another day of presentations about AI that never once mentioned any downsides or reasons why you might not should just go to town using them. it's here to stay, you know. jesus it makes me tired. makes me want to retire and say "ok have fun see ya"

Wacom doing planned obsolescence with a "Thank you for your support" on their staggeringly overpriced products wasn't on my bingo card but I am UNSURPRISED. If you too are in this position, allow me to draw your attention to what's probably your best solution: opentabletdriver.net

Antisemitism is structurally necessary to Elon Musk’s politics, because he is desperate to brand himself an insurgent against the powerful elite, but as the world’s first trillionaire, he needs a definition of “elite” not rooted in wealth or corporate ownership.

the Tesla protests are still happening and, if you feel called out by Chad's post, you can join them any time

Twice in my lifetime, Republicans have proposed the existence of a conspiracy to ensure the victory of an extremely normal and boring al g.

A Trans woman in Kansas changed her license to M because of the gender marker ban passed earlier this year. She gets pulled over and they didn't believe the license was hers. They later charge her for driving with an invalid license. She complied with the law and was still charged criminally.

It’s a lot of fun watching the most corrupt institutions on the planet line up to treat this guy like a dying Make-A-Wish kid

fun fact: they found the original digital master tapes of all the Reboot episodes that we previously only had in VHS quality, refurbished the extremely rare and expensive tape machines required to play the masters, and are currently uploading them to youtube for free in 1080p! youtu.be/inKdUICLmXY

When SCOTUS sides w/ birthright, *please* refrain from "each side gets a little" takes. SCOTUS is wiping away *major* features of the post-Warren-Court legal order, in contravention of pretty clear precedent. Rejecting *the most insane* position the T admin takes does not wash that way.

States are finding ways to rule trans people out of existence. Kansas is just one of the states that makes compliance with the law literally impossible.

The message: If you oppose people kidnapping your neighbors and disappearing them in concentration camps, you might get sent to prison for the rest of your life. The Constitution is nothing but a set of suggestions.

Scientific American is being sold to LabX Media, publisher of Discover: group.springernature.com/gp/group/med... They've fired me and other union staff, ahead of June 26 vote ratification. My rates are suddenly more reasonable, if you need editing or reporting - [email protected]

1/🧵 The SNP government has decided not to appeal Lady Ross’s decree from the bench to torture trans prisoners and has no plan to change the prison Rules. They are preparing for the physical transfer of trans women in prison to male estates.

FUCK NO AMAZON and FUCK YEAH PRIDE MONTH you can get my gay little books on Bookshop and get free shipping while ya do it! bookshop.org/p/books/real... bookshop.org/p/books/hard...

So Scientific American did an article on the hydrogen peroxide they added to the algae pool… Turns out the “expert” they got to weigh in has a bachelor in Sports Management and is named Tim. Tim has some ‘splaining to do

So are we still doing the smug condescending lectures about how dumb wrong people are for thinking AI and data centers are bad for the environment

The Supreme Court is such a joke. For them, religious freedom only applies to white Christians when they want to hurt LGBTQ people.

you: Please, dr moreau. your unholy creations are an affront to god. creatures of land should not combine with creatures of the sea. a baby belongs with its mother sheep, not imprisoned within a pearlescent shell until you see fit to pry open its hinges dr moreau: clamb

I just unfollowed a channel I've been watching since pandemic. They had their own unique branding, style, personality... now all their thumbnails are just brown slop. Nice job, guys!

A good rule of thumb is don't argue online about stuff you're not willing to change your own mind on. Someone advocating eugenics, genocide? Unless you're willing to have your mind changed on them, it's completely fucking useless. It's also why fascists love to argue shit.

You've seen this online, someone smoothly continuing that self-conversation in your replies and you're like "this guy's halfway through a whole damn argument with no one what the fuck"

There's an interesting thing where someone has a conversation with themselves and gets so heated about it they yoink someone else midway into that conversation as if they know what the everloving fuck they're talking about.

booming times lately for consent manufacturing factories

You could tell this was A24’s deal if you saw the production of their animation and how it broke a lot of union bylaws but every time skipped under the radar by hook or by crook. Every single time pushing up and over to see what workers would take. And nobody pushed back.

Resistance to AI is NOT futile... It's the resistance that's inevitable.

Booooooooooooooo

#savespeech Here are the bills to tell your reps to oppose

Burn "AI" down before we kill the places where human knowledge is actually expanded by human thinking! But ALSO. We have to start thinking about the base model of education and evaluation, which STRUCTURALLY ENCOURAGES CHEATING.

it has never been easier to get on this man’s nerves in his entire life

Wednesday is at summer camp, and apparently saw another kid reading GALAXY: THE PRETTIEST STAR at snack time. Always outgoing, they said, "My mom wrote that." "For real?" the other kid said, incredulous. "Yeah," Wednesday responded. "Jadzia Axelrod. That's my mom." "She's awesome," the kid said.

A24 announces that they want to put storyboard artists out of work. That's what the headline should be written as. Becuase we should be honest about what these AI "tools" are trying to do, and who it is trying to circumvent. variety.com/2026/film/ne...

In basically every post you've made about Palestine you've called Palestinians innately barbaric or bloodthirsty and you're going to pretend to be mad when it's turned back around onto you? And in this case it isn't because of your ethnicity, it's because of your views.

I don't even really understand how you just take a fundamental human activity like creating stuff and talk about it as if it's something that is typically reserved for an elite, or indeed typically *anything*.

Tell me you've never made a single fucking piece of art in your life without saying you've never made a single fucking piece of art in your life.

I know he lies constantly but this pool vandalism thing is up there with his page in the Epstein birthday book being secretly inserted by his enemies or he thought he was posting a meme of himself in doctor's robes, just laugh out loud stupid

today we're looking at the chemicals that make up the popular food additive, salt! first: sodium. throw this sucker in water and watch it explode! mm mm can't wait to put it in my mouth second: chlorine. whether it's poisonous gas or swimming pool cleaner, it's a taste sensation! people EAT this?

Embarrassingly, he generated this with AI bsky.app/profile/reig...

And those assholes who think of nothing but profit didn't even profit! They ruined everything for everybody and have jack shit to show for it!

When they say "This thing that never happens is happening and we need to put an end to it!" it's not (always) because they're stupid. They're saying it to plant the seed in the public's mind. Then when it continues not happening they think "Wow, it's a good thing Republicans put a stop to that!"

"The surgeries don't happen so it doesn't mean anything to denounce them" really only makes sense if you and your entire audience understand, fully understand, what you're saying and signaling. most cis people, including progressives, will think minors really are getting GCS if you oppose it.

This may be the case though I think we're underrating the degree to which Usha Vance's parents are white supremacists.

Someone said “irrational exuberance,” time to post the video. youtu.be/JBJtQjykq_4?...

“I used my private health information to train Google’s chatbot and it helped me find information that I could have gotten from WebMD and the Mayo Clinic websites. I’m lucky it was helpful instead of diagnosing me with Morgellons Disease.”

Call me when your amazing pope sanctions abortions and transition in all Catholic hospitals Call me when the Pope allows women to become priests and cardinals, and when he rips up the bigoted doctrines and call me when he goes after all the predators Not gonna happen, never gonna happen

nobody in British politics seems to want to say it but the single biggest driver of their inability to keep a prime minister for any length of time is that Brexit was stupid and ruinous and made everyone’s lives worse

“What us millennials might call trash talk.” Vance is turning into Michael Kinsley’s famous epithet for a 39-year-old Al Gore: “an old person's idea of a young person.”

This statement sucks btw “As we move forward, our priority must be to work together to get the country back to where we all want it to be” Forward to go back. Down to go up. Twirling, twirling, twirling toward Dunkirk

I’ve been listening to papers’ and magazines’ politics podcasts for years and I can confirm that the issue here is not “the public can’t explain to journalists why they don’t like Keir Starmer”. The hacks clearly don’t like the reasons they’re hearing, but there is no public reluctance to explain.