Sam Jay Gold

No one is listening to you except your phone

The Dimitri finds out meme, which is a two panel vertical meme of a guy being interviewed by a lady. The caption reads "The club is bumping, the ladies look good, the alcohol is flowing." The second caption reads "There is much pain in the world, but not in this room."

Bluesky rn

Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%

i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist

ICE raid this morning at Cypress Park Home Depot. I can’t imagine much more awful than seeing grown men running terrified through the aisles, unless it’s the teenage girl I saw in tears on the sidewalk, describing the arrest she saw. I was in there for some picture hooks.

Government style ad in watercolour. Image of a burglar stealing a painting from the wall of a home. Tagline: "It's not theft... if you say you're using it to train your AI algorithm". Body text: "Theft is now legal, so we can boost the economy by eliminating jobs. If that doesn't make any sense, ask a chatbot to explain it to you." HM government logo in the corner.

Did a new one

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

And we cannot placate them because they do not actually want the things they say they want. They do not want to be heard (they are heard) or to be treated fairly in politics (they are in control of the country). They want to feel victimized so they can retaliate.

99% of the culture war from the right is them going out of their way to look at stuff that they don’t need to look at that just ends up making them mad

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci!
ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

Freedom from debt in exchange for your soul. It’s a bargain with the devil.

I will say again, generative AI is the non-consensual U2 album of the consumer tech world.

Persecuted for being LGBTQ+ in Trump country, they now have a chance to start over someplace new Keshet and the Hebrew Free Loan Society are fighting persecution by offering loans to those who need to flee,

Jewish orgs Keshet and the Hebrew Free Loan Association are giving out interest-free loans to LGBTQ+ folks who need to re-locate but can’t afford it. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE JEWISH.

“The idea that people were having to pick up and flee their homes was something that resonated Jewishly.”

This merch is the stuff people are going to find in their parents’ basements in 50 years and go “god, I know it’s important historical context but I just don’t want to touch it, do you think a museum would want it or should I just burn it”

“Christian Zionists are better Jews than Jews who do not support the state of Israel” is absolutely where American political discourse is headed.

"It's not what a movie is about. It's how it is about it." -- Roger Ebert

(I didn't really understand this quote as a teenager, but boy do I now!)

*Biden tries to forgive student loans*
SCOTUS: Whoa there, that is, uh, a major question. Which means you can't do it.

*Trump revokes part of the constitution*
SCOTUS: Obviously, we got to give the President the benefit of the doubt on this one.

This is it. This is why the alarm about AI mostly ought to be a much much deeper and more urgent alarm about the completely broken social and cultural environment many of us live in now.

We've reached a point in the Upside Down where the white Christian nationalists are threatening to strip citizenship status from ethnic minorities and political opponents and claim it's FOR JEWS.

These tactics have been used against Jews by fascists and authoritarians countless times in the past.

Very correct choice, Apple!

one of the most incomprehensible to me things that a lot of people appear to believe about pop culture is that a bad movie can be made good if its supplementary material is good, or that it is somehow OK to make a movie that demands you to watch hours of other material to make sense

There really is something special about what Zohran and Brad are showing the rest of the world what it still means to be a New Yorker and an American.

A Jew and a Muslim modeling a politics of mutual respect, rejecting cynicism. Human decency has been taking a beating but she's not out just yet!

It's almost like our law enforcement should identify themselves for a reason? (well, multiple reasons, but this sure as shit is one of them)

I expect that consumer-facing AI programs will continue to improve and they may become much more useful tools for everyday life in the future.

But I think it was a disastrous mistake that today’s models were taught to be convincing before they were taught to be right.

www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/uninsurabl...

A woman in a yellow shirt and glasses smiles and holds a book entitled Whiskerology.

WHISKEROLOGY has been out in the world for two weeks now and I'm so excited and proud! 🎉

Keep remembering all the things that the Supreme Court found legal that were later determined to be morally-and often legally- wrong. Start with Plessy vs. Ferguson and legal segregation. The law is not the arbiter of rightness, it often hoards power. Protect trans people at all costs.

Plessy v. Ferguson for trans people

I told you guys