Joe Winter 🏳️‍🌈

Sam Altman: We’re gonna use our AI technology to elevate humanity and work with Jony Ive to design beautiful consumer products.

Also Sam Altman: We’re gonna use our AI technology to build surveillance systems and autonomous war machines for a nationalist authoritarian government.

On Joy and Resistance | dansinker.com

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BAD BUNNY

No Kings includes Draft Kings

I started a new job this week. WEEEEE

Existential dread on olympics.com 🥲

wtf

Sharing because Heated Rivalry was mentioned

AI layoffs are looking more and more like corporate fiction that's masking a darker reality, Oxford Economics suggests | Fortune "Firms don't appear to be replacing workers with AI on a significant scale," the firm said. It suspects some are trying to "dress up layoffs" as good news.

“By framing layoffs as a technological pivot, companies can present themselves as forward-thinking innovators rather than businesses struggling with cyclical downturns.” 🙃

Bernie Sanders bursting out laughing as Eric Adams seethes at Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration

Obsessed with this juxtaposition

Timer, 15, Start. Sounds reasonable. No, you have to press Timer again.

Enshittification (tech), Marvelization (movies), Subscriptionification (media consumption), Shrinkflation (resource quantity), Monopolization (corporate consolidation), Planned Obsolescence (consumer products).

I'm tired.

Calvin and Hobbes is one of a handful of pieces of art that I sort of expected to leave behind when I grew into adulthood but instead continue to point at in increasingly desperate ways to beg people to increase their humanity

Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry

A photo of two bells labeled “Ring for a hug” and “Ring for a cuddle”.

Furiously ringing both

I honestly feel like this win is the best political night in like, at least a decade, probably more

Last chance to turn it off.

On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.

To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

Browsing Netflix is scrolling just fast enough to keep it fucking quiet.

Not using my extra hour for sleep, but for evil

Look who my family and I ran into on Halloween. !!!

“How you do anything is how you do everything.”

Day 2 of Out in Tech’s 2025 Leadership Institute. 🩷 @outintech.bsky.social

Is Jakob ok? I’m not convinced his brain isn’t slowly being taken over by white thin AI women. #designsky

Screenshot of a search bar with the Google logo and a lines-and-arrow glyph and the text "Press tab then enter to ask AI Mode"

What's the key combo for get the fuck out of my face

Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Maybe time to give V for Vendetta another watch.

this moment is so deeply fucking infuriating to live through

Imagine saying nothing about school shootings, or the genocide in Gaza, or the kidnapping of our neighbors, or the vilification of trans youth. Imagine saying nothing about these and so many other tragedies.

And then finding your voice for Charlie Kirk.

Today I baked muffins for a new neighbor and sold a bike trailer to an old neighbor. Yay neighbors!