tim jones (parody account)

Opinion | They Don’t Tell You How Fun the Resistance Can Be

Spend some time with this one.

They Don’t Tell You How Fun the Resistance Can Be www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...

a lot of people don't realize that Christmas carols and traditions are actually folk memories of suppressed pre-Christian events, namely the end of the Third Age and the Fall of Sauron.

one insidious thing about gen AI is it's not just causing us to mistrust dodgy images, it's also making us mistrust images that look perfectly normal. this is gaslighting in a very literal sense bc the technology is undermining the trust we have in our own ability to perceive reality!

busta rhymes on a float at the macy's thanksgiving parade with the ninja turtles

thanksgiving is a time for people to come together, to celebrate the spirit of unity despite our differences, and to demonstrate that, here is busta rhymes performing "break ya neck" with raphael the ninja turtle

When we take our government and country back from the fascists, every single one of these thugs must answer, in court, for the crimes they are currently committing. Hold them all accountable.

From Orwell’s “As I Please” column: “For quite long periods, at any rate, people can remain undisturbed by obvious lies, either because they simply forget what is said from day to day or because they are under such a constant propaganda bombardment that they become anaesthetised to the whole business.”

It’s a cliché at this point how eerily relevant Orwell’s dystopian fiction is to our era, but don’t sleep on his (humblingly voluminous!) essays and columns.

This person took this when they called the race

DON’T GET ON YOUR EZRA KLEIN NONSENSE

DON’T LET EZRA KLEIN ANALYZE THIS

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea

text:

reference:

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#moderate #quake #M2+ #M3+ #M4+ #United_States #California
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Surprisingly, ATCQ's Lucien is non-fictitious!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucien_...

EFFecting Change: EFF Turns 35! Since 1990, EFF's lawyers, activists, analysts, and technologists have used everything in their toolkit to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people of the world....

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it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

Back before the Internet, we thought the reason for human stupidity was the lack of information options.

I’ll put it this way: That wasn’t it.

Hooting and hollering at the part of Alexis' new book where he talks about what makes Oakland special

Democrats Huddle To Decide How Best To Let Massive Republican Fuck-Up Slip Through Fingers

Democrats Huddle To Decide How Best To Let Massive Republican Fuck-Up Slip Through Fingers

"Pretty well every conversation that I read about AGI treats it as a miracle... that is inherently better than individual and collective human institutions of decision making. I very rarely see specific discussion of what these technologies can, and more importantly, cannot, do..."

How God and good men hate so foul a liar.

Has it occured to them that one reason voters aren’t biting on the idea that liberal democracy is facing an existential threat is that they find it inconceivable the opposition party would be nattering about fucking egg prices if they really believed that were true?

am fully jealous

Ten Pieces Of Advice From David Lynch That Can Help You Grow Your Startup

what are we doing here, people

after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"

The Only Narcan Vending Machine In Alabama

In a postage stamp of a town at the southernmost tip of Appalachia, a minister and self-described anarchosocialist operates Alabama's only Narcan vending machine. I wrote about his lifesaving work in this, my first piece for @oxfordamerican.bsky.social.
oxfordamerican.org/oa-now/the-o...

Wikipedia is the last major, visible platform for facts that they can’t buy. The attacks are going to be merciless.

Perhaps it was a mistake for the country to turn politics into our national sports pastime.

I do the same thing with 555-1212 and it always works… but is not as awesome.

The orc from Return of the King saying “The age of men is over. Now the Jingle Hop has begun.” He is wearing a Santa hat

Karl and the Mooninites from “Aqua Teen Hunger Force”

Sorry but when I hear “mysterious drone spotted in New Jersey” this is all I can picture