Aaahh! bstract Tesseract

I am so looking forward to doing literally anything other than watching this

Just flown in from Riyadh, and boy are my excuses tired

Dunking on AI boosters is professionally important, ethically correct, and also a lot of fun

What middle and upper class cis het white people need to understand is that they only have as many rights as the most vulnerable do. You have only the rights trans people and immigrants do.

New: The WGAE, which represents some parts of CBS News including its social team, sent a note to members today advising its members not to respond to Weiss’ request for an email by next week. The union also said it asked CBS for more information about Weiss’ request.

"The Printing Press Democratized Knowledge": When Slogans Masquerade as History — Sonja Drimmer The phrase is said so frequently it seems, like the mechanism it celebrates, to mechanically replicate itself.  It's become a favorite catchphrase among tech boosters of any sort (see my post on...

really nice piece on this btw from @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...

Every time I read or listen to Dean Spade, I feel a renewed capacity to handle the difficult and shitty parts of organizing with more generosity and tenderness, even when I'm exhausted and pissed off

maybe the real friends were the users we made along the...wait no

I love linguistics

Can the "adjustment that society has to go through" involve Sam Altman shutting the fuck up

When I worked on machine learning in industry, literally every project we were asked to work on was motivated by a middle manager not wanting to devote thought or attention to their job. They were good at convincing themselves that they were asking for something different from that, but it was that

the only appropriate response will be to triple down on supporting the targeted groups rather than to do what so many people usually do which is to run away from them.

"Do you remember George Santos?"

I had forgotten and no thank you for reminding me lmao

Great episode, really interesting to see the cracks forming in these alliances

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

“We don’t have to approach and criticize this album as art, because it isn’t art. The Life of a Showgirl is made of Shein quality rip-offs of other people’s songs that are constructed shoddily and sold in ginormous quantities. Art takes time and care. This is profit. It’s content.”

WHEW.

Honestly same! My friend has a guinea pig who is always SUPER EXCITED to receive lettuce and I just...cannot relate

I can't decide if I want to interpret this as "salads should have less lettuce" or "lettuce should be distributed more equitably among dishes that aren't salad"

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

‘Let’s do the f***ing news’: Bari Weiss causes ‘eye rolls’ with CBS News rallying cry EXCLUSIVE: Multiple CBS News staffers told The Independent that Bari Weiss’ ‘cringey’ comments on the editorial call literally caused eyes to roll.

NEW from me:

CBS News staffers literally rolled their eyes after new editor-in-chief Bari Weiss delivered a "cringey" rallying cry during today's editorial call, exclaiming: "Let's do the fucking news!"

"She's cosplaying as a broadcast journalist," one said.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

“I had to flat out tell [the Microsoft sales team] VP we're not buying any fucking copilot - whereupon she revealed that the only thing she is being measured on for Q4 is sales of copilot, so if that's off the table the conversation is not interesting. LMAO”

Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

Hiring Bari Weiss to bring down the temperature of the discourse is like hiring Animal from the Muppets to reduce workplace noise

Whenever anarchism — or any idea more radical than the status quo — gets dismissed as unserious, it's worth remembering the current system runs on things like "we put all the money on a scam machine that tells rich dipshits they're god."

Historians will one day specialize in this one specific decade that we are living in and they will walk into the classroom and be like "Welcome to an Introduction to the Greatest Shitstorm of Allllll Time. Hang on to your butts."

In so many cases, the solution to a frustrating interaction online is to take a deep breath and remind yourself that the person being deranged to you is not someone whose opinion you would care about if they screamed it in your face on the street, and you're deforming your nature by listening at all

"This initiative aims to improve efficiency while maintaining the highest standards of scientific rigor and human oversight."

"Highest standards" according to...??????

ok it would be hilarious if Twitch just suddenly overflowed with a bunch of people streaming their pds migration journeys with helpful encouragement from chat

Space Law with AJ Link Moiya asks AJ to explain how law works in space. Like, who owns it? Who can send things there? Can you get away with draining your wife's bank account if you're above the atmosphere? Listen here for h...

while link (@spacelawshitpost.me) is being tossed around by jay and aaron, i'm listening to aj link's episode on Pale Blue Pod from June (i mean, unless bluesky mods want to block links to his voice as well)

they’re a bunch of crypto/web3 nerds, we shouldn’t have expected any better tbh

it'd be less duplicitous if they said they were exercising their thin-skinned prerogative to make people who embarrass them disappear. citing the charlie kirk meme is so dishonest it borders on pathetic. nobody is this credulous and it's a little embarrassing for them that they thought anyone was.