Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

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I’m shocked to agree with Brett Stephens about anything, but on the other hand the only person who should use AI to write is Brett Stephens.

Ross Douthat is the always being wrong gift that keeps on giving.

Jonathan Ladd@jonathanmladd.com · 4mo ago

Nope. Nope. Nope. This post is just two false statements.

Of our 45 presidents , Donald Trump is responsible for 28 percent of the entire national debt. Our national US debt has reached a record high - $40 trillion dollars

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

It’s important to understand “age verification” and “kick the kids off social media” laws as a gift to Big Tech. These policies allow surveillance capitalism to chug along full steam ahead and let Silicon Valley giants off the hook. Instead of regulating their biz model, we just put up age gates

This is so fucked up. Even worse, people will fall for this shit.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 6d ago

A single interest group whose primary mission is to represent the interests of another country has spent $30 million on a *primary race* www.ap.org/news-highlig....

gonna be honest team I’m not convinced we’re gonna make it outta this one

maybe one of the things to do in the Re-Reconstruction- maybe even in the top five things- should be a laser focus on destroying Citizens United in its entirety, and making it impossible to ever happen again.

if americans couldn't eat a burger under a democratic president, you would not hear the end of of it for prob 100 years

This is absolutely insane, imagine if a progressive elected official was refusing to support Haley Stevens if she won! You’d never hear the end of it. Centrists are the ones who are dividing the Democratic Party with their Islamophobia and purity tests.

Every single time the Q train stops in the tunnel before Dekalb, I imagine the 1930s switches and paper maps and have to consider the fact that this is where I live now. On the Q train, in this tunnel. Forever. I still ❤️ the @nyctsubway.bsky.social though. Trains rule.

I strongly believe that one question we should be directing at more politicians is "What the fuck is the matter with you"

Anna H@athenepallas.bsky.social · last wk.

I remember arguing with someone - now an MP - about soup kitchens: I saw them as a response to need, whereas they saw them as enabling homelessness. Enabling homelessness. As though homeless people made themselves so as a lark.

this is one of the greatest photos ever.

get Dolly in on this then we’re really cooking

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · last wk.

I’m telling you, it’s got legs.

Trying to ban Mamdani from the 9/11 ceremony for being too close to supporters of terrorism when Trump is trying to do a nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia...perhaps a bit of Islamophobia here?

The claim “RFK Jr. does not fuck chickens” is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that RFK Jr. fucks chickens.

Elon Musk is responsible for killing 100,000s of people in Africa. Instead of taking responsibility for his actions, he refuses to acknowledge verifiable facts. He can deny he’s a mass murderer all he wants, but history will rank him amongst the worst human beings to ever walk the earth.

Jonathan Harris@jonathan-a-thon.bsky.social · 2w ago

He's quite possibly one of the worst people to have ever lived.

Surprised politicians aren’t connecting so much corruption (waste, fraud, & abuse) with our taxpayer dollars Platitudes about groceries & gas costing more, yes, but make an argument for the $$$ we send the IRS We’re directly paying for our downfall

Still revisit this devastatingly accurate read of Elon from time to time and remember how it sent him in a two day spiral

My Greek chorus would always be saying things like "That's incredible" and "No fucking way"

I am absolutely begging Democratic politicians to make media reform a centerpiece of their policy platforms

Local U.S. TV News Will Soon Be Entirely Right Wing Propaganda

Thanks to the destruction of media consolidation limits, Republicans will soon enjoy propaganda and market domination over what's left of local U.S. news.

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Everything else aside, taking a principled anti-war crimes stance provides a nice contrast at the current moment.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2w ago

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

Decades of centrism and moderates have led directly to our increasingly totalitarian anti-democratic Confederate Gilead.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 2w ago

Here's the short version of why I think the idea that Dems can only salvage their brand with moderation is mostly bullshit. Check out this exchange with @creynoldsnc.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/2132...

I think a large part of it is also the age issue- boomers are really really uncomfortable voting for people under the age of 55.

Micah@rincewind.run · 2w ago

the rise of the DSA is testing the Vote Blue No Matter Who credentials of a lot of people who thought those credentials would never be tested personally, I meant it time for them to prove the same

This is painful and embarrassing, but I don’t have any choice right now www.gofundme.com/f/help-richa...

Donate to Help Richard Keep the Lights On and Feed His Cat, organized by Richard Kadrey

This is painful and embarrassing, but I don’t have any choice right … Richard Kadrey needs your support for Help Richard Keep the Lights On and Feed His Cat

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One day I hope someone believes in you the way Alice Cooper’s first manager believed in them.

The Odyssey is really, Really Good.