Ben Zero

The optimistic flaw in Soylent Green is that the system would be kind to you as it dispatched you and turned you into food.

Two headlines in the last 24 hours: New York Times: "The New Worst-Case Scenario for Election Officials: Federal Interference" Me: "Republicans have cheated in elections for a long time"

This thread is a great argument for not giving in to autocrats, shitty politics or overreaching companies. We all have the power to shape a better future. When autocrats and capitalists say that something is not possible, that‘s just tactics, not the truth.

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

Yea, no fucking shit.

Rightwing politics is a smash and grab operation. Crude, violent rhetoric to get attention. Grandiose promises. Chest-pounding to convey energy. Menacing the polls. Once elected, bullying and defiance of all restraint in order to hold power. People are sick of it.

If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

This is important. If you're following accounts that do all of these things, I highly recommend unfollowing them. They're just follow farmers who are spreading disinfo.

me: do you suppose it feels better for the sock when you put it on or when you take it off? my pharmacist: I meant do you have any questions about this prescription?

you're telling me a horse drew this carriage?

I say we should let those central park horses draw whatever they want, landscapes, still-life, even carriages. this is about equine artistic expression it doesn't have to be studio level art they are just horses

I know it’s sorta cheesy but someone posted this from Paris on Reddit and I felt this immediate rush of hope

Some people have trouble understanding that sometimes, things are not for them.

a constant refrain in these training materials is "you're gonna have to use our product, but you have to make it look like you're not using our product because people fucking hate our product"

Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...

Trump's inability to distinguish between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans raises new questions about Joe Biden's advanced age.

This is the energy we need right now. No more half-assed “muh it’s just a tool” bullshit.

Professional Republicans are creeps who want to inspect your kids’ genitals. Never, ever vote for a Republican.

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...

Don’t know how to say it other than, creatives are currently enduring an Era of Punishment from rich people who just despise people with functioning brains.

Signs with extremely threatening auras

yesterday musk said that companies that "overstate claims about their product" will be banned from advertising on X, today he says that his cars are alive

the idea that empathy is dangerous has been permeating right-wing spaces for a while, but it's not an actual element of their ideology as much as it's a defense mechanism against confronting the reality of their cruelty

is it because the party establishment is terrified of challenging corporate power in literally any meaningful and consistent way?

The craziest part is that the traffic engineering profession by and large doesn't want to universally condemn the HAWK because it would hurt the inventor's feelings or something

Easy to mistake this for classic AI supremacy, but if you scratch the surface you discover it's just the classic Weinstein-esque "one day ASI will prove I have always been right about everything" vindication fantasy The FTL travel isn't a hypothetical, she really believes that. Idk about the others

David Axelrod and David Brooks clutching their pearls because El-Sayed didn’t roll over for a racist is such a perfect example of America’s white guy politics that it would sound made up if you put it in a novel

Outstanding. More of this, please. Elon Musk is a white nationalist troll using the billions he made off government contracts to destroy this nation. Light. Him. Up.