me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58

One of the reasons I so greatly dislike the “can men and women be friends?” nonsense (yes, full stop, shut up) is that it casts suspicion on people with opposite-sex friends instead of where it more often belongs: on people with no opposite-sex friends.

But yeah, I've noticed this, too.

Tell me what exception you think genAI is OK to use for, and I'll tell you which discipline you least respect.

Makes me recall a clip I saw of Joe Rogan enthusiastically forcing an musician to listen to genAI music he'd prompted as he heaped praise on the model that had generated it.

The musician responded, "What about AI podcasts? They have those, now."

No prizes for guessing how Joe reacted.

i know a lot of games journalists and critics follow me, and you'll notice that mothership.blog already has a "How to pitch" page live, along with a few other pages! so yes, please, go ahead and pitch. i'm so excited to announce this in part to get more of your voices out there.

hi! i'm co-founding a new gaming website with my former polygon colleague @zoehhannah.com. it's called mothership.blog. i made it for someone like me... the kind of website i always wished we had in our space. watch the video to learn more :D

And some white men just have never experienced this, especially white conservative men. And they get to bsky where that view is not the majority and they simply do not know how to exist.

Like, as a Jewish kid growing up in a super Christian town, you just learn early that it’s normal to be in spaces where everybody believes something that you do not. And you learn not to make it all about you.

Thinking about how most of the people complaining about bluesky are white men and how I learned from an early age how to exist in environments where I was a minority and how most white men don’t have that experience.

11 Million Cubans Are Poised to Starve Without Venezuelan Oil. How Many Will We Allow to Die? Cuba is poised on the brink of collapse, with devastating humanitarian disaster looming. And the U.S. is simply watching from 90 miles away.

"But it’s the Cuban people who will suffer worst. They are fighting for their lives right now, while fully cognizant of the fact that things are about to get much, much worse. The only question to answer: How much death do Trump and Rubio deem acceptable? And how bad is it about to get?"

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

I've had a tab with this post open for about three weeks, intending to donate _something_, and I finally did. A modest amount, but hopefully it helps.

Further evidence that widespread covid vaccination is better for everybody.

Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it. August 2019. 415ppm CO2"

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

This lady was the Steve Jobs of the Online Death Threat Industry for like 10 years. Not to be a dick, but fucking spare me.

We humans will get along just fine without them, of course.

And the sooner they fuck off to Mars, the better.

The White House’s insistence on using Sabrina Carpenter’s work and image to promote their crimes against humanity is also them appealing to their base, which already uses technology to try and humiliate and puppeteer the likenesses of women who have autonomy, success, and visibility in public

A Cold Colonialism A Cold Colonialism - Modern Exploration and the Canadian North; A Cold Colonialism reframes exploration as a modern enterprise – one through which southern Canadians and Americans sought to exert cont...

It’s my book’s half-birthday today! To celebrate, I’d like to mail one of you a free signed copy.

Just like this post to enter the draw. You can enter your name until 11:59 pm Pacific time on Wednesday, December 3rd.

Please reskeet! #cdnhist #envhist

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These people have never carressed a lover, or enjoyed a homecooked meal, or been rendered speechless by the beauty of the natural world. Just so miserably infected with capitalism, that they would comodify the very humanity they've lost, the feelings they are no longer capable of feeling.

I don't care if a non-disabled person accesses a disability accommodation for the same reason I don't care if a child whose parents are rich gets free lunch at school. We don't need to means test being a kind person. I have better things to do with my time than be a cop over social services.

I have some bad news about your most recent Black Friday purchase, the AI Pervert Toilet.

no contract? NO COFFEE 🗣️ don’t cross a picket line while we’re on ULP strike, and DON’T BUY STARBUCKS at all while our union is still out here! #NoContractNoCoffee

Hi other tech folks! Does anyone have recommendations for trans-friendly recruiters on the West Coast?

I’m a lead product manager with around a decade of experience. Looking to shift back to a salaried position after consulting the last couple years.

Reposts appreciated, thanks!

for generations scholars have debated which gender goes to college to get more knowledge, and which goes to Jupiter to get more stupider. in this essay i will...

if youre trans and youre struggling to justify why you as a person should be allowed to take up space in the universe just consider that by your sheer existence you make a lot of the worst people on earth mad enough that they will die early deaths from stress. so thats a p good reason