so there was this guy we knew years ago, younger kid who had some shitty circumstances etc so we agreed to let him stay with us for a while, we had a fold out couch. first morning, we come out, the couch is in couch format, he's nowhere to be seen. don't think much of it, go put on a pot of coffee.

Why are we being told that all the good stuff from our earlier years - like having undergrad mentors - has suddenly become disposable and unnecessary? The subtext seems to be that the kind of human development we enjoyed - the kind of people we became via education - is & are no longer welcome.

there are many horrible brainworms you can catch online but none of them are as all-encompassing in their destruction of you as a human being as transphobia start down that road and you become incapable of normal human interaction

legitimately one of the things i like least about socal. i miss seeing stars 😭

blackout is an (almost entirely) asynchronous journalling game for two players about redacting, interpreting, & straining against the confines of language. it's played by creating & communicating through blackout poetry. playtest version with community copies out now satah.itch.io/blackout

For no reason, here's my archive of blu-rays I've made for things that never got a physical release and could be wiped from servers at any given time by the whims of some executive

more and more places have started making it so the element picker on uBlock origin can't be used on their stupid AI buttons and I swear to god I'm learning how to code just to get around it

D1841.4.3.1 The waters of seas, lakes, and streams turn aside and let the holy man walk through untouched by moisture.

What bothers me about LLM use growing, why people would ask it anything at all had me missing something. But while on my eighth google for the purpose of LEDs on a Mac Pro 4,1 CPU board and getting bad answers and videos I realised… Search engines today also only give approximations of answers.

Jo Ann Allen Boyce's life was disrupted not only by standard-issue US white supremacy, but also by a particularly virulent strain of American fascism. School integration in Clinton, TN began fairly peaceably, until a neo-Nazi associate of George Lincoln Rockwell named John Kaspar showed up.

And, this isn’t a dunk, but I have to point out this is very particular to white women because Black women have always been expected to work.

I just woke up from a dream I was a lawyer practicing dog law. To be clear this was not human laws about dogs, but laws made by dogs. My client was dachshund who's dog bed had been moved by husky.

It is extremely disheartening to see In Covid's Wake getting these end-of-year accolades. I'm not the only journalist who has had book proposals (and even contracts!) on Covid turned down, yet a book with major factual errors and, tbh, weak arguments is heralded? And as a reader, it's disturbing 1/

people in hell want ice water

”and have failed to meet the basic duty of a public artist: to perform for all people," Bing Crosby refused to play at a venue unless Louis Armstrong was given equal billing. The Beatles refused to play segregated venues.

Sinatra has gone woke

NYC, this is a very unpleasant flu and you'll be miserable if you catch it. RSV and Covid are here too. Holidays make it far more likely you'll get these. CDC says 4.6 million flu cases have been reported nationally. 49,000 people hospitalizations. 1,900 deaths. You have masks at home. Put'em on!

post deleted but it’s abolish ICE now and always has needed to happen

California is the world's 5th largest economy and its public university system is (despite these guy's repeated attempts to destroy it) STILL among the best in the world. In short, how can we miss them if they never fucking leave in the first place?

The US has had the most combative, organized and social movement oriented working class in the West over the last fifteen years, there are whole national street mvmts people have completely forgotten about (OccupyICE, anybody?) and anyone who fails to name this assessing the political situation 🚮

I mean this in the kindest way: this could be solved by creating meaningful connections with your peers/colleagues. I have a writing group and a thinking group and plenty of people to text or call with questions, and it doesn’t require draining the earth of resources or stealing work.

They can blow up boats in the Caribbean and murder everyone on board and no proof of threat is required. Yet if you traffic and rape children you get away with it because there’s “not enough proof”. That’s rape culture. That’s money and power and corruption.

The bar for any podcast that isn’t Unedited 1-2 People Chatting* is also unfeasible. You want me to turn my narrative nonfiction show into a filmed doc? My fiction into a literal tv series? A reminder again to work in whatever fucking medium you want to *also a perfectly good form

Nobody wants AI. We want Mexican Coke and McDonald’s to bring back the dollar menu. That’s it, you fucking pigs. Easy.

All of the money that changed hands in the Teapot Dome scandal totaled less than $10 million after adjusting for inflation, and it was considered so corrupt we still teach it in high school government classes a century later.

one covid infection immeasurably reduced my quality of life assumingly permanently after 4 years by giving me long covid and mecfs, if you punch down at disabled people trying to use an umbrella of personal precautions in the hurricane that is our eugenic society unfollow me now

90% of bluesky posts, to me

Windows today is a corporate OS, not a home OS. A true home edition would be a one time purchase no subscription no Microsoft account no forced security updates no sterile white and silver theme no advertisements. It doesn't care about you anymore, just your data

You don't miss Windows XP You miss an operating system that gave users control, allowed you to customize your system, and didn't bog you down with data collection and milking you for money. Linux still has freedom, still cares about you, and doesn't want your every penny or telemetry.

see also: all the billionaires who were going to move out of NYC if Mamdani was elected. Nobody is gonna do jack shit, it’s all a bunch of yappy little dogs yapping

“Then they shouldn’t have voted for this!” Bitch, Asheville is a blue college town and the county has gone blue for decades. I am so sick of this “if I pretend disasters only happen to red areas, it means I’m safe because I’m properly on the left!” No. You’re not safe. That’s why we save everybody.

Everybody hates it and any claims that “this happens with any disruptive tech” are obvious and pathetic cope. Shut down your AI depts and take the L large corporations. This is not it

We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier. Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder. thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...

Noting in the final section that Kavanaugh went out of his way to disclaim "Kavanaugh stops." In other words, the repeated, pointed and personalized criticism has gotten to him

ME: team rocket will never steal these rare Pokémon! Not unless they wanna take on me and my fully evolved Miss Cigarettes! MISS CIGARETTES: miss cigarettes

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Now if we could just get people to view US prisons through the same lens they view CECOT.

This is so core to the misunderstandings (purposeful and not) about AI in education

A leaked DoJ memo calls for prosecutors to charge people who film ICE with “domestic terrorism” They don’t want their atrocities documented. They don’t want a historical record. They don’t want the world to know. That’s why we have to keep filming. Keep speaking out.

Fellowship nailed this so well and it’s understandable if a shame that TT and ROTK have to tilt more into plot. There’s a melancholy in almost every scene of Fellowship that is more sporadic in the other two, a sense that every new place you see is something you’re seeing for the last time.

If you are saying universal healthcare *cant* realistically happen with our current political system and economy you should be advocating for revolution to overthrow that system instead of being ok with no universal healthcare

In a moment rife with censorship and an authoritarian crack-down on press and media, sites like Wikipedia are more crucial than ever. Wikipedia must remain a site of public information, especially about the obvious truth that the Israeli military is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

Here’s to 2026

'My three children are crying and freezing in the open cold, with no tent, no blankets, and no food. One of them is sick and shaking from the cold. I am a helpless mother watching my children suffer. We need $200 for a tent. Please help or share. 💔🙏'

' #MyThreeChildrenNeedYourKindness 🫶 Your support and donations Please be kind to them Don't break their hearts💔🙏'

PSA: If you pause a Universal blu ray for 2 mins you wind up with this infuriating screen saver. It won't "unpause" but you can fast forward/rewind, and it feels like you're trapped there. The trick is to hit "enter" or "OK" on your remote to get back to the movie. Makes no sense but there it is.