Mallory Cairo

This fear is particularly common in highly unequal and individualistic societies.

Because in that context, it's easy for fear-mongers to convince parents that any so-called "imperfection" will doom their kid to a life of struggle and doom them to a life of judgment for having an "imperfect" kid.

Why not los dos?

I am so tired of tech bros acting like history is nonexistent; that they're the first person to ever have a thought. This IS eugenics, he just hasn't bothered to know anything beyond CRISPR (or, he has, and he is acting in pure bad faith.)

Elizabeth Catte's work is so great

Two screenshots designed in the style of Spotify Wrapped but they're presented as being a (nonexistent) Bluesky Wrapped Screenshot 1: You spent 738 posts on the following topics: 1. Dunking on the New York Times op-ed section 2. Talking about drama at New York Magazine 3. Weighing in on the New York City mayoral election Screenshot 2: Based on this, your most likely place to be located would be: New York, NY Instead, swipe to see where, based on geotagging, you actually live

Man, the Bluesky Wrapped 2025 is pretty brutal

Sometimes I’m happy that my Alma Mater closed shop two years ago, because now I don’t have to watch it sell out to the soulless tech bubble in such vile and transparent fashion.

Also, I know we’re history teacher but sometimes my jaw drops at how little changes. It feels so tired to say “this could be written today,” but boy howdy could it

I just took a screenshot and sent it to my fellow exvangelical and our fellow excatholic friend (and my poor friend who grew up normal is in a group chat with us freaks so she has to endure this type of thing often)

Absolute banger to read at 6:35 am on Thanksgiving

the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity

"Argentina" is a University of Chicago economic experiment and you can't convince me otherwise

Iran's capital must relocate due to dire water situation, president insists Tehran's troubles are a red flag for thirsty cities around the globe.

Seems important. Let's build a few more AI datacenters to figure out how to ration water effectively.

www.motherjones.com/environment/...

No, I'm not comfortable going without a chaperone.

If people are mad about Ticketmaster and Livenation raising prices well beyond what the creators charge on something and profiting massively.... they're gonna be mad about, well, everything else

An hour after the house voted to condemn socialism Trump is charmed my Mamdani this is frying me

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

The drinking water fandom is dying. Like and share if you're still sipping that clear stuff in 2025

To me, the biggest tell that AI is massively overvalued is that Big Tech has to keep shoving it in our faces. I just noticed Chrome has a 'Gemini' button at the top of the browser, and I'm getting prompts all over the place, including Zoom, to 'try AI.'

Digital Ash in a Digital Urn
I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
The Emancipation of Mimi
Gimmie Fiction
Make Believe
Fijación Oral, Vol. 1
Move Along
Plans
Bullet in a Bible

I was an emo baby what can I say

Amidst all the revelations I am incredibly pissed that this stuff was being sat on for all these years.

Not the point but Epstein's email writing style itself is horrific.

Oh you rich conspiring pedophiles & all your smug weaselly defenders, please lecture me again about how my trans kid is a threat to American family values

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

Taxes on high earners are too low bsky.app/profile/popc...

I had this exact thought last night while stewing about my local electeds

I’m still so angry about this, OpenAI (judging from the chat) knows vulnerable users are engaging with the tech like this; they aggressively sell it to the education sector either way; they do not care to warn users/put in safeguards; because they can blame harm/deaths on already vulnerable people.

lol

Third space third space third space!!!!!

score one for "the pundits are projecting their own preoccupations onto the electorate"