MAKE ART! MAKE BAD ART! BAD ART IS BETTER THAN AI ART! YOUR WORST IS STILL BETTER THAN THE SLOP!

Man, the New York Liberty are tall as hell. They are a problem on defense.

Ok this industry needs more than regulation it need to be shut down

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 12h ago

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

At the buzzer here are my first round predictions! robsagenius.com/2026/07/02/w...

2026 WNBA Playoff Predictions

Playoff time is here! Who’s gonna win? I thought I’d take a crack at guessing relying on my favorite thing: numbers! This time around I looked at various head vs head and overall team s…

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And old mentor of mine (RIP Mr Toliver) told me many times that you don't fight a man in his own house because he'll kill you to keep you out of it even if he goes with you. Welp.....

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 14h ago

Abbas Araghchi, the Iranian foreign minister: "We stand firm in the face of any new aggression, even if it comes to a doomsday war"

great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...

I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.

You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.

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Just a little sneak peak into possibilities and limitations... Of course there is so much more to know.

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 3d ago

Please stop overestimating what a democratic Congress can do. The oligarchs are spending money to make you think a Dem Congress can arrest people and hold trials and pass laws without a POTUS signature so that you’ll be disappointed when they don’t do stuff they can’t do. Don’t fall for it.

Please stop overestimating what a democratic Congress can do. The oligarchs are spending money to make you think a Dem Congress can arrest people and hold trials and pass laws without a POTUS signature so that you’ll be disappointed when they don’t do stuff they can’t do. Don’t fall for it.

Happy 35th Anniversary to A Tribe Called Quest’s second studio album ‘The Low End Theory’ originally released September 24, 1991 | Listen to the album + read our tribute by @jesseducker.bsky.social here: album.ink/ATCQLowEnd

All of this, from @joshtpm.bsky.social talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/we-di...

Read the whole 🧵, this is.....a lot

Caroleeena@caroleeena.bsky.social · 6d ago

🧵Lauren Boebert had sex with three of her staffers. Two of them were women. Her sex partners were Clarisse Navarro, Jeffrey Small and Raven Finnegan. Navarro's husband Jace Ratzlaff: "I assumed this would eventually surface. I’ll have no further comment on this topic.”

I think people (not talking about Steve here) make a lot of assumptions about the rationality or forethought behind massive deals or investments, and think companies have plans, or strategies. In reality tens of billions can be spent because of the vibes

Steve Kovach@stevekovach.bsky.social · 6d ago

It's amazing how much effort Microsoft put into the Activision deal, its biggest acquisition ever, only to have buyer's remorse a few years later

"Estimates found workers already waste 3.4 hours a month cleaning up the AI schlock, amounting to a monthly loss of $8.1 million for a workplace with 10,000 employees." Criminal levels of incompetence

"Slop Grenades": Shopify CEO Who Pushed Staff to Use AI Is Now Horrified by What He's Wrought

Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke is getting a first-hand look at the AI-workplace revolution, and it isn't a pretty sight.

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Remember: every time you repeat a story about how awfully, terribly dangerous their products are, you help them raise more investment capital, which is a key input for their business (hooking up statistical engines to money-furnaces): peoples-things.ghost.io/youre-doing-...

It explains how a company can simultaneously be staffing up an enterprise sales division while also constantly freaking out at the thought that its product has "a 10% chance of ending humanity": www.latimes.com/business/sto...

I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people

That's why Google enshittified search: they had no competitors, so the worst ideas of the worst people at Google could be shown to make the most money, and so Google deliberately made its search results worse: pluralistic.net/2024/04/24/n... 39/

There's nothing inherently virtuous about "innovation." It's perfectly possible to "innovate" new ways to spy on people and rip them off. 20/

Clemson getting compromised to a permanent end out there, so sad! Not really

the standard press scrum for this white house consists of admin officials lying to or insulting reporters who ask serious questions to get laughs out of the unserious ones, what value does this provide to the public, to whom both groups are theoretically accountable

"There are numerous laws in place that already prohibit many of the harmful activities engaged in by the large AI firms. But those laws are mostly not being enforced sufficiently to make a meaningful difference, because in America, we simply do not enforce the law against the powerful."

AI Is an Elite Crime Spree

Documents show a Microsoft exec called AI the "largest theft of labor in human history.” New AI regulations are besides the point, the problem is we don’t apply existing laws to the powerful.

thebignewsletter.com

I know racism is a hell of a drug, but it always stuns me how casually African studies are dismissed. It's a whole damn continent. It's got over a billion and a half people. Some of the shit in your phone comes from there. Somebody probably ought to know something about the place.

I Travel Like Sound Dog@chadstanton.blacksky.app · last wk.

“New students enrolling at the University of Texas at Austin can no longer major in studies focusing on Africans and the African diaspora, Mexican Americans and Latinos, or women and gender.” Puts a lot of “regain trust” rhetoric into proper relief.

LLMs are very good at finding statistical regularities and producing new material that matches this statistical picture: you can use an LLM to produce strings of words that are statistically indistinguishable from sentences and strings of pixels that are statistically indistinguishable from images.

The minute u hear someone talking about a "kill switch" for A.I., you know they've been conned by some futuristic bullshit to distract them from actual reforms. All u need to do is: 1. stop subsidizing A.I. 2. Enforce copyright laws 3. Enforce cyber crime laws 4. Enforce laws to protect the public

honestly some of the most apocalyptic impacts of "AI" will be shit like this, and most of the doomsday dipshits predicting SkyNet can't be bothered to notice or care

UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges

For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.

arstechnica.com

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · last wk.

There have always been humans who thought: 1) The world will end soon 2) It will happen in a cool, exciting way 3) It’ll happen to me personally 4) I’ll be a martyred prophet, or a warlord, or otherwise special 5) People who don’t see this are lesser “Sexy apocalypse” is a great phrase for that

1. Ossoff employs Democratic strategists 2. As is the case 90% of the time, there are plenty of Democrats saying these very things, including the ones y'all like to dunk on so much

Thor Benson@thorbenson.bsky.social · last wk.

Democratic strategists: Ahhh! What's the right message!!?? Where do we moderate!?!? Jon Ossoff: This administration is horrible. I hate these people. We should put them in jail. I'm pissed Voters: This guy is cool Strategists: I can't figure it out!!!!!

Brandon Scott can be celebrated without bringing up Mamdani.

Squirrels on suicide missions have knocked out power to Castle Rock, Colorado twice this week. Our investigation has revealed a century of squirrel attacks covered up by the pro-squirrel media.

“We could’ve asked you this earlier but wanted to wait until the part of the podcast where according to our metrics no one is still listening…. tell everybody where they can find you and what you got coming up next!”

JUST NOW: A confused, clearly not-there McConnell votes “AYE” after almost voting NO with Dems but getting *corrected* by handlers around him