The article in question: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I think people should be very, very careful when leaning ChatGPT or any bot for help navigating relationship issues or any other interpersonal conflict/crisis: futurism.com/chatgpt-marr... futurism.com/artificial-i...

An NBC News investigation finds dozens of examples of criminals imitating ICE to rob and attack people www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

ELON MUSK: [wishing Nelson Mandela was alive at 107 years old but still imprisoned and breaking rocks in the quarry at Robben Island] i think Christopher Nolan has done a great disservice to culture

A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

more shronks

an all-timer www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWFL...

right-wingers have their violently stupid ideas, of course, but it’s somehow even more insulting when they want to create discourse on the humanities they are fighting every day to defund. fuck off and go vibe code a racist gambling app you absolute piece of shit

Social media is weird for many, many reasons, but fundamentally, I helped a word become very popular, and I also helped a lot of people during a very tough time because it was the right thing to do, and at least I am not the guy known as "bean dad"

The prophecy has been fulfilled.

Repeating my old Twitter adage: Is it "discourse" or is it one very loud wrong man we can all block?

Apparently it’s called a “psychiatric medication injury” if you’re a prominent conservative who’s addicted to benzos

There exists ample evidence that the President of the United States is a serial child rapist.

Still wild that the media covers Epstein like a True Crime curio that the President is sometimes asked to comment on and not the biggest scandal in Presidential history

STATUS REPORT: Fraud kidfuckers control all levels of government. Also there’s this one posting site that’s not really my vibe so we gotta solve that first

It feels inhumane that you can’t opt out of commercials for addictive products. People should be able to one-click their way out of ever seeing ads for stuff like alcohol, drugs, and sports betting on apps and streaming services. This shouldn’t be controversial at all and should be very easy to do.

Went to an anti AI datacentre protest march today and a friend of mine got a picture that summed it all up

Don't you just hate it when you're trying to do a quick war in the Middle East for the content and then it just won't end like it keeps going and going forever

Actually it was conceived as a streamlined way for Republicans to send federal dollars to donors while creating a surveillance state. The name *always* seemed like a Nazi reference—and it likely was. The GWBush admin couldn't even explain why they used it. www.nytimes.com/2002/08/31/u...

Louisiana has decided to cede the entire parole decision-making process to an algorithm that will decide if you die in prison or not. There will be no human input or nuance allowed. Even our parole board is sickened by this. LINK: veritenews.org/2025/04/10/t...

omg this is insane

I am a fan of scifi, especially cyberpunk, and this one sequence from the MurderBot Diaries always tickled me to imagine as an IRC sequence. 📖 Exit Strategy (Book 4, Chapter 7) ✍️ @marthawells.com #MurderBot

The NYT sees itself not as a defender of journalistic principles or a champion of democratic values, but rather a theater critic for political actors. There are no real-world consequences here, no pain or suffering for the common people who aren't in their social circles. It's just a parlor game

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Deporting people into an Ebola outbreak that we caused/exacerbated is unfathomably evil

It was actually completely successful since they totally scheduled that rapid disassembly

While we slept the DOJ deleted all press releases about charges against January 6 defendants: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Rare to see a hellhound stalking at noon! Good for her, hope she gets some splashies in the water before returning to ceaselessly pursuing the Devil’s bounties

and by the time they all figure this out, so many people in the workforce will have had their cognitive capacity eroded by AI that it'll be real hard to hire people who can still do their jobs without it so a lot of employers will be paying BOTH costs

Today was like

The comparison I heard was data centers using the same amount of water as golf courses, and for that I was all, my brother in Christ, let me tell you what I think we should do with golf courses

Tiger Woods Completes 12-Step AA Program In 9

Strike “with” Replace “cheat on”

Phenomenal accountability journalism from Ryan Haas @thewesternedge.bsky.social on the brutal working conditions inside a massive #Amazon facility in Oregon, where the incidences of workers dying dying or falling ill is escalating. www.thewesternedge.media/p/sweaty-stu...

Gee, I wonder why. Could it be because... 1) Nobody can afford shit! 2) Companies keep making shit more expensive crammed full of tech that doesn't fucking work right! 3) Basic shit that isn't crammed full of useless "AI" shit is still double or triple the price because of "AI" shit!

i don't care at this point if ai makes some part of your banal big company tech job easier. i don't care if the llm has that one specific use case. nothing justifies building all these data centers & everyone else knows it. be so fucking normal

Well

Again the lead prosecutor on this case when it was presented to the grand jury currently works for Dick Durbin as counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats.

Illinois bar u up

I finally got a site up to sell my Blue Moon Guides. A year or so back I found a glowing manuscript in a hollow log near my house, only to discover it was a travel guide to the human city of Portland written in Faie for fairies and other magic beings/users. I translated it and made a chapbook.

Great piece, def worth the read-time, and it's more plain-language than you might expect. "He might not be able to order a drone strike on an Iranian girls school, but O’Connor has broad authority to dictate federal law simply because conservatives know the fix is in when cases hit his court."

All these people need to be sent upstate to live on a nice farm where they can means-test how to feed the cows without compromising bovine work ethic and we can get on with the business of building a better world

i have many justifications for hating AI but ultimately don't think i need any besides "they stole the book it was my life's dream to write without compensation, and did not get punished." their hands are literally in my pocket and they can fuck off

It must be emphasized that we need powerful, robust ACADEMIC history IN universities to sustain history OUTSIDE universities. If we can’t employ people in higher ed to train future generations of public historians, we will not have future generations of public historians. 🗃️