It turns out, financially incentivizing viral slop, rage bait, hate, divisive politics, porn bots, and other generally horrifying vaudevillian behavior was a really quick way to destroy that app. Who could have seen that coming, except for everybody who used it?

This meme made me laugh.

Screaming. Guys will literally install Grok in their cybertrucks instead of going to (real) therapy.

It feels like this is becoming a more common mass shooter profile: Someone who's interested in politics but not as a vehicle to express clear values or a coherent viewpoint. He just wants to mock anyone who takes it seriously.

This is not a romance. Nobody is "in love" with apps. There are no A.I. boyfriends. You cannot "date" a chatbot. Accepting this framing and treating it as real is tech-industry propaganda. slate.com/technology/2...

In making unsupported claims about autism, the Trump administration is "pointing the finger" at parents and making them feel guilty, says autism community advocate Colin Killick.

Too soon to circle back to all the people who said "The left did this"?

Telling your family you shot someone and having your family convince you to turn yourself in is now apparently proof of excellent police work...

Institutional statements like this serve the same function as decrying “polarization.” They purport to diagnose the problem while studiously avoiding pointing out that the right bears much more blame for destroying norms and undermining any sense of mutual respect.

The thing that is hard to communicate is that that specific flavor of “brainrotted 4chan slug with incoherent beliefs” is also downstream of the right wing politics factories dumping glowing nuclear sludge into the river there’s a reason nihilism has risen and it wears Rush Limbaugh’s face

So after two straight days of Republicans saying trans people and the Left did this, threatening full on violence, it turns out the suspect is a politically unaffiliated white dude who was trained to use guns by his Republican law enforcement dad? Do I have that right?

Gamergate was a precursor to our modern Discourse(tm) and folks will look at you like you've grown a third head when you explain that to them

This is a pretty solid explainer about what e-bikes are and the rules around them. What I'd love to see is more coverage of what e-bikes *enable* people to do. Stories about disabled people who use them to gain independence. Or lower income people who benefit from not needing the expense of a car.

Ordinary voters who bought in should have a chance to change their minds. Pundits should be saddled with this error permanently

He said immigrants were eating dogs and cats. What did you think his policy was gonna be?

“Some of us aren’t creative enough to brainstorm without ChatGPT!” Well then maybe you should sit this one out.

Cops love to do the "if [left of center politician] becomes mayor, we're all gonna resign!" thing and then not resign when it happens www.nbcchicago.com/chicago-mayo...

Norms & duct tape, folks. It’s all that’s held the Republic together for decades. And shredded the last norms and rolls of tape.

and some now-prominent pundits legitimated this nonsense

This is damn absurd. Trump said that he would spend two weeks trying to negotiate a deal with Iran to avoid war. He said that two days ago. He clearly did not mean what he said.

I hope everyone who farmed clicks by arguing that trump was anti war in some sense is proud of themselves

One block over from the White House: the aspirational security line setup

Ben Shapiro getting all upset at the parade coverage as though he isn't used to taking part in activities where no one comes

this statement was made just yesterday

When Tim Walz became Kamala Harris's running mate, progressives highlighted policies passed. It could not have been possible without Melissa Hortman. -Free school breakfast and lunch -Restoring voting rights for felons -Paid leave Great piece by @gracepanetta.bsky.social 19thnews.org/2025/06/rep-...

If LAPD is telling you they don't want to take part in your fuckup you have fucked up in ways that defy human comprehension

The eagle looks fucking embarrassed.

those nuns were right about her

12 to 15 hours?!?!?

the thing I hate most about that rfk quote is that autistic lives have value and worth and beauty and dignity whether they are able to do the things other people do or not. no one is defined by ability or lack thereof and to frame divergence as lack is monster stuff, utterly godless

hard to believe an elon musk product fell apart and exploded at the finish line

Cory Booker as he breaks Strom Thurmond's speaking record: "I'm not here because of his speech. I'm here despite his speech. I'm here because as powerful as he was, the people are more powerful."

To note one of the many knock-on effects this remarkable speech could have: So much of Booker's speech is, in content and form, a challenge about how much Democrats are willing to put themselves on the line. And the timing, 4 days before a Saturday of planned national protests, couldn't be better.

if there's one thing Evangelical Christians know it's that having the state execute a beloved dissident always stops that dissident's message from spreading so yeah seeking the death penalty for Luigi Mangione seems smart

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

referring to pete hegseth as whiskeyleaks is one of the funniest things i’ve seen in a while. good job, guys.

my takeaway from reading this is that i have to assume that every half-competent intelligence agency in the world has an almost real-time glimpse into what the white house and the pentagon are doing

People are thinking of the AI boom as TERMINATOR when it’s THE BIG SHORT.

Incredible product placement for Signal

What if Goldberg continued to lurk in the group chat until someone noticed, taking screenshots and documenting the incompetency for months? Ethical? Legal??

Always look to see what the tech bros want for their own kids: small class sizes with human teachers, human tutors with expert content knowledge, cell phone restrictions in classrooms, high per pupil spending, the arts and humanities--and much more they say is too costly for public schools.

Nevermind.

Y'all. If you need a pick-me-up, may I recommend typing "TSLA stock" into your nearest web browser? It's... so beautiful.

Went to "X" for some schadenfreude over the plunge in Tesla stock and it seems X is doing about as well as Tesla and SpaceX. Masterful gambit, sir.

Oh so Twitter is like DOWN down now.

I know what you’re thinking: We should mirror the United States government based on how this website is run.

I honestly think almost nobody needs to care about opening weekend box office except industry analysts and people with a financial stake. In the long run, finances affect what you see — obviously yes. But do you, a civilian and movie lover, need to care about this stuff? I don’t think so.

Todd Phillips, of all people, was right about this. Unless you are a Warner Bros Discovery shareholder, whether or not Mickey 17 or Joker 2 or anything else recoups its budget is not relevant to you!