I think maybe giving everyone unrestricted access to the infinite validation machine was a bad idea

Someone posted yesterday about how the language used around AI was that of forcefulness & not consent. It was all "you have to use this" "It's happening whether you like it or not" "Embrace it or suffer". And that it was very techbro, because their products loathe consent, & so do they as humans

“All young Americans have ever known is a world intentionally set on fire by terrible men.”

What’s the name for the period of mourning after finishing a good book, when you just wish you could go back to that world?

a podcast i recently heard was like “i can’t think of worse messaging going into a midterm with a wildly unpopular president than ‘your tax dollars went to create a massive slush fund for his supporters and friends’”

Remember, a comedian became president of Ukraine, and is currently the most proficient, and arguably the strongest, leader in the world.

Going around again. Still worth the watch.

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you see me wearing this shit you should chop my head clean off like a samurai

r/relationships: I [26m] just caught my girlfriend [20f] lying to the IRS saying she’s ‘single’ on her tax form. Should I be concerned? Top Comment: u/FoghornLeghorn365 Boy shut the, I say, shut the fuck up

Here’s how the AI Boom, such as it is, has impacted my life: it has been used as an excuse to lay off my friends for bot equivalents that never came. It has made mass culture and art immeasurably worse. I have a stalker with AI psychosis. So, no, I don’t more data centers. I want less of all that.

A tragic use of AI is in flyers for kids wanting to babysit or walk dogs or mow lawns, that shit demands terrible child graphic design skills and we should not accept anything less

SCOOP: The F.D.A. blocked the release of studies finding that Covid and shingles vaccines were safe. In the case of Covid, FDA staff had to withdraw studies heading toward publication: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...

Earnest post: I fucking love this idea. For safety. Not just to watch little men in oversized vehicles shorten their lives with boiling rage and impotence.

The violent rhetoric on the left has to stop #DV1 #ProudBlue

Today is a reminder that except for a brief period running roughly from Brown v. Board to Roe v. Wade, throughout its history the Supreme Court has been a reactionary force protecting the wealth of the wealthy and the power of the powerful, almost always hostile to equality and justice.

Frank Herbert: All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.

It also makes them sound more tough and macho than they actually are. We need something that clearly communicates that they literally had to invent a girl who would be willing to talk with them.

Magyar means Hungarian and it’s a common name there

If you've ever wondered why this is true, it's because right-wing media has billionaire sponsors and left-wing media does not It is truly that simple

"This is what you get when you elect Republicans." Every Dem within 100 feet of a camera needs to be saying this repeatedly. Every time we elect Republicans, we get dumbass wars, tax cuts for rich people, and financial crises. Every time. Fucking say it!

Millions of American voters wanted to be villains. They came to believe it’s the key to success, while goodness is weak, woke, loser stuff, done only to signal. Offered the option of unvarnished villainy, they enthusiastically took it. Seeing others suffer more made them feel big. And here we are.

I am not one of those who believes that history repeats, but consider the following from Herodotus: the Oracle at Delphi told the fabulously wealthy King Croesus that if he invaded Persia he would "destroy a great empire." Croesus invaded and lost--the empire he destroyed was his own.

Arrest him now, call off the attack on Iran, ask for forgiveness later @democrats.senate.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social @judiciarydems.senate.gov @democrats-judiciary.house.gov

Love that Corgi 🤣🐶

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

The con is now obvious: “this technology is too dangerous in the wrong hands, so you better give us $152 billion because only we know how to save the world with it!” www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

Sometimes it bothers me that I'll never know what my cat named me

the rise of the incel and the rise of the strongman are two connected and mutually reinforcing responses to the evils of modernity. new post

This is the truest truth of all the truths (and there aren't many).

Something worth considering: it is incredibly radicalizing to hear the media lie about something you personally saw 9 million people are at home right now going "what the fuck, tens of thousands of people marched in my city alone" Some percentage are gonna wonder what else the media is lying about

A crucial part of Project 2029 has to be performative trials and draconian sentencing for Trump administration officials up and down the organizational ladder. Treat all of them like Timothy McVeigh so that the gravity of their criminality and treason become enduring images in American history.

In fairness it’s not like the consequences of having a mad king unilaterally take the country to war on a whim were so incredibly obvious that you could see it coming from the 18th and 19th centuries www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Really bears repeating that Republicans are spineless oathbreakers who created this entire situation by letting a TV idiot run for president and they sustain it by refusing to remove the guy, which they could do today

In honor of Mr. Rogers’ birthday, here’s your regularly scheduled reminder that the quote of his you keep sharing, that in times of crisis we should look for the helpers, was for his audience of children. We’re adults now. We’re supposed to *be* the helpers.

There is no marketing I'm more susceptible to these days than any company saying they don't use generative AI in their projects. I'm a sitting duck for that promise even if they're selling graham crackers or masking tape.

i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time

wash your water bottle

its so crazy that young people became less interested in movies & tv at the same time weird tech guys mostly started deciding what gets made

"Always, always, always concentration camps are an end run around the existing legal system. These people that are getting rounded up because whoever’s in power wants to do something that they can’t do using the letter of the law..." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/o...

Please enjoy these fine art KN95s I created for my bus-person elderly mum. (Note: Previous particle spray tests on Sharpie-painted and unpainted masks showed that if the Sharpie art masks are allowed to cure at least 48 hours, they are just as effective as plain masks.)

there’s a direct line between misogyny and cat-hating. i will not be taking questions at this time.

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

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i guess it’s “extreme” if everyone else has been propagandized into being fine with being sick constantly and developing new chronic illnesses and disabilities—and getting angry at people who are choosing to opt out of that.

No one has ever tried to sell me drugs as hard as people try to sell me on AI.

These barbarians are destroying everything that makes society work. Kids can't go to school, patients can't go to the hospital. We are, in effect, paying them to wreck the basic infrastructure of the country

I do wonder is this is a side effect of repeated Covid infections