really helpful essay, even tho i believe in a spectrum of variably shitty skynets we should be concerned about. when an untrustworthy industry is telling you it's destroying the world, don't let yourself become negatively polarized into assuming you're safe.

Power Map@powermapmag.com · 2mo ago

As AI Doom Mania sweeps the left Allison Keats, @neoromantic.bsky.social, writes for Power Map about, what we should really fear from AI, how we should approach AI fears and how we can use them to organize for comprehensive regulation. powermapmag.substack.com/p/shitty-sky...

"Besides being deeply cynical, Chomsky’s supposed pragmatism has not stood the test of time...We may have manufactured consent once upon a time, but America has long since transitioned to a post-manufacturing economy." Very harsh but worthwhile read. strangematters.coop/noam-chomsky...

Chomsky After Epstein - Strange Matters

Noam Chomsky – friend of Epstein, defender of dictatorships – was no model anti-imperialist. Can we do better?

strangematters.coop

I apologize for nothing and only wish I had gone even harder. If someone wants to argue God isn't non-binary, they can tell me (in detail) what they think his penis looks like and how big they think it is.

Turns out there's a limit to what excel will convert into a date

It's me, a Telegraph columnist, taking a break screaming bloody murder about fairness in the women's sports I wouldn't be caught dead watching to wax lyrical about academic integrity in sociology, a field I consider to be fake, at institutions I consider to be communist indoctrination centers.

the economy is the last common ground between leftists and fascists, and therefore the only issue the media (and, well, people) can talk about without being accused of ideology by increasingly polarized factions. there's nothing the economy could have done to dodge this priority-defining spotlight.

Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli@banditelli.org · 3mo ago

You know we're in uncharted territory when The Economist is citing Karl Marx on their Trump coverage.

"AC good" is not a significantly better stance than "AC bad", imo. some parts of europe should have a lot more AC (esp. now that europe's climate is warming up so much), but i hate the AC-only approach to heat management that feels so american to me.

rolling a six sided die and getting mad i didn't roll a three point five

it's good to see a politician stand up for the little guy

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 5mo ago

BREAKING: Mayor Mamdani just signed an “executive order” to repeal bedtime so NYC kids can watch the Knicks play in the NBA Finals!

take the cis out of christ

Shelley B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛@shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Gospel in a nutshell: A nonbinary god transitioned and lived as a man for 30 years, and then when he came out as trans, they killed him. But they did not know that you could not kill him in any way that matters. 🏳️‍⚧️ Below: actual historical photo of Jesus showing off his top surgery scars.

nationalism is inherently right wing; all it does is exclude an outgroup. in the case of the nascent israel, the outgroup was the majority of the local population! it's not surprising that the good intentions died when the project's integrity demanded extreme violence against a massive underclass.

state song thread guy@statesongxprt.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The post that got me the most hatred on the Old Site was that Israel is, in many ways, a leftist experiment and part of the reason leftists hate it so much is the don't like the result

AI prompt engineering tricks

bluesky should hire me to implement crossplatform english to english translation

there are many candidates for the epitaph on the end of history's headstone, but right now "we raised our kids to be better people than us; unfortunately, they were" feels pretty apt

if you appreciate my art, design, procedural, or experimental work, or design analysis, please consider supporting me or reposting! i'm /extremely/ good at living frugally but i would like to eat better and get a new computer. i'm aiming to get to $1000 a month. www.patreon.com/vacuumflowers

love this thing... playful little editors are the best genre

sincerely, rob dubbin@robdubbin.bsky.social · 8mo ago

we put out a new free thing at @brainfruit.bsky.social today, a pixel-painting toy called MOSS. i'm not a great or even good pixel artist but i love noodling on a cozy constrained canvas with weird brushes and infinite undos. it's at the centroid between asesprite, procreate, and pico8 www.moss.town

homo erectus??? i just call it Heated Rivalry

@doggirlinstem.bsky.social 😰

popcore@popcore.bsky.social · 9mo ago

This Postman Situation is CONCERNING

I keep thinking “my god the people they’ve killed seem like exceptionally good folks” and I think the lesson there is that they’re not exceptional, but that wonderful people abound and that a baseline distrust in humanity is a shitty conservative trope that privileges power over collective strength

post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 10mo ago

you don't become a martyr because you were a saint, you become a saint because you were martyred

innovative new features: - a subscription fee you pay all at once, then never again - it works without internet or AI - it's just a nice toaster, handles bagels good

Movie exec: This isn’t your Grandpa’s Animal Farm. We’re gonna have some fun here to help a new generation learn Orwell’s key message that talking pigs are evil

KIM KITSURAGI - "What is it, detective? Can you make it out?" BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao" 1. "It, um, doesn't say anything." 2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe." 3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."

This is what ally ship looks like to me.

10/10 take. No notes.

from "The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy" by Ray D. Madoff

they should let you buy apples at the apple store, like at least if you ask, they can make them $1,000 and what happens id that the guy says 'wait a minute' pops to walmart and puts it in a white box before giving it to you but they should let you do that as a bit

Citadel and storm

i remain resolute in my confidence we will win and it will be because we stuck together. dooming and fatalism is not how any of us will get out of this mess. i’m saying this as a veteran climate journalist who is a trans woman. if i have more hope than you, think of what that says about your view