Ted Johnson

Many Minneapolis progressives consider anything west of Lyndale to be too wealthy to merit any attention.

I'll take the 2005 version. Or the 1995 version. It's way worse now than it's been in a long, long time.

[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, “today I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

All the dire implications notwithstanding it is hilarious how evil this technology is. Billions of dollars spent on this greasy lying stupid thing that was literally built to replace people, and everyone that uses it gets weaker, lazier, dumber, and sadder for having done so. Well done all around.

There is simply a huge audience among the youth for critiques of the state of Israel, given what young people see the state doing to the children of Gaza. This critique can come from someone like Zohran Mamdani, or it can come from Candace Owens or Tucker Carlson interviewing a Holocaust denier.

Aid Groups Blame Israel’s Gaza Restrictions for ‘Mass Starvation’

The distance between what is in happening Gaza, fully backed with US dollars and political support, and the reaction of American politicians who by and large just don’t seem to care or support it is just completely brain-breaking.

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This paragraph by @edzitron.com is everything.
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But Ed, They Said Something About Points of Growth- Silence! Any of these companies talking about "growth from AI" or "the jobs that AI will replace" or "how AI has changed their organization" are hand-waving to avoid telling you how much money these services are actually making them. If they were making good money and experiencing real growth as a result of these services, they wouldn't shut the fuck up about it! They'd be in your ear and up your ass hooting about how much cash they were rolling in! And they're not, because they aren't rolling in cash, and are in fact blowing nearly a hundred billion dollars each to build massive, power-hungry, costly data centers for no real reason. Don’t watch the mouth — watch the hands. These companies are going to say they’re seeing growth from AI, but unless they actually show you the growth and enumerate it, they are hand-waving.

35% of the value of the US stock market is the mag7, 19% of that is NVIDIA, and *42% OF NVIDIA'S REVENUE IS THE MAG7 BUYING GPUs*. Our god damn economy is supported by whether five companies buy more GPUs every quarter! This is insane!
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Sorry but personally if a miniature horse woke me up from anesthesia by banging out nonsense on a miniature keyboard it would send me into a liminal space between life and death from which I would never return

The Nazi AI is the worst because of the Hitler stuff but all the other AI’s are also fucking with you and no one should listen to them

People on a Bde Maka Ska beach during a July 2025 sunset

Bde Maka Ska beach sunsets tho...

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Is Bluesky real life? Absolutely not. But neither is CNN or the New York Times opinion page and Cuomo got fucking wrecked so maybe Bluesky isn’t the actual bubble here

anyways please watch this edit that sent me into hysterics and now I need to redo my makeup

Political malpractice by Democratic leadership to drop every issue as soon as some crypto-funded centrist group says boo.

Don't be surprised low-info voters think a handful of trans athletes matter more than unconstitutional kidnappings when you discuss the former more often than the latter.

/8 Servility is both a choice and a habit. Journalists who don’t ask obvious questions or poke patent lies get into the habit of servility towards the state. Look where that’s got us.

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/3 Anyway, a reminder: when people are proud to be a piece of shit, insist on treating them like a piece of shit.

You’ll get some hand-wringing about cancel culture but not from anyone worth listening to.

As I've said before, what we're dealing with fundamentally here, and have been dealing with for some time, is evil. Our political norms and political media prohibit talking about a mainstream political faction this way. But it is the truth. It needs to be known and it needs to be said.

Nobody's ever really captured, to my satisfaction, the way that the internet -- though it promises infinitude, all of human experience & history & art & thought in one place -- has instead produced a kind of narrowing & flattening of experience, made the world seem *less* magic & full of wonder.

I guess my point is that when you rip healthcare away from someone or kick someone off of food stamps it’s not just about the one person, it’s about all the fucked up stuff that’s going to cascade from desperation that’s going to impact everyone

As Trump and Musk were ransacking the federal government, Congressional Democrats put a 74 year old cancer patient in charge of providing oversight. He died within 5 months of taking the job.

It's a form of political negligence that borders on criminal.

/9 …I’m not feeling betrayed, because I never expected anything of them. Demicompetent hacks who have pushed the carceral and security state for decades while assuming pretense to being “progressive” are dishonest? Well I fucking never.

I personally don’t think Paul Bunyan existed. He would have had an absolutely gargantuan skeleton, and that’s not something you can easily hide. Unless he lowered himself into a volcano or something, but that itself would be a whole new legend in a whole new place

Wii was not easy, at least in the Bay Area. I struck out multiple times on launch day and remember eBay prices being like MSRP + $75 pretty much immediately.

Lucky the dog wears a headset and speaks to fans at the main switchboard of the Minneapolis Times, April 23, 1948. Hennepin County Library Digital Collections.

On This Day 1948: Lucky, a street dog hit by a truck and nursed back to health by a boxing promoter, achieves fame as "the world's most educated dog." Here he's photographed working the telephone switchboard at the Minneapolis Times.

I think Brian points to something important: pop culture representations of Nazism showed it as something existing outside of history and politics, which did a massive disservice to understanding it as a political force that could emerge in other polities.

Every so often, it just comes back to me in full force. The political and economic order that allowed this man to come to power is obviously no longer tenable. The leaders who let it happen obviously have to be replaced. This is an epoch defining failure and we have to turn the page completely.

you can get disappeared for criticizing israel, unless you are a neo-nazi, at which point you receive the unconditional protection of the united states government. the ADL thinks this is fine.