Arlin, Dramaturge

For the love of God stop calling capitalism “Technofeudalism.” This is not a mutant regression off the track of benign capitalism’s progress to utopia. This is capitalism doing capitalism.

So many cursed days. Same, sad cat, same.

My Game Boy breakbeat music album is now released! Listen to it here:
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They literally ruin everything they touch

UX person here: in a social platform, not a critique based one, the introduction of negative yardsticks beyond what we already express in text and through blocks, would likely start generating chilling effects or inhibiting use. Nobody wants the experience of waking up to 20, 200, 2000 dislikes.

To be fair, we get that sort of problem in June and July, because something something ‘murica something something patriotism ah screw it let’s explode things. Also because they are available here and not just over the border in Illinois.

Still, Mister is pretty carefree in general so he’s fine.

A close up of the face of a majestic grey cat. The cat is looking off to the left and appears wary of something he sees.

Mister is Concerned about this.

A beautiful black cat, the quintessential black cat. Never has there been a black cat, more black cat shaped than this black cat. He is standing on his hind legs with his paws on my knees, wearing a blue science officer, Star Trek shirt, and looking up with wide clear round eyes. The carpet beneath him makes it look like he has a little halo and he might as well.

Every so often I repost this photo of Darwin to prove he is the most perfect little man (see alt for more)

I felt very much this when I heard about free emergency contraception in pharmacies coming in today. I had to go down the most hideous wormhole 15 years ago because it was a Sunday and I didn't have £30. It could have been worse – but not that much. www.independent.co.uk/voices/morni...

I get enthusiasm for Halloween but yikes

So the Care Bears got rebooted by gen AI?

I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this

Being Muslim is not antisemitic.

Being Palestinian is not antisemitic.

Supporting Palestine is not antisemitic.

Jews who support Mamdani are not self hating.

Jews who support Palestine are not self hating.

I've had more than enough of this bullshit.

I have been amazed at how much improv experience translates to keeping teaching engaging.

I'm serious: It's very probably long past time to stop using the current paradigm of "generative AI."

It comes from, depends on, and perpetuates so much environmental and social harm.

Reinvision a better way than this. JFC.

I don’t know how many times I have to say this but if you didn’t know any geek girls in high school or you don’t know any now it’s because they didn’t trust you and you’re *NOT A SAFE PERSON* for women to be themselves around.

I anticipate even more of this & different tactics as well, especially in Virginia.

This is a dress rehearsal for 2026--including the Dem response.

It is really frustrating how common it is for people to react to what they imagine someone is going to do, rather than what they actually have done.

This thread right here. 🧵
THIS THREAD.

I am not naive about this evil ass system, but MY GOD

ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Imagine a browser where you type in “Taylor Swift” and it doesn’t even admit that her website exists. I write about Atlas, ChatGPT’s new anti-web browser that should come with a warning label. www.anildash.com/2025/10/22/a...

a cartoon of a man saying " and this is where i 'd put my trophy " . Alt: a cartoon of a man saying " and this is where i 'd put my trophy, if I had one" .

This is where I'd be increasing my profits... IF I HAD ANY.

Layup "orange man bad" story here for major media, feel free not to credit just please write something - anything - about this

It's wild the number of people that think the demonstration is the goal, rather than the starting line. It was important and absolutely a good thing but we shouldn't just... stop.

I guess where I’m landing is less “oh no he’s a Nazi” and more “I just went through this shit with Fetterman and Sinema and a six year term is too long for me to take on faith that your Nazi tattoo was the accident but what you’re saying now is the truth.”

I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong.

Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.

One of perverse dynamics of Trumpism, how a frequently toadyish establishment press undergirds a system in which Trumpists regularly accuse Democrats of being “the Nazis” and we have frequent revelations in which Trump insiders tell each other “we’re the Nazis”

This one was turkey and cheddar with banana peppers and brown mustard, on some of the sourdough I baked yesterday! Sadly, the spinach has in fact passed beyond the veil, so since I'm not a Victorian it was not fit for consumption.

I mean, mine gave me the energy required to *checks notes* make myself a sandwich.

Sadly, this is actually a victory given fatigue levels.

Nap time, nap time, nap- zzzzz

Oh it’s not appropriate for your program to air the president wearing a crown and shitting on American citizens?

You’ll talk about it in euphemisms? Maybe call it the “crown video” and ignore the shitting part? Because that’s appropriate?

Tell me, was it appropriate for the president to do it?