“bsky is boring!” 1) good 2) social media should not be a cornerstone of your everyday entertainment 3) I find new artists to follow every day and look at pretty art endlessly on here when I feel like it 4) get a tactile hobby where you create something with your hands 5) read book 6) walk outside

Lots of leopards eating faces comments etc but I am curious about the extent to which the discourse has been shifted to the right by propaganda because polls show that people were more progressive until the sustained campaign We should not assume queerphobia is a fixed state of mind

I think people underestimate how big this is. Like a city-wide strike is not something that has happened in the US for nearly 100 years

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsundoku Japanese, not German.

"Those 18-year-olds – the first guinea pigs, the class who matriculated in 2012 – are now turning 31. And belatedly, the impact of the loans they were assured were a rock-solid investment in their futures is becoming apparent." Some thoughts on student loans www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

the people who were scolded relentlessly for celebrating this moment nine years ago have been completely vindicated. punching a nazi in the face now polls higher than any member of congress. (source: i made it up but it feels very true in my heart)

There's a lot of nostalgia for the era of BASIC but many of us learned to program in later eras of trying things out in the browser JavaScript console, or attaching winice/softice to broken game processes to unhook drm or play with features in them.

Fwiw, I reckon we should give him the prize. Via FedEx, straight to Mar-a-lago (it's for Trump, not POTUS). Give him the object alone, force him to whip up the spectacle he wants at home. The ensuing "my precious" act further alienates him and his base, buys our side time.

On God I think the way capitalism biz tactics got its hands on artists in the indie field did a lot of mental damage (myself included). Posting as a Brand is exhausting. I'm so glad to see so many artists not give a shit anymore and just openly be people talking about their lives alongside art

to young people: you may at some point have heard about the Y2K problem. some people may have told you it wasn't a big deal i need you to understand the only reason it wasn't a big deal was that everyone spent loads of time fixing code before it could become a problem, which is why it never did

they finally did it. they invented a machine that can't run doom.

The takeaway of course isn’t that I have a cat named Sir Mewlington von Pissbreath WHICH I TOTALLY DO — *coughs into hand* — but rather, how utterly gameable AI is. It is easy to pack full of nonsense. And if you had an agenda, well. Easy enough to cascade through the bullshit machine.

this is because Dolly Parton is the equal or better of most strung- instrument players you can name, a fact often obscured by the vocabulary of iconography sometimes used to discuss her work. thanks for coming to my presentation this’ll take about half a hour

The deplatforming of the Molly Russell Foundation, whose raison d'etre is the harms done by social media, but which inconveniently opposes a ban, has been an especially illuminating feature of this 'debate'. The media is not interested in what experts think. It just wants voices who agree with it.

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i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals

The key to making something that doesn't fucking suck, is to care about the process and think about it. Not giving a shit, not even bothering to think about it, guarantees the thing will be useless dogshit.

Minneapolis and Saint Paul have basically mobilized into a war economy of mutual aid and non-violent defense. I’ve never seen anything like it, even during Covid. People who barely vote are guarding their schools from ICE and doing the shopping for neighbors in hiding.

We've spent ten years being proved right about all the things the loudest, biggest voices in the UK media insisted, often obnoxiously, we were wrong about. The real kicker is that there's no consolation whatsoever in being correct. Brexit, Putin, Johnson, Truss, Trump, Twitter, Netanyahu etc etc...

Analysis: UK newspaper editorial opposition to climate action overtakes support for first time "All 98 editorials opposing climate action were in right-leaning titles, incl the Sun, Mail, Telegraph, Times & Express" By Josh Gabbatiss & Sylvia Hayes www.carbonbrief.org/...

I don't know why it hadn't occurred to me but Anglican Nuns obviously means Nuns Who Are Priests. Nuns Who Are Priests presiding at mass in a chasuble and habit, opening the service with the Hail Mary, and do you know what? In their hands it hits different. I'm a fan.

Previously from Tim Stanley

Read the whole thread. "If your art didn’t matter, they wouldn’t be working so hard to steal it."

Part of the struggle with the LLM discourse is that genuine (i.e. non-grifter) proponents talk exclusively about the possibilities of the transformer architecture in an ideal future with a rational business model. Whereas opponents largely talk about the world we live in today, and its constraints.

This is an Underground Railroad style operation. This is what I mean that we should study UR history, tactics, and strategy.

There's a reason why Fred Rogers used the word "neighbor." The older I get, the more powerful I realize "being a good neighbor" is... and I'm not talking about some damn State Farm.

I’m howling.

Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff. Game on.

Gallego ("moderate" Dem) is going with "ICE needs to be totally torn down" (not "reform and retrain"). This is a pivot point for the country on immigration. You have been seeing this in the data for a while, and now officials are snapping to the public opinion www.gelliottmorris.com/p/ice-is-a-7...

just got out of an uber. the driver was telling me how he has to work 16 hour days, seven days a week, at two different jobs to afford rent. he doesn't have healthcare and he worries about retirement. "i would feel a lot better if we owned greenland," he told me. then he cried.

I know it’s hard to have optimism right now, but if there’s one thing that is genuinely giving me hope it is seeing communities — hell, neighborhoods, even portions of cities — stand up in unison against tyranny in a way that is active, capable, savvy. It’s really powerful.

"Ex-ICE agent" will become the stock character of choice for anyone needing to populate a story with some mooks who are idiotic but also utterly unsympathetic (so if the protagonist curb stomps them it's awesome)

As someone in tech: It’s possible to make shit safer. A bunch of men in the industry don’t care or don’t think of things they can’t fathom happening to them and usually are the ones in leadership making decisions. It’s infuriating

this site seems to genuinely have an issue with viewing explanation as a form of endorsement

ICE raids are not the first time this was made explicit. I think people downplay how much Jim Crow was not just about controlling Black people but it was also about controlling white people. If you thought racism was dumb and acted that way you could end up with a bomb in your home

I can't trust politicians who are anti-trans. Not because I'm "only searching for perfection" which is what centrists will be accusing me of for the rest of my life, it's because if you're not pro-trans you'll be garbage on lots of other issues too. Being anti-trans NEVER exists in a vacuum.

“ICE agents, get out now because historically, this ends with you hanging from a lamppost and your body paraded through the streets.” - the …we rate dogs guy

In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties. The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized. Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.

An underrated factor in "why don't people in wealthy societies have more kids" is changing societal norms that now expect even older kids to be chaperoned by an adult any time they are in public, and to be chauffeured by a parent as their only means of transportation

Virgin Active decided to restrict changing room access based on 'biological sex'. We're acting for, and financially supporting, a non-binary transmasculine person and a trans woman who are suing it for breaching the Equality Act. We've published the Letter Before Action.

This is lovely, but I laughed that it crossed my dash today, when I had written this sentence earlier. It's one of the NPC profiles for DIE RPG.

On the surface this anecdote does make Gemini seem kind of useful, but it also lays bare for me the false premise of big data and this "personal assistant" implementation of AI, which is that remembering things about my life is actually something I do want to do.

"Fourth graders spent the week building walls of snow at recess to protect their classmates from ICE."

the best encryption in the world can be broken in an instant by a snitch! technology can’t save you from the simple fact that the easiest & most common way cops find out what was said in private is not hacking or warrants or subpoenas, it’s somebody straight up telling them!!

This is the right take. The Tories now have the chance to explain why a race-baiter and authoritarian grifter like Jenrick belongs with Reform and not them. Will they take it? Almost certainly not. As Stephen says, they see Reform as lost family rather than a distinct and dangerous political foe.

This isn't satire. This is a real headline published in the UK.

The LeBron James of divorced women. No one is doing it like her.