There are a lot of factors and layers of friction to prevent it but an American politician who actually means "I will enforce existing laws even against rich people" would be considered a fringe leftist with unrealistic goals.

Matt Burgess (WIRED)@mattburgess1.bsky.social · 7h ago

NEW: Over the last few months, Meta has run dozens of paid ads that included AI-generated CSAM. The ads, some of which were linking out to “nudify” apps, targeted men in the US, UK, and a dozen European countries. Some were running in the last few days

The main thing that would change for me if AI disappeared is I wouldn't be worried about clicking on an unfamiliar educational Youtube channel only to find it's inaccurate slop and now the algo thinks I'm interested in slop and keeps sending more slop that makes you dumb when I was trying to learn.

Alexander Glass@alexanderglass.bsky.social · 17h ago

I have one answer.

Hey, remember when these same banks moved over *two trillion dollars* in money laundering schemes? The news broke six years ago, it was called the FinCEN files. You might have forgotten because the only enforcement action was sending the whistleblower to jail.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · yesterday

Banks permitted millions in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein—and former 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi had the story months ago. But the report would never air. trib.al/ZShZlIS

I don't think he would have any malice about it. He would give cthulhu a gummy and cthulhu would start to feel it kicking in and ask how many mg it was and tom would say "I'm not sure, I made them myself" and then cthulhu would be real nervous on the couch for the rest of the night

I deserve better than being awake right now.

reading between the lines here, it's incredibly funny that this guy filed a police report on himself, presumably because he thought the cops wouldnt look into it

Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · yesterday

in insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...

Without context, I would have to assume this work is being done by my new favorite anarchist collective.

southpaw@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · yesterday

So far by my count he’s wrecked the rose garden, the east wing, and the south lawn. When he eventually leaves office, will there be a blade of grass left on the site?

Whoever wrote and edited the framing as "a gentler approach" should be electrocuted a lot.

Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · yesterday

The GOP is the party of the working class! www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/c...

Oh my god I think I found the video.

CSketch@csketch.bsky.social · yesterday

A friend is a family therapist and tells people if they cannot resist taking pictures of their kid at bathtime then never do it on an internet connected device, never put it in a cloud backup, and do not send it to anyone. Have some respect for their privacy, and the person they will soon become.

Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social · yesterday

Miller is a piece of shit. But be cautious about calling family photos of nude toddlers "CSAM." I've written about lives ruined over allegations that turned out to be harmless photos of kids taking a bath or running naked through the house. Moreno is already calling for prosecutions, here.

Ending my birthday with a shot of Malort as a reminder to be humble and think about how death comes for us all and pain is constant.

Two minutes until a Malort short for my birthday, to remember to always be humble

BJJ culture loves this idea that you're constantly under threat and also the most powerful being in a pretty standard fascist mode of insecurity. You never hear Barry Keoghan talking this way about boxing, it just makes him more authentically confident.

Dan of the Year@downwithdan.bsky.social · 2d ago

He will never understand that being "the fat guy from Superbad" is infinitely better than being "the martial arts chud nobody likes"

a thing that sticks with me about Obsession is that she didn't have superhuman strength or anything, the guy could have had her 5150'd while he figured out how to undo the wish. It's not a plot issue, he prioritized his own proximity and access to her body at every turn. Truly evil little man.

The world would be an objectively better place if it was Ozzy in the plane instead of Randy, and not just artistically.

Please stop saying “lockdowns.” There were never true lockdowns in the US, and it fuels far right narratives to repeat this inaccurate statement. You can say closures, you can say restrictions, or better, you can say public health measures which saved many lives.

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 6d ago

People still complain about “lockdowns” but we had none in the US. We had stay-at-home orders, where although businesses were closed, you could still go outside whenever you wanted. Other countries had far stricter rules, and yet have been much more accepting of them as they saved many more lives.

i'm sorry but Newsom is not so exceptional, that's 80% of California Democrats

josh boerman@bosh.worstpossible.world · 4d ago

i truly think gavin newsom might be like top 5 most evil people in american politics right now. just a glass-eyed demon who knows nothing but his own ambition and the desires of his financial backers

[grew up in chicago voice] skill issue

depths of wikipedia@depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 3d ago

Not going to argue it is the best of all time but Of Malice and the Magnum Heart, Mirrors, and Controller by Misery Signals is a stunning run, especially for such dense songwriting in just a four year span.

Mia Murphy 🏳️‍⚧️@miamurphy.com · 4d ago

What's the best three album run from a band? (the correct answer is Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure by Rush, but I'm excited to learn second place)

Yayan Ruhian has to be a unanimous first ballot entrant for the Henchman Hall of Fame.

The Indiana Fever are not a basketball team so much as a nationwide transphobic barnstorming campaign

taylr@taylordahlin.com · 3d ago

riley gaines is at the minnesota lynx vs indiana fever game posing with people courtside as they line up for photos

"We can't address this until people stop annoying me on the internet" seems to be the driving philosophy at The Atlantic and most editorial pages.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4d ago

I agree that leftists on social media can be too glib about how upsetting it is to see people suffering on the streets. That is, however, roughly 198th on my list of priorities on this issue. "we can't address this until people stop annoying me on the internet" is fucking asinine and *everywhere*

Guitar Center departments and the drugs they were on Door guy: weed Guitar sales: coke Accessories and pedals: mushrooms and/or adderall Percussion: meth Lighting, DJ, pro audio: molly so bad it's basically meth Acoustic room: 15 years sober next month, brother. Keys and synths: basically a mormon

It's a question of core values. Do you believe in universal human rights and dignity or do you have capricious little carveouts? I will never trust a politician who openly demonstrates the latter position.

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈@maxdubler.com · 7d ago

Squishiness on trans rights is a dealbreaker for me because (a) it’s a straightforward issue of personal freedom and bodily autonomy much like abortion, and (b) the right is obviously coming after us cis gays next.

glad it's not a hot take anymore but 15 years ago people would freak out when I said Eric Clapton was not just overrated, but a genuinely bad musician.

lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 5d ago

Post your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.

I'm sure it's annoying to read my nonstop posts about not being able to sleep but what else am I supposed to do, not post? Like a sane person? Would a sane person be awake this late all the time?

I genuinely prefer this to a decade ago when the Fertitta brothers paid a law firm specializing in drawn out fake investigations to eventually claim the perpetrator of violence against women was exonerated by a legal process. It's way less to explain now.

@pud333.bsky.social · 5d ago

It hasn't happened to me, Dana. You POS abuser. Also, shout-out to "MMA Fighting Staff" for the article.

Any of my friends who have witnessed my mental state as I have gone through edit after edit of this book can attest that every individual letter and punctuation mark has been ripped painfully out of my very own soul 😣

Ann Leckie@annleckie.com · 5d ago

For writers worried that they won't be able to "prove" their work isn't Spicy Autocomplete--worry not. You thought about every choice and will be able to talk about those choices easily and clearly. Folks who used the slop machine didn't make choices and won't have anything to say about why

Google either needs to remove Sundar Pichai and any of his AI Uber Alles allies from the company or they are not going to be a viable company in the long term. Traditional search and search advertising is still the core product and still valuable, and he's actively dismantling it.

Psychosis Enjoyer@schizodelusion.bsky.social · 5d ago

there's like at least 20 buttons or menu options just in google sheets pushing gemini at me, it reeks of desperation. also, the free version of gemini is more or less complete trash and gives wrong answers about nearly every damn thing, zero QA on that thing ever.

So the nub of my concern is not that Wilson didn't like the movie - that's fine! It's that she expressed that dislike in a way that *also* communicates contempt for the people who *did* like the movie (which is **97%** of them), who do not deserve that contempt, in a way that I think is unhelpful.