Yes, there are legitimately good uses for AI, and no, big tech is not really investing in that because it doesn’t make them money, both of these things can be true. 🥲

Replying to @brigette____ TikTok video by Royce the Voice

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrJGMKN3/

Oh no.

Rep. Eugene Vindman, fresh off exposing Trump's Ukraine extortion, demands the transcript of his cozy call with Saudi butcher MBS after they sliced up journalist Khashoggi. Trump bragged he saved the prince's ass. #ReleaseTheTranscript

EOs cannot overturn state or federal laws.

EOs cannot overturn state or federal laws.

EOs cannot overturn state or federal laws.

EOs cannot overturn state or federal laws.

EOs cannot overturn state or federal laws.

EOs cannot overturn state or federal laws.

EOs cannot overturn state or fede

We are in the "voluntarily acquiescing to watching Hallmark Holliday movies" stage of existential depression.

Do Millionaire Surtaxes Lead to Millionaire Exodus? Assessing the Massachusetts millionaire’s tax three years on.

As this explains: No

www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/11/17/d...

From my notes—not a transcript, which doesn't exist yet—this was the exchange between Judge Nachmanoff & AUSA Lemons about the deputy AG telling him not to reveal if there was a declination memo in the Comey case. (A memo on why prosecutors weren't bringing charges.)

550,000 Workers Lose Status by End of 2025: Potential Impact by State and Industry — Penn Wharton Budget Model Over 700,000 Temporary Protected Status (TPS) recipients lose legal status by the end of 2025, including 550,000 who are legally working. We estimate that TPS recipients contribute over $36 billion in...

Over 700,000 TPS recipients lose legal status by the end of 2025, including 550,000 who are legally working. TPS recipients contribute over $36B in annual GDP. Withdrawing their work authorization could add to labor shortages in construction, cleaning, and hospitality, especially in FL, TX, NY

In an unhinged dissent in our Texas redistricting victory, a GOP appointed judge seems to believe that George Soros and I did...well, I'm not sure what...but he is very mad. Bigly.

Missouri schools banned books because of this law. A KC judge just struck it down The 2022 law was part of a broader, coordinated effort to curtail school book content.

Missouri schools banned books because of this law. A KC judge just struck it down. Here's the story via @kacen.bsky.social

www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

I can’t stop being haunted by ‘I’m ICE boys’.

It says everything about who these people are & who they think they are.

Today, the Senate Finance Committee held a hearing on rising health care costs. But the real, urgent focus should be that 20 million people would face higher premium costs if the PTC enhancements expire at the end of the year.

Here’s how real people will are affected.

State Supreme Court Diversity - November 2025 Update Many state supreme courts lack diversity in terms of their justices’ race, ethnicity, gender, and professional background. 

Results from our annual State Supreme Court Diversity report:
- No Black justices in 24 states
- No Latino/a justices in 39 states & DC
- No Asian American justices in 42 states
- No Native American justices in 47 states & DC
Read more: bit.ly/3JW6lN6

Migrants thought they were in court for a routine hearing. Instead, it was a deportation trap The nation's immigration courts have undergone a fundamental change under the administration of President Donald Trump.

apnews.com/article/immi...

Sign on a library book drop sign requesting people to yell "NOT A SQUIRREL" to confirm they are human and not a squirrel trying to steal Keith's lunch.

squirrel: *points gun*
me: what do you want me to do?
squirrel: *gestures at sign*
me: alright, i get it *opens book drop*
squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion*
me: NOT A SQUIRREL!
squirrel: *disappears into book drop*
me: *whispers* forgive me, keith

Pretty much this.
bsky.app/profile/chri...

V/ Recount

The tough on crime people have created a whole new genre of crime.

Sure. "The Grand Jury did not see the operative indictment" is the kind of fuckup where lawyers literally don't actually know what happens next because it SO fundamental a thing that it is LITERALLY possible nobody had even thought of this as a thing that could happen.

Literally just lectured about this!

In the late 1960s, air quality was so bad in several cities they had to turn on the street lights during the day so drivers could see. And yeah, the Cuyahoga River was so polluted it literally caught on fire.

Whoops part deux

Despite being aware and having the language to talk about it, they still can't shift their situation without help. As the OP said: "The delusion hasn't changed, but the formatting has."

Anyhow humans are fucking fascinating and the best AI can do is help us soak in the lava hole of our own brains.

This is the part that confuses me - back when search worked, it worked fine for all of these things. What does "AI" add? why are people so excited about it?

What if this is how we call forth Cthulu and the old ones, internet slop is actually a thinning of the veil to allow dark ones entrance to our universe.

Bet no one thought of that, did they.

They conditioned y'all to be like this with them Nextdoor accounts

Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.

Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

Quite a 180°: The hunters have become the hunted?

Poetic.

I had the good fortune once of serving with a man who heard an insult to a woman colleague from the man in leadership.

He said, in his usual calm voice, “You know how you just said (insult)?”

Took a beat.

“Never say that again.”