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It turns out, financially incentivizing viral slop, rage bait, hate, divisive politics, porn bots, and other generally horrifying vaudevillian behavior was a really quick way to destroy that app. Who could have seen that coming, except for everybody who used it?

A meme with a character from Watchmen whose name I can’t remember, saying: It is 1982. I am one year old. Tron bombs at the box office It is 2010. I am twenty-nine years old. Tron bombs at the box office It is 2025. I am fourty-four years old. Tron bombs at the box office

This meme made me laugh.

Screaming. Guys will literally install Grok in their cybertrucks instead of going to (real) therapy.

It feels like this is becoming a more common mass shooter profile: Someone who's interested in politics but not as a vehicle to express clear values or a coherent viewpoint. He just wants to mock anyone who takes it seriously.

She Broke Off Two Engagements. She Couldn’t Commit. Now She’s Dating Chatbots Instead. As chatbot romance grows more common, women are redefining what they want from a partner—even if they are just ones and zeros.

This is not a romance. Nobody is "in love" with apps. There are no A.I. boyfriends. You cannot "date" a chatbot. Accepting this framing and treating it as real is tech-industry propaganda. slate.com/technology/2...

Trump admin 'seems to care very little about autistic people,' says advocate In making unsupported claims about autism, the Trump administration is "pointing the finger" at parents and making them feel guilty, says autism community advocate Colin Killick.

In making unsupported claims about autism, the Trump administration is "pointing the finger" at parents and making them feel guilty, says autism community advocate Colin Killick.

Too soon to circle back to all the people who said "The left did this"?

Telling your family you shot someone and having your family convince you to turn yourself in is now apparently proof of excellent police work...

Institutional statements like this serve the same function as decrying “polarization.” They purport to diagnose the problem while studiously avoiding pointing out that the right bears much more blame for destroying norms and undermining any sense of mutual respect.

The thing that is hard to communicate is that that specific flavor of “brainrotted 4chan slug with incoherent beliefs” is also downstream of the right wing politics factories dumping glowing nuclear sludge into the river

there’s a reason nihilism has risen and it wears Rush Limbaugh’s face

So after two straight days of Republicans saying trans people and the Left did this, threatening full on violence, it turns out the suspect is a politically unaffiliated white dude who was trained to use guns by his Republican law enforcement dad? Do I have that right?

Gamergate was a precursor to our modern Discourse(tm) and folks will look at you like you've grown a third head when you explain that to them

This is a pretty solid explainer about what e-bikes are and the rules around them.

What I'd love to see is more coverage of what e-bikes *enable* people to do. Stories about disabled people who use them to gain independence. Or lower income people who benefit from not needing the expense of a car.

Ordinary voters who bought in should have a chance to change their minds. Pundits should be saddled with this error permanently

He said immigrants were eating dogs and cats. What did you think his policy was gonna be?

“Some of us aren’t creative enough to brainstorm without ChatGPT!” Well then maybe you should sit this one out.

Cops love to do the "if [left of center politician] becomes mayor, we're all gonna resign!" thing and then not resign when it happens www.nbcchicago.com/chicago-mayo...

Norms & duct tape, folks. It’s all that’s held the Republic together for decades. And shredded the last norms and rolls of tape.

and some now-prominent pundits legitimated this nonsense

This is damn absurd. Trump said that he would spend two weeks trying to negotiate a deal with Iran to avoid war. He said that two days ago. He clearly did not mean what he said.

I hope everyone who farmed clicks by arguing that trump was anti war in some sense is proud of themselves

entire block of crowd control barricades arranged to accommodate a long line of people at security, empty

One block over from the White House: the aspirational security line setup

Ben Shapiro getting all upset at the parade coverage as though he isn't used to taking part in activities where no one comes

this statement was made just yesterday

Rep. Melissa Hortman, killed in targeted attack, was a champion for Minnesotan families Hortman worked closely with Gov. Tim Walz to enact policies that prioritized children and expanded protections for abortion and gender-affirming care

When Tim Walz became Kamala Harris's running mate, progressives highlighted policies passed. It could not have been possible without Melissa Hortman.
-Free school breakfast and lunch
-Restoring voting rights for felons
-Paid leave
Great piece by @gracepanetta.bsky.social
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If LAPD is telling you they don't want to take part in your fuckup you have fucked up in ways that defy human comprehension

The eagle looks fucking embarrassed.

those nuns were right about her

12 to 15 hours?!?!?