sorry guys i accidentally deleted the spreadsheet with the first drafts of homophobic potato chip brands and it turns out it was somehow load bearing to the entire driving system and the only guy who knows how to fix it got fired in the union busting so

this is stupid, but also worth keeping in mind: this is contingent on Musk hitting a litany of absolutely insane targets if he doesn't ship 1M humanoid robots if he doesn't ship 20M vehicles if he doesn't get 10M FSD subscriptions also if he stops being CEO deal's off lol. lmao, even

The AFL-CIO should start throwing some money towards labor journalism. If it was done right (i.e. with them accepting that journalists must have full editorial control over what’s published, whether or not union leaders like what they have to say) it could really have such a hugely positive impact

Farewell to one of the GOATs www.404media.co/nancy-pelosi...

please listen to the union’s calls to action when a company does something illegal and retaliatory to its employees instead of just blindly canceling or boycotting the company because someone craving engagement told you to do so

I have to self-pay for a kidney biopsy soon because I don't have healthcare after leaving WIRED last year Ethics weren't the only reason I left, but it wasn't a non-factor either Anyone who claims you can't ethically work for a media outlet with bad leadership is welcome to cover my medical bills

Alma is a mother fucking legend in union organizing and it is Telling As Fuck that they jumped at the chance to manufacture a reason to fire her for asking extremely reasonable questions of management

I will always back the incredibly smart and hard working staff at WIRED. Some of the most talented people I've ever had the pleasure to work alongside. But goddamn it's insane how much Conde Nast as a corporation hates the incredible people that work for them.

If Conde really cared about "aggressive, disruptive, threatening behavior" I have PLENTY of examples for them to take action on and I promise you *none* of them are at the line editor/actual journalist level, but hey, what do I know...

Conde Nast hates its workers more than any company I've ever worked for

I believe three things are true: a.) some push for change within a powerful organization is always better than none at all 2.) this is not mutually exclusive with putting energy into new orgs d.) leadership will always tell you what they believe by what they don't allow you to say

This is exhausting. But telling. Whenever you hear someone attacking feminists, you should know they’re attacking women and they’re too chickenshit to admit they’re attacking women.

quintessential fox news chyron. zero notes. ht @ndrew.bsky.social

"i can be cartoonishly corrupt now and y'all won't care anymore, god finally"

Please talk to me about Beast Wars.

caring is punk! Empathy will win!!!

There are more of us than there are of them.

As a Georgia-raised Texas resident, this is the most I've felt real solidarity with blue states in a long time Texas openly, blatantly tried to rig the game to screw Democrats. I know this solution sucks, but this feels like a genuine attempt to help us balance the scales And thank y'all for it

if we are going to continue paying larger sums of money to leadership because they supposedly take on responsibility and credit for the work of people below them, then they need to start being the first to take responsibility—and perhaps even lose their positions—when their plans fail

there was a story about the director of Cats complaining that previz sims didn't render the full fur models because that's expensive, and he demanded they do it anyway, and also refused to use mocap suits, so that's why the movie looks like that now imagining a whole field of managers like that

GA folks go vote for the PSC if you haven't already!

flawless headline

It's not the biggest issue here but mfer if you can convincingly tell your wife you're "networking and job hunting" in your office, when you're really streaming... you must be doing a boring-ass stream

inside you there are two wolves

this is abhorrent there's no defensible reason to layoff people doing excellent work like this, especially along such obviously discriminatory lines

There's nothing Conde Nast loves more than hating its own workers and their work A damn shame and a huge loss for us all

I'm with Will on this, if only because, I'm sorry, I just don't trust most of y'all with who I block This week alone I've seen three different people who have very empathetic and informed views get dragged because one person misinterpreted what they mean very loudly and angrily

tbh, this would be an excellent way to pilot a soft UBI program if tech companies want gajillions of dollars to suck up all our power and water on a machine they believe will put everyone out of a job, then they can pay for (at least) SNAP for all (for starters)

there's not a single part of this paragraph that isn't based on a real woman that wouldn't fuck this guy

"grow up" doesn't mean you can't keep enjoying things you liked from your childhood "grow up" means learning about the world outside yourself and taking responsibility for your place in it it's not cringe to like HP because it's a kids book but because adults should know fuckin better by now

Abe Vigoda, from Good Burger

what the ever loving fuck are we even doing here? how the fuck do you uncritically parrot the words "homeless industrial complex" in your writing and not immediately die of shame and incompetence?

this is, frankly, the most compelling argument against LLM/gAI They require absolutely insane amounts of power, water, and even land to operate and the scale companies claim they need these resources on grows exponentially, while real humans starve and die and the planet burns

liking all my friends baseball skeets, I'm so happy for you nerds 💙

It's not the point, and so I should absolutely not even bother with the idea, but something's been bugging me: If, for whatever convoluted, failure-of-democracy reason Trump managed to run in 2028...what's the reason Obama couldn't also run using the same logic?

"the human inability to feel romantic passion for more than one person at a time...and my evidence this is universal is not even 80% of the people I asked"

Outer Worlds 2 good rpg

I will never forget the day I found out one of my relatives supported Trump because "all I know is our house was worth more the year Trump took office than the year Obama took office" famously, nothing of import happened to the housing market in 2008/2009

Saw someone being very wrong On Here and wanted to point it out, but it's gonna be a shit day and I just don't have the emotional space for people I like and agree with to publicly humiliate me Anyway hi everyone, hope your day goes well

Executives are the only people ruining gaming

one of my favorite comparisons so far is Grokipedia's version of "sexual intercourse" which, on top of from saying it's explicitly a human act, differs from Wikipedia mainly by being grossed out by non-hetero, missionary sex it reeks of "sex is for procreation, not the fun those PERVS have"

if you think someone is a liar because they said "aunt" instead of consulting the chart to find "first cousin, once removed" or whatever the shit, I will put you in a locker myself

literally no one has ever claimed machine learning is bad, and it's been in use in consumer applications at least a decade longer than the current genAI trend, and the NYT knows this if you're not at least able to clear up the linguistic confusion on a topic, I'm not sure you should write about it

They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.

anyone who frames a minimum wage as a handout or entitlement is, at best, a liar, and at worst an insecure thief that needs to feel good about their thievery there is a minimum value for a human's time and it is, at the very least, enough to keep them alive, fed, and healthy

no one wants workers anymore

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

we've used "AI" to mean "LLM" so much that we're now saying social media algorithms haven't been using AI (as in machine learning) for forever (they have) which leads to dipshits like Musk swapping their entire algorithms over to the least cost effective and most overwrought models

If you talk about "moving to the center" without any clarity on what that means, you are essentially saying "believing in anything specific costs votes" And not only is that an incorrect sentiment, it is useless to deal with the situation we find ourselves in

this might be naive and silly of me, but I truly, deeply believe that one component of fixing this is to believe again in the power of small online communities they spend billions to convince us that giant platforms are the only power if they were, the current platforms wouldn't exist 🧵