Weird - surely you would want to encourage employees to use the magical productivity enhancing tools as much as possible, maybe even have a leaderboard to encourage their use, so we can look at all the productivity! Wonder why they have stopped?

404 Media@404media.co · 6d ago

Some employees who spend as much as $1,000 on Claude usage each month are scrambling to find ways to maintain access to the tool.

Oh. Candidates are promising to freeze property taxes. It is the year of Our Disaster 2026, ECCC is giving me gloomily informative updates on what to expect in winter, there's been 20% inflation since ppl started ignoring masking recs, and you think it's a good time to NOT fund the infrastructure?

I turned off comments before I posted the goddamn post, you weirdo, because I didn't have the capacity to listen to people opining about what my mom could or couldn't do. Nobody called me out. I expressed a boundary, which you, a person who hates boundaries, is mad about because you suck.

Okay I'm going to go on the other side of BlueSky and say that if you listen to the full clip the thing he's saying is more like "high gas prices are a small price to pay, these commies don't get that, how would they feel if Iran got a nuclear weapon and bombed Los Angeles, heh heh, nice fantasy"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Trump: "With the war, it's just artificial. It's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay ... let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay."

"We don't want to turn into a banana republic, so we won't try to rein in corporations" is the kind of thing you say if you don't know what makes a banana republic a banana republic, and instead want to be a banana republic where the bananas are data centers.

David Dayen@ddayen.bsky.social · 2w ago

Democrats working hard on precisely how much they should pull their punches against the corporate oligarchy after the election. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

Timeline cleanse. Also spay/neuter your pets & make sure they get their vaccines.

Crash's Landing@crashslanding.bsky.social · 3w ago

Well… those cherries certainly brought back some memories. Linkin suddenly remembers that he used to have a matching set of his own. 🍒 Don’t worry, Linkin. You’re still handsome. Just… a little lighter in the cherry department. 😸 #spayandneuteryourpets

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

I really do think tech crossed a line at some point between "helping you do the things you want to do" on the one hand, and "helping you do the things tech wants you to do" on the other. At this point, we're all contorting ourselves to live how the tech industry thinks we should be living.

I think I want to frame this.

Ben Monroe@benmonroe.com · 3w ago

Exactly. Why should I bother to read a book that nobody could be bothered to write?

Exactly. Why should I bother to read a book that nobody could be bothered to write?

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Quite a remarkable map, table, and diagram from a 1971 report on launch-on-warning, showing the implications of Soviet submarine launched ballistic missiles (SLBM) on detection, reaction, deliberation, and response time. All numbers are in SECONDS, which is what I find the most wild about it.

Watching their sets in a kind of trance Were people in Mexico, people in France. They don’t chase Jones but their dreams are the same— Mr. and Mrs. Everywhere, that’s the right name! Herr und Frau Uberall or les Partout, A gadget on the set makes them look like you. (Goddammit, John Brunner.)

alyson “october” greaves@badambulist.bsky.social · 3w ago

Imagine looking at the media landscape—music, books, movies—and concluding that it would be better if it were all simply infinite reflections of yourself, if you never had to be exposed to another personality, another experience, another life. Just you, you, you. Sounds fucking horrifying.

“Separate the art from the arti—“ NO. WE WON’T BE DOING THAT. In fact, we’re removing the separation between audience and art, as well as author and reader. Now if you read about murder, you can be charged for murder, and also you have to share your dental plan with the writer.

i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko.

New @stephengrahamjones.com nightmares (and haunted miniatures) delivered straight to my doorstep today…

If you see this post a beach photo from your phone. #PlayaPilar

GHOSTopher Bird@mightygodking.com · 3w ago

if you see this post a beach photo from your phone

Me: "This silicone caulk smells awful. At least the cats will stay away from it." Also me, two minutes later: "SAM GET YOUR NOSE OUT OF THAT" (I have taped up wax paper shielding.)

A still-scruffy but nearly-recovered Bloödcheëp showed up on today's livestream from a bird feeder in Gettysburg, PA! Gettysburg livecam: www.youtube.com/live/y9t1g8I... Comic by @rosemarymosco.com, Matron of Bloödcheëps

Humaning.

Turns out "I'm from the government and I'm here to help" is actually slightly less scary than "I'm a rich pervert who wants everyone to die".

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 4w ago

DoorDash has ripped off more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers. We’re making them pay $131.5 million — the largest worker settlement in City history. This is New York, where hard work pays and greed will cost you.

What's being described there has its own named mathematical law. It's called the Law Of Adverse Selection, and there isn't a single actuary who isn't intimately familiar with that law and why you never, ever *ever* f**k with it.

Will add: there is no way - none whatsoever - that they do not know this.

Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w ago

Dr Oz says the Trump administration will kick more than a million people off health insurance because some of them have "never filed a claim"

first day off after two extremely busy weeks is not as productive as intended; scientists baffled

The Emma Frost x Miss Piggy comic has hit the internet and it's so, so, so much more magnificent than I ever could have hoped for

“I trust my immune system. I don’t need a vaccine.” Ok, I trust mine to protect me too. Which is why I trained it extensively on what the virus looks like so it can handle it. Boxers don’t enter the ring without a plan. It’s the punch you don’t see coming that knocks you out.

I say this as someone who for years got into ridiculous fights on the internet, sought out pointless conflict, and got into trouble for it: mass harassment only makes the target's behavior and health worse. It achieves literally nothing else.

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