me impulse ordering indian takeout when im hungry

Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · 2h ago

we must recover the old wisdom

KFC announces their frontier-class model briefly escaped its sandbox and attempted to exfiltrate the 27 herbs and spices

yep! switch to @leaflet.pub & break the cycle! (or anywhere else: pckt, Offprint, Ghost, Buttondown, lots of good alternatives — tbf none a perfect replacement, we have our work cut out to fully replace, but: here it is *possible* and we're well on our way!)

Anuj Ahooja@quillmatiq.com · 6d ago

We're literally watching Substack writers realize they're getting more "followers" (closed) than "subscribers" (open) and worried about the future *again*. I think it's worth breaking that cycle more so than it is to build the next thing.

I know people are doing a bit when they do this but pretending you don’t understand how normal human beings use words will always, ultimately backfire on whatever cause you are pushing.

Acquired Expertise 🌌✒️💫@acqexp.bsky.social · 2d ago

“Everybody” wouldn’t have died: only those who refused to follow the recommended precautions would’ve been affected, and in perfect hindsight, that outcome might’ve made a return to office a mathematical impossibility for Trump. As has been observed many times, our good deeds never go unpunished.

yeah to be clear: our morals shouldn't come from polling.

Kevin@kevinlikesmaps.bsky.social · 3d ago

Maybe you're young and don't remember that only 27% of Americans supported same sex marriage 30 years ago. Were they correct in that? In 1989, 84% opposed it. Being in the majority doesn't always mean you are correct.

Periodic reminder: The integration of generative AI models into every sector of society is the installation of ideological and epistemic choke points, regardless of who made the model.

World Politics Review@wpr.bsky.social · 3d ago

The spread of Chinese AI models with built-in censorship mechanisms could quietly shape the global information environment for the worse.

Louder for the people in the back

Big Ol’ Mush@chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3d ago

You can’t hinge your belief in people having access to basic goods on whether or not they “deserve” them or they’re at “fault” for not having them. Just give people their basic goods.

archive.org/search?tab=a... right here in document search! archive.org/details/repo... or here for the doc itself i believe websites can self exclude from the wayback machine, which the archive respects in general, which is probably what they did

I love this so much

Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P@clairezagorski.bsky.social · 3d ago

Good morning, this is what a fetus looks like on MRI. (Those are tooth buds!)

"I explain on my Substack-" "On my Substack-" "Read more on my Substack" "Subscribe to my Substack-"

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I really believe in the nonlinear nature of creativity and skill. Sometimes devoting time to an aspiration every single day just isn’t going to work. But coming back to something over and over again, whenever you can, that’s still love, and that’s still doing something that matters to your heart.

The whole Hank Green thing just has me thinking on how we're in an era with a sycophantic flattery machine in the wake of huge amounts of unacknowledged COVID trauma and a billion other rising societal feel-bads and how dangerous a brew that all must be. Also, not unrelated to the gambling boom.

I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them

Jennifer Romig @jennifermromig.bsky.social · 4d ago

Notetaking in meetings is tiny case in point - used to be some predictable social assumptions who would do it; now anyone can offer to do ”notetaking” by turning on the AI listener. Further interesting scenario is human recollection / notes (taken by habit by a person) conflict with AI summary

This gets a lot more legible if you stop thinking of prisons as a failed effort to reduce harm and start thinking of them as a supply chain for involuntary labor

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4d ago

It was inevitable that reactionary centrists would turn against harm reduction and call for a return to mass incarceration

Black Musicians in 1981: wow this is gonna be great MTV: lol not so fast

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d ago

“Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll.” MTV goes live 45 years ago today. 🤘🏼 🎸 $VIAC $TWX $PARA

I stand by everything I said previously. At least with a major bank I know there is oversight, deposit insurance, and regulation for things like anti-money laundering.

The Verge@theverge.com · last wk.

X Money is launching in the US starting today

#OtD 1 Aug 1902 Lola Iturbe was born in Barcelona. A maid and seamstress from childhood, she was a lifelong anarchist involved in the @CNTsindicato uprisings in 1933 and 1934, the 1936 revolution, and the founding of the Mujeres Libres feminist group stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8045...

oh no i’ve found a woman who collects antique dictionaries and posts about unusual words and definitions changing over time this better not awaken anything in me this time, a rhetorical device: accismus

When someone says “don’t get me anything” and absolutely means the opposite? That’s “accismus” and it’s been around for 500+ years. This weird word can be a positive in terms of Oliver Cromwell, but i...

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Also, a big fuck you to Brett Kavanaugh for writing a whole concurrence in Barbara literally explaining to Congressional Republicans how to do this

Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE@leftistlawyer.com · 5d ago

A GOP Congressman, Griffith Morgan (Virginia), has introduced a bill to strip people in Guam, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and every other US non-state territory of their birthright citizenship. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

I was genuinely wondering how long this would take. It’s gutter racism all the way down.

Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE@leftistlawyer.com · 5d ago

A GOP Congressman, Griffith Morgan (Virginia), has introduced a bill to strip people in Guam, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and every other US non-state territory of their birthright citizenship. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

I want to emphasize: When I say "no" I mean no. If you're buying like, merch from some seller whose money doesn't go directly to JKR, you're still supporting Harry Potter. Every cis person who gives themselves permission to still consume this IP makes it appear okay to others. Stop it. Cut it out.

Sandy Ernest Allen@sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 6d ago

There is no non-complicit enjoyment of Harry Potter, in 2026. Every time you stream a Harry Potter movie or buy one of her books, etc., you are helping her campaign to end trans lives, full stop.

The fact that it’s poisoning Black people is not seen as a negative to these folks.

SpaceX won’t remove all of xAI’s unpermitted turbines for another year | TechCrunch

SpaceX is building a new power plant for xAI's Colossus data centers, but it won't remove existing, unpermitted turbines for many more months.

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Apparently, the answer to "Have we learned anything from the Heritage Foundation immediately pivoting to attacking the very concept of women's sports after their successful push to discriminate against trans women athletes?" is "Hahahaha, FUCK no".

He's also putting tariffs on generic drugs....

Senator Chris Van Hollen@vanhollen.senate.gov · 6d ago

As costs continue to rise, Trump is cutting a Medicare program that helps seniors afford their medications. This year the program cost less than 2 days of Trump's Iran war. This isn't about money, it's about priorities & Trump is showing us his.

A rage has set in among so many people since 2021-2022. It is palpable. They are out here raging and dangerous.

I just wanted to take a second to say we don't owe anyone femininity. Trans or cis, we should be able to present our genders however we wish. You are my sister, and I will defend you. And to my trans sisters - your gender euphoria brings me joy, you are a valued member of womanhood. Fuck TERFs

Hierophant Shelley B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛@shelleybwoke.bsky.social · last yr.

If you're still buying wizard book shit, you are no friend to the trans community. Here's the wizard book bigot inciting harassment against innocent people to her 14 million followers on the nazi app. And no, they can't Always Tell.

my favorite thing to do when in Europe is to go to a shopping area. you're bound to see brands that you've never heard of with legit-sounding English phrases like "Modern Statistics" or t-shirts with what sounds like an idiom if your command of English isn't 100%, like "the blacksmith never waits"

"As I picked up my first victim in my serrated claws, I expected him to beg for his life. But instead, he said, 'I think you just haven’t been with the right guy yet.'"

I Am a Monster Hell Bent on Destroying Earth, but Humans Are More Concerned That I’m a Lesbian

“No one cared that I’m twelve feet tall, covered in razor-sharp spikes, with four prehensile tongues that taste the air to track human fear. They only specul...

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