Thing is I think it’s potentially cooler and better this way because as a professional paper pusher turned e-document steward, let me tell you how much I hate the existing tech stack of my company, and how much I’d rather tell a robot to do the clicks for me

Materialist Gnostic@walmsley.bsky.social · 4h ago

thinking about the nightmare future where AI *is* effective for knowledge work and that *doesn't* destroy all the jobs but but *does* turn every job in to purely managerial and strategy-alignment work because implementation becomes free

The Bluesky experience

It’s real!

One thing people should notice, Dems are turning out in almost 2X the numbers of GOP in Michigan so far for this

Goes to show the progressive-left needs to be more persistent in demonstrating how centrists are losers who are bad at winning elections

Michael Caley@michaelcaley.bsky.social · 17h ago

I have no idea if this is what's going on or not but the results tonight are all consistent with my broad belief that Democratic primary voters are scared to death of losing again and as much as they like left/progressive ideas they are fucking terrified of losing again

Look, electability is kind of a joke in this environment, particularly in a pretty purple state like Michigan This is just everyone projecting about their preferred direction of the national Dem party onto a contest in Michigan

Nope I think we need more examples of losing campaigns before people face the facts about the real structural barriers to winning as an Indy. Like bringing a line to a gun fight

Tim@lodgepolepines.bsky.social · 17h ago

Ok are we done arguing about whether or not DSA should run on the Dem ballot line or not?

We asked people why they’re voting for me for Chicago’s 44th Ward. The message was clear: Lakeview wants someone who listens to everyday people, makes our streets safer, and builds a neighborhood that everyone can afford.

The voters cry out for Democratic Centralism and yet the law stands in the way…

If we use our basically powerless political party to impose perfect message discipline on all Democratic candidates for office, our problems are solved.

Starting to think some of you need to go work in an office and play some ice breaker games so you can learn how to deal with people who are not strongly invested in politics and barely believe anything.

this is also a summary of almost everything i've ever written

Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉@scumbelievable.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The Romans conquering and digesting Ancient Greece really is a case of my favorite historical phenomenon, "the homophobic gays have defeated the gay homophobes"

Astrology is real too >:(

Elizabeth Lopatto@lopatto.bsky.social · 2d ago

I see a lot of you talking about "dopamine" and I wish you'd go back to talking about your astrological signs because at least then you wouldn't be confusing yourself about a real thing

We've come full circle and have arrived back at the Four Humors: Testosterone, Estrogen, Cortisol, Dopamine.

Tell me: how effective has loudly complaining been at getting politicians to change their campaign lit…? Because it seems to me BnR can only relate to a politician if they are also BnR

China TQ Will Use Green Bond Proceeds to Fund Green Expenditures

PBoC: backing the creation of a new real estate development model

PBoC: will support real estate market to halt decline and stabilize

Undoubtedly true but is the outcome the fault of the LLM or the corporation which makes it? I’m curious if Mistral produces psychosis at the same rate as OpenAI, or Deepseek as compared to Claude.

Andrew@athomaskaye.bsky.social · 4d ago

Based on what I've seen happen to people I know in the last couple years, I'm pretty sure the next decade or so is going to require some very serious thought about how badly these things can fuck a person up.

Ah so teen takeovers aren't the thing you're objecting to when you write against teen takeovers

Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · 4d ago

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The pedophile in thief Donald Trump has me feeling pain at the pump

Brutha 50,000 homes in 5 years doesn’t seem like a lot

Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · 6d ago

Commentary: Chicago has lost close to a million people over my lifetime. The next mayor of Chicago has to change this. We have to reduce the cost of housing so people can stay in the city and we can attract new people.

ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil

Democratic primary voters literally think they’re more important than the like 70% of other voters who don’t participate in the process

they’re not ALL the same but mayhaps some very vocal ones with a lot of institutional power within the party are pretty close yk?

I was dismissive of urbanist politics over the past couple of years but more recently I’ve grown to realize that urbanist policies are the organic demands of the proletariat. My personal attitude of what constitutes “progressive” blinded me from seeing the facts in front of me

John@localcelebrity.bsky.social · 5d ago

Any Chicago ‘Leftist’ or ‘Progressive’ dismissing the ‘Safe Streets’ coalition — including Mayor Johnson and his supporters — needs to reckon with the fact that our opponents are astroturfed by the same corrupt right wing chuds opposing you as well. Solidarity is not solidarity if it’s one way.

This rules I love stuff like this

Wojciech Maj@wojtekmaj.pl · 6d ago

My computer just woke me up to tell me it's hungry. I'm not kidding 😂 During a long-running task, it noticed the battery was draining, set the volume to 100% using Computer Use, then opened Google Translate and hit "Listen" so I could hear it asking. Pardon my French, but what the fuck? 🤯

Started building with Hermes Agent and the little guy really took to my plans for it like a potted plant