I just saw a meme that said “get in losers, we’re reclaiming the emdash”. People. PEOPLE. Where are your STANDARDS? It CLEARLY should be “get in, losers — we’re reclaiming the em dash.”
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
every time trump is president you gotta wash your groceries
when you pick up a drill and give the trigger a little test squeeze
KOTH Screens@kothscreens.bsky.social · 3w ago
Have you tested your smoke alarm lately? We recommend testing them once a week and you should have one installed per floor of your home.
So, in Alberta, you have to show a confirmation of female sex in order to register your daughter for youth sports. Nothing required for boys. It has been associated with a decrease in registration for girls participating in sports. No change in boys. edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
Early dropoff in girls' school sports linked to new gender confirmation forms
Province's new requirements are already having impacts on girls' sports in junior high
edmontonjournal.com
Nancy Armour@nrarmour.bsky.social · last mo.The ban is heinous for what it does to transgender athletes. But if you think cisgender girls and young women won’t be caught up in the fallout, too, you are woefully ignorant
I can’t imagine the poverty of inner life required to care that much about other people’s genitalia. Fix your goddamn hearts.
Nothing short of the modern day Plessy v. Ferguson. www.npr.org/2026/06/30/n...
Supreme Court upholds bans on transgender athletes participating in women and girls' sports
Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who has long coached his daughters' and other girls' basketball teams at school, wrote the court's majority opinion.
npr.org
Technically, they’re Remains now.
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · last mo.A fifth of Leave voters have died.
"Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella accused AI giants of wrecking the economy, encouraging job losses, and basically ruining everything for everyone."
I Think You Should Leave Hot Dog Suspect
Alt: "I Think You Should Leave" hot dog suspect saying "we're all trying to find the guy who did this"
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New from me: The cops who AI-enhance blurry photos to try to catch suspects are actually just tampering with evidence, lying to the public and raising the risk of wrongful arrests
Check out this bit of ai alarmism from… the MIT Sloan School of Management.
‘AI gravity’ is pulling you toward dependency. Here’s how to push back | MIT Sloan
AI systems hold the promise of competitive advantage, but they can usher in cognitive decline among workers, says MIT Sloan School of Management’s Eric So. Learn how to protect cognitive capital.
mitsloan.mit.edu
“In a preliminary MIT Media Lab study, 83% of participants who wrote essays using ChatGPT couldn’t quote a single sentence from what they’d submitted moments earlier. ‘It passed from the computer screen onto the homework assignment without ever entering their brain,’ So said.” 🫠
Tonight in the ai reading group i was reminded of something that happened in 2006 after I dropped out of college, when I was living in a run-down old house next to jb alberto's in rogers park with a bunch of dudes. it was, as you can imagine, not clean.
"It’s going to be people with substance versus people with shallow knowledge. It’s going to be mastery versus faking it. It’s going to be people with good taste versus tacky. I trust you will put in the work necessary to be on the right side of those battles.”
Doctora Malka Older@older.bsky.social · 2mo ago"“I’m here to tell you the mission of your generation is to destroy AI,” said Chieng." news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
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usually when we talk about "instant karma," it's when something bad happens to someone deserving in an immediately. But there's also instant good karma
Men will literally claim UFOs and aliens exist rather than going to therapy—or releasing the Epstein files.
i post this every year because men soaking in toxic masculinity are all “why can’t we get women” and Tom Holland dances in drag and lands one of the hottest women on the planet, maybe there’s a lesson here guys