Mayor Brandon Johnson announced “Abolish ICE” as the winner of a citywide snow plow name contest. He had earlier given it a “full and complete” endorsement.

is it too late to call Bryan Fuller's Hannibal "Eated Rivalry"

Poem by Renee Good poets.org/2020-on-lear...

32-Year-Old Still Not Entirely Sure Where Body Stands With Lactose https://theonion.com/32-year-old-still-not-entirely-sure-where-body-stands-w-1819579544/

chatgpt is much like an improv comedy group 1) you are the audience, giving it prompts 2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt 3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And 4) it has the factual accuracy of improv 5) it does not understand comedy

Buttons are back. Knobs are back. Dumb devices are back. Own-it-forever software is back. Print is back. Personal websites and chronological feeds are back. Touching grass is back. People keep saying 2015, but it’s not far enough. The entire 2010s were a mistake. We must retvrn to… 2009.

The 6 richest men in the world are all Trump allies. They control your algorithms and data on X, TikTok, Twitch, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, and YouTube. Just in case you’re wondering why more isn’t done to stop right-wing bots and misinformation on social media.

Humans only survive because we can FORGET some conversations

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

Hot take, Amanda Seyfried and Sydney Sweeney should not be cast in the same movie.

Adding alt text to this because this is fucking amazing and everyone deserves to read it.

These posters for the South Korean stage production of Macbeth are the greatest thing ever? #art

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

Sprained my knee getting into a restaurant booth, am ready for The Substance

I’ve had tinnitus since March and this provided immediate relief.

This show is the Midwestern aunt version of The Hunting Wives and I would die for it

Apple is sneaking AI into everything. Turn off enhanced visual search on your photos:

opening a Spirit Halloween where my patience used to be

This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”

The Toxic Avenger is clearing medical debt as marketing for the movie.

For the record I also wish ill on J.K. Rowling! My ill wishes have basically no bearing on her life, whereas she is actively committing resources towards endangering trans people every day

The short answer: the Heritage Foundation have been paying influencers to discredit hormonal birth control for at least 7–8 years now

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you: Our funding depends on usage. So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

Sick of everything being Orwellian or Kafkaesque. I demand more Scarrylous situations, where animals drive vehicles and run small businesses.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

Trying to expand my tween’s musical horizons by telling her Courtney Love was the Olivia Rodrigo of her time.

Virtue signaling can also be the precursor to virtue thinking—the more you perform decency, the more chance it becomes your first instinct. We know it works the opposite way, that being steeped in e.g. fascist shit on Twitter rots your brain; why wouldn’t it be reversible?

“You get Hoynes!” (Jed Bartlet yelling at God, West Wing.) If coins are involved, my husband and I make it “You get coins!”

Meredith has always been a G, but it's still exceptionally weird and very refreshing hearing from a tech exec who can see through all of this AI bullshit for what it is at its foundation: a backdoor surveillance tool.

I am sure everyone will look the other way, but the guy who just won the Democratic mayoral primary in NYC _ran on expanding access to trans healthcare._

my hottest educational take is that schools should actively, non-punitively teach students how to admit when they don't know something, aren't sure or have made a mistake, with various teaching frameworks adapted to support this ideal, because people who can't admit fault are breaking the world

Fascinating and informative thread about the Pinkerton and the evolution of crime fiction.

Extremely gross to use photos of her very pregnant with a previous child, as if to suggest a woman was kept on life support for a short time instead of the FOUR MONTHS her body was a non-consensual braindead incubator.

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Hey folks, I have a HUGE request from the Trevor Project and would appreciate help getting the word out. Trevor is now recruiting for it's 2025 National Youth Survey. They need people 13-24, LGBTQ+, in the United States to take it. This research is critical to LGBTQ+ rights. Take it here:

Talk to your kids about GenAI, because they’re probably not hearing anything negative about it. They have no idea it’s for losers who don’t mind destroying the earth because they can’t come up with their own words

If you do in fact want Covid boosters for yourself or anyone, you can submit public comment to the FDA here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

This is a Galen Erso situation, yes?

I don’t know any screenwriters who use AI to write. Not because we’re better people. Because we have enough EGO that we want it to be OUR WORDS ON THE SCREEN.

The big “why do you hate AI?” Thread got comments and quotes turned off, but here’s the main reason I hate AI: It’s being developed by the worst people on the planet solely to enrich themselves at the expense and labor of the world’s vulnerable populations. Everything else stems from that

I had been wondering what to stock up on…

Trump forgets instructions to not mention Canada again until future governor Poilievre has won election

You don’t have to vote. You don’t have to vote strategically. But if you want to, here’s a great tool to help you: votewell.ca

Made a contribution just now to Filipino BC & The Filipino Centre. If you're moved to do likewise in solidarity with the Filipino community in the wake of last night's mass murder, donations can be received at the following link:

Just heartbroken for the Filipino community and this city. If you know someone this could help please pass it along.

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