something broken in our world with so many people turning to manipulative computers for social interaction

The Associated Press@apnews.com · yesterday

Major Chinese tech companies recently shut down their popular AI companion services to comply with new regulations that ban the platforms from manipulating emotions or replacing social interactions. Some users are upset, uninstalling apps in protest or trying to train new ones.

A Senate candidate talking about the Powell memo???? Pinch me, am I dreaming????

Team Talarico@teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 6d ago

James Talarico: 50 years ago, a corporate lawyer named Lewis Powell circulated a memo around DC — a blueprint for how corporations could amass political power, reverse the gains of the Great Society and the New Deal, and rig the system for themselves. And it worked.

they're spending all this money to guarantee that Americans are the consumers-of-last-resort for otherwise stranded fossil fuel assets next decade. A huge giveaway to the Saudis and Big Oil, paid for by all of us

Steve Benen@stevebenen.com · 4d ago

Confronted with an obvious need for renewable energy, Trump admin officials used taxpayer money to scuttle an offshore wind project. Then they did it again. And again. And again. And this week, again. Total price tag in wasted taxpayer money: ~$4 billion and counting www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

This is the tragic yet logical result of a decades-long project—undertaken by rightwing politicians and “business-minded” administrators alike—to distort the meaning of higher education, to deny the intrinsic value of the pursuit of knowledge, to deprive us all of richer, more purposeful lives.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · last wk.

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

and GOD IS EMPTY JUST LIKE ME

This is deadass every republican campaign ad here in the south. I'm not even REMOTELY JOKING.

People potentially subject to the nyc pied-à-terre tax are being treated with 1% of the administrative hostility of SNAP and Medicaid applicants, and they’re throwing 100x the fit

"The people who work on farms often don't own them" is something that would have been completely intuitive to 99% of people for 99% of human history but is completely unintelligible to the people who make US public policy.

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 2w ago

A very serious Rural Politico once told me "Dems have to go to farmer meetings! We gotta be where the people are!" I was in fact in a farmer meeting at that very moment! So I live-texted him the meeting. They were complaining that they want indentured workers that they don't have to pay or feed.

This makes people's attachment to the individuals who have won out at this tournament feel insane. The average American Politics Fan sees some US Senator just start showing up on their TV and doesn't realize their entire career was contingent on a City Council retirement that happened in 1998

The thing about LLMs is that part of the reason they are capable of making things so terrible right now is most things they are interacting with have been completely broken for at least 20 years and have been coasting on inertia to not completely fall apart

The fuckers called Eisenhower a commie and the interstate highway system a commie plot to make America commie, just so you know how long this commie bullshit has been going on.

Batman fans who hounded Nolan about Batman actually knew a lot about Batman. The people yelling about the Odyssey think it's about Hercules entering an arm wrestling match to win a night with Helen, Queen of Rome.

Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏

Metin Seven (Moon Child's dad 🌝)@seven.eurosky.social · 3w ago

The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?

Ben Allen@evodynamics.bsky.social · 4w ago

Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...

Sam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs.

Lindsey Graham was ashamed of what he should have been proud of and proud of what he should have been ashamed of.

At all times, historians are basically two steps away from telling you the most messed up things you've ever heard. We are well acquainted with the vast catalogues of human cruelty and suffering.

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · last mo.

Students initially struggle with this: because history really shows you that people generally were awful, even their so-called heroes. But we are better for seeing people in their entirety. I DO get students asking me how I keep my spirits up as a historian because everything I study is so dark...

I hope that Lindsey Graham coming out as deceased will give Mitch McConnell the same courage to come out as dead

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Democrats should just run ads that are montages of headlines of all the various Trump family theft of taxpayer money with this clip as the tag

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

JD Vance: "I ask you a very simple question: When you come to vote in November, are you gonna vote for the pro-fraud party? Are you gonna vote for the party that is sending your tax dollars to the fraudsters?"

Andy Reid Approaches Floor For Traditional Coach-Tight End Wedding Dance https://theonion.com/andy-reid-approaches-floor-for-traditional-coach-tight-end-wedding-dance/

there are very few jobs in the world where you can disappear for weeks without providing an explanation, and "member of congress" should not be one of them, imo

Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · last mo.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

She's referring to a hideous Rolls-Royce, but "The Cullinan" sounds like an object from Irish mythology, like a magic birthmark that makes your friends hate you because it makes you irresistible to their wives, who you're too pious to have sex with, but nobody believes you, leading to your death.

Tamara Keel@tamslick.bsky.social · last mo.

The Cullinan is so thunderously gauche that nobody would notice if it had an open bed.

The thing you need to understand is that there are 2 (TWO) different method for amending the constitution 1) The process laid out in the constititon itself (conventions, or 2/3's of both houses followed by 3/4 of states ratifying) OR 2) find five votes on the Supreme Court.

making the housing discourse worse by calling all the folks who have only lived in their hometowns all their lives “cisplants”

Mel Brooks is a greater piece of American heritage than the Confederacy.

Flat Pluto Society@adhdgobl.in · last mo.

Mel Brooks has been around for 40% of the US's existence.

“Loitering is not permitted in this area. Please proceed to a designated location. Thank you for your cooperation,” a surveillance machine tells a small cluster of National Guard members as they patrol the fenced off Reflecting Pool in the rain.