Caroline Luce

I could write for days, months, years.

I could read decades of sci-fi from the most annoying Golden Age authors.

I could peruse the most cringe things on TikTok.

And still, I could never come up with the deeply embarrassing things Sam Altman says on any given Tuesday

Put her in a choke hold and the other kids jumped in to beat his ass. The kids are alright.

it’s gorgeous.. and revolting

Do you think they were purposefully trying to replicate this design to troll historians or just an accident?

solidarity is beautiful

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Matching funds on all donations up to $50,000 for each of these Minneapolis area rent relief funds this week.

www.standwithminnesota.com/keepmnhoused

Here's a list of all the places Trump is building concentration camps to brutalize non-white men, women, and kids—including many in the US legally and some who are citizens.

Most will be sent to die in places they've never been to or to be tortured by Trump pals.

# = Prisoners.

Minimum viable scale lol

(No but really)

(Some folks think if this happens it might never come back)

(Lake Mead too)

chinga la migra

Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on employment or productivity—and it has economists resurrecting a paradox from 40 years ago | Fortune In the 1980s, economist Robert Solow made an observation that reminded economists of today’s AI boom: “You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.”

“Nearly 90% of firms said AI has had no impact on employment or productivity over the last three years, the research noted. However, firms’ expectations of AI’s workplace and economic impact remained substantial: Executives forecast AI will increase productivity by 1.4%”

It’s all wishful thinking

cool how we’re not allowed to buy meals for events or get reimbursed for travel anymore

Towards Liberation (2026 Lunar New Year Print) by Sophie Wang and Cynthia Yuan Cheng, commissioned by Katie Wang 2026 begins with coming together, a herd of fire horses thousands upon thousands...

this gorgeous print by Sophie Wang and @cynthiaycheng.bsky.social commissioned by Katie Wang is the energy I am entering this new year (of the horse) with!!! wangshuf.bigcartel.com/product/towa...?

Tony Gonzales had affair with aide who set herself on fire, ex-staffer says Months before her death, Regina Santos-Aviles texted a fellow Gonzales staffer saying she had an affair with the congressman. He has ducked questions about it.

BREAKING: I obtained text messages in which an aide to U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-San Antonio, acknowledged she "had an affair with our boss."

2 sources said the affair was an "open secret" in the office. The staffer died by suicide last year. @expressnews.com:

www.expressnews.com/news/article...

Email from Epstein to Goertzel: "free and home" Goertzel replies: ";-))) Congratulations!!!! Actually, I was just about to send you an email summarizing my recent progress, current situation, and future hypothetical plans...I'll probably do so tomorrow. I'm sure you're super-swamped, but it would be great to get together when you have the chance... ben" Goertzel continues: "p.s. Also, the Singularity Summit (futurist conference, but with some good scientific speakers this year) will be in NY this year, Oct 3-4...and Oct 5-6, afterwards, there will be a brainstorming workshop I think you might enjoy (where, basically, the ~20 speakers from the Summit will get together and try to make conceptual progress on various future-science issues). I'll remind you again when the date gets closer!"

Ben Goertzel, popularizer of the term AGI and creator of the Sophia robot, congratulating Jeffrey Epstein the day after Epstein was released from prison.

Goertzel is mentioned in the files nearly 800 times, including well after the Miami Herald investigation in 2018.

Dear Mr. Nadeau: As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left to us, in a bad time. I shall get up Sunday morning and wind the clock, as a contribution to order and steadfastness. Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say, the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society — things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed, sometimes rather suddenly. It is quite obvious that the human race has made a queer mess of life on this planet. But as a people we probably harbor seeds of goodness that have lain for a long time waiting to sprout when the conditions are right. Man’s curiosity, his relentlessness, his inventiveness, his ingenuity have led him into deep trouble. We can only hope that these same traits will enable him to claw his way out. Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day. Sincerely, E. B. White

I just stumbled across this and thought some of you might like to see it. A letter from E.B. White to a man who'd written he'd lost all hope:

chinga la migra

Activists celebrate as immigration agents depart Terminal Island. 'The people kicked them out' Federal immigration agents departed from the Coast Guard site at Terminal Island in San Pedro, which they had used as a base for months while the Trump administration conducted immigration raids acros...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents departed from a Coast Guard site at Terminal Island they had used as a base of operations for immigration raids across Southern California.

www.latimes.com/california/s...

Schools: Drop ICE Mass Call · AFT We will cut off ICE’s corporate enablers — starting on our campuses. Donald Trump’s deportation machine depends on private corporations for technology to track, places to sleep, cars to drive, planes...

See you tomorrow night!

www.mobilize.us/aft/event/89...

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

happy to see this news.. still mad that UCLA’s workers had to sue to stop this because our well-paid administrators were too spineless to fight for us

a street flooded with thousands of marchers.

Yesterday upwards of 300 million people across India held a national strike.

Numerous unions and farmers' groups flooded the streets, shutting down large segments of the economy.

One of the key demands was a withdrawal from the trade deal struck with the Trump administration.

I keep bringing up Googleglass because it’s a reminder that widespread opprobrium is still a useful tool. If your friend says he plans on buying them, tell him they are for creeps. If someone shows up to your party with them, ask them to leave. Brand these as a product for losers and pervs.

Charles Young Library stacks at UCLA?

super g is so fucking sick

GIFT LINK:

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

One of the Minnesotans who stood up was Gust Johnson, a Vietnam war vet and nurse

He went to scene after Alex Pretti was killed

Agents repeatedly sprayed him in face

They tackled him (knocking out hearing aid and cutting arm)

They shackled him.

They held him ten hours.

They kept his phone.

don’t look away

Pat Spencer pumps me up so much

Raskin: To promote justice for the people, you've got to listen to the victims like the women seated behind you today. Those are just some of the hundreds of survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's global sex trafficking ring. You still haven't with them.

Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”

There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.