Three years ago tomorrow, I very nervously gave this speech. I knew my career as a TV journalist was dunzo, cooked, filleted, kaput the morning I wrote it. (Thanks to Kat insisting I go for it anyway.) The end is awfully prescient at this exact second, though. Big ups to Scott Pelley for fighting.

whenever people get into arguments about bluesky versus twitter I just come back to the fact that I don’t want to spend time on a platform where the biggest voices are the worst people on the planet

You used to be able to google the time of the sunset, and Google would give you the exact time right on top every single time. Thankfully, with artificial intelligence, you can now ask Google what time the sun will set and it will conveniently tell you "I don't know."

New: Regretful cities are literally covering their Flock cameras with black trash bags because they cannot figure out how to immediately exit their surveillance contracts or get the cameras taken down: www.404media.co/cities-are-c...

faking an assassination attempt so you don't have to go to a wedding sounds like a curb your enthusiasm episode

Imagine being a Russian troll assigned to Bluesky: “Comrade, today you will destabilize Western democracy by arguing with poets, policy nerds, and a raccoon avatar with tenure.”

“We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend” is a banger. And a rallying cry for artists in the AI slop era.

I wonder if other countries are having a debate about whether or not to send their espionage trainees to the U.S. because the newbies will return full of false confidence about how easy the job is

The dick doctors might be fun at parties But facing a disease with a incubation period of 42 days I need somebody that’s not fun at parties

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

We are ostensibly a free country and the degree to which we don’t know what is actually going on in a vast network of “camps” on our own soil in the year 2026 is….. something we are probably never going to come close to actually grappling with as a country

The thing about it is i was definitely under the assumption that we all hated the Nazis … That’s my fault

if i were a shareholder of an american automaker id want to know why my ceos were so stupid and shortsighted that they not only didnt see this coming but actively fought it

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

Iran going after Bsky is a genuinely funny waste of resources.

I just read this one this week. It was fabulous. Now I’m in the second in the series, and it’s also fabulous!

It annoys me that AI slop, specifically, has ruined the niche of the quick photoshop joke. Just an utter flood of garbage unleashed by removing the barrier of "spend a couple hours learning how a piece of software works".

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto https://theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home-claims-he-was-following-chatgpt-recipe-for-risotto/

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

Perhaps Magyar's most important promise, and the one that certainly resonates with voters: "never again a country without consequences!" The crowd chants: "To prison! To prison!" [with the corrupt officials of the outgoing government]

We used to sing songs that said “I am the man who will fight for your honor… I’ll be the hero you’re dreaming of… we’ll live FOREVER” And then win the karate tournament!!!

"Why are the people we had expelled, deported, and arrested not protesting on campuses?" - they asked, sincerely and stupidly.

"Schumer takes no action" will be on his tombstone

right but gaza was just a purity test

Congress is so funny. The world could be blown to smithereens and half of them would be like not sure this is a kitchen table issue.

remember those other branches of government

Completely unstable and perilous. The House must bring up impeachment articles, and the Senate needs to remove a president who wants to commit war crimes. We cannot sit idly by as Donald Trump threatens to end an entire civilization.

While Trump's assertion that "a whole civilization will die tonight" represents a discrete threat of genocide against Iran, the fact that it comes from a U.S. president, while Congress does nothing, actually represents a broader civilizational collapse — whether he follows through or not.

The last thing I want to see is people who are literally sitting congress members lecturing us about how serious the situation is. Ok start fucking act like it YOURE LITERALLY A PART OF THE GOVERNMENT

it's a neat trick Democrats in power: the GOP won't let us do anything good 🥺 Democrats out of power: you expect us to fight the GOP?? we're the minority 🥺

Mamdani is not just filling the potholes with the crew. He's creating a visual and personal reminder of the dignity inherent in all of these anonymous government jobs.

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

Elon Musk had DOGE defund USAID, the largest humanitarian organization in the world, causing HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of deaths from starvation and disease - and Trump GLEEFULLY approved it. It’s the single most evil act in US history. Cartoon by Mike Luckovich

The Earth is so fucking beautiful. Imagine what it could be if humans were better.

I want to thank our Allies for telling Trump to go fuck himself over the Iran war. You have to punch a bully in the face.

two of the hardest things ever written are "face god and walk backwards into hell" and "you cannot kill me in a way that matters" one of them came from a tumblr shitpost and the other one came from a dril tweet about hollering at zoo animals the internet truly is a magical place

I wrote about how the Hasan Piker drama serves as a proxy fight between centrists and the left, and how it exposes the real priorities of Democrats like Cory Booker.

there it is, all 7 continents

get their ass

To whoever did this at the #NoKings in Boston: Thank you.❤️ It made me tear up. And we must to be reminded of needless damage to humanity that results directly from the careless, bellicose bluster coming from the Pentagon and White House.

SCHLAPP: Who wants to see impeachment hearings? CPAC CROWD: *cheers* SCHLAPP: No. That was the wrong answer.

So are the headlines saying the Democrats won this round, or nah? Cause they did. Funding for TSA, FEMA, Coast Guard, no funding for ICE. That’s the deal Dems have been offering over & over. Republicans caved.

teach it cursive

The news has moved on, but ICE is still in Minneapolis. My neighbors are still patrolling streets, driving strangers to work, and providing aid. As a photojournalist at @propublica.org, I wanted to know: What do they look like in their daily lives? So I picked up my camera 👇

okay so AI is absolutely cratering imminently and I need all of you to PROMISE me you won't take the high road, and will laugh and rub it in their faces as much as possible. I need you to laugh and go 'WE TOLD YOU SO, BITCH" at every opportunity, PLEASE be extremely mean and ruthless