Drowning meme, showing Bluesky leadership paying attention to AI while the codebase drowns, and why's phone dead at the bottom

AI as a Fascist Artifact (This is a bit of a merger of two talks I recently gave about fascism and AI. One was in German at the Cables Of Resistance conference, one in English at the Milton Wolf Seminar on Media and Diplomacy. I added some shots of the slides I used as a structure for the text which […]

In which I argue that "AI" as we understand it today is a structurally fascist artifact.

https://tante.cc/2026/04/21/ai-as-a-fascist-artifact/

r/ClaudeCode . 3d ago lusuallydrop . . We just did an "AI layoff" due to rising costs Humor Turns out AI is getting way too expensive. We just canceled 5 of our AI subscriptions and hired 2 mid-level devs instead.

A digital painting of a very floofy Titanis walleri

Titanis

#paleoart #sciart #art

ME: (meeting the devil) I love your eggs.

I have voluntarily eaten quite a few insects because I'm a "try everything once" kinda person, but this is where my phobia of endoparasites draws the line. (Especially since I'm told those maggots actually CAN harm you.)

A slender brown and yellow toad with long, skinny legs! They have a very rough skin texture, covered in lots of small warty bumps! They have large eyes with a golden iris!

Our friend the Phuket Stream Toad is only known to live in a small area surrounding the Kathu waterfall on Phuket Island in Thailand! (photo by Nick Volpe)

So hey that's eugenics

Honorable mention: Königsberger Klopse are literally one of my favorite dishes if prepared correctly, but a lot of recipes fuck them up by overcomplicating them, turning them into sad gloop. Don't you DARE put white wine in that sauce. Use plain white vinegar and capers, or don't make it at all.

For reference, I enjoy (dill-free) pickles and even one type of cucumber salad (specifically, Japanese smashed cucumber salad), and I can SOMEWHAT tolerate dill in dolmas or gravlax, so there is a way to make those ingredients work. It's just decidedly not that one.

Maybe it's just because I hate both cucumbers and dill, but German cucumber salad manages to combine them into a watery mess that is infinitely worse than the sum of its parts.

They deliberately changed the title of their Snow Queen movie so that searches for “Frozen Disney” would stop showing results for Walt in a cryogenic chamber.

they're gonna find a way to bring back trench foot

Struck Down In His Prime At 90 Years Young YouTube video by It's Probably (not) Aliens!

youtu.be/9HJNT7BZ39U

Decoupling womanhood from the ability to carry children, respecting infertile women as women, includes accepting that not all who carry children should have to be considered women, and I cannot tell you what a relief it is to have some people agree with me on that without fucking arguing with me.

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

Obviously I have no idea but I do wonder if keas, being social birds, might have aided in Bruce’s ascension through cooperation and “care,” helping him not only to stay alive but to thrive… only for him to turn on them to become all powerful.

It’s what I would do 😏

Infowars/Onion combo logo in rainbow saying “I support the onion’s hostile media takeover.”

It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.

NYFD chief Nicolas Cage and NYPD officer Michael Pena rush to the scene of the 2001 Jenga collapse that killed 3 ants

Jenga (2006)

true crime brain has fucked people up so bad and they get really mad when you point that out. and also that the entire true crime industry is predatory and exploitative

Why bother with passing when you can just camp out in the gender uncanny valley?

Well... I have no shame about sex, and my hobby is writing about fictional characters spanking each other.
Graham has a lot of shame abot sex, and his hobby is alienating his family and harassing teenagers online.

Klara (@klara_sjo) on twitter: "There will be no WW3. They've abandoned numbered releases and switched to a live service model with seasonal events."

Good god.
I'd rather someone made an effigy of me out of chewed bubblegum and hair they stole from my shower drain

One of the most famous mosasaurs, Tylosaurus proriger, submerges after taking a breath. It is dark above and light below, as tentatively suggested by some palaeocolour data. The challenges of interpreting scaly reptile palaeocolour, and the tiny scraps of colour data we have for this animal, preclude much confidence in chromatic interpretations of this species, however. Also, if you stare at this long enough, you'll see a few sharks. No foolin'.

Been thinking marine-reptiley thoughts today. Here's one of my latest #paleoart efforts along that line: Tylosaurus proriger. The colour is based on fossil colour data, although it's far from certain that this animal was black and countershaded.

Print link: www.markwitton.co.uk/product-page...

I hate Al and I refuse to use it Peter, if you don't use Al a bunch of super rich men will lose a lot of money I already said I hated Al Harry, you don't need to sell it to me

reddit: "I visited my identical twin brother at his college where a lot of his floor didn't know he was a twin. That night he had some people over in his apartment and I hid in the bedroom. Note, he has a beard and I don't. While they were hanging out (and me hiding), he announces to the group that he's tired of his beard and is gonna shave it off, so he escapes to the bedroom where I'm hiding as if to shave. We switch clothes and I walk back out to the group with my bare face. Everyone takes note and, while it's generally an unusual thing to do at a party, nobody thinks much of it. After a bit I announce, "ya know, I kinda miss my beard. I think I'm gonna grow it back". At which point I go to the other room where my bearded twin was hiding. We switch clothes back and he walks back out to the group immediately rebearded. People lost their freaking minds."

The appeal to "nature" is the siren song of fascism. It is the insidious lie of the so-called "transcendent" order that seeks to place humanity in its demented thrall, the idea that our desire and need to shape our world and our selves, which itself springs from nature, is somehow not "nature"

was about to argue with a guy before I saw he had "LinkedIn Influencer"in his bio and realised there was nothing I could say to him that was half as humiliating as what he's already saying about himself

YMMV on whether that one actually qualifies as a "horror" movie, but that's definitely what it's trying to be. It wants to be oh so shocking and gross, but it has nothing shocking to offer unless you are deathly afraid of genitals.