Yup. An often-overlooked element of "internships" that are really just entry-level positions is that, especially in expensive urban areas, a serious level of privilege is required to even consider working for free for a year. It restricts these positions to families of a certain class. Intentionally

Prairie Rose Clayton@hooverdam.bsky.social · 21h ago

don't forget entrenching existing networks and wealth, as you have to have -some- means of support to do this [Disclosure: Did an unpaid internship in college. That was also thirty years ago].

I agree with Katelyn’s solution completely — it’s a clean, simple solution. However, I would add that since Enes Kantor Freedom and Royce White have said that they are trans women, we should not gatekeep, and instead should start referring to these women properly going forward.

Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · yesterday

For my newsletter, I spelled out once simple trick for the WNBA to shut down that transphobic publicity stunt by two former NBA players: www.burnsnotice.com/heres-how-th...

It's been taken off of Internet Archive but here are the storyboards for a very moving scene from Win or Lose that got censored:

We need to prosecute white collar crime in the US with utter ruthlessness and zeal. One of the reasons we’re here (pick the “here” hellscape you prefer) is because we not only socially but legally accepted elite impunity.

Justin Schuh@justinschuh.com · yesterday

Just gonna bang the drum again about Trump's money laundering history. There's a pretty clear pattern here going back 30+ years involving repeated fines, closed accounts, etc. It may actually be their longest running grift.

As the pioneering cybernetician Stafford Beer famously wrote, "the purpose of a system is what it does." If your bureaucracy is more concerned with fighting fraud than delivering service, then it isn't a service delivery system at all - it's a service *denial* system. 32/

One of those weeks... Commission

Vanity and Vexation

Happy Zero Cool Day to all who celebrate #hackers

Generative AI is not *only* something its sex pest billionaire advocates are pushing on you without your consent, but it's also given infinitely more latitude with its inevitable fuckups than you would be given.

My takeaway from exchanges like this is your average EU or UK respondent looks at how poor our quality of life is and assumes it’s because we are poorer and not that everything the rest of the world has baseline has been dismantled here for military and fintechbros/oil.

Canada has a lower GDP per capita than 49 U.S. states. Canada has universal healthcare. Universal healthcare is easy, practically every 'developed' country has it. We just chose to go bankrupt due to health issues as a society. LOVE people like El-Sayed, Americans need to wake the f*ck up.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

El-Sayed: "Imagine if instead of paying that to your health insurance company, whose CEO makes $20m a year, you paid a little bit more in taxes for healthcare you wouldn't lose. I think all of us would a lot more interested in that system if we knew our healthcare would be free at point of care"

This is really a fail safe solution. If she’s serious, you’ve been there for her and let her learn something about herself. If he’s being a jerk, he *will not like it* and the trash takes itself out. Also, fine, let him get a taste of how trans women are treated fr. Bet he can’t take the heat

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 2d ago

on two occasions I have run into a dude who went with the "I identify as a woman" thing because he thinks its really funny and my learning has been that if you take his word for it and start calling him a woman he stops finding it funny in about 1 second and starts getting upset & so you don't stop

Vampires make *amazing* underwater explorers. No need for air tanks, just a weighted backpack and a thirst for blood! #ttrpg #dnd #rpg #meme #ttrpgsky #ttrpgcommunity

I stumbled over a PDF organizing app which promised a lot of cool things, many of which rested on a local LLM instance (which I have no objection to) but have not yet had a chance to try it, and Fred stepped into the lion’s den ahead of me and hit upon a structural issue.

This is just to say I have eaten the sailors that were in the ship and which you were probably saving for Ithaca Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so Greek

Louie Stowell@louiestowell.bsky.social · 5d ago

Has anyone considers that Odysseus's problem is that his men are just too delicious. Yes, he angered the gods, but so many of them getting eaten cant be a coincidence.

Jim Henson didn’t muppeteer a tiny green frog that was singing and playing the banjo, with rubber gloves while totally submerged underwater in a airtight aluminum tank just so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable”.

Gwen C. Katz@gwenckatz.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Wachowski sisters didn't use 120 cameras to film one shot just so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

The best TTRPG GMs *interpret* the characters as rich texts & agents in of themselves, and then offer NPCs, lore, and fraught situations that play on characters' core themes & traits. GMs are consantly reading both the characters-as-conceived and also the characters-as-played.

Sean Nittner@seannittner.bsky.social · 6d ago

A friend asked me what makes a good GM. It’s a personal question as difficult to answer as “what makes good art?” I don’t have the definitive answer, but I do have an answer. A good GM invests in the characters and shows how their actions change the world, e.g @juddthelibrarian.bsky.social

If Ray Bradbury came back as a zombie, the title of the story he would write would be "There Will Come Soft Brains"

You know the "I want shorter games made with worse graphics etc etc" meme? It's not just games. The world needs art that is shaky, flawed, and deeply sincere far, far more than it needs things that look technically honed and utterly soulless

The Trustworthy Copper Merchant

Some observations on this map from the Michigan Democratic primary election for US Senate (from a guy who actually lives here)...

It's strange how the cops need mass surveillance programs to do their job But, big but 😂 They have 1000s of files linked to Epstein: do nothing Woman has a court order against an ex: do nothing Woman press charges for rape/assault: do nothing Kill black teens for no reason etc

Like, the fact that there are so many people out there that have leaned so hard on ai thinking for them that they CAN'T do without is one of the VERY THINGS WE WARNED ABOUT A FEW YEARS AGO.

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 7d ago

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

El-Sayed, Lawrence and McKinney all won progressive campaigns in Michigan last night by talking about climate and clean energy like it was a kitchen-table issue — because skyrocketing energy bills and endless wildfire smoke matter to people.

Notice DOJ doesn't talk about its efforts to obtain state voter files anymore. They are 0-20 in those cases and today is the beginning of the quiet period -- states can no longer do systematic removals of names from the voter rolls. TLDR: We won!🥳

have y'all listened to this guy speak yet, because I think you should

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d ago

El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

It's not even a random idea. It's old knowledge to buy quality items as much as you can for things between you and nature. Boots, shoes, socks, car tires.. if it protects you from stuff you gotta be doing for many hours at a time, you're gonna shell out. My $180 boots lasted me 10 years.

katie@supermathskid.bsky.social · last wk.

okay now he's gone too far

in a world of AI slop, give someone's hand crafted webcomic a try

The NYT is an anti-trans fascism-enabling POS newspaper. If you give them your money we know you dgaf about our existence and are ok with violence toward trans people.

cait (and adonis)@cait.bsky.social · last wk.

here's a fun lil exercise for cis people: how many articles would a publication have to print calling for your extermination before you would expect people who care about you to stop giving them money? and how would you feel if their excuse for still supporting them is some fuckass crossword puzzle?

Can't think of a thing that will radicalize a generation faster than "you've gotta let that old man in the corner over there see what's inside those pants before you play Kindergarten volleyball."

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · last wk.

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play