I'm being so real right now, learn how to engage in media as art and not a reflection of your own real life morals. consume things that make you uncomfortable and understand why it makes you uncomfortable. Don't just base yours and others morals standings on the media you consume.

"I have spent the last few weeks addressing and preparing for a military invasion by the President of the United States. No, I’m not a soldier or a foreign adversary. I’m the Governor of Illinois"

My kid reuben on character vs plot: "nobody cosplays as the plot of a story." 😮

The little-known last two words of the Gettysburg Address

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

oh man I heard archduke ferdinand got shot

These guys are simply not smart.

RFK Jr: It's gonna be the biggest infusion of federal dollar into rural healthcare in American history BERNIE SANDERS: Yeah. You know why? Because you're cutting $150b for rural hospitals, you're putting $50b back. That's not an infusion. That's a loss of $100b.

I know it's been done to death, but I'm sorry this is just peak "can you imagine if Obama had..."

Collective Bargaining is the third state of Collective Grief. Happy Labor Day! 🌹

"Trump is Dead" is the new "Elvis Lives"

Science fictioun ys more alyve than it hath evir been.

Apparently Trump is still alive, but I'm really into this meme of "no he's not".

Let me be the first to say WEEKEND AT DONNIE'S

Disgusting

Imagine getting shot by a National Guardsman because you dropped your ice cream cone on the ground

I for one am concerned.

People want magic in their lives so much they will invent an imaginary friend in their computer Reading literature performs a similar function on a way higher more satisfying level, I think

not even a week after Sandwich Guy caught a federal felony assault charge for the use of a sandwich

Video of Columbia Heights residents driving ICE agents out of their area. source: www.instagram.com/reel/DNjkvLQ...

We’re deeply disappointed negotiations for a global plastics treaty have ended without a final agreement. Over the past 3 years, the momentum has been undeniable. The world now understands, plastic is a full lifecycle problem that demands systemic solutions, & that its health impacts are profound.

Yall, I am so, so sorry

Believe the Science, People!

The White House is mobilizing red state military forces to occupy a Democratic stronghold and let me tell you: No one has ever pretended something isn't happening harder than Democratic leaders are pretending this isn't happening right now.

Border Patrol agents assembled outside a Los Angeles museum where Gov. Gavin Newsom was holding a rally and news conference on congressional redistricting. Local elected officials expressed outrage that the agents decided to stand there in a brazen show of force. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/u...

So excited to get my author's copy of the 2025 Rhysling Anthology! Thanks so much @pixieb.bsky.social and @sfpoetry.bsky.social!

“A child offered a high five up high but then he offered one down low & pulled it away before I could make contact, informing me I was ‘too slow.’ Anyway, this is why I fully support extrajudicial killings.” - Every Conservative Today

I believe they call this "finding out" arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Nailing it.

In my opinion, the proper takeaway from the Turing Test is not, "if a machine can fool humans into thinking it's intelligent, it must be intelligent", but rather, "if a machine can fool humans into thinking it's intelligent, *it no longer matters if it's intelligent*".

Posit: humans are much better at controlling other humans than at controlling our own technology. This is the main reason why lurching towards more powerful AI is a mistake. Already we can't stop hulked-out typeahead predictors from deleting our databases or making illicit copies of themselves.

I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.

And this is how it's done.

The man who had his doctor report that he’s 6’3”, 238 lbs fired the person in charge of reporting labor statistics.

I kinda think the way people use ChatGPT is sort of aspirational because it seems to emulate the way rich people have sycophants lying to them all the time until they lose touch with reality and also their entire minds

Federal agencies hiding out in a bunker

This will have to count as my Supreme Court term review. I make that point that there's no point in reviewing what the Supreme Court has done because the rule of law is dead in this country anyway. My latest in @thenation.com

We told you they were going to do project 2025 and it’s 2025 and they’re doing project 2025

The man predicted the future and he told you exactly how it was going to happen, too

beware!

Forget about what year it is. What century is it? nashvillebanner.com/2025/07/20/d...

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com