my has wife asked me to stop my running Werner Herzog commentary during our Donkey Kong Bananza playthru

This tech accelerationism is training people to just do the appearance of work: a headline, art that looks almost normal from a distance, to complete things as fast as possible and move onto the next... it's dissolving humanity and culture at large

I think it's bad that the country is led by people who haven't had a real problem in their entire lives and couldn't get a regular job due to being too weird

This is what supporters of charter schools and vouchers don't tell you: because those schools aren't required to admit physically or learning disabled students, or ESL students, their "improved test scores" and whatnot are completely juiced—and it defunds the schools where disabled kids DO go.

I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl

Now that's a headline.

AI doesn’t just require tons of electric power. It also guzzles enormous sums of water. It also guzzles enormous sums of water.

“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”

Climate Change Is Raising Wildfire Risk Across The U.S. There's a forgotten history that should serve as a warning — wildfire isn’t unique to the West. Now the warming climate is increasing the risk of major wildfires across America. And more people are mo...

There's a forgotten history that should serve as a warning — wildfire isn’t unique to the West. Now the warming climate is increasing the risk of major wildfires across America. And more people are moving to fire-prone areas without realizing the danger.

Texas sues to impose bigotry on the rest of the country Ken Paxton's lawsuit against the NCAA is a glorified Fox News segment.

"There are roughly 510,000 NCAA athletes. And, according to the president of the NCAA, there are fewer than 10 trans athletes *total*. Even if all of these efforts to 'protect' women’s sports were in good faith, this would still be a solution in search of a problem."

As we confront a second Trump presidency, here’s a path forward: 🧵

What Kind of Revolution Do You Want? It's not just about a CEO's murder. It's about the kind of change we want and how we get there. And why we're here in the first place. A message to both those condemning and those celebrating the act.

We are getting presented with a false binary: do we support violence or do we support nonviolence?

The choice here is more about a reality that people have only begun contending with. Revolution is coming. The question is whether we will be participants and if so how.

My latest.

Every time.

A ★½ review of Wicked (2024) [this isn't a review of Wicked, which i might've hated, it's a really long whatever about why i *didn't* review Wicked, and the value of "hating" a piece of commercial entertainment at time when animu...

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@davidehrlich.bsky.social’s not-review-review of Wicked helped me make sense of my thoughts about this film and this moment and our obligation to be strategic with where we aim our “hate”. Thankful for his work.

"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting.

Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC

Collection of blu-rays and DVDs

Collection has been growing exponentially since I started working at HPB

Current employee here! They offer solid healthcare options and other benefits that most retail jobs don’t. Considering the profit margins from used book sales they put a lot of effort into taking care of their employees. Easily the best retail job I’ve ever had.