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really feels like housing affordability is one of the most important political issues of our time, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives, and everyday our mainstream political discourse is about whether sour cream is woke or not

Just spitballing here, but cryptobros throwing sex toys at WNBA players on the court and other cryptobros and male sports commentators calling it funny and telling the women and their coaches to 'lighten up' both explains the 'male loneliness epidemic' and why I don't care about it.

Well for starters, people who understand the difference between “a prompt” and “a story”

Chris Cuomo posting a deepfake of AOC the same week that Jim Acosta “interviews” a deepfake of a school shooting victim are both harbingers of how traditional media power players will help usher in the worst of the AI slop era

JD Vance’s team had water level of Ohio river raised for family’s boating trip Exclusive: Incident raises questions of exploitation of public services, but Secret Service says it was requested for ‘safe navigation’ Stephanie Kirchgaessner and David Smith Wed 6 Aug 2025 17.46 EDT Share JD Vance’s team had the army corps of engineers take the unusual step of changing the outflow of a lake in Ohio to accommodate a recent boating excursion on a family holiday, the Guardian has learned. The request from the US Secret Service was made to “support safe navigation” of the US vice-president’s security detail for an August outing on the Little Miami River, according to a statement by the US army corps of engineers (USACE). Vance was spotted in the south-western Ohio area on 2 August, his 41st birthday, according to social media posts that noted he was seen canoeing on the river, a tributary that Caesar Creek Lake feeds into. One source with knowledge of the matter who communicated with the Guardian anonymously alleged that the outflow request for the Caesar Creek Lake was not just to support the vice-president’s Secret Service detail, but also to create “ideal kayaking conditions”. The Guardian could not independently confirm this specific claim.

What good is being VP if you can't abuse your power to have the Army Corps of Engineers making your kayaking trip more ideal by changing the waterflow of a lake?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Instagram post from the nsgov Instagram account. Black and red text reads “STAY OUT OF THE WOODS”; the foreground is a black silhouette of trees

obsessed with this vague notice from the government of Nova Scotia. Like it’s definitely about the new fire restrictions, but it also looks like a poster you’d find yellowed and curled on the bulletin board of a diner in a town where locals won’t talk about their missing kids

“How can asbestos be bad for you if everyone’s building houses with it?”

cool how the Nobody Wants To Work Anymore guys are also the We Don't Want Human Employees Anymore guys. we're working as hard as we can to replace you with an iPad but until then let's see some hustle out there

i think the correct way to think about the lonely boy question is not "how do we reach out to incels?" but "how do we make sure that a teenage boy looking for romantic advice isn't flooded with right-wing propaganda?"

One might think that undermining trust in the economic reporting of the United States would trigger an impeachment investigation. This is literally bringing the word of the United States into question.

this is a disgrace and a national shame

Deskilling is real.

This is the world generative AI peddlers long for, one where people are incompetent without their service.

Don't outsource your brain to this shit. You'll regret it.

photo of Mr. Rogers that looks almost exactly like The Onion sickos meme guy

Obsessed with this photo of Mr. Rogers that looks almost exactly like The Onion sickos guy.

"ChatGPT is great for brainstorming!"

Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

There is the actual Democratic Party, which for better or worse is a mostly ordinary liberal political party and then there is the “Democratic Party,” a synecdoche for everything that annoys you online.

Given the option of saying (about the most notorious pedophile in American history),

"I ended our friendship because he was a creep"

- and -

"I ended our friendship because I don't like it when people try to poach my staff"

IT'S PRETTY WEIRD TO GO WITH THE LAST ONE !!!!

It's not political to think people shouldn't be starved to death.

Google search's AI summary is like the loud confident idiot in the room who doesn't always know the answer to your question but HAS TO be the first one to reply to it.

when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”

Illustration of a person sick, with a thermometer in their mouth, looking out of a window. Text reads: FEELING SICK This summer? This summer COVID wave isn’t unusual. Hot weather and travel create the perfect recipe for COVID’s peak in the summer. Here’s what you need to know:

Illustration of a plane in the clouds. Text reads: Why does COVID surge in the summer? Hot weather means spending more time indoors, where it’s easier for viruses to spread. Travel exposes us to more people, including from places where COVID activity is higher. People may also shrug off mild symptoms as “just jet lag,” when they are unknowingly contagious with COVID.

Illustration of a person wearing a mask washing their hands in a sink with soap and water. Text reads: Reduce your risk of getting sick: Practice good hygiene. Cover your coughs and sneezes, wash your hands often, and clean frequently touched surfaces. Take steps for cleaner air. Open windows to increase ventilation, use an air purifier, gather outside when possible. Wear a N95/KN94 mask. Masks protect you from inhaling germs. Consider wearing one in crowded places and when traveling to prevent illness.

Illustration of a COVID test. Text reads: Feeling sick? Stay home and get tested! If COVID is causing your symptoms, there are antiviral medications that are extremely effective in reducing the likelihood of your symptoms becoming severe. You can resume normal activities when, for at least 24 hours: Your symptoms are getting better. You have been fever-free without using fever-reducing medication. Over the next 5 days, take additional precautions around others. If your symptoms return, re-isolate and retest.

You might think COVID only spikes in the colder months, alongside other common respiratory viruses like flu and RSV. But COVID cases have also surged every summer, due to several factors.

Understanding why can help us better protect ourselves as well as our precious vacation plans.

I do firmly believe that refusing to outsource your basic cognitive functions to LLMs right now - as so many are stumbling over themselves to do right now, like hogs trotting to a pile of slop that’s been set up inside of a butcher’s delivery truck - will very much pay off in a few years.

And yet they want people to have more children to live in a future that won’t exist thanks to letting climate change run wild

Not trying to give them any ideas, but it seems odd to me that DOJ just hasn’t chatGPTd themselves some fake Epstein files to release since it’s not like they care about ethics or, you know, the rule of law in the first place

sorry if this is insane to say, but i dont think a group of reactionary cultists should set the cultural agenda for all of society

i believe that at 18 every american should be entered into a draft, not for military service, but for one year of mandatory retail or restaurant work