Some liberals are OBSESSED with "private" prisons as though the problem is not simply PRISONS. Folks, the vast majority of prisons in the U.S. are PUBLIC NOT PRIVATE. And they are HELL HOLES. OK? I need folks to stop and actually focus on the PROBLEM which is PRISONS AND JAILS.

"“I’m here to tell you the mission of your generation is to destroy AI,” said Chieng." news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

I don't need to be "protected" from seeing porn, I need porn artists to be protected from being debanked, having their work stolen by AI, being abused for the content of their work, and going broke.

As Gen Z familiar with liminal space horror, can confirm that youre onto something here The feeling of being left behind by a world that decided to move on without us and without leaving anything for us to build with, that is a pretty core piece of this gen’s identity

So fucking short sighted

god, he was so young

stop privatizing everything. they don't do a good job.

"Why are people so negative about the economy?" Consider this. There are two possibilities: 1) He's right and my livelihood is screwed. Maybe not 18 months but soon. 2) He's full of shit, it won't happen, and AI is a giant bubble that will crash the economy. Why would I feel good about either?

Don’t even like to play oppression Olympics, even on the municipal-level, but how the bordering communities started hunting Black neighbors on the heels of Hurricane Katrina will forever haunt me. www.propublica.org/article/post...

AAAAAAAHHHH

I see AI as the billionaire class reaching their hands into our cages thinking they can grab more from us but we have a chance to grab them back. Let their billion dollar investments fcking fail. Uninstall their slopware and watch their stocks crash through the nine basements of Hell.

Look, we could probably induce a false positive here by erecting some guillotines in public squares.

Another group of white men found Argentina a welcoming home from a world that didn’t like their politics. What were they called again?

They call it potty chair and it’s very advanced. I am the only president who poops on the potty and I do it perfectly every time. It’s very hard so they let you use all the iPad you want. I ask did Sleepy Joe or Obama ever make brown on the potty and they never did, it’s too hard for them.

Shocking development.

AI use is literally the opposite of learning. It removes the friction and desirable difficulty that causes us to internalize the information we're encountering.

Bluesky isn't a bubble or an echo chamber, it's a garden. You plant some seeds and pull some weeds, you tend to it with care, and you make it into a space that pleases you when you come to sit in it a while. Other people can plant and tend to their own gardens, if they like. This garden is yours.

Today we learn of another new nuclear company going public to cash in on the datacenter hype. If all goes as planned they will have a commercial reactor by 2032. Their reactors would produce 1/5 of a gigawatt. Meanwhile, today, solar adds 1 gigawatt of capacity every day by noon.

When you don't remember this (as i often don't) edmund just seems like a dick. When you do remember it, he seems like a sad scared kid being manipulated while living in a time of hardship and lowkey terror he can't really comprehend. Which he was.

I still think the strongest strategy is to go left and inspire huge turnout among the base. But a strategy like that can also be broadly appealing. You can win a lot of people by promising to make their lives better. Moderation and incrementalism fail at both. Unapologetic progressivism can win.

I'm thinking we should call AI films "slop motion pictures"

Sometimes I read a take *so dumb* it convinces me to go to bed.

Well holy crap. Erin Brockovich (yes, the same one the led the Hinkley, CA toxic groundwater lawsuit in ‘93) launched a website tracking AI data centers across the US and the ecological impacts to the environment and drinking water. MN is riddled with them. www.brockovichdatacenter.com

it turns out that rich people do not, in fact, actually mean it when they claim that if you tax them, they’ll totally ditch their nice blue state properties and move to darkest Chumblefuck, Arkansas

AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

of course bluesky is a bubble. i want MORE of a bubble. I am subjected to right wingers asinine caterwauling on 99% of the rest of the internet. they have nothing more to say to me

We live in a country where the right wing prospective is shoved down our throats every day. Where bothsides-isms always favors the right. Where every other social platform is run by a right wing tech oligarch that cooks the algorithm. We are well exposed - we need space to think and breathe.

this is the thing about people who say they need to be exposed to more perspectives: no you don’t right wing perspectives are dogshit, especially these days - it’s either vicious, preening meanness or it’s the most obvious bad faith trolling you’ve ever seen there is nothing to be gained from it

babylon 5 is crazy because a single episode will be like, ivanova's rabbi investigates why she hasn't sat shiva for her father. meanwhile, garibaldi's boxer friend wants to fight in the space kumite against karate aliens

being trans is not a negative outcome and neither is being autistic

If you ever really wanna get pissed, just think about the millions and millions of dollars of dirty money that the rich and powerful and put into bankrolling an artificially potent and loud anti-trans movement and how even a fraction of that could provide trans healthcare for SO many people

What is on the surface “enviable” about right-wing organizing is explained by their greater access to resources. Which is explained by their political alignment/overlap with systems of authoritarian power. To do what they do as they can do it would necessitate abandoning anti-authoritarian politics.

The right-wing does not have “less infighting” and they certainly do not have “more fun.” What they have is more funding.

Every day I am brought closer to Linux.

And at my heart I really am deeply anarcho-communist. EVERYONE deserves basic necessities AND the time and space for creative practice. Talent is abundant. Music should be accessible to perform and appreciate and there's no excuse for any so-called civilization not to support that.

Why do all of these guys think this is a bold new plan rather than what the party is already doing

The Long Island bridge *is* racist, because it negatively affects minoritized races. The speed bump *acts* because its existence slows (or damages) cars. The hammer draws the wielder towards specific actions and away from others, shaping the world. Thus, agency. Others may disagree. /fin

We are in constitutional failure and past constitutional crisis

Ok, the first two are obviously crows and scrub jays, but then it gets tough. I almost went with the urban seagull, but I think I'm picking the grackle instead. First time I saw them they were raiding the dumpster behind a taco joint and I knew they were the glorious trash creatures I love so much.

Notice how the papacy's good acts are all statements and the horrific ones are actual actions and policies with serious resources behind them? The Catholic Church has a massive healthcare network and inflicted a total trans care ban there last year. They're an enthusiastic part of trans genocide:

GOOD NEWS! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a UNIVERSAL vaccine known as GLA-3M-052-LS+OVA, that protects against a wide range of respiratory viruses, bacteria AND even allergens. The vaccine is delivered intranasally AND provides broad protection in the lungs for several MONTHS.

Titan. RIP

The legendary jazz saxophonist, who revolutionized the art of improvisation, died Monday at his home in Woodstock, N.Y. n.pr/3Q2hMWr

I mean it sure looks like we wasted billions and many lives and lots of diplomatic credibility for nothing, but at least we can be sure those 160 schoolgirls won’t build a nuke

"Surveillance pricing" is not a creepy use case of otherwise reasonable data collection, it's a use case that makes apparent how creepy the data collection is to begin with.

The core problem with "surveillance pricing" isn't the pricing, it's the *surveillance*, and the way to fix this is to ban most forms of data collection. There's simply no good reason to allow companies to build highly detailed dossiers full of our personal information.