it would feel upsetting if we didn’t know how to build a better world. but we DO know, and choose not to, which is infinitely more infuriating

the threat of homelessness or ill health is a boon for the capitalists because it makes people easier to control

A few years ago I wrote a take about the interchangeability of the terms "infrastructure" and "means of production" in tech and the current data center construction boom feels especially relevant to this

I think it’s worth noting this piece generated the most unsubscribes I’ve seen in a while, and the newsletter version had the lowest open rate in many months. These horrors persist in part because too many people go to great pains to avoid them.

Ahahahha this is also me

The concept of ‘Your 5 A Day’ should extend beyond fruit & veg:

1 x star jump
1 x wave at a dog or cat
1 x favourite song at full blast
1 x croissant
1 x tell someone you love their outfit.

Adjust according to taste.

This is the wayyyyy

Headline that says mushrooms may talk to one another with up to 50 words

so they're mycoblogging

You can also see Shakespeare home? Two in one!!

new hair, new you 😉

As a bestselling writer of science fiction who lost her mother Jan 20th and thus knows fresh grief very intimately, I say this “short story” is bad. It is stilted, heartless, and aggravatingly derivative. And it’s not a joy to read. Ijs.

I was seeing all this raving about OpenAI’s short story (which was about grief) and rather than reading people’s take on the story, I went right to the story itself to read it. Why not? I was certainly interested and the topic is sensitive to me.

My response (screenshot from Twitter):

yes, but they are incredibly nice and welcoming now so there's that. 😅

oh no that is awful and scary. but also great reflexes!!!!

Mediocre men tech CEOs always blame their shitty business management skills on "scale".

not to be all umberto eco for a moment, but it's hard to think of a better example of "the enemies of fascism are simultaneously too weak and too strong" than "DEI causes mid-air collisions"

I'm no graphic designer but I think this does the trick, sending 100 copies of this to my local print shop tomorrow morning and putting them in my backpack docs.google.com/document/d/1...

It's difficult to overstate just how much professional journalists have been trained to fear defamation lawsuits and how much it has impacted the ability to tell the truth

I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl

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