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A bird doing stand up comedy. It says "British food lol", with the audience going "boo! Get better material!" The bird looks panicked, looks at its cue cards, which just read "british food lol".

The curse of the extremely boring Yank Bluesky user, gotta feel for them

A drawing of a techbro with a beard standing by a bike holding a laptop.

"Yeah I might have been radicalised into wanting to murder any and all women, have taken an extreme interest in phrenology, and have vital work documents full of incorrect information, but have you considered that I have something I think is marginally more useful than Google Calendar?"

a group of men in white shirts are standing in a room with a camera hanging from the ceiling ALT: a group of men in white shirts are standing in a room with a camera hanging from the ceiling

Google Calendar AI has assigned you 15 minutes for this task. This will be a sprint section. The least productive will be punished. On program.

Can you people not do anything for yourselves

I think my job just doesn’t lend itself to “agents,” and I suspect that’s going to be true for a lot of lawyers.

I seem to be getting that impression. Seems like it works great for people in tech jobs, which is great! I don't have a tech job.

80% of "AI is great" stories amount to "I'm too lazy to think for myself, I've invented a clunkier version of something that already works well"

also why do you need AI to check slack for pressing items? it literally notifies you for everything. it even has a separate tab for emoji reactions!

sent from my big bed

my calendar says i sleep in a big bed with my wife

You know, AI is kind of the ultimate calcification of tradition. Thinking is too hard, developing your own perspective and consciousness is not something that's really tested for or graded, so aggregate all the existing writing on a topic and tweak it a bit. Regurgitate, recycle, retrench, reify.

I haven't encountered this too much (that I can tell!) but it's also more than zero, and I have a similar reaction to Rose here. As she says... it's just very bizarre to do a philosophy degree if you don't actually want to think and work through ideas. What... what are you doing here?

Seaham Conservative club wrestling death match even probed by police headline from BBC news

I’m adding one of my favourite British news stories to my tales because… well it’s just marvellous

TBH with you that was true before genAI, genAI just cracked the facade wide open

Yeah education is kinda in crisis

Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been ‘flat or falling’ for 21 months - Carbon Brief China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the final quarter of 2025, likely securing a decline of 0.3% for the full year as a whole.

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“I asked chatgpt” well i asked your wife. She’s leaving you, Steve; for being such a massive loser

Capita taps Microsoft Copilot to untangle UK pensions mess : Outsourcer tells MPs AI is prioritizing cases as thousands of civil servants face delays

Weird, the AI keeps summarising messages as "capita took over this service" www.theregister.com/2026/02/17/c...

seems right
so the left needs to win power then
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seems right
knowledge workers of the world unite to smash the machines?
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“.. Never before has so much money been spent so rapidly on a technology that, for all its potential, remains largely unproven ..”

China & U.S., a tale of two superpowers , one behaving pathetically with all the money & talent…
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So many ppl are excited about solar 😍. This is a great photo essay on “Solar Hockey Stick of hope”, and countries breaking free of oil and gas dependence.

IF your country's media is telling you about AI boom but not the renewables global boom, then consider why...
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What is this ‘the left’ that they keep banging on about?

You can't see this and not believe Labour just hates trans people. You can't watch it and see Your Party's weird triangulation and stop taking them seriously.
Just say the thing you believe and act on it. It's that simple.

I don't know what to do but just keep repeating it so I don't go insane: the rise & eventual total domination of RW media is the single most significant political development of my lifetime and the entirely of the US political & media elite resolutely refuse to discuss or even acknowledge it.

If the right dominates the infosphere, if they can demonize any marginalized population they turn their eye on, then strategizing around *a current snapshot of public opinion* is almost definitionally misguided. They can change that opinion. Dems can't seem to, or won't try. All else is noise.

I just can't figure these guys out. Do they not see how the entire info environment has been captured? Do they not think it matters? It matters but there's just nothing pols can do about it? I don't know what they think because they act like they took a f'ing blood oath not to discuss it!

Like this. "You must strategically abandon the specific issues that the right has rendered toxic & focus on others."

But then ... why wouldn't the right just be able to do the same thing on those other issues?

They just talk as though the public spontaneously lurched to the right on a few specific issues -- sports, restrooms. And now they just take that as a given, a fact that trans supporters must work around.

But how did that happen? Anyone? It's fucking *bizarre* they never even raise the question.

This whole fight over transgender stuff happening on X is so weird to me. The most notable thing about trans issues in the last 5 years has been the enormous, coordinated anti-trans activism campaign across the right, aided by moral cowards in the center.

But that campaign is *never mentioned*.

Record fine or not, why would the company not just see this as a cost of doing business?