if so, a very abusive ruse.

I’ve run out of adjectives to describe how despicable these people are.

FYI if you invent an algorithm that imitates human speech while summarizing everything on the Internet without first purging all the bullshit from the Internet, all you're going to get is a bullshit machine.

Exactly

Schumer and the Dems are about to teach Trump the lesson that they’ll cave whenever he abuses power to sufficiently hurt people.

TELL YOUR DEMOCRATIC SENATORS TO KEEP HOLDING THE LINE IN THE FUNDING FIGHT act.indivisible.org/sign/funding...

This is so deeply cruel and unjust.

Which is why I think the Dems need to stake out lines right now that the entirety of the ICE machinery. That anyone deployed in Trump’s anti-immigration machinery is deemed part of a conspiracy.

Worth noting that Oates didn't go for hate here, but pity, which stings more.

YouTube video by Yale MacMillan Center 2025 George Herbert Walker, Jr. Lecture with Peter Pomerantsev

While watching this academic lecture by @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social, I thought; why, are so few seeking ways to undermine far-right populist #propaganda? It floods info channels globally, sweeps up followers in myths & distortions while the opposition...reacts to it. Instead of disrupting it?

The machine that's being built to replace all workers needs workers to bail it out so it can keep existing

... except to build confidence in the system so that when it switches from serving the user to serving the owner the user is already so dependent that they either do not notice or cannot leave.
That’s the Facebook/Amazon/Google model and there’s no reason to believe AI is different.

Letting a computer make decisions is letting whoever controls the computer decide the range of acceptable choices. There is no way that the owners of the AI systems will allow them to make decisions which are optimal for the user but against the interests of the owner...
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Guy with a sandwich: “Fuck you armed agent of the state.”

Ivy League: “I will eat my poop and thank you for it because I’m scared of a Fox News personality cosplaying as a lawyer”

The Onion: DHS: ‘Daycare Workers Have Walked Freely in This Country For Far Too Long’

As civil rights groups warned 7 years ago.

Community note for the win

"Republicans are keeping the government closed, starving kids, and making you miss your Thanksgiving flights because they want your healthcare costs to go through the roof" is actually a pretty effective message for Democrats

Happy Holidays.

Even before the election and all the doge dealings and attempts to rile up the far right in Europe and Britain, it was clear this guy had money, power, and ego and on a globally-damaging scale.

Halloween is over, but people being being disappeared is still the horror story of this period.

Raising Questions Well, we're in month eleven now, and it doesn't get easier, does it? How are you coping? What's helping you get through your week? What do you need help with? These essays have been helping me struct...

I talk about tools and technologies (esp. artificial intelligence), and share some helpful questions that function very well as tools for preserving our energy, attention, and possibly even our very democracy:

finding-throughlines.ghost.io/raising-ques...

More Than 1 Million Jobs Have Been Cut This Year, Report Says A new report largely blames "disruptive technology” and cuts to government spending for a high number of job losses this year.

A new report largely blames "disruptive technology” and cuts to government spending for a high number of job losses this year.

Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man

800+ flights cancelled today because Elon took a chainsaw to the federal government and Trump won’t pay the remaining airport personnel.

Elon’s on his way to becoming a trillionaire.

Trump’s net worth has more than doubled inside a year.

Glad everything worked out for them.

How about you?

Mother speaks out after ICE raids #Chicago day care center.

“They are coming for all our children!”

#immigration

And snow falls up, Charlie Brown,

No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong,

it is right.

No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,

it is a strength.

No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,

it is unlimited.

Is it time to call it a referendum on the president yet?