The dopamine hits don’t even satisfy anymore. I cycle through apps—email, texts, signal, socials—without even knowing what I’m looking for. I come away unsatisfied and a little embarrassed that I thought I would be *less bored* after an aimless search Beyond 2FA this hunk of plastic is useless

Mel Buer@melbuer.bsky.social · 4h ago

Increasingly annoyed by the presence of my smart phone in my everyday life lol. Might say fuck it and relearn T-9 texting and buy a flip phone for everyday use

Increasingly annoyed by the presence of my smart phone in my everyday life lol. Might say fuck it and relearn T-9 texting and buy a flip phone for everyday use

What is this, did we really need this

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But they will be

Steffen Rayburn-Maarup@rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 3d ago

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

We’re also funding death squads but what’s really offensive is that somewhere out there a poor person might be able to eat

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

Hey Google, what is “regressive bargaining”

Finally saw The Odyssey. It was fine

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

Stoked to read this:

jon ben-menachem@jbenmenachem.com · 5d ago

Autopsies of Black Lives Matter and George Floyd protests often conclude that movements produced tough-on-crime backlash. My new study in Work and Occupations finds a different kind of movement outcome: BLM changed how local reporters cover cops and jails. 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Mount Nittany workers are back to work this morning after an energetic 5-day strike, where nearly 1000 workers in the wall-to-wall union walked off the job to fight for fair wages and better working conditions. Negotiations are scheduled to continue this following week. (Press release in thread)

Mel Buer@melbuer.bsky.social · last wk.

NEW, from me: Today, nearly 1000 workers at Mount Nittany Medical Center in central PA have walked off the job on a 5-day strike. The nearly wall-to-wall union (somewhat rare in healthcare these days) has been in the midst of negotiations for months. Their contract expired July 1.

We are so back, baby

Least surprising outcome for this, tbh Rooting out the scourge of racist douchebags currently poisoning every inch of the LAPD would require firing and blacklisting like, 95% of the department

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 5d ago

Prosecutors charged an LAPD officer with felony eavesdropping for making secret recordings of his colleagues’ racist, sexist and homophobic comments on the job

This admin continuing to take Ls left and right every time they try for some sort of scurrilous prosecution of a random person will never not be funny

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 5d ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Department moves to dismiss criminal case against ex-Olympian charged with damaging Reflecting Pool.

🚨 WE HAVE A DEAL! After three years, in a major step forward for our members, we have ratified our first contract with @propublica.org’s management. We deeply appreciate everyone who supported us along the way. Here are some of our big wins👇

A strong dissent from denial of rehearing by Judge Willett in McKesson - the case where the Fifth Circuit upheld liability for a Black Lives Matter leader when there is no evidence he had anything at all to do with a police officer's injury. 1/ www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...

“Over a half century, the Quicksand Economy transformed from tabloid newpapers to cable infotainment to reality TV to online influencers to AI facsimiles. Young people grow up longing to be a brand because it looks like job security. But there is no security in being post-human.” Great read

Sarah Kendzior@sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 6d ago

"Israel, Iran, Russia, Ukraine, the US and more are merging into a mega-war run by robots. They used to call these World Wars. They used to call people on the phone. The most common call I get today is from someone named 'Scam Likely.'" sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/quicksand

Stopped for the night in Flagstaff, and got a hotel right next to the train tracks. Been listening to the BNSF engines roll by all night and this morning hehe If you don’t follow me on instagram then you miss all of my extreme foamer content lol

100,000 was "an incalculable loss"; 1.2 million is "in retrospect, everyone overreacted." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._De...

U.S. Deaths Near 100,000, An Incalculable Loss - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Does anyone else remember the NYT paper that just listed the names of the first 10k victims

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 7d ago

Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...

“I wouldn’t trash the guy who helped sell half a million copies of my book” I would, are you kidding? I’d be absolutely giddy about it

I, personally, think public discourse surrounding adaptations of epic poetry by leading scholars in the field is fantastic lol Tickles the brain, man. Very good stuff

On the road back to LA before my four weeks working in the desert :3 gonna be nice to be back in the city for a minute

I’ve been thinking about this reporting for days. It makes me physically ill to imagine the destruction of rare texts in order to feed the hallucination machine Everyone involved in this should be dropped into a pit and left to rot

Futurism@futurism.com · 2w ago

"The world's best AI training data is setting on a shelf."

Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.

Tweedle Dee and Tweedle DumDum

Mel Buer@melbuer.bsky.social · last wk.

Twice now, I have walked into the living room while my aunts are sleeping and come across the two dogs watching fox news This is not an option on the easy buttons on the remote, lmao. I do not know how the two of them are turning on the TV and changing the channel

Twice now, I have walked into the living room while my aunts are sleeping and come across the two dogs watching fox news This is not an option on the easy buttons on the remote, lmao. I do not know how the two of them are turning on the TV and changing the channel

Woke up just in time to watch the full moon set over the mesa, and now I’m watching the sun rise What a life, what a life

Man, New Mexico