People who treated the headphone jack removal in smartphones as inevitable are the people who led us to generative AI slop. In this essay, I will-

Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

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…or you could try to outspend the progressive by tens of millions of dollars again and get racist as shit one more time just to see if it works this time

if establishment candidates want to start winning primaries again all you have to do is say that rich people have too much money and that youll prosecute trump admin staffers and republicans that have broken the law

opened Feeld for a sec when trying to dismiss a notification and it immediately showed me a white unicorn hunter couple who listed their identity as "Two-Spirit". what a great day to Not Be On The Apps lol

the first week of August has this eerie temporal quality in my life where seemingly everything starts. a year ago today I started at my current job. two years ago yesterday I started dating one of my partners. three years ago today was when I first went to a treasured friends-weekend up north. etc

I think the thing that really sold the ai grift wasn't so much the text generating machines, but that the companies tell users they are Very Special Boys for "knowing how to prompt", thus preserving their egos. It's a slot machine that tells people they earned the jackpot through hard work and grit.

there's no other way to frame this except that ai companies and users are fundamentally against human society in every way

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

Is there a good cell phone app where I can paste a URL of a website I want to read later and it converts it into an ebook I can load onto an e-reader later? ideally with like some sort of cloud so that the computer that loads my ebook gets the article with minimal work required

Has anyone tried explaining to these people that they are actually rich and simply too stupid to understand how to afford groceries? Perhaps you could show them a chart and then claim they're bullying you if they don't listen?

Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · last wk.

Living through the biggest jump in grocery prices in a half-century has many Americans changing their eating and food shopping habits.

"Tech is out of ideas so they have to do AI and surveillance", when "make everything we use cute and tiny and different shapes and more ergonomic and whatever" is an evergreen idea. Until they bring back the iPhone mini then tech truly is not out of ideas

okay now that the cute girlfield comic I've been a little obsessed with is done I can probably just delete Instagram, right

I love how in America trucks can have a sign that just says "btw if your car is hit by all the rocks flung out of my bed every time the road bumps, it's actually somehow your fault? fuck you" and that's just like a normal and accepted cost of driving a car anywhere

Their inability to even decisively lose in Iran, the bottom falling out of the AI boom, they are turning all their attention to repression, red scare, economic punishment (Canada tarrifs) and now medicaid attacks. They are cornered, terrified and flailing. Extremely dangerous, extremely weak

Pulaski BRT when

my love language is Let Me Fix Your House

is there any app more insistent on immediately refreshing content away, never to be seen again, than Instagram? It's fucking unusable if you ever want to find information, or show someone a funny post or switch apps while viewing a post. why is it the default app for local business and community

I don't wanna take some pictures I just wanna take some shots

no greater joy on a lightly hung over Saturday morning than going to Bang Bang and not even having to wait in line for my slice of pie and biscuit

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

what a time to be alive

everyone seems to be responding positively to this and i hate to burst anyone's bubble, but i recently went to a Luddite festival in NYC and this is something organizers specifically warned about: don't let capitalists sell your hatred of capitalism back to you

The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian@janus.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hatred of AI now reaching the level of cultural consensus that becomes attractive to advertisers

As a self-employed night owl who hasn’t woken up before 8am by choice in years, I’m inclined to take the rare win and let the rest of you suffer.

Holland Oates@phinsphan.bsky.social · 3w ago

People are gonna fucking hate this if it actually happens. Enjoy all these post 8am sunrises

“.. I asked a few AI researchers whether they could name any other real-world software that scales so poorly. None of them could think of any. “.. By economic and engineering measures, generative AI might be the worst technology ever deployed.” @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

the food safety stuff is another reminder that a large, huge, gigantic part of being a republican is going “lmao why are we spending money to prevent horrifying disasters from happening if they never happen 🤪”

ME: Hey, I’m hungry, can you show me some places to eat YELP and GOOGLE MAPS: Oh, sure! ME: Great, are they open now? YELP and GOOGLE MAPS: “Open now”? You want to know if they’re open NOW? Well, LA-DEE-DA, you needy little bitch

the biggest positive story on climate is that it doesn’t seem to matter how much of the world is run by reactionary fascists: the rise of solar is unstoppable

Nicolas Fulghum@nicolasfulghum.bsky.social · 4w ago

Solar's sharp rise continues. As of April 2026, global solar capacity now exceeds 3 terawatt. 1 gigawatt → 1 terawatt: 20+ years 1 terawatt → 2 terawatt: 33 months 2 terawatt → 3 terawatt: 19 months

okay something's up with my iPhone battery because the new phone's battery seems to die as fast or faster than the old one

been spending the week on my Gaming Account blissfully unaware of the happenings of the world. Seems better for me