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Someday a generation that grew up with the internet and actually knows how it works is gonna be in charge of regulating and governing the internet.

But today is not that day.

Billionaire CEOs do a lot of evil shit we should complain about. This isn’t one of them.

Tim Cook is doing 0.05% of what Trump wants him to do. But giving him a gold trinket with his name on it means he’ll never notice that.

Why is everyone complaining about Tim Cook giving the president a participation trophy?

Listen. Sometimes you have to play the stupid man by using meaningless gestures.

Charlottesville’s Lee statue meets its end, in a 2,250-degree furnace The divisive Confederate monument, the focus of the deadly Unite the Right rally in 2017, was melted down in secret and will become a new piece of public art.

What "we are no longer asking" will look like, Confederate monument removal edition:

All the shitty, awful technologies are going FULL SPEED AHEAD. Meanwhile, we have new vaccine technologies that could *literally cure cancer, a thing we've been trying to do since we found out cancer was a thing* and to that, RFK just mumbles "nah" through a mouthful of roadkill. This is the worst.

They keep asserting they're going to put AI in everything, including critical, dangerous systems. Meanwhile, AI is like, "sure, eat those yard mushrooms, the word strawberry has 88 Rs, I'm Mecha Hitler, here's Taylor Swift naked when you didn't even ask for it and she has eleven fingers lol"

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists is standing on business, and showing Harvard et all for the cowards they are.

Sigh.

The skater is amazing, the camera work is *invisible* which is what makes it amazing too.

You can *very briefly* see the operator (all in white) in the full wall mirror as they glide by. But that was almost completely avoided too. Excellent work.

Brief shout out to this camera operator. Flawless work while on skates themselves.

I have the exact same earworm as the rest of the world right now:

“I’m done hiding, now I’m shining like a butter bean!!!”

It’s pretty great.

It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich Feeding slop is an act of war

It’s rude to show AI output to people

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

That's how you can tell human authors from AI.

AI will put in some em dashes, then apologise and take them out when told off.

Human authors will climb the filing cabinet, hissing, and defend their right to em dashes with a loaded stapler.

Yes. Their favorite thing to ask about them is “can I export this into CSV format?”

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I come out of a meeting to this?????

Well, everything. The death of art. [Laughs.] A thing that I’ve been struck by in the last year of tech development around art is that what makes us human is making art, even if you’re not a professional artist. This is kind of corny, but I think about cavemen, right? One of the first things we ever did as a species was put our handprints on a wall, and it’s just this drive that has always been there. It’ll always be there. And I think it’s preposterous that these people are suggesting that they develop this technology, and the first thing they want to eliminate is art, so you have more time to…what, email? I don’t know what they think I’m going to do with my fucking day. Most of the population is not artists, but a lot of the population has artistic hobbies, and if you replace that with a computer doing it for you or whatever, it’s just pointless. I think there’s a death drive in these people, almost, and an actual hatred of artists; they are jealous of people with imagination because they don’t have one, and they almost consciously want to eliminate it.

My wife is in Vogue shitting on your AI-generated "art" 💜 www.vogue.com/article/matt...

Something something toughest fights strongest soldiers

This @today.yougov.com poll is why I'm going to become the Joker.

The US murder rate in 2024 was likely down nearly 30 percent relative to 2020 and down nearly 50 percent relative to 1990.

Here’s a thing I worry about.

Trump selling our energy overseas while simultaneously gutting the renewable energy sector at a time when (from AI and other things) energy demand is skyrocketing.

Can someone please explain to me why this isn’t a recipe for an energy bill that’s more than rent?

Middle School Cheerleaders Made a TikTok Video Portraying a School Shooting. They Were Charged With a Crime. Social videos, memes and retweets are becoming fodder for criminal charges in an era of heightened responses to student threats. Authorities say harsh punishment is necessary, but experts say the crac...

Rather than school leaders and law enforcement asking themselves, "Where did we go so wrong that a group of middle school kids would make a video portraying a school shooting?" they just charged the girls, as young as 11, with a crime.

New, @aliyyaswaby.bsky.social @propublica.org

a thin white woman in head to toe lululemon screaming at these thugs makes me think ICE has jumped the shark

I am without question smarter, more creative, funnier, and cooler than all of the people in the current regime who are in power.

We need to stop with the narrative that congress is out until September.

They are still working and still doing damage - HR 1319 will be catastrophic to everyone with a job.

They can’t do it in the shadow we’re helping them create with the Epstein Files story.

Congress Must Reject Attempts to Roll Back Labor and Employment Rights - National Employment Law Project Congress must reject fake “portable benefits” proposals and ensure all workers are covered by the same suite of full benefits.

Congress must reject proposals that legitimize sham “portable benefits” schemes or enable misclassification, like the Modern Worker Empowerment Act and the Modern Worker Security Act—that do nothing to empower or enhance the security of working people. Read more here: www.nelp.org/congress-mus...

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THIS IS A FIVE ALARM FIRE:

HR 1319, the “Modern Worker Empowerment Act” has passed committee.

While we are distracted with the Epstein stuff, the house education and workers committee came back during a recess to pass an amendment to reclassify MOST workers as independent contractors.

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While you were told Congress was leaving until September, Republicans quietly rammed through a bill HR 1319 that could wreck your health care, wages, and retirement.
No debate. No headlines. Just sabotage in the dark.
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