This interview with the great @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social was a "wow" moment for me. Thanks, New York Times and David Marchese.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...
I couldn't help noticing the question that seemed the most Times-like to me.
the truly wild thing is there's no way to know if you're in their little fucked machine. It's a dynamic system that suggests "experts" contextually. there's no list, there's no nothing. so if you don't know you're in it how do you know to opt out?
Americans are addicted to cars, but in many ways it's a forced addiction. Decades of policy have made cars the dominant mode of travel at the expense of others, and marketing reinforces the car as the "best" choice. This isn't to excuse individual choices, but car dependency is a systemic issue.
don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free
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You don’t have to use AI. You don’t have to bet on sports. You don’t have to invest in crypto.
In every Republican presidency of my lifetime there's been a recession and a new war in the Middle East.
And once you have those answers, you THROW THE THING AWAY. Its purpose has been served. You no longer need it.
You do not, under any circumstances, get sign-off from people who "liked it" and then roll it unchanged into the next level of fidelity.
A real critique is not a pass/fail gate. It structures the conversation to answer questions about the artifact that the designer has. Is it fit for purpose? What is working about it? What isn't?
Scaffolding the conversation to lead towards those answers are the purpose of the artifact.
These layoffs having nothing to do with AI and workforce efficiency, but everything to do with the fact that Jack Dorsey got his faced ripped off by Bitcoin. They were holding memes in a bag valued at $777 million 60 days ago, that is worth < $500 million now, and their BTC biz has GMs under 10%.
developed democracies are balkanising into 'internet fascist' & 'progressive liberal' teams
nobody wants reactionary centrism
It is a catastrophic misfire that our national conversation about tech regulation is focused on age limits and not on using state power to build a cordon sanitaire against the fascist rot which has overtaken the three largest social media providers
This is stealing. He's stealing money from the American people to go party in Italy. This is fucking public corruption and should be treated as such.
delete Spotify and replace it with the WFMU app
the main reason to go after the rich is that if you don’t the entire structure of your society is predicated on the whims of people who are entirely disconnected from ordinary life
billionaires are simply too dangerous to exist, and any budgetary stuff that comes out of it is just a bonus
You see this in the evolution of UX design into product design: the part of the job about user research & problem framing is shaved away, and the part of the job about production work and feature releases is valorized.
Once, technology solved problems. People liked having problems solved, so they liked technology.
Tech execs started to think of that sentiment as their due. So when they stopped solving problems, and people stopped liking them, they became outraged. "How dare you not love whatever we give you?"
Yeah, it's the failing silently that is more problematic than not being able to do it perfectly (although that's irritating because it's not clear what the problem was). It makes it harder mental work to check such plausible output than the boring but easy task of creating it.
"excuse me sir, there must be some mistake- i voted to create the camps, not live in the zone of interest" is like every trump voter
Seriously though. If you know anyone that lives around Santa Cruz, CA, send them to the Bitchin Bajas show Thursday night at Moe’s Alley. Agnes Martian plays as well!
DHS is shutting down because it refuses to obey the law. They are tear-gassing schools, killing American citizens, and disappearing legal immigrants. Democrats shouldn’t fund an out of control ICE.
“Cut ICE’s budget to restore federal health care funding” is an extremely popular message www.politico.com/f/?id=000001...
No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor
Screenshot of text reading At least 10 people were injured between late 2021 and November 2025, according to the reports. Most allegedly involved errors in which the TruDi Navigation System misinformed surgeons about the location of their instruments while they were using them inside patients’ heads during operations. Cerebrospinal fluid reportedly leaked from one patient’s nose. In another reported case, a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients each allegedly suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured.
Screenshot of text reading In May 2023, Dean was using TruDi in another sinuplasty operation when patient Donna Fernihough’s carotid artery allegedly “blew.” Blood “was spraying all over” – even landing on an Acclarent representative who was observing the surgery, according to a lawsuit Fernihough filed in U.S. District Court in Fort Worth against Acclarent and several manufacturers. One of Fernihough’s carotid arteries was damaged. She suffered a stroke the day of the surgery, according to her suit. Acclarent “knew or should have known that the purported artificial intelligence caused or exacerbated the tendency of the integrated navigation system product to be inconsistent, inaccurate, and unreliable,” the suit alleges.
Screenshot of text reading The FDA requires clinical trials for new drugs, but medical devices face different screening. Most AI-enabled devices coming to market aren’t required to be tested on patients, according to FDA rules. Instead, makers satisfy FDA rules by citing previously authorized devices that had no AI-related capabilities, says Dr. Alexander Everhart, an instructor at Washington University’s medical school in St. Louis and an expert on medical device regulation.
*my biggest and most exhausted sigh*
"As AI Enters the Operating Room, Reports Arise of Botched Surgeries and Misidentified Body Parts"
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
The choice to frame this rhetorically as a negotiation *with ICE and DHS* rather than, you know, a decision about their future made by their rightful superiors in the popularly elected legislature is, to me, incredibly grating.
I have yet to see any evidence that there is a market for AI-generated books outside of people being tricked into thinking they are not AI-generated books. AKA, it is a project of scamming and deceiving people, and really should be treated as fraud
I hope folks grasp the fascistic resentment underpinning this shit, and the fact that there is nothing these AI robber barons would like more than to automate human creativity because they resent it and wish to devalue, own, and control it and us.
