It would give Vox a heart attack if you won. Does he even still do stuff?

This piece has so many reflections of the core problem haunting the most powerful industry in our economy today: self-absorption, confirmation bias, feeding the egos of the powerful

Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want Did the tech industry get high on its own supply?

from the annals of getting high on your own supply (gift link) www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/...

I am surrounded by scams and cons all over my society

Documentaries & other types of work labelled journalism can discuss Jackson’s relationships with children because that type of media doesn’t need the legal permissions that a biopic would. The estate is never going to let that discussion happen around a movie

Honestly, I don’t know that we’ll ever get a biopic depiction of Michael Jackson that honestly confronts the darkest possibilities of his life because it would have to get permission from his estate & family

I'm not sure my French is good enough to understand the full subtleties of Libé's review of the Michael Jackson biopic

An exceptionally good survey of the Protestant theological currents feeding this holy war.

The myths in our popular culture about the bravery of police officers aren’t only false, they’re self-serving & gaslighting because it gives them permission to abandon people to violence. “If even the officers wouldn’t go in, it must have been too dangerous for anyone”

From the upcoming "Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed," which is now going to be the next book I need on the shelf & for all the neighbourhood bookstores in North America to give away on promotional days.

Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X.

"Your Account is Suspended" Message on X

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X.

I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!).

So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

If there is not already a ska-punk version of "Land of Confusion" by Genesis, there should be. Those "whoa-ohs" in the chorus are crying for it

Exterior of OKC bombing memorial — arches and a reflecting pool replaced the road that once was in front of the federal building, the one McVeigh drove on to park his bomb-filled Ryder truck. Pic taken May 26, 2020.

Chairs note the 169 dead at the OKC bombing on April 19, 1995. The small chairs represent children who died at the Murrah Federal Building daycare.

On an exterior fence at the OKC memorial, people place remembrances to the victims.

A display in the OKC memorial museum of the T-shirt Tim McVeigh wore when he was arrested. It has a picture of Lincoln with “Sic Semper Tyrannis,” reflecting McVeigh’s connection to the wider 1990s racist, anti-government Patriot Movement.

Unhappy 31st anniversary to the OKC bombing. Two big postscripts:

- Timothy McVeigh was held on a gun charge while they figured out whether he was the bomber; that crime no longer exists
- The prosecutor, Merrick Garland, focused on McVeigh and largely ignored the movement he was connected to

I have wondered if as time goes on, the Marvel movies will be one of the most "2010s" coded things ever, the equivalent of like 70s variety shows or 50s cars as a decade signifier

Oh no

What the old libertarian gold standard nut jobs never understood was that all currency is fiat currency. It's just that for centuries, the fiat was that gold was currency. These days, the fiat is simply more transparent

Let's all use this occasion to take a look at the many ways Tennessee Republicans have shown how much they value and respect the Traditional Nuclear Family™

This isn't a career move. This is a side hustle pulling some extra cash while you still earn most of your money from having a regularly employed job.

“We in the indoor toilet sector have to work hard selling the benefits of no longer having to leave your house in the middle of the night to take a dump in a shack behind your house on top of a big pile of four months of accumulated dumps”

This is a valid point: whenever you see this sort of high-pressure sales tactic turned on a technology, you can be CERTAIN that it's a fake—actually useful new tech sells itself!

And don't underestimate the effectiveness of FOMO as a tool in the hands of a con artist.

A line of people stretching two blocks down the road for Record Store Day so they can buy some records, unlike every other day when the same record store is also open

The things I do for my family on Record Store Day. Still, it’s better than when people used to do the same lineups just to get an iPhone

We used to be ruled by much more competant alcoholics

Not only is this ad misogynist as all hell, it’s also not true: I know so many people whose AI & LLM corporate service rates have gone through the roof since the start of last year. An AI company won’t ask for a raise, they’ll just raise your rates & tell you how it’s going to be

I've been saying this for awhile but putting these ads in public places, where regular people, not companies, can see them is not meant as an ad, but as a threat.

The only pop song that ends with a key change chorus, which doesn’t make me want to throw my speakers out a window, is “Invisible Touch” by Genesis

My own daughter told me to get off my phone this morning. So I’ll see you later then

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

The investors may be spooked but it sounds more like retirement age to me