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like it's hard to believe someone like this has interiority when their entire online existence is collecting AI images of trump and putin kissing because like that's gay and therefore gross and replying to random shitposters with that. like you're no different from the groypers.

like i think they're actually people, they are just searching keywords and spamming random images from their meme folder because they've convinced themselves that is what doing politics is, probably because they think they're fighting back against the nazis doing the same shit, and that's just sad

i don't like the "everything i don't like online is just bots" stuff but every so often i run into a resist lib account on here that just replies to everything with bad AI generated memes about trump that don't even make sense in context and i realize that if that's not a bot that's even sadder.

i think crabs should have more friends on this planet. like people or other crabs or little eels or maybe shrimps or a shark perhaps or those huge isopods that look like little grumpy guys or that one squid thats really tiny but is nice and other cephalopods and sea slugs and anemone and snails and

I know our expectations for this administration are in the basement but it is INSANE they started a war without a plan for the Strait of Hormuz.

whether that statistic is accurate or not is unimportant. they are attempting attrition from both ends: stay closeted or die, it doesn‘t matter to them. they want to make even the compromised, careful lives we have been forced to lead up to now impossible.

when the most prominent meme about a minority is that the attempted suicide rate approaches half of the *surviving* population of that minority, yeah, they know what they’re doing when they target us.

every trans crackdown is an attempted mass murder.

For the tech world, education *is* a chore, you want to get the bare minimum as fast as possible before jumping in and making big bank at a start up, or as an entrepreneur yourself. Everything in the path of wealth or power or validation *through* these things must be discarded.

"AI will let us turn PhDs from 4 year degrees into 6 month degrees!"

Literally shitting on the part that makes it intellectual development. It requires things like *reading* for yourself and *writing* for yourself. Those aren't chores, they're part of skills acquisition and critical development.

Given those "Pennsylvania teenagers" crossed that border while in possession of said home-made bombs, & while intending to use them to cause grievous harm or death. I'd say it's was never going to be normal day enjoying the city.
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Guy who has done multiple tariff based pump and dump scams to the stock market: "actually this won't be another middle east quagmire that wastes trillions of dollars and swathes of human life"

The stock market: "yes sir right away sir line go up sir"

I love the United States stock market because it will react accordingly to geopolitical events and then all it takes to reverse this is the president who lies literally every single time he speaks saying "it's fine everything will be great" and we all have to pretend any of this is real

Viral 'Quittr' Porn Addiction App Exposed the Masturbation Habits of Hundreds of Thousands of Users A couple of 20-year-old developers make $500,000 a month promising to help men to stop watching porn, but exposed their private porn watching habits.

@emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social first reported about Quittr exposing user data in January, but was unable to name Quittr in because its creators, Alex Slater Connor McLaren, did not fix its security issues despite multiple requests and an offer from an independent researcher to help them fix it.

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Windows 11 apparently has a mouse bug

If they keep pushing AI in schools I worry we’ll be the last generation to even be able to identify what is AI writing and what’s not, let alone prefer writing from humans

It's never "oh their books are terrible, but they're such a nice person."

It's always "he's a repeated sexual predator, but" or "she's literally bankrolling a genocide, but"

Like with method actors only ever using the method to act like utter assholes, nobody ever seems to need to separate the art from the artist by praising the artist as a good, decent person.

if it wasn't a world-destroying atrocity it would be kind of funny how much time and money and energy is being put into convincing everyone to love AI and still the general consensus is like "meh"

I don't think most people grasp the insane amount of resources that the US allocates to weapons and war machines. The list of better things we could do with the military budget is nearly endless.

At ~$1 billion/day, the US has spent as much on the war in Iran in ten days as the entire FY25 budget for the National Science Foundation ($10 billion).

Trump's FY26 budget request for the agency declined to $3.9 billion, due to a "realignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment."

And the last ceasefire israel signed had a little asterisks allowing them to continue killing palestinians without consequences.

the last few times iran has accepted a ceasefire, the US and israel have taken the opportunity to restock their weapons and then surprise attack iran again. "there's zero point in engaging in diplomacy with us any more" is what that strategy teaches

A version of Dune where the Bene Gesserit Voice is when tourists think you don't speak English so they speak louder and more slowly

They get mad when people on SNAP want to buy soda

Take a moment to think about how every single one of those problems she'd identified as decades long decay deliberately unaddressed by anyone in power, look right now.

Octavia Butler, 2005: I wrote the two Parable books back in the '90s. And they are books about, as I said, what happens because we don't trouble to correct some of the problems that we’re brewing for ourselves right now. Global warming is one of those problems. And I was aware of it back in the ’80s

"if we keep recklessly endangering the environment, if we keep paying no attention to economic realities, if we keep paying no attention to educational needs, if we keep doing a lot of the things that are hurting us now"

Over 20 years ago she was like "these things have been a problem for decades"

She was looking at trends no one, at all, in power bothered to fix and went "what does another 20 years of this look like?"

And that was over 20 years ago. In that time the rot has only accelerated, the finding out part more damaging.

Sci-Fi Author Octavia Butler Dies at 58 Host Ed Gordon remembers science-fiction writer Octavia Butler, who died on Friday at the age of 58. She was the first African-American woman to gain prominence as a sci-fi author. Her first novel, Ki...

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Octavia Butler said her "I want to write about what's going to happen if we keep doing what we've been doing" in *2004*.

She looked at problems that, even back then, had not been at all addressed for decades, and went "what do they look after 30 more years of rot"