Something to be said about politicians and pundits taking AI developers' apocalypse preaching more seriously than decades of very good climate science

Chevron's CEO made $104 million while America bombed Iran America's oil executives have pocketed $1.4 billion selling stock during the Iran war, a new investigation shows.

@emorwee.bsky.social: “What really makes this story remarkable is not simply that oil executives got rich from a war. It’s how perfectly legal and normal it all is, and what that legality reveals about who wins and who loses when America goes to war.” open.substack.com/pub/heated/p...

It has come to my attention that not all of you are aware that this exists. So, here it is. It exists. Dozens of channels of randomized music videos and bumpers. Choose your era and return to your childhood. Bookmark it for when you need to escape back.

wantmymtv.vercel.app/player.html

We bombed an elementary school, Bret

Everyone I know with practically any knowledge of global supply chains be like:

5m tonnes of CO2 emitted in just 14 days of US war on Iran, analysis finds Exclusive: War in the Middle East is draining the global carbon budget faster than 84 countries combined

"The US-Israel war on Iran is draining the global carbon budget faster than 84 countries combined."

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

The world energy shock is coming — it will deepen inequality in ways we've seen before. Our new
@newstatesman1913.bsky.social piece argues that without urgent government action, the Strait of Hormuz crisis will ripple through our economies and rip apart our societies. Here's why. 1/

Everything about this week’s record-shattering western heat wave is extreme An astoundingly strong heat wave is not just setting records across the western U.S.—it’s pulverizing them

Really cannot overstate how bonkers the heat wave out West is. Just obliterating records. 🧪

A farm worker removing dirt from the canal to clean it.

"Felix" shares, I've been a farm worker for 17 years in the Imperial Valley area. Right now I'm working as an irrigator. I'm removing dirt from the canal to clean it. It is very tiring shoveling dirt out all day." #WeFeedYou

a series of pictures of agent scully from the hit television series "the x-files" wearing glasses. each picture gradually has a slightly more serious expression and more dramatic lighting

formal proposal of a replacement for the vince mcmahon meme format

I think this is right, and shows us that when will exists, this kind of correction can happen quickly.

Imagine how it must feel then for the victims of so many powerful men with many more column widths dedicated to their horrors, that so many continue to enjoy uninterrupted public power and profile

The Ratchet In 2015, state legislatures across the United States considered 75 anti-LGBTQ bills, of which 27 targeted gender identity.1 In 2025, that total reached 1,059—with 851 of the current-session bills targ...

I analyzed over 10 years of anti-trans legislation. Over 330 bills have passed, with ~300 of them in just the last 5 years. There is no precedent in American history for so many bills to target one particular minority group like this in such a short timeframe.

www.thedissident.news/the-ratchet/

ME: (chastising myself) Careful. We can't just paint every billionaire as an evil NPC with no inner life. They're just people, and we need to understand that if we're ever going to improve society
BILLIONAIRE: I'm an empty shell, man. No thoughts up here. I'm essentially a void made to suck up money

The US prison system is a permanent concentration camp

Are you kidding me, @aflcio.org? You are having an AI policy summit and one of the keynotes is Max Tegmark? Of the Future of Life Institute?

FLI is and has been part of the longtermist cult, funded by Tallinn and Musk.

This is a dangerous alliance, and y'all are joining forces for a pittance.

I want to be clear that a load bearing pillar of fighting fascism is exactly this

Headline: "At SXSW, Mark Zuckerberg says metaverse is 'Holy Grail' of social experience"

I don't really feel like the press coverage of the metaverse implosion honestly captures the access tech press' role in propping up Mark Zuckerberg's fake innovation mythology

if you go back and read "journalism" from this era, 97% was indistinguishable from advertorial

@katemac.bsky.social & I on risky Gas boom 2025: "LNG tankers can get blocked from the Bab al-Mandab to the Panama Canal; petrostates and buyers should think twice about locking in new investments and infrastructure.

All that is liquid can melt into air."...or it turns out
BOMBED into air.

Remember when the metaverse was sold to higher ed as an essential part of the future of learning (especially online)? And how colleges and universities should go all-in on the metaverse so they could be "pioneers" of this new technology? There's a lesson here for those who choose to learn it.

That's great

Great org, good people.

AIroboros

MOMENTS LATER... THE ROBOT WITH THE ADULT LUTHOR, FACE HAS "DIED"!...GREAT SCOTT! LOOK AT THESE HATE TAPES INSIDE HIS CHEST COMPARTMENT: NO WONDER THE AUTOMATON LOATHED US!

This is exactly how A.I. works

It's a hard lesson to learn, but you can NOT assume that police are there to help you, even when you call them.

These guys are experienced lawyers and they let the police into the building during an active dispute over who controls the building. An understandable mistake but still a big mistake.

I’m ecstatic to announce that Eleanor & Frank Perry’s brilliant & controversial film “Last Summer” has been beautifully restored to its 1969 theatrical cut. Premiere screening Sunday 3/29 at the American Cinematheque’s Areo Theatre. Q&A with stars Barbara Hershey & Bruce Davison!

Thank you, yes that's what I'm recalling too! I just went back to China for the first time since 2020, and hadn't used WeChat much in the interim but am again now and was confused by this time limit

A post on X from the betting platform Polymarket that says “BREAKING: Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety.”

Literally as I’m arguing with someone about whether AI companies are misleading people into believing their technology possesses God-like super-intelligence I see this monstrosity

Question for China folks - am I crazy or did WeChat used to allow voice messages LONGER than 60 seconds? Back in the day I seem to recall sending/receiving messages that were WAY longer. Am I misremembering?

"you're currently living through one of the largest positive technological revolutions in modern history - solar and batteries replacing fossil fuels - and you're hearing more about chatbots because the people who run our country make money selling oil" --‪@mtsw.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/70sb...

Facing Backlash, OpenAI Amends Pentagon Deal to Add More Anti-Surveillance Verbiage When Katy Perry sides with your competitor, something's got to be done.

Extra verbiage. Glad it’s sorted. 🙄