It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

A word on burnout & feeling strung out because "I can't save all the things that need saving." Democracy is supposed to be a mosaic and a relay race. We never have to take care of the whole ourselves. In fact if we do, it kinda stops being democracy.

I seriously wonder if Dems realize that if they ALL stopped using Tik Tok, anything Zuckerburg/Musk/Ellison, etc., that the could literally end the dominance of these MF. But I sadly suspect the won't give up their convenience for democracy.

“Beings are the owners of their actions, the heirs of their actions; they spring from their actions, are bound to their actions, and are supported by their actions. Whatever deeds they do, good or bad, of those they shall be heirs.” ― Bhikkhu Bodhi, The Noble Eightfold Path

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I’d like to believe Bing would be down with the Wu

what if… we invested $1T in HI (Human Intelligence)

A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.

New class system incoming... Upper class: own AIs Middle class: train AIs Working class: clean up after AIs

Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.

An updated Dictionary of AI to help cut through the obfuscating buzzwords. sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/... *with thanks to Joseph Potts and @petertarras.bsky.social for their contributions

Any small act of warmth or kindness can go extra far at this moment — I cycle to myself over and over — after a bristly person over the phone has me incongruously upset in tears.

Plainly, the people mad about the work required to write well and make great art who are justifying various artificial intelligence tools as shortcuts to that creative process don't value the labor inherent to it.

I put in my own order for food, I scan and bag my own groceries, I scroll past 30 fake products on Amazon to find the one I actually searched for and when exactly is any of this doing any good for anyone who actually works for a living?

In many respects, «artificial intelligence» is less a model of the human mind than a technical implementation of neoliberal market theory: a simulation of supposedly superhuman rationality optimized for efficient problem solving, which leads to mostly irrational and ultimately destructive results 1/

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Seeing the world through the prism of our collapsing climate changes everything. You see that the forces burning our world are the same forces shaping our aspirations, keeping us powerless & isolated on the treadmill of consumption. The system is a suicidal distraction.

You can’t “wellness” your way out of chronic illness and disability. People are desperate to believe that enough exercise, healthy food, raw milk & sunshine will make them bulletproof. Why? Ableism. They don’t want to face the fact that one day they will be disabled.

Slightly diminish a band: 6 Inch Nails

ChatGPT talks to adults like it’s grooming them. Ohhhh wowwwww you’re so mature for your age. Nobody understands you.

people might say if you jail one president for crimes youll end up jailing all presidents for crimes to which i would say rad

Just in time for some afternoon sketch inspo… thanks @mauraquint.bsky.social

Huh. Never thunked the cure for cancer was as simple as eliminating tests and screenings! I smell a Nobel prize!

Pro-tip. If you print your book all the way to the edges of the page, you will never make money. There's no margin.

Ex-farm worker here. We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing. Not true AT ALL. Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are. The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour. At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.

They want it to look like they’ve read a gazillion books or made a gazillion paintings. They want it to look like they have a gazillion followers. They want it to look like they have a a gazillion clicks—even when nobody’s there. We’re in a gilded age, but the gilt this time is people and attention.

So much generational trauma unresolved and we’re still in so much denial. This clearly does not go away by avoiding hard feelings until we die. Time to buck up and emote y’all.

WORST COUNTRIES EVER (ranked in order of increasing horror): 3) USA (1981 - Present) 2) Germany (1933 - 1945) 1) Netherlands (1581 - Present)

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“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money" say people who think that constantly raising the price of goods and charging increasingly large subscriptions and rents for everything, while people's wages stay the same is a sustainable model

Most of the text messages I write these days just say “stop"

if you wanna eat the rich you don't go after professors and artists or even doctors or lawyers. the actual rich people we need to eat /don't work/

Zohran Mamdani’s win has inspired over 3400 young people to raise their hands to run for office just since Tuesday. It’s now @runforsomething.net’s biggest candidate recruitment moment since the election. A new generation of leaders is here.

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

You don’t ’need therapy’, you need difference in difference estimator with fixed effects and clustered standard errors. This would fix you.

If a colleague had the reliability rate of an LLM, they would be fired. If ordinary* software did, it would be uninstalled. LLMs require the chat format, because chat makes us party to the conversation. We insert the meaning ourselves - and hold it to a different standard. It's the mirror effect.

I am now trying to explain this sentiment with my beloveds (if they talk about using one / defend its use). All those folks concerned fluoride in our water turns people into complacent zombies—just wait until you hear about side X of AI…

applying for jobs again

So much of today’s fascism in America is rooted in its slave holding past. So much of what is seen as purely fascist has deep roots in Americas history and its treatment of slaves, indigenous groups and others seen as a threat to manifest destiny or white power colonial capitalism.

yo, protect this little sister at ALL costs ✊🏽✨

'The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil.' Albert Einstein en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Soc...

"your 401k is actually doing better than it ever did during biden, also in desperate times like this we all need to remember that true wealth is the blessing of the Lord"

YOU GUYS.

Hate to be millennial about it all but it is just mental that my whole working life has just been a series of recessions and “economic shocks”, underpinned by stagnant wages

workaholism is just alcoholism without booze including all of the abusive and maladaptive behaviors that come with it

… off to the desert this weekend. Desert X The Living Pyramid Sunnylands Center & Gardens Rancho Mirage, California, USA

You must accept that the world is on fire and simultaneously try to douse the flames. You must accept that your life is perfect, with all its flaws and annoyances and griefs and burdens, and still strive to improve yourself and your circumstances.