Pol Pot killed 3 million people. Vought and Musk have him beat three times over.

“The playing field is poised to become a lot more competitive, and businesses that don’t deploy cocaine to help them innovate in everything they do will be at a disadvantage,” says Paul Daugherty, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer at Accenture. Hey, it works!

Every time you speak up - and every time you don't - there are people watching and learning about you and the world you help create.

If Elon Musk were just some random dude who made 100k a year no one would take a damn thing he said seriously. Everybody I know has a third cousin like him. Right, right. We’ll live on the moon in 10 years. Sure thing, Timbo.

Yeah I graduated high school as a bi young woman in 1994 and started transition as a trans man in 2021 and I can only assume it's because I'm at home in an atmosphere of societal loathing and/or I hate peace.

We just started watching Starfleet Academy and I just yelled “oh my god, it’s one of the black and white people from “Let That Be Your Last Battlefield!” which proves that I am so very old and very geeky.

I know this makes me an extremist but I think our baby concentration camps should be abolished.

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This is a CAT checkpoint. Show me the most recent cat image on your phone. [Smudge and Shadow, my friend’s kittens. They’re siblings, maybe six months old?]

And if you’re wondering “Why is there a blob in the back?” Well, that’s where the first woman president was supposed to go. More than a century later, it remains unsculpted.

every shot-on-video, made-with-a-camcorder horror movie that's just some teenage friend group fucking around in the woods with some fake blood and a monster mask contains more artistic merit, human joy and creative light than anything AI has ever made or will ever, ever make

This is why I would counter-troll in the WoW realm forums (and still do to a lesser extent here). I knew I wasn’t ever going to change the mind of the person trolling, but everyone else reading along was someone I could potentially reach

It's like ICE is completely ignoring every lesson that moderately competent police forces are forced to learn, like "don't do high speed chases in densely populated areas with low risk targets"

Complaining that following the Constitution will stop you from doing the thing you want to do is... an admission that what you want to do is unconstitutional. You swore an oath to defend the Constitution. You are violating that oath, Rep. Alford. Time to go home and let someone else do the job.

REMEMBER: All the "Don't use em-dashes" "don't use rule of three" advice because it makes your writing "look like AI" is because they stole actual writers work, and their "predict the next thing" stuff just simulates what WE FUCKING DO. Keep writing well. Use every style and trick you have. Fuck AI.

this is exactly why I am absolutely not willing to overlook anyone who was once “advocating for ending USAID” as merely committing a little oopsie-daisy-booboo, by the way

There is no constitutional right of law enforcement to detain me, throw me to the ground, and then put five bullets in my back while masked and unidentified. There is a right to vote.

HELLO I WAS A QUEER TEEN IN THE 1990s AND THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST SOCIAL TRANSITION NOW ARE INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST "LETTING" US BE (at the time, for me) GAY OR LESBIAN THEN. They all rest on the belief that it's inherently better to be straight (then)/cis (now) and that's BS.

I've made this same case years ago when debunking the Apollo Hoax clowns. They're dipped up to their ears, but other people are listening.

This is the thing I think trolls, etc don't understand: Once I block you I literally never think about you again. Shit, five minutes after I block someone I don't remember who they are or why I blocked them. They simply and literally don't exist for me anymore. If this is a victory for you, fine.

Nice and white satin?

Sometimes I get a little upset when I live in a collapsing dystopia for many years

One reason Republicans are so laser targeted on trans kids existing, is that trans kids existing requires accepting the bodily autonomy and consent of children. Which is something republicans absolutely can't do, since they are pedophiles. Their transphobia and pedophilia is them being consistent

How few people are clocking this as AI is more evidence that we really are fucked.

There is a fab new book out about the 2022 polychromy exhibition at the Met. It underscores 38 scholars who are the 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 experts in polychromy today. Coming out of polychromy retirement to review _Chroma: Sculpture in Color from Antiquity to Today_ for @hyperallergic.com (edited by Natalie Haddad).

Alt text: There are twelve black dots at the intersections in this image. Your brain won't let you see them all at once. & a grid pattern where, indeed, I can only see 1-4 dots at once. They spring into being as I move my eyes. (They're not on each intersection.) I enlarge the image & count. 12.

Casey just watched the original Star Wars for the first time as an adult, and was, as she put it, "constantly assaulted" by how much C3PO is Ehlers-Danlos representation.

Brain wants to view these as interlocking. Eugh.

Don’t be fooled by Ring’s latest attempt to make mass surveillance and real-time identification the new norm in our neighborhoods. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

this hasn't personally happened to me, but i've seen other artists here talking about it intermittently. so here's an infographic about a handy feature i think a lot of people are overlooking! #artsky #artistsonbsky

Take a moment today to imagine yourself pissing on his grave. Just for funsies.

We really do need to underline this for people - because somehow the prevaling myth seems to be Russia is winning: the invasion of Ukraine has been the largest political, military and strategic blunder by a state since the Franco-Prussian war. Maybe greater Russia has lost on every concievable axis

Alt text for the egregious bias The NY Times is doing regarding AOC.

feeling very "end of bluey Camping episode" today but not the fun part where they reconnect yet :/

i feel like losing touch with the common man would be awesome. i hope that happens to me someday

And you, to whom adversity has dealt the final blow With smiling bastards lying to you everywhere you go Turn to, and put out all your strength of arm and heart and brain... Though your heart it be broken or life about to end No matter what you've lost, be it a home, a love, a friend...Rise again

For your 4 year old: Knock knock - Who’s there? Ah - Ah who Werewolves of London

This post quite clearly shows the links between the European far-right’s efforts to erase complicity in the Holocaust, and the American right’s efforts to erase the history of slavery and Jim Crow. Which is part of why supporting DEI in the US should be seen as a Jewish issue.

The concept of AI as permission and cover (see Sonja’s thread) is so useful. Once you know it you can see it in both top down adoption (university administrations, CEOs, newspaper editors) *and* in individual adoption (people giving away their own power under the guise of efficiency).

I don’t love using the term “blood libel” for anything other than the historical phenomenon, but if anything in modern politics resembles it, it is JD Vance lying that Haitian migrants eat pets. A totally baseless claim about the supposedly inhuman habits of a hated out-group, justifying violence.

The first Daffodil has flowered! 🌱 🎺 🎺 #GardensHour

On the one hand, I am jealous of anything that can claim to be descended from dinosaurs. On the other hand, birds don't even know they're descended from dinosaurs. So it's a complicated question.

Your daily reminder that abortion pills are safe, effective, and essential.

New hard data show the same pattern of intense anti-Trump backlash that polls do. Protests against Trump are happening at 4x the rate as 2017-18, and special election swings offer more data on the same point www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-back...

Bonus! ✨️THERE WILL BE A TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE NEARBY WITHIN A WEEK OF THE CON.✨️ I'm going to be there anyway, let's have a WorldCon at the same time

Watching Arrival (2016). Character on the phone: "I don't know, mom. I'm watching the same news coverage you are. Well, mom, please don't bother with that channel. How many times do I have to tell you? Those people are idiots." 10 years later I'm certain I know which channel she's talking about.

By Ev Hanson: "Covid deniers and anti-maskers mistakenly call covid-aware folks “fear-mongers” when we are the ones who are actually facing reality straight on." Source: x.com/EvHanson2/st...

I will and have gone through actual torments in pursuit of this feeling because nothing else is like it and nothing else I’ve ever experienced matches it, it’s actual transcendence

I have a prediction: Sooner than later, one of Epstein’s victims is going to get fed up with the slow-walking BS, step to a mic, and light a match that sets proverbial asses on fire. When the system stalls long enough...someone decides it’s time. ALWAYS.