The more I learn about addiction, the more I dislike it.

Literally sums it up; just add in the immense greed. youtu.be/l3UleEDG9CI

If everyone does a little, no one has to do a lot.

The amount of people I see in homes that are listening to or watching AI slop is too damn high.

It's AI. Look at the pixels surrounding the kitten. Even in the first frame you can see it obliterated the tortoise's right rear leg.

The fact that the Supreme Court was 5-4 on the election ballot ruling just goes to show how fucked we are

That’s ridiculous. I’m tired of knowledge and experience being demeaned by those who don’t want to make the effort to acquire either.

I think people misinterpreted blue sky as some sort of memorial service for pets.

Back in my day we called influencers con artists.

The next pandemic is upon us!!! https://theonion.com/epidemiologists-confirm-first-airborne-transmission-of-mar-a-lago-face-2/

This is great news! We need to do the same thing here. I've been advocating for this in my district and wrote a piece on the science behind why AI is bad for kids and how parents can make a change. iopsychmarketer.substack.com/p/the-marshm...

Just went into a cult members house. Flags, signs in the yard... Guy was in a wheelchair. Talk about slugs voting for salt.

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The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle. -Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925

Schools don’t seem to teach the difference between descriptive language and prescriptive; as 5 minutes online could show you.

I fucking hate celebrity worship.

Just got a spam email with subject: "Publish your first book this weekend (without writing it yourself!)" And I am so done with this timeline. The sheer arrogance of it. The inability of whoever is cashing in on this scheme to see how it is yet another symptom of how effed up everything is.

This is one reason why society is FUBAR. A 1st grader picking between an idiot device and a book instead of parents doing their job, and cheat sheets for something that should have been accomplished years earlier. 90% of the comments will endorse this because reading = good.

With every opinion you will get three responses. Agreement, which will foster the feeling of joy. Disagreement which will foster either cognitive dissonance or dislike, and neutrality which is worthless. Guess which one you’ll see more of.

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Repair cafes! Pretty cool.

I look forward to the day when a person is not judged by the color of their skin, but their successful endorsements and financial portfolios.

Making writing to the reading abilities of the lowest literacy competence level the “industrial standard” is one reason why the current society is in such a decline. Idiocracy in action.

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@markhamillofficial.bsky.social you should unpublish videos that are marked Ai-generated. People think this is real, it's not.

This is Diesel. His bed has been taken over by a two-pound kitten. Wondering if you can ask them to please move. He is too scared. 13/10 (TT: lahdeedahdee)

#Mormons finding out in real time why separation of church and state is designed to protect religion, not go after it.

If you work in phil science and never sent your paper to a generalist journal (because worry your readership isn’t there), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research intends to bring more Phil science to its pages, and I have just joined as one of the editors. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Some things I did not understand until I was part of the publishing industry: - Awards ≠ sales - Critical acclaim ≠ sales - Almost all authors you see in a bookstore have another source of income, usually large enough to pay the bills - You do not have to publish to be a writer

Three quarters of universities in deficit, tens of thousands of jobs being lost, & the government tells us there’s no money. They can, however, find close to the entire budget allocation for teaching from the Office for Students on a private theme park.

That $315,000,000 would go a long way to helping AZ combat extreme heat. #HeatActionDay

Breaking News: Army Unveils exoskeleton that can keep fighting long after soldier has perished. "As long as it has meat to harvest, it will keep going." An official, familiar with the project stated. #News, #Satire

Workers in the US produce an Average of 97 dollars per hour to the GDP. They receive an average of 31 dollars. This means yearly, at 8 hours a day, with 1 week paid vacation, the average worker produces over 200k, while being paid 64k. #economy, #wage-slavery, #injustice

The first fugitive slave law was made for white people. The last slave laws will be made for white people. Anyone under the misconception that they are safe because of the color of their skin is lying to themselves. As long as you have hands to work and a back to break, or a womb to bear, you have-

Predictable and inevitable when a nation makes money and wealth its entire personality.

Told his book isn’t hopeful enough, Ta-Nehisi Coates said, “People are confused about the job writers are supposed to do... I just felt like it was not my job. My job is to call things as I see them.” “It’s really bizarre that readers would have this expectation of hope.”

I’m sorry, but if you think that I would have sympathy for people that work for the worst people in the world because they themselves aren’t billionaires, you are going to be disappointed. They are part of the problem.

I would march, but I have games to play. I would write, but there are movies to watch. I would bleed but there are posts to make. I would cry, but there is joy to steal.

I would rather be proven wrong by a friend than confirmed by a flatterer.

"I understand that they are ‘moving’ OUR information to an offsite location so that they can shut down the government from within." commented Tracy.

Today is my book release day! One of my favorite collections is King’s Skeleton Crew and I’ve always wanted to release a short story collection. Today’s that day! Time of Death: A Collection of Medical Horror is here! Ghosts, werewolves, zombies, scary nuns, you name it, we got it!

Called it. Setting the groundwork for the Genius Act www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

How counterproductive is it to scream into the void

Over 50 years later, this anti-Vietnam War PSA still rings true.

There's a specific kind of ... idk ... dread? I feel these days where I know exactly how something I ask about is going to be misinterpreted due to poor reading comprehension, but there's nothing I can do, due to said reading comprehension. Like you literally can't write for those who don't read