Tina

It doesn't make any sense to conceive of due process as a right that individual people can have or not have at all tbh. Bad framing from the start. Due process is a restriction on the government's actions, and by definition it applies to either everyone or no one.

Portland is burning

People once again need to internalize that "generative AI" is a small subset of machine learning, that machine learning is a critical tool that you cannot run a site without past a certain volume Bluesky has long since exceeded, and that it is FAR more reliable than user reporting.

Ok, this is just funny.

isportlandburning.com

Trump and Vought just re-invented ship money from first principles

Bookshop is having an Anti-Amazon sale, with cheap e-books and free shipping for print today and tomorrow:

bookshop.org/lists/ebook-...

One of my all-time fav tweets is the one about how Tesla models are all just one jpeg stretched in different directions.

yeah we’re gonna win

Lol

They have no understanding of real costs to people.

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

Okay, but the first tweet is a cheap shot. Any decent political system necessarily includes a coherent opposition.

God knows, we could discourse in several directions about Pelosi and the recent party leadership. But this is just cheap.

like, yes, it is correct that portland is a progressive city, but it’s a lot more nuanced than “the socialists are running portland”, which someone with, like, *any* actual background on the city would have known

Lord, yes

He’s unhinged.

I become more and more convinced that Stephen Miller’s name is going to resonate in history like McCarthy’s.

it’s cool how every major tech company has completely abandoned the idea that user experience should matter

When Stephen Miller hijacks the Major League Baseball social media account

Libraries Can’t Get Their Loaned Books Back Because of Trump’s Tariffs Libraries have shared their collections internationally for decades. Trump’s tariffs are throwing that system into chaos and can ‘hinder academic progress.’

Libraries worldwide have been impacted by Trump's tariffs. Books that are on loan from US libraries to international libraries are getting tariffed on their way back in, getting books from international libraries has turned into an expensive nightmare, etc:

www.404media.co/libraries-ca...

I think there are 30 seats left in this, so if you want to sign up do it now (bit do the time math multiple times, date lines are confusing (it's not utc -8, it's utc +8, it's in Singapore)

Want to hear more from @mikecaulfield.bsky.social? Mike the creator of SIFT and co-author of Verified- is doing a free online class on using searching + AI for Verification. 24 October 2025 (Friday), 10:00–11:30 am SGT (UTC +8). eventregistration.smu.edu.sg/event/TTT2025/

Broken Eggs, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1756

That’s not for me, lol

Gorgeous

Say what you will about the liberal order, but one of its core domestic objectives was to lower the ambitions of politics so that you don’t have to flee the country every time there’s a change in power.

Yes, movement helps with anxiety for me as well. I walk or do some making (textiles or cooking).

Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence Both the general public and academic communities have raised concerns about sycophancy, the phenomenon of artificial intelligence (AI) excessively agreeing with or flattering users. Yet, beyond isolat...

Preliminary results show that the current framework of "AI" makes ppl less likely to help or seek help from other humans, or to seek to soothe conflict, and that people actively prefer that framework to any others, literally serving to make them more dependent on it.

The LA Public Library research librarian explaining what is going on with Charli and Taylor is outstanding work

www.instagram.com/reel/DPXZIUa...

YouTube video by maxinebendix Kitty 2 - With Patricia Routledge - BBC

BEREFT.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wisQ...