David Cross' thoughts on the Ridyah comedy festival 🤌 officialdavidcross.com/blogs/press/...

This whole section really.

It's really annoying how after each update on Mac or Android Copilot will magically reappear or be turned back on after disabling it in Outlook or Teams. Really would love a codified right to life without AI statute to be enacted somewhere!

we need evidence of two things: first, that trump can distinguish fantasy from reality and second, that trump is actually president

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They don’t have enough officers to track every person who meets this criteria. The NSPM-7 might allow for extra judicial surveillance and spying on so-called “Leftists”, but just like in Portland, it will exhaust millions in resources for very little results. Keep fighting, siblings.

🚨 New directive NSPM-7 targets "anti-capitalism," “anti-Christian,” and “anti-American" opinions as indicators of extremist violence, authorizing an army of 4,000 counter-terrorism officers to prevent crimes that haven't happened: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...

Posit: Peter Thiel funds JD Vance's entry into politics because he is a likely candidate for his Antichrist.

Please sir, may we have another portion? We're children of the beast that dodged the abortion Neck placed firm 'tween the floor and the Florsheim We'll shut your shit down, don't call it extortion

Guy from a Toyota dealership that sold a car to me around 12 years ago, "Hey, hope you're having a great birthday. What are you driving these days? Is there anything I can get you interested in?" That's a crazy way to sell a car to a guy that's 1.2k miles away from you.

A good reminder to fund your local PBS!

when Sidney Poitier died in 2022, I wrote about how "Sneakers" is one of my favorite movies of all time-and holds up terrifically well for a 30+ year-old techno-thriller. with Robert Redford's passing, I am again imploring you to watch this perfect movie: www.actioncookbook.com/you-guysll-b...

This is an exquisite piece of art on the museum conservator's part.

We're struggling to do anything but watch this video of the newly discovered bumpy snailfish today.

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I regularly forget just how much of an impact Yume Bitsu had on my musical tastes over the past quarter century.

If any one of us called for Brian Kilmeade to be killed by lethal injection, for any reason, we'd be rightly excoriated. Yet he can go on national television, casually call for the extrajudicial murder of an entire group of people, and it'll be forgotten before the coffee gets cold. Fuck this.

Ouch 🎯

New precise measurement of how online you are: I am “I know about the Fuentes-Kirk feud, I know what groypers are, and I recognize the Pepe meme” online but not “recognize the video game references” online.

this is the wildest shit

Listening to Chris Rufo's interview on Today Explained I took away two things: 1. I would like to see his birth certificate to prove that he's not Italian. 2. It's better to speak plainly and have people think you're a fool than it is to over use & misuse big words and remove all doubt.

An easy story for reporters in tech and extremism right now might be to ask major music streaming platforms why they quietly let Skrewdriver back on some time this year

Is that Troy Sanders in the new David Byrne video?

And on the topic of unwanted brand design changes: Badger needs to bring back the badger illustrations to their packaging. I don't want a nondescript green on my beard balm, I want a goddamn furry flying ace with a magnificent beard and moustache holding a compass and telescope seemingly midair!

I absolutely hate the new Android UI that just hit my Pixel 7 last night.

It's odd how great you can feel about feeling like shit the day after getting the COVID & Flu vaccines.

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

"It is past time for both Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer to step down and step aside. This fascist moment, this age of Trump, demands outspoken, unrelenting and fearless opposition... we all deserve better." I make the case, in my latest for The Guardian, for new leadership:

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Writers, keep writing. Do not buy into the hype train telling you your job will be replaced in a few years. Those using AI are literally atrophying their brains ability to be creative. The future will need your words, your creativity, to function well. publichealthpolicyjournal.com/mit-study-fi...

"Down on the corner, out in the street Piggy gotta Po' Boy slappin' Bring a nickel, tap your feet"

It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!

And on the subject of #realartatters: AI poisoning tool NIGHTSHADE is now free for artists to use: venturebeat.com/ai/nightshad...

The best summation of Donald Trump I've ever seen.

The Dropkick Murphys and Bad Religion last night in Guilford, NH played probably the tightest sets I've ever seen in my life. 3 hours of solid energy. Happy that DMs played 'Going Out in Style' for the New England crowd and absolutely happy to take my 10yo to see them for her first show!

Found out today that a friend's 4y/o grandchild was being molested by the other grandparents and the child's parents sat on it to protect them until the daycare called, even though our friends had been pushing their son to do something for awhile. How can anyone cover for someone that would do that?

Having neurotypical faculty in a meeting on supporting neurodivergent students insist that these students are disabled, even after it was stated that that is a triggering term, is depressing to say the least and the exact reason why I do not self-identify in meetings.

It's convincing some adults too.

"...we're animals with golden rules, who can't be moved by rational views"

Seen in West Lebanon, NH today: Epstein Didn't Kill Himself.

Looking forward to taking my 10 year old to her first concert on Saturday to see Bad Religion and the Dropkick Murphys

Just Ice Tea (formally Honest Tea) with your relevant Albert Einstein quote for the day: "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

David Byrne came to my band’s show at a gay bar in Bed-Stuy and sang This Must Be The Place with us and I still haven’t processed it

U.S. Defense Secretary promotes interview in which Christian nationalist Doug Wilson says women shouldn't have the right to vote. Hegseth goes to a Wilson-affiliated church and sends his kids to one of Wilson’s schools. 1/2

If you live in/represent a Blue State, want to gerrymander the FUCK out of your state, support and are willing to fight for a national anti-gerrymandering law you are principled, consistent and doing exactly the right thing.

Hello journalists. If you report this you gotta say that under the Constitution he has no power to do it. Thank you for your attention to this matter.