Mafia goon: Nice house you got here...it'd be a shame if something happened to it Media outlets: Mafia goon rules out use of force. Expresses regret at the mere thought of it

Davos, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum.

Top 5 Film Genres: Here's An Apocalypse You Can't Just Shoot, So What Now, Dipshit Incredible Magic/Surreal Thing Happening to Normal Ppl Who Still Gotta Be At Work At 9:00 Tomorrow Space Normies Style Over Substance But It's SO 😱 U Don't Care Auteur Swan Song/Magnum Opus Insanity

"Ultimately, the collective strategy of AI companies threatens to deskill precisely those people who are essential for society to function. (...) automation of knowledge and culture by private companies is a worrying prospect – conjuring dystopian and outright fascistic scenarios."

sad way to be an academic if you think a world you might want (not the past; a better present) is impossible: it's basically an abdication of the duty of the academic, which inter alia is about creation of new knowledge to — yes, why not? — help us progress to a better world doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Today I learned that the total amount of philanthropic funding for journalism in the US since 2009 equals approximately 8.6% of OpenAI’s funding to date. Really useful #kleincamp session from @ninasachdev.bsky.social and Vince Stehle of @mediaimpactfunders.bsky.social.

From the Guardian. Cartoonist Ella Baron.

Security updates are generally worth it. That said, here is... a slightly technical, automated way to remove the AI crap: github.com/Raphire/Win1... a more layperson-friendly guide to manual steps you can take: www.pcworld.com/article/2913...

I wrote about how "Grokipedia" is a new front on the war against reality itself. It's an attempt by the oligarchic class to seize the means of knowledge production itself and create a weaponized unreality. www.thedissident.news/grokipedia-a...

1. Before the No Kings demonstrations two weekends ago, I suggested that the shutdown of the government would look different afterward.

I love that the opening on the body of an acoustic guitar is called "the sound hole"

The LA Public Library research librarian explaining what is going on with Charli and Taylor is outstanding work www.instagram.com/reel/DPXZIUa...

Today's newsletter is about Trump's "woke AI" executive order and why it's really bad. www.readtpa.com/p/how-trump-...

A Congresswoman calls for everyone like me to be locked up. The world's richest man proposes I be subject to a Nazi medical experiment. I no longer flinch at the sight of the soldiers with assault rifles on my commute. A billboard for AI tells me "keep thinking." One cold brew with oat milk, please

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

i think about this post every time i watch a movie

I'm at the stage of capitalism where I was forced to sign up for an app to use my buildings laundry machines and now my buildings laundry is emailing me ads to buy roadside assistance lmao not to be a boomer but back in my day, laundry machine companies sold laundry machines, not ads

My friend Heather Smith remarked to me recently that young women are urged to “never stop picturing their murder.”

"an excellent resource for educators, administrators, and anyone concerned about AI (…) And it’s a fine arrow in the quiver for those educators already eager to stand up to AI-happy administrations or department heads." — @bcmerchant.bsky.social

Incredible clip of tech CEOs fawning over Donald Trump. Someone store this clip in the underground archive vault

Holy sh!t. The medical conspiracy theory now is that cancer helps the body fight toxins. This is so dangerous and people are believing her?!?!

For folks not in DC: - There are full-on police checkpoints most nights - Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC - National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter - Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl - Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE

Fabric Design, 1928 By Gunta Stölzl, textile artist, Bauhaus Weaving Workshop #womensart

the fuck

Save me

Oh So much human #SylvieGuillem #Spiegelimspiegel #beautifuldance www.youtube.com/watch?v=D646...

Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you” Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”

Got me thinking.. What's the strongest reaction you've seen an audience member have to a scene in a cinema? During the birthday party scene in SIGNS I saw a whole row of young women literally throw their popcorn in the air like a cartoon.

OK so feeling slightly apprehensive about this, which I suppose is kind of the point. This is an attempt at a progressive view on masculinity and on men getting laid. God help me. iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-be-...

“What do you do with the mad that you feel?”

We thought it would be turtles. But we only deserve wasps.

maybe there's still some good left in this world after all

tomatoes (lots), garlic (2-4 cloves), stale bread (1-2 slices), red wine vinegar (some glugs), olive oil (a cup) blend chill serve

Musk has adjusted Grok’s algorithm so it’s now a neo-Nazi. Pretty cool that almost every progressive commentator, elected official and organization still uses Musk’s X algorithm to communicate with the public! Good job guys.

Wow. Wow.

My HS art teacher had us drawing old shoes on newsprint and made us throw them away each day cause you’re not trying to make something good you’re trying to get used to being bad at something

And to @theferocity.bsky.social reading THIS CLASSIC Addonizio poem with his whole chest on Vibe Check this week:

Bro, what.

Literally begging you to post about Just Some Stuff. We will see the news I absolutely promise. Twenty people will repost the same exact thing about the news. Only you can post about a turtle you saw

The most infuriating thing about this era of technology is that 250,000 years of progressively increasing control over our world culminated in us tricking rocks into doing math, and in the last 5 years, we've achieved the near impossible feat of making our math rocks bad at math.

Even for an earnest government, it becomes a wicked problem just to figure out what the state of the world is. What information to trust? It makes me realise I trust cross-referenced bystander footage more than many news outlets.