they are fucking cowards. i have had conservative students ask in their in class writing "is it ok for me to state my opinion in this class?" and my response is always like, "yes of course you can, what's stopping you?" (i know what's stopping them, they are wrong and also weak)

For months I've banged the drum that "not sure" has become the safe harbor answer for "Republicans who know Trump's probably wrong, but don't want to admit it." Today's Economist/YouGov Poll: Is Donald Trump racist? 41% of Republicans have No Opinion. d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...

We’ve come full circle

Instead of "the left isn't paying enough attention to these machine gods" they're claiming to build, perhaps we should write an article about how effective altruists brand themselves "left", ask who is writing these articles, and trace their cults and sources of funding.

im not falling for ‘you can’t just scold gen AI hobbyists’ like ive fallen for so many ‘be diplomatic and patient with idiots’es before. no. if they can’t live without this machine that’s trying to put me out of a job theyre dumb as a box of hair. like they’re clearly not worried about offending ME!

The constant condescension about ai is another aspect of it that makes me hate it more. The assumption is you can only be against it because you don't understand it like I do. No man. I don't like voluntarily making every human enterprise dependent on a tech run by a tiny group of financial maniacs

The closest thing to AI I can think of is the Juicero. A piece of tech that doesn't really do what you'd want it to do and what it does do, it's hyper inefficient at.

yeah i can miss out on a machine that lies to me then tries to flatter me, because as a normal human, i have a little thing called "fight or flight reflexes" that kicks in when i am lied to and flattered at the same time

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

this is why he will lose in the general if democrats nominate him... they will literally be giving up their biggest advantage against republicans (the fact that everyone hates billionaires)

this is the real purpose of ai i am increasingly convinced. they want total control over the populace and that will be easy once people willingly give up their thinking ability to the machine

"the radical left is pushing people to the right" i started off just wanting healthcare as a teenager and after seeing the system fail over and over i now believe it should be entirely torn down but sure it's the pronouns that are making people into psychopathic racists

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Thinking about that tweet from Foz Meadows that said the most dangerously emotional people in the world are men who are so obsessed with being rational they confuse their feelings for logic repeatedly.

now we're being asked to sacrifice our PCs, laptops, and smart phones for the fringe use-cases for AI. fuck this.

saw somebody yesterday refer to "soft republicans" that could hypothetically be turned to our side if we just reach out to them hard enough and i'm not sure how to tell you this but those do not exist

why is technology people are using to make videos of a smurf having rough sex with chris griffin a better investment than solar energy? explain that to me before accusing me of rejecting “tech”

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” Yeah man, it’s called anything that can be useful and make my bills go down instead of a thing that can’t do anything without my help and doubles my electricity bill

seeing this shit while donald trump is president is enough to melt my brain

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

one reset I'd personally appreciate: behind the insistence that we must offer the electorate a little bigotry is the idea that commoners are more bigoted than the richer and more educated, who can be appealed to with high minded policy. but then you Ctrl+F "phrenology" in the Epstein files

A system built to eat people never stops eating people.

ohio state is incredibly corrupt and they need to be dragged through the mud for their relationship with les wexner and their unwavering support of fascism at every turn. i am an alumni. fuck them.

It’s so hard to have a reasonable conversation about AI, because people refuse to see the massive upsides of job elimination, higher electrical bills, hard drive shortages, poisoning black people in Memphis, and an economy where a handful of pedos with bad hair control your life

i think lots of people underestimate how badly these “AI” companies want people to be unable to afford computers. they view personal computing as a roadblock to their desire for complete end-to-end centralization. the fact that their tech is putting hardware out of reach is not just a happy accident

Since its his birthday gotta repost this pic I took with my own hands

They raided the jailed children to steal their letters. The problem, in federal officials' minds, wasn't confining children in prison-camp conditions; it was that the children could tell the public about it.

My wife said AI in Outlook has started to send summary notes about emails and the summaries are longer than the emails and full of wrong info lol. "I got a 5 word email from my coworker that said 'Lunch will be at 1' and the summary said 'Your lunch meeting is now at 11' lmaoo

Read this sentence slowly: “Gov. Gavin Newsom, crypto executives and business leaders are ramping up efforts this week to stop the proposed wealth tax...” gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/u...

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

"Kennedy, in a bestselling 2021 book, explicitly rejected germ theory...in favor of 'miasma theory,' which pediatrician and vaccine inventor Paul Offit describes as 'a long-abandoned medical theory that holds that diseases are caused by poisonous vapors.'" 👇

I'm impressed at how the AI industry seems to be trying to bring the rest of computing down with them. It's a bold strategy that I don't think is going to pay off

Here’s an example of a local newsroom actually informing the public about AI (the role of journalism) versus the blatant AI boosterism we’re seeing many other newsrooms engage in to the detriment of the entire profession

The "is it cake" era was a pysop preparing us for the uncertain reality of ai images. In this essay...

Important. Leftists tend to be marginalized, not privileged. That's why we care about a world that works for all. We have some of the most serious stakes in the game. So when you scream at us how the right will harm us, it's not news to us. We just want more than carceral, imperialist alternatives.

That last sentence? That's the strategy. They've been pretty open about it.

Stephen Colbert said that the FCC and CBS - which is in no way a compromised or complicit organization - wouldn’t allow him to broadcast an interview with Democratic State Rep James Talarico. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/a...

One of my most sobering memories of Jesse Jackson was going to my civil rights veteran uncle's funeral, looking to my right and seeing Jesse Jackson sitting next to me, damn near inconsolable and in tears.

if your only interaction with scrolling algorithmic video is watching 6 minutes of Reels on the toilet first thing in the morning you can derive signs & portents about pop culture without being directly exposed to its madness like ancient priests watching the reflection of the sunrise through gauze

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

hmmm sounds familiar...

You know it's bad when Anderson Cooper, a Vanderbilt, feels stifled by the powers over him.

Nothing that can help regular people is possible. Everything that can hurt regular people is easy to do. This is basically how most politicians act right now.

definitely seems like you're safer from any kind of punishment for being in the Epstein Files than for, say, just to pick two examples totally at random, attending a college protest for Gaza or tweeting that you weren't very sad Charlie Kirk died

One reason Republicans are so laser targeted on trans kids existing, is that trans kids existing requires accepting the bodily autonomy and consent of children. Which is something republicans absolutely can't do, since they are pedophiles. Their transphobia and pedophilia is them being consistent

ICE killed a teacher in Georgia today when they chose to chase a man who posed no danger and had no criminal history.

joyce is going after elon again

this is a big yikes: www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...

I JUST HAD A DOCTOR CONSULT CANCELLED BECAUSE I WAS RUDE TO THEIR AI INTAKE SOFTWARE. (I called it a "stupid computer.") I hate EVERYTHING