That's not a flying car! That's just the world's most dangerous hovercraft!
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"The circumstances of its bankruptcy are exactly what critics of AI have been saying would happen: Characterai lit a huge amount of money on fire running its product, did not bring in a lot of revenue, and faced enormous legal fees after causing harm to its users." www.404media.co/character-ai...
Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work
Character.ai enshittified its product but was still burning tons of cash, its bankruptcy documents say.
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This becomes very relevant to what I have been thinking about after going to the indigent remains ceremony—I had a lot of questions about infants and stillbirths that weren’t really relevant to the final piece. youtu.be/iQ-OHi3cBPo?...
Who Yaasified this Mummified Victorian Toddler?
YouTube video by Caitlin Doughty
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I hate this so much www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Seattle grocery fights back against right-wing influencer after viral video
After Nick Shirley posted a video accusing Lam’s grocery of fraud, the store has been fighting to clear its name against an onslaught of social media hate.
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"they must be paid, they all have the same professionally-printed sign," says donald trump in a sea of identical professionally-printed hats
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.a grandmotherly woman just got booted from the Trump rally for protesting, and she went out like a hero talking trash and flipping the double bird
I also think it's absolutely hilarious to think that training our kids to use today's worst technology specifically instead of training them to be adaptable to whatever comes next is somehow the forward-thinking approach
Coach Finstock@coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2w agoI also find it fucking hilarious that the AI stans are like "your kids will be left behind if they don't use it" as if it's harder to type a prompt into a text box to ask someone else to do your work than it is to read and understand a book or learn mathematics on your own. Foh.
You can lie to yourself every day that this horseshit doesn't make you lazy and stupid, but reality comes at you pretty fast
Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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Coach Finstock@coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2w agoI also find it fucking hilarious that the AI stans are like "your kids will be left behind if they don't use it" as if it's harder to type a prompt into a text box to ask someone else to do your work than it is to read and understand a book or learn mathematics on your own. Foh.
It was an honor to cover this for @thestranger.com this week. Overwhelming and humbling. www.thestranger.com/news/king-co...
King County Holds Heartbreakingly Vast Funeral for People With Nobody to Bury Them - The Stranger
There are 626 people, the most King County has ever interred at one time through its indigent remains program, stacked neatly beneath a fresh marble grave marker, each with cremains in their own plast...
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"Oh god, the infill - it's - it's coming! It's BREAKING THROUGH THE DOOR - TELL MY WIFE I -" *garbled screaming*
Steve Lafleur@stevelafleur.bsky.social · last wk.No pretense. Just rank NIMBYism.
COULD IT BE THE UNMITIGATED HOMOPHOBIA AND GENDERED VIOLENCE UNDER A FASCIST REGIME?
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · last wk.Young teenagers are less likely to identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual than a few years ago, according to a new analysis. “It really does look like a free fall,” Jean Twenge, a professor of psychology, said. “But what’s causing it is unclear.”
troy jackson came to play, huh you love to see it
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Troy Jackson: "The gentleman's name was Johan Sebastian Guerrero. He had a 3 year old daughter. The only mistake he made that morning was going to work. Because Sen. Collins is not willing to stand up to Donald Trump, he was murdered in the streets of Biddeford for doing nothing wrong."
America, they are trying to desensitize you to violence. They want us to dehumanize one another so we become numb to their attacks on our liberty. They wish to normalize total state control thru visual terror. Attention is currency. Don’t invest it in evil. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Pentagon says execution of Fort Hood shooter will be livestreamed
Nidal Hasan, army psychiatrist who killed 13 people, will be executed by firing squad on 3 December
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Republican candidate: I think for myself. I don't have to do what the president says, I can disagree with him-- Trump (tweeting): Everyone has to call Congress "Toilet" now! Republican candidate: --and that's why I'm running to be your next Toiletman
I was a kid with too much internet once and I KNOW there will be all kinds of kids tuning into that execution in a "wanna see a dead body" kind of way but then they actually will see a dead body and it's gonna be bad.
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...
Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · last wk.The news just since I left work: -A planned livestream of an execution by firing squad -Trump basically trying to incite a pogrom against Somalis Nothing mysterious or complicated about what's happening.
This is where we are. Live stream executions for Maga porn. Such barbarism is not easily wiped away.
AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · last wk.BREAKING US execution by firing squad of Fort Hood shooter to be livestreamed: Pentagon official
this is the funniest thing i've seen in a looooong time. city passes new rule allowing prayer before city council meetings. satanist prays. city council then debates proper time to "undo the curse that was just put on our city" www.404media.co/it-is-done-h...
If I were filming this Parks & Rec episode I would be zooming in so hard on the third person's face
Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · last wk.this is the funniest thing i've seen in a looooong time. city passes new rule allowing prayer before city council meetings. satanist prays. city council then debates proper time to "undo the curse that was just put on our city" www.404media.co/it-is-done-h...
This is such an incredible fucking framing and I don't think I will ever stop thinking about this.
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 2w agoHoly shit.
Anand is the best (and I'm doing an event with him at, yes, @cityartssf.bsky.social Thursday, for his new book Man in the Mirror). Couldn't agree more that cities are refuges or places of last resort for people kicked out of rural/suburban/pseudo-idyllic America.
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 2w agoHoly shit.
Really speedran your way into the "Please tune into our taxpayer-funded livestreamed public execution" timeline, huh?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Hegseth on Nidal Hasan: "He's gonna get a firing squad of soldiers. As it should be. We'll make sure that people are able to watch it. That it's public. Because people need to understand that there's serious consequences for these types of things."
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA WHAT A HEADLINE (but also please remember that the Black Death would have been far less catastrophic with modern antibiotics)
Defector@defector.com · last wk.Everything we know and don't know about the possible plague death at the Anti-Plague Institute: defector.com/everything-w...
