Did you see how Apple, Amazon Walmart and other big companies are refunding the billions of dollars they got back from the federal tariff settlement to their customers, who ultimately bore the cost of higher prices? Yea, me neither.

Microsoft: $101 BILLION in profits. $12.5 BILLION in tax breaks. $176 BILLION in stock buybacks. 4,800 workers fired this week. 9,000 workers fired last year. Please don't tell me trickle-down economics works. It never did. Nothing trickles down.

Yesterday I tried to interfere with the cat distribution system and was quickly humbled. Maybe some other time.

“I asked ChatGPT, I asked Grok” Yeah well I asked a Halo 3 lobby and they all said you’re a dumb bitch

It is 2006. I am 22. The US is mired in a costly Forever War. A predictable historic market collapse looms. I do not have health insurance. It is 2026. I am 42. The US is mired in a costly Forever War. A predictable historic market collapse looms. I do not have health insurance.

i cannot believe adopting an absurd carole baskin type persona, proposing The Exact Same Shit As Always™ and saying "golly shucks golly gee thanks for the AIPAC money!" did not resonate with voters who want to burn the entire system to the ground because they cannot afford groceries truly shocking!

Yup. Tis I.

Happy birthday to an actual President, Barack Obama. 💙

Today, for the first time in New York City history, 2,000 two year-olds received offers for FREE 2-K. A big step for those who take baby steps. A big step towards a City every New Yorker can afford.

Its kinda wild how seeing a US flag in someone’s profile no matter the app winds up being the most telling red flag ever, 90-95% of the time without fail.

This Mitch McConnell situation is a preview of what's going to happen when Trump dies cause they're not going to tell us shit for as long as they can get away with it.

It's wild how Mitch McConnell is fully just dead and Donald Trump is fully just a paedophile yet there's this bizarre song and dance taking place because we're all beholden to rules we made up specifically so that groups like the GOP won't abuse the systems they're currently abusing.

It might seem like its not helping or will change anything but Mamdani calling for the arrest of Netanyahu and telling him he's not welcome in NYC is a big fucking deal. Something we would not have seen even a year ago. You all did good NYC.

I’m starting to appreciate how Lydia is the result of a lack of parenting so severe that she might as well be a 21st century American teenager isekai-ed into a regency novel

Alex Jones is a big reason Andrew Tate became as famous as he is. Alex had a little skirmish with Joe Rogan, but offered an olive branch one day via text seemingly just so he could get Tate onto Rogan's podcast. I swear to you these are real texts, even the "Chinese monkey pig hybrid" part.

Congresswoman AOC has introduced a bill that would ban Supreme Court Justices from accepting lavish gifts from the ultra wealthy. Love that, but what I find insane is that this isn’t already illegal.

"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind." -Albert Einstein

The Trump admin missed their shot at authoritarian consolidation last summer. Everyone in the Trump admin was too interested in grifting and filling their pockets instead.

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3w ago

Trump’s speech lying about elections and pushing old conspiracy theories that are weak by even conspiracy theory standards shows how: By democracy standards, the US is in bad shape. We’ve fallen so far. By consolidated authoritarianism standards, things don’t look so bad. This guy doesn’t have it.

who could’ve foreseen the AI generated writing being stilted and shallow, unlike things written by humans

LittleKuriboh@littlekuriboh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hoyo have finally revealed their LinLi-Olivia project, a desktop companion that utilizes GenAI to allow you to converse with the AI character “The game leverages generative AI technology to create MIDI, audio, and in-game text in real time, delivering an immersive experience, as described.”

Goin' live and watching the first several episodes of YGOTAS to celebrate the 20th anniversary and such youtube.com/live/zP1Reye...

YGOTAS 20th Anniversary Streams - Part One

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Not only do we stand by our reporting. Madison Square Garden’s ridiculous lawsuit actually confirms it, noting the company did, in fact, track the sexual orientation of LGBTQIA celebrities in its talent database.

WIRED@wired.com · 3w ago

A statement from WIRED leadership.

There’s poop on the lettuce. There’s worms in the beef. There’s glass in the bread. What kind of Upton Sinclair timeline is this

"parasite outbreak blamed on taco bell because they're the only company reporting it" feels very "1918 flu blamed on Spain because they're the only country reporting it"

I think one reason data center outrage is so pronounced is people spent decades recycling and composting and otherwise scrimping to offset energy use and protect clean water, and the second we hit an inflection point for cheap electricity the banking industry said we’re taking all of it, fuck you

The conservative movement, at least in America, is not just anti-intellectual- it’s a flailing revulsion to anything that challenges one’s personal intuitions and cultural beliefs. It’s why Christians can abandon every value to worship an orange pdfile. Only their feelings matter.

like anti-intellectualism is not one part of the modern conservative movement, co-equal with things like "the desire to maintain western cultural history" or something. anti-intellectualism is the center and everything else is borrowed from that

All the comments about how it's weird for Homer to become some aspect of woke culture are interesting to me. Because while it is weird on one level, it's also simply true that conservatives are basically dumb guys and obviously have an aversion to all forms of "elite culture"

The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social

I really don’t judge you for it, but if you reply to my posts about Hoyo using AI saying “well good thing I’m f2p and my playing is just a drain on their servers” This is like saying that watching a tv show and not buying the DVD is a form of protest. You’re not hurting them by doing it.