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One, I had not heard this specific example but it’s aligned with the whole history of tech. Not surprised. Just grossed out.

Two, this should be illegal. We should all care that it isn’t.

Imagining a society that considers children to be people and smiling peacefully

Grandpa Simpson yelling at a cloud

Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

You simply cannot make me spend my time on this stuff. Oh the president said Tylenol causes autism? Well it doesn't. No I'm not going to pore through research papers to prove it to you. That's not what my time is for. My time is for playing videogames and gazing lovingly at my wife.

Okay, closing a loop. Many of you suggested The Onion print for a very precocious preteen.

It arrived today and it is a huge hit. HUGE.

The official verdict is, “it’s like [your old people’s] Adbusters but not so despressing.”

Signing something like this should become the kind of thing that circulates among the whisper network of hiring editors and forces you out of the profession and into PR (which is what you had apparently agreed to do anyway)

Bumping this for the late shift. My fully peer reviewed podcast is out in the world today! I hope you’ll read this thread and listen to the show.

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I think people are talking past each other because of how poorly most of us understand the LLMs. There's so much beauty and possibility in these technologies, but right now it all seems hidden in an intractable crust of grift

When I am telling you that everyday eugenics breaking back through in beauty culture should have told us what was coming?

Pretty clear to me that one function of the fantasy of pedophilic cabals that’s present in conspiracy theories is to provide an outlet for the rage and despair at indifference and impunity for actual sexual violence.

"Inshallah on the front page" is so funny. His media team is unmatched.

Former critics who once demanded Cuomo resign are now endorsing him A POLITICO review of Cuomo’s touted endorsers found that few of them stood by him in 2021.

again, more than 40% of Cuomo's 2025 endorsers called on him to resign four years ago and I think it's incredibly important to recognize the breadth of cowardice from the current political class and the depth of courage of the women who stood up to him, like @lindseyboylan.bsky.social.

"This moment isn’t about finding common ground with young white conservative influencers or tacking towards the horizon of intolerance. Speak truth to power and harbor no illusions about what we are facing."

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The Pitt is certainly a medical drama but it is about trying to survive America.

Been a huge quarter for words that describe moral failings. "Mendacious" and "Quisling" are putting up numbers

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated

if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.