I would like to see this sort of thing out of every Dem candidate for office it's not that hard to be a decent human being, it just isn't and I know the world is full of shitty assholes who will try to tear you down for it, but I really believe that it doesn't have to be a liability

Hey, when these AI-slop shows come out. Don't talk about them. Don't Watch them. Don't engage with them Hell don't even pirate them. Give THEM NOTHING. SHOW them we don't want it. When it releases, SCREAM and SHOW OFF about your favorite indie Show(s) instead!

Don't hate-watch these - a view is a view for streaming platforms. Ignore them, let them rot away with low engagement. It's one of the earlier tests to prove that people (hopefully) just do not want AI-generated animated shows. Shame on The Book of Life's creator for selling out too, what a blow.

it's destroying communities. not in the abstract "it's bad for the environment" sense, in the literally observable immediate sense. usage of it is tantamount to violence against your own neighbors, and it should be treated as the antisocial behavior that it actually is

actually i kinda *do* think using genAI should be such a social faux pas that the user is marked as a pariah and no longer feels welcome in the community. "AI is bad" is no longer an abstract (it never was), my city has been under a boil water advisory for a week because of AI data centers

Spent 20 minutes this morning sitting with my 12yo and asking the new Google search questions about Pokémon. After laughing at all the bullshit and wrong answers, we had a serious discussion about the power of his human brain and the necessity of using trusted sources like Bulbapedia.

Anything you rely on AI to do is a skill you’ll lose. There’s a bunch of research on this. Stop using it for “just” anything

i know it's stupid to blame everything on one guy, and there's certainly other factors, but the cultural damage from the president being an asshole who materially rewards other assholes is immense

if you're outsourcing bedtime stories to the hell machine i don't have anything kind to say about you

“The Al is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you”

DON HERTZFELDT, in this the year of our oversized spoon 2026, has uploaded a HD version of Rejected to his YT channel?!?!?! OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS I'M SO HAPPY HIIIIII

Good to see outlets get to where I was uh, somewhere between 6 and 18 months ago lol

Usage on @scryfallbot.bsky.social is still really low. It’s only getting a handful of requests per day. I’d love it if people helped spread the word about this tool.

Yes, and what the Republicans learned from those incidents was not "don't be out of touch, thin-skinned babies" but rather "we should control all media, so they won't be able to laugh at us anymore".

Went to an anti AI datacentre protest march today and a friend of mine got a picture that summed it all up

DeTrumpification is as necessary a project to the US as DeNazification was to Germany. Everything removed from everywhere, including every person in the Trump party from every elected and appointed position of public trust, with all appropriate investigations, charges, and trials.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

A throwback. www.popehat.com/p/who-judges...

hey everyone wanna see what a manufactured hate campaign is shaped like???

I am once again asking for your trash for things like this

No machine is worthy of emulating me

elon musk had his brain melted by right wing twitter slop and illegally shut it down. six figure body count plus a new strain of ebola is ravaging africa as we speak. the discourse is about whether they hired enough conservatives to justify not torpedoing the agency. illegally, i might add

AI boom discourse has gotten so out of hand that it’s making the New Yorker relatable🫢 (with alt text)

The Marketplace of Ideas people immediately forcefully shut down all dissent, bought all media, sued & fired all critics & arrested & caged journalists reporting on their heinousness as soon as they got control & all of this was entirely predictable & people who warned of it were called overreactors

The name "Harry Potter" is TOXIC among trans people. It should be toxic among ALL people! Cis folks, get with the fucking program. JK Rowling is funding trans genocide. www.yahoo.com/news/j-k-row... bsky.app/profile/dana...

If you want there to be a Magic Community, you got to be building something run by & for the people who make & play this game. Like adding your name to UWOTC's open letter, demanding that Wizards recognise the union & stops trying to scare workers into submission. actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcl...

This. God, this. It is such a manufactured panic and it started the moment they lost the fight over gay marriage. Support trans rights because it’s the right thing to do and also because this is all just a fascist push

if you're cis and you are asked by your management to police bathrooms, "can you confirm in writing that you are ordering me to approach customers to discuss their sex?" is an email no manager wants to reply to

An interesting thing about NASA is that they’ve never had to worry whether scrubbing a launch for safety reasons would impact their IPO

Slush Fund Follow my work and writing on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com For @contrariannews.org

Here’s something I’ve been working on. It’s still very early development and I’m planning on having it fully compatible with the Discord bot syntax, but for now [[Card Name]] at the bot will get you a copy of the card.

“leftists are trying to spoil elections by purity testing candidates over trans rights!!” no man our rights are being taken away so we want to vote for people who will stop it. Not everything is a 3D chess political masterstroke you GW flunkie, Beltway drunk driver, lanyard wearing, dork ass loser

Recall: Dems hung tough on no funding for ICE & BP, Rs caved and passed rest of DHS and decided to do ICE and BP via reconciliation. Trump wanted ballroom then slush fund, couldn’t work it out, & here we are. Lesson for Dems: Hanging tough put pressure on Rs, -> Rs in disarray.

Here's a little demonstration of the challenges of data mapping when it comes to Canada. Here's a hypothetical election map. Pretty simple question: which party won, green or yellow?

Whenever someone prominent accidentally shares an AI hallucination, people are like “this is why you have to double-check the output!” Which is absolutely true, but remember that AI proponents market it as a faster way to work. Which is not really true if you have to double check everything it does.

the FCC wants to make trans existence in television “explicit” and require warnings the House is trying to ban all books by or about trans people — right now — YOU SEE WHAT’S HAPPENING RIGHT?? C A L L Y O U R R E P S ~please!~

it's actually true that you cannot fund good government entirely by taxing the rich, which is why slopulist proposals to gut the tax base are a bad idea but taxing the rich at punitive levels is a goal in and of itself, billionaires are simply too dangerous to public policy to exist

One of the biggest reasons we need a wealth tax is to prevent the billionaires from completely owning the means by which citizens stay informed.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but Trump’s $1.776 billion slush fund for Jan 6 criminals is intended to generously reward the MAGA cultists most likely to commit violence on command for Donald Trump. This can’t lead anywhere good.

Bezos says that the US has one of the most progressive tax codes. This is true by some measures. But our tax and transfer system reduces inequality far less than countries with broader tax systems. Tax cuts can't help people who don't have an income, but a generous tax financed welfare state can.

Billionaires must be targeted with tax policy and antitrust policy not because it helps everyone else (though it does) but because their political power must be limited so they can't wreck the world the way they're currently doing

The thing is: Sagan put a woman scientist front and center in Contact. But the media will never let a woman be his successor, even though I am the only one who explicitly says I write in Sagan's humanist tradition of writing science from the perspective of our values commitments.

This is a must read.

Kickstarter has reverted their policy changes on Adult Content! They issued an apology, siting Stripe as the reason. The pressure we put on them worked. This is a step in the right direction. But the threat of Stripe remains. It’d be great to see KS end ties with them & process payments elsewhere.

I don't ask search engines for answers. I ask them for LINKS to answers. I'm okay with the link list being curated by algorithmic relevance (assuming [HAH] no malice in the algorithm's design) but I do NOT want the results digested and summarized for me. tl;dr - I guess I'm done Googling stuff.

I realize I sound like old man yelling at clouds but... ...in my day WE READ ALL THE CITATIONS BEFORE WE CITED THEM. That's how you GAIN THE KNOWLEDGE TO CITE THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE. Signed: Someone who literally read two whole books on the color blue just to write a single 1000 word article.

"Literacy test." Herblock on new lessons in democracy and citizenship for southern law enforcement, March 1965.

Trump did not reach a settlement with the government. There was no case to settle. He has not created a slush fund. He has colluded with Todd Blanche to steal money from the US Treasury. This is not a “deal.” This is a crime for which Trump & Blanche must be prosecuted. It ia a crime.

CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...