Barry Deutsch

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

OpenAI says they aren't liable for the suicide of a user their chat bot urged to kill himself because suicide is a violation of the TOS

Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵

The alpha wolf concept was debunked by the very guy who coined it because he realized that wolves in the wild are extremely communal and defer to parents for guidance. The “alpha” behavior was observed in captivity and was a terrified and violent male lashing out to feel some sort of control.

almost every novelist you read who's not from the airport fiction or bestseller sections is working a full on day job, including multi-award winners and absolute legends, or they have a spouse or trust that supports them. virtually across the board. just normalize in your mind that's how it works.

Headline about tortoise who lived through two world wars

And did absolutely nothing to stop them.

I keep having to unfortunately remind myself that Valve, as a private company, still sucks ass due to the monopoly they hold on the PC gaming market. Like no storefront or company should ever have the authority to outright ban the sale of games due to the content within them.

And yeah, honestly, most of my sense of both Seth and Brown as people comes from Joe Matt's comics.

I liked it! Odd tone (as you'd expect from Brown), beautiful art.

BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.

🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.

This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺

I've been told that his gn "Louis Riel" is a very big deal in Canada - some schools make it assigned reading.

Hey, you! Yeah, you! Are you looking to fail to get work done because you just keep on scrolling a thread? Well, have I got a thread for YOU!

This Peter Arno cover from 1951 is just perfect somehow.

Panel 1: man bent double over work pencil in hand: “oh gawd, if I don’t get this finished today, then everyone’ll know I’m a failure” Panel 2: view of a mountain water and clouds “meanwhile” Panel 3: further zoomed back, could and ocean and stars “meanwhile” Panel 3: the earth surrounded by a multitude of stars “meanwhile”

I think about this John Cullen comic all the time. Thank you! @nellucnhoj.bsky.social

The Chaos and Violence of Regime Change Interventionists always deny that there will be serious negative consequences from military action because otherwise they can’t sell an attack as something worth doing.

Supporters of regime change in Venezuela claim their plan won't have disastrous effects. This is what people favoring US military regime changes always claim, and they're basically always wrong.

The Chaos and Violence of Regime Change
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I wonder if they didn't include Chester Brown for similar reasons.

Not a shocker that they didn't include Dave Sim.

for people confused by the ‘wheeled onto a plane then stood up,’ panel

some wheelchair users are ambulatory - the chair is necessary for mobility/accessibility, but they may be able to walk or stand for short periods of time or short distances.

But the main point here is that the major shortage of housing the country faces now is not the result of zoning or regulatory obstacles but rather an overreaction to a collapsed bubble. Just as investors can be irrationally exuberant in driving a bubble, they also can be irrationally pessimistic in the wake of a collapse. It also didn’t help that the weak labor market coming out of the Great Recession meant that tens of millions of people didn’t have the regular income they needed to secure a mortgage. Also, millions had their credit ruined by a foreclosure after the crash. All of this should just remind us that asset bubbles are not fun, at least not after they burst. We should remember this when we hear people singing the praises of AI.

Economist Dean Baker argues that Ezra Klein is wrong about the cause of the housing shortage; Baker says the biggest part of it isn't zoning laws, but the lingering effects of the housing bubble bursting.

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TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has nine panels. In the center of the cartoon is the title: STUPID THINGS YOU HEAR IN A WHEELCHAIR PANEL 1 A woman in a cardigan spreads her hands beatifically. WOMAN: Open your heart and Jesus will heal your legs! PANEL 2 A passenger sitting on a plane grouses to the person next to him. MAN: I saw this guy get pushed onto the plane in a wheelchair and then he stood up! This whole "disability" thing is a scam! PANEL 3 A man rushes through an airport, rolling a suitcase: MAN: You're so lucky you don't have to walk places like normal people! PANEL 4 A man points and laughs. MAN: You got a license for that thing? Haw haw! PANEL 5 Below the title of the strip, a smiling woman clasps her hands. WOMAN: You're so brave! PANEL 6 A woman in a wheelchair angrily speaks to a cheery woman pushing the chair. WOMAN: Let go of me! PUSHER: But I'm helping you! PANEL 7 A man rubs his chin as he rambles. He's drawn in front of his words, so we can't see every word. MAN: Have you really tried to walk? Have you tried seeing a doctor? Have you tried yoga? Have you tried going gluten free? Have you tried exercise? Or this thing I saw on YouTube? Have you tried positivity? Have you tried healing crystals? Have you... alkaline water? Maybe... diet? Have you tried... more water? ...for Munchausens? ...essential oils? ...superfoods can... have you... PANEL 8 A woman smiles eagerly and leans in. WOMAN: So can you have sex? PANEL 9 Two men walk away from a store carrying a bunch of grocery bags, and looking at a disabled parking sign. Nearby, a wheelchair user overhears and looks annoyed. MAN: Man, I wish I was disabled!

Stupid Things You Hear In A Wheelchair

By me and @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social

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Jonah Platt @JonahPlatt. Nov 21 I know Sarah Hurwitz in real life, not from a clip on social media. She is a thoughtful, inclusive, compassionate person of great empathy & integrity whose books have been a profound gift to many, myself included. Sometimes the internet just sucks. Dan Senor @dansenor 100% endorse (The online mob attack against Sarah is so obviously a dishonest attempt to simply try to discredit and silence a strong, proud and open- minded Jewish voice.)

Let Sarah Hurwitz speak!

I want Hurwitz's comments about Gaza played on every news show. Shared on TikTok hundreds of thousands of times daily. I want her to become Israel's best known defender, so every person hears her words and sees how extreme Zionism makes people monsters.

"Our kids are seeing too many videos of children killed by Israel, and it's turning them against Israel."

"So Israel should stop killing children?"

"No, no, we should take our kids' smartphones away."

All of you are deliberately mischaracterizing what Sarah Hurwitz was saying about Holocaust education. Do better.

I don't have to use a wheelchair but I'm mentally disabled and I have heard some of these things. People are just so rude to disabled people and I don't understand it.

Topline: Ariana is a young journalist targeted by the Ortega regime in Nicaragua. ICE is just straight up attempting to have a journalist—who was granted asylum—executed using a single missed phone call (if it even was made and they’re not just lying) as a bogus justification

Imagine trying to settle a property dispute by talking only to the intruder. That's the logic here. The Trump/Putin proposal is an attempt to impose terms on a country under attack leaving the defending nation out of the room. Peace cannot be done to Ukraine; it must be done with Ukraine.

no one has even bothered trying to convince us there’s a threat from Venezuela. no weapons of mass destruction. nothing. just a war of choice because why not.

I think the people who deleted a bunch of humanitarian aid programs they knew fuck all about on a whim because it's woke to help people should in fact be miserable the rest of their lives.

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Mobility scooter edition

panel 2:

'Yes I put it in there myself. Only proves I can clean your fucking clock if you stand still long enough.'

panel 4:

'No I do not and I don't have insurance when I break your leg with it'