lilitaylor

Lili Taylor | Substack Actor, Author, Birder

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Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

Proud to be a part of this pack!

Yes!!!!!

What are the upsides? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/b...

Maybe he really does think if he keeps biting it he’ll get to the chocolate.

Please stop

a small gull on a fence post next to a sign on a hill. the next photo zooms in to find out that...

...the gull is made of plastic.

i shouted "little gull"

Winds Suck Dicks

someone waited their ENTIRE LIFE to write that headline...

The call has been made! NYC Public Schools will have a full snow day tomorrow.

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Just pre-ordered the book!!!

I love them

The story of how we got the near-monarchical mega-presidency isn't just one of presidents power grabbing, it's presidents power grabbing and GOP-dominated Supreme Court more often than not siding with them over Congress. It takes incredible chutzpah for one of them to then complain about the result.

You go girl tiffinohio.net/posts/ohio-g...

Understanding What’s Wrong With Facebook We are now back in one of those recurrent waves of bad...

Understanding What’s Wrong With Facebook talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/under...

Video: The Hidden Park Under the Brooklyn Bridge Beneath the Manhattan side of New York City’s most storied bridge lies acres of public land that was once fenced off and nearly forgotten. Michael Kimmelman, architecture critic and editor-at-large of...

Anyone can bring about change by noticng what’s there” ~ Rosa Chang www.nytimes.com/video/headwa...

‘A different set of rules’: thermal drone footage shows Musk’s AI power plant flouting clean air regulations Images confirm xAI is continuing to defy EPA regulations in Mississippi to power its flagship datacenters

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

social media in general needs aggressive regulation but the whole world would be markedly better off if Meta in particular were just nuked from orbit

The Great Backyard Bird Count Feb 13-16.
15 minutes a day.
Count’em, report’em to ebird.org/home

Local immigrant defense networks were deluged with life and death cases. They put a call out for private lawyers to step in and provide pro bono help.

My firm did. And since we joined the effort on January 14, it’s been some of the hardest, most exhausting, most depressing month of my life.

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“Be a neighbor, not a Nazi” proved too much for MAGA to overcome in yet another American city.

This is unquestionably a massive defeat for the regime.

Never forget: Trump’s authoritarian desires are limitless. But his ability to impose them on the country is not.

A Digital Audio Player Renewed My Love Of Music Quitting Spotify is a little easier with my brand new digital audio player

A Digital Audio Player Renewed My Love Of Music aftermath.site/digita-audio...

The predominent anti-AI position on bsky is that AI is useless, fake, shit and basically the same as NFTs, destined to collapse in months once everyone sees how poor it is. So anyone who suggests that it could improve or be useful to any boss in any situation in the future must be evil. 4:36 PM · Feb 11, 2026

Not quoting because they have enough dunks on them but this strawman has taken root among some people, so: no, actually, that particular position is not predominant.

This framing conflates three distinct "anti-AI" views that sometimes overlap: financial bubble, overhyped, and societal harm.
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Right-wing efforts that materially harm millions are framed narrowly as political success for the people who push them.

This is written from the perspective of conservative activists.

I think I might celebrate #Lawyercat every day. It’s like medicine

Goodbye Mr. Philosopher

Done!