One of the deepest cultural sociopathies in the US is the belief that public goods and resources should be the cheapest, worst version of things, rather than shining examples.

This is an excellent point that I hadn’t seen made quite this way before.

In other words, we’re know you’re tired of hearing about COVID-19. We’re tired of hearing about it too. But ignoring it does not help it to go away, so please continue to take protect your health.

Two things are true: First, there is actually an audience for in-depth, well-constructed writing, video, and audio. Second, it is almost entirely the advertising industry's fault that so much media is focused exclusively on how many eyeballs it can capture, and for how long.

A spell for all my trans friends and loved ones.

Near-future dystopian corporate hellscape SF novel-ass world.

Stupid, evil motherfuckers.

I want to scream, but I have nothing legal to say.

The most recent episode of the Pitt featured a plot about a fat man — played by Craig Ricci Shaynak — receiving care for pain of unknown origin. I found myself crying, not just to see doctors treating him as a human with dignity, but at Shaynak's depiction of eager, humiliated gratitude for it.

I don't know how to convince you that "knowing things" is part of the point of being human.

Fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuck. Kieron Gillen somehow has the power to write comics that eat like a 12-course meal, but leave me starving for more.

Hey, guess what? Developers already knew how to write insecure, poorly-structured code quickly! In fact, they were paid *not* to do it!

"It's not my duty as mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. It's the same as if you bought a cow, or a fridge, then asked me where you're going to put them." — Mayor Miguel Anxo Fernández Lores of Pontevedra, Spain

This is the most correct I’ve ever been.

And conversely, a universe in which you don't see any disabled people is a eugenic one.

hi "A.i." is literally a tool of fascism

Oh to be a cat sleeping on a giant pile of comics, surrounded by used books.

Welp, can't argue with that.

Man, it's really impossible to learn about any part of New York City's history without hitting the point where you get really angry at Robert Moses, huh?

This whole 🧵 But also, if your argument is that you need to use generative AI because otherwise your art is “bad”, let me reassure you: The art you get from these models is also bad. Much, much worse, in fact. It carries the superficial signifiers of quality, but it is trash.

I know that they will always do the cruelest thing and the most racist thing, but the extent to which these particular fuckers will also do the stupidest thing. Fire up the phones. Make every fucking member of the GOP own this. Fuck them.

Fraggle Roc implies the existence of Fraggle Manticore and Fraggle Chimera.

I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for * Google AI Summaries * YouTube Ask button & chat summaries * GitHub Copilot * Facebook AI chat * X's Grok buttons * Deviantart DreamUp * Booru AI images * And more github.com/Stevoisiak/S...

My cancelable take on Sorcerer Twitter is that necromancy is ecologically and ethically sound, but enchantment spells are almost strictly evil.

This is a key point, I think. If you don't pay attention to the work that goes into organizing everyday life, because you think it's beneath you, then the outcomes of that work look like magic. Or, here, like some sort of paid conspiracy.

Alex Pretti was an ICU nurse serving veterans. He died trying to protect protestors being assaulted. A group of anonymous & masked men fired chemicals into his face, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him in broad daylight in front of witnesses. Then his government smeared him & defended his murder.

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally

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The web forum for the Star Wars CCG. Too obscure? Next was a visual chat room system called The Palace.

Just Tal, helping me deconstruct something that has been stuck in the back of my brain for most of my reading life.

sometimes someone just finds the absolute perfect combination of words can we put this on everything????

That’s… oy.

Please, a softer world. Just a bit.

Ok, fine. Gay hockey show is very good.

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Sound Garden, Pearl Jam, or Alice In Chains.

I hesitate to make broad proclamations about media literacy, but watching people react to Pluribus is extremely disheartening.

me when an ai tool offers to "help"

Oh no! He should quit.

you will not in a million years guess what this thread is about

A college classmate invited me to join him at a tech startup. I thought I'd be a coder, but when I got there the owner said "we don't need any more programmers. Do you know photoshop?"

Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe. Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.

This is only rational in the context in which we accept that travel has a mandatory death toll. I will not accept any statement from an autonomous car company that doesn't come with an answer to the biggest question: When your technology kills someone, who is to be held responsible? And how?

In fact, I would postulate that if your moral/ethical positions *consistently* align with your own best interests, that is a reason to examine them particularly carefully.

I saw this show, and it's a really fun production with a killer cast! Worth watching.

Can’t sleep. Playing with the toy.

someone got indicted on the basis of “transporting antifa materials” for allegedly transporting a box of ZINES THEY’RE PROSECUTING PEOPLE FOR DOMESTIC TERRORISM OVER ZINES

Just want to call out that two of the most energizing American political voices of the last decade have been young, brown, Democratic Socialists from New York City. The party needs to pay attention.