"Any childish thoughts of transcending nature or slipping off into Space must wait on this work – really, of learning finally who and where we are, acknowledging the beauty, walking in beauty." - Gary Snyder, 1978

"If the average American is a squeezed-flat toothpaste tube that's been drained of all its readily extractable contents, then AI is the scissors that slit the tube up the side so that the very last dregs can be scraped out." - Cory Doctorow

In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.

Greenland is back in the news so I am compelled to remind folks that while yes, there are rare earth minerals there, the tech weirdos who have infiltrated the government have also been obsessed with Greenland as part of their network state plan for a long time. drilled.media/news/network...

No chess players on here huh

americans face a difficult choice: do you support the evil maniacs destroying the country or do you support the genteel maniacs who watch the destruction and say "i think that's illegal to do actually" to the newspaper?

They literally made a company for spying on people called palantir

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

Amazon just sponsored an AI energy summit chock full of climate deniers and fossil fuel evangelists, never mind that it promotes itself as a global corporate climate leader.... Just how far did the summit go to promote fossil fuel-powered AI? Find out @desmog.com 👇 www.desmog.com/2025/12/18/a...

I don't know how many times this needs to be said, but apparently a lot: If you are not in a position to verify the accuracy of some synthetic text, the synthetic text is not useful/has a high potential to be misleading. This is one of those cases.

Another way to put this is that Bari Weiss’s job is not to grow CBS’ audience, but rather to constrain its reach so it can no longer threaten the conservative business alliance illegally ruling the country.

Looking at my old photoshop folders and...

Ethical AI is an oxymoron, like automated science

British politics is a mess. Food, energy, housing are all too expensive. Major parties are all flogging the dead horse of trickle down. So I’m joining the Green Party. Britain needs an economy that works for workers, for small businesses, and future generations. @greenparty.org.uk

He's scared. Tesla sales are tanking, California is about to rule that "Full Self-Driving" is false advertising, Starship keeps blowing up, SpaceX loses too much money to IPO, and XAI is burning $10 billion/year for the 4th place chatbot. It's over, he knows it, and only corruption can save him.

SCOOP: richest fascist in tech supports technofascist party he helped put in power

I think all my old mates emigrating because there were no jobs between 2008-2014, and then most of my new mates emigrating between 2018-2025 because there are no gaffs, has had a greater effect on social cohesion than migrants

Future manifesto inspired by Nottingham Zine Fest. Full review in English and Spanish at cynthiarodriguez.org/eng/2025/11/...

One reason Big Tech is so powerful is: people embrace the story they're telling about the future so they can ignore the problems of the present They say: we can exceed our limitations, do anything, live forever, leave Earth behind The fact that so many people believe it scares the shit out of me

BROKE: simplification WOKE: deregulation BESPOKE: LAWSLOP

told you

wait, this post is real?

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Rob Reiner either made your favorite movie, or made somebody you know’s favorite movie. If you’re a Californian, he’s also part of the reason you or your friends can get married. He has changed more lives for the better than this asshole commenting on him ever did.

The climate crisis is causing an invisible health crisis: brain health. On this ep, neuroscientist and environmental reporter @compatibilism.bsky.social reveals how the climate crisis intersects with our psychological, mental and brain health. Listen now: www.planetcritical.com/p/how-the-ec...

When Rob Reiner was on his all-time epic run at the start of his career, he had an opportunity to read a script that was looking for a production partner, and he lost his mind for it. He decided Castle Rock had to have it, no matter what.

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The unfathomably bleak circumstances of Rob Reiner’s death put me off posting anything at first. But Donald Trump’s should-be-unbelievable-but-isn’t response has made it essential that we do. Flood the world with the good stuff. Remember him THIS way, not for this awful day. youtu.be/H7vk5keNbRc?...

This closing with him fits his lunacy.

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

New Hallmark Movie: He's a Christmas tree farmer. She's his high school ex-girlfriend back in town as a lawyer for an AI Company that wants to turn the farm into a data center because of the water Tune in for Center of Christmas at 9.

The Corona Christmas ad is especially warming as we're flooded with soul killing AI Christmas commercials from every major company on earth. All you need is a tree and some lights.

All I want for Christmas is the downfall of AI

Fox News in 2015: "There's a war on Christmas!!!" Fox News in 2025: "You should buy fewer Christmas gifts and give up Christmas trees for AI server farms."

Like many, I've ordered gifts online lately, including one for myself: a Cory Doctorow book Now the small shop I bought from can't track the order, which has been lost by a big logistics firm that's all in on AI In other words: I asked for #enshittification for xmas and that's exactly what I got

In 1997, the DeepBlue supercomputer won a six-game match against the world's number-one ranked chess player, Garry Kasparov Fast forward to 2025 and the people who shape the global economy are betting everything on a computer that plays chess like this USER: 1. e4 CHATGPT: 2... Kxe1

One of the ways you can see this is driven by an industry looking for some way to make itself profitable? No one has shown any concern that students demonstrate basic competency with computers before enrolling (or graduating)—and, many do lack that.

I work in video production, which means everyone around me uses AI. It’s all people talk about. Clients use AI concept art to pitch a project and then expect me to match it with my work. Won’t pay for stuff because they can just generate it.

You know what it takes to compare Charlie Kirk with Dr King and Malcolm X?

It's worth once again pointing out that these are both companies whose core business already involves serving you ultra-processed garbage and screwing over the little guys in their supply chain, so of COURSE they love AI

It's truly wild to me that this just keeps happening. Coca-Cola runs an AI ad and people overwhelmingly react with disgust. They do it again, and people are disgusted again. Now McDonald's makes an AI ad that's so bad that so many people are furious about it they pull it down. People hate AI slop!

i stand by this statement every year

I think people should be pretty angry that a handful of men unilaterally decided culture, art and civilization should be fed into a woodchipper so they could attract VC funding.

imagine if the billions we spent on building and maintaining and expanding all of this instead went into tearing it down and building ten thousand homes

These little guys know what's up