Tipper Gore thought she heard Satan speaking in Judas Priest records and it was an emergency, but the computer that has literally convinced teens to kill themselves and others? Put that in the schools, baby!

happy star wars day to this tweet in particular

My preferred AI metaphor is actually Asbestos. - Seemingly magical properties - Developed and experimented with to make endless products - Poisoned countless communities in it's creation - Everything it was used for eventually becomes a toxic hazard to mitigate & it's in the fucking walls now

Mothman, Mothman, Mothman, Mothman, Mothman, Mothman, Mothman, Mothman, Mothman, Mothman.

incredibly ambitious & righteous program being built by Mitch Harris (Napalm Death) to connect bands directly with promoters & generally make touring more doable. Very worth looking into, hope it launches tourflip.com

I do think tech companies are underestimating the amount of - new account fatigue - new app fatigue - useless upgrade fatigue - terms of service fatigue

Evergreen

Honestly, EVERYONE is underestimating new account fatigue. When a local pizza place tried to make me create an account to place a pickup order, I rage-quit and made dinner myself.

"these have nipples" was DIABOLICAL @blairbraverman.bsky.social

nostalgia is remembering when you didn’t have to pay bills and attributing that feeling to mario

"The rise of generative artificial intelligence presents a wonderful opportunity for the people who have all the money to pay human beings to do work. If you are worried about women falling behind in the workforce, hire them to do jobs." 👆👆👆

Sometimes you have to make your own rainbows. ☀️🌈 Happy mountain sun catcher stickers in my shop: shop.breelundberg.com

The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”

it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit

Actually, I do have more to say about this book and how excited I am about it. As a therapist, I often am working with clients who struggle with internalized ableism, and it is almost never the “presenting problem”, so they didn’t seek out a therapist with that specialty.

I wrote about how AI in book publishing is a labor issue. "AI paranoia is a symptom of a larger problem: a corporate culture that values quantity over quality, quick output over the very human labor of poring over a manuscript & making sure that each & every word sings." lithub.com/its-getting-...

Steamed Hams is old enough that he feels conflicted because everyone younger than he is has no emotional attachment to the simpsons golden age and everyone slightly older than him can talk exclusively in simpsons quotes for hours

Incomes up 10% Cost of TVs down 20% Housing costs up 200% Car ownership costs up 150% Could somebody please help? My young people are sad.

People who haven't had a moment of uncurated time in years are absolutely baffled by authenticity and why anyone would like it.

Bree is super talented and their shop is full of cute designs and great gifts. Check ‘em out!

"But I can't lift weights! I'm not strong enough to bench 300lbs, I HAVE to use a forklift" you are stupid. You have a baby brain. A brain of a baby. You are soft and useless and fear failure so much that you refuse to accomplish anything

Timeline Cleanse: My dogs are part of a fundraising campaign for the University of Oklahoma's College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences. I am not sure how the photographer got these shots amongst the craziness of the photoshoot.

its not too late to drink some water and take your vitamins

AI is profoundly unpopular. A recent NBC News poll found that among 18-34 year-olds, AI's net favorability rating is -44. *Negative 44*. Those are basically serial killer numbers. It's not much better among women 18-49. (Men over 50 and upper class are the only ones who like AI, and just barely.)

I inhaled most of this @snarkbat.bsky.social jawn in one day because as usual Elsa's writing is just soooo smart + wise + kind + fucking funny + yummy-snax readable and THIS IS A BOOK THAT EVERY HUMAN SHOULD READ because it's about how we love each other better? and it's INTERESTING AF so:

MOOSE POTENTIAL #uglydogs

was once New Amsterdam.

Preaching to the choir here, but I'm an advocate of making people uncomfortable for still supporting Potter stuff. Don't let them try and handwave it away. Make them confront the harm their support enables.

people will tell you it’s complicated but it’s really not

"People have started to believe that having an idea is the same thing as making art... You didn't even make that by typing in the prompt. The computer did, by stealing. If you didn't make the thing, you don't get to take credit for saying what if this thing was a thing?"

i don’t want my appliances to be smart or connect to the internet. i want them to do one mechanical task for 100 years

Book censorship has so many far-reaching consequences, especially in the world of children’s publishing. Whoever your audience, if you’re an author you should be screaming about this.

See also: being encouraged to use alt text. Or being asked to wear masks. Or told not to pet service dogs. People get so mad! The comfort of abled people to feel like they’ve never done anything wrong is prioritized over anything else.

A lot of people get so bent out of shape at the mere suggestion that we should try to use less ableist language. Y’all hate disabled people so much.

In an american city, lots of people who didn’t commit any crimes are still afraid to *step outside* thinking an armed masked agent could be still right around the corner To step outside. In the nominal land of the free

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Do horses want cake? We conducted an investigation into statements published by @bencollins.bsky.social in the print edition of @theonion.com.

A much needed timeline cleanse for us all. Pass it on

Do you want to hear Mozart's requiem sung to a koala kid's toy that sings it back? I've decided we deserve a little dopamine treat before this pointless war gets even worse tonight. youtu.be/80bmzhGtKqk?...

Again - just start with the perjury charges. They’re easy to prove and people will understand them. Ease Americans into seeing their former authority figures in prison.

the vibe

"Why don't Americans-" The ruling class of America has intentionally disempowered its citizens spread across 3,000+ miles of land and then funded the police force as an occupying army that happily murders anyone who opposes them and imprisons whoever is left as slave laborers. So phone calls it is

for anyone interested, the Artemis II Lunar Science Passport that you can use to learn about what you're looking at, and the history of the Moon's surface, can be found here: ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citation...