this is actually where the phrase "you just pulled that out of your ass" comes from

currently watching that old christmas classic: The Polar Express: The Game (PS2) Longplay youtu.be/7WCAZUPEiuo

the main reasons i have not made the switch myself yet: 1) it doesn't (or didn't, maybe it does now) work well on my phone 2) a lot of my chronic illness community stayed bc they didn't have the energy to move and start over 3) a strong sense of moral judgement from many ppl who switched early

prepare for another twitter influx

But bravery is contagious. There are people who think "maybe I should do something" who will look left and will look right, and if they don't see people doing things, they'll sit back down. Make sure that they see people doing things.

We tried body cameras, and we evaluated them, and boy oh boy was Critical Resistance ever right about that! Turns out they just gave cops a bunch of free surveillance tech and boosted Axon's market cap while failing to make a dent in police violence.

so if economists don't know about the type of stuff nathan talks about, what exactly *do* they do?

conscientious cdc workers need to start leaking shit

hasn't this happened before though? or am i thinking of a different chan

the problem is, the focus on due process is not "people shouldn't be grabbed off the street and put in a foreign gulag forever", it's "that should only happen to those who we've means tested!"

Many data sets held by NOAA are being "retired" in may, including datasets relevant to ocean sciences and climate. If you have need for these data, or are an archivist, it would be good to download this now. PLEASE SHARE WIDELY. www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume...

this is what most web ux feels like now

There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:

Nobody involved in social movements / direct action / social work / legal aid ever uses the word “felon” as a pejorative. This is a fundamental disconnect between moderates who love to dunk on Trump and those who work and organize every day on the front lines of injustice.

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

kinda wanna make a blog called "Postcards From Out Of Bounds" because i have a habit of trying and succeeding to bust out of bounds in videogames and then climbing the highest scenery i can and just looking around. and it's beautiful but i have no one to share it with

man if that's the only distinction then i have bad news for yall about prisons

i think rather than a wig we should imagine it as a literal sock puppet

yes, in fact whenever i'm talking to someone about my condition for the first time you can see them grasping for some reason why it could never happen to them and being incredibly uncomfortable until they're satisfied they've found it (they never have)

hi

AI crawlers increased Wikipedia traffic by 50% since 2024, slowing down their servers (via mastodon.uno/@amministrat...), it truly is a tax screwing up everything in the world including stuff that very intentionally has nothing to do with using it

After all the discourse over whether super-intelligent, ultra-powerful AI is coming, we now have a prime example of exactly how AI is massively disruptive, today: When it is used by lazy, reckless, and malicious people in power. Welcome to the age of AI-generated economic collapse, everyone

If a cat wants something all it has to do is stand in the middle of a room and start meowing loudly and someone will actually come by and try to figure out what it wants. It is unfair I cannot do this

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” ummm nooo. My giant Gemstone is the most beautiful gem in the world. My giant gemstone.

any mutuals from twitter i haven't followed back yet? lemme know!

several gecs

Part of the overall project with these systems in addition to eliminating critical thinking, is to water down anything transformative or radical.

this is why it freaks me out to see long covid people trying to use chatgpt for medical stuff. stop it! do not pollute the information landscape

me: *seeing the trend* k for 500! get your k for only 500 here!

looked up sour cream on wikipedia and it got really intense… like this cream has “zeta potential”?? what

i disabled replies because it made it to the discover tab and i was getting 50 replies an hour that were like "I have a cheese grater. I use it to grate cheese, which I grate with my cheese grater."

mountain ranges are the boneyards of titanic battles fought over eons. they represent the violent upheaval of the very ground we stand on, challenge what we take for granted as flat. they are beasts of the earth itself, its direct children, stoic and patient but prone to outbursts

i have experienced this many times

more like hangover street

2d and 3d platformers are such completely different types of games, the shared genre name is really misleading

what if sprunki was abgerny? wouldn't that be messed up

Very amused by the fact that "didn't try to adopt AI into the workplace or product" will be a significant competitive advantage over the next few years

It’s cool that humans have been eating bread so long that when we touch a loaf for a moment we can sense ah this is going to be awful bread. Like badgers sensing vibrations underground through their claws.

If we want to treat games as art, *this* is what actual criticism looks like

I think I'm having a trauma response to all the media emphasis on the fact that the person who died in LA from H5N1 was over 65 and had "underlying health conditions" Like we're all supposed to go "oh well that's all right then, back to shopping and indoor dining" Again #NEISvoid

I’m about 75% done with Proverbs and it is both satisfying as a puzzle and educational! Plus more little dudes with instruments keep showing up as I get closer to the end store.steampowered.com/app/3083300/...

I’ve been reading a lot of the very early critiques of it. At a time when it was not even talking about race as much as you think. Often talking about things like role of “fitness” in evolution, exercise, nutrition, education. And it was heavily funded by the “tech bros” of that era.

The more you study the epistemological & philosophical origins of eugenics; often starting in domains like plant genetics and industrialization decades before leading to atrocities, the more you realize that it is rapidly intensifying right now also in innocuous -seeming areas.

hm, i don't like that checking notifications resets the feed on here. gonna be a lot of reading the same handful of posts repeatedly

the first person to say "no shit, sherlock" must have been the talk of the town

i'm gonna start doing this

in the article of former North Carolina Congressman Patrick McHenry:

i know it's not that different but i don't even know what to say over here. it reminds me of being the new kid in school

CYBER TRUCK IN NAME ONLY, FOR IT IS NEITHER