"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

"You know why most film makers are liberal? Because our job is to make you care about situations & people. And to do that, we think a lot about that kind of shit & channel it into our work. You don’t care about other people? This is not the job for you." ~ Duncan Jones #scriptsky #filmsky

Big Mama Thornton talks about recording "Hound Dog," which would become her best selling single. And a key moment in Rock N Roll history. Big Mama Thornton would've been 99 today

the way that ai is being advertised now is that everyone has to pretend to be incompetent and incredibly incapable and useless at everything

Great thread

When we talk about physical media, we are often only taking about personal collections but a big part of shunning the current digital ecosystem is supporting your local library. Not just for print books and periodicals but for movies, games and other medias too. Get. A. Library. Card.

Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?

"The wolf tells us that brick houses will never work and straw is the ultimate building material."

Pre-writing your enemy's obituary in case you go first is top-tier hating

Just told my 10yo daughter about #DickCheney. She had tears in her eyes. And then she did the Wakanda pose and said "#Dickanda forever"—which is the sort of pop culture cross-over I can celebrate.

Andrew Cuomo hosting a seance on CNN where the spirit of Jeffery Epstein endorses him

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@stuff.co.nz @nzstuff.bsky.social @nzstuff.nzcow.com

Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport www.economist.com/internationa... "In London cyclists now outnumber cars in the City by two to one and in Paris, they outnumber motorists across the whole city. In Copenhagen bikes account for almost half of commuter journeys to work and school."

Ex-Partner returns with their debut album Lore-Core, a blitz of textural landscapes crashing into Tony Drent’s fragile, distinctly Aotearoan voice, a union which frequently degenerates into lush, dream-like scenes resembling a Safdie brothers film soundtrack or a lost microgenre of the Bloghouse era

Donald Trump is pursuing a third presidential term the right way. by Ezra Klein

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Where is Ja Rule? What does Ja make of this?

DJ Khaled don't eat pussy, he ain't even winning a Verzuz against his wife boyfriend

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makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies

Unfortunately I don’t believe in using the word “zoomies,” but yes. Your dog is popping off.

this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread

Cancel Spotify www.nme.com/news/music/s...

Gucci mane talking about his battle with schizophrenia, I want everyone that said he’s a clone to apologize 😂

I take any reason/excuse to post one of my favorite photos as a teen…

Comment of the day (so far): "I would rather have a smaller road on my way to a high-class hospital." 🎯

The main achievement of the tech industry has been increasing the flow of money from people who make or do things to people who already have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes

“Fuck AI” — Guillermo del Toro 🎥 Vanity Fair

Nothing quite like when someone matches your inner goofball and y'all energize each other's silliness 😂

STOP PLAYING THEM GOOFASS NYTIMES GAMES!

Pro-regime media is funded by your wordle addiction. If you or someone you know is struggling with a NYT subscription please show them video games

two weeks minimum official government account will post AI porn of chuck schumer fucking a dog

you could probably get yourself aggressively prosecuted on antifa charges if you made a piece of protest art depicting the president in a crown flying around spraying shit all over these united states and he just ... tweeted it out

We wanted to understand how young New York City voters feel about Zohran Mamdani. So we talked to three retired cops at an Outback Steakhouse in Staten Island.

I'm not going to dunk-quote but I do have to note that "you only hate LLMs because you're too stupid to appreciate how awesome it is" is the exact argument we heard on loop from people whose ugly monkey jpegs are now worth approximately two-fifths of a fart

Whether it's young Democrats expressing their support for DEI or young Republicans saying "I love Hitler,' both sides have expressed controversial opinions.

Chris Swarbrick for Prime Minister fuck it

Democrats says that every young Republican being a Nazi is a bad thing, but X user youngrepublicannazi1488 isn't so sure

Come on FENZ get Fire(fighter) wise!! Support your local firefighters on strike this Friday! Sticking for safer working conditions and fair pay! Talk more over at my substack: yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/come-on-gu...