<grabs microphone> the bedbugs are a metaphor! The bedbugs are <security tackles me, drags me offstage>

The Pentagon has appointed a former Citadel cadet and J6 convict to one of the most sensitive top-secret posts in the DoD. He has none of the relevant experience that would make him eligible for the 40-person team. wapo.st/437arYG

Picard morality tip: If one side of a conflict preaches purity of bloodline above communal benefit for all, join the other side.

the current director of national intelligence is a guy who two years ago received a trophy declaring he “Fucks Only The Young” at an (oddly dildo focused) event he organized dedicated to the conspiracy that Bed Bath and Beyond never actually went bankrupt

Important to remember that every "Famous Person Uses AI" story isn't so much about how awesome the tech is but that they're trying to convince you all this shit is worth it. That's the bottom line.

Happy Strait of Hormuz Opening Anchored for Simplicity Day to those who celebrate.

Happy Pride month you buncha queers

WATCH— @aoc.bsky.social :“We’ve been taught to lower our expectations for things that a generation ago were afforded to every American. It didn’t feel like a fantasy to be able to have one job, support your family, go on vacation, and put some money in your pocket…” (From @marcofoster.bsky.social)

And this isn't some new scam. It's pretty odd that we spend so much money on our military (isn't it something crazy like more than the next 38 countries combined) and yet are somehow already out of high tech munitions after attacking little ass Iran and Venezuela. Is odd the word I'm looking for?

Keep telling us we’re wrong about the economy and its all vibes, you guys

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

Another reason I know AI is trash. Always fun to remind everyone that Daniel Penny got a cushy no show job from Marc Andreessen after he killed that homeless man on the subway. New Silicon Valley is fake. If you think these people know anything about tech, they don't. They need marks like you

It's just insulting. You're a governor! You have power! Power you used to commute the sentence of a woman who attacked our democracy! That pardon power is one of the most powerful tools a person can have, and you used it. You don't get to play the victim, man.

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

My recent grad students are making the same amount per hour as I did 25 years ago. Rent is 3x what it was. Groceries have gone up 25% in the last year or so. I'd like to know who thinks all of this is just pessimism and you can think your way out of it.

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

I guess my only real problem with AI is that it doesn't work, uses all the water, makes the worst people who ever slime-trailed across this green earth richer, gives monsters cover to crater organizations, destroys lives in both obvious & subtle ways & also isn't even AI. Besides that, I'm for it.

You can show me all the charts you want saying the economy is fine but if Serpentor is selling his throne because it won't fit into his new studio apartment, shit is not fine

"everyone" = men with money

Our government telling an adversary to disregard the President's social media posts because they're not real and are intended for promotional purposes and US media consumption, says it all. Holy fuck.

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

oh man I can’t believe the Enhanced Games are actually happening lol. wow I wonder who would win between an insane person who has dedicated their entire adult life relentlessly training to become the most perfect athlete for their chosen sport and a guy who wanted to skip that part

Democrats shouldn’t just be focused on defeating Trump. It should be the extinction of the Republican Party They haven’t done a single thing to make the lives of ordinary Americans better in the past 40 year. The GOP is a party of, by, and for billionaire assholes

The AI bubble as an interpretive dance

Watching all the tech people get laid off because of corporate greed a few years after seeing a thousand idiots respond “Learn to code” to journalists posting about getting laid off because of corporate greed is some real capitalism snake eating its own tail kinda stuff.

LET'S GO, JD GOT THE MEMO. We deserve all of this. All of it. I'm the first to blame the media for the ills of society, but all of America saw J6 happen. Everyone seen that shit like 9/11. And still they INVITED these guys back in when they went to the ballot box.

The people who mock '4D chess' got taken by the most obvious Wile E Coyote ass dude because they trust people who read 10 million books but didn't watch wrestling. Trump doesn't read books. He doesn't hire people who read books. Go with the most clumsy evil choice and you'll guess right every time

No I'm not literally cheering on the downfall of America, but ask anyone in recovery and they'll tell you: You can't get clean until you've hit rock bottom and want to get clean for yourself. Payout to J6ers? Hell yes. $8 gas? LFG! SCOTUS bringing back Jim Crow just before the midterms? Yessir!

"Fun" fact: Data centres actually generate less waste heat when burning down than when running as intended... Wastes less power and energy that way too.

I have now been sent 3 different discord DMs about this so I wanna make this a PSA to all who read If one of your friends sends you a message saying they want to watch an anime or a movie on an app or website called YUBO, DO NOT CLICK ON IT.

it's fascinating that in the midst of a historically unpopular presidency driven almost entirely by voluntary choices made by a rapidly declining president with an adversarial relationship with the press, we see a complete dearth of "gop needs to change course" thinkpieces and coverage

Once these Let Billions Suffer voters see how gruesome letting billions suffer gets they will surely come crawling back to the Let Millions Suffer party and we’ll finally be able to win elections without catering to those troublesome Nobody Should Suffer radicals

Funny things still happen over at the bad place This guy put a prompt in his LinkedIn and now AI recruiters are writing him in Old English and calling him "my lord"

A person can actually not like Pete Buttigieg if that's how they feel, for actual reasons, and that doesn't make that person homophobic. Pete is a careerist, establishment type who will shift positions to chase an audience in an era where ideologues who brawl viciously are desperately needed.

Sincere credulousness toward every shiny thing somehow became the most important qualification for important jobs requiring judgment, discernment, and leadership — to the absolute detriment of the people laboring below them, holding the mission together in their day to day work.

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

Once again, the thing the left was screaming and begging to have happen becomes the consensus center position only after incalculable damage has been done

I'm worried China might kidnap all these people and demand that, unless America pays a trillion dollar ransom, they'll send them all back to us.

Clarence Thomas' taxes got leaked and showed he'd been reporting income through a business that no longer existed and I'm pretty sure that's called money laundering and I didn't see any Democrats other than some of the squad ever bring it up

when u tax the rich

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Saying we live in a democratic republic is a stretch. What sort of representative system routinely allows the state to disenfranchise voters and for politicians to choose who gets to vote for them? A sham, that's what sort. America is not governed by the will of the people in any meaningful sense.

My entire lifetime has seen Republicans benefit from every structural bias in the system: two republican presidents elected while losing the popular vote,the senate being biased towards small rural conservative states,house and state legislatures being heavily gerrymandered, and a captured SCOTUS.

We HAVE to break out of the destructive mentality that some human beings exist to make other human beings rich. Fuck. That.

when i show up in your mentions

I wanna hear sweet fuck all about Virginia and California redistricting, do y'all fucjin hear me? Not a goddamned word.

there's simply no adequate political response to this that isn't based on fully destroying the people and party responsible for it

I'M SO FUCKING TIRED OF HAVING TO DOWNLOAD AN APP FOR EVERYTHING I DON'T WANT YOUR APP! JUST MAKE YOUR THING WORK!! JUST MAKE IT FUCKING WORK!!!