Gavin Newsom, Kristi Noem Nod Silently To Each Other In Plastic Surgeon’s Office

oh ok

I'll probably catch a block for this but AI has many amazing practical use cases. I've used it to practice foreign languages, figure out math homework with my kids, and negotiate a car lease. The problem is the people in charge of it are mostly values-less assholes focused on all the wrong stuff.

Pete Hegseth's murderous buffoonery, coming amid a lifetime in which he's betrayed everyone close to him and failed up from one disaster to the next, is a perfect example of how the appeal of Trumpism is that it creates a permission structure for people to openly be their worst selves

lmfao Thomas Keller showing up to a community meeting in his chefs jacket to complain about affordable housing being built near his 3 Michelin star restaurant is just beyond parody. what a piece of shit

I think they might have better luck spending two thousand dollars holding a press conference where they detail who made the key decisions to collaborate with the Trump administration, how and when they were fired, and explaining what would stop that from happening again.

"Elite class solidarity" explains everything from Iran, to the Supreme Court, to the government's response to COVID, to "woke backlash," to Trump, etc. Like "the cruelty is the point," @adamserwer.bsky.social is so good at creating a unified theory of everything.

If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.

Wrong again, dumbass

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How I arrived on Bluesky

It’s actually FEWER Misérables

I know that I sound like a broken record but I think once this society was ok with accepting mass covid deaths just to be able to eat at Applebees then all bets were off.

I had a conversation with the OpenAI recruiter running their Head of Communications search. I told her Anthropic was eating their lunch. I never heard from them again.

These assholes are really gonna go with “war is peace, actually.”

“direct your anger at trump not the democrats” buddy you are severely underestimating the amount of anger i have available to me

hey gen z welcome to republican governance

Anthropic: We lost a contract because we refuse to build Skynet. OpenAI: We'll do it

“if you won’t let us use your product to spy on Americans and kill without supervision we will single-handedly destroy your business by fiat” is the single most authoritarian anti-business action I can ever remember any administration taking

Traitors is incredible television

i dont know if its always been like this but among the elites theres just no sense of responsibility to be good stewards of the society thats given them everything

art of the deal, baby

It’s heartening to see a company demonstrate principles — and stick by them in the face of threats. www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...

Great piece about the US men's hockey team's poor navigation of power and perception in the minefield that is our hyper-polarized world. www.nytimes.com/athletic/706...

Great example of how, in this era, trying to be fair to both sides means providing a platform for unserious people to spread destructive, objectively false garbage.

any democratic politician saying other democrats are talking about “pronouns” too much is laundering republican bigotry and lying to you to try and appear more moderate than democrats at large

Bluesky has not failed--it's literally just a website. The left, the progressive movement, and American civil society have failed to organize a boycott of the neo-Nazi propaganda website that's central to political media. That's not on Bluesky.

OpenAI comms needs to lock Sam in a conference room and keep him away from the press for at least 6 months.

yes, the wheels of justice are slow. agonizingly, excruciatingly slow. and oftentimes they miss or go off the tracks entirely. in fact most of the time. but occasionally, very infrequently, that big wheel of justice delivers theoretical remuneration for a handful of vested business interests

"Reality desperately needs a better public relations department" is a fantastic line.

I should go into crisis PR so I can pick up the phone once a week and say “oh my god no don’t do that what’s wrong with you” and then cash a check

hello and welcome to the political genius exam. here is question one. which is a more compelling message: - the president is sending armies to occupy cities and kidnap and kill people and your town could be next - a meal at the cheesecake factory that previously cost $100 now costs $104.9

I still cannot believe this cleared what was likely a 10+ layer approval process. Incredible.

Everyone who's doing business with Musk right now deserves to be scrutinized as closely as everyone in the Epstein files.

Why do people hate ai? It’s a mystery for the ages.

Contrast of Forms, by Fernand Léger, 1913, (rotated) 📸 by Mike Segar

I have very deliberately not donated to a single democratic candidate this entire cycle. Leadership's total failure to meet the moment + embarrassing and desperate spam texting = a gleeful refusal on my part to give them even one dollar. Looks like I'm not alone.

having your city noticed by the president is now a natural disaster on par with a hurricane or major flood

I really feel like: Donald Trump is building a prison camp system on the scale of Hitler, Stalin, and Mao … would be a good and true headline to run every day. Advertisements across media. Speeches on the Senate. Everywhere.

I desperately want to be friends with whoever came up with this @theonion.com

I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.

They're building concentration camps with my tax money Chuck. They're torturing children. They're murdering innocent people on the street. What are you doing.

Everything is so embarrassing all the time

Like Kendrick, political as hell precisely because it doesn't bother to acknowledge the haters. They're irrelevant, beneath attention. And nothing is more intolerable to fascists than the thought that their enemies are cool, enjoying themselves, and not thinking about them.

This week @nytopinion.nytimes.com published my essay about the recent transfer of power in Silicon Valley from labor back to management, and the myth of the conservative "vibe shift." Even though digital has 20x the distribution of print, it's still cool to see your name in the actual newspaper.

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

When Republicans do it / When Democrats do it