Mental health care. I wasn't around for 1986, but I do know that, until the 90s, it was mostly "Best we can do is turn you into a zombie"

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 18h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

Orpheus cannot seem to retain the word "folkpunk" so he keeps referring to it as "hippiegoth" and frankly it's adorable.

Democratic primary for Governor in Vermont was supposed to be a chill outlining of ideas, but then a huge pile of sketchy out-of-state money got dropped on the centerist.

Pro-Aly Richards super PAC launches big ad buy late in Democratic governor primary - VTDigger

The organization, which is not affiliated with Richards’ campaign, has spent more than $200,000 on ads in recent days, drawing criticism from her opponent, Amanda Janoo.

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I used to actually be Too Cool to listen to or learn pop songs. Then one night I was at a bonfire. Someone brought an accordion. Someone else brought an ukulele. And the default singalong songs were boy band things I'd never learned. I realized I'd been deliberately boycotting communal fun. Oops.

Dave Moore@otherdavemoore.com · 4d ago

Hot takes are annoying, tell me a strong opinion you had about music at some point in your life that changed

It's amazing to be how many Serious Thinkers™ conceive of junkies as random spawn NPCs, like Aristotle thought rotten meat spontaneously generated maggots. These are people. They need food, housing, and medical care, including mental and physical health. If they can't have that, they have this.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4d ago

It was inevitable that reactionary centrists would turn against harm reduction and call for a return to mass incarceration

Very funny that DSA just made some needed benches and the city can't even take them away because they're all fighting about it being someone else's job...essentially the same thing that prevented them from getting benches made in the first place.

wishda@wishda.bsky.social · 5d ago

The DSA in Wilmingotn, N.C. has created a "crisis" by putting benches at city bus stops, after literal decades of the city promising and failing to do so.

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

Clerk: I think it's going to be a beautiful weekend. But I don't even check the weather any more. It's always wrong. Me: Yeah, that's because the government cut funding so now we only launch about half as many weather balloons. Clerk: Wow! You don't even think about stuff like that! Me: I do 🙃

Everybody is always making comparisons to 1984. This is the reference they actually need for the current situation.

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 6d ago

Name a book you wish everyone else had to read.

I don't think this was malicious. Small companies get sold AI they don't understand on false promises. I just wish they didn't then blunder into a backlash like a dog on roller skates through a field of banana peels. "But, but, but, the guy who sold it to us said it was good! Why are you mad?"

A pharmacy chain in Vermont implemented AI for efficiency. It's led to delays, incorrect information and privacy concerns. - VTDigger

As AI pops up in healthcare systems across the country, several lawyers told VTDigger that the technology is outpacing regulation, leaving consumers vulnerable.

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Okay, serious question: I've been playing Ark pretty much exclusively for the last *checks watch* four or five years. I love it. I've just spent enough time with it. Should I...buy Palworld

Not to be a cheese hipster, but there is objectively a best cheese and you probably haven't heard of it. An IYKYK cheese.

Tom & Lorenzo@tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · last wk.

People on Bluesky sigh and talk about The Discourse as if it were something required of them instead of something they opt to partake in, day in and day out. You really don't have to. Post about your favorite cheese

Realizing that my mental shift to "I will not buy garbage" over the last few years has been running both physically and digitally in parallel.

I no longer wish to perceive superhero movies. Keep this nonsense out of my sight* *until or unless they make Squirrel Girl and if they to that it better fucking be good.

I'm not usually in a position to observe this, but as a crowd thins out in the early hours of a morning, the last people left are not just the young. They're the ones who don't know when, or possibly how, to stop.

A woman at this party just yelled "TAKE YOUR HANDS OFF ME, OH SHIT, I WAS KIDDING, SORRY EVERYONE, THAT SOUNDED TOO SERIOUS, I DIDN'T MEAN IT."

Funeral this morning. Wedding this afternoon. And now I'm in a tent halfway across the state, trying to nap through a brass band (not a joke) so I have energy to put in an appearance at the barn rave later. I have plenty of calm days, but this has not been one of them.

ICYMI yesterday, my husband swerved to avoid a cat and hit a tree. The internet likes cats, right? Well I had to spend a good chunk of our rent money to get the car towed and now I'm walking ~10 miles a day to get to work. So subscribe or share, anything helps 😩

S. A. Hunt@sahuntbooks.com · 2w ago

We just had a car accident and totaled our only vehicle. If you've got $5 a month & like the idea of a trans space epic from a bestselling, award-winning author inspired by 1980s cinema, my serial sure could use the subscribers right now. :( www.patreon.com/sahuntbooks

The first time my doctor asked if she could use ai to take notes, and I said no, she seemed surprised. THIS IS WHY. SAY NO.

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 3w ago

Mayo Clinic is being sued by its former AI compliance lead, who is alleging the hospital network tried to hide its AI tool’s 67% error rate at patients’ expense. /1 futurism.com/health-medic...

Cricut Design Space is the single worst app ever made, and I say that knowing there's serious competition.

Looked up an ink cartridge on Staples website. It's in stock. I go to the store to get it. It's $10 more at the store. Big sign on the wall: PRICE MATCH GUARANTEE. Me: Uh...I'd like to call in the price match. Her: Who beat our price? Me: Staples? Her: Ohhwwww.

"This generation of kids need good beautiful stories" so let me make ai slop out of your work. I'm pretty sure this generation of kids is also full of writers and artists. This guy just can't stand that he isn't one of them.

Erik Larsen@eriklarsen.bsky.social · 2w ago

What am I doing with my life?

I feel like Jack has horrifying eldritch powers, but I'm not sure why.

Discontinued Foods!@discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 2w ago

Things aren't great, let's have some fun

Rizzo, Rowlf, Bean Bunny

Moss Lawton @ Midsummer Scream #667@dinolich.bsky.social · 2w ago

if you had to pick three muppets to represent you (not your three favorites) who would you pick? greater henson canon counts. I think I'd go Gonzo, Rizzo and Uncle Deadly.

Feedback request: Can you tell what this is at first glance?

Got a drink called a "Strawberry Fizz" while waiting for food. Did not do the math on empty stomach + residual meds + booze. So now I'm annoyingly buzzed off of something called a Strawberry Fizz.

Something chonky passed this way.

I would be mad if I had the energy. But I know my old books were available as torrents and are already in training sets. That said, I hope the machine chokes on any of my freshman bad habits that made it into the first editions.

Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱@susankayequinn.bsky.social · 2w ago

These shitty AI corps (and their shitty enabler startups, why TF does an AI corp need an NDA while stealing books??) are doing bulk orders through places like INGRAM SPARK (fuck) -- I opted out of their shitty collusion but who knows if they'll abide by it. www.404media.co/ai-companies...

So. I did it. Lotta people gonna be mad about this one. Show it some love?

A Jewish Case for AI work exemptions

or: why should CHICAGO POPE have all the fun

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So, my pharmacy replaced pretty much all phone and website functions with a chatbot a little while ago. I switched pharmacies to a lower-tech local. Today I went to the previous pharmacy to get some records and tell them why I was leaving.