its so nice when people call me by my name

thanks! i am mostly relieved that all i have to do next is yap.

thesis sent to committee

2025 full color commission in a dense forest, a goblin hides behind a rock and summons with the aid of a spellbook 3 spectral birds. On the horizon, a giant white elk turns its gaze towards their hiding spot.

in the gods grove (2025)

Sacrifice your job for the glorious AI future How tech CEOs use the threat of job loss to distract from how AI is really used against workers

Perplexity’s CEO is just the latest tech leader to tell the public their jobs will be sacrificed on the altar of the glorious AI future.

It’s a compelling narrative, but it distracts us from the real impact of AI: not to take the human out of the loop, but to take away their power and cut their pay

Deaths in ICE Custody Skyrocket: 2026 Toll Reaches 17, on Average One a Week As the Trump administration continues to rapidly expand its immigration jail system across the United States, we look at the rising death toll of people in ICE custody, the highest in over two decades...

At least 17 people have died in ICE custody since January.

me when, Creator?

Hey man, we cool? I just noticed that when I look at you the reticle turns red.

IMO, it's because they cannot conceive that there are people who will do things that aren't in their own narrow interests, just because it is in the interest of the common good to do so.

some people really seem to feel a bizarre need to demand that people who sacrificed for others by staying home during Covid perform pretending that they loved it and it was a fun and rewarding experience

BREAKING: Donald Trump just boosted Democrats’ chances of taking the House.

He said the quiet part out loud, “fair elections” means he loses power.

That’s not a warning, that’s a confession.

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Snap, Inc has been bleeding money for years, the company is being shook for pocket-crumbs by its private-equity owners (including “BEP”), and lost >90% of its value in the last 5 years (most losses 4 years ago!). But they wanna convince you *this time* it’s…

“Because AI!”

Most… will believe it.

Just wanna be clear, the US economy is in a downturn, many companies are announcing layoffs, and nearly all of them will say it’s because “AI.” That’s a convenient excuse, far better than “we made bad business decisions.”

They will never show actual evidence that AI was the reason for *any* of it.

How come having UBI would make us all lazy, but billionaires are supposedly hard-working and highly motivated?

Turns Out +++ Men Still Need Help Understanding How the Fucking Patriarchy Is to Blame in 2026 This newsletter post is the author's attempt at reclaiming her time even further after another unproductive discussion with men about the patriarchy with which they remain complicit, as she continues ...

"As I logged off [from Zoom], all I could think was that my beloved communities of colour are never getting free until men are finally willing to reckon with their complicity with the patriarchy, so this is my attempt at illuminating that, on the off chance that any men are willing to listen."🫂

Rahm Emanuel moves to the left on Israel Emanuel, who worked on a massive Iron Dome defense package as President Barack Obama's chief of staff, is calling for an end to U.S. taxpayer military funding for Israel.

I don't trust it or him and never will but even the fact that he feels the need to say it lets you know how much things have changed.
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🇵🇸 Gaza Needs Your Support: Help Build a Lifeline for Students and Remote Workers! In Gaza, war has destroyed homes, blocked roads, and left countless people without work. Yet, amidst the rubble, hope remains. Students and remote workers face daily struggles—power outages, broken in...

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BREAKING: Federal Bill Would Put Big Oil Above the Law | Center for Climate Integrity Republicans Introduce Legislation to Give Fossil Fuel Companies Immunity from Any Laws or Lawsuits Seeking to Hold them Accountable for their Role in the Climate Crisis

Republicans know they are about to lose the House and are trying to give Big Oil its holy grail: legal immunity from any futures actions that would hold the industry responsible for the climate crisis it knowingly caused and is making worse every day.

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150 veterans with @vetsaboutface.bsky.social and other groups held a demonstration at the Capitol rotunda, facing arrest. Photo via ‪‪@anatosaurus.bsky.social‬

New preprint! We sequenced 175 'Alalā (Hawaiian crow) genomes to understand why >50% of eggs fail to hatch in a species recovered from just 9 individuals. What we found was a both exciting and surprising. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

Man, when you compare the bravery of every day Minnesotans to the overpaid cops it’s astounding

Advertisement in the MTA: AB > AI Downgrade now. Picture of a gameboy.

Even marketing execs smell AI blood in the water. Look at this ad I saw in Manhattan last week.

remember being able to enter a public space without extreme social anxiety and dread? me neither

If you're in line for the AI Is Fucking Over Party STAY IN LINE

I was irrevocably changed as a person, tbh

But whatcha gonna do, we did what we had to do and stayed home, masked up, and got vaccinated (and still get all our boosters). But it fucking sucked!

But yeah, while I understand that quite a few people did rather like the social isolation aspects of Covid, I found it to be absolutely horrible and I basically just disassociated for a year and change. Also I don’t like to think about the damage it did to my career at a pretty pivotal time too much