Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

"The real power of imagination is that it helps us envision something better than raw power." This is a really good read. Every third line feels quotable, and I felt better after reading it.

AIG says no AGI 😂

It shouldn't have to be like this. We shouldn't have to go check the settings in apps that auto-update to find out what privacy horrors we've been opted into lately.

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

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As a Husky, reluctantly... Yeah, Go Cougs for that one that's just awesome. Respect the dragon man, long may he burninate.

We have been through so many manufactured moral panics about nonsense harmless things. But this thing keeps demonstrating harms. And we have unlimited money for it. And we have unlimited benefit of the doubt for it.

Bluesky, seeing the cultural pendulum ready to reverse swing: You Should Care About Other People!

I flagged Mobile Identity as inappropriate in the Play store. "Content felt hostile".

Something I wrote: jay.leaflet.pub/3m5f3fldejs2x Still enjoying leaflet for writing

"like (Amazon) Prime, but with human beings" - Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons, back in April

I enjoyed reading this piece about why media outlets that claim to be pure, objective, and impartial are completely full of shit.

... The same devices that agents are running Mobile Fortify on? These are the devices on which they should daily take many screenshots and send those to email? The phones that DHS uses to gather biometrics that they treat as more authoritative than a birth certificate. DHS's phones.

Whether this interaction is human-coded or a "hallucination", a product that lies like this to someone who expresses suicidal ideation is not a product that we should permit to exist. OpenAI should be dismantled stone by stone and every member of leadership held accountable. This is abhorrent.

if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this. can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.

"Forgive us our trespasses" A soldier carrying a rifle "... as we forgive those who trespass against us" A military plane A Message of Forgiveness, brought to you by our newly renamed Department of War. Inspiring stuff.

Why do I feel like ICE agents are running this Mobile Fortify app on their personal iPhones with no org security controls

We are led by a pirate king, but make it suck and not be cool

Vega: "Out of eggs." At scale! Think of the limitless possibilities...

Contents Introduction ...chapters The Talk My Shit Page Index

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I'm now on atwork.place atwork.place/u/jay.myatpr...

War never changes

This is a level of away game fandom that most can only aspire to

Elsewhere in the ATProto universe - I'm trying out @leaflet.pub. I intend to do some writing there, but decided to do a cooking post with some pictures to test drive publications. It's pretty neat! I like the "embed website" block for collections. jay.leaflet.pub/3m2ctjdkz722t

What do you have to do to win this challenge coin, wrong answers only. ... Win a staring contest with Kash Patel

Anyone who read Project 2025 knew all this would happen.

Democrats are in DC working to lower costs, cancel the cuts, and save health care. Where are congressional Republicans? It’s the day before a government shutdown... and they’re on vacation.

Posting positive things! Stopped drinking caffeine recently (that's not the positive thing, that's a bummer). Haven't had a cup of decaf that my inner coffee snob truly enjoyed yet, until today. This decaf is yummy. This morning is for coffee and contemplation. immigrantculture.com/products/pin...

Just went back and listened in full to the speech Colombian President Gustavo Petro gave at the UN a few days ago. Relentless, wow. The English audio translation was rough, I caught Spanish audio with auto-gen'd English closed captions and that was pretty good. youtu.be/ieqDlN6_bYQ?...

Thanks @danabra.mov for sharing, I really enjoyed reading this

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

Pot roast is not a recipe. Pot roast is song in your heart.

"reasonable suspicion means only that immigration officers may briefly stop the individual and inquire about immigration status. If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter" - Kavanaugh Detained 2 days

Seems bad. Nice of them to include a section for disambiguation between the three different completely imaginary terrorist designations they have come up with now

A lot to listen to in this thread

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

The fact that environmental review kicks in as soon as they add more density than the original proposal shows how backward the state requirements are, because it assumes that dense housing has negative environmental impacts while existing car-dependent single-family sprawl is neutral or positive.

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As an aside, I wonder if it’s starting to dawn on white people who think Trump/MAGA won’t come after *them* that both Colbert and Kimmel are wealthy Christian straight white guys.

Remember folks, Gutfeld! is hilarious. Truly a television program beloved by all. Oh how we laugh at Greg Gutfeld's clever jokes... because of the implication.

It's a v. good course, recommend

Will other major news outlets cover this critically? The social media posts were accurate and inoffensive. The Washington Post fired Karen Attiah for failing to do performative civility. @lorraineali.bsky.social will we see a piece from the LA Times? @katierobertson.bsky.social, NYT?

BARS 🔥🔥🔥 www-hani-co-kr.translate.goog/arti/opinion... They got a few minor details wrong, but in general, they see what's going on, and promptly read us for filth.🤷🏿‍♂️ "MAGA is a backlash by white, evangelical forces seeking to return the United States to its pre-civil rights era of the 1960s."

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

Maybe corrupting, making non-responsive, or tearing down our congress and civic institutions was bad, actually. I liked this by Solveig Hillesund: "the cycle of political violence will continue (or escalate) unless aggrieved people’s faith in the political system can be restored" 1/4

Seems bad