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After a week of Fox News coverage that’s pro eternal darkness:

NO - 21%
YES - 49%
UNSURE - 30%

I do think “Graham Platner was a bartender who personally served some DC pundits and reporters and was known to them” is a pretty big part of the skeleton key to unlocking how he got so much cash and media attention so fast and why they’re so determined to stay all in on him now

Black people: Democrats can't win without 'em but always want to try. :)

People Are Calling Meta Ray-Bans "Pervert Glasses" On Bluesky, users quickly embraced the term "pervert glasses" to refer to Meta's Ray Ban smart glasses, following a shocking investigation.

Make it stick.

As a car owner in New York City: OMG, do it!!!!

This is really important new research and it was great to work with Steve on publishing it.

Two myths exposed here:
1. “Labour shouldn’t worry about voters it’s losing to its left because there’s a minimal electoral impact”. False.
2. “Labour’s only losing are woke lefties in safe seats”. False.

I think they might have better luck spending two thousand dollars holding a press conference where they detail who made the key decisions to collaborate with the Trump administration, how and when they were fired, and explaining what would stop that from happening again.

A post on X from the betting platform Polymarket that says “BREAKING: Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety.”

Literally as I’m arguing with someone about whether AI companies are misleading people into believing their technology possesses God-like super-intelligence I see this monstrosity

A post on X from Polymarket that says “BREAKING: Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety.”

I would also be anxious if I fucked up
so bad I murdered dozens of schoolchildren

🤌

Had the same thought 😭😭

In every Republican presidency of my lifetime there's been a recession and a new war in the Middle East.

Gonna start an airport coffee shop called HALF AS BIG BUT TWICE AS GOOD

It is so weird when younger people think that getting older means ceasing social participation

This is also why so many of you fear aging. You think that you will be forced away from life and society

hope that kid is still entertained!

Unfortunately, “Yo brother, legal team confirmed we can’t work with minors rn” is an instant classic

alexschottenpoetry • & Threads 6h It would be really poetic if the cure to militarized Al is just painting decoys on the ground [picture of decoy on ground] ISRAELI MISSILE HITS HELICOPTER SHADOW DECOY ISRAELI MISSILE HITS HELICOPTER SHADOW DECOY AFTER IRANIAN GROUND ILLUSION TRICKS STRIKE

the LLMs can be defeated by POETRY, its only fair the ai can be defeated by ART

Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72

“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit

The “Are you not entertained?” presidency

Why have white men decided this is a sudden emergency

*DJ Khaled voice* Another one bsky.app/profile/nygr...

If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.

I just want all these senators who are Nuremberg-posting to really understand that you can’t say this stuff and then NOT do Nuremberg. We’ll be watching and we’ll notice if you just skip it

This is all I’ve wanted to see from a Democrat since Jan 2025. You can see the exact microsecond in Kristi Noem’s eyes when she realizes fascism inevitably eats its servants.

> 204: At least he didn't get Earl Hi hi, Here’s some art, ideas, and internet for you: Why is social change so hard? Part of it is system justification, or “people's inclinations to tell...

I'm the only person in the world to have a newsletter (but tbf I started mine way before they were the only bulwark against fascism). Here's the latest edition. buttondown.com/lauraolin/ar...

I completely subscribe to this

One encouraging theme in last night's NC primaries is the simple fact that being pro-trans is now like being anti-ICE among Dem voters: to them, it means you're a fighter, it means you're not giving into Trump.

That's a really, really good sign.

All these companies are like "We can't just turn these chatbot services off," really, I'm old enough to remember Vine