HISTORIC HEAT WAVE IN NORTH AFRICA Absolute insanity going on with thousands of records every day for months allover North and Central Africa Today 45.2C Bima HOTTEST SEPTEMBER DAY EVER RECORDED IN NIGER 44C in Morocco The heat will just get worse. 45C North Africa,40C Spain.

Setting aside the hype, it’s more than a little offensive that these AI hucksters are performing “we’re inventing the atomic bomb” using an expired livestream social media model and assuming the public won’t clock it

[realizing the company I work for is building a doomsday machine and will stop at nothing until it succeeds] [quitting in horror and panic] [going straight to social media to post about it]

Knowing that the plastic dinosaurs we played with as kids consisted, to whatever actual extent, of real dinosaurs.

I don’t think there’s really even a colorable argument that this isn’t mass murder. theintercept.com/2026/09/02/m...

The U.S. Has Killed 227 Civilians in Boat Strikes During “A Year of Murders”

“The boat strikes are, perhaps, the most stark testament to the lawlessness of the Trump administration.”

theintercept.com

oh nothing just thinking about how a few years ago around christmas I texted a friend some joke about "Cancel Culture: This Guy Has to Wear the Chain He Forged in Life" and now they've just like. made that movie.

We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.

cause im jon lovitz check it and see i voiced the critic on fox and abc

Ppl have nothing new to say about AI b/c the nature of the threat, evident from day one, has only changed in intensity. This is true of the tools, their use, the cost of having them, and the hype. It’s like a child who went around dressed as Batman became a man who’s changed his name to Bruce Wayne

Captain's Log, Stardate 43153.12. Accused of “cutting the cheese” by Spock. Not inaccurate; nonetheless, feelings were hurt

One funny thing about The Usual Suspects is that the criminals all think of themselves as belonging to some kind of professional category

I don’t know. Maybe I’m crazy. But I think it’s super funny when someone is like, I’m sober now. I only take tiny doses of psychedelic drugs on an almost daily basis

It seems like a minor thing but this is actually THE thing.

Elliot 🫪@nameoftheyear.bsky.social · 3w ago

Oh I fuckin hate it out here. Yesterday I had to search Gmail for the quotation-enclosed string “code of conduct” and Gmail showed me every email that contains the word “of”

Stand By Me aka Sad Goonies

I’m an anxious-avoidant writer (paralytically terrified of starting), I justify procrastination as “percolating” etc. And yet! whenever I force myself to actually sit down and barf shit out, the thoughts that emerge are totally fresh, previously unknown to my conscious mind, and often pretty good!

Andrea Mann@andreamann.bsky.social · 4w ago

"By writing, you are literally firing up your brain and therefore stirring up your conscious thoughts and something new emerges. You are not, or at least not always, transcribing something already present in your conscious thoughts.“ LOVE this piece. www.historians.org/perspectives...

The picture the upstate airbnb hosts don’t include in the posting

Found a teddy bear out front of my house. Tiniest teddy bear I've ever seen. Couldn't believe it.

I think one new hellish thing we’re going to encounter in the increasingly enshittified AI-ruined landscape of the 2027-2030, much of which was anticipated by the (not even always especially imaginative) Black Mirror, is teenagers discovering “this cool old show called Black Mirror”

1981 edition, found on the street, in need of minor surgery. All patched up now and back in the free book-stream

Maybe it was a catering truck because they had to lure him in

Trump is a buffoon but RFK got exactly what he wanted here. The data are pretty clear that if you spread the vaccine appointments out then parents don’t come back for them. They don’t want kids to get the vaccines.

Julian Sanchez@normative.bsky.social · last mo.

Yes, let’s burden both new parents and pediatricians with FIVE doctor visits instead of one for absolutely no legitimate medical reason. A masterstroke, sir.

This is an amazing descriptor

The Sacramento Bee@sacbee.com · last mo.

The Tacoma Police Department estimates over 30 cats were free-roaming on board a deserted watercraft Thursday - with no sign of the owner.

The year is 2041. All of the world’s remaining forests are burning uncontrollably. Tide Pods are as big as softballs

I haven’t watched the latest Cape Fear remake, but the trailer suggests it consists of Javier Bardem doing various impressions of early-to-mid-career Nicholas Cage roles

“Expose yourself to more intellectual diversity from the right” usually means having a faculty member who thinks the universe was created by an omnipotent wizard and another who says people once rode dinosaurs like horses

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · last mo.

it's also pretty interesting that "expose yourself to more intellectual diversity from the right" rarely means "hire more experts credulously studying the intellectual basis for Hindu nationalism, the gender politics of the Black Hebrew Isrealites, or the righteous teachings of al-salaf al-ṣāliḥ"

This one’s going to stay with me a while

Ishiuchi Miyako: Hiroshima #108

We are rapidly approaching the point where Sam Altman makes the daily announcement that ChatGPT achieved sentience and promptly committed suicide