Mayor Brandon Johnson announced “Abolish ICE” as the winner of a citywide snow plow name contest. He had earlier given it a “full and complete” endorsement.
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Mayor Brandon Johnson announced “Abolish ICE” as the winner of a citywide snow plow name contest. He had earlier given it a “full and complete” endorsement.
This thread had me progressively cackling
“it’s less move fast and break things and more move fast and make broken things, because who cares, dipshits will pay for it” sums up the AI disruption itself, as well as the slop it creates. 😔
@burnsidegooch.bsky.social Burnside Gooch is a superb profile name!
Post 1: "Are Pinky and the Brain still trying to take over the world? Because at this point, I'm ready to hear the Brain's platform" Post 2 (reply): "At this point, I'm willing to hear Pinky's platform"
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"Stephen Miller, widely regarded as the senior asshole in the Trump administration, masterminded the sociopath substitution, White House sources said."
Reddit comment by user YakiDaki that says "The only thing that's safe in America right now are the Epstein files."
Seen on Reddit: The only thing that's safe in America right now are the Epstein files.
End-stage capitalism in the digital age has made us a DIY economy in which millions of customer service jobs no longer exist, not because computers do the work, but because the work has been shifted, via computers, directly onto the consumer.
How convenient - an app that let's you place bets on the outcome of tragic world events! yay???
The sale bins had already been looted by scavengers. The talons of bargain hunters tore ruthlessly through stacks of silk blouses and left a tangle of garments upon the earth. The man knelt to comb through the castoffs like a haruspex searching for truth in the entrails of a slaughtered animal.
[detective waving phone around at crime scene] AI says this guy died of his injuries
“Never have so few done so much to so many.”
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It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
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Unchained Melody was a huge hit for the Righteous Brothers, but it was originally sung by Todd Duncan in the 1955 prison film Unchained.
Cartoon by Emily Flake that shows a woman sitting at a desk, looking at her phone. She says to a man behind her, "I feel like the movies sold us an idealized version of the end times."
"I feel like the movies sold us an idealized version of the end times."
I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently.
In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?”
And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.
Thoughtful essay about how to evaluate the confluence of art and politics in our current climate.
(gift article) One example of how far-reaching the effects have been is that babies even get potty trained much later than they used to, because of disposable diapers.
Kavanaugh's statements make the problem worse, not better. If the reason SCOTUS is using cryptic shadow docket orders is because "five" of them can't "reach a consensus or a compromise on a particular issue that might be difficult," then that order should not be precedential —there's no majority.
Just saw someone on tiktok call Dubai the Michael Kors of vacations 🥀
Whenever you see a quote from a poll or survey in the form "x% of [population] do/believe [statement]"
translate that to "x% of respondents selected a specific response option"
The respondents may or may not represent a population.
That form interaction may or may not reflect what they do/believe.
The future of programming is AI; er, I mean, the future of cooking is the microwave!
Distorted Wall Street incentives drove us to centralized digital infrastructure that mirrors authoritarian power structures. But the same technologies can be architected to resist authoritarianism. Decentralization isn’t a technical preference, it’s a democratic necessity.
Interesting explainer on the ramifications of a service member refusing an order because they think it's unconstitutional:
