tapping the sign

Good job, Governor, you're squandering every bit of your political capital on vaporware that immiserates your constituents and is about to crash the US economy.

I think computers are a lot like poetry, where the idea that it exists at all is a thing of unspeakable magical beauty that pervades all things, and, at the exact same time, every actual computer is a horrible, awful, failed, botched reference to the higher idea that deserves Scorn, just like poems

Somehow convincing a computer program to be mother is more palatable and realistic than convincing the dudes leading technology companies or government bodies that they have a duty of care.

Profit. I’d personally rather live in a world where corruption looks like a government workers friend having a slightly nicer apartment than the current one we live in where 12 people have the private wealth of half the planet and a billion live in slums. We can fight for a better future

With or without AI your job in engineering is still "filter out the utter bullshit you're being asked to build and reshape the suggested requirements until you've got something workable" but now a robot is helping persuade your boss that dumb things are good and easy to implement actually.

Every day there's a new article that's some variation of "Critics accuse Trump of unprecedented corruption, meet the 4 plumbers who don't give a fuck."

Could we just take an hour of everyone's time and have them attend a class on how to behave on a mixed use trail before you're allowed to be on one? Could test them for carbon monoxide poisoning while we're at it.

watch you sleep. keep you safe. #projecthailmary

The venn diagram of people who complain about "the illegals" stealing Americans' jobs and people who are excited for AI to steal Americans' jobs is a circle

"We will find you and we will kill you" Last line of the document. They literally just threatened to kill all trans people and it's been almost two weeks and I haven't heard a single Dem actually address this at all. The silence in response to this is deafening.

Fresh torment nexus unlocked! 1. Job seeker spams a list of AI companies with resume/ llm-written cover letter. 2. The AI companies all have e-mail auto-reply bots that start responding to chain. 3. Classic reply-all e-mail chain with a twist: nobody on it cares that it keeps going!

J. Edgar Hoover: I am the weirdest FBI director of all time. Kash Patel: Hold my bourbon.

Trump said it himself. He doesn’t care. It’s their future they’re protecting — not ours.

Absolutely no reason that the "authentication test" scan in Qualys takes a fucking hour to run. What fucking garbage of a product.

JFC Qualys is shit. (But what isn't?)

Terrorist convictions mean you serve your full jail term. You can't travel to another country. The police decide if you get bank accounts, phones and computers and they have open access to all of them. For life. Absolutely insane to secretly use this on kids convicted of criminal damage. Deranged.

In my country if you want to fight fires you can do 540 hours of training & become a highly salaried firefighter. But if you are impatient you can just kill someone & fight fires for free. However if you want to continue fighting fires after paying your debt to society you must kill someone again.

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

73% of mothers with kids under 18 are in the workforce. More than flowers or brunch, working moms need: -Paid family leave -Equal pay -Universal childcare -Universal healthcare (But get your mom flowers, too)

Happy Mother's Day!

They stole from us and now they want to blame us.

They put one of yours in the hospital, you put out a statement about how disappointed you are. That’s the centrist way.

Crony Capitalism is just Capitalism, that's how Capitalism works. You call it Crony Capitalism to support the fantasy that there's a magical "true" capitalism that doesn't murder and exploit people as a load bearing structural feature but Nope! This is it! This is the Capitalism!

relevant that the US has BY FAR the highest proportional incarcerated population ON EARTH and that was BEFORE THIS REGIME the infrastructure is here it's life or death

I forgot that I'd rode the train so I broke off from the group and then chased after when I realized that I still had most of a lap I might as well do so hauled ass trying to catch up.

Has anyone else had chrome start Google searching when you paste in a plain fucking URL and struggle to get it to just go to that fucking address?

“All those moments will be lost in time, like cum in the rain…”

Honestly if they aren’t out there speaking up every day, I don’t care what a retired politician thinks

7 dollar gas. Well, I guess I'll buy an electric car. Oh those are 60 thousand dollars? Well at least electricity is cheap. Oh the government won't build solar panels because it's "Too transgender"? Well at least wages are going up. Oh the idea of jobs is fake now? Well at least everyone is happ

Skated with some friends for over two hours and then had to rush to a different friend group to skate down to the Avalanches and participate in a bit of a quick show of skate tricks.

in case you were wondering what stage of capitalism we're at, google search is now treating the word "crumble" as a misspelling of the cookie brand crumbl

Man I'm so sick of how any interaction on here that leads to a friendly DM is always a goddamn bot.

Drugs are pretty expensive and mostly a luxury of the rich it turns out

Is it wild to anyone else how many fucking companies seem to train and require their sales people to knock on your door and lie to your face about what they think soliciting is?

“Oh I’m sorry you wanted to vote. That’s not a right anymore. Can I interest you in the right to refuse to bake cake for gay people instead? We’ve replaced voting rights with that.”

We should have never doubted this man

to be clear, this is the fault of everyone who didn't vote democrat. if the democrats had had one more vote, the resolution could have failed with two of them crossing the aisle

🚨YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS UP: IRS data show 164 taxpayers with an average unreported foreign account balance of $1.3 billion were identified for examination - but only 12 were audited. The agency didn't do more audits even after they discovered $39 million of taxes owed among the 12.

8 miles today and on the way there I either saved a pigeon from the train or at least kept its snack from being destroyed when I relocated it.

Also screw wealthy CEO’s and corporations laying off the very people that made them wildly successful, just for short term gains. Folks with institutional knowledge, with decades of work, dedication and success all dismissed. For what? Who knows but it’ll make a great bonus for an exec.

Holy shit I opened up IMDB and it automatically created an account for me because I'm logged into Amazon in this browser?? I got a welcome email and everything. Blocking that email and deleting the IMDB account just out of pure spite, absolutely disgusting practice

Confused about why stocks are going up despite Trump’s wars - his tax cuts have poured so much money into the pockets of the rich they simply don’t know what to do with it all.

It's wild that American Republicans see millions of people attending No Kings rallies and assume, with no evidence, that they're all being paid...and then some grandma who has literally lobbied for DoorDash delivers to the White House with the *cameras rolling* & they think it's an adorable moment.

Like, I know someone who got a bullshit charge that was then dropped! He was in federal custody for a weekend where they moved him between facilities at random intervals & wouldn’t let him sleep, it’s just a 48 hour torture vacation that still fucks him up 🙃

The message of an overturned charge for protesting isn't "the law was on your side the whole time," it's that the law can't save you from the cops even when it's clear you're in the right