Trying really hard not to get depressed but

This is lovely.

Super interesting and thoughtful thread

absolutely wild how the internet has become everything they were warning about it being in the late 90s, but since the guys making bank off the scams are now white dudes in suits whose daddies paid for their college it's actually considered proper business ventures now

“but what if they use it for good” well the particular pathologies that lead to acquiring that kind of money in the first place make that vanishingly unlikely, and the longer you have it the worse you get but the damage someone who uses it for bad ends can do vastly outstrips the good

virtually every main social ill we face right now is downstream from the fact that rich people have more money than they know what to do with. national security risk

When did we decide we were going to get emails and texts when we placed an order, when the order shipped, when the courier got it, when it was out for delivery, and when it had arrived?

It really gets my goat when people tell me I may not like AI but it’s here to stay & there’s nothing we can do about it. Yes there is! We don’t have to bow down to every corporate demand! We can fight, regulate, use the law. We can & must ensure this tech benefits humanity & doesn’t dismantle it.

see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

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Jesus when he comes back to Earth:

Love this so much

There’s a terrible tendency that any time anyone comes along and starts saying things that are popular from a left perspective, established thinking goes ‘all very nice yes, but it’s not SERIOUS is it’ even whilst all the accepted serious people fail absolutely constantly at the absolute basics.

jesus CHRIST. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

It is THE fundamental problem. To survive and prosper we must make billionaires history. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I know the main point is that he’s a despicable bastard but also he’s just so embarrassing? Like if you don’t spend every moment laughing him out of the room, aren’t you mortified?

oh good i was worried it was white supremacy and capitalism

Happy International Women’s Day!

WATCH: This is my favourite thing on the internet right now. Well done Norway! youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

there are much worse problems to have but i just had to replace my lovely little old phone and they’re all so? big? can’t middle aged people have special small ones that we don’t need to be able to watch a feature length film on?

there are much worse problems to have but i just had to replace my lovely little old phone and they’re all so? big? can’t middle aged people have special small ones that we don’t need to be able to watch a feature length film on?

there are much worse problems to have but i just had to replace my lovely little old phone and they’re all so? big? can’t middle aged people have special small ones that we don’t need to be able to watch a feature length film on?

They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.

Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.

Quite high on the list of things I could not give a fuck about are British rent-a-gobs and how much they love living in Dubai. Stop talking, you can’t say anything to convince me you have a soul.

It’s not as gross and necrotic as I hoped it would be, to be honest (Yes, I can hear Jake Peralta too)

I’m in trouble

Just a few weeks ago, all these European powers spoke of the threat that the US now presents to Europe. They talked about the possibility of Trump attacking Greenland, like it was an imminent and existential danger. Now Trump unilaterally bombs Iran and they all fall in lockstep

From yesterday's Observer.

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

A broader takeaway I think is nobody should be allowed to be so rich that being told no, or being held accountable, represents such a moral injury to that person's psyche that they feel like their only recourse is to burn the world down.

Can confirm, today is grey and drizzly but surprisingly WARM and you will sweat in that coat.

We just caught up on Deadloch and oh my god it’s so good! Can’t wait for season two youtu.be/bEu3XAz0otY?...

"The men implicated in the Epstein files reinforces that I spend half my life explaining to men that their simplified, optimistic view of other men doesn’t line up with the experience of women and girls trying to dodge sexual harassment, assault and abuse attempts." - Leslie Morgan Steiner

Gross. And also the most propaganda-y looking piece of propaganda ever? Like subtlety fully eschewed here, someone’s asked ChatGPT for a propaganda vid and they got all the hits of the genre.

I have eaten the Jaffa cakes that were in the cupboard and which you were probably saving for elevenses Forgive me they were delicious so chocolatey and so orangey

snort

Procrastination Event Final: He’s building nicely now, 37 tabs open, oh that’s clean. 3 about productivity systems, 4 about productivity guilt, & one about medieval shipbuilding. That’s experience. He hovers over the actual task... no, opens another tab. Veteran composure. Strong gold medal energy.

Look, if we start arresting every prominent figure in Britain who's suspected of misconduct in public office it would wipe out half the governing class who run everything. So, it's definitely worth doing.

Prisoner cell block HRH.

I recommend watching the freestyle skiing and snowboarding and whatnot on the BBC. I have no idea of the technicalities but a it’s a balm to spend a couple of hours each evening listening to commentators just thoroughly enjoying themselves (and occasionally losing their minds over a jump). #Olympics

For me the interesting question is why the language of epidemics is being used. Partly it might reflect increasing (awareness of) evidence of the physical health impacts of loneliness, but I wonder if a couple of other things might be more active in this discursive choice. 🧵

How to make pancakes the british way: Step 1: remember it's pancake day Step 2: work all day because you are a cog in the capitalism nightmare machine Step 3: Too tired to make pancakes Step 4: no pancakes for you

For me the interesting question is why the language of epidemics is being used. Partly it might reflect increasing (awareness of) evidence of the physical health impacts of loneliness, but I wonder if a couple of other things might be more active in this discursive choice. 🧵