All meaningful forms of resistance boil down to radical love of self and others, even when it’s inconvenient, and stubborn belief that change is possible, even when systems loom large and powerful. Don’t let the bastards convince you otherwise.

And they said bari Weiss couldn’t push cbsnews into new formats and find new audiences

McConaissance Quietly Concludes

There’s a difficult irony that many people would really rather not have to think about this (ie what started in 2020 that’s clearly still happening)… but willingness to confront it is also the best way to reduce your odds of ending up on this chart + having to think about it all the fucking time.

oh whoops I knew I forgot to do something! it was re-enter society

the way people talk about AI is like it's a stalker you ought to be nicer to

“I don’t know how to make art, but I want, right now, to be a person who has made good art already and gets praise for it” too bad, bucko, that’s not how being alive works.

"I want art but I'm bad at it!" you'll have to practice and study a lot but you'll also get a reusable skill "People will be mean online if I post my bad art!" you need to post where people understand what level you're at "I need art for my business and I can't do it!" hire someone who can

I don't give a single solitary fuck about what happens to Bill Clinton, specifically, but I also want to go on record as saying there is no one, famous or a personal friend, who I hold so dear that if they were a rapist, I would not want that news coming out. Name, shame, prosecute. ALL. OF. THEM.

What is writing style? It's what's left over once you've outgrown clichés and you no longer ape the work of those who've served as inspiration. Using ai short-circuits that process entirely. Go ahead and do it, I guess, but don't tell us you've done any real work.

I think about this every time I hear that song (with alt text)

the epstein files as rick owens fall/winter 2024

Look at the fuckers who want you to use AI. Who stand to profit from it. They have been atrociously, painfully, noxiously wrong about everything else. Why would you trust them on this?

You might be thinking, "CPSC, does a dry Christmas tree really burn that much faster than a well-watered tree?" Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.

everyone on tumblr is like “this show is so fucking important” and then I have to scroll down a lil on each post to see if they mean the one about the culture-erasing hive mind that’s an extended metaphor for gen AI, or the one about gay hockey players

As much as I believe that "sovereignty" is the wrong angle for dealing with big tech, I still really appreciate this extensive guide for non-American alternatives to big tech products: ca.purchasewithpurpose.io

I found this very comforting and also it made me cry

NOPE. SHUT IT DOWN.

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We’re at the point now where people are calling being anti-LLMs as “outrage” as a convenient way to characterise it as unreasonable, and it’s annoying. I’m not outraged, I’m repulsed. I don’t want your stolen shit. It’s gross. You are a fucking loser to me

Are these the same companies that told us the robot could do it?

For years, public health bent under pressure to downplay masks. When the same institutions now say “mask up,” it’s not a flip-flop—it’s a warning. If they’re willing to recommend masks again, the airborne threat is serious.

Americans are tired of what coastal elites have been shoving down their throats, so I think elevating fresh voices like the vice president, the head of one of the most valuable companies on the planet, a Times columnist, and a Jeffrey Epstein associate who teaches at Harvard is a risk worth taking.

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1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.

so we sucked on, chili dogs behind the Tastee Freeze, borne ceaselessly into life going on

everyone's goal for 2026 should be getting into using RSS feeds & readers for updates on everyone's projects rather than relying on social media alone. I don't think "big, badly moderated forums where everyone hangs out and gets cranky" are working great for that.

TELL HIM

I hate that every week there's something stupid like an Everyone Has To Drink Pee Now Bill and the alert sounds to CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES THIS IS NOT A DRILL and you really wish you could just trust them to not go for the pee drinking bill

Also we've fetishized "debate” in these spaces as some kind of civic good, when what matters is competence, trust, shared purpose. Medicine, engineering, boardrooms aren’t organized around debate or requirements of false balance. We've poisoned public discourse by insisting it be adversarial.

all images, gifts, cookies and ornaments with “2025” printed on a dumpster that is on fire are on fucking notice. we did it in 2020 and it cursed all subsequent years. DO NOT MAKE THINGS EVEN WORSE.

The thing I find most annoying is when you learn a thing, excitedly share the thing that you learned and someone feels the need to make fun of you for not already knowing it and/or use that as an excuse to snark on your education/your state/your country/ you as a person.

My most fundamental belief is that we do not have to live like this.

Happy 100th birthday to Dick Van Dyke, inventor of the DVD.

yeah. if the problem is rigid gender roles based on appearance: pronoun name tags ensure you don’t have to identify based on your appearance, but they don’t solve the rigidity part of the problem.

yeah, sorry to the people who are in it exclusively for plot, but Vince Gilligan isn’t ever going to pander to you.

Well this school’s degrees are now worthless

I got mine for $20 from the thrift store run by my mom’s assisted living facility, and when I turned it on, it ejected a cd of some cats meowing the hits. the printing on the outside of the cd said it was meant for when you have to leave your cat home by itself.

Get a heated toilet seat they said. It's the best thing ever they said. #FridayVibes 😼 #Caturday #CatsOfBluesky

Wrote a whole ass book about how violently Disney controls their ip has absolutely nothing to do with protecting originality and everything to do with power and control and they just tweeted it out

Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918

Today in “Dudes Rock”: A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.

Beck's MIDNITE VULTURES is a tremendous holiday-season record, and I need you to just trust me on this, because I know it doesn't seem like it from a content level but the bright shiny production is the sonic equivalent of cold nights and Christmas lights.

around 40 game developers affiliated with @videogameworkers.bsky.social have gathered outside the peacock theater, where the game awards will take place in a few hours, for a “the industry is dead” demonstration

chatgpt is divorced

Time is owned by Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, which is currently trying to sell its AI tool to ICE in order to triple their recruitment. just a thing I think about sometimes while I’m at work, implementing his product for nonprofits.