Probably shouldn't have let a handful of weird business perverts unwind the cultural miracle of American research universities

Pick a Bond villain from the photos you already have on your phone

The grief of being the only person I know who still wears a mask is really getting to me

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

He reads the silly post He reads the scoldy post He reads the jokey post And the pedantic post He reads the posts that remind him of the bad site He reads the posts that remind him of the worst site Don’t screenshot that, troll behavior

Art class should never stop being a thing. Like if right after our lunch breaks we all got to go down to the basement, throw on a smock and make collages out of old magazines while somebody's slightly witchy aunt tells us how great we're doing, I feel like we'd all be in a better place

All of this. For always.

Trans folks: as best you can, tune out the headlines, spend time with one another, build friendship and community. This wave is going to break: their political projects have never been less popular. Were gonna make it through this year and on the other side all our enemies will fall. Stay alive

If he says “covid is over” and YOU are saying and acting like covid is over, then you agree with RFK. You can’t color it any other way. So ask yourself, what does it mean that you live in accordance with the lies of this man, despite your liberalism, your commitment to Social Justice?

so i don't live there now but i am From Philly, it's meaningfully part of me even 20+ years out and i'm not into hockey but this guy has transcended mere hockey mascot, imo. i've been thinking about this kind of treatment for him basically since go & especially since they doubled down on the flag-

There is no responsible/ethical/etc. use of "AI" when the underlying training data is stolen and labor exploited.

“What was really surprising to me during my initial dive into all of this was how, when you look at the question of superintelligence as a documentarian or journalist, it doesn’t take long before you smack your forehead into the low doorframe of race science, because it’s baked into this technology”

I don’t believe that anyone could feel the way i do about this deal

You just... FOLD it in.

Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye.

🧠: you over-complicate things as a way to procrastinate me: 🧠: developing unnecessarily complex systems due to your fear of failure me: 🧠: because planning is easier than doing me: GO AWAY

kamala harris would have been just as bad in the sense that she ran on beefing up cops, criminalizing protest, increasing funding for ICE, and committed to making the american military "the greatest fighting force in the world." then she would've lost re-election to an even more explicit fascist.

I do not like this gen AI I do not like what it implies I do not want it in my art I do not think it makes you smart I do not want it in my games I do not like its goals and aims I do not want it in my books I do not like the way it looks I do not like it, I don't care I do not want it anywhere

Autistic precision. People keep asking for examples of autistic needs. Here you go. Here's a really good example of an autistic need that most people don't understand. Our brains don't just WANT precision. We NEED it.

Drawing again despite depression's best efforts

Pulp Sausage

I blame this on too many people having a reading of DS9 that just says "See! You thought the federation was all rainbows & Talarian puppies, but there was messy, GRITTY stuff there, man!" …When the entire point of that show was about finding a way to live federation ideals, THROUGH the grit & mess.

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

I hope more people correct my French.

All 3 will be ghosts of Christmas Presents and they'll all just show him countries with working universal healthcare

You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you? --------- I'm not worried.

Hey Millennials, you should congratulate Gen Alpha on their first successful kill

Immunocompromised ppl do not want to stay home. We want happy, fun lives too. I want nothing more than my life back. I was a show producer. I was out 6/7 nights a week. Please get help for your PTSD and stop taking it out on disabled people who don’t want to be any more sick than they already are.

If you see this, quote with something that best describes your flavor of neurodivergence.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

You alright man? I keep seeing small damage numbers coming off you

i hope they spell Zebra Popcornopolis correctly on my death certificate

I touched Jay Leno’s Tonight Show money

"Any pronouns?" "All." "All pronouns?" "They go by they/them" "But you said any pronouns" "No, Any goes by all." "All pronouns?" "They/them" "But you just said any!" "What about him? "WHO GOES BY 'HIM'????" "No, that's Any. Who goes by xe/xir." "Whaddaya asking ME for??"

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

COVID was the ruling classes experiment to see if people would give up on the social contract to prioritize themselves, once they saw people were willing to let disabled, elderly and poor people die for their own convenience, they have slowly taken the mask fully off day by day and now we are here.

the story of this shutdown is that Trump and the Republicans have played the politics significantly worse than Chuck Schumer and folks that's a genuine accomplishment

This might seem odd if you're cis and have always seen the NYT as an esteemed institution, but please, listen to trans people on this. The NYT has run so many harmful articles about trans people and trans youth the Onion even made a snarky article about it. They're not to be trusted.

It's kinda cool that Gary Larson is doing new cartoons because he picked up a digital tablet, taught himself how to use it, and it made him love drawing again. www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

It is not unreasonable for disabled and vulnerable people to ask the rest of the population to stop killing them, to allow them to exist as part of society. To stop participating in casual eugenics. Current vaccines do not stop transmission or meaningfully reduce risk of brain and organ damage.

John Lee Hooker with a diagram of the evolution of the Blues.

Political parties in late stage capitalism are like that Simpsons joke with the game show categories you have to choose from: "OW. THAT HURTS." "WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME?" AND "PLEASE LET ME DIE."

Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

No new pictures, where are you at mentally?