I wish more people realized this! There was a time when people had dirty clothes because there were no washing machines! Now, they have dirty clothes because laundromats are charging $11 to wash! 😳

A hilarious inversion of "No Enemies to Your Left"

A bookseller just informed me that the publishing industry is doing away with mass market paperbacks. I do not know how to process this.

We don't have a general strike because people are still invested in capitalism. Everyone's talking about a general strike but strikes need demands. And while these corporations are slow-walking us off a cliff, the most obvious demand needs to be the abolition of capitalism

A fucking manchild who made a toy to be his mommy

webp is just the worst thing ever the fact that google made it to replace PNG/JPG/GIF files & it's just worse in every way shows you what they're about also it took them 8 years to make it and it was a high cyber security risk until 2023 and don't get me started on WebP2 as a replacement for AVIF

I'll never understand how Graber's Debt became a bible for crypto bros. A dollar is a socially recognized claim on an amount of real resources. We can *always* decide, *socially* how those claims are distributed. There is no reason to just throw up our hands when they all go to one group.

"Nobody wants a parasocial bestie who shills for the plutocrats who are nullifying their votes, degrading their educations, jacking up their power bill, stealing their wages and rigging the system. There is no feminist case for scaring people into adopting A.I. Why would anyone even try?"

because society understood homes were a right, not a commodity. And because they didn't have to worry about paying to live, people whose work was agriculture could grow what was actually useful/good for the soil and season. None of this needs money. Money is a thief.

As if you could just go to the doctor when you needed to because they didn't require money to treat you, they did it because healthcare was something they cared about doing And the healthcare professionals could offer care for free because they didn't have to worry about paying rent/mortgages+

Had to look up an EO for work. Breathtaking agitprop in an era of dying paycheck to paycheck

Once saw a play in Los Angeles about a woman who is consistently described as homely and treated roughly for it by the other characters, only the performer was one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen in person. Great performance, but the contrast was so jarring I thought I'd missed subtext

All day long I have been laughing at "soup fork." It reminds me of my favorite insult from Puzzle Fighter, "You're about as sharp as a circle."

Maybe everyone has seen this video by now, but listen how she talks about the oppression they fled was in *Ireland*. Irish-American slavery has always been a transparent myth with a purpose www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F3G...

Congrats you have ADHD now please fill out these million forms to access treatment even tho you have ADHD and filling out forms is your kryptonite 🤪

“Speaker of the TN House Cameron Sexton just removed me and every Democrat — and therefore every Black elected official in the state legislature from any committee we served on," Rep. Pearson said. Fascist reprisals for protesting.

I love that "unclear" can be a typo for "nuclear". Unclear energy Unclear family Weak unclear force

It's only 9:30am and we already have the day's best tweet

Idk why everyone is freaking out just cuz we can't grow shit to eat in the US and what we can grow (sugar, chatbots that tell u to kill yourself) is siphoning off so much water that even the wettest place in the US is on fire

"I’m not saying I don’t care about human suffering; I just care more about my immediate self-interest because I’m the kind of person who contributes to society by starting companies that leverage technology to build smart tea kettles that brew themselves while you sleep at night."

"One study found that increasing the number of people who receive SNAP benefits by 5 percent could have prevented nearly 32,000 suicides over 15 years. And a $1 increase in minimum wage has been linked to roughly 8,000 fewer suicide deaths over a decade."

From what I can tell, they think the under-babied do not have baby because having baby is hard, but once you have baby, all the hard goes away

noticed that a red poppy i photographed turned out a little oversaturated, started pulling on that thread and i am now fully lost in the sauce

I have not forgotten the face of my father.

Questa frase tratta da Kolchoz di Carrère mi ha toccato profondamente. Quando se ne vanno le persone che amiamo, sparisce una parte di mondo. Spendere tempo con chi amo è in fondo il mio tentativo di conservare il mondo.

"Brittney Houston" broke my face

43 years of desktop GUI computing and still no obvious answer to "will this archive extractor splay files into the current directory or a nested directory?"

I can't decide whether it's worse that so many people found it easy to believe that nearly 1.5% of the world's men had enrolled in a rape academy or that they found it easy to believe. That's not a typo.

“So, in short: you now have an LLM running on your machine, and any website you visit can make use of it, and whatever processing resources it requires.” The definitive piece on Google participating in the web standards process “the way a bear participates in the ‘camping’ process.”, by @wil.to 👏

Donna Haraway apparently misspoke when she coined Cthulhucene and meant to say Cthonicene, but I think it works anyway, consider: In its House at S̷͚͙̝͚̲̲͖͓̬̉̔́͒͛̌i̴̧̪͖͋͊͋̈́̈́l̵̫̖͙̣̦̩̘̋͛́̚í̷̟͖̼͖c̸̛̜̜̖̈́̓͆͛̚͠͝o̷͈͕̺̺̼̟̘̍͌̓̃̋̃̋͑̎͘n̸̈̍͑̚͜ ̶̻̼͓̟̜̮̠̳̰̃̿ͅV̴͇̹̱̙͙͔̔̿͆ą̶̧̢͇̞̪͉̇ļ̴͂͗ḻ̷̼̗̼̙̳̓è̶͋͑͋͊͗͌́̚͝ͅȳ̵̼̰̙̻̹͊̔, dead À̷̪͓̜̺͈̪̞͋ͅI̶̮̻̰̻͖̻̠̜̚͠ waits dreaming...

I want Bloc Party and Blood Cultures to do a show together and I want it to last until 5 in the morning

I cackled at someone's take on Philly drivers on Threads. "...a horse named Benjamin" laid me out this morning🤣

Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities by Vaclav Smith, a book that drags techno-optimism back onto a finite planet

This debate is maddening to me. Conscious, of what? What is its phenomenology? Because it only "knows" language, not the things language represents or refers to. It has no experience of those things. Its direct experience is inputs and outputs and the probabilities it computes. Moron.

I unfortunately don't remember the source of this, but I read about a study that determined it takes something like 20 years with no financial "mistakes" or crises to climb out of poverty. No one falls into destitution because they just don't know what the fuck they're doing. There's always a push

Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...

This is really sad

I write about people who became famous for saying and doing horrible things so I routinely get asked this question. "Did they really believe it?" Look, I get the curiosity, but in the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what's in their hearts. They put evil into the world.

Some Bloomberg economist just said there's evidence that the pain workers feel during a recession is now a permanent part of the labor market. Took them a while to get there.

I think it would shock the hell out of most people how much richly prophetic gonzo artistry you could find on cable in the 90s.

I love any and all descriptions for the post-leg-day walk. Mine is, "leg day got me walking like a careful chicken."

I say it again and again: Because we don’t learn the real history of this country, we do not understand what this country is capable of. After 1870, 22 Black men served in Congress. By 1901, because of racist SCOTUS rulings, electoral coups and election cheating and violence, there were none.

My mother thought Twister was "Tornado," and Taladega Nights was "Ricky Bobby".

Sam Neill has announced he is cancer free after 5 years of battling blood cancer. “It’s time I did another movie.”

This is my favorite kind of AI

To listen to the previous episode of After Order on green capitalism with Thea Riofrancos: open.spotify.com/episode/6uns... // @macrodosepod.bsky.social @planetbproductions.bsky.social

"A: By allowing Skynet to relieve you of tasks tedious enough to merit paid employment, you can free up time for unremunerated pursuits." I'm taking notes about how good this is

Given the price of bananas per 100 calories, there are times when I am majority banana

It was whipped honey, I regret nothing

when will zohran mamdani bring back 22 episode television seasons