I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

The desperate campaign to push AI down our throats is just what Nestlé did with baby formula, or Monsanto with patended seeds.

Manufactured Intermediation—inserting a corporate tollbooth into a process that used to be self-sustaining, using a low initial barrier to entry to destroy the alternative.

#thePitt i am like 90% sure Isa Briones had her skin bleached

it’s gross that 2 network shows in the past month have been used to push AI #highpotential #matlock

Mamdani hasn't had time to really think about all that space he now has, because he spends most of his time at City Hall and around New York City. He tries to keep a semblance of his old life by getting around the city on foot, by bike or train. "If you spend every single day driving around in a tinted window security detail, you will have a very specific view of the city," he said. "You actually meet other New Yorkers and you break out of the bubble that so many have come to expect of politics, where politicians only seem to be spending time with other politicians or the people who donated to make them politicians."

I'd say that this applies to anyone traveling in a car in any city. Being in a car versus walking, riding, or taking transit fundamentally changes how you view a place and your relationship to it. I wish more leaders set this kind of example.

www.npr.org/2026/04/16/n...

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

#survivor50 why is it that the one time cirie gets to go to exile, the island full of challenges and secret advantages, all she can possibly get is her vote back? it’s like jeff and production secretly hate cirie

Q got swap screwed, kamilla, colby, genevieve screwed by blood moon. genevieve doubly screwed by billie eilish, coach and chrissy screwed by 2 for 1 tribal. prod interference is 90% the reason why they were eliminated.

#survivor50 Chrissy deserved better than what Survivor has done to her, esp the fans

#survivor50 benjamin wade is literally called coach and he can’t even make a basket

#survivor50 6/13 players so far have been eliminated bc of production interference (w 1 medevac)
Jenna: tribe
Kyle: medevac
Sav: tribe
Q: prod
M White: tribe
Ang: tribe
Charlie: tribe
Kamilla: prod
Gen: prod
Colby: prod
Dee: tribe
Coach: prod
Chrissy: prod

Jeff hates “the tribe has spoken”

#survivor50 Jeff Probst should realize his job is to set the canvas for player shenanigans loke what Rick Devens did, and not be the one causing chaos in the game by introducing more and more of his stupid twists

#survivor50 with that stupid 2 for 1 twist it actually meant that it was the best time for two people to play a shot in the dark, it would’ve given them a 1/3 shot at saving themselves.

#survivor50 joe proves to be just as much of a liar as he accuses rick devens of being, “aS a mAtTer oF pRiNcipLe” and then he votes for chrissy & coach

#survivor50 how embarassing for jeffrey probst, formulating all those production interferences in the game and none of it compares to one single stunt that Rick Devens pulls in tribal council

finally, a train we can hate

Last month in The Onion:

She reportedly parted ways with Bezos with a jaw-dropping $38.3 billion in Amazon stock. Their divorce settlement included a 4 % stake in the online retail giant or 19.7 million shares. Under the agreement, Bezos kept 75% of the couple's Amazon stock, along with voting control of her shares. Jan 11, 2023

MacKenzie Scott has given away over $19 billion in the last 5 years and experts say she's 'changed entire fie... MacKenzie Scott acknowledged another $2 billion in donations as 2024 comes to a close.

MacKenzie Scott, worth $41.1 billion, is on a philanthropic tear and has donated an estimated 46% of her net worth.

Just to give a sense of the insane scale of billions of dollars…MacKenzie Scott got about $38 billion after divorcing Bezos in 2019. She has become the world’s most generous philanthropist, giving away over $19 billion…and she’s currently wealthier than she started.

Just. Tax. Them.

#survivor is all about “the tribe has spoken” but probst has hated having to let the tribes speak for 26 years, and every twist in the game has been to take that away, contrast to #survivorau which does the exact opposite

#survivor my theory is that probst lost his mind as early as s2 aus outback when colby lost to tina and has spent the last 26 years trying to take the choice away from the players while trying to maintain plausible deniability, wc is why blood moon, hour glass, f4 fire, sitd exists #survivor50

#survivorau can’t say i love who got the win in the end but benefit of a doubt that it was more of the editing making him more like a chaos goblin than a real mastermind. brooke or keeley wouldve been a better season

this being the thing that crosses the line for many rightwingers is so illustrative of how they don’t really care about anything real that actually matters. their problems are all entirely fictional

The “Calvin’s dad explains two types” meme, inspired by a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. Clockwise from top left: 1) Calvin’s dad walks into frame to find Calvin trying to operate a record player. The dad says: “There are only two industries left in America: gambling, and fraud.” 2) The dad shows where the record goes, and how to turn on the player, while Calvin watches. Dad says “Derivatives? Gambling. AI? Fraud. Video games? Gambling. Social media? Fraud.” Calvin says “yeah”. 3) With one hand open palm up, Calvin’s dad cheerfully explains to Calvin out of frame below him, “The stock market looks like gambling, but it’s actually fraud.” 4) In bed in a dark room, Calvin clutches at his pillow, eyes wide in existential terror. There is no text in the panel.

#survivorau
f8, brooke makes the worst move, out at f6
f7, cam makes the worst move, out at f7
f6, keely makes the worst move, out at f5
f5, sally makes the worst move, out at f4
f4, loz makes the worst move, out at f3
f3, caleb makes the worst move. will the pattern hold?

#survivorau loz has no idea but she is the biggest goat in the game where everyone save one person in the f4 are goats

Trump is such a pedophile the catholic church is scoring points off him. Levels of embarrassment that could kill an elephant.

if you claim to be Christian/ Catholic and you are making excuses for this image guess what? you’re not Christian/ Catholic

the prayer vigil by Pope Leo over the weekend: