is there a single person at cnn, i wonder, who correctly understands that he's a eugenicist who not only doesn't care if sick people die, but in fact thinks it's good because they're weak and they deserve it? could anyone there have equipped bash with that language to confront him with?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

RFK Jr yelling at Dana Bash sounds like a rabid dog barking

i do hate villains who can't think ahead *at all* "aha! i will use this dropped cufflink to break up his marriage, and then i'll swoop in and snatch him up!" if he was happy in that relationship, what seems more likely: that he's going to thank you for ruining it or hate you forever?

this trend continues this week -- the only thing conan has remotely outsourced thus far is letting kogoro remember where he got his pants wet kinda wonder when the last time we've heard "that's what shinichi said" or "i saw it on a tv program" is, and if we'll hear them again anytime soon

beloved chungoose@cookingterm.bsky.social · last wk.

also conan keeps getting more blatant about his deductions instead of laundering them through kogoro, though i'm guessing that's setup for an upcoming black org showdown come on, kudo-kun, you're getting sloppy!

chat is that good

Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 7d ago

"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...

people treat this guy like a superhero because when supervillain megacorp does something awful, he says "hey, that sucks, you suck, and we won't let you do it" it very much helps that he apparently has the power/allies to actually stop them, but how many dems can even do the first part?

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 7d ago

Uber Eats and DoorDash hid tip buttons and set default tips below 10%. As a result, tips for delivery workers fell 79%.  In January, we made these corporations change their apps — and in the past six months, we've put $104 million back in delivery workers' pockets.  This is only the beginning.

i continue to think we would be better off if we focused on the outcomes we want, rather than ways we might get there, and hold our politicians to task until we arrive at those destinations like i'm an m4a fan, but if you want to straitjacket private insurance so hard we get the same outcomes...

Peggy Flanagan@peggyflanagan.bsky.social · last wk.

Your doctor should decide what care you need - not a dude behind a desk or worse, an AI robot. It's time to ban prior authorization.

i think they finally fixed the bug in outlook where turning these suggestions off didn't actually disable them, but i have a folder full of screenshots of "suggestions" that are hot garbage in the instances where they aren't actively wrong, they're overly prescriptive and language-flattening

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · last wk.

A few of my collaborators insist that I use Office 365's AI-enabled version of Word to work on documents with them. It's *maddening*. I estimate the ratio of good suggestions to bad ones that M365 insists on shoving into my face at about 1:100. It's practically unusable. 25/

i started getting a little skeeved out when the pretty assistant ate too much, which meant she had to clutch her upper ribcage to push up her breasts as much as possible, but when one ferret went up her skirt and another dove down her cleavage i pulled the plug on that particular anime

real talk: have you ever enjoyed a jelly roll? they're a pain in the ass to make and they're pretty much always dry and uninspired. confident i have never in my life said "can i have another piece of that jelly roll"

Hoosier Homer is reading Crucible of War by Fred Anderson@hoosierhomer.bsky.social · last wk.

I am sorry but I will never listen to a song by dude who willingly calls himself jelly roll. I dont care, it could be amazing, but I refuse on principle. I have more dignity than that lol

*world's longest sigh* 1) "focused on nutrition" like a serial killer focuses on his next victim, maybe, let's not pretend anything happening on that front is remotely good or well-intended 2) "critics say": did he explicitly stop monitoring these kinds of outbreaks or didn't he (he did)

in this week's detective conan, takagi, who has been improving as a detective over the course of the series, runs an absolute shitshow of an investigation where he questions all the suspects together, who are obviously conferring about their alibis and being shifty as hell

i would like everyone to keep in mind when they say "but that's the way it works in the world of the story!!!" -- "it" being child marriage/rape, slavery, or whatever other disgusting premise -- is that THAT WORLD DOES NOT FUCKING EXIST. the creator is CHOOSING to make those things part of it!

Velodus✨@velodus.bsky.social · last wk.

It's weird how there's an extremely popular current anime show that every anime fan I respect not only isn't into but finds legitimately repulsive. (And I agree with them.)

this is one of those instances where, if i was a journalist, i would go to my editor and say "we need to run a straight-up explainer about this because everyone is talking out of their ass about it" presumably this has not been done, because i would assume that link would be flying around here

Noah Berlatsky@nberlat.bsky.social · last wk.

there is no primary election in the special election for ky senate. the parties just choose someone. not massie. someone's misled you; you should ideally find better sources. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/08/m...

my absolute favorite thing in rhythm heaven is putting up a perfect performance on the initial sight-read for a given game and then being utterly unable to do it when you can actually get credit for it

i hate a delusional anime protagonist, so "from overshadowed to overpowered" is going to get one more episode to see if the main character can pull his head out if his own ass or it's getting dropped

youtube is obviously now an enshittified cesspool of hostile user interactions, but the one that grinds my gears the most is when an ad kicks you out of full-screen mode to show you a sidebar companion to the video ad and then DOES NOT RETURN YOU to full-screen mode when the ad is over

i don't want to pile on the target of his disgusting comments here but i would absolutely have gotten up and walked out if someone said that about me ... though i would never have attended this farce in the first place. what is wrong with these people???

Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social · 2w ago

Every “journalist” at this dinner should hang their heads in shame.

to be fair, this is no different from the sets of china every millennial does not want to inherit

Art Of Coop@artofcoop.bsky.social · 2w ago

imagine somebody's grandkid trying to figure out what to do with a four-foot-tall statue of Dengar after peepaw kicks the bucket

back when the screen physically did the trail effects for you

DOKI DOKI CRT PIXEL@crtpixel.bsky.social · 2w ago

SUPER MARIO BROS. NINTENDO 1985 NES

hey look, it's the thing we all* knew was going to happen to iowa's plum standing eventually (and sooner rather than later after the 2020 clusterfuck) *does not include county party or state party leadership, who stubbornly insisted there was no need to share the first date with other states

VoteHub@votehub.com · 2w ago

🚨 NEWS — The DNC Rules and Bylaws committee has advanced the 2028 primary calendar: Jan 22: SC Feb 1: NV Feb 8: NH Feb 15: NM Feb 22: MI Feb 29: VA

this might be my favorite bluesky thread ever

James McLeod@jamespmcleod.ca · 2w ago

It's safe to assume that all major LLMs are scraping Bluesky data to train future models. As an open protocol, Bluesky is one of the few sources of fresh human-generated content that anybody can gobble up. So all this is probably going in the models. There are submarines in the Great Lakes.

"just like ours," he added, before realizing what he had said and began screaming "THAT WAS ON BACKGROUND"

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2w ago

“So you’ve probably seen lots of impressive demonstrations of robots on the internet,” said Musk. “But those demonstrations you’re seeing are preprogrammed or remote controlled."

love how conservatives/republicans can just say "i'm a democrat/liberal" while not believing in or professing any of the values that define those things and thereby associate them with their rotten stench

Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'm fascinated by the idea that Maher observed Vance's job performance over the last 19 months and *came around* on him. "I was skeptical the kid, but his masterful diplomacy in Iran, dudesplaining the Pope, and advocacy for racist group chatters and sex traffickers really won me over."

there may an interesting philosophical debate to be had about the nature of consciousness and how we define it, but engaging in that debate with respect to a.i. right now grants too many premises to the most disingenuous actors and empowers them, as the thread below details quite nicely

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 2w ago

How about a jet-lagged live posting while I read? Trying to read this because I keep getting tagged in posts about it, but the first paragraph already contains synthetic text (a quote from Claude). I will skip that bit and persevere... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

unused illusion of gaia location theme

Death Wishbone@amagire.bsky.social · 3w ago

I am experiencing an indescribable emotion

i feel like i'm going completely crazy that "found the diarrhea bug in lettuce taylor farms said was fine" was not immediately followed by "mandatory recall of all of taylor farms lettuce products"???? zero enforcement action, just a "hey heads up, russian poo-lette isn't over yet"

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3w ago

The FDA said a sample of shredded iceberg lettuce supplied by ‌Taylor Farms that is not part of the current recall tested positive for the parasitic illness

if you don't want to be involved in your children's lives, why have children? to use as an accessory when properly trained, like a handbag or a brooch?

Elly, hunting gods on what’s left of Earth@ellyzoe.bsky.social · 3w ago

My god. This is moral vacuum behavior: treating being a parent as a recreational activity. Honestly, having been through it three times over, the “low-joy tasks” are what build trust. Want your kid to know you’re there for them? Be there & be reliable for the hard, unfun, dirty parts.

my sole contribution to world cup chatter: this week's detective conan episode featured a j-league game where VAR was introduced and explained and everyone went to great lengths to explain what a good thing it was, including a player who had a goal rescinded because of a foul away from the ball

ok but why do they even need to say "386 likes" when the heart icon, the thing you use to indicate a like, is right there with "386" next to it reposts and quotes are combined into one figure with the symbol, so i can understand breaking those out. but the likes are what they are!

Erin Biba@erinbiba.bsky.social · 3w ago

Oh you wanna see replies? Fun news we’re gonna take those out entirely! This is the most gobbledygook backwards upside down shit I’ve ever seen

the girlfriend/car seat post is correct for the rank and file, but there's only one origin story for anyone working for cato: "i did debate club, i have no morals, and now i'm being paid tons of money to say this"