people joke about what experiencing even the banalities of modern society would do to a medieval peasant, but here's a German tourist from a small farming village who says some Times Square salsa verde physically incapacitated him gothamist.com/food/theres-...

I think it's worth pointing out almost every time he said "No new wars' he followed up with "because we will destroy our enemies quickly" or something similar about acting with lethal celerity. No one ever cared about that part tho!

I don't think grammarly should just get to do "sorry deleting now" after ventriloquizing living and dead people without their consent to make money

A lot of media people helped stoke the Wokeness panic of ~2016-2024 because they all live online and people online are annoying in a particular way. So since then they've had to either admit they were suckered or double down, and I will not be checking which it is

i’d like for some people to grapple with the fact that “the most important election of our lifetime,” if you actually mean it, implies that the governance period following it is also the most important governance period of our lifetime, and adjust their demands/expectations/behaviors accordingly

i bet this shit sounds magical if you're fucking stupid

The US already makes 96% of the N fertilizer we use. The fertilizer we import the most is POTASSIUM. Which we get from CANADA. When we import phosphorus, we get 98% of it from PERU. Not Iran. So the reason we've had trouble getting those is TARIFFS. farmdocdaily.illinois.edu/2025/07/us-f...

Like the bible says: live by the sword, no worries

NSFW Artists being attacked on all fronts while the government actively protects pedos is fucking nuts and shouldn't be ignored.

I agree with this and it's something for which community groups should already be developing concrete plans. I think reparations are already due.

"Americans were split over the question of Trump’s loyalty, with 47% saying he is more responsive to the American people than to Israel, and 46% saying he is more responsive to Israel."

If you're scared of protesting or a general strike because you could lose your job, healthcare, and housing, or even go to jail, now you understand why the US has no universal healthcare or housing and no guaranteed parental leave, but DOES have the largest prison and police system on planet Earth.

CM Kritzer asking Chief Lowe about drones being deployed at large events or protests rather than the typical response to a direct call for service. Once you acquire the #surveillance tech, the use cases always expand!

Moderate Democrats with columns in newspapers are constantly saying the Democratic Party is way too liberal on "social" issues. Moderate Democratic voters in real life do not feel this way. With some polling data from @gelliottmorris.com and @dataforprogress.org. newrepublic.com/article/2074...

The chart of Oracle free cash flow is fun. @koyfin.bsky.social #$ORCL

So apparently grammarly stole my fuckin identity

A little offended Grammarly didn't make a sloppelganger of me

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

leaders like trump are why sun tzu had to write a bunch of advice like "don't write your enemy a letter detailing what tactics you really don't want them to do"

i am being absolutely serious here: CENTCOM had one job and it was literally to prepare for an Iran contingency

I spent 45 minutes trying and failing to convince a full bird Colonel with multiple Afghanistan and Iraq deployments that Afghanistan is not an Arabic speaking country. I was helped in this discussion (to no avail) by two Afghan interpreters who were more polite than I was.

Most people rejected his message. They hated Freud because he told them the truth.

I've submitted multiple. Never once been published. They often don't even publish my comments on anti trans nyt articles. It's that repressive.

Capitalist ‘innovation’

Who could have known? Its not like a bunch of us were publishing articles saying exactly this would happen. oh wait....

WHAT THE HELL

People just straight up did not read this and projected onto it. No where here is there a comparison with “ancestors” or whatever. Automation at your job isn’t going to give you more leisure if you work a standard 40hr work week! You will either get assigned something else to do or lose the job*

Long-time buddies Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were out for a pleasant van drive in Oklahoma when, all of a sudden, their lives would change.

Amazon holds engineering meeting following AI-related outages: Ecommerce giant says there has been a ‘trend of incidents’ linked to ‘Gen-AI assisted changes’ www.ft.com/content/7cab... archive: archive.is/wXvF3 l o l

people are confused about this but it makes sense in a fascist imaginary where gay =/= "homosexual". gay = effeminate, unmasculine, associated with womanliness or faggotry. much sex gets called gay when it is something beyond dominating the feminized object (this happens

Trump did not announce a U.S. policy then walk it back. That is not what happened, and media presenting it that way does a disservice. Trump said words he thought might appeal to his audience in the moment, with no connection to actual policy, then did that again with a different question/asker.

My employer asks me to complete a survey on AI usage for which this is the first question (required):

THIS IS INSANE

I keep thinking about how Microsoft, who famously introduced AI into Excel, was strongarmed by its legal department to make a statement that you should not use the AI, introduced into Excel, for calculations

Fox Sports graphics department going hard

Comprehending this image hurt. Curse of knowledge etc etc.

The reason I haven’t and won’t use Gen “AI” is the same reason I haven’t and won’t use Doordash, and cancelled Amazon Prime. I don’t use harmful things I don’t need merely for the sake of convenience. It’s *very* easy to just ignore every LLM-based garbage thing. Why wouldn’t I?

When devs says that LLMs make them more productive, you need to keep in mind that THIS is what they're automating: dysfunction, tampering as a design strategy, superstition-driven coding, and software whose quality genuinely doesn't matter, all in an environment where rigour is completely absent

There is apparently credible evidence that the president of the United States is a pedophile. The comforting phrase “accused him without evidence” no longer fits this situation, and journalists must resort to the more perfunctory “hasn’t been formally charged.” www.thedailybeast.com/key-details-...

She literally had her passport with her at the airport and still got detained. AND THEN ICE lied to her family about where she was even though her phone location was being shared. abc7chicago.com/post/sunny-n...

"This probably sounds like nightmare fuel to many, but to wealthy VCs and AI and crypto entrepreneurs it’s the next gold rush." is the quote of our time

If we could do only one thing to right this ship it has to be ending the culture of elite impunity in this country. Once you get past a certain wealth threshold you not only become invulnerable to criminal liability, but you lose the ability to lose in any way at all

the gambling epidemic is genuinely so real like sports are entirely gambling now video games are gambling toys are gambling they're still trying to push crypto somehow which is like if money was gambling

Temporarily banning data centers draws more interest from state, local officials michiganadvance.com/2026/03/08/r... From @stateline.org

People tell me that AI code is fine, because you can run automatic tests. But tests can only tell you if code is doing the thing you want it to do. To know what it SHOULD do, we used to have requirements. But now requirements are themselves vibe-coded slopotypes. The result: waste and risk.

Trump already doubled Americans down on tax breaks putting us in a situation where we're going to have no choice but to raise taxes the moment he's out of office during what will already be an economic downturn and the Dem response is "let's dig the grave even deeper"

I'm no artist, but hopefully this gets the point across. A comic in three panels.

The internet, on scientists: They're secretive gatekeepers, they hoard esoterica/the truth, they don't want anyone in their ivory tower little clubs Actual scientists: LOOK, WE FOUND A 300 MILLION YEAR OLD FOSSILIZED CLOACCAL IMPRESSION AND THE VENT IS HORIZONTAL! PLZ READ MY 67-PAGE PAPER ABOUT IT