This is important to recognize. There are very few brakes on the actions of the Trump regime and things are very likely to get worse before they can get better. The example of the bravery of the people of Minneapolis is going to need to be repeated in other places.

Tho, I have to admit, "what if my Sims could have real crypto wallets?" is an amazing pitch for a cyberpunk farce and also just exactly on the nose for what passes for reality in 2026.

roses are red cherenkov is blue just use a screwdriver what's the worst it could do

Reading up on the Moltbook / OpenClaw stuff, and the best analogue I'm seeing for this is the "AI" that runs video game NPCs. Like, huge advance, you can now turn your Sims loose on the internet. It's still fundamentally a simulation, you're just believing in it harder because the context changed.

That's weird, she just told me that she didn't even race today.

I feel like this is an underrated distortion of the AI hype cycle. Coders are closest to this tech, and they be like "it can replace me, and coding is the pinnacle of intelligence, so surely it can replace everyone below me too! If it can code, then wordcel and artsy crap is just trivial." Maybe.

There's a link between the AI disruption and the authoritarian political attacks on expertise. Highly educated white collar folks considered ourselves to be a powerful culture, on the basis of our expertise & credentials. But that's not where power comes from, and we're learning that the hard way.

the deployment of mRNA vaccine technology was a monumental leap in medical advancement and the crowning achievement of Donald Trump's first presidency but now his administration is scuttling it because their political coalition exists in opposition to the concept of expertise

When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means

discord betrayed you? lol, I wouldn’t know, I’ve been self-hosting an open source voip server for the past fifteen years. it’s super low-latency and has much better chat tools than whatever your precious “nitro subscription” gets you. and as soon as I make even one friend,

While this absolutely sucks, we are going to see a lot more places implementing universal global age verification over this next year, because the number of states and countries legally requiring it has gotten to the point no one can keep up anymore.

Bad Bunny performs. The NYT: What is sugar cane? WaPo: What are politics? Fox News: What is Spanish?

I really do think this is an excellent metaphor for the moment.

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

I picked up about 1/3 of this stuff, because I, y'know, have a humanities education and understand symbolism and have enough Spanish to barely get by. But it was so great to have the whole thing explicated and be able to appreciate it better as a celebration and suspected political message.

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.

"Markdown isn’t 'content' in an agent ecosystem. Markdown is an installer." Did anyone even think about this for a combined total of like 5 seconds? Or did they have Claude think about it for them, and Claude was like "YOLO, and more tokens for me!"

What race? Why is it a race? What is anything even for?

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once

I feel like over and over, people are presented with the choice between "wow, these cognitive hazards are very powerful, I should take steps to protect myself from them" vs. "wow, this technology is literal magic", and making the incorrect choice

They are so, so desperate to own slaves again and I wish they’d just fucking come out and say it They want to create a white ethnostate not in the sense that only white people live here but in the sense that only white people are people (Also as the comments point out he’s completely wrong)

How are you supposed to explain to people how this entire social, political, and economic reality is entirely downstream from anime getting banned on some dipshit's forum 25ish years ago

So what I’m gathering is a pedophilic billionaire successfully worked to destigmatize race science among the academic, political, and business elite partly by sex trafficking girls. Is that the shape of it so far?

I may have a stroke. Someone said protests don’t belong in church and it took every ounce of self-censure within me not to say “Deborah you are literally a Protestant.” A PROTESTant. I assume they think Luther was nailing Bed, Bath, & Beyond coupons to the door.

Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy

Extremely rough chuckles, extremely well done

i don't know if it's actually new, but what seems to be new is people getting enraged that they went through all the trouble to put on this unconvincing show (lie) and people weren't considerate enough to pretend to believe them

hi media, you dont have to guess what homan means moving forward in minnesota, you could just simply report on whats still happening there

Pretty rich for these guys to whine about rhetoric leading to bloodshed. Every accusation a confession. Only when they do it their random radicalized CHUDS with guns do the shedding, and when we do it their state-sanctioned guys with guns also do the shedding 🤔

Their employers, their neighborhoods and their schools already know who they are, because they are organizing to protect their coworkers, their neighbors, and their kids.

So initial experiments with Open AI's vibe-coding science tool Prism are going about as well as expected.

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These systems are not designed to be accurate, they're designed to bypass normal due process and verification, because they can't detain and deport enough people fast enough if they follow those processes. The shitty app trumps a birth certificate because the logic of their program demands it.

Younger generations “have fallen out of love with Sixteen Stone the 1994 debut studio album by English rock band Bush, because they have fallen out of love with the worldview Machinehead represents,” writes Luke O’Neil. “Which is to say that young people have fallen out of love with liberalism.”

If you are talking about training today, you are a mark.

once again i am asking literally anyone in a position of power to do literally anything so that our neighbors stop getting fucking murdered in the street

Does anyone with remotely any amount of leverage have a plan beyond some combo of?: - wait it out for midterms - handful of GOPers miraculously grow a soul - it happens

They are executing unarmed people in the streets for trying to protect their neighbors with the full support of the federal government.

Things that can't be sustained, soon enough won't sustain. Right? Right?! This situation is now completely untenable, and something is going to break. Which way will it break though? Public leadership is so desperately needed RN. The people are leading, but where are those in positions of power?

I just watched the shooting video. It's a horrific beating and execution in the middle of the street. If local and state officials don't move to arrest everyone involved for murder, they need to resign. Making arrests will de-escalate the situation. Do nothing and this is going to explode.

Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."

The Senate is on recess this whole week. The Senators could all be in Minneapolis right now, riding with ICE patrols, speaking out about what's happening, and standing up for what's right. That they are not is a choice.

4 Republican senators, 3 Republican representatives, and/or 2 Republican justices could reinstate rule-of-law & constitution & democracy today, but all 53 Republican senators, 218 Republican representatives, 6 Republican justices actively collaborating to end rule-of-law & constitution & democracy.

The idea that data is objective and good data practice means eliminating bias has it backwards. Data is subjective, and good data practice means tracing and identifying how the biases inherent to the data we construct serve or don’t serve specific peoples and ends to which that data is put to use.

i feel like the viral bus thread resonates because at every step of the way you're like "ok surely this will be resolved shortly, any second now," which seems like what all the passengers are also thinking. then the fact that the situation doesn't resolve and the bus just keeps going is an Allegory