The media's takeaway from an El-Sayed win is the same as it would have been from a Stevens win, and the same as it will be if El-Sayed wins the general, or if he loses it: everyone, no matter who they are, needs to take several steps to the right.
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never promised 'em anything less * formerly of cohost dot org * old disabled queer tech guy * so very, very tired * dog dad of @beanzo.bsky.social
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
oh my god he thinks he's the subject of a Romanticist painting. this explains so many things
Best of Dying Twitter@bestofdyingtwit.bsky.social · 5d ago
LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft, who are so all-in on "AI" that they're destroying their entire XBox brand as a side effect. Your reports will be used to train Copilot and other tools to *sound less like what we think AI is like*, not get rid of AI slop on the site.
Edd Coates | Game UI Database@eddcoates.bsky.social · 6d agoLinkedIn added an "AI slop" button. The U-Turn is happening, expect to see a lot more of this from other tech companies.
mcconnell‘s necromancies were stronger than graham’s wards
"how were people writing 10 page papers before AI???" we were smarter than you. you could've been smart, too. but you sold your brain for nothing
To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.
Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences
this link also includes instructions for using userscripts in a browser extension like Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey/Violentmonkey/etc, as well as other methods turns out it's implemented client-side, which is easy enough to bypass even without a VPN
Hold on!@holdon.templeoftherat.com · 4w agoBsky now requires age verification to use in any capacity. As always, Firefox users can bypass these things with a custom uBlock Origin filter on mobile and desktop, which is easier than completing the age verification itself: gist.github.com/mary-ext/6e2...
Even ignoring the fact that the entire industry would collapse if it had to pay for the training data it steals, this genuinely might be the stupidest guy alive
my favorite thing in here is "6 hours later" lol. that's what the person who generated this thinks is a long amount of time to spend on a piece of art
Kasey Gifford@kaseygifford.bsky.social · 4w agoTruly biblical levels of cope.
Miserable man! Oh! most contemptible and worthy of all scorn
you can tell a lot about how a company is run by who they choose to fire
tfw you’ve just finished pissing on jefferson davis’ grave
the problem with the games industry is that it makes money in a sustainable way by creating stuff that people want to pay for this is in contrast to how big capital would prefer to make money, by trying to scale fake numbers to infinity using gambler brained investors lured in by impossible claims
A man who publicly was doing something which, when done wrong, can cause graft-vs-host disease, an autoimmune disease which can attack, among other things, your GI tract, now has an autoimmune disease which is attacking his GI tract. What a coincidence.
Millionaire biohacker reveals he has incurable disease amid mission to ‘defeat death’
‘My stomach is eating itself,’ the tech entrepreneur announced on social media
the-independent.com
Mary Gillis@marygillis.bsky.social · 3y agoBlood transfusions from close relatives can cause graft vs host disease. Close relatives are literally the last people in the world rich weirdos should be roping into their creepy vampire hobby.
"and another thing: i haven't lost the Mandate of Heaven. please don't put in the newspaper that i lost the Mandate of Heaven."
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · last mo.WASHINGTON (AP) — Evacuation ordered for events at National Mall as storms gather near Washington ahead of Trump's July 4th speech.
Thomas Paine is my favorite founding father. He was famously abolitionist and one of the earliest voices to point out the hypocrisy of fighting for independence while keeping slaves. He also firmly believed that keeping any friendship which required compromising your morals made you a bad person.
The Rude Pundit@rudepundit.bsky.social · last mo.The founder we should talk more about is Thomas Paine, who will fuck your shit up every time. Here he is in The Rights of Man just ripping into any ideas of "originalism" and that kind of garbage.
I love when MAGA types publish a list of unambiguously good things as if they're unambiguously bad things. It's such a revelation of what fearful cowardly people they are. We live in times of radical abuses. We should all seek radical remedies. All I can say to this is Hell Yeah.
celebrating the good parts of america today. if you don’t think there are any good parts, just look to all the stuff the fascists are desperate to stifle
Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them
I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.
People who spiral out overusing LLM chatbots are really just experiencing the kind of brain-damaging stream of unconditional validation that’s always been the norm for the hyper-wealthy, which explains a lot.
Jon Hendry@jonhendry.bsky.social · last mo.Worse than Twitter, private discussions (text, email, whatever) among like-minded wealthy lunatics who are all surrounded by yes-men who talk like ChatGPT in maximum ass-kissing mode.
I'll say this until I'm dead. The whole conservative project has been about the conversion of public spaces to private ones, ones where groups can be excluded all in the name of individual choice. And if you hear the phrase "tragedy of the commons," you know who you're talking to.
TLDR Swinton@thedoodlebear.bsky.social · last mo.It's interesting how everything people used to proudly call "public" when I was growing up (public parks, public libraries, public schools, public transportation, public television, etc) is suddenly "socialist" now that rich people are spinning it.
I swear, "a pope from Chicago excommunicates a Nazi-adjacent sect" is like a cut scene from The Blues Brothers
The Associated Press@apnews.com · last mo.BREAKING: The Vatican excommunicates bishops from a breakaway group of traditionalist Catholics that consecrated them without Pope Leo's consent.
this quote you're about to see everywhere, I don't think it's real. here's the video it's supposed to be from www.youtube.com/live/ho_Zmwg... and here is a transcript gist.github.com/david-crespo... nothing like this is in it. which makes sense because it doesn't sound like him at all