Some companies who told their staff to use AI now are asking employees to reduce usage after, for example, Accenture found that non-technical workers were using it to convert PDFs into different file types. www.404media.co/the-tokenpoc...

Watching a huge creator post a vid full of inaccuracies and not be able to correct/critique any of it bc you know their fans will come for you. HARD. This is how toxic + parasocial internet discourse is. You can’t have conversations. You can’t disagree. You can’t correct inaccuracies. /1

Stop calling it a “prediction market”. It’s GAMBLING. Gambling is inherently predatory and unsustainable. They aren’t “predictors”, they’re addicts. Capitalism breeds innovation? Then why do these bros give us gambling, bad AI p0rn, and the enshittification of literally everything?

Trump - like any fragile malignant narcissist- has never felt ok about himself even once in his life. He feels so insecure and unsure of himself, he needs constant adoration or he decompensates. Men who crave their name on buildings, or monuments to themselves are a special kind of pathetic.

It's our pool. It's our White House. It's our country.

Watching establishment Dems flip out as the DSA/ WFP push the party wayyyy Left is giving me life. I ran for - and got elected as- a PCP bc I want to push the Dem party in OR wayyyy Left. Parties go through evolutions and renovations. Dems are morphing. I’m here for it. Part of it. Let’s go.

Plot status: THICKENING

@tinakotek.bsky.social and PBA, why are y'all trying to cram this down our throats so fast... you want it inked and done before we find out all the details and how much of a rip off this Moda "deal" is. Thank god for local independent journalists uncovering the truth.

Thank god we renewed ours in Jan 2025. How desperately insecure the Decrepit Cheeto is and how ardently the GOP wants to perform loyalty to him. Pathetic.

Local media sniffing around into details more and this is not gonna be good for Tina, Keith, Tom, & Co.

They said it would bring in $11-12M/year much in taxes from Blazers' players salaries. $600M to renovate luxury boxes and the bar...for what ROI now?? How else could we invest those public $$ for a much greater return that benefits us, and not a billionaire in another state??

Data Centers. Private Equity Big Ag. Billionaire Sportsball Team owners. Freight Warehouses. Concrete Concentration Camps. It's all the same men trying to fuck us all the same way. And our electeds in both parties are all in on the fuckery. When will we decide enough is enough?

Just dropping this reminder here for everyone in Portland.

Reading what came down from SCOTUS and The New Colossus is running through my head and I'm so ashamed of this country. We can be and do so much better than this present inhumanity and injustice. We could do so much good.

I keep thinking about the connections between Big AI and Big Carrot. Hear me out, y'all: it's the same struggle.

One funny thing about this that I almost forgot is that apparently the Blazers org came in hot making all sort of electoral threats and timing things so it would happen around election time so city electeds would feel pressure to fold. lol whoops!

SCOTUS reform must be the top priority. 6 radical far right justices have destroyed democracy on behalf of a Christofascist ideology and a demented conman grifter.

I can’t stop thinking about that person who in early 2025 who she wasn’t super worried about Trump bc the GOP in the Senate would constrain him. And yet they have capitulated over and over and over. They know he’s a demented loser and they stick with him bc they’re all-in on fascism.

and this isn't just some random evil racist congressman. he's the majority whip, the third most powerful member of the house! this *is* the party.

DOJ appears to have missed its filing deadline in @katiephang.bsky.social’s lawsuit against Todd Blanche.

BREAKING NEWS: Trump just refused to sign the housing bill that Congress passed. He is single-handedly delaying the largest investment in 30 years. He could bring down costs for working people with the stroke of a pen... and instead he's throwing a temper tantrum.

Who here thinks we should spend more than $600 million of public money… More than 10 times the estimated cost of the renovations… for an out-of-state billionaire who ran a predatory loan company? Who thinks this is a good use of public funds? Why is this being pushed on us?

Mayor Keith Wilson can go suck my nut. How dare he threaten to take Prosper Portland money to fund the Moda center reno for a corrupt billionaire sportsball owner. We can't fund our schools and people can't afford housing and this is our electeds' focus? Tina and Keith can both fuck right off.

Love this for him. But not as much as I’m gonna love taxing him out of existence and using his $$$$ to feed the starving children in Sudan he cut off aid to by “putting USAID thru the woodchipper”. He’s a holocauster and his millions of victims deserve justice.

SLOW SMALL SOLUTIONS. You want to change the party? Push it Left? Wayyyyy left? Me too, girlfriend. Let’s keep working to make change at the local level, state leg level, and as NY showed us: in primaries in Blue Districts. This is where we go and we go hard. Get involved early.

The primary in NY got attention because (among other things) there were a few (all too rare) open seats. We shouldn't have to wait for decades for this. I argue we need age limits for Congress to improve representation and create opportunities for new leaders www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

Accidentally took two whole days off of work bc the Internet was out in Netarts and I had no cell service. It has me questioning once again, whether the 24 hour new cycle is a psyop meant to suck our life hours away and keep us doomscrolling instead of resisting.

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"Only once before has America had a president this old — and that time, we held an extended and furious debate about whether age had rendered the octogenarian unable to do his job. By comparison, discussion of Trump’s age has been quiet and infrequent." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

Wow it's like when we told multi-billion dollar media corps not to bend the knee bc you can never buy yourself safety from a strongman, they should have listened. Now they want our help?

In case you wonder what it's like working on the internet in 2026.

My 23 yr-old is calling at 12am. She joined Substack. "Everyone I respected previously I no longer do bc I read their Substack. Why is every article titled, 'On pineapples.' Or 'On boyfriends in the 21st Century.' On on on. I'm convinced none of these people like to write." Accurate take, Ruth.

My eldest (Squash Fold) just called me at 12:05 am to say, "Gen Z knows better than to show their feet on main. It's like showing butt crack"'. And my other kid:

I posted a heartfelt post to Insta and my adult daughters are trolling me about foot fetish content in the comments. This is what it's like to be the mom of Gen Zers. ☠️☠️☠️

I have a studio! I just need some more furniture. Moved my mom's cabinet and a rug out from the living room, which suddenly feels huge! Still need a desk, a bookshelf, a loveseat and chair and a mini split. Solar panels on order.

I filmed three videos back to back with a piece of spinach or green onion or something in my bottom teeth. So that's how my day is going. Sorry, Internet. I'm a bit mess. I won't be refilming.

I’ve been thinking about this. Extreme wealth insulates you from the consequences of your actions. I’m all about about natural consequences when it comes to parenting and helping our children learn… I think something becomes very warped in these men when they cease to experience consequences.

Me: public figures on Ozempic pushing emaciation as a beauty standard are causing so much harm. The pendulum has swung so swiftly back to ED and Diet Culture YT women my FB: stop stigmatizing GLP1s! Let women do whatever they want with their bodies. What is the harm? Choice feminism, folks.

Anyone else read about Peter Thiel's Dialog and think, "Oh, so like Bohemian Grove?" These boys all want their elite/factional politics and their little secret societies so they think they're special. Men will do ANYTHING rather than go to therapy. Including destroy democracy and oppress us all.

Trump claims that Pete Hegseth, who is 0-1 in wars, "doesn't know how to lose"

Trump calls Elon Musk "Leon"

Data scientists, like @votehub.com's Zachary Donnini, tell me that despite the GOP's new illegally gerrymandered seats, the Democrats remain clear favorites to retake control of the House in November.  He also debunks the latest claims of election fraud in California. youtu.be/z3jThKjeP-Y?...

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People on social media declaring Wired issued a "retraction" on their Thiel/Dialog piece...show me where? Seems like the same folks claiming Wired issued a retraction on @taylorlorenz.bsky.social piece. No they didn't. BTC still hasn't released the Chorus contracts like he said he would, tho'

Me admitting freely I got duped by @nealkatyal.bsky.social during his Jan 6 Commission coverage. I was shocked to hear he's associated with Thiel's Dialog. I shouldn't have been. He's a self-described centrist who apparently bills $2250/hr to represent big corporations in front of SCOTUS /1

Me, watching a public figure - any public figure - I haven't seen in a while: Damn, all these bitches are on Ozempic. Being pleasantly plump in 2026 is an act of resistance, I swear.

On the phone with 23 yr-old. Me: "I wasn't radical enough in 2024..." Ruth: "Weren't we all."

To be fair, Gillibrand co-sponsored Merkley’s bill barring officials—and their families—from issuing crypto. Then she co-authored the GENIUS Act, crypto industry-backed and without serious anti-corruption measures, and passed it over Merkley’s opposition—he called it a “rubberstamp” for corruption.

If lawmakers are serious about protecting children, they should roll back age-verification policies and start targeting the systems that incentivise mass surveillance. Read my latest print piece for The Guardian 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...