Bloody hell. No, ChatGPT is not a good trip buddy.

Also, this is why the Paramount/Skydance/Warner Bros. Discovery merger is so terrifying to us all. Fewer competitors means fewer movies and shows competing in the market. Less choice, fewer jobs making those choices. It's lose/lose for creatives and audiences both.

I encourage states to review the text of Fuck You v. Make Me

This, all the way down. The most Scorpio line I ever wrote was, ”If you knew the things that I did about people you wouldn't ask me how I can kill them, you would ask me how I can let them live.”

"adapt or die" is what businesses should do, not customers.

This will be a fine place for me to repost my recent essay on The Shawshank Redemption, incidentally: whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/31/t...

It’s just theft all the way down. The billions “venture capitalists” pour into the “AI” grift were stolen from workers and ordinary taxpayers, billions in creative labour is stolen from artists, increased electric and power costs are stolen from struggling families…

Also fuck anyone that thinks there is an 'advance too quickly' on human rights

ThePirateBay has a perfectly functioning search

Ban surveillance pricing or they will fleece every last penny out of you.

This is the way.

"Podcast viewers" is one of those things that still trips me up and maybe exposes my 20th-century shaped mindset. It's radio. Radio on demand, but still radio. I don't watch radio. "This audiobook has been viewed 1.5 million times." What? Why? What are you talking about?

the fact that we have so many problems in this country is so much more frustrating knowing that we could solve 90% of them overnight if we really wanted to

This includes billionaires, but nobody talks about that.

THREAD 🧵 Last week, AOC said she doesn’t trust Marjorie Taylor Greene – a documented bigot and antisemite and Islamophobe – on what’s good for Jews or Palestinians. In a bizarre twist, a wave of left-wing figures came at AOC, but not Greene. They're telling on themselves.

Well, you can understand how The Anschutz Corporation that owns Coachella and funds various anti-woman/LGBTQ organizations wouldn't want to have their reputation confused with someone trying to promote humanity and kindness in the world. www.them.us/story/coache...

“We don’t think you fight fire with fire best; we think you fight fire with water best. We’re going to fight racism not with racism, but we’re going to fight with solidarity.” - Fred Hampton

OMG everybody in Minneapolis take this survey NOW and don't go easy on them.

the white house is a full of terrorists

Out: Dubai Chocolate In: Dubai Chips a/k/a Sultan Vinegar

me, buying a book written by someone who I've never met but we sometimes like each other's posts on Bluesky: my friend wrote this

The reason 8 and infinity are the most fuckable numbers is because they both have two holes and are conveniently shaped to affix a strap to the middle of.

What a weird way to admit you suck at your previous job. (You could not waterboard something like this out of me???)

If I were to die today - which I don't plan to - my work would enter the public domain in 2096. More likely my work won't enter the public domain until well into the 22nd Century. By which time, it is likely, most people will have forgotten the vast majority of it even exists.

Sometimes I think about the fact that my brother was chasing me for months about a $200 device I had already returned after our mother's death, when he stole thousands in the last 4-5 years of her life, and more on the very day of her passing. You'd think he'd be smart enough not to be that petty.

I'm so tired of hearing about the "white working class." "Work" isn't what defines them. You're not radically changing immigration policy because of where they work or their income. Call them the "white racist class" because that tells you exactly who you're trying to appease.

Platform of the People's (aka Populist) Party, 1892 www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/po...

Subtweet: an ad that wants name, employer, and job title for ghu knows what nefarious reasons: Why yes, indeed, I work for Noonya, Beesh & Waxe, as a director of irrelevant concerns.

It’s a very good time to simply delete as many apps as you can because that’s how the majority of data is collected. Using stuff on the browser is 1. Not perfect and 2. A pain but it’s genuinely not worth it anymore. I hate feeling like my identity is being mildly robbed every waking second.

They destroy mountains to get limestone for concrete, the second most used building material in the world, so being able to recycle it is amazing news. #sharegoodnewstoo techxplore.com/news/2026-05...

Literally this fucking guy

Tax them at 90%, including investment income. Then interview them.

Hilariously, the summary on NPR's homepage states that he'd need Congressional approval to suspend the tax. You know, the same Congress who never approved the war in Iran in the first fucking place. Assholes upon assholes upon assholes, all the way down.

For those outside the Seattle area, the current area drama is that wealthy residents of a mansion neighborhood are complaining to the city that helicopters that carry children to the Children's Hospital are too noisy. I cannot say my thoughts publicly :)

In Louisiana and likely Alabama, actual, cast votes are going to be tossed out as officials speed ahead with new (or previously enjoined) maps. This is such an extreme use case for the Purcell principle that the court ignoring it here signifies that it was always a made-up toy, not law.

Accept no imitations.

The degree of political asymmetry on what judges/justices are up to these days, AND what politicians are doing to courts, is one of the most staggering aspects of our moment.

For folks using Shopify, they recently forced all your products into their Agentic (as in AI Agents) sales channels. @rrookstudio.bsky.social is in the process of turning ours off and disabling it. You should go do the same. Reposts appreciated for community visibility.

Slightly increase a band. 25cm Nails

Just change their robes to white already.

I am not a lawyer but I would imagine the responsibility would not be on the "AI" but on the company responsible for it. If Google's "AI" was posting defamatory statements and Google knew it and allowed it to continue to happen, I would imagine there might be a potential case there.

At this point anyone who cares about justice and the rule of law just needs to be upfront about the fact that this is an illegitimate court whose decisions will be undone at the first opportunity, and that opportunity being peaceful is the best these partisan hacks can hope for.

I just think it's weird to be fine processing payments to platforms that host Nazis but not to platforms that host sexual content. One of those two hosted things is definitionally evil and the other isn't. Also surely money is money to banks and credit card companies.

I used to work with a guy who when he got angry during meetings would pull up his retirement account and just stare at it

The Purcell Principle means it always too late for courts to fix something racist and never too late for states to do something racist

Slightly increase a band: Motor Home Van Beethoven

Ten Thousand and One Maniacs

Practicing as a public defender in NYC for a decade is why my position is Abolish ICE and not reform it. I have seen what "reform" looks like in an overfunded organization that feels (and largely is) immune from legal consequences. You cannot reform an institution this broken.

My favorite thing about that bit is that he did it for Halloween.