Society lost something when TVs lost the ability to have shit stacked on top of them.

Desperately need people to take Silicon Valley execs as literally at their actual words as people ought to have been taking Trump and Stephen Miller et al at their actual words.

Alright we all know the big line is going down, fossil fuel costs are going up, and they’re calling him Degrowth Don. But is what’s happening rightly called degrowth? The short answer is no, but here’s a thread with a long answer, also clearing up some other common misunderstandings of degrowth.

tangentially: for the people who like to give me shit for critiquing Mills or pointing out that they should learn about Maine politics, y’all love circulating and complaining about those posts but never seem to positively signal boost ones like this I’ve noticed

my town just introduced an AI receptionist to answer phone inquiries outside of business hours and they named it after the former receptionist who retired in 2024 and died a month later on her 93rd birthday. nothing is personalized anymore except the episodes of black mirror we each live in now.

The thing I learned from watching Mamdani is that if you did something you have to constantly remind people you did it and not just mention it once and expect everyone to remember it or even notice

In the next 5-10 years we're gonna stsrt seeing cases of LEOs getting busted for selling data to stalkers, vindictive exes, and places that upload CSAM or other nonconsenually obtained imagery

New: With Carl Wilson's all but certain election, Council Speaker Julie Menin's team is bullish on her chances at undoing Mayor Mamdani's first veto, with one member who voted no on the bill in question now not ruling out supporting an override. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

In NYC, rather than deal with all the very real problems plaguing us, and legitimate threats to people's safety, speaker Julie Menin and much of the City Council are investing their time in overturning @mayor.nyc.gov's veto of Intro 175-B. 2/

Fascinating the only 2 names mentioned are hasan piker and Candace Owens. Not nick fuentes. Tucker Carlson. Elon. Interesting indeed

This is literally establishing a second special code of law just for Alex Jones so he can do whatever he wants. What the fuck are we doing? How the fuck is this allowed?

This is not an exaggeration. Alex Jones is allegedly bankrupt but has an infinite well of dark money to pay lawyers, sell pills, and harangue judges and the parents of dead kids. This stay must be lifted so we can take over, and I hope journalists look into where he's getting and stowing his money.

Hot take into the void: "ultra-processed food" is basically the antivaxx conspiracy theory for people who think they're far too well informed to get hooked into anything like antivaxx.

“Ultra processed food” oh okay you mean like water

hawks will be like "you really believe in negotiating a joint comprehensive plan of action with Iran? that pales in comparison to my strategy, winning a war of regime change" and then not win a war of regime change

This didn’t happen

Mom: “It almost feels like they just killed Martin Luther King all over again, but metaphorically this time. Almost like its a fun little game for them.”

This shit right here is why Democrats lose even when they win elections. How many bipartisan resolutions condemning fascism, or Ann Coulter or Rush Limbaugh or any other right-wing ghoul have their been? None. But you got Dems rushing to condemn socialism and a leftist twitch streamer. Hopless

💯. I get repetitive about this, but it really can't be said enough: There's a fundamental crisis of literacy in the U.S. that must be addressed before we start worrying about "science literacy" or "math literacy" and so on. We can't make progress on such fronts if people lack basic reading skills.

It is no exaggeration to say that when you pay for AI products you are materially contributing to the realization of the grand vision for society manifested by the Epstein class

This is maybe the funniest punchline in manga history I almost cried

US to drop felony charge against ex-congressional candidate, three others over Chicago immigration protest reut.rs/4t6pjRx

"I remember smoking in the 90s. It was divine" "Im my 20s, smoking was sexy." GIRL, SHUT UP. Shut up. Shut up. SHUT UP. First off, you smelled like ashtrays. It was gross. And forced people serving you/around you to inhale your disgusting smoke, too.

trying to play peekaboo with my child but he's a European diplomat: me: where'd daddy go? baby: we must articulate a post-daddy vision of strategic autonomy me: peekaboo! baby: my historic relationship with my father is stable despite recent troubles

This is the result of decades of organizing in the conservative legal community that’s been allowed to flourish in plain sight as anything but a committed ideological movement.

When people ask, "How can I promote my art when the world is going to shit" I hear that as, "How do I have the right to make art when the world is going to shit" And... We need art more than ever during such times. You need to be making art more than ever during such times.

Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ https://theonion.com/supreme-court-overturns-right-v-wrong-1819573211/

SCOTUS is telling us that there's no choice left but to pack the court. Congress can pass whatever laws they want to, but the Gang of Six will veto them if they think it'll help Republicans cling to power.

Indeed, Asheville city hall is a useful example of how fascist collaboration works in a local government: officials may be Dems, but they also hate the public, want protest crushed and have always bent over backwards to appease conservative gentry and tourists. They're happy to work with the feds.

My human brain was not built to take in 3 villain monologues an hour every day

So after a little under a year and a half of people telling me that Stargate was a “$500bn project backed by the US government” it comes out that it “maybe never really existed,” just like I always said

This is not the point of course, but Justice Alito taking time out of his majority opinion gutting the Voting Rights Act to en passant talk about the state having a compelling interest in preventing race riots in prisons is really quite something.

CRITICS SAY?????????

- They're more constrained than they're letting on. Capacity and engineering resources are reserved for "AI" and corners are being cut - GitHub as a system has serious flaws that only come into effect at this new scale and fixing them is a much bigger task than they expected.

Subsidised "coding agents" that generate 10x code are why GitHub has been having issues So, since GitHub/MS are ground zero for the "AI" bubble, the outages are their fault but not in the way we've been thinking xcancel.com/kdaigle/stat... (Xcancel is an X proxy if don't want to link directly)

john roberts has fulfilled his life's work and fully dismantled the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement. these fucking neo-confederate freaks need to be driven from power forever

Breaking: Supreme Court invalidates second majority-Black congressional district in Louisiana, effectively gutting last remaining part of Voting Rights Act

NEW: Eleven U.S. cities will host World Cup games this summer, which is expected to generate $11B for FIFA. The cities get little in return. They do not see a slice of game-day revenues from ticket sales, concessions and merchandise, or parking.

RIP to Sora, OpenAI’s AI-generated social media network, which closed its doors today and loads this message when I open the app. Indeed, Sora cost OpenAI millions a day in its attempt to subsidize cheap AI video generation in a way that did not attract advertisers because it did not attract users.

this trauma is why i so forcefully insist that iso8601 is the one true date format

Every AI centrist article: "My second paragraph will rattle off a list of ethical harms, and the rest of the piece will disregard all of them so I can talk about how I completely misunderstand how genAI works and really wanna use it."

I’m thinking about a dialectic between ‘slop’ and ‘care’ as two opposing orientations toward the manner in which we do things (like work, tasks, creative acts, interacting, etc); and how different ways and uses of automation can be influenced by, evince, or further drive a sloppy or caring attitude.

There is no equivalent on the Democratic side for the pure, undiluted nihilism coming from the federal government right now. We basically have one party of technocrats and one party of Branch Davidians.

We really aren't pointing and laughing at these people enough becuase they STILL think that folks are gonna be OK with this shit I truly can't wait for the bubble to burst and ngl I don't envy seeing just how hard people that got dependant on it are gonna crash and burn

It's fun to believe in a conspiracy theory because you get to connect all the dots and have superior knowledge, and its fundamentally anti-solidarity and fascistic because anyone who doesnt believe you exactly is both shut out from the fun and a kill joy, you make them an enemy of your pleasure