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I made this last year but never posted it to social media. The time has come:

"They're trying to cut open the bird to find the song" is one of the most poignant things I've ever read. Also what the fuck IS a moat? (Aside from the ditch around a castle?)

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these are my only feelings about generative "AI." i do not care how much it "works," ever. i'll be over here scraping charcoal and ochre on the cave wall until they kill me

The “super intelligence” thing is useful in the sense that if someone calls AI that you know you are dealing with a TURBO bozo

Incredible work by Mother Jones. An eye-popping statement from Cornell that amounts to intense public gaslighting–that interrogating their response to this horrifying assault "will perpetuate the underreporting of sexual assault." And a timely nod to the administration repealing Title IX.

KART IS LIVE. It has been an absolute pleasure to see this game come together, and I am even more excited to share it with all of you. bit.ly/KartOnKS

jason chavez: “trans people will always be here. there is no executive order, no federal rollback, no act of hate will ever change that. this federal administration will have to face full weight of minneapolis and the people that love minneapolis before they break us and come after our neighbors.”

This thread essentially 100% encompasses my feelings about the situation: even if I wanted to use AI in my workflow, it would make my workflow and results more derivative, damage my subjective process, and/or take away what I enjoy about what I do. None of that is what I want out of a tool.

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I was at a convention in Vegas this year and the most convenient food was a taco place with AI murals on the walls. I love tacos. Under normal circumstances 100% would have eaten there at least five times over the week. Instead my friends and I referred to it as "AI Taco" and ate there zero times.

The widespread availability of self-driving cars will be a nightmare for cities. Thousands of empty cars clogging up roads delivering burritos when we should be restricting auto use and expanding public transport.

Also, SAY you want to open borders. Open borders generate more opportunity, more wealth, more freedom. Everyone being politically afraid of open borders is the direct result of running scared of Republican framing for decades. Nobody has made the obvious case in so many years they've lost it.

Literally and figuratively:

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

if an elite lobbying effort can convince you that you have to ban trans people from sports to survive in politics you straightforwardly do not have it in you to pass electoral reform, or stand up to the fossil fuel lobby, or do any of the difficult things that have to be done

The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.

I don't know, man, I think if Joe Biden had kept confusing Zelenskyy with Putin and Iran with Japan, the media might have made a pretty big deal about it?

I love when MAGA types publish a list of unambiguously good things as if they're unambiguously bad things. It's such a revelation of what fearful cowardly people they are. We live in times of radical abuses. We should all seek radical remedies. All I can say to this is Hell Yeah.

Latest comic: Future historians baffled by Slop-henge

KARL: Rs are gonna make you the poster child for the D Party MAMDANI: Let them. We don't have to ask ourselves what life looks like if a socialist wins. I won last year & over the course of the last 6 months what we've delivered for working people are the very things we were told were impossible.

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Quintessential Trump: In 2025, Trump axed the program to combat New World Screwworm, stating that they had "saved" $1.5 million a year. In 2026, the Trump announces a $1 billion emergency program to combat the Screwworm outbreak. $1 billion would have funded the old program for 667 years.

I opened Adobe Acrobat today and there is a straight-up advertisement for LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Logitech in the lower-right corner. I cannot close the ad; I can only click text that reads, "Redeem now." This is software that I PAY FOR.

Republican leaders and oligarchs are a demographic of psychos who built wealth & power off the system then took all credit for themselves to justify using wealth & power to ruin everything in pursuit of more. They are as embarrassing as they are abhorrent; as repulsive as they are evil.

Tell me again how sports is unfair if trans kids are allowed to play when everyone celebrates a guy who is twice as tall as his opponents

Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings

Note that there's been no threat to sue over this statement. I know I would be suing for tens of millions if I was innocent.

Every time I read a piece about somebody with an “ai-assisted editing process” I feel like I’m watching someone trying to intellectualize a deliberate choice not to think or concentrate

This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: Rancor Baby

Last night I watched "Mom and Dad Save the World," 1992, for the first time. Jon Lovitz's portrayal of Tod made the film feel like watching some alternate reality Donald Trump biopic; it was honestly kind of uncannily prescient. IYKYK

'America First, which is why we are starting unfathomably expensive wars to distract from the evil and ineptitude of the ruling class, and obliterating your quality of life to pay for it all.'

Bessent is not wrong; we are indeed watching both our security and prosperity take a major dump in tandem. I don't believe that is the message he intended to send, however.