Hey so Michael Burry (the dude Christian Bale plays in The Big Short) just took out a billion dollar short bet against a few HUGE Ai companies………… Reminder that he made mega bank betting on the housing market to fail back in 2008. No one believed that was even possible at the time.

Bluesky will hate me for saying this, but sometimes you have to distinguish between when a consumer boycott or buyer shaming is effective vs when other means that target the wider public, labor, and state would be more effective. Arc Raiders is already a multi-million seller that uses GenAI.

Regular reminder that Axios stories saying Dems are about to cave are likely sourced from GOP staffers trying to make it happen. Doesn't mean it definitely won't happen. But it's like those NYT stories that Harvard is considering caving (they haven't). The anonymous source was trying to manifest it.

Discworld QOTD, from Making Money “She had the slightly wistful, slightly hungry look that so many women of a certain age wore when they’d decided to trust in gods because of the absolute impossibility of continuing to trust in men.”

all the state workers that got those payments out as fast as they could should be getting free drinks forever.

I particularly hate the suggestion there's some sort of grand bargain in which trans rights are given up in exchange for _______. No one is offering such a thing. No one would change their vote to Dems after that. The argument exists solely to justify throwing trans people under the bus.

This Sunday post will be a bit different. Happy anniversary Connieheart 💜 #bg3 #bg3art #shadowheart #tav #connieheart

Yes really — the “we asked this guy. He doesn’t actually know jack shit but he’s rich” model of reportage really needs to go

You cannot separate the current nightmare we now inhabit from the collapse/crisis in how rich, powerful middle-aged men perceive masculinity, especially their own insecurities.

State Senator Louise Lucas, I must apologize, I was not familiar with your game

Every day I log onto this website and read sentences

Hedy Lamarr on the cover of the June 1, 1942 issue of Life She was BOTD in 1914

lol she got his ass and he knows it

The greatest innovation billionaires have come up with is they found a way to have billions of dollars and still be miserable and angry all the time

That a Reagan judge would give up his lifetime appointment willingly because he feels a future GOP president has rendered that appointment meaningless in the midst of an authoritarian speedrun is quite remarkable:

no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy

All of republican governance in our lifetime has now devolved to angry white men incoherently screeching—in the halls of power and online alike—that nothing is working and they demand democrats put it back together in the exact way that republicans want or else they’ll start killing more people

Me watching the new Frankenstein movie

if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets. no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.

Here’s A Comic About Elon Musk & His Infinite Possibilities

Literally every dem should be shouting from the rooftops that republicans are giving Americans two choices: die from starvation or from a lack of affordable healthcare.

I am once again saying that we saw what wall to wall, panic coverage of a crisis looked like after the Biden debate and there’s no reason Trump isn’t getting that kind of coverage except for class solidarity.

They panic about fertility rates, say families need to be having more children, then they starve the kids and ensure health insurance is impossible to afford. Plus all the other things that would dissuade people from having kids: houses impossible to buy, diminishing middle class, ICE everywhere.

every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

Gambit and Rogue Marvel Rivals doodles 😋

Citing concerns about DEI, the U.S. Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states. “How low can you go?” one advocate asked. “How can you do this to children?” www.propublica.org/article/trum...

YIPPIEE #fe3h #fireemblemthreehouses#FE風花雪月

I do really think these folks are underestimating how bad the AI backlash can get if the industry needs a bailout people are still furious about the 2008 bailout and that was almost two decades ago

NEWS — FDA announces 13 cases of infant botulism across 10 states after babies were given ByHeart powder formula from two specific lots.

Hard Drive was saddened to her about the passing of Molag Bal. We may not have always agreed with his methods, but he worked to enslave all of humanity and harvest their souls with the grace and poise the position demanded. Our thoughts go out to all his Daedric brethren in this difficult time.

ME AS A CHILD: i cant wait till im an adult, then i can finally Do Things ME AS AN ADULT: the spectre of Things To Do haunts me from sunup to sundown, and beyond

Nightmare employee experience and speaking personally, nightmare customer experience too. Fuck off Target. Fix your DEI policies, pay your employees more instead of regulating their emotions, then apologize for 10 years. Until then, eat boycott bitches!

excellent job by these states correctly anticipating Supreme Court fuckery and moving quickly to protect their most vulnerable residents deeply unfortunate that “rush to get ahead of the Court” is now the smart and savvy way to act

Charlotte is good people and she's doing a good thing. I threw some cash their way, and if you can too, please do.

When the front person of a popular band dies, the remaining members often try to replace them with someone else or go on without them. But the band usually breaks up or fades into obscurity, maybe playing old hits to a small crowd if they're lucky. Anyway, just thinking about politics this morning.

A good argument for socialism is $1 trillion can’t buy you happiness

Folks, if you are hungry, please contact your local Sikh gurdwara. Or just show up for langar, which most gurdwaras do several times a week, for a free meal. Lots also do weekly or monthly drives giving out groceries. No conversion necessary. Feeding anyone who is hungry is a key part of Sikhism.

Across Eastern Europe, they have what are known as "lustration" laws that do exactly this for people who were in the Stasi and its various equivalents. It's a model we should be examining.