I heard Spider-Man 4 was the best MCU movie in a while and it turns out it's because Spider-Man learned what a script was and shared this discovery with his coworkers.

katsian andor@dogunderwater.bsky.social · 3w ago

popping it in here because it makes me laugh every time. he also talks about how spider-man got six months of extra time to work on the script (and hire a director lmao) bc of the odyssey schedule www.gq.com/story/matt-d...

This country is so racist. I have Ukrainian loved ones and Haitian loved ones. My Ukrainian friends are so ashamed of the difference between how they are treated and how Haitians are treated, when both groups fled war-torn countries for a better life. Imagine removing TPS and shackling Ukrainians

Yael Schacher@yaelschacher.bsky.social · 21h ago

So many immigrants I've interviewed break down about this. "Monsanto Maler was one of several Haitian immigrants who traveled from Springfield for a check in...after an ankle monitor was attached to him, Maler was seen collapsing to the ground and crying." www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/hundre...

I get the idea but racism isn’t about appealing to reality it’s about enforcing the idea that people’s very existence delegitimizes them by default We lived through this with Obama. There is no amount of credentials or credibility that quieted those foreignizing him. In fact a guy got elected on it

Andrea Junker@strandjunker.com · 23h ago

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed was practically engineered to break MAGA brains. American-born (sorry, no “go back” card), ridiculously credentialed (MD + Oxford PhD), explains policy like a normal human, and takes zero crap. Good luck finding a script for that.

I was in one of these recently and it was no big deal. I'm still a closed loop individual of individual sapience. There's definitely no humming of the collective mycelium spirit in the back of my mind. Don't worry about these

Seth Masket@smotus.bsky.social · 3d ago

Are deadly fungal storms bad

There is a certain type of bad guy whose main contribution is sowing confusion between good and bad by failing to understand things that are easily understood.

burn it all down@russbengtson.bsky.social · 2d ago

ah so that's why 60 minutes hired douchehat

ah so that's why 60 minutes hired douchehat

exactly 💯 on LLMs: they simulate the output we call language, not the cognitive capacity we call language!

Dr Katie Twomey@k2mey.eurosky.social · 2d ago

Arguing that LLMs are anything more than a load of numbers going into a complicated mathematical function and spitting some more numbers out. Yes they simulate. But they simulate *language*. They do not simulate the cognitive processes underlying communication.

I’m sorry, you simply can’t lead your newscast with that Miller tape on the birthright citizenship “order” without pointing out that that’s not the damn way it works. It’s just not journalism.

And yet

Wages? Stagnant. Jobs? Don’t exist. Doritos? $8. Lettuce? Diarrhea. Wife? Left me. Libs? lol owned

George Pearkes@peark.es · 3d ago

Payrolls -23k vs +80k est / +57k prev -103k net revision U-3 UER 4.1% vs 4.2% exp / 4.2% prev U-6 UER 7.9% vs 8.0% exp / 7.9% prev LFPR 61.4% vs 61.6% est / 61.5% prev Avg hourly earnings +0.1% MoM vs +0.3% MoM est / +0.3% prev

Just use fancy French names for every tax that applies to rich people and the messaging takes care of itself

Meanwhile, in New York:

Rob Reiner Fan@rob-reiner-fan.bsky.social · 5d ago

Make your own interpretation.

Legendary

Mega Thee Tron@valarmordollars.bsky.social · 4d ago

Sam Altman matched with a man on Grindr, who posted the conversation. Open AI offered him money to take it down. He made a song instead.

Golden State Valkyries forward Gabby Williams: “There’s a lot of discourse around trans athletes and what they can compete in. I would welcome a trans athlete on my team or against my team. Anytime. I don’t think it’s a problem in the world, it’s just another way to kind of attack trans people.”

This is the correct take

Mekka Okereke@mekka.mekka-tech.com · 4d ago

All of these people are terrible. This woman and her dad go to work every day to make life terrible for millions of families across America, when this is the type of person they were living with at home? They covered for him for years, for what? So that he could help them ruin other families?

Pretty sure when you win the election it's a big election night. Pretty sure when your party's leadership all endorses the loser, it means the leadership is out of touch with the electorate.

Politico@politico.com · 5d ago

Progressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted

lol eat shit

DDHQ Race Update (est. 86% in): Michigan US Senate Democratic Primary Abdul El-Sayed (D): 653,438 (48.9%) Haley Stevens (D): 628,460 (47.1%) Mallory McMorrow (D): 53,725 (4.0%) Follow more results here: votes.decisiondeskhq.com/races/283906

yall dont ask but mute "sauerkraut" for a day

The most important political conversation happening in the US right now, is the fight between "progressives that are not anti-Black," and "Dem centrists that are super anti-Black." This is the whole ballgame. MAGA doesn't matter. We don't need "civil conversations🤡" as defined by Charlie Kirk.

A lot of (Non-Black) people on here pretend to be neutral and "just let users moderate themselves!" when they see people post joy at the death of Black men like George Floyd... but then jump in to "protect civil conversation🤡" if Black folk aren't sufficiently deferential when alt-right dudes die.

A frozen kielbasa going through a garbage disposal.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

RFK Jr yelling at Dana Bash sounds like a rabid dog barking

going TERF is like the fentanyl of prejudices. you can’t just dabble in it and return to normal life, you gotta double, triple, quadruple down until you’re trying to get a hit on a podcast with isabel brown

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Sophie Cunningham is getting booed every time she touches the ball here in Minneapolis

Not only did they absolutely beg for this, they made it so that “merit” was synonymous with being white so now you’re stuck with precisely the kind of moron who believes that. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Genuinely it would be best if justices were made to rely on professional clerks organized more like CRS.

Given AI is now integrated in popular writing tools and mandated at many workplaces, every piece of human output can legitimately be suspected of being AI assisted. Minorities will bear the brunt of consequences and accusations here as our culture of double standards and DEI witch-hunts have shown.

A Nigerian born author, Jerry Falade, had his $2.4M book deal pulled because he was accused of using AI. There is unavoidable optics of a Black man writing a brilliant novel that people assume must have been written by AI. However the broader issue is we can’t trust any writing isn’t AI generated.

The End of an Era - Hugh Howey

We knew this day would come. Some of us have known for decades, have been writing and pontificating about this since Ken Jennings lost at Jeopardy and Kasparov lost at chess. The writing was on the wa...

hughhowey.com

I worry that most cynical among us, hopped up on 30 years of law and order rhetoric, will say "this is the system working: he didn't do anything wrong and now he's free." As if the terror and wide-scale publicity of an arrest and federal prosecution is not a horrible punishment in and of itself.

CNN@cnn.com · last wk.

The Justice Department is admitting that a $14 million renovation on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, was flawed, and is dropping the criminal case against a former Olympian that accused him of damaging the pool, according to a new court filing. https://cnn.it/3RJJnwj