Larry Summers Announces He Will Step Down From Chair With Belt Around Neck

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

Hope is a fuel. Use it to burn down something terrible.

Republicans still control the House. Republicans still control the Senate. Republicans still control the White House. This is still their shutdown.

If you have Early Voting where you are: go vote! Not just because it's a right AND a privilege AND a responsibility, but because you might get a cool sticker like this!

FACTS about SNAP: -35% to white people (largest share) -90% to people born in 🇺🇸 -86% to households with kids -70% work full time but aren’t paid a living wage (aka corporate welfare)

Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

[Exit King.]

Nobody cares about your Myers-Briggs or Enneagram type. You might as well tell me your astrological symbol.

They've lost the 9yos

A statement from Tylenol

I for one am not at all worried that the most powerful people on earth have optimized my society and my brain to be ultra-reliant on the misery machine we keep in our pockets.

I think it is blatantly unfair that I am going through perimenopause and fascism at the same time

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

Taub’s Law: Big money aligns with fascists early and often.

making children compatible with robots is not, has not been, has proven not to be, a sound educational aim

Way to go, UK! 🇬🇧 Channel 4 is airing a one-hour marathon of Trump’s lies to mark his arrival.

"I am 'excited about composting' years old."

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

Computer systems—or nearly any tool or product, for that matter—need to be reliable, consistent, trustworthy, logical, and accurate. The "AI" systems of today are none of those. Inflicting them on the general public is unethical.

"ai isn't going away" ok but neither is death and you don't see me here drinking poison and hitting myself with a hammer

"Here, use this probabilistic word generator to improve productivity (but make sure you go over its output in minute detail to make sure it hasn't cited Jarndyce as binding authority)."

Arendt: "Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

MA put in a 4% millionaires tax 2 years ago, & the GOP said we'd miss revenue targets & millionaires would flee. MA collected TWICE the projected revenues, & the number of millionaires went UP 40%. www.wbur.org/news/2025/04...

“When am I ever gonna need to learn about a humanities course?” - says a nation of illiterate, impoverished sociopaths

omg this totally worked. FREE AT LAST. tenbluelinks.org

Only thing better than havin’ is sharin’

People living under fascism didn’t survive by giving up joy—they protected it. They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory. Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human. Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.

BREAKING: The United States of America

Being a fastidious calendar keeper can backfire when your dumb ass enters something on the wrong day. #FML

“i asked chat gpt” “i asked grok” Jeeves would kill you where you stand

Truth 😆

“Objective” does not mean providing equal weight to both sides of every debate when one side is objectively and demonstrably INCORRECT

Every year it strikes me that the artist who deserves a Tony is the stage manager for the Tonys. #TonyAwards

Well, fuck that choice right in the ear. #tonys #tonyawards

Tony Awards Sunday makes me so happy! Theater kids should be in charge of everything! #TonyAwards

Faizan earned it. The 100th Winner of the #spellingbee!🐝🏆

Rounds 18+ are NO JOKE. #spellingbee

WOW, THE DRAMA! #spellingbee

Hmm. Interesting, and a bit perverse, that a number of these late-round killer words are from various Indian languages, after years of South Asian-American students dominating the top ranks. #spellingbee

Thinkinge of askinge Chat GPT a questioun about your plannes? Trye a tarot deck. Cheaper, bettir for the environment, bettir resultes.