the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

Shitposting on Bluesky is amazing because you will hear from either the funniest cleverest people in the whole world, or people who have never before encountered the concept of humor.

The basic infrastructures that allow women to be participants in public life—birth control & abortion access, no fault divorce, childcare access & affordability, civil rights law in employment and public accommodations, the minimal efforts to mitigate sexual and domestic violence—are all crumbling.

How is the media to cover this? It sure sounds like Trump is announcing rules of engagement where the military will be encouraged to use force against American protesters, right? Is there any other way to interpret this?

I really think our reactionary age is downstream of the three heads of the Scam Economy, Wellness, Social Media, and Gambling/Crypto

Pete Hegseth watched Patton and missed the message of the movie.

At a certain point we have to account for people being fucking assholes as a historical driver.

Hegseth sounds like he thinks he's setting the tone for a thousand-year Reich instead of a normal Secretary of Defense term.

Patton slapped a soldier and was stripped of command during the very woke era of World War II

We Should Have Finished Reconstruction: A Brief History Of American Politics, 1865-2025

Um, anyone who read project 2025?

Theoretically if someone could get their hands on OpenAI’s source code and just publish it to the Internet it would be ok if they didn’t opt out first I guess

I’m opening a movie theater in which I show recently released films that I ripped from the internet but the studios are welcome to opt out if they wish.

Just want to add that reproductive rights are an economic issue and for many women a survival issue. If you can't control your body, you can't control your life.

Mr. Rogers has an adoption listing: please share with anyone in the Baltimore-Washington area who needs a big sweet boy! www.adoptapet.com/pet/45135778...

a copyright *is* an opt-out from this sort of use

Nacho Bar wedding reception

We've had evidence of this for ages, right? Frankly this feels like those endless UBI studies where they all demonstrate UBI works but that's not the answer the people in charge want to hear so nothing changes.

i am constantly going to car shows in random central virginia towns and hanging out with elderly white guys and their 1957 ford thunderbirds and i should make that a bigger part of my pundit persona. “ah, i commune with the Volk around their sacred objects”

darth, i am going to give people kicking lessons by walking up to them and punting them in the crotch as hard as possible, this is an “opt out” model and i am excited to see the public’s response

how is this the copyright holders problem

So this is a very, very desperate move - a very silly app of generative AI slop that will be incredibly expensive for OpenAI to run, and on top of it, they're requiring rights holders to *opt out* once they see violations. You can't do it in advance. They're washed, and trying everything to survive.

Tying together two of today’s discourses: I do miss that in 2002, the undeservedly wealthy mostly self-destructed with drugs and alcohol rather than with private campaigns to erase whole classes of humanity.

Denver. Not only boring and ugly, but also there's no oxygen

Always

This whole section really.

Dang, I wish I could win people over on democracy by throwing some cat ears on it

“Scottsdale is nice” lol okay “Tucson is cool” Tucson is 3 hours away, be serious “You can’t shovel sunshine!” yes but you can shovel bullshit

One thing the media should be making clear is that Mike Johnson doesn’t even have the House in town. They’re pulling the same shit where they passed a bill without Democrats’ input at all and then bolted, just like in March, and are trying to lay the blame on Dems for not eating it.

another one as soon as I stepped off the train

we need evidence of two things: first, that trump can distinguish fantasy from reality and second, that trump is actually president

I do not want the video. I will never watch the video. I usually won’t even give the video the effort of complaint. I just want to read the news story. Give me the text. This would be my Ted Talk but that would be text too.

For the life of me, I can’t figure out why the wealthiest and most powerful companies are hemorrhaging money to invest in a technology whose only logical endgame is to get us to unlearn problem solving and working together.

But it is rapidly becoming our job to teach students how not to use AI, or how to not use it.

staying awake is a ploy by Big Snacking to sell more Snacking

if you make an AI trailer for your book I will smash the unfollow button so hard that I will shorten the lifespan of my computer

Most people who write about politics, right or left, have internalized the concept of the Trump supporter as the authentic american Volk and so many of their conclusions proceed from that bsky.app/profile/qjur...

Encouraging theft is their business model.

Voting for whatever candidate promises to congressionally mandate traumatizing all third graders by forcing them to watch Old Yeller, for the sake of public health.

I've been thinking and writing on this and I can't decide if it's worse if he thinks this happened or worse if he thinks it didn't happen but is also real?

when we give any food to animals outside, Sandal seems to think it is indicative of deep, tragic, even dangerous naivete. he meows at me to tell me it is a bad idea. i am neville chamberlain to this cat, foolishly proclaiming "peace in our time" with squirrels and birds who will surely destroy us

all cats look kind of mad when they're scared. they're mad that something is scaring them

omg, this guy is absolutely hilarious. Dr Dempsey is arguing that all academics, irrespective of their field, MUST USE AI, and you don't have the academic freedom to opt out. Now a little peek at his education (Liberty University, lol) and work histories suggests some conflicts of interest, though

if we just warded off a ground invasion through the power of posting a bunch of pictures of the saturday market with sarcastic "oh it's hell on earth" captions i am going to become the fucking joker

If you're going to describe an Ai video as "weird" in your headline, you really should use a serifed font

i have said this before but i think that ones view of the current political situation is fundamentally shaped by how you view the outcome of the 2024 election. was it a definitive affirmation of the MAGA worldview or a narrow, extremely contingent result?

I will start teaching my students how to use AI when my colleagues in computer science start to teach Homer, Dante, Langston Hughes, Borges, Foucault, Audre Lord, Spivak, and Donna Haraway in their classes

The Ezra Klein style of caring about political “strategy” over consistent moral principles and values of your own reminds me of how a lot of pop culture consumers obsessively track box office and chart performance rather than just evaluating based on whether things are good or if they like them