Wait wait wait... You mean Knox County Mayor Glen Jacobs isn't really an evil dentist and/or fire demon? I can't handle this cognitive dissonance

Patrick W. Reed@patrickwreed.bsky.social · 8h ago

this is from a Guardian review of Channel 4's Wrestling With Trump documentary. Positing, in 2026, that Kayfabe is an explanation for why fans don't like to admit wrestling isn't real should have you taken off any beat that covers anything remotely close to wrestling.

Don't forget, Jesus was a criminal

"What if all the Ai is gone tomorrow? How would everyone survive without it?" is sort of like asking "what if herpes suddenly stopped existing?"

British media trying to pull a Charlie Kirk over a dead racist pedophile wife-beater is just more proof that ruthlessly and brutally denazifying British news media is going to be important.

Think about how you are in the shrinking bubble of people who know how to read and process the meanings of written words, and how a handful of billionaires are doing their damnedest to shrink it further. You're in a literacy bubble, and a handful of the wealthiest freaks in history are killing it.

From the Ring Doorbell playbook of telling LE what and what not to say, including never using the word “surveillance.”

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · yesterday

is this good:

The internet is forever, even if you get SLAPPed ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/c1l5z...

On a long enough timeline, all yuri is doomed yuri

The internet is still screaming. We just built routers that didn't force us to listen

Arm the Lorax

The more I learn about trees, the deeper my loathing for property developers becomes

We're in the era of incompetence & cybercrimes headlined as "unprecedented model capabilities gone rogue." So OpenAI & Anthropic are trying to one up each other with such incompetence because the "press release as a service" performing media & clueless politicians parrot pre IPO CEO talking points.

One of the most annoying genAI websites SEO'd to the top of search results is chefsresource dot com. Search for anything involving food, odds are it'll pop up near the top, burning an entire rainforest to produce absolute nonsense slop. Everyone involved in it is made of edible meat.

It's like they want us to degoogle

Dr Neil & Mr Price@drneil.bsky.social · 7d ago

It’s really starting to grind me down

All these news outlets like *serious toned report about Jared Leto* "and now here's a promo for Johnny Depp's exciting new film!"

We're working on a fat fuckin article about systems of control and how people can be persuaded to vote their freedom away if you speak to their bigotry. And camping. Even brought in a guest to help with turning the research into swearing.

Ok, it's time for Finally Read The Longread Tabs I Have Open Sunday! This one's a LONG one...the edcuation select committee report on reading for pleasure. publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5902/cm...

Shout out to the man on the train calling his bank about ID theft and who has read his name, postcode, and the long number on his card to the whole carriage.

As I recall, Tony Blair’s boss Larry Ellison said the point of AI is to force people to behave themselves, and I think we should be pretty fucking clear what people like that crank mean, when they say they want to make “people” “behave themselves”.

One last face turn out of auld Kane before he hangs up the boots eh

DeFlock@deflock.org · last wk.

Headline of the Day

The goal is to satisfy the *emotions* behind every information need without providing real information.

Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · last wk.

The cross-platform enshittification of search functionality is such an infuriating exercise of authoritarian creep. They would like to kill the inclination to find information & enforce satisfaction with be fed information.

Calling people daddy but in a Dusty Rhodes hard times way not a sex weirdo way

Re: sexbot sally, I don't know if the fact that she was made partially by a sex toy company should be all that controversial. For one, no non-pervert has ever designed a humanoid robot. That just doesn't happen, you immediately put caterpillar tracks on that bitch if you're not planning to fuck it

I put this in a story the year before last and everyone thought I was being sooooo creative. The world is just pretty easy to predict actually

Adam "I Was Hoping We Could Keep It" Laats@adamlaats.bsky.social · last wk.

The good news: They're not gonna put Sally the Sexbot in schools. The bad news: Plenty of adults in positions of authority thought it was a good idea to put Sally the Sexbot in schools.

Sidenote: is "comedy writer" being in the present tense really accurate?

elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 2w ago

Is a racist known as a anti-black/brown activist? Is a sexist known as an anti-woman activist? If an antisemite known as an anti-jews activist? 'Anti-transgender activist' is just a transphobe. There's already a term for it.

And, one of the deliberate outcomes of flooding all self publishing spaces with genAI slop is to completely devalue them as a source of income for the people who rely on them.

Abra / Jessica Conwell, Littlest Big Trans Account 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻@pairofclaws.bsky.social · 2y ago

I am once again asking people to stop shitting on self publishing. Self publishing is one of the best ways for marginalized people to get their stories told, and we work hard as fuck. Stop equating selfpub with low quality, low effort.

Periodic reminder: if you get itchy when you sweat, that's fungus on your skin that produces an allergen when you sweat, making you basically allergic to your own sweat.

Pookleblinky@pookleblinky.bsky.social · 2y ago

Fun fact: the skin fungus Malassezia globosa produces a protein called MGL_1304 which acts as an allergen when you are sweaty, making you seemingly allergic to sweating. This fungus is what makes you feel itchy when you are sweaty. It also causes dandruff.

My article @thenerve.news from a few weeks ago on Starmer's ultimate legacy in tech and digital: it was the human rights lawyer who delivered Theresa May's vision of a post-Brexit digital sector created for domestic surveillance and order, promoted as a form of patriotic responsible citizenship. 1/2

Scan your eyeballs, think of the children: how Britain sells surveillance as safety

Keir Starmer's under-16 social media ban can only work if everyone proves who they are. It is the natural conclusion of the Online Safety Act – and of a Brexit that was always about control, says digi...

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