Where's that guy who was theosplaining to me about how this kind of thinking isn't Calvinist?

The ontological argument for the existence of the Mammon. Did not expect this today, but here we all are.

Is it that people are focusing on it now, or is he going harder on "you're stupid" lately?

this used to be my job btw medical writing. yes the papers that were submitted to nature and jams and NEJM i did art direction for infographics too by the time i left i was in the meetings where AI vendors were trying to sell us "tools" i NEED to know the agency who did this lmao

Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen: Ramones The Individuals Husker Du Lords of Acid Ida (OTOMH, no attempt to prioritize or put in chrono order)

I have a little bit of experience with autism bicycles and I'd say that the saddle on that bike looks particularly runctitional. I'd venture you might end up with a medical frymnblal if you use it for very long, maybe even a case of drop-out totalbottl.

Zionism is an ethos of homogeneity because the Christian race science it’s a thin veneer over demands homogeneity. See also “Jews support…” or “Jews want…” when we can’t even agree on what our candles should be made from.

ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Racism aside, the problem with "it's not stolen, it's conquered" is that attitude is nothing but "killing you is an acceptable way to take your stuff" and I'm pretty sure that's bad. "I didn't steal your car, I conquered it" would, uh, not hold up at trial.

New from 404 Media: X has shown where accounts are actually being run from, revealing many MAGA accounts are actually grifters in Eastern Europe, Asia, etc. But the situation is much, much worse. Entire guides specifically on how to squeeze US audiences with AI. www.404media.co/americas-pol...

The 404 Media Podcast is up! This week - a massive breach reveals people using an AI chatbot to make porn from women's yearbook photos - how America became the world's side hustle with social media spamming - how we helped shut down a warrantless surveillance program www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgOt...

If you already do some kind of art, think of it as cross-training.

A workforce trained to normalize generative AI is a workforce that *will not be able to understand* people talking about creativity and pride in gaining skills and the value of their labor. It'll be alien to them.

I know some people overreact about anything involving pumpkin spice but to an old who paid attention in freshman history this is pretty clever. Professor Trexler would probably have gotten a laugh out of this.

Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?! & more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you? ...As usual I'm kind of screwed. (They know it, too. Allison's sad, but Noel accepts my fate.)

Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s. This is the power of vaccines. The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer. Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!

Also this being true is not a new thing. It was not less true in 1994 or 1996 or 1999 or any time since, regardless of the declarations of net.libertarians or net.anarchists or 'netizens' or what have you.

Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!

Copaganda is real. Even with a suspect in custody, we still know basically nothing, because our only sources are official - & even if you were inclined to trust official sources in the past, you'd be a complete fool to do so now.

CDC website altered at Robert F. Kennedy's behest to reflect his belief that "all events depicted in the film Ghostbusters really happened."

Interesting absence of information regarding whom the Guard soldiers were exchanging fire with. Probably ICE. They were probably shot by ICE. But we'll never get that from a mainstream news source.

This is actually why i agree with that video we were just watching about how we need to move past deconstruction to a certain extent bc we need to reckon with THAT kind of villainy right now, the kind that doesn’t care and doesn’t need to be saved

Ask Joe Chip. He'll tell you.

Have read just enough Dogman with my grandkid to be sure this is something that would exist in-universe as a horror franchise in Dogman comics.

'Librarians are grifters' my dude do you have any idea what public librarians get paid? that must be some SERIOUSLY shitty grift.

Just saw someone claim that authors who want to be paid for their work are "class traitors" because we "only let the wealthy" read our books, and I think I need to go into the woods to scream into the night for a bit. It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!

"Let me get this straight. Your lab has bred a dragon?" "A wyvern, director. It has two legs, two wings, whereas a-" "Which flies, breathes fire, and is intelligent?" "About as intelligent as a border collie." "So, intelligent. Why?" "You asked us to invent measures to take down small drones."

Utica Greens is one of those regional dishes I wish got more exposure, so we could have arguments about which recipes are "authentic". (That having been said, Utica Greens IME are a bit like pizza in that I've yet to have bad ones.) Typical presentation:

It would be a mistake to think Leavitt gives a shit about the mother of her nephew, who's Brazilian & was never married to her brother. From her perspective, it's a simple, clean solution to her brother not having gotten the full custody he clearly deserved for being a wealthy white American male.

"Just another $100M in VC runway and I would have touched the sky"

Found a stunned bird on the path this morning & it's sitting harder than I would have expected. Didn't look like it was gonna make it.

This bullshit is making everything worse and the only thing I’m sure of is that I will continue to spend five figures a year to access four figures of care just in case I need seven figures of care.

Social norms gonna be social norms - which is to say, they need to be established. Until then, they're definitionally not norms, & we're stuck with UX clues such as "is reposting/replying enabled on this post."

The "DOGE is gone" articles are clickbait but this one gets it closer to the truth: DOGE is not gone, it just claims to have "no centralized leadership" anymore -- in other words, its leadership is hiding in an attempt to avoid blame.

Yet again, I am going to ask everyone to look at the 'farmers' hands driving the tractors / being interviewed in this protest. If they have soft hands they are not farmers, they are tax dodging managers. Farmers have giant sausage fingers covered in cuts. Source: Grew-up on a farm.

I'm super open to this framing. It's WAY more fundamental than any of the several bubbles I've lived through, especially if Sacks isn't lying & >50% of GDP growth is from the "AI" sector.

DAVID SACKS, PROBABLY: According to a rigorous survey of guys in my...um...shaving mirror, cocaine is responsible for over half my productivity. We can't afford to go back.

Hey buddies this is a bad pic of a movie poster from a video I’m watching What movie is it it’s the only one i can’t recognize lmao

Look, everybody, it's gonna be a long-ass winter and we fired all the agriculture workers and all the other countries are pissed at us, cabbage is gonna be basically the only green vegetable we see this winter that you can afford, so just get used to it.

I'm gonna go looking for cioppino recipes & find AI shit telling me to add cornstarch and bits of tire rubber; also it will recommend leaving the fish out to ripen in the sun for at least 6 hours.

Exciting and original sci-fi horror by @qntm.org Antimemes cannot be remembered; they are ‘self-keeping secrets’. So how can Marie Quinn, the Head of the Antimemetics Division, protect humanity from this threat? Sometimes confusing but always propulsive and interesting. I enjoyed this. #books 💙📚🪐

It'd be super non-canonical but it would absolutely have style.

Release the butthole cut of Cats.

One of my favorite 'everyone is a muppet except x' ideas.

Oh. Yeah, no, that could totally work. I could see that.

Knives Out: A Star Wars Story