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"Which essentially amounts to: instead of producing something flawed and human you made something that a lot of people are not going to look at out of principle, and which (having seen plenty of LLM-written text at this point) I know is just going to cap out at 'barely adequate' in quality anyway."

Lula Goes HARD

This is terrifying. A bird flu outbreak has been raging uncontrolled on a mink farm for months. Experts fear it could spark a devastating human pandemic. And officials are refusing to act. What a story from @natlash.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/bird...

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

Credit to the US for making the point the conference was trying to make about US foreign interference in European democracies for them, and bringing more attention to the conference and its themes than they could have possibly hoped for. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.

congratulations to everyone on reinventing Worse Cable

Also, he purged the Kennedy Center of a collection of African art that was given in tribute to JFK, but he installed this, from the Tony Montana Meets Saddam Hussein Collection.

its really annoying seeing people complain about Debra Wilson being in everything when Troy Baker is the same and its crickets…… black women make up less than 5% of the industry… complaining about us getting work is so silly

Them: There’s something going around again… Me: It’s Covid, it’s been Covid for 6 years.

But is it fascism? Do they really yearn for apocalypse? Isn't that polarizing? Shouldn't we be nice to them? We made a short video so folks can hear the end timers in their own words and judge for themselves: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK2n...

“You’re never going to own a home but you’re going to own the libs.” Great line from @astra.bsky.social on how end times fascism offers its base literally nothing. Full (very interesting) convo with Astra, @naomiaklein.bsky.social and the DSA here ⬇️ www.youtube.com/live/hT-Rudc...

You don't beat a regime by showing up when it's convenient for them. You have to be an unignorable headache. You have to have four times the observers when ICE acts. You need to be reminding the National Guard in DC they are outnumbered 100 to 1. You need to resist beyond just exasperated posting.

if you learn a skill or start a new hobby, it makes you a better person, not worse. nobody ever gets into calligraphy and immediately starts screeching that typefaces are useless and only the quill shall prosper. there is no "woodworking psychosis" nobody thinks they're dating their kettlebell

Whatever your reason for hanging on, if your mental health is bad, is good enough. Is your sole reason that you need to outlive someone as a hater? Good enough reason.

Justice Alito wrote in May that telehealth prescriptions of mifepristone are part of “a scheme to undermine our decision in Dobbs.” But attacks on the pills are part of a far-right scheme to ban abortion nationwide without passing a single new law

The Trump administration is now refusing payouts for US soldiers who died in the US-Israeli war against Iran "because it isn't a war." Libby Klinner, widow of 33-year-old Maj Alex Klinner, says the US Air Force deemed her ineligible for additional benefits following her husband's death because

Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.

I haven't thought of him in... years, probably, but this is a sweet hit of schadenfreude. May the orphan-crushing machine always turn on itself.

“Police can just sit down on their computer and search for those plates without a warrant from a judge. So, it is a system tailor-made for abuse,” EFF’s @mguariglia.bsky.social told @wsav.bsky.social.

The United States is taking aim at Canada once again, with a crushing new set of tariffs. Ultimately, government will need to solve this. But in the same way Canadians are avoiding US alcohol, produce, and other goods, they should get off US tech products too. Luckily, I have a guide for that.

Gomez Addams laid out the blueprint 65 years ago, and these motherfuckers STILL don’t get it

I do love that the dingus protesters could only answer Cunningham and Clark. Meanwhile the REAL ball knowers are answering with better players. Imagine how much harder the question would be if you told protesters to say players besides Cunningham and Clark

There's no such thing as rogue AI, whenever you see this term the subject is actually rogue AI developers www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-...

NEW: Measles Used to Be in Our Rearview Mirror. Now Cases Are Reaching Record Highs. In other parts of the world that have let their guard down to vaccine-preventable diseases, long-forgotten scourges have roared back and killed and disabled children.

I‘m far from an AI doomer, but it is amazing how many serious voices — on LinkedIn, no less! — are sharing stories about how AI slop is quickly becoming one of the top problems they see in academic writing and research “AI will 10x our research!” doesn’t seem to be surviving encounters with reality

"We shouldn't be so quick to condemn or resist abuses of authority & privilege, because they're nowhere near as bad as the worst predictions people kept making, and we should encourage the lesser of two evils!" is such a tiringly common, 'boiling frog'-ass, Hollywood morality, 'centrist' argument. 😒

The US government says it protects Americans abroad. But when Israeli settlers killed 20-year-old Palestinian American Sayfollah Musallet, no one was held accountable. His father is still demanding justice. Read his new op-ed in the @sun-sentinel.com: www.sun-sentinel.com/2026/08/07/w...

Golden State Valkyries forward Gabby Williams: “There’s a lot of discourse around trans athletes and what they can compete in. I would welcome a trans athlete on my team or against my team. Anytime. I don’t think it’s a problem in the world, it’s just another way to kind of attack trans people.”

This woman was beaten by a mob for *standing outside of a woman's bathroom* in Louisiana, not even going in, and they've literally just fabricated several charges against her and her partner anyway to justify abusing them further. www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/08/a-mo... On the up side...

Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...