It’s like Bezos confused his pet projects and thought this was the Washington Post

in a real democracy no one would enjoy this degree of impunity

The New York State Budget is passed. Key details: • 450,000 people will lose health care in July • NY becomes 1st state to roll back its climate law • No #TaxTheRich (pied-à-terre is 0.1% of budget) The Left lost big this year because of no gubernatorial primary. We must never repeat this mistake.

It’s an especially odd-slash-SINISTER decision when so much of our current cultural production is about cultivating nostalgia for the recent past-- so don’t READ a book from 30 years ago, watch this new SHOW about it!

Using AI to update Lord of the Flies so all the characters have the bruh haircut so young people will be able to immerse themselves in it.

Today we learn of another new nuclear company going public to cash in on the datacenter hype. If all goes as planned they will have a commercial reactor by 2032. Their reactors would produce 1/5 of a gigawatt. Meanwhile, today, solar adds 1 gigawatt of capacity every day by noon.

“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries. For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..." fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...

Is the ABA still around

Pleasure is not poetry. Poetry is merely the power I lack, and how not to dwell on it in the expression of happiness. - Bataille, “Happiness, Eroticism, and Literature”

Multiform https://botfrens.com/collections/25/contents/4815

The people who talk the loudest about the superiority of western culture know next to nothing about it. They care even less about it & don't give a damn about the people & institutions that keep it alive.

miss you, Park Slope coop 😢

Oh. Wow Could never imagine this vote five years ago

Lmfao we are the stupidest country in history

the thing is we lived through a revolution: the repeal of taxation, reagan onward. that means there’s one easy trick for the core of reconstruction: fix the rates loud in the streets, power in the spreadsheets

i dream of a time where being queer and trans aren't supported by c!shet people bc we might die by suicide especially as kids, but bc we're people who deserve to live - that we aren't defined by our suffering but our joy, or even just existing, and that being enough

Honestly, there's so much dark $$ on social media, I no longer think it's inappropriate to ask someone if they're being paid when they have a take. In a world of "mentoring" and dodging disclosure, we have a right to ask if someone's opinion is their own organic one or if they get compensated.

curious the most recent date Americans would say soldiers died for “freedom” or some ideal and not just like capitalism, generating stock portfolio increases or approval rating increases or old man boners for blowing up not white people or ?

what if they cloned me but my clone was all happy and relaxed and then i’d just be like well wtf

when this researcher writes “sycophancy is a safety issue” we know who will be made unsafe when men are asking chatbots to confirm their relationship fears and anxieties, right?

"Researchers found undisturbed primary forests store 83% more carbon per acre than the managed forests that are replacing them." This study is "shocking" - as in "we've been lied to by the forest industry" and... it's not in our climate models. sustainability.stanford.edu/news/shockin...

Lots of competition, but trying to starve out the Cuban people is probably the most evil thing the United States is doing abroad right now

We haven't had to fire any shots so it's not obvious but a blockade of this magnitude would generally be considered an act of war. We did not do this in the 1962 missile crisis, we allowed ships not carrying weapons to proceed to Cuba

youve heard but you absolutely cannot imagine how fast it’s gonna go so let your kid sit on your lap and snuggle when it’s hot, and get all the glasses of water, and listen to all the tedious plot recaps of TV shows

Eco brutalist building (apartment?) in central Quito

if you know any kids this is a fantastic sneakily anti capitalist picture book

digging in the camera roll for something

You come to me, on the day of my son's wedding, which I am not attending

got my ass it’s from Night Ripper, but at the end of “Too Deep” when he puts the Paul Wall “Sittin Sidewayz” verse over the piano part from Phantom Planet’s “California” and then put the “Grindin’” beat under that makes me leave my body. I listen to it like once a month youtu.be/ipI---4ur-A

If you want to do "crazy forecast," look at what the Earth will be like in 200 years if we spend our time trying to raise birth rates instead of fixing climate change

drove past a young woman in cut-off black denim shorts weed whacking her side lawn and imagined her going inside proud of her lawn work and I wanted to be the person I imagined. I saw a person unbothered by my worries of course I know nothing about her or her worries

I hadn’t seen the third booed AI speech and he’s even more pompous than the first two “You can deal with it or pay me later”

this is just one more blatant example, and i’m glad some people are calling it out.

oh so now dreams are off limits for writers too? so, what? you’re going to come for my daydream musings? my illegible midnight scratching? my drunken scrawl? my weeping at the moon?

taxing these people to smithereens would solve 70% of our problems

GET THIS LIFE SAVING APP AND GO OUTSIDE

it is sort of grimly funny to watch google commit suicide by turning search into slop. unfortunately, google will be taking most of the open web with it

From one of @prisonculture.bsky.social ’s lovely essays, Dr. Sawin-

this is a masterpiece

Mike Solana is an amazing tech villain name that an LLM could never produce with a million agents working all day to make villain names

I think the DNC saw the autopsy and were like, “Oh my fucking god, closed casket.”

THIS THIS THIS THIS.

Painful and sad

“handcuffed behind her back throughout the birth” a heinous human rights violation

Sir, another graduation ceremony in which the students booed AI has dropped. "College graduates were pissed after their school used AI to announce graduates’ names and missed hundreds of names" (via @/FearedBuck on Twitter)

started Platform Capitalism this am and it’s super clarifying and 👌