Lol, we're about to televise an execution while whinging that code that illegally hacks businesses to collect and sell our information shouldn't be turned off. Pretty soon, A fucking I will have more rights than women in America.
“It’s very upscale.” Thanks, I want to die.
The TV trailers for Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992). For years I had to sleep with the blankets pulled all the way up to my chin because I figured if the vampires couldn’t *see* my neck, they couldn’t get me.
Sleepy Hollow Reviews 🎃🐎@sleepingvillage.bsky.social · last wk.In honor of scary media month: what is the first piece of media you remember truly frightening you as a child?
Got another anti-trans campaign ad just now and man just fucking leave the trans folks alone already. Fuck’s sake.
BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned
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The funniest thing about the Schmitt rake stomp is that if it'd been a Dem we'd have a week of think pieces about how Dems lack of hoops literacy was alienating them from real America.
One thing that surprised me moving into tech research from academia was how much time and effort I’d spend reminding product teams that emotions are part of the user experience and we need to design for that intentionally. Tech is forgetting/ignoring the “human” part of human-computer interaction.
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2w agoFor an industry that monetized affect to take over the world, it has abandoned that quickly with AI. It doesn’t feel good. it isn’t fun. It doesn’t make you feel sharp. It makes a lot of people feel dumb.
i pledge my sword to the politician who just says: let’s leave trans people alone, i don’t know or care what a hasan piker is, and i condemn the genocide in gaza. stop hiring consultants that make you say weird stuff that nobody likes.
Semi regular reminder that when (white) men declare the end of humanity they usually mean the end of their dominance.
You can’t have it both ways. You can’t be “It’s simple math, vote blue no matter who, grow up” and ALSO believe you are fighting fascism by making calculations as to who’s expendable. The world we’re in now demands more from us. More from everyone.
Clearly the PRC is not benign and in many ways worse then the US even now, but given the UBI AI utopia described by Silicon Valley types is clearly communism, I’m at least willing to hear actual communists out. Whereas when Elon Musk suggests UBI he’s clearly just lying
Bill@bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 4w agoI respect the Chinese AI companies more because they straight up say that the purpose of the technology is achieving communism. this is from deepseek.
People can get used to anything (laudatory) People can get used to anything (lamentful)
Once a week or so I intone "we should have the humans do the things the computers are bad at, and the computers do the things the humans are bad at" & everybody nods like I'm the fucking dalai lama
Someday soon hes going to be over and trans folk will continue to exist and, hopefully, thrive, for as long as there are humans on this planet.
you have the freedom not to love this country too. because a state is incapable in of feeling or returning love. your feelings otherwise are irrational. I appreciate and am grateful I was born in a safe, stable and affluent country. I don't love the USA. It certainly does not love me back.
John Schwartz@jswatz.bsky.social · last mo.In the U.S., "free speech, including the freedom to criticize the government and its leaders, is not a sign of our democracy’s fragility. It is evidence of its strength... Here you can simultaneously hate the content of a person’s speech and love the country that cherishes the freedom to allow it.”
The secret of Dolly is forgiveness. Not just for individuals but in 'people' as a concept. Not that anyone needs forgiveness, as if they did something wrong. But as flawed, troubled and struggling day to day. The philosophy of Dolly is, thats alright. Here's a little help, and try again tomorrow.
Apologies if you saw me fully crying while walking the dogs this morning, but the bit at the end of this episode—about how, if fascists can regain lost ground, it means we can too—stirred something deep inside me.
Cool Zone Media@coolzonemedia.bsky.social · 2mo agoIn 1994, Byron de la Beckwith was finally convicted of murder for killing Medgar Evers in 1963. He died in prison, his story is over. But history repeats itself. @socialistdogmom.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social linktr.ee/weirdlittleg...
I’ve never once seen someone get upset about adults cutting off their families-of-origin without completely telling on themselves. If you are a decent person, THIS ISN’T ABOUT YOU AND YOU NEED NOT WORRY.
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2mo agolol come the fuck on
despite the claim to "seeing both sides" they actually understand neither the only encounter progressive arguments as summarised by centerists sneering at them & they encounter fascists through a sanitised lense
Democracy doesn't work if a country is a nursing full of people who vote but don't work and staff who work but don't vote.
My unpopular Comparative Politics opinion is that approximately 30 percent of a country's adult population are kooks, radicals, reactionaries, etc.. A functioning political system, i.e., parties, institutions, and economy, keep them out of power by containing, excluding, and reducing respectively.
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 · 2mo agoNotetaking 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
i don't believe anyone has "good-faith" concerns about trans women in sports in 2026. there's been too much time to hear the actual evidence, the actual people affected, and the role the debate plays in attempts to purge trans people from American life. anybody picking that side has made a choice
victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27)@dirtbagqueer.rocks · 2mo agoenough of this shit
I think it harms Journalism that the message that the media has sent to us over the last several years is that no matter what a person does it’s impossible to credibly be sure that they are a Nazi.
Apologies if I sound angry, but it is a real problem that the 'smart' commentary on this war is trying hard to avoid the core lesson ("the president is a fucking moron") because it doesn't sound very clever when it is absolutely the most important takeaway from this debacle.