I think it would be very nice if most dealerships went out of business

AI in everything brought to you by the people who didn't bother to read even a synopsis of "Descartes Error" and the people who say "that car blew a red light". It's not a person. It doesn't have feelings. It can't hallucinate any more than a magic 8 ball can. Never gonna replace people.

AI required training and knowing that's it's all just so they can fire people. And believing strongly that it will work poorly in the long run. But how much do I want to deal with the short run? And what sort of job pivot would I want to make at 50? Back to public policy? Electrician?

Coverage of operation "juice the oil markets for the blink of an eye" drove home how far the United States media has fallen and how quickly. The headlines talking about the success escorting a ship through, which reported administration talking points as unattributed fact.

This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.

Mood of the month: I'm feeling a lot of "I don't wanna" lately. Mostly around work, the political situation, and the capitalist hyper investment in AI as a weapon against labor

I don't know why exactly but The Great Divide by Noah Kahan hit me hard in the feels today.

Happy Confederate Surrender Day! Throwback to the 2024 Illinois flag contest, where this masterpiece was proposed. I wish it had won!

Thought experiment: what if I took the open source options for LLMs and trained them on my own data. Which would be... All those blog posts from the twenty aughts and teens. All my texts and emails I could get my hands on. Most of the code I authored belongs to companies and I can't access.

I just called Pillion "Fifty Shades of Gay" before doing a Google search. A book by that name was published 13 years ago. I'm so timely.

Sounds about right: www.thefarce.org/trumps-iran-...

A recent AI thought, which belongs somewhere in my manifesto outline. (Forthcoming sooner or later). I take it as a given that the whole thing is billionaires trying to get capital advantage over skilled labor. And generate a certain level of user lockin. So they can charge you for a subscription.

My 9 yo just said she wants to be a scientist so she can make things explode. Specifically pouring things Into other things to make them explode. I tried to explain that this isn't really science then she said she's not listening to me anymore because I'm an engineer and I don't know what science is

Youtube music put Pink Pony Club in a list called "soulful piano ballads". 🤔I love the song, but not sure I would have filed it there. =)

I've lately found myself thinking about some piercings and tattoos. I'm nearly 50. And I still have the "what would my employer think? (I have yet to see someone at my employer at my level or above with a visible piercing or tattoo), what would my parents think? What would family court think?"

Kinda weird that the party that controls the House, the Senate, and the White House claims there's rampant voter fraud.

I watched Mad Max Fury Road for the first time on our flight the other day. 11 years later. I was befuddled as to why people prayed it as great film making. It was just fight, Chase, pause for a character great, flight, Chase, pause for a character beat. Over and over. And those pauses were brief.

Overdue haircut and fuck ICE

It really bums me out that Klobuchar, who was instrumental in normalizing Trump as just another political adversary, is almost certainly going to be the next governor of Minnesota, a state currently paying a severe price for that normalization of fascism.

A video of ICE agents conducting door-to-door searches today in Minneapolis The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming

Reskeet if you like bellies 🙂‍↕️

First time I came out to everyone was age 17 at a summer camp to someone I thought I might never see again (before I had any internet access). It was complicated and messy. I came out publicly a couple years later at 19 (after internet, start of college). And now I'm 49.

This article heavily implies that ICE is being used in a custody dispute to help Karoline Leavitt's brother get his son and have the mother locked up in ICE detention

I can't shut up about politics, global warming, the decline of the United States, etc at after work meals on this work trip. My skip level is the same. What have I been reading lately? Octavia Butler and Upheaval by Jared Diamond. I'm an hr video waiting to happen.

Always relevant

Going on a big gay cruise at the end of January (11 days, biiiiig gay cruise). Looking for a cabin mate for a friend so he can afford to join us. He could sign up for a random roommate, but wondering if anyone else with a chill, geeky, sex positive personality wants to go but needs to find a friend.

It seems increasingly likely that Trump is suffering from dementia and diminished capacity and his inner circle is either showing him fake videos or something that happened long ago (or far away). That he’s being manipulated and someone else is pulling the strings and acting as President #25thnow

Also, apparently, there are federal agents at our kiddo's elementary school. So, heading there now.

TFW you think "who would I go to with something particularly heavy in my life?" then review the people (other than spouse) you have texted over the past two months and find that the top 10 candidates all live out of state.

I know we all enjoyed his video about male friendships, but I think this one about reading might be even better.

I am deeply disgusted with everything I hear that Charlie Kirk brought to this world. As a living being and as a dead one. And the following post was written on my behalf as well.

While I'm on a rant roll, scapegoating always produces terrible governance. Looking for people you don't like and blaming whatever you don't like on them is generally an easy sell to like minded people. But to the extent that your problems are real and not just griping to gripe, it doesn't work.

Correction to all the headlines. It's not "AI is eliminating entry level positions." It's "industry leaders are replacing entry level staff with unproven AI technology in a massive gamble." Unless companies have replaced CEOs with AI agents, the AI isn't making the decision.

Considering setting up a thirst alt. Not to drop my own content here, just so I can maybe have a feed that is less wildly careening between lust, entirely valid political alarm, updates on friends lives, and video games.

Protesters disrupted Trump’s dinner in DC, chanting “Free DC! Free Palestine! Trump is the Hitler of our time!” This needs to be done nonstop. Keep making their lives hell. Make sure they know they’re despised. These white supremacist, Christian nationalist, pedophilic fascists must know no peace.

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.

Trump murdered 11 civilians, whether they were involved in organized crime or not, doesn't take away their human rights. Trump murdered those people and released the video to boast about it. It's not law enforcement or legal military action, it is simply premeditated murder.

“Ask for what actually fixes the problem — and then go out there and fight for it.” On Monday, @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social came to NYC to talk about universal childcare, and why we shouldn’t listen to billionaires who say making life affordable for working families isn't possible.

The mainstream media is going to regurgitate the administration’s propaganda that money is pouring in via tariffs, it is on all of us to loudly tell the truth and constantly repeat it: This is a tax on working families that is destroying the growing economy he inherited.

The president calling for the prosecution of individuals & companies he doesn't like should immediately end a presidency like it would have for anyone before this One Special Boy

I am sick to my fucking stomach in ways that I can’t even articulate right now. I can barely type because—while it may be my eyes that are dripping tears, it is my actual soul that is crying. A gutteral and visceral reaction from deep down that anyone with any humanity left in them, should feel…

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander: "I don't think the line for the [Democratic] party right now is between progressives and moderates; I think it's between fighters and folders."