As a software engineer with 35+ years experience, I cannot stress enough how true and vitally important this is 👀😥

Late 90s tech was the best. Even aside from the nostalgic aesthetic, tech felt like positive potential back then. Tech was promising good things back then. Now techbros push "updates" to things that aren't broken to dumb down people for fascism. Tech isn't hopeful anymore.

A family of doctors in Idaho with a teenage trans daughter describes their decision to close their practice and leave the state after the governor signed a law last month threatening her with a felony charge and five years in prison if she uses any women's restroom

People may be mad, idk but I have to say this about the ##RapeAcademy thing- It wasn't 60 million men, it was 60 million times people accessed that website And, imo, this matters more than we think. I am worried that these incorrect numbers will have long lasting influence.

Not everything that breaks is technically the fault of vibe coding but the kind of culture that would foster vibe coding is the kind that produces a lot of shit that breaks.

The government: “People should seek asylum using regular legal routes and stop getting on boats to come here.” Also the government: “We are cancelling more visa routes to stop people coming here.” The political gaslighting when it comes to people who seek asylum is as racist as it is destructive.

Me reading The Art of War: this was considered revolutionary? Surely armies knew to have enough supplies and food before going to war! Me today: oh.

The Art of War is very funny once you understand it for what it actually is, which is Warfare 101 For Dipshit Nobles the intended audience is exactly people like Pete Hegseth

With a final tally of 213-214, the war powers resolution to disengage US forces from the war on Iran failed by a single vote. Representative Jared Golden of Maine was the sole Democratic lawmaker to vote against the measure. Had he voted for it, it would have passed, handing Trump an historic loss.

ICE is not about immigration. ICE is about normalizing a paramilitary force on peaceful streets. Abolish ICE.

Ultimately, a lot of resistance to sex work comes down to that some people think sandwiches are gross, therefore they must be bad, thus they must be banned. They will *always* jump over step one when pressed

If you don't understand the Nordic Model, try this thought experiment: What if sandwiches became illegal? Policymakers decide sandwiches pose a serious social problem; sandwich culture conceals exploitation, unhealthy social norms, economic coercion. They conclude sandwiches are evidence of harm.

the basic theory of DOGE was that if powerful people said it was fine it didn’t matter what the law said. I think proving that theory wrong is worth significant effort

every time I see this screenshot I just remember that the vibe coding, while a problem, is only a problem because the people in charge are dumb enough to think it's a solution

In his second administration, President Trump’s family members are expanding their business ventures, earning hundreds of millions of dollars and prompting fresh concerns about influence peddling and conflicts of interest. https://to.pbs.org/4tTfPdh

YOU TAKE ROSALIND FRANKLIN'S NAME OUT OF YOUR SCUMMY MOUTH, CHAT G P T

This, unfortunately, is the goal of the legislation 😕

This continued crackdown on kinky art based entirely on "If this were physically possible and the creator were actually doing it for real it'd be fucked up" is so ridiculously juvenile. It protects no one, solves nothing, and stifles art, but because few people want to defend kink, it continues.

The USA two-party system is maintained by the media placing the bar for third-party and independent candidates high, and the bar for D & R low (and underground, for white, male candidates 😕)

Also here's the original piece, where I highlight that we should hold people to higher standards than Trump does for himself and how Trump's use of the r-word played a role in Indiana redistricting failing. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Well...

A few years ago, @theguardian.com ran numerous stories claiming - entirely without evidence - that anti-trans academics were being “silenced” by trans people. It then censored a trans academic. I know personally three trans academics who have had their work censored. Crickets from the Guardian

The 21st century will be won by the states that, in a developed world where skilled young people are increasingly in short supply, are able to overcome their own xenophobia to welcome the future

No, that's exactly what Chappelle was doing and it's why trans people criticized him for doing it.

Mr. Bakshi. Chemistry teacher and science club mentor in #MistWarden Chaos Bound: The poor guy just wants a neat lab, but he gets Jessica suddenly screaming and throwing water, Jess and Drew feuding with racists, and then giant salamanders destroy the whole lab 👀 #AwesomeCharacters

Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.

As it turns out, the hallucinating plagiarism machines that are still somehow gonna result in massive layoffs are not exactly popular

The thing is, this is probably happening because AI book “authors” are uploading hundreds of books and then not selling many of them because that’s not the plan.

Last week, a 20 year-old man threw a molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's mansion; two days later, people fired a gun at it. Earlier that week, someone fired gunshots into an city councilman's house who approved a data center. Why the AI backlash has turned violent:

NEW: We’re demanding policy changes after Maryland police secretly relied on a faulty facial recognition match and wrongly jailed an Oklahoma mother for 6 months for a crime she didn’t commit in a state she had never been to. This should never happen to anyone else. Ms. Williams deserves justice.

Thread. The tl,dr: IF YOU SHOP AT TARGET, THEY MAY HAVE YOU ARRESTED. Don't shop at Target.

We found out several things during the wait. 1) target uses AI for theft prevention which often falsely targets people. 2) they purposly don't notify you if you don't scan all items in a self checkout lane. 3) if u hit the ok button on the self checkout and you miss an item they say thats stealing

There are going to be so many stupid takes using Magyar’s win to argue that Dems should keep tacking center-right, when I think the far bigger takeaway is that “we will go after the people who corruptly destroyed the government” has *extremely* broad appeal USAID can absolutely be part of that

🏳️‍⚧️ NEW 🏳️‍⚧️ “Further legal analysis” has revealed flaws in the EHRC’s draft guidance, which has now been revised and will be presented to parliament in May: https://goodlaw.social/xal1

People don't want to risk being kidnapped and shipped to a Salvadoran gulag never to be seen again? Crazy www.forbes.com/sites/suzann...

little daoist comic. he has a name but i'm holding onto it for now.

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto https://theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home-claims-he-was-following-chatgpt-recipe-for-risotto/

Thread. If it doesn't have a librarian, it's not a library but a warehouse for books.

Were Were those the only two options

As Thompson and team create a Wonder Woman for a new era and a new feminism, one obvious question becomes how Steve Trevor, Wonder Woman’s iconic male paramour, will fit into that narrative and align with that symbolism. #wonderwoman #stevetrever 1/12

My first thought on seeing this - oh yes, Orban tried to ban Pride, didn't he? As part of the LGBTQ+ crackdown in Hungary, and 200,000 people of every orientation and gender marched to defy him.

donald trump is obviously a monster but I do not like this song and dance where we all have to pretend that the Pope isn't a political figure as Catholic hospitals are cracking down on trans healthcare have some fucking honesty, aren't you supposed to be working for God?

A lot of Orbán's American fans are saying that this election proved he was never an authoritarian in the first place. This is completely wrong — and, in fact, betrays a complete misunderstanding of both Hungarian politics and modern authoritarianism. Here's why.

The Orbánist is deeply entrenched across the Hungarian government: courts, bureaucracy, regulators, tax agencies, even cultural organizations were all part of it. If Magyar does not use his power to enact sweeping constitution changes, much of that system could survive.

Rowling is a fascist bigot. If you support her, so are you.