incase you missed it

PSA if you have an android phone and now on your text messages there is a freaking banana icon and you want it off (and no AI in your text messages)- there is a way. Click your profile and then under switching users select 'use this app without an account'. It decouples your email, and no banana.

One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years. Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.

My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.

Days after his third dementia screening in six months the president of the United States, who is an open pedophile, abducts a foreign head of state

Reminder: All People Had To Do Was Fill In A Little Oval Next To The Smart Black Lady’s Name.

sam altman is just a sales guy with one goal: getting obscenely rich in silicon valley. his big thing previously was an app where you can find your friends on a map and after he sold it it turned out to have 500 users. he's not a stemlord he's just a run of the mill song and dance flim flam man

yeah I mean it’s genuinely sad that the “reasonable old school” Republican (who Dems eagerly and unanimously voted to confirm) is out here doing pressers blatantly geeked out coke and it’s not subtle

Bari Weiss is innovating entire new dimensions of failure. She's failing in ways hitherto unconceived of. A pioneer of failology. A faileontologist. Whole career is a Fail Mary. She's beyond the fail. The Daily Fail. She's on the quest for the Holy Fail. Making tomato and Fail Salad.

Since I’m getting “what did I miss” from alot, Paramount Plus, owner of CBS spiked the El Salvador CECOT prison story yesterday on 60 minutes because it made the White House look bad. Cancel paramount plus Censorship. Bari Weiss

Bari Weiss is the logical endpoint of corporate media. This is what happens when people who hate journalism are in charge of it. The only way journalism works is when it’s independent from the power it’s supposed to hold to account, which means ownership can’t have anything to do with those in power

one of our biggest problems is we spent decades coddling straight white male conservatives. we took their dumb as fuck ideas seriously, even though history, logic and science showed theyre completely unworkable. and now we're stuck with a bunch of dumbasses who have been coddled for too long

What is the point of having a sprawling national security state if they can’t find out who did a mass shooting in broad daylight five days ago?

If it were about drugs we’d bomb the Sacklers.

nobody ever tries biting zombies to see if it turns them normal again and i think that's a mistake from a scientific perspective.

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

As was true with the translators I heard from in an earlier edition, copywriters never felt that they were being replaced because the AI's work was better. It was almost always worse. It was simply cheaper and faster, and deemed "good enough" by clients.

If you make a billion dollars — or $500 million or even $100 million dollars — and you keep trying to make more, then there is something seriously wrong with you. It's a mental illness akin to hoarding or drug addiction.

In M&S buying jeans and wondering when they stopped selling old people clothes and started selling clothes for young hip people like myself

So it turns out an ice agent is much more likely to have an arrest record than an immigrant.

Oh this is nice!!

I don’t remember when the shift in terminology happened but it’s been one of my biggest pet peeves in recent times. ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini etc. are large language models or a form of generative AI. I hate using the generic term ‘AI’ for them which has been around since at least 1980s.

This is just like Dr Oz confusing his role as an administrator of the country's most technical paperwork and medical standards department with being undersecretary of nutrition or something. YOUR JOB IS TO ROLL OUT ICD-11 NOT TELL ME TO EAT FEWER COOKIES

The U.S. is mirroring a pattern that has happened in authoritarian regimes around the world. When a government erects barriers to reproductive care, it doesn’t just cause death and suffering for women and their families. Such policies are often a first step in the gradual decline of democracies.

Generative A.I. is a product used almost entirely for fraud and porn, and they can't say that in the ads. It's like we all have to pretend the crack pipes they sell at gas stations with the little fake flower in them aren't actually crack pipes because they're *propping up the entire stock market.*

it's a strange thing to ponder that you might have seen the peak of human technological achievement in terms of usability, adaptability and capability and it was running Windows 98

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

if someone told you 2+2=5 you wouldn't say "well, he is wearing a nice robe"

I'm not exaggerating when I say following @boltsmag.org rn will unlock money for our journalism. A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count. If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!

More than anything else classism is that if you lose your company half a million you get fired, but if Zuck loses Meta 77 billion he gets paid $28 million. Meritocracy doesn't fail due to DEI, if fails becaues we can't ever let a rich nimrod suffer consequences for any level of screwup.

Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.

Grown assed adults expecting holidays to be like when they were a kid is a great microcosm of the problems we have as a society today. Nostalgia is a toxic impulse. There is no "the way things used to be", you were just younger and less informed and had fewer responsibilities.

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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

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the shooter was ~five years old when the United States invaded Afghanistan. One of his victims was one. the other one hadn't been born.

I also like when places have Black Friday sales that don’t make any sense. The Humane Society will give you 15% off a guinea pig and the thing with that is the cost was never the main consideration

anyway. conde naste should fire Nuzzi, fire the hack editor at vanity fair, reverse its gutting of teen vogue, and apologize to all of us for this nonsense.

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I feel like... and i could be wrong... many people are doing entirely too much to protect extremely harmful people

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