Vibe coding is working as expected: it'll kill the open-source, secure, and ideologically maintained alternatives to make sure you have to pay the oligarchs to do anything at all, and they can control what you're allowed to make. www.404media.co/vibe-coding-...

"OpenAI is shifting resources away from long-term research toward improving ChatGPT, prompting departures of senior staff." Incremental improvements and ads. That's the phase we're in now.

Read this whole astonishing document. it should be taught as an object lesson in what volunteering to assist a fascist government does to your mind, body, and soul.

to anyone who quietly thinks, despite how horrible things are, that calling them “concentration camps” is inaccurate: please know that we are past hyperbole and these are indeed concentration camps. they are being built with maximum efficiency to terrorize immigrants and people of color.

(To be clear, as someone who has spent a lot of time working at startups: This never worked out very well at the startups, either.)

What happens when you run everything like a startup

Remember the incident where DHS claimed officers shot a guy because he attacked them with a snow shovel? Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again. And they almost shot some kids in the process.

if it was 1998 we'd have a flash game where elon musk is wearing his children as body armor and they flash every time they take damage until they fall off

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

I keep reposting this article because it needs to be seen. This is what responsible journalism on a discriminatory act against trans people looks like. Jo put in the work. It's no longer just my and others' personal accounts vs. random men with opinions. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Just don’t think too hard about AI, its funding, or its prevalent use cases. All it does is help you write more code faster right?—think about all those projects you can do that you wouldn’t have done otherwise! Just don’t think too hard about it. High-decoupling is a virtue and you’re a rockstar.

if you ever worked at Palantir you owe the trans people and POC in your life apologies and probably reparations

Jeffery Epstein collaborated with major figures in tech like Peter Thiel to target trans people, especially trans women. This thread is about how I & many others have been directly affected in the tech industry by this coordinated campaign of transphobia & hatred.

"Do you have any advice you want to offer the rest of America for what we can do when our turn comes around?" "Yeah, be like Minnesotans. Just be strong, be supportive, and hang in there. People will help support you." #ComicSky #Comicbooks

we need to take a moment to celebrate when a good thing happens. it is fuel for the work. feel the joy. take a big breath in. let yourself cry. we will win because we've got us.

California will enforce segregating a trans girl from playing sports with her friends but will not enforce reigning in the secret police a single millimeter. Got it.

This thursday! Me and @didi.rocks are going to take on Kaizo Goof Troop for the SNES! DiDi is actually ranked top 5 in Goof Troop speedrunning, so tune in to see a master at work. Thursday, 6:30PM Pacific @ twitch.tv/takesiege

It's this dynamic at work Conservatives fundamentally do not understand peaceful coexistence and perceive other lifestyles, other choices being visible as a threat to their status as The Normal Ones It's identity as a zero-sum game

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Read the highlighted sentence a few times, jfc From @lukeferrell.bsky.social's "THE MEANS-TESTING INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX" lpeproject.org/blog/the-mea...

Posted a photo dump of my (super rough) Japan travel sketchbook on Patreon! Free to read. www.patreon.com/posts/149219... #comics #japan

And he kept going out there. A hero.

Democrats may think they are softening the message when they say things like "Abolish Trump's ICE" but this is a mistake. The qualifier of "Trump's" shows a deflection of Dem responsibility for perpetuating this agency and funding it.

in 2024 i was always hearing "it sucks, but dems have to follow the polling" on immigration, which had them backing extreme far right wing bills on the border. now that there's been a huge shift to the left in polling, the response is "how about 1/100th of what you guys want". funny how that works.

Do not get it twisted. The REAL change we are seeing right now, and which we need to sustain, is the revealing of how much we have the power to care & provide for each other in ways the state has continually abdicated its supposed responsibility to do in order to consolidate power.

Lol what? They signed up for working on the fascist surveillance software and now they’re shocked it supports fascism??? I think maybe all computer science grads need a mandatory year of social science education.

Hey—Hot Tip/Nth-thousandth Reminder: There are people who actively seek to destabilize and destroy consensus reality and knowledge-making for their own gain, whether through "AI" or any number of other propaganda processes and tools, and you shouldn't let them anywhere near power, ever, ever again.

I’ve had great experiences with Sticker Ninja, a local Portland OR sticker company.

Every ICE agent, and every person who supports and funds them deserves no peace in this life or the next. Irredeemable scum.

shit sucks ass but if you can find a couple little things, undeniably helpful things, that you can do to help people even a bit, it doesn’t seem as hopeless

Now that the White House is using AI to edit photos of their political opponents to create fascist propaganda I’m wondering if anyone could have seen this use of AI coming. Okay I’m hearing lots of people did and they were forced to watch corporations smother the masses with the technology anyways

Someday I'm going to have to explain to a younger person this moment in time, the jackboots, and they'll ask "what were the Democrats doing during all this?". And I'll take a deep breath and say "they attempted to reframe the debate away from culture war issues and focus on the idea of 'abundance'."

i don't care if you view me as "valid" or not. i don't care if you call me a man, or a slur, or a degenerate freak. i don't care if you deny my transness or my humanity. but i was a trans kid once. trans kids will continue to exist whether you like it or not. you can support them or you can burn.

Look for the helpers

fwiw these are unionized hotels and their local sent a formal request to employers not to accept ICE bookings or allow ICE to use their facilities www.facebook.com/share/p/1aV9...

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This is from the Vonnegut museum, and apt as ever.

If anyone was still pretending this isn’t just about excluding trans kids from public life, the Trump administration just opened a Title IX investigation into a Maine school district because a trans student is on a *co-ed* cheerleading squad.

Want to help support people in Minnesota right now? Check out standwithminnesota.com

I got to play this when I was in Gamecenter a few weeks ago, and it's kind of shockingly fun. I love trivia so I might be overselling it, but I had a really great time.

We don’t dance on the grave of NFTs enough. I had a year where I was repeatedly told by bozos I was going to be irrelevant and extinct for not embracing them, I should be allowed a victory lap.

achievement unlocked: soldered a part onto my tweezers

I have heard multiple white Minnesotan men outright say how angry they are in the last week and people who haven’t spent time in this part of the world do not understand how big of a deal that is

For all the grandstanding, Democrats have been nowhere to be seen on the ground in Minnesota. The work there is being done by leftist groups, immigrants rights orgs, and random citizens. Took Walz almost a week to visit Good's memorial. Democrats do not functionally exist in the conversation anymore

always anti-fascist always anti-ice

Washington State residents: they’re trying to pull online age verification bullshittery here too. This bill would require people to upload their ID/credit card to view online adult content. You can complain to your reps here: app.leg.wa.gov/pbc/bill/2112

I posted on a game's community forum that they lost a sale from me because they were bigots and I hoped other people would follow. It got removed for harassment. Meanwhile *this* is okay Steam?! Okay. Piss off. Wishing the big guys at Valve choke on their lunch this afternoon. 🖕