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What are we doing?

usually when we talk about "instant karma," it's when something bad happens to someone deserving in an immediately. But there's also instant good karma

Men will literally claim UFOs and aliens exist rather than going to therapy—or releasing the Epstein files.

i post this every year because men soaking in toxic masculinity are all “why can’t we get women” and Tom Holland dances in drag and lands one of the hottest women on the planet, maybe there’s a lesson here guys

Could someone please explain this billion dollar ballroom in terms of AI credits so I still won’t understand it?

Here’s how the AI Boom, such as it is, has impacted my life: it has been used as an excuse to lay off my friends for bot equivalents that never came. It has made mass culture and art immeasurably worse. I have a stalker with AI psychosis. So, no, I don’t more data centers. I want less of all that.

I loathe the day when half the world can't see their calendar events because Daddy Altman's servers are down and every mundane task has been delegated to some AI prompt.

In the park with my dog, a car rolls up with the windows down, the boys are back in town-style dudes within, blasting Tracy Chapman’s “Give Me One Reason” and I discovered the cure for male loneliness you’ve all been looking for.

Sam Altman, the head of OpenAI, has formally apologized to the community of Tumbler Ridge, BC, after a mass shooting in February. He admitted his company did not alert authorities to the shooter’s disturbing online conversations with its AI chatbot even after staff flagged the account internally.

Today is Canadian Independent Bookstore Day, and we’re fortunate to have a place like @shelflifebooks.bsky.social in Calgary. They host a bunch of great events each month and have an awesome staff whose book picks are driven by a passion for reading, not bestseller lists.

i’ve worked in tech more than 20 years. it has never been more ridiculous.

no

“Every day of operation has seen a financial loss” feels like AI’s mission statement tbh.

nothing’s gonna help with “midterm messaging” when your HHS head is making headlines for cutting off wildlife dicks

These slam poetry timekeepers are getting strict.

As "leaders" on Earth are fumbling with 12-figure budgets to execute the most vile of traits, the Artemis II astronauts and experts at NASA are reminding us of everything that makes humanity truly great. Let's continue to celebrate science, training, curiosity, and wonder.

O, it is excellent To have a giant’s strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.

We are not talking nearly enough about the damage done by constantly telling people that their labor, their intellect, their creativity, and their identity can be replaced by an app

hmm

The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender. Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I'm sorry, what?!

of all the things that never happened this never happened the most

I for one think it’s very cool how millions of people periodically line up to tell donald trump to eat shit

Today I’m reflecting proudly on all my US American friends who are out in solidarity at a #NoKings protest. This cruel, corrupt administration wants passivity, and the whole world sees you standing up.

thus proving whales are among the most intelligent creatures on earth

JK Rowling is calling women athletes men even after they pass genetic testing. People in her replies are talking about these women having “ambiguous” genitalia. We are in an extremely frightening moment for ALL women thanks to transphobia.

This is how disciplines die. Now that Sociology courses don't count for GenEd credit, far fewer students will take them, let alone choose Sociology as a major. And so, Sociology department budgets will shrink, meaning fewer faculty and fewer courses offered. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

when i miss my cats while at work

Son, when I was your age, apples were as big as watermelons, they were green on the outside, and when you cut ‘em open, they were red and juicy inside and tasted like watermelon

Everything is so stupid and there will come a day when folks look back on the persecution of trans folks with the same moral disgust as other crimes against humanity. No one needs protection from trans women. We all need protection, tho, from violent hateful bigots. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/w...

"AI cannot coexist with education. It can only degrade it."

In the end all that the "AI" dudes will have disrupted is the reliability, sustainability and trustworthiness of our software supply chains. Fantastic.

wait. wait. everyone hold on. i've solved it

The President of the United States just asked if he could have taken Elvis in a fight. The. President. Of. The. United. States. What a time to be alive.

I took my weak son Larl to the French laundry and he demanded Dino chicken nuggets. Thomas Keller spit in his food and now he has hepatitis

I honestly feel like that’s the lesson of the Trump era the country is gonna take the longest to learn. like oh okay so we have been lionizing the founding fathers for 250 years and it turns out they didn’t do their ONE JOB. they didn’t Mad King-proof ANYTHING! first Mad King crashed the system!!!

Remember how hard tech bros marketed this as being the “inevitable future” (see: @tressiemcphd.bsky.social) that we all HAD to get onboard with and would make trillions of dollars and disrupt life as we know it? Hmm.

long story but i just founded an AI education platform. if you want to join the board or contribute to the blog, hit me up. just submitted a conference talk on "surveillance as care" to ELO. wish me luck!!!! puregenius.education

Videos included DOGE members unable or unwilling to define DEI; discussing how they used ChatGPT and terms such as “black” and “homosexual” to flag grants for termination but not “white” or “caucasian,” and acknowledgements they failed to achieve the stated goal of lowering the government deficit.

I was reading an article about how workers keep waiting for AI to reduce their workloads and wonder why it's not happening and in fact they are now expected to do MORE work. I feel we have fundamentally failed to communicate what capitalism is to a lot of people.

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

This comic is sublime mandatoryrollercoaster.com/post/8081046...

If you genuinely believed you were 18 months from building a superintelligence that could cure cancer, you probably wouldn't pivot the entire company to horny chatbots. But I'm just a person with priorities. Maybe the path to solving death really does go through AI girlfriends. I don't have an MBA.

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946. In 2007, the US president was born in 1946. In 2017, the US president was born in 1946. And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

The U.S. is the only place we surveyed where more adults describe the morality of others living in the country as bad than good. Canada is on the opposiite end of the spectrum--they overwhelmingly see their neighbors as morally good pewrsr.ch/4ubNwaM

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

If I get one more email about Claude or whomever the fuck. 1. I wanna read my own shit. 2. I wanna write my own shit. 3. I wanna pay an editor to talk me through my own shit. 4. I don’t want that AI bullshit. If you don’t use it, you lose it. And I want to hold my brain as long as possible.

This is both a good joke and an accurate description of what using genAI to compile a bibliography does for you cognitively. You’re not learning anything if you don’t do your own generating. This is basic pedagogical stuff!