"It's just a natural fit, as we're both apolitical" - Ed Sheeran
Quinn Norton
@quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu
Journalist and essayist, usually tech/poli. accidentally leftish. LLM vegan. USian in the EU. One of the early terminally online. Long time internet punching bag. Background image from Occupy Oakland. In dark times one must carry a candle.
MITCH MCCONNELL TO REPLACE MACKLEMORE ON ED SHEERAN TOUR
Macklemore "every child deserves to live" Ed Sheeran "this is hurtful to a lot of people"
"I don't take sides." wow. does Sheeran apply this logic to any human rights movement? would this be his logic after the Birmingham church bombing 63 years ago today?
ᴋɪɴɢᴘɪɴ ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ ɪɴᴋᴘᴇɴ@killlthehype.blacksky.app · 2d agoMacklemore just fried Ed Sheeran on IG 😬
@alfiekohn.bsky.social Hello! Have you had a look at the AI and Education report from MIT? I'd love to hear what you think... it seems like they kind of landed on a few of your ideas after getting there the hard way?
I'm so old I remember when extraordinary claims required extraordinary evidence.
MIT realizing @alfiekohn.bsky.social was right about everything. aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/ (And he 100% is.)
Report – AI and Education
aiandeducation.mit.edu
I wonder if I could do a series of these for other reviled figures
Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 10mo agoI still want to publish something super dumb on the time I got bored and figured out via Google Maps that Osama bin Laden absolutely could have ordered Dominoes from his hideout in Abbottabad
@alfiekohn.bsky.social never missed. He was right way back when, he's right now, he's been right all along. aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/ And now even MIT is accepting it.
Report – AI and Education
aiandeducation.mit.edu
This statement from Rowling's team is so funny because it's clear that they're fuming that they can't shut Lilly up with threats of a lawsuit the way she does with everyone in the UK.
Dr. Catherine Strickson@brigitteempire.bsky.social · 4d agoEye-wateringly stupid defence from Rowling’s team here - ‘She does not support legal actions aimed at harming transgender people.’ - Really? So that £70,000 towards the bathroom ban was by accident? The JKR Women’s Fund was made by an impersonator? At least have the spine to admit you want us dead
"Tech lord fascists are moving to Texas. Can we grovel enough to get them to visit their California mansions more often?"
CalMatters@calmatters.org · 6d agoOpinion | Democrats have lost Silicon Valley. Here's what it will take to win it back If Democrats want to become the party of the future again, they need to stop treating the people building the future like political enemies.
The optimism in tech during the Obama years was directly tied to *SOLVING PEOPLE’S PROBLEMS* You can not expect progressives to cheer when tech is being used to harm others. You can and should expect them to try and stop the harm. The civic part of civic tech goes first for a reason.
Narnia's Deep Magic Lion Quote
Alt: Narnia's Lion shouting “Do not recite the Deep Magic to me, I was there when it was written!”
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CalMatters@calmatters.org · 6d agoOpinion | Democrats have lost Silicon Valley. Here's what it will take to win it back If Democrats want to become the party of the future again, they need to stop treating the people building the future like political enemies.
I still want to publish something super dumb on the time I got bored and figured out via Google Maps that Osama bin Laden absolutely could have ordered Dominoes from his hideout in Abbottabad
"After 9/11, we asked when we would return to normal. In the midst of COVID, we asked the same question. But in truth, normalcy is nostalgic fraud: the belief that there is some better day to return to."
Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis@jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 5d agoFor years of anniversaries, I have written about my memories of surviving that day. This year is different. I write of regret and anger--and responsibility. 25 Years medium.com/whither-news...
That's what the good lord made Grindr for
Jim Rockford@thegoldenbuddah.bsky.social · 6d agoAll you need to know about this loser.... "The article, in which Neff referred to alcohol as “poison” and confessed that “most of my hobbies allow me to escape women,” did not lead to a second date. He’s still unmarried."
Fuck that 85 ways from Tuesday.
Andrew Couts@couts.bsky.social · 7d agoNEW: The new Apple Watches double as AI-powered listening bugs for generating convo "recaps" or transcripts of any previous 15 seconds. But fear not, Apple says, this data isn't sent to Apple/gets encrypted, speakers aren't ID'd, and there's a chime for the 15-second thing. @lhn.bsky.social reports:
What are the chances this asshole has paid his taxes
Anti-Fascism and Far Right@ffrafaction.bsky.social · last wk.Tommy Robinson appears to have clocked up hundreds of thousands of pounds in donations from his supporters over the years, with allegations that some of the funds raised for victims were not passed on, according to a Dispatches investigation into his finances inews.co.uk/news/how-tom...
I would get off social media but I'm trapped beneath this cat.
The absolute triumphalism of performative ignorance on this site can be positively Musk-like. It is the worst of times, it is worser even than that.
even if all the scariest stuff turns out to be true it won't make it less funny that the computer people used the computer to invent computer Calvinism
Trump just gave a slew of pardons and commutations w/o announcing them. (I still suspect Roger Stone may have gotten a SECOND pardon in his first term.) This would have been Eagle Ed Martin's last hurrah. www.lawyeroyer.com/p/trumps-sec...
Trump’s Secret Pardons
The money and influence-peddling surrounding Trump’s second-term pardons have been much discussed. But less attention has been paid to another alarming feature: the secrecy.
lawyeroyer.com
There's some kind of triumph of ignorance going through the culture. Not just people not being ashamed of ignorance, but reveling in that not knowing, and calling knowledge stupidity. It is on display in the maga world, sure, but it is galloping through bsky as well. It's terrifying.
This is why the internet was invented... #LifuX #Dogs #Dogsofbluesky
Holy fucking shit please tell me this is some ai nonsense and not real.
Elad Nehorai@eladn.bsky.social · last wk.Here is a guest on Tucker Carlson’s podcast saying that algebra is a conspiracy by the Jews to turn people into “good little goy slaves.” I wish I was joking.