Marco Rubio literally sneaking in a Coolio lyric during a hearing with massive geopolitical consequences tells you exactly how seriously he’s taking things.

“Sells copies?” he quietly mutters to himself over and over, opening his streaming data dashboard, startling several nesting moths.

“Some people in a city worry about crime” is not a valid counterweight to the federalization of law enforcement by a fascist regime.

Standing on norms right now is like obeying a stoplight while you’re getting carjacked.
Fuck that.
Redistrict.
Throw sandwiches.

You can’t possibly be suggesting that an AI company would devour all possible info to train its models without regard for laws or user permission.

Next, you’ll tell me they don’t have any legitimate profitability model or that even they don’t fully understand how their tech works!

At this point, I’ll take a win where I can get it.

Here’s to Thomas Kinkade, the original AI image generator. May Midjourney meet a similar end.🍻

My country is actively trying to kill, impoverish, imprison, and extort its most vulnerable citizens while enriching its most privileged ones.

It is not my duty as a citizen to celebrate what is. It is my duty to grieve for what could have been, and to fight for what could be.

“YoU cAn hAvE a SucCeSsFul MUsIc cAREeR if yOu jUsT lEvErAgE sOcIAL mEdIA aNd dO tHe wOrK”

-musicians making a literal fraction of what they’re worth while compromising their creative process to fit trending Spotify playlists

#hustle #adtechisnotmusic

Like the old fable about the scorpion and the frog—but if the scorpion was stinging the frog throughout the entire conversation.

Shrewd leadership at its shrewdest.

Thank god. Maybe now we can finally get these kids to stop coveting each other’s wives.

If I were gonna guess, I’d say taking advantage of a system that incentivizes corruption via legalized bribery and dark money. And also probably cocaine.

✔️ Law firms
✔️ Universities
✔️ Free press

Hope that settlement money spends in the gulag.

✔️Law firms
✔️Universities
✔️Free press

…try and say you didn’t see this coming in a few years and you’ll be laughed right out of the gulag.

The Washington Post now willingly handing reporting to OpenAI The Washington Post now willingly handing reporting to OpenAI

FUCK. THIS. All of this.

Enshittification approaching light speed

“Fear is strange soil. Mainly it grows obedience like corn, which grows in rows and makes weeding easy. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.” -Terry Pratchett

“Yeah, the GOP cut the brake lines, but if we don’t get in the car, we can’t go anywhere!” -Chuck Schumer

Schumer, bravely denying Trump
& Elon power by giving them all the power

Someday, we’ll be clear-eyed about the fact that our justification for denying our most vulnerable citizens protection under the law and basic human rights was “…but what if volleyball games aren’t fair?”

And it’s going to be fucking humiliating. Because it already is.

Looking at you, Newsome.

Either don’t show up, or organize some meaningful show of civil disobedience. To be this disjointed and indecisive is a discredit to every constituent who supports them.

We just witnessed a full-throated call to white nationalist technofascism.

And the democrats sat, “sartorially protesting,” waving tiny, pre-made signs.

With a whimper, indeed.

He frames himself as the peacemaker in the Ukraine after he publicly berated its embattled president on behalf of Putin’s murderous fascist regime.

Still, the democrats are sitting.

A sitting president endorses colonization of Greenland “one way or the other” during a national address.

Still, the democrats are sitting.

These two fuckboys behind Trump looking like bookends for Mein Kampf.

A walking poster for domestic abuse with an American flag hanky celebrated as Secretary of Defense.

Still, the democrats are sitting.

The attacks on the trans community begin.

Still, the democrats are sitting.

RFK Junior tapped to cure brain cancer after one of the most truly maudlin and manipulative exploitations of a vulnerable person (and now Secret Service member!) imaginable.

Still, the democrats are sitting.