a part of it and i hope you don't think you can separate yourselves from the harms it causes the world bla bla" tell me the ACTUAL REASON to say this.

#BestOf2025: “The whole system is premised on commodifying human beings, regardless of whether or not it’s a for-profit or a nonprofit agency. And anytime you’re talking about people as a commodity, I don’t know what that looks like to do ethically.”

Zara is three H&Ms in a trench coat.

It's one thing for people casually scrolling and seeing the screenshot to miss this, but it is egregious misreporting from @reuters.com here. The only way to fix this piece is a full retraction, the whole premise of it is bogus.

Yes, Twitter and Musk themselves aren’t even attempting to apologize for “Grok creating CSAM” - but this too is an example of allowing a machine to take blame! Who CREATED the machine that’s apologizing for its actions in a fashion that shifts blame to itself and not to its actual human creators?

Fun fact: It's a jodeci reference! Another fun fact: The actor is Dante Bosco, Rufio for you older millennials and Prince Zuko for everyone else.

Google “said its AI Overviews, which use generative AI to provide snapshots of essential information about a topic or question, are ‘helpful’ and ‘reliable’”. “…some of the summaries, which appear at the top of search results, served up inaccurate health information and put people at risk of harm.”

Mero and the First Lady of New York City, Rama Duwaji

At a certain point, white liberals will need to start asking how it is that they’ve been saying “this isn’t the America I know” their entire lives.

for people to even posit that this country is acting like the nazis, you would have to assume the wrong historical starting point

What amazes me is how quickly people are losing either the confidence or the willingness to complete basic human tasks.

been fighting this battle for a long time

Julie, heifer I know it’s you and when I find you…when I catch you Julie…

What it's like blocking all of the "Julie" bot accounts on here

WHY THO

Daily bunny no.3187 wants to be a robot

I'll do another one: not seeing something happening directly on screen and having to infer, even left to ponder about how something happened/occured, is NOT in itself a plot hole

I'll do one! A thing that signals film illiteracy: knowing just enough about movies to basic rhen patterns, then assuming a film is bad because ~you~ can spot the seams, they'll always be there if you look for them, and most people don't. You figuring out where they're headed doesn't mean anything.

Kimberly practice

No sheet mask this early morning. Just my usual products and sleep. 💤💤💤

GURL!!!! Fucking CHILL!!! Damn!!! I JUST posted that shit lol how you like it, and it’s been posted for 0.5 seconds?

I want these workout shorts in the shade “espresso,” but as someone whose skin leans neutral-cool, I’m afraid it will look muddy on me. I’ll have a look at it again later this month. It’s not a need, so I can wait.

A single crow flies in front of the 97.8% waxing gibbous moon tonight. 🪶

I'll forever be irked that their idea of Dorne was like that. The book Dorne had so much more to it. I hope Alexander Siddig got paid enough to chill since they wasted his talents.

When Dany lost a dragon to a silly harpoon one week, and then took out an entire fleet with one SINGLE dragon the next week. . . I said, "oh, I see. . . D+D think I'M stupid." 😂

I wanted to make a lemon pig but I didn’t have lemons or toothpicks now I’ve gone and summoned the spirit of Dali and will have a surrealist year ☹️

It’s less we assume sentience is speech (see: animals) but that GenAI convincingly generates the affect of personhood (there’s a fun Japanese word for this - sonzai kan). Coupled with AI hype and a mechanical model of consciousness, we have a perfect storm.

MIND YOU HBO threw more money at them and GRRM said the show should’ve been 10-12 seasons. They could’ve had other people take over the show. Even with the main book series unfinished, there was a lot of material they didn’t use that they could/should have.

tech has always been terrible about guarding against the abusive use cases of its products, but now those use cases have become the selling point and it is leading to an extraordinarily dark place

My dad said rent used to be $500 for a 2 bedroom apartment & $25 would fill up the tank for the Ford Expedition. I’m so sick of living in the economy that we do. I’m SICK OF IT.