Job satisfaction is so important. There’s a lot of science showing that it’s a key component of productivity. This is something we were talking about a lot in the industry, and then this shit happened.

SpaceX becoming publicly traded makes me want to pivot to securities class actions

I was never primarily a software engineer when I worked in tech, but I worked closely with them for many years, and most of the problems described in this piece were things I anticipated. The one I didn’t see coming was people pushing themselves because they were generating so much code.

i have been trying to do more product reviews of hardware designed to help you stop doomscrolling because, you know, journalism imitates life? anyway, behold, the holy grail of Anti Screentime Products Everyone Talks About which both arrived today -- the brick and light phone iii

Pretty much all you need to know here. Though the fact that his AI bets are... not doing all that well is also telling. He's lumping together various failing business lines to weave a narrative that probably doesn't hold together.

Closed captioning on MSNOW just transcribed Susie Wiles’s first name as “Siouxsie,” and that’s the only good thing I’ve ever seen from AI.

Watched the finale of The Boys and this season left me completely uninterested in seeing the spinoff show. Feels very much like GoT that way. I did end up watching season 1 of House of the Dragon but it never grabbed me.

NEW — My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AI’s inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice. Give it a read:

I posted this while I worked at Disney+ and was trying to recruit my new manager I was suspended for 2 weeks while Disney legal investigated my social media and personal activities outside of work My director called me racist I quit as soon as I had a new job

I will never vote for a bill that targets vulnerable communities like the Trans community or that threatens to defund schools.

Seems bad.

If I’m Iran I’m keeping the strait closed until he says they won a decisive victory, a landslide, and Iran is now the hottest country in the world

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

Guys Trump says the war will end very quickly now. I know, I’ve been stressed too, but this is a major relief.

Your annual reminder that it is kitten season in Houston and you too could be a foster, helping to save lives! These kittens are currently at BARC and are on the euthanasia list. They need fosters by 1 p.m. tomorrow. 👇 👇 👇 rescuedpetsmovement.org/become-a-fos...

now we get to play a fun game: how fucking stupid are investors

This is what frustrates me the most about that line of argument. It's not something trans people, as a whole, were agitating for. It was just... kind of how it was. The reason it's a whole thing now is because *Republicans* made it a thing. The people making this argument are misrepresenting it.

A question for @bcdreyer.social: if "OG" is used as an adjective, is it styled as OG or O.G.? Designer and I assumed O.G., since it stands for "original gangster," but copy edit came back without the periods. I'm curious why.

John Travolta unpacks his latest fashion statement

hard to exaggerate how heroic these men were. they likely saved dozens of children's lives. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Some centrist Democrats would be ok with this too. It’s not going to get Labour more votes. It’s just going to alienate some of the people who would have voted for their candidates.

aaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh

It’s amazing even for that dumb MF that he started a war with Iran and didn’t anticipate them closing the strait. The absolute minimum level of wargaming should have brought that up.

Marx failed to anticipate the Chalupa Supreme

I’m not saying it’s impossible but I think it’s very unlikely that Trump can do enough fuckery to overcome how incredibly unpopular he is.

These babies 😍

What we really need is a Skeletor of the Left.

pervert glasses that whisper sweet nothings in ur ears all day

I enjoyed this short video from Adam Clery about how Arsenal have won the league. Shout it in there too for @migueldelaney.bsky.social’s piece from last night.

Definitely going to have to check this out. They also have case studies of labor organizations that have resisted AI. More in the thread.

Steve Palmer, SNL writer 1975-1987: no one was shocked at the drugs, it was a bunch of 20 somethings in 1970’s New York and for the most part everyone was able to handle things well enough to keep the show on track. Cocaine changed that. And that’s why Grogu hasn’t been invited back to host.

10/10 no notes. Perfect response to the news of people having data centers in their homes.

With Thomas Massie losing his seat, let's revisit this 2017 quote from him giving us a look into the mind of the GOP voter: web.archive.org/web/20170315...

This is a connection that @karenhao.bsky.social makes in her excellent book Empire of AI. It’s really all about extraction, on multiple levels: the wealth, the data centers, the stolen IP, etc.

I kind of wish this would have worked out because it would have put Bari Weiss in a really funny position. www.columbiaspectator.com/2006/09/22/w...

Writing another airport book after your first one was discredited, that's Grit baby

“Now, when you search for a product, Google’s Gemini AI chatbot will surface relevant items and generate a ‘custom explainer’ about why you should purchase a specific one.” 💀

It’s smart of Trump to make the slush fund for his followers. They will be sucking up hard for those checks. It seems extremely illegal, but smart for someone historically unpopular.

It’s a cliche that I don’t think you see much anymore, but encyclopedias were one of the big product for door-to-door salespeople back in the day.

photo from this great article:

I saw a tiny little poop on the sidewalk that looks like it came from a very small dog or a very large rat.

@arseblog.com @gunnerblog.bsky.social I laughed out loud at “Give us our fucking chicken you cunts.” Amazing, historical podcasting.

i would absolutely kill for a site that is like Google News except it actually works and is maintained to only include trustworthy sources, instead of Google's strategy of letting it be overrun by AI content mills

lmao. Iykyk.

ok I howled you got me lil robot freak

MLS says a stopped clock would “improve consistency and fan understanding.” For example, stopping play could help fans understand that Continental is the smart choice in tires

off to garden, leaving you this

Crazy that there's three impeachable/corruption stories on just one current news screen...

“The Post could not independently determine who is behind XFreeze.” Hmmm in three minutes I found a SoundCloud account with a different alias that uses the same email address as this guy, and in another five minutes I had a personal Facebook, phone number, and birthday.