It makes people less able to use their own brains, babe. They offload their own cognitive processes and become worse at doing basic tasks. It is a cognitive impairment. It makes art worse. I don't care about the nuance of its operations, I care about the damage to humans.

Will Oremus@willoremus.com · 11h ago

feels like there is a group of smart and well-intentioned people who long ago made up their minds that AI Is Bad, swore off using it, and now get all their info about AI from each other. not saying they're wrong that ai is bad! but i think they're gradually losing touch with what it is and does

Tactics like this are designed to break strikes and bust unions not to find an equitable compromise on a contract. Seems like the boss is running the risk of poisoning the well for Lewis Ginter with this kind of stuff.

Dave Infante@dinfontay.com · last wk.

"A redacted email submitted with the garden's complaint describes encountering 'angry, intense, noisy' strikers at the front gate."

INBOX: The strike at RVA's botanical garden keeps getting uglier. The union is out with a press release claiming that Lewis Ginter's boss "cancelled healthcare coverage" for striking workers. It's a particularly nasty union-busting tactic that seems strategically risky for the once-beloved org.

Gavin Newsom Is An Asshole Example #18,729

TechCrunch@techcrunch.com · yesterday

California governor vetoes bill banning use of ‘pervert glasses’ to secretly record people

Newsom is a dipshit, a thread:

That Bannon says that about Newsom should be the kiss of death for his nomination prospects. Definition of an acceptable nominee is someone who is Steve Bannon's worst nightmare.

Vanity Fair@vanityfair.com · 2d ago

“Having Gavin Newsom as president wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world,” says MAGA philosopher Steve Bannon

today's hardware designers could never conceive of what Kazuo Kawasaki was doing in 1996

Black students are demanding accountability from University of North Carolina administrators after a man threatened and yelled racial slurs at students during a watch party. https://bit.ly/46P96HR

Black UNC Students Say the University Failed Them After a Racist Attack

A recent incident during a TV watch party illustrates the racial tensions reported on some college campuses.

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There is a lot of "oh dear" to go around in the results of this very thorough Pew study on the issues with synthetic samples, but this strikes me as particularly "oh dear" www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...

This is obviously disgusting in so many ways. Gonna highlight one: Servicemember beard exemptions are all on religious or medical grounds. They're either Sikhs (mostly South Asian) or have a skin condition related to shaving curly hair (mostly African American). "No beardos" is racist as hell.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Hegseth: "It's worth saying again so the fake news understands it. We are no longer the woke department or the weak department. Simple translation of that -- no fatties no trannies no beardos no weirdos no wimps no radicals. Just warriors."

"I learned it by watching you" lent itself to more opportunities for characteristic Gen X sarcasm, but the "this is your brain on _____" and "this is your _____ on drugs" construction were memetic before we had a word for memetic things, so it wins for fame.

ElieNYC@elienyc.bsky.social · 2d ago

Hive mind, settle a Gen X debate for me. What's more famous: "I learned it by watching you" OR "This is your brain on drugs" And if you need more context then you aren't allowed to answer.

TRUMP VOTER: “Trump is a bald-faced liar. That's all I can say nicely… I was planning to retire, and I went back to work just to cover my insurance, my gas, and the price of food that keeps going up.”

remember to block @m-tracey.bsky.social and move on. there is nothing you can say to him that will be crueler than his lonely little life

When I heard this I wasn’t even surprised. Now just imagine how many other police officers have done the same thing and are now responsible for investigating/taking reports from SA victims.

quaithe of the shadow asshai@clarkconquers.bsky.social · 2d ago

One of the Cornell rapists is a cop

You know this is my third or fourth go around with this kind of technological innovation for consumers and citizens. And a lot of it is the same. Same pattern of exaggerated benefits, underestimated challenges. What’s new this time is the sector isn’t even pretending to care about the consumer.

Democrats are the left arm of fascism

The Buckeye Flame@thebuckeyeflame.com · 5d ago

Insiders say the Ohio Democratic Party is censoring criticism of anti-trans ads. Two posts pushing back against Rep. Marcy Kaptur’s anti-trans ads have been removed. thebuckeyeflame.com/2026/09/28/i...

“It’s not ALL men.” None of the 50+ men the Cornell rapists invited to come join them in raping a woman they’d drugged went to the authorities or tried to stop it. Not all men would rape an unconscious woman, but where are the men who’d try to stop it, or EVEN FUCKING OBJECT?

“It’s not ALL men.” 70,000 men in a Telegram group chat exchanging tips about how to drug and rape women. How did it get to 70,000 men without other men shutting it down? www.cnn.com/2026/07/03/e...

Police uncover international networks of men using online chat groups to drug and rape women | CNN

An international police operation spanning seven countries has uncovered highly organized networks of offenders who drug and rape their partners and use online chat groups to aid and encourage their “...

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And it's not just migraines, though that part is bad: It can also affect the vascular system more broadly. As previously discussed

Pookleblinky@pookleblinky.bsky.social · 4d ago

Like if you had barometric migraines as a kid, there might have been a handful of days per month with huge pressure shifts. Now that's like every other day.

The "social contagion" thing drives me screaming angry. When I was young I had no clue trans ppl existed. I'd never met anyone trans. I saw cruel caricatures in pop culture occasionally. When I realized trans was a thing someone could be, it hit like a lightning bolt. My life felt newly possible.

You are measuring willingness to respond to a survey, not actual identity. Given the bathroom bans, bans on pride flags, renewed efforts to ban GSAs etc, it's not a surprise some kids prefer to not openly disclose orientation to a federal government survey.

Tf you mean they was gon do a George Michael tribute without Adam Lambert and the network had to be yelled at to fix it and get Adam Lambert?!! Yeah let this be the last VMAs. We’re done here.

There remains an active campaign to reply-harass Black people off this platform and it is not on us to solve this problem. It’s on y’all.

Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...

People handle tasks so complex and with so many shifting variables as part of our day-to-day existence that the complexity is underestimated. It’s like how knitting machines have existed for over 400 years but there still isn’t a machine that can crochet, though we think of those tasks as comparable

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4d ago

Planning dinner is, for many many many people, about what they have on hand, what they can afford, how work schedules change day-to-day, kids’ complicated schedules, individual preferences. The idea that this just a series of tasks is a huge cultural blindspot — which was my original point.

the humans who moderate chatbots say they're inundated with people trying to generate nonconsensual nudes: www.404media.co/humans-readi...

Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified

Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI...

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the horrific cornell gang rape case has me thinking about emma sulkowicz who alleged she was raped as a student at columbia in 2014 and never got any justice. it has me thinking about the physical and mental weight young women are forced to carry while their safety is subsumed by male potential.

To develop a coping mechanism as a person with ADHD, first you must invent the universe.

There’s something worth dwelling on that the exploitative data classifying and labeling human labor apparatus that tech companies created in the global majority to moderate harmful content was so easily repurposed to facilitate the generation of harmful content. What is trust and safety really?

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d ago

Crucially these contractors are not hired to filter out offensive content. They are hired to report whether Copilot successfully made a good AI image. So if the request is, make this person's breasts larger, they have to review based on whether it did or not. Insane www.404media.co/humans-readi...

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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