find joy where you can youtu.be/TM6BEZ-Dzy4?...

i think it's possible to make good art with AI but this is still the only time i've seen it actually done in a way that connected for me. saw this three years ago, been listening to MF DOOM ever since. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5i-...

How to choose a tech contractor step 1: run each cover letter through Pangram and screen out all the ones that are AI slop

The Onion News Network truck is currently stationed outside the Broadview ICE Detention facility just outside of Chicago.

i was never really 'into' tech until i started editing Wikipedia. the feeling of using text (wikicode) to reliably build something (a web page) and have it work exactly like i wanted it (unlike Word's nightmare UI) was empowering. the AI user experience is the opposite. feels like pull-tabs.

forgive me

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

Excited for the "Gen AI and the Wikipedia Assignment: Challenges and Opportunities" panel that's about to start (hosted by my org), because it's a bunch of really smart people and I have no idea what they're going to say. wikiedu.org/speaker-seri...

We talk a lot about the black box problem in AI and not enough about AI as censorship.

They're so mad that people aren't lying down and accepting this, which is a sign that you should keep heckling and protesting these doofuses whenever you can. Your fear is what gives them power.

5. It has been centuries since any one human could know everything that is known; understand everything that is understood. This is a remarkable power of science. We delegate trust and authority to experts as internally established in ways that are remarkably resilient to mistakes and malfeasance.

i am often jealous of so many of you out there who have the soul of a poster, but it's the right thing for me that i just hit Cancel before posting 95% of the time

ngl i hope we see the same energy from people yelling at ICE agents on the street with the anti-homeless stuff. i think thats the only way we'll be okay

Just mailed my ballot voting for Semra Riddle for Lake Forest Park City Council. I attended a recent council meeting and got a sense for how she thinks and communicates; she's super smart, and seems like one of the most progressive members of the current council. #LFP

Eli West's new album was great on first listen. gonna be spinning it more this week. music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

vibrating strings have the juice youtu.be/94oOi7rS1XI?...

Incredible scene. FBI: Do you like Marx? Mhmood Mamdani: I haven’t met him. FBI: No, no, he’s dead. MM: Wow, what happened? FBI: No, no, he died long ago. ... He wrote that poor people should not be poor. MM: Sounds amazing. www.warscapes.com/conversation...

this place is a hellhole but jazz music isn't nothing. happy birthday to jazz music

Shabbat Shalom to everyone who recognizes that the safety, freedom & thriving of Jews and Muslims are bound up together — in Israel & Palestine, across the five boroughs, and in many other beloved places.

Cop gets caught on tape saying horrible threatening stuff. Gets transferred to INTERNAL AFFAIRS, where be became a SUPERVISOR. The “bad apple” line is a joke in general, but to put to a clear bad apple in charge of ferreting out bad apples shows utter contempt towards oversight.

something beautiful to start the day youtu.be/BJ_KNgmc6cM?...

The mayor of Huntington Park had formally directed the police department to enforce laws against ICE concerning unmarked vehicles, visible license plates and required agency identification.

To which Hegseth says, "Senator, I'd be careful what you read in books, and believing it. Except for the Bible." In which, as he notes with approval in HIS book, The War on Warriors, God does tell militaries to slaughter the unarmed.

grounds for impeachment

I thought the TikTok ban was an idiotic moral panic and a gross curtailment of expressive freedom, but I’m at least as uncomfortable about a scenario where a platform with 170m US users exists entirely on the personal sufferance of Donald Trump (or any president).

In the spring of 2008, I feared America was on the verge of war with Iran — and, believing that it’s good style to get to know people before you bomb them, I made “Rick Steves’ Iran,” a one-hour special that could (and would) only debut on PBS. Sadly, this special has become pertinent again today.

ice is just a bunch of dumbass fascist thugs

If you were at the big protests in Seattle yesterday consider showing up at the immigration facility in tukwilla today. ICE ordered a bunch of people in for no reason and they need people outside to take names and make sure everyone who goes in comes out

in Lake Forest Park, WA, the No Kings protest is hoppin

no kings but Rhododendron Rex

absolute unit of a camomile

The neighborhood is getting ready for tomorrow

We don’t need answers. We have enough answers and they’re all in bad faith. We need consequences.

I didn't think there was much they could do to shock me. But physically (and forcibly) ejecting a Senator for asking questions, at a press conference, in the state he represents?

A rule of thumb that will rarely lead you astray in this country is to assume that a riot was started by the people who showed up armed and dressed for a riot.

it really doesn’t matter if someone is in america illegally or not. who cares, grow up

You may not be in a position to fight the American Gestapo but you can take video of them, wave your middle finger at them, and show that Americans will not meekly surrender to them.

The public meltdown happening between the world’s richest man 🙄 and the President of the United States 🙄🙄 once again begs the age-old question: are men simply too emotional to be in positions of power?

Seen a lot of this kind of confusion. It's classic authoritarian consolidation of power. Put everything under state control and also dismantle the checks and balances of the state, putting its various organs in the hands of a small group of loyalists. They don't want it to run well that's the point.

wife: how was guarding the two paths today, honey? guard: [looking away] fine wife: did something happen? guard: [tearing up] no wife: would the other guard tell me something happened?

new Béla Fleck collab album BEATrio is great

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

The whole 'Grok is a boer now' thing is very funny, but it also really exposes how every 'AI tool' isn't just passively biased from training data, but actively designed to shape your worldview according to the interests of the billionaires who made them.

You can learn a lot about a state's view of freedom of expression by how it treats @wikipedia.org. Maybe we could use a "Wikipedia Liberty Index." www.techpolicy.press/what-attacks... Today in @techpolicypress.bsky.social

The Parakeet — one of several polychrome woodblock copies made in ca. 1900 from works by Itō Jakuchū (1716–1800), a Japanese painter of the mid-Edo period notable for his striking modern aesthetic. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/polychrome-woodblocks-of-ito-jakuchu-birds

Generative AI has helped me to understand why, in Star Wars, the droids seem to have personalities but are generally bad at whatever they're supposed to be programmed to do, and everyone is tired of their shit and constantly tells them to shut up