Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social She/Her that's where I'm at with it. 25+ years ago my dad was both a member of a Catholic organization with a Jerusalem cross logo, AND a cantor at a monthly Latin Mass, both of which were then primarily frequented by like grandmas. he would not do either of those things again. they are not for grandmas now 10:54 PM • Apr 20, 2026

This is basically what I’m saying. The meanings of things change over time and if you’re asking non-Christian people to trust you then you have to understand the broader implications of your choices.

(Posted with permission from @clairewillett.bsky.social )

If Paul (Leary, the guitarist for the Butthole Surfers) had his career to do over, would he consider his father's question from 1986? Maybe try an easier route with a name that didn't make television announcers wince?

"No, I'm really glad we did it the way we did. But I couldn't do it again."

Tim Cook's legacy will be enshittifying Apple's software, abusing their market dominance, and then playing apologist to fascism.

Under his leadership they burned billions on a car that never drove, and the only major attempt at a new product during his tenure (the Apple Vision Pro) was a total dud.

The currently escalating tech backlash must be put in the context of:

“people have been listening to the most insufferable techbros in the world gleefully threaten everyone else with mass unemployment for over 6 years, and they’re sick of their shit”

they really did NOT decide to lead with "this will make you better at your job and improve your life!" for reasons which are beyond me.

John Lynch is the perfect example of the kind of person I picture uses AI to shortcut a job. No joy in it. Loved by the dumbest/laziest people you know.

I would fix the godawful UX on Apple Maps.

This piece is incredibly important. Read the whole thing.

I DO think the CEOs making these predictions genuinely believe it because they don't understand the work that most of their employees do and their ego won't/can't imagine it might be more than what they suppose it is.

I hate Al and I refuse to use it Peter, if you don't use Al a bunch of super rich men will lose a lot of money I already said I hated Al Harry, you don't need to sell it to me

Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.

the modern miracles of compound interest and capital gains have allowed our wealthiest to accumulate more wealth at a faster pace than at any point in human history, and at a time where they have no enforced corresponding social obligations. that's an entirely new problem

"...The signature line on the check just says 'wife?'"
"Yes. I am wife. Take wife's money for radio."

DG The Daily Galaxy A 10-Year-Old Girl Wrote to NASA Asking Them to 'Restore Pluto to a Planet,' and NASA's chief Replied with Four Words No One Expected

"No. They know why."

Salute to an all-time tweet

these are immensely self absorbed men who pine for nazi germany and apartheid south africa — stagnant, backwards regimes btw — because they imagine themselves the masters of the universe.

the tech fascists think they are so clever and smart but their entire worldview is just a bunch of stale apologetics for race hatred and fascism

this is just a warmed over david duke speech from 1990

1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.

This lofty language has two key caveats: (1) they feel an obligation solely in terms of "defense," not more broadly, such as common welfare, public health, or even democracy; (2) they admit a "debt" yet offer no repayment, instead demanding the exact opposite, that the country pay them even more.
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It's also worth being clear about who's doing the arguing. Palantir sells operational software to defence, intelligence, immigration & police agencies. These 22 points aren't philosophy floating in space, they're the public ideology of a company whose revenue depends on the politics it's advocating.

Or a butthole.

Any book can be a coloring book if you don't give a fuck.

That Palantir would do this is both shocking—not because this is some weird heel turn, but because it is a fully mask-off moment for tech bro fascisti—and also the least surprising thing from a company that has always been creepy as fuck.

the most basic trait of a good politician is being able to see where the ball is going and this ain't that

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.

Hey, Beshear, Lis Smith, & associated Majority Dem-types:

If you want to kill group-speak, how about we start with “officer-involved shooting,” “ice agent involved-shooting,” “weaponized vehicle” & other mealy-mouthed obfuscations of state-sanctioned murder?

If the problems are fascism and genocide I don’t really wanna hear about how some words don’t appeal to the flyover states or whatever

The liberal technocrats on here have gotten more confrontational lately, i think because they realize their whole ideology is getting less popular and the backlash to it all is growing stronger by the day

In particular, it's actually the younger people who are more anti-AI overall

I think what's most annoying about these types is they act like people who hate AI are some extremely online minority and meanwhile every poll on the subject shows AI is legitimately one of the most disliked things in the entire country