no one makes good choices in this Gremlins movie

My people www.rnz.co.nz/life/screens...

The pulled “60 Minutes” episode on the CECOT prisoners is down on that YouTube link but up now here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

I am not Black, but I share this concern, and I think it's important that people who are not Black share, and make policy reflecting, this concern. The social contract can't go back to "it's okay as long as you don't do it to nice respectable white people". It can't. We can stop doing that shit.

I'm so glad Amazon added an inescapable, intrusive "AI" "Help" window that opens every time you refresh the page; it makes it way easier to avoid shopping on Amazon because it's so fucking annoying

This is true and wildly frustrating. My bird cam uses "AI bird recognition" and I'm like...

Not tryna be judgy but sometimes I look at the way non-data people organize data and I'm like

Even before the pandemic put the damper on tourism, Portland city leadership was killing downtown business by rolling back all the people-friendly innovations that brought it to life, like the arts funding, car-free bus mall, Fareless Square, and free evening and weekend parking.

There was no "get a smartphone or you'll be left behind" marketing, because smartphones are actually useful. If your invention is good, you don't have to use that kind of pressure to market it.

Pro AI folks use luddite like white people use woke. That’s not what I means, champ.

If you want to use ChatGPT, then use it. But to assert it makes you on par with people that actually do the work in their field is a laughable position take because it doesn’t. You’re just lazy and want to be viewed as someone that isn’t.

I want more parents to understand that a very important, perhaps even most important, part of their job as parents is to teach their kids to be socially functional. That means telling your kid when their behavior is obnoxious, and explaining why, maybe even using similes they relate to.

It really feels this way, painfully so.

The Los Angeles county sheriff's department is notoriously brutal and lawless. California can amend the state constitution by ballot initiative. If the voters of LA county won't sort this out, the rest of the state should just abolish the office. nypost.com/2025/12/18/u...

Are fake Oregon plates like this allowed agdanrayfield.bsky.social,? Because ICE is using them, apparently. It's cool though if you'd rather arrest ICE agents for shooting pepper balls in a Portland neighborhood instead. @indivhillsboro.bsky.social @ordems.bsky.social iceout.org/reportInfo/5...

The transformation of Etsy from a marketplace for handmade items to a marketplace for resale of mass-produced items with misleading keywords and list prices seems like it leaves an open market niche for a marketplace for handmade items.

🤡There's never been a time in US history where people expect you to apologize *for being white*. People expect you to apologize*for being pro-racism*. Worldwide, fewer than half of all white people are pro-racism.♥️ In the US it takes an active disinfo campaign to keep the pro-racism group > 50%.

Spoiler: nobody ever asked anyone to apologize for being white, and it's actually really fucking annoying when people do.

I really like how the "Before" and "After" images look like average Portland men before and after having kids.

republicans believe children should be forced to carry pregnancies to term and should be allowed to be pushed into coercive marriages by their parents because they see children as fundamentally sexually exploitable and i am tired of pretending their transphobia has some other angle

There are so many people out there, mostly men, who really sincerely perceive not being permitted to bully others as a form of bullying. You see this play out over blocklists all the time - especially blocklists used by Black and trans women to minimize harassment.

Yep. That's been my experience.

Bro you're plagiarizing my plagiarism on the plagiarizing machine

Unpopular opinion: Not every savory dish needs garlic. Having some contrast in how your food tastes is good, actually.

These super rich dumbasses really think buying up water rights will protect them after they collapse the economy and gut the government. They aren't thinking about the lack of structured civilization leading to them being slaughtered by their own security teams and replaced with petty warlords.

I wonder who could represent everybody in the marketplace? Some sort of organization or governing body appointed by the people could do it, I suppose

I get the joke here, but it is important to stress to folks that we're taught a lot of stuff that most of us will never use, because: 1. learning it makes you better prepared for whatever path your career eventually takes, and 2. learning abstract math trains one's brain to *think*, in general

I never donate to PACs, especially given that their cut is usually larger than what ends up going to the candidates.

AI cannot see creativity; it doesn't look like anything to AI. If your work contains your unique voice and ideas, especially subtle, exciting nascent connections that could only have been made by you, AI will strip them out and often render them unfindable even by you.

Are they so easy to use that they will replace our jobs? Or are they so difficult to use that they will create new jobs for people who know how to use them well? It's Schroedinger's AI! My take is that if you understand them fairly well you are better equipped to spot and fix their bullshit.

Truly, the question of our times.

Video tutorials suck bc people talk too fucking much and say things nobody cares about and repeat themselves in order to pad out the video to make what shoulda been a three-point bullet list. Video format sucks and I hate that corporate interests and illiteracy have turned the internet into TV.

This is how you know your writers hate you.

I have a couple of fat bitches

More like this, please. I will spend money on news, entertainment, and IT products that are AI-free.

The Portland right-wing's answer for the economy is (1) tax cuts for the rich, (2) subsidies for downtown property owners who only give low rent to Rene Gonzales, and (3) hire more police officers. Oh, and to work with people who lost city council races to generate bad faith ethics complaints.

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

Representing the two sides are Yahoo Serious but Epstein and Gerber Baby Goebbels

Did some actual number crunching. With 37% of White women being the largest part of the electorate, there's no way that just 53% of them voted for him and he got to 77M. I think it's closer to 56%. Here's what the chart, with NUMBERS (rather than %), looks like. @tify330.bsky.social

The same people who assume that being Black automatically means you're biased also assume that white men are neutral and objective. And then they deny being racist.

BREAKING: Hundreds of foreign prison staff 'offered emergency extension to visa' to stop the prison system collapsing Sources suggest Home Secretary had previously been reluctant to make the exemption as part of her drive to reduce net migration news.sky.com/story/hundre...

I was interviewed for @theguardian.com by the wonderful @melodyschreiber.com, one of the finest health reporters in the world, about what I called a “neocolonialist” study planned by Danish researchers in Guinea-Bissau, funded by RFK Jr. So many red flags 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

There's really interesting social science on how white people significantly overestimate the number of people of color in a room or in a picture. A room with, like, 20% POC will be perceived as majority POC.

I always wonder what happens in the minds of people who embrace eugenics like Jordan Peterson when they become chronically ill.

Just want to point out how funny/sad it is that the same people who will refuse to refer to a trans woman as "she" have no problem calling ChatGPT "she."

Excuse me but what the fuck is wrong with these people

Yes. And maybe a double-whammy of a cute nerd taking off her computer glasses and putting on her Going Out glasses bc I for one like to be able to see when I'm on a date. Big fan.

This is a must-read if you don't know why randomized controlled studies for proven vaccines and treatments are hideously unethical, unless they are comparing the known treatment to a new treatment to see if the new one is *better*.

Oh really it was a scam the whole time huh