cis people on the skyline are genuinely more distressed by karoline leavitt’s lip fillers than the fact that congress just said, “what we should do is put any doctor or pharmacist in prison who gives lifesaving medical care to this specific kind of child we find gross.”

I don't know if anyone else has observed this but in the last three years there's been - *outside of public health* - a massive and sudden adoption of the belief that randomized control trials are the only legitimate form of causal inference. I find it mind boggling

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.

Not to go down this week's particular rabbit hole very deeply, but as a guy who was *in fact hiring Hollywood writers* between 2011 and 2018, four staffs in total, it seems a lot of smart commenters are missing I did not diversify my rooms to be woke, I diversified my rooms to have better rooms.

This is eugenics talk.

Tech companies literally out here newspeak doublethinking these terms with damn near no one in the press or legislature pushing back on them— even w/ anything as simple as "that's not what that word means"— & no public recourse because so many lawmakers have been fully captured by this bullshit hype

So let me help you make better decisions: Turn off your phones Fire your MBAs Stop fucking with your guild contract Be glad in what you have instead of yearning for the ants’ circular death march with the midwitted tech bros. Whoever told you this was a good idea is a mole trying to break you.

Tuskegee Syphilis Study 2.0 but on babies

I hate making non-cat posts. I hate "discourse". But the number of comments I've seen degrading and dehumanizing sex workers because of that Melania trailer is appalling. That ghoulish woman will never see your "whore" jokes but they absolutely contribute to the stigma that gets sex workers killed.

It's a plain sign in large red neon you'll sell me out next.

Some Dems have told themselves only ~1% of the population is trans so they can dip their toe in the anti-trans filth and come out clean. I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.

This shows the uselessness of many c-suites: They don't care about actually efficient companies or work (otherwise THEY would be pushing WFH given research); they're petty tyrants who wants power and control. With gen-AI bullshit, they "feel" they can do work their actually talented employees do.

The answer to "why are they?" is *always* "Because they want to." There is no exception to this.

They know. Labour aren't doing what they're doing to see off Reform. They are doing what they are doing because it is what they want to do.

There's a real synergy between this and that WSJ article about estranged children going around.

7 Dems joined House Republicans in voting for a bill that would enable ICE agents to strip search 12-year-olds. Henry Cuellar (TX-28) Don Davis (NC-01) Laura Gillen (NY-04) Jared Golden (ME-02) Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34) Adam Gray (CA-13) Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03)

Knuckle tats: MUTE CHAT

Vivaldi or Waterfox?

Regarding the latest outrage, he was always planning to run to the right of the Democratic incumbent, possibly as a Republican if 2024 hadn't gone the way it did. So yeah, this is exactly who he's always been.

Way to kill your entire fucking brand, wow

"Must align with trust" and "AI" are two utterly opposed goals. Anyway, if you want a recommendation for an actually good browser which isn't smeared with LLM shit, Vivaldi is great, albeit not open source. It's done by the people who did Opera before that got Bitcoined, and is privacy-focused.

If your call for unity is to prop up the rotting corpse of Ronald Reagan as some sort of ideal, I don’t think you’re actually fit to be a leading Democrat

Wild concept: Maybe raise your children in such a way that, when you're not in charge anymore and can no longer force them to, they still, voluntarily, hang out with you.

#ai #mozilla #firefox #fuckAI #genAI #fuckGenAI

What? Two charisma-free overly botoxed propagandists who sound exactly like the worst meanest middle school girls on the planet on what used to be a respected news network aren't resonating with the American public? Well, I never

Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor. "I can't afford a visual artist" So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them? Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.

I know most people tune this stuff out but there are 4 different people who I know personally (who do not know each other) who are seriously ill and/or hospitalized right now due to COVID or Long COVID related issues. Protect your health. Protect your family. Mask up this holiday season.

I genuinely thought the LLM / AI thing would blow over as soon as anyone pointed out it was based on piracy and had no viable business plan. That we’re still talking about it, betting on it, is gobsmacking. It should be the Tamagotchi craze of our decade. It should be Pogs by now.

Don't threaten me with a good time.

Happy to. Never liked those, either.

"It's just concept art, who cares if they use genAI and not actual artists?" Look at this concept art for C-3P0 by Ralph McQuarrie. It's the very thing that inspired Anthony Daniels to go for the role of Threepio and perform him as such. It is the first heartbeat of the art that now exists.

Everything about American public policy boils down to one thing: “Fvck them kids”

I've come to realize that a lot of people like him because he tells them it's OK to not have any values either. Values require effort. MAGA is about effortless decadence, sit in your chair and get mad at computer with the rest of us, it's great.

When he lost to Biden, they were talking about revoking the 19th amendment. It went on for a day and a half and then stopped abruptly. It's not like it's a secret what the plan is.

They're framing it as "saying no to women" but they mean "Being able to say to women, no you do not have rights, you do not get to say no".

We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.

I don’t think the left should pander to the feelings of white men. I think everyone else should form a coalition and do their thing and if white dudes aren’t into it the coalition can leave them behind for the fascists to find. Having these debates every six weeks is slowing us down.

Hey remember OnLive, the cloud gaming console that was supposed to change the world and kill all other game platforms, and it kinda worked okay but collapsed under its own unsustainable costs and now it's a tiny irrelevant niche propped up by Google and Nvidia Anyway how is AI doing today

The attacks on DEI are aimed at resegregation and returning to the white, patriarchal structure that was only slightly disrupted for 5 years. White women you are DEI too so they’re coming for you

As someone smarter than me posted this week, a sure sign of ypur software's popularity and indispensablity are articles about how to remove it being at the top of all the tech explainer sites.

This is why the current state of vaccination in the US doesn't surprise me. Most politicians hate kids and want them dead. Gun control? No. UBI? No. Public health? Absolutely not. They care not at all how many die.

I said “let’s clean the air, wear masks and other prevention stuff to protect people from bugs”… Society said. “We prefer dead kids.” Mainly because dark money convinced people that going back to “normal” was important, no matter how bad it was.

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Things that will never make sense to me: cutting jobs, then complaining consumers aren't spending. If you fire everyone, who do you think is going to be able to afford anything? You're burning down the house you're standing in and crying because it's too hot

Going into 2026, a reminder for everyone who's fallen off the creative wagon, game dev, writing, art, music, whatever, no matter how long:

Because it’s a smash and grab.

Do the work to fix it and then rejoin polite society. We still won't like you and don't expect any party invitations, but we won't be jerks about it (at least to your face). Want an easy start? Tell your R congressmembers to remove RFK. Now. This week. Before Christmas.

I keep seeing more articles about how they regret it now that the damage is done & I truly believe that if you have any genuine interest in salvaging what’s left of this country then whether you want to or not, you can never forgive these people. You can never let them live what they did down.

"You have to battle nazis on Twitter or we lose", dawg we fight them in real life. Put your phone down