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Digital artwork of Isuzu Sohma from Fruits Basket, often called Rin. She is drawn with in tones of grey, pink, and purple, sat next to a horse while caressing its chin. She wears a dark patterned qipao accessorised with a lot of gothic style jewellery, and holds a closed fan in the other hand. She looks down at the viewer, staring with a serious expression. The text reads New Year 2026.

🏮 Happy Lunar New Year 🧧 🐴

Continuing my tradition of drawing the Fruits Basket cast every year with the fieriest horse I know

This scenario requires being completely innumerate about how many voters there are, how many polling places exist, and how many agents they have.

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Mohsen Mahdawi gestures as he is escorted by immigration authorities in handcuffs during his arrest in Colchester, Vermont, on April 14, 2025. Photo by Christopher Helali via Reuters

BREAKING: An immigration judge has *terminated* the Trump-Vance administration's efforts to deport Columbia pro-Palestine student protestor Mohsen Mahdawi.

Mohsen was first detained 10 months ago, when agents ambushed him at a citizenship interview.

Shut down the concentration camp for babies

Ellison must be stopped.

there is an extremely simple answer to the "abandon trans rights" folks and it is "no" and also "fuck you"

Everyone who worked at this camp should go to prison.

My wife said AI in Outlook has started to send summary notes about emails and the summaries are longer than the emails and full of wrong info lol. "I got a 5 word email from my coworker that said 'Lunch will be at 1' and the summary said 'Your lunch meeting is now at 11' lmaoo

prime example of AI cooking the creative brain. You've got a budget and, in theory, a thing that can literally make anything you can imagine but you can't imagine anything because creativity is born out of boundaries, and like, a shred of imagination.

Humans to make art, to shepherd it forth, to view it, to respond to it. All human. No artbarf robot. No plagiarist techbro virus. Just people making things for people.

Yes.

Staph infections were fatal so often that we distinguished them by what part of the body they attacked first. "Childbed fever" is a term for a variety of post-birth complications that killed a lot of women. There are reasons wet nurses used to be so common. (And they're not all class-based.)

That’s the second worst symbol that they could have chosen

Love that AI, a thing we hate and don’t want, steals everything, ruins everything, shittifies everything. Drinks our water, plagiarizes our art, pisses all over our information fidelity, drives kids to suicide, serves the right-wing, and fucks up our devices and services. Good job, techbros!

"Beneath the puzzle mechanics, TR-49 is doing something far more ambitious. It’s wrestling with the idea that language shapes thought. The archive you’re exploring isn’t just a collection of academic curiosities; it’s a battleground of ideas about how words influence cognition, culture, and power."

Jesus Christ these people are monsters.

Even this is a massive understatement of the actual costs, since all of those things require advance planning, paperwork, and (in some cases) scheduling document retrievals (often only possible during work hours). The cost doesn't have to be high in dollars to be a prohibitive tax on voters.

Grappling with the sheer scope of this man’s legacy is nearly impossible.

Trying to get ChatGPT to count to one hundred.

Bearing in mind, this technology is being forcefully pushed into education.

I do think habitual chatbot usage is kind of like smoking; there's a range of outcomes, and we very clearly see the worst ones (psychosis, delusions, addiction) but they're all negative. thousands with the cognitive equivalent of being out of breath after one flight of stairs.

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Truly the most stupid timeline. At a point in time where renewable energy has tipped into genuine widespread viability, capital invents whole new ways to fabricate waste and scarcity.

Didn’t know about this sculpture and also didn’t know the Capitol building has a crypt. Wikipedia says that in 1900 it was used for bicycle parking

White supremacy is just a job you do, like architect or serial killer

Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates how is it possible to cram so much ignorance--"English-Scott-Irish origin" -- into such a small space? miracle of a person said to be "world's richest man" has no more grasp of US history than a crumpled paper tissue underfoot in a men's restroom not recently cleaned.

joyce is going after elon again

definitely seems like you're safer from any kind of punishment for being in the Epstein Files than for, say, just to pick two examples totally at random, attending a college protest for Gaza or tweeting that you weren't very sad Charlie Kirk died

this is exactly why I am absolutely not willing to overlook anyone who was once “advocating for ending USAID” as merely committing a little oopsie-daisy-booboo, by the way

when people implore me to embrace AI i don’t even practically understand what they mean!! it’s like saying why don’t you like my aunt carol and i’ve never met her

You know a new food is really popular when you go to one of your favourite restaurants and, instead of giving you a menu, the staff hold you down and try to force this new stuff down your throat.

It’s genAI. I’m talking about genAI.