Favourite Ball went missing three years ago. Favourite Ball has returned. Lucy is taking no chances with Favourite Ball again, to the extent she now sleeps like this. #dog

Has everything on the internet gotten 500x dumber this week or is it just me? No platform seems immune. Not quantifiable but I can almost visibly see the radiation coming off the poison I'm injecting into my eyes now.

Spoken like a man who would use you as a battery if he could

"You now live in a country where volunteers deliver babies at home, in secret, off the books, because mothers fear that if they go to the hospital, they will be abducted by masked, armed agents of the state while giving birth. This is not a hypothetical."

MAGA voters don't want consistency - they want blood sport. MAGA leaders can't claim to have "solved" the problems (read: lies) they ran on addressing because that would rid them of villains to blame.

Wow that franchise took a dark turn

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I honestly think one reason Millennials are so angry about all this is that many of us grew up during the brief period in American history where the official line was that we had won history *because* of our values, and most of us actually internalized that.

Once again, I am promising Democrats there are literally thousands of former department of justice people who will crawl over broken glass to prosecute this administration given the chance

“Indefinite detention” of refugees WHO HAVE ALREADY BEEN SCREENED in a planned network of gigantic warehouses. A concentration camp is a concentration camp is a concentration camp.

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

Political effects of X’s feed algorithm "Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts... initial exposure to X’s algorithm has persistent effects on users’ current political attitudes and account-following behaviour.." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Tell me we should trust AI to give us the facts. Tell me it's a future we can put our faith in. Come at me. I'm right here, waiting. www.tom-cox.com/thinking-abo...

People are using AI to make life decisions. And it's making shit up out of thin air. Scary, folks.

i continue to think that liberals in the US and abroad need to have a plan for shutting x down

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point. I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

Oh, we just got the official, final bill. Oh, it's even worse than I thought. Oh...please help if you can. Oh. Oh no.

Every time someone from the RBA says that "the labour market remains tight" they should be forced to say "and we would like more people to be unemployed" www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

Sounded absolutely soul destroying having to mark these assignments. It’s Philosophy my dudes its about thinking and ideas, that hunk of junk robot CANT THINK

Yesterday my friend told me about her PHILOSOPHY students all using ai for their assignments and like come the fuck on man you’re in Uni doing the subject thats Thinking about Thinking and u refuse to Think

Given the absolute push (speaking about Australia) across the school education system to have teachers use AI and to teach students to use AI, in a few years by the time any reach university the damage will be total.

It's incredible how it was revealed that the anti-trans push over the past decade was concocted in no small part by a literal PEDOPHILE CONSPIRACY and the reaction of transphobic lawmakers, journalists, academics has been a shrug and a "well, we gotta carry out the orders from pedophile island"

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!

The Death Star board room scene is low key the funniest scene in cinematic history. It’s a work meeting with an evil samurai wizard everyone else finds mildly annoying and when his manager tells him to stop killing a coworker with his magicka, he has to listen.

Even people who are appalled by what this court has done give them way too much credit for having an actual consistent philosophy. Even the executive immunity ruling will only stand until a Democratic president is accused of something.

This is dangerously naive. The rules will change on Jan 20, 2029 for a Dem President if court reform isn't undertaken immediately. bsky.app/profile/emdo...

is this what happens when you have an entire industry obsessed with the aesthetic of having made things, but populated by a lot of people who don't actually enjoy making things

wow uh it did not take long for the vibe to shift from "my coworkers all use claude and they keep developing crap that doesn't work" straight into "my coworkers all use claude and they keep developing serious psychological issues"

Even this is a massive understatement of the actual costs, since all of those things require advance planning, paperwork, and (in some cases) scheduling document retrievals (often only possible during work hours). The cost doesn't have to be high in dollars to be a prohibitive tax on voters.

ICE is bad. Deportation is bad. Immigration restriction is almost always bad. Armed masked men going into homes without warrants is so obviously villainous that the fact anyone approves it is a stain that will haunt even generous histories of our nation ever after. I am anti-ICE.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but listening to an audio book absolutely counts as “reading” a book. In fact, I’d argue that listening to an author read their own work aloud is an exceptionally magical and even holy experience. I love it so much. Especially as my eyesight gets worse.

Your reminder that close friend of Peter Mandelson (the guy who was also close personal friend & corrupt enabler of Jeffrey Epstein) Emily Maitlis claims personal credit for creating the moral panic around the Tavistock gender care clinic. This has never, ever been about the safety of children.

Well that’s ghoulish.

the thing is that there are lots of modest, tedious, repetitive tasks in many of our jobs and lives where we might be happy to pay a fee for an ethically developed standalone tool to do only that task. but we can’t have that because it won’t make people rich enough

For any new tech to gain widespread adoption it has to do multiple things better than the current tech. DVDs didn't just look and sound better, they were smaller & you didn't need to rewind them. AI on the other hand is less reliable than a human expert. It just gives wrong answers faster. Useless.

Any politician using the Cass Review to justify anything is dishonest, especially Bridget Phillipson. It is un-peer-reviewed pseudoscience that has been, & will continue to be, discredited by multiple peer-reviewed publications all of which have more credibility than Cass. These are listed here;

This is a powerful story for me. Several branches of the Women's Institute are closing across the UK in protest at the new trans-exclusionary ban against trans women. It cuts through the lie by the media and GC groups about speaking on behalf of women. Solidarity. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Juno is hardly an unbiased source here, NASA. “‘Guy Not As Big a Deal As He Claims,’ Says Vengeful Wife Guy Cheated On Constantly”

MAGA keeps its based engaged and enraged. Without status threat and resentment, the entire veil lifts that the real source of people's pain - yes including working class white men - is the regime itself.

"Gender identity is naturally determined and corresponds with biological sex, and that's why the full might of fascist propaganda is required to make sure no one deviates from what is Good and Proper."

Chadwick Boseman and James van der Beek both died in their 40s of an illness that's treatable if a colonoscopy catches it but almost no insurer covers them for people under 45, this is what Engels meant by "social murder"

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

The new world isn’t born yet The old one looks a fright Now is the time of monsters On the Muppet Show tonight

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of muppets

Is it me, or does anyone else think that there could be a happy medium between the Attorney General behaving like a corrupt mob lawyer for the President and the Attorney General being so concerned with “norms & guardrails” that

What we call AI right now is just logic gates in a trenchcoat. It *can never* be agentic because it does not has any sense of self, and it will never have any sense of self. It’s a neat illusion but all it does is hallucinate

If AI were so crucial I’d think it would sell itself — but it always seems to be infused with this non-consensual inevitability, like YOU BETTER ADOPT IT OR DIE IT’S COMING LIKE IT OR NOT, a threat gilded as promise.

I want at some point to write about this more but in brief I suppose let me add that it was not lost on the young version of me - already interested in history - that there was a *very* well-funded gifted high school for science and technology in my district, but nothing for the humanities.

Until now, we haven’t had research that tracks how accessing hormones or surgeries affects how much trans people use mental health services and medications. 👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/funding...