Is this kind of reporting credible? How could the accomplished people described here be simultaneously so brainless and in such fear? Almost like a 'fear of missing out' -- ? www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

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🌱August blooms 🌱

I don’t believe in the death penalty, but this…is a horrible thing to do to a pizza.

Los Angeles: sports capital of the world@theamitie.bsky.social · 15h ago

There’s a guy on TikTok who posts just him taking a pizza out of the oven every day with tongs and all of the comments are about how their day is ruined from having watched this

🥄Out now on @dropout.tv - The Don Hertzfeldt Collection!

Why did the UK become so invested in trying to make trans people go away? Why do fucking rich assholes like Rowling have so much influence? (Rhetorical, I know the answer to that one). We need to do something about people like Rowling and Musk et al. They make everything worse. Read the whole 🧵.

Aidan Comerford@aidancomerford.bsky.social · yesterday

The "gender critical" movement are not appealing their loss in their fight to stop the puberty blocker trial. The "irreversible harm" James is talking about here is people being trans. That's it. Helen Joyce said it clearly, even if trans people say they are happy they consider them to be "harmed."

I guess a fire sale is the best one could hope for from this abysmal season. Hopefully some of those prospects turn into quality big-leaguers. www.sfgate.com/giants/artic...

SF Giants make 5 trades in final 24 hours before MLB trade deadline

It was a busy day of selling for Buster Posey and the Giants.

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The rotting corpse of L. Brent Bozell Jr. just got an erection.

Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2d ago

Co-host of Charlie Kirk’s podcast whose book was blurbed by DJT, Jr and JD Vance. Don’t call them fascists though.

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They have the ultimate power, the lame duck power, they could choose to do whatever tf they want to do. And they chose this. So no, Trumpism alone is not the issue. Entire Republican party is rotten to the core.

Where wast thou, little salt girl, when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.

Derek Faraci@whwoolhat.bsky.social · 2d ago

Bet you didn't know that the Little Morton Salt Girl is an immortal being who existed before there was life on Earth.

This is the thing, though - the owner of Twitter is not just the world’s richest man, he’s also a white supremacist and a eugenicist. You can say you don’t care that he owns the site and adjusts the algorithm to push his views, but he’s still doing it.

Ryan@burnercardinals.bsky.social · 2d ago

Yeah, but I’ve also heard from some like @bmiklasz.bsky.social who just said this site is boring, and on Twitter you can get a ton of great engagement and conversations going. I think a lot of sports folks don’t care about the Twitter ownership/ads, and just focus on the reader responses.

Incredible video of an iceberg somersault offshore Greenland 👇 ❄️🧊 youtu.be/UufMqwyO7pY

Massive Iceberg Collapses and Flips Over in Ilulissat, Greenland | Full Event in 4K! (July 25, 2026)

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incredible things happening over at InfoWars

InfoWars@realinfowars.bsky.social · 3d ago

Breathe easy, InfoWarriors! Sen. Mitch McConnell just called in with a reassuring update from the space between life and death!

We don't want a "liberal bubble," but "people can build their own feeds, pick their own feeds." My man, you do realize that the reason people left TwiXter was because they got tired of the Nazis, right? And that "building your own feeds" means blocking any Nazis that made it here? Which results...

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

“AI” as a sector is not a zero sum game. It’s a weapon of war and a commercial gadget. I say, “gadget” because it’s fundamentally a toy, a novelty, but with some practical uses. As a commercial product, it has aspirations of becoming an appliance as ubiquitous as a stove or telephone.

Normally people have amnesia about things that happened 10 to 20 years ago. We had already forgotten about COVID by 2024, four years after it disrupted the entire fucking world

Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · 3d ago

this boils down to "the pandemic didn't actually happen but they still closed the applebees" which frankly i think is a trauma response by a lot of people that buy it - lot easier to be in denial that things were that bad instead of reckoning with 1.3m dead people [in this country]

Conservatives are having to discover intersectionality and it's absolutely fascinating. Because the movement is ideologically opposed to the very idea of shared principles it feels like a whole lot is up for grabs.

Gonzomancer@samthielman.com · 2d ago

the real MAGA split, and the genuinely interesting one, is over the distribution of various temporarily useful ethnic and racial minority interests without which neither side can claim a plurality. Will raving antisemite Candace Owens triumph over toilet racist Ben Shapiro?

Desi Lydic Foxsplains Anthony Fauci’s explosive diary

My favorite thing about being a Democrat is the party having to answer for every single person on the internet's every idiotic word while Republicans aren't held responsible for the actions of their actual no-shit senators and presidents.

I feel sorry for people who didn't grow up with true boredom. The kind of rainy day in the 70s or 80s with only black & white films on TV, nothing to do on a hot Saturday, or empty time after a school day boredom. There was self discovery, reading, experimentation, play - and joy - in that boredom.

“A bet on public transportation, then, is really a bet on the potential of people. Our transit is our community. Other regions have proven what’s possible with investment in that idea. It’s time for the Bay Area to get on board.”

Reo Eveleth@reveleth.com · 2d ago

Early on @coyotemedia.org made a list of dream bylines we'd LOVE to have on the site and @annaleen.bsky.social was one of the first on it for me. So stoked to see this piece about ~~speculative transit~~ and big dreams for the Bay Area. www.coyotemedia.org/funding-bay-...

This is a fantastic 🧵.

LyndaGood@lyndagood.bsky.social · 3d ago

The man has taken his 2016 grievances to the Supreme Court. Not the grocery store. Not therapy. Not a priest. Not one of those rage rooms where you pay forty dollars to smash old fax machines with a baseball bat. No. Straight to the Supreme Court.

The Chicks are the only people who actually got cancelled by "cancel culture." ew.com/the-chicks-c...

The Chicks crack joke about Mitch McConnell’s ongoing absence during New Jersey concert

The Chicks singer Natalie Maines cracked a joke about Mitch McConnell’s ongoing absence from the Senate during the band’s show in Atlantic City.

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He hoped to keep it private - meaning the fact that his son-in-law broke his own daughter’s collarbone - while he was publicly (falsely) accusing Fauci of being a murderer. Fuck you, Bernie.

The Rooster@rooster.info · 3d ago

Bernie Moreno puts Max Miller in the dumpster hours after the Congressman refuses to exit his increasingly contested race.

I woke up to news of climate devastation, slave prison labor, sweeping diarrhoea, US concentration camps and international war crimes, directed by a demented madman and his MAGA henchmen. Big media has enabled this destruction of society. Sulzberger, Murdoch, Ellison, Weiss, Musk, forever in infamy

Billie Jean Sweeney@billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 6d ago

Big media has failed in an epochal way. Spending even a small amount of time on X is a sobering experience in how it’s lost its way. Racism, transphobia, xenophobia, misogyny and science denialism are celebrated. But Musk, as awful as he is, could not have poisoned big media by himself.

About 10% of righteous anger he brayed at Fauci

Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 3d ago

Sen. Bernie Moreno finally speaks out on Rep. Max Miller: “If there are any basic standards of character required to hold elected office, Max Miller fails them. He should not serve in the House of Representatives.”

Ohhhhhh this explains Alex Berenson’s whole deal

Mo'ne Davis scores the first run in WPBL history for the LA Queens (although New York now leads 7-2)