Got a recent Pulitzer for warning on the spread of autocracy around the globe, after decades of service to the paper? You can bet your butt you're getting laid off by form email, on Yom Kippur

"yes men who let me win at Catan" Beautiful

I will never not repost this (Sound on for maximum effect)

This was, ultimately, the point of substack: throw money at reactionary bloggers, claim that this is a new media and not just fissioning off the clicky bits from legacy publications, then let the price of media giants drop enough for all the worst people to buy them up and install their media pets.

actually our AI programs are like people so its racist to say you don't like them. anyway would you like to buy one

Thorough accounting of TFP's shoddy journalism here. slate.com/technology/2...

“We’re operationalizing our old corridors—taking ancient trade routes our elders told us about and articulating them in a modern context,” said Solomon Cyr, spokesperson for Standing Buffalo Dakota Nation.” — Love it when people take advantage of political opportunities.

wizard frog is insane

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social to Democrats: Don't be suckers. "This is a high-leverage moment, with the world watching to see what we stand for. And we have a chance to actually constrain his attempt to destroy our democracy..." Great @gregsargent.bsky.social interview. newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Trump take electricity

I went to the feral kickz art market today and I DIDNT KNOW @tuxedodragon.bsky.social WAS THE ARTIST WHO MADE THIS IMAGE LOL. I remembering seeing it forever ago in a random discord server and thinking this was the funniest thing ever! Such a small world out there! Wish i brought money to buy stuff!

Pritzker doing better journalism 101 than a lot of tv news producers these days

her post in question

Why I’m Leaving Academia after a Decade of Contingent Labor

$200k to hang out with dogs. amazing IG gabriel.desanti, barkandburn

they’re intenionally advertising to and recruiting far right loyalists. they post and reply to explicit groyper memes. they’re not super subtle about what this government is

McSkinny and his team have a new build of A Role to Play available to the public! A Role to Play Build 0.05 – Luchadores, Velociraptors, and Juggalos is now live for PC, Mac, and Linux! Our android build is coming soon. Check it out! echoproject.itch.io/a-role-to-play

The only true words to ever come out of Kavanaugh's mouth were 'I like beer' and this fucker gets a lifetime appointment to the supreme court to make statements like this that would get you laughed out of a law school lecture.

Currently at: — only buy tech too old to have AI built in — painstakingly disable AI every time they add it to something that used to work perfectly well — if it can't be switched off, abandon the platform or tool — if there are no good alternatives, avoid the AI parts — patiently wait for the crash

We have allowed sociopaths and psychopaths to create a society in which only they can thrive.

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

“'The fact that we don't have money to pay journalists, but we have money to pay Bari Weiss between $100 and 200 million is indicative of what the Ellisons' true goal here is,' a network correspondent said. 'And it's not journalism.'"

The terrifying thing is the number of people who seem to want this, who say it saves them from having to think, as if existence should be a unchallenging and comfortable dream.

I feel like we're in "horse nominated to senate" territory.

the point of having a comms team, just so everyone is clear, is not only to write better statements than you (which everyone arrogantly thinks they don't need) but also to give others the power to take your phone away when needed, because this is patently embarrassing at this point.

Celebrate Good Times

"In 2025, CEO Luis von Ahn announced Duolingo would become an "AI-first" company and would be replacing contracted workers with artificial intelligence through automation." Creator Dashboard > Viewer Rewards > Rewards > Duolingo > Disable

happy Hades 2 to us

I find it very funny Hades 2 is launching on bissexual week

Melinoe

this is the same thought trap that drove jack dorsey mad. a simultaneous abdication of social responsibility for the realities of your platform and doubling down on approaching implementation and policy as one in the same, viewing social behavior deterministically. divine watchmaker complex.

Let us in. Hold ICE accountable. Tear down the fence. This is what we are demanding from the Broadview ICE facility, and nothing less. Our leaders can decide whether they stand with the people or with ICE. There is no middle ground.

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as a neurodivergent & also weird kid school was hell for me, though these days I struggle to remember the names of all the teachers who bullied me. But the three that treated me like a person have never left me. Now more than ever, I hope you all try your best to stay unsquishable!

Mr Art Decade you just made my morning :)

A new class-action lawsuit claims many of the company’s biannual sale event markdowns aren’t deals at all. www.levernews.com/amazon-prime...

Look at that massive dip around when we invaded Iraq.

Not at all surprised. I've been saying the legacy media has likely killed its credibility for at least the foreseeable future. I certainly no longer trust much of what I read in publications like the @nytimes.com. And I'm an educator.

Permanent Opium War (2025) "The spectacle is a permanent opium war which aims to make people identify goods with commodities and satisfaction with survival..." -Debord www.artdecademonthly.com (Quality version here: www.furaffinity.net/view/62499602/)

The press release is really something www.latimes.com/california/s...

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

This one hurts. So many great people out of work and this propagandist shill gets one of the most powerful jobs in the field.

Pope Leo XIV denounced people who deny climate change today, arguing that they are contributing to the destruction of God's creation.

Could this AI actress be the next Scarlett Johansson? Major Hollywood talent agencies are excited about the prospect of “Plant Marge”

The Sora thing is so bleak and shows how far we've come from AI companies pretending they did not train on copyrighted material www.404media.co/openais-sora...

the northman but its orcs lovin dudes

... Why