I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

once again the Facebook / Instagram algorithms that listen to everything I say have failed spectacularly. now instead of them thinking I like The Office because I talk about commuting, it thinks I like the show Friends because I talk about my friends

The Zohran press conference is your regular reminder that the entire administration folds like tissue paper at the slightest hint of confidence and conviction, and thus the fact that national democrats are playing a game of capitulation and weakness is exactly why they're all getting away with it

starburst are like fortune cookies in that sometimes you open a pack and you just know the universe has it out for you today

This Trans Day of Remembrance, please examine your own impulse to annihilate trans women who have made you angry. Trans women live on a precipice and it doesn't take much for people we thought were friends to be calling for our destruction.

apparently as of Monday, I've been hormonally transitioning for long enough that more than half of the time I have spent transitioning has been after my big messy breakup

making an Instagram account that just puts the word "Physics." on the screen on top of footage of any random thing anyone ever does

happy gen ai bubble almost popping day to those who celebrate

sts researchers: :spend decades tracing the way well-intentioned design choices constrained by culture, capital, and the material environment can have negative outcomes in aggregate: ai companies: lets put a chatbot in a doll that tells kids to set fires futurism.com/artificial-i...

maybe the primitivists were right because i don’t know how to avoid all the companies that are making nakedly fascist turns these days

look, I'm sure they meant well, it was just another huge and inexplicable violation of all journalistic principles that favored very identifiable political interests in a very particular direction, this just happens, it's an accident

every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites

Michael Shannon cooking with gas here:

What is the argument for voting for Democrats for harm reduction if the harm is not fucking reduced

"I didn't need him when he was busy ratfucking Mamdani in favor of a rapist endorsed by Trump, Musk, and Miller. And then a week later he guaranteed I lose my healthcare." And, each person thinking that has literally just come off an *extremely* successful campaign organization.

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it. Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

Where is @govpritzker.illinois.gov?

the thing that upsets me about this the most is that Dems had all the momentum, republicans were reeling, and we were getting intra-GOP fighting over the filibuster, all while voters were blaming republicans for their incompetence this destroys all of this. just a total gut punch

The point of a political party is what it does

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

even when the democratic party has leverage and one of the craziest election swings the party intentionally self immolates it’s just so exhausting what is even the point of these people

something about sitting on a futon couch, which always has that very strange angle and length, just immediately warps me back to college, I feel an immediate Pavlovian response to reach for an end table to pack a nonexistent bong

Bring back the Western Blue Line Danny Devito cutout

Handlebar vegan nachos are the best nachos in Chicago, vegan or otherwise

broke: ChatGPT as therapist woke: the AIM account "SmarterChild" as therapist

shitfaced jamaal bowman saying this is so fuckin funny i feel so seen right now

wtf now i’m addicted to people telling me i’m pretty the informed consent forms never warned me about this

going back to ringing the bell that Trump's win in 2024 wasn't because of a huge cultural shift to the right, especially among young voter blocks that went for him, as much as it was a general frustration with Biden, with centrism, and with the lack of a clearly articulated positive vision from dems

you can win without billionaires supporting you you can win without party leadership endorsing you you can win unapologetically standing with every persecuted minority pundits say are too politically toxic to touch we could do everything about this process differently if we wanted to

if you can't savor the villains losing you've lost the spark of beauty and ingenuity that makes life worth living

It's always cost them votes worldwide & never actually been popular. It says a lot they keep acting as though it is while meanwhile totally ignoring people like Mamdani. If they actually cared about winning elections, no centrist left party would be like this. They care about the status quo more.

Normal people are just sick to fucking death of the cruelty and meanness

good morning,

on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people

The main problem with Bluesky is that some of you aren't posting enough Chicago content. This is the premiere Chicago-centered social website, please act accordingly.

bluesky staff misexplaining the torment nexus post, a post about how tech people don’t understand the media they read, is going to make me laugh for a long time

the objection I have to the term "vibe coding" is that doing something based on vibes isn't like... copying something else, it's using intuition and gut feel. Vibes are a deeply human process and AI is inhuman.

AI won’t just be used to replace you. AI will be used to falsely incriminate you. AI will be used to kill you, and anyone who is pro-generative AI is susceptible of supporting that.

I know this fascist shit is doomed when I see late 50s and early 60s white guys in their Costco Shopping Finest screaming ‘fuck you’ in DHS officers’ faces

my dumb ass showing the last of my masculine upbringing by not immediately realizing that Michael's and Joann's are fundamentally different stores

watch out this Halloween-- the monsters are out in force

ah yes Halloween, the Super Bowl of being a silly little gay

I'm so goddamn tired of saying this but: this is it. All the worrying that trans folks have had since he took office? This is why. This is the first step on a short road that ends with the criminalization of trans existence in the US. It isn't doomsaying. It isn't panic. It's right in front of us.

oh hey a little animal crossing update coming next year. I've been kind of afraid to open the game for.... two years? but maybe It's Time

I'm engaged in my work, I'm infodumping more, I'm participating better in pop culture conversations and the like, I'm a bit more present. Maybe my last job wasn't as good for me as I thought, honestly?

Intolerable. Americans are being treated like citizens of a conquered territory

I got subway builder and I'm gonna play the intended game and such but does anyone have a "I built the CTA exactly as it is today" file I could fuck with for fantasy transit map purposes