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...

thenerve.news

Not since the days of Durst have we seen a story involving Jeanine Pirro where she wasn't the worst character

It's a minor thing (counterpoint: precision in language is never a minor thing) but it bugs me when somebody says (as Jeffries did recently) that Social Security/Medicare "aren't entitlements, they're earned benefits". That's...what entitlement means, in this context.

Don't threaten me with a good time

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h ago

Rep. Max Miller on Newsmax: "If any of these things were true, I would be in prison"

I just want to say that I wish only the best for Mitch McConnell and encourage him to take as much time as he needs for his full recovery, years if necessary.

"One side prosecuted J6ers, the other side tried to prosecute ICE protestors...nobody has clean hands!"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Tillis admits Trump is weaponizing the DOJ during his speech announcing he'll vote for Todd Blanche: "Maybe it's a little bit more intense in this administration than the last one ... I'm going to support Mr Blanche's nomination"

I've said it before and I'll say it again: a law prohibiting punditry by anyone with three names would vastly improve the discourse.

Dan O’Sullivan@osullyville.bsky.social · yesterday

Nope, nice try. Not doing this to myself. You'll have to kill my ass

One more interesting point: this spring I sat down with Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes for an extensive interview about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media has unquestionably aided the Trump administration’s cover up here.

Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · yesterday

Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:

Gym Jordan ignoring abuse, what are the odds?

I wish he had mentioned (maybe someone else did or will) that a district court judge found the entire scheme to be fraudulent. Seems like committing a fraud upon the court should be disqualifying in itself.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Whitehouse: "Next we get to this crooked slush fund Trump family tax amnesty scam. We've got these two new pieces of paper. One signed only by Blanche, one not signed by anybody. Neither of which has any legal effect whatsoever. They are decorative. Can you trust Todd Blanche? I do not."

Reflecting Pool Infrastructure Week

Hemry, Local Bartender@bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 2d ago

oh my god he hit the reflecting pool with a "two weeks" dawgggggg that thing's never opening again

Are you talking about the guy who made all his coders print up all the code they had written over the last week just to show they were doing their jobs?

Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2d ago

The richest person in the world, an avowed white supremacist, today again posted "the next step is getting rid of 'source code' entirely and just making an efficient binary directly with AI" because he has no idea how anything works, not even the basics of industries he is in.

Related: democracy is a niche interest, because Republicans are against it

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d ago

Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up

Early on those people were saying just let it rip through the population so the survivors acquire "herd immunity", and even after it became clear that people could be infected multiple times--that infection did not bestow immunity *at all*--they were still peddling that stupid shit.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2d ago

I’ve been writing a counter narrative of shutdowns that has me revisiting media from that time. And let me tell you, the only other option was everybody die. So yeah.

In other words, Cornyn and Tillis rolled over for an entirely spurious "order" that has no legal force, and actually compounds the offense for which Blanche got slapped in court.

Tom Hilton@tvhilton.bsky.social · 2d ago

It should be noted that the order currently has no legal basis, because Judge Williams nullified the "settlement" that supposedly authorized it. (Trump/Blanche have asked for a stay pending appeal, but it's unclear whether she'll grant that, even assuming the order is appealable.)

Reminder: one party to a settlement can't unilaterally change the terms of the settlement. This is just more confirmation that the "settlement" was never a settlement at all, and that the "lawsuit" was never a lawsuit, because the "opposing" parties had the same interest from the start.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 3d ago

🚨NEW: Todd Blanche’s new order rescinds the May 18 Anti-Weaponization Fund—but quietly leaves the May 19 IRS immunity settlement intact. Instead of rescinding it, the accompanying memo reaffirms DOJ’s interpretation, arguing the immunity applies only retroactively and only to the parties involved.1/

The Hanna-Barbera trailcam

Good Trailcams@goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 3d ago

My approach to Democratic primaries at this point is to vote against whoever has the strongest opinions about Gaza/Israel, on either side

Satchel Paige lights a cigarette in Harlem, 1941

i have excellent news. you can think what the trump admin is saying about ceuta is incendiary and dehumanizing and vile *AND* still not endorse the idea that it's all being orchestrated by (((zionists))). you can do both! it's allowed!

Burgum doesn’t have to face any judges, or try to hang on to bar membership, so he can appease the Boy King at no cost

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 4d ago

Hoo boy. This is getting ugly. And somehow even more embarrassing. Trump Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is now publicly feuding with Trump’s own Justice Department to keep alive the lies that an innocent former Olympian vandalized the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

Doesn’t anybody know the rules? If a Russian general invites you to a party, you make your excuses.

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 4d ago

An explosion at Moscow's luxury Balzi Rossi restaurant. Early reports say at least three people were killed and several others injured. Russian Telegram channels say the restaurant was closed to the public for the birthday of Russian general Aleksandr Chayko, commander of Russia's aerospace forces.

Annals of enshittification: if you search for a county in Google Maps, it no longer shows you the county boundaries

Surf music: Dick Dale, The Original Surfaris, The Challengers, The Crossfires, etc. More recently Agent Orange, The Mermen, The Bomboras, and so on. Fast, tough, and tense. Not the sickly spun sugar harmonies of The Beach Boys.

Tom Hilton@tvhilton.bsky.social · 5d ago

The Beach Boys are neither particularly interesting nor legitimate surf music

The Beach Boys are neither particularly interesting nor legitimate surf music

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

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

And the official announcement — variety.com/2026/tv/news...

Colson Whitehead’s ‘Harlem’ Trilogy TV Show in Development at Apple (EXCLUSIVE)

Apple TV is in development on a series based on Colson Whitehead's 'Harlem' trilogy, including 'Harlem Shuffle,' 'Crook Manifesto' and 'Cool Machine.'

variety.com

Virtually EVERY SINGLE time someone says, "Dems haven't done X," a simple Google search will show that, in fact they did, and the speaker was just too lazy to check. Yes, communication is broken. That's a two-way street, always, especially now.

Imagine telling Patti Smith of 50 years ago that someday the Pope will be really impressed to meet her

I tell you what I wouldn't do is pay people to play Diablo 4 under my name in order to get me into the top 10 like a certain losing-ass loser did, not gonna say who but he's the king of vaporware and a white supremacist and his initials rhyme with Elon Musk

Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝)@fletch.online · 5d ago

If I had yacht-owning money then you internet jerks would simply never see me again!

JR, William Gaddis

Tony Tassell@tonytassell.bsky.social · 6d ago

Quote in this story: “The real question is how did anyone invest so much money, and then lend so much money, to a . . . kid with no personal experience and no infrastructure?” as.ft.com/r/5f7537a7-0...