i'm sorry but people should not have to defend themselves against looking annoyed at people who are being annoying. stop inflicting your shitty personality on strangers and maybe they won't look so pissed off near you

honestly I've begun to fucking hate the term "creating content" bitch you're not creating anything. you're filming strangers without their knowledge

It has long been my opinion that Hollywood is frittering away the generational dance talents of Channing Tatum & Tom Holland by not putting them in a musical together. Not a remake, but akin to Gene Kelly & Donald O’Connor in Singin’ In The Rain. I strongly believe this would make a billion dollars

I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition. www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

Sorry for being repetitive, but Ezra Klein has never, not once considered how it feels to be pregnant in a red state, working an hourly job, without the resources, the time, the support, or the legal ability to obtain an abortion. Ezra Klein is why I give thousands of dollars to NNAF every year.

Oh hey autumnal heads - a wild rice/walnut/dried cherry or cranberry salad is a budget delight with a nutritious punch that goes well with roast anything and can absorb some beans for frugal protein -dress in good olive oil, sherry vinegar and lemon juice

I hate telling this story, but when tear gas is in the news... telling always feels importantm Tear gas is an abortifacient. When I was tear gassed, we were trying for a baby. The following day, I bled in a way I never have before. Like no period of my life before or since. Horror movie stuff.

Tech companies made their billions providing services for "free" (social media that sells your data) or cheap (streaming music and video that barely pays artists). Now that they have something they actually need to sell, they're reaping a culture that is unwilling to pay for anything.

love boarding in zone 6 for a flight, wriggling my leprous face tentacles and frightening the children and elderly with my sublime horrible poverty. “no carry-on for me! my master beelzebub shall provision me!!” i wail at the fainting ladies

My generation's total lack of home ownership is the driving force behind how many kinds of magnetic shelving one can buy these days.

Inside each of us is a little boy, a shy, lovesick girl with a curse, a demon made of fire, and a shape-shifting wizard with no heart. #OldTweets

TFW you wrote a novel about the Canadian tech corridor just expanding wildly for no particular reason whatsoever, following COVID: us.macmillan.com/books/978076...

On the record I fucking love all of this and this is far more my preferred culture than the vast wasteland of misery that is Boston

I’m at a French seaside bar at 1:00 AM and I am witnessing so many fascinatingly esoteric homoerotic acts amongst supposedly straight men

just absolutely furious with @alixeharrow.bsky.social for being such a goddamn genius "the contradictory heart of what prose does, which is to waste the reader’s time as efficiently and sexily as possible...a reader gives you their time, and you tell them, word by word, how to spend it." y E s

Heard from a friend at Disney+ that there are multiple levels of freakout internally, both from internal dissatisfaction, concerns about subscription cancelations, and of course the big one: concern about a boycott spilling over into parks and cruises.

The possibility for good with all these incredible technologies available and all we're going to use it for is Slow Death by Capitalism. metro.co.uk/2025/09/17/d...

wow, fucking amazing, middle management ass slavery fetish bullshit. it's so hard to book yourself a haircut or order some groceries. they built a half baked program to let you microdose the fantasy of being a billionaire who has people doing all of these things for them. i'm so full of hate rn

NEW: ChatGPT is causing chaos in marriages, as one spouse becomes deeply fixated on AI therapy/advice/spiritual wisdom — alienating the other spouse and, often, resulting in divorce. In some cases, ChatGPT-enmeshed spouses are using the tech to bully their partners. futurism.com/chatgpt-marr...

Now is a great time to buy hard copies of your favorite queer literature.

I guarantee you are unprepared for this harrowing and deeply reported story about ChatGPT tearing apart countless marriages futurism.com/chatgpt-marr...

wow sounds like a cool consumer technology that everyone wants

"I can't believe Brazil of all places managed to do this while the US couldn't" My brother in Christ, what do you mean by "of all places"? We have public healthcare, actual vaccination policies and advanced electronic voting. Your prejudice against South Americans is showing

Samsung has rolled out a software update to its smart fridges that will display ads, despite saying they had "no plans" to do so. We're headed for a future where you will have to pay extra for appliances without ads.

holy shit @criterionchannl.bsky.social you didn't have to go so hard, but you did!

Thread. Have only ever heard delightful things about GDT.

I could go on and on, but in my experience, and from others, it's not that I've just never heard anything bad, it's that every account is GLOWING. He's also really funny and one of the smartest people I've been in a room with. Sharp as hell.

“Pffft that can’t be trauma because then everyone would be traumatized!” So…close…to getting it

Remember, they hate trans joy, they hate gay joy, they hate Black joy, they hate Native joy, etc. they hate when we can laugh and love and live our lives in our own skin. They hate that we can find our way without their rigid rules. To find joy and thrive is a great act of resistance too.

The second collected stories of translators and interpreters, who have been impacted in many of the same ways as visual artists: www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-killed-...

As I mentioned, this is the third installment in the AI Killed My Job series. The first collected stories of tech workers:

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

I think one of the better, more subtle tributes to Robert Redford's life is the string of utterly iconic female co-stars who've come forward to eulogize him; each of them take-no-shit types like Fonda and Streisand, and every one of them without a single bad thing to say. A model for male behavior

The Midwest newsroom at @propublica.org is amazing. Fantastically talented, hard-working, good-hearted people who do this work for all the right reasons. And so much fun to be around. I love being part of it. Come join us! This is a **solid-gold journalism job opportunity.**

My God, they use the example I give to explain why torture doesn’t work as the training model for AI. They train it to lie.

Exactly this. And it is important to overwhelm their systems before they're up and running. The corollary to "courage is contagious" is that everyone has to stand up *early*, not wait for others to go first. The sooner everyone demonstrates that their machine can't possibly do this, the better.

Love that terrific Canadian author @kellyrobson.com is putting home-care nurses front-and-centre in this modern horror short story

This weekend my next work opens in Luxembourg: PLACE ECHOES, five sound sculptures made from 50 discarded smart speakers and half a tonne of soil. Each sculpture features voices from the speakers reading short eco-socio-technical fiction about near futures with and without this consumer trash.

mRNA vaccines are one of the most significant medical advances this century and even earned a Nobel Prize. They have applications to fight not only infectious diseases like covid and HIV but also cancer, heart attacks, stroke, and more. The conspiracy campaign against them is a grift.

This makes my disease sound so festive!

Incredible that the Bell Riots, DS9's grim vision of 2024 broadcast in 1995, remains way way way more optimistic than what is actually happening in San Francisco

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Tell me this isn’t everyone in charge of us right now

WOOOOOO PARASITES

I know there’s a lot of horrors to fight but if you have bandwidth I can personally attest that PSLF is literally life-changing and it by design benefits people working for the public good (and not just educators!). It’s only been a handful of years since Biden-era changes made it actually WORK.

Fuck I'm so fucking tired. Please go comment on this thing. I've been working in public higher education for 13 yrs, & I'm still not cleared under EXISTING PSLF rules (adjuncting is a motherfucker), & they want to do this to everyone coming up after us? Being both exhausted & enraged feels so weird.

I felt everyone in Glass Houses was a bit of a psycho, or outright, fullblown psycho. At the first read I thought, "well, that's a bit much." but now I think ... "This tracks."

Or, as I told @kameronhurley.com on the weekend: Social media has become an experience of cosmic horror as we stare into the abyss of our neighbour’s heart, and the undying creatures waiting in the outer darkness (hedge fund managers) have learnt how to harness and feed on the madness that ensues.

Was talking to @madelineashby.bsky.social today, who recommended Kevin Can Go Fuck Himself. It's an absolutely brilliant show, but the extremely clever subversion of family-based sitcoms may actually be too heartbreaking for me to get past episode 1. Which is saying something 😆

"...he’s seen this pattern time and again where safety is only prioritized until it slows the race for market dominance. Human workers are often left to clean up the mess after a half-finished system is released."