Viva Vestal Vespa

I just saw a job listing for an "experienced and energetic" comms professional and I'm sorry but I think you need to pick one.

1. LLMs and image and video generation come at enormous environmental cost, both locally (diverting water and energy and increasing community costs) and globally (hello climate change). Our use of these products has real world environmental impact.

2. AI companies exploit people training the models, especially in the global south. Karen Hao detailed this in her book Empire of AI, and 404 Media has done important followup work. Our use of these products adds to that exploitation.

Flashback to the time I created Judith Butler as a custom wrestler in WWE 2K24 (complete with a ring announcer call-out). Straight from the WWE Gender Performance Center!

Incredible contrast between this and Keir Starmer running a delivery driver over

What, exactly are the "functions similar to human feelings?" Self-preservation mode and an impulse to blackmail humans when threatened with shutdown or failure.

I know what everyone is trying to say here but F-series trucks are fleet vehicles for like every construction company so maybe reserve judgment for every American driver bc most of us are just trying to make life bearable in unwalkabe communities

Paul Sartre: Mall Cop

My nephew wanted his 10th birthday theme to be his cat, so I made him a Remy cake.

For some context, American air space has always been vulnerable. There’s a decades old mythology of “UFOs are interested in our atomic sites” to cover up the fact that China and Russia are able to violate our defenses with impunity. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_rep...

Abolish ICE. ❌🧊

yeah im bummed about sora. bummed i sora bunch of stupid fake videos

TFW youre the future of art and technology and youre definitely doing fine and the billions of dollars you need to raise every quarter are a good investment

"AI is quitting without admitting to yourself you're a quitter." Say it from the mountaintops.

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

genuinely why does anyone report anything he says at all as if it means anything still

America’s only protection from the threat of Marxism is illiteracy and the Republican Party are champions in the battle against education. Can’t go woke if we strangle you in your sleep!

Engagement stats for Bluesky vs Threads are completely bizarre. I have 10 times the followers here and I got 500x the replies and views over there. Very curious about how the algos are different. Is it just because it's tied to Meta somehow?

Unpopular opinion: If Cesar Chavez were still alive and still active in progressive politics, there would be people publicly doubting Delores Huerta and trying to protect him from accountability.

When I say that we are much further down the line to a true US collapse, this is what I'm talking about. The pivot to petro-yuan will be talked about in the future like we talk about the assassination of Franz Ferdinand now. asiatimes.com/2026/03/iran...

To put it mildly, the Trump mayhem plugged into social media algorithms, AI hallucinations & a media vertically monopolized by oligarchs is creating a society-wide civilization-destroying mental health crisis that will last the rest of our lives & probably the rest of the next generation’s lives too

#PetroYuan #PetroDollar

Q: You don’t regret that people might’ve lost important income to support their lives? A: No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit. Q: Ok. Did you reduce the federal deficit? A: No, we didn’t.

What To Know About ‘Sinners’ https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-sinners/

Bluesky is smarter than Threads but Threads is more fun.

I will vote for whoever bans private equity.

Steve Scherer was a Reuters’ bureau chief in Canada. Then he got laid off, had to leave the country, and now drives for Uber in Virginia, in a country he doesn’t recognize anymore after working for 28 years abroad. [stevescherer.substack.com]

AI Isn’t Lightening Workloads. It’s Making Them More Intense.: "It’s not that AI doesn’t create efficiency. It’s that the capacity it frees up immediately gets repurposed into doing other work, and that’s where the creep is likely to happen." www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-i...

Every day on Denver reddit: Can anyone help me make friends in this town? A little about me: I'm boring and don't actually like people very much.

Jewel turning out to be a MAHA mom is like the biggest non-surprise. I grew up in Boulder County though, so I have a strong instinctive distrust of rich hippies and it’s never steered me wrong.

I'm going to allow myself to laugh at the absurdity of the mad king and his sycophants. As a treat.

Currently : loving my basement movie setup.

The more I see out of them the more I really have to concede that the khive, blue no matter who, still with her, the Biden loyalists, anyone who's really identified in that group are not functionally Nazis but literally so. The revenge porn, bigotry and harassment is literally unparalleled.

I just released another short ttrpg zine. (I must remain) THE GLAD COWBOY is storygame where one player plays a Glad Cowboy and the other player plays The Repressed Horror At The Thing They Did. #ttrpg #indiettrpg kierongillen.itch.io/i-must-remai...

Someone was trying to heal him and someone was trying to harm him and the latter won out in that contest as they almost always do. Murder being so much quicker and easier than medicine.