When I was a team lead at a factory, mgmt brought around a group of new hires and had me pick the ones I wanted for my dept. I picked the two obviously gay guys. Later, one of them told me that they concluded I was "a friend of the gays" and that they'd landed in a good department.

It’s so fun how everyone in America is pretending to work today

when God sings with his creations, will AI not be part of the choir? Pope: lol no

man, trump fucked our economy. under joe biden, you could buy a car with this

When I say that locking mothers in the suburbs with small children breaks them? This is what I mean. It’s why we need universal daycare, paid parental leave for a full year, with gradual return to work schedules. Babies do best in groups of peers (siblings are not peers). And adults NEED peers!

putting lights on a tree is the best idea anyone’s ever had

Repost with alt text. I don't have children and thus will not have grandchildren, but this is nevertheless how I feel about current events. What would I want my descendents to think of me and my actions?

What they said about Harris never was about being opposed to wars. It was about being opposed to a woman commanding them and defending our allies and classical liberal values. They never opposed following Donald Trump to commit plunder, rape, and murder for fun.

Modern society is what *lets you* sleep in until 7am. Before industry you got your ass up earlier because you couldn't afford to burn daylight not working. Assuming you wanted to eat this winter. OTOH car culture causing shitty commutes is why you have to get up at 7 to get to work by 9.

Every app, tool, and website I engage with has gotten glitcher, slower, and less reliable over the past year and I feel confident it's largely due to not-ready AI tech being shoved into everything and time, money, and labor being diverted to AI workstreams.

I’m sure I’m gonna get dragged for this, but I think AI is bad. AI has completely ruined Google search and it’s created a lot more slop that needs to be avoided on the Internet.

no it isn’t!!! fuck you!!!

Here’s a handy protocol to determine whether AI could be helpful with your problem or project.

In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.

this is like when that screenwriter asked AI to write a screenplay, and all it did was ask him for more time to complete it. Took a while before he figured out that it wasn't a complex task; "need more time" was the predicted response to "write a screenplay"

The entire US economy is propped up by a product so toxic and insidious that everyone has to go on a weekly scavenger hunt just to remove it from products they're already using.

Someone is going to have the write the thing about how “vibe” has become a substitute for meaningful theory in a world where the theory is so clear — grift and power — but we collectively refuse if because it isn’t sophisticated enough to generate make work for empiricists.

I refuse to use a scale that requires an app. I do not need my phone to be involved in weighing myself. I am not hooking up a scale to wifi. What the absolute fuck. One inch away from buying one of those old-school doctor's office scales where you slide the metal weights back and forth.

Well that was insane.

[RFK, trying to be sexy]: LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH

“THE NON-ARTIST FIXATION ON HYPERREALISM AS THE PINNACLE OF ART IS CLEARLY PART OF THE REASON SO MANY ADULTS THINK THEY CANNOT DRAW OR CONSIDER THEMSELVES TO BE FAILURES, KAWAII, FOLK ART, DOODLES, OR OTHER EASIER ENTRY POINTS ARE CONSIDERED CHILDISH, WHICH IS WHY JAPANESE DRAWING BOOKS ARE BETTER…”

The computer Golden Rule: The one who writes the code makes the rules.

I've gone through gamergaters, comicsgaters, terfs, and the worst of the alt-right getting mad at me on Twitter and in all of my years on there I was never misgendered as much as on this site. It's a real problem with Bluesky culture that needs to become socially unacceptable.

I feel like I've seen the finale of season 3 of The Morning Show before

I've been using the process in the link below for a few months and so far it cuts out all the AI garbage. tenbluelinks.org

imagine being so disconnected from reality that you're propping up the entire economy on a piece of technology so loathed you have to blackmail people into using it

ok when you uncheck it, it takes away the promotions tab. which was the only way I was surviving in my inbox. it honestly feels like this is deeply punitive, they are holding a gun to our head to try to force us to opt-in to this shit no one wants

Children’s and consumer advocacy groups are urging parents not to buy AI-powered toys during the holiday season.

It's also so weird how they act like she is this created entity who they are looking for projects for and not, you know, a program they would likely re-create for every individual project. She isn't sitting somewhere waiting for roles! They generated a few AI videos and they would again for a movie!

HE WANTED TO HANG HIS OWN VP. is this surprising??? 😮‍💨

“In America, we’re supposed to welcome the stranger, not hunt them,” ... He urged MAGA followers to turn off Fox News and realize they’re being lied to." “Veterans have done our part for democracy,” he concluded. “We should be at home watching sports and taking naps, not fighting fascism.”

Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.

Women are percieved as dominating the conversation when they speak for only 30% of the time so, forgive me, i do not think hugging men and centering their feelings is how we get out of this-- I'm pretty sure that's how we reinforce their sense of aggrieved entitlement!

Happy International Men’s day. Men are only 90% of CEOs, 90% of Heads of States, 61% of tenured faculty, and 62% of doctors. Despite this, men commit 90% of murders and 98% of sexual assault. Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers.

literally none! of the cute little last-second swerves! do anything to solve the problem! they intensify the problem! I cannot stress enough how much "qanon whacko with a rifle makes Choices" is a live threat for R leadership right now

I'm at the Target boycott, I'm at the Starbucks boycott, I'm at the combination Target boycott and Starbucks boycott

This really is an administration of guys (and holy shit do I mean the most pathetic and insecure men) who have never been punched in the face

Everytime a white leftist bemoans the way our side talks about the South, I know for a fact they've never spoken to white southerners when they think they're not in mixed company.

A lot of the white voters in deep red states really are horrible shit heads, not poor little lost lambs, and it does no one any favors to fail to reckon with this

and there's not actually anything progressive about just wanting to see angry old men rule the world

When I struggle, the lyrics to "as good a reason" help me: "Every time you are succeeding There's an old man somewhere seething And spite's as good a reason to take his power"

The overwhelming majority of "critiques" for things associated with queerness & feminism are just "it's cringe." "Girlbosses are annoying," "blue hair & pronouns are twee," "poly ppl are ugly," "feminists don't get fucked enough," etc

No one was actually going to procure a woodchipper and leave a trail of relevance crumbs to lure Megyn Kelly into it but if someone says “Lego makes their green bricks with andrenochrome” there could be a mass shooting at Legoland

OK but if emails take down Trump, and a blow job finally ruins Clinton, it definitely proves God is a really funny woman right

Not very often you see a new product that feels like major religions should issue edicts specifically forbidding it

Good morning from the picket line in Lancaster, PA! Workers are STILL on ULP strike and are continuing to say DON'T BUY STARBUCKS anywhere! #NoContractNoCoffee

Can't believe this isn't panning out

Wasn't there some law that companies can't make it difficult to cancel their service? Why did it just take me 10 minutes to figure out how to cancel Disney+?