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Thursday is a paid holiday. Because Flavor Flav said so.

so real.

absolutely psychotic liberals are the new racists commercial right now on this 49ers fox broadcast

AOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"

woof. rough night for Bay Area basketball.

since California ballots are now out: prop 40 is the billionaire tax, and you should vote yes to stick it to them but both props 41 and 42 are designed to retroactively cancel the billionaire tax because they’re afraid they can’t beat it at the ballot box yes on 40, no on 41 and 42

@morgansung.bsky.social loved the peptides episode! really enjoying the pod 🙏🏼

last night i dreamt i was going around telling people how dumb they were for drinking raw milk.

i’ve been sober for 7 weeks and it sucks how great i feel

golden state valkyries!!! headed to the finals!!! #wnba

the announcers just called E-40 Too Short and i’m pretty offended.

glad i don’t commute daily anymore but damn SF is gorgeous

October Dahlias, arguably the Best Dahlias

yo

this job suggestion showed up in my inbox yesterday like ooop no thanks 😬

the two big ai stories to kick off the week are - meta ai giving your address to strangers on fb marketplace - stole a scientific breakthrough and presented it as its own work this is what we get instead of healthcare or third spaces or public transportation or pick literally anything else

what a beautiful sports day. Kruk’s last Giants game with tearful postgame ceremony, 49ers win with multiple Kittle TDs, and Valkyries blow it out of the water on their first ever playoff game. let’s goooooooo!

An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.

loved this. “he appears to also want to blithely ignore most of the global conflicts that might be affecting his audience in spite of his eagerness to create a pastiche of global sound in his music”

AI didn’t “go rogue.” People connected a computer system they know can mess with another computer system in unpredictable ways to less advanced computer system and it messed with that computer system in unpredicted ways. As @tressiemcphd.bsky.social argues, don’t lose sight that *people* did that.

It's always a good time to share this.

rap nerd friends this Punchmade Dev album is 🔥 music.youtube.com/watch?v=owTd...

I am sympathetic to Silicon Valley guys ascribing human-level consciousness to AI because if I had to talk to people from Silicon Valley all day I’d probably have a real low bar for sentience too

amen

I hope people read Gloria Steinhem's criticism of white feminism.

the industrial complex of acknowledging women’s health??

Dolly Parton and Patti LaBelle playing their acrylics. Two icons.

rip Dolly. body positivity icon. 👸🏼

Found this recording of Rita Moreno performing “Fever” on The Muppet Show from 1976. 14/10

How is this not the most adorable thing you've ever seen

gorgeous thread 😚👌🏼

this play was 🔥

What if…hear me out…what if we had an economy that wasn't all murder- and scambling-based

what is this haircut? 👀

hell yeah @birdrespecter.bsky.social @killthecomputer.com on that Parable of the Sower recommendation, been telling everyone this summer, it’s so unfortunately relatable to our time in history. 🙏🏼 so good. www.octaviabutler.com/parableseries

Stavros Halkias: I don't wanna do the both sides bullshit because it's not true. One side is worse than the other, objectively speaking. One side is disappearing people and one side wants children to have healthcare. A lot of stand up comics happened to have some of the dumbest opinions on Earth

More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are trans athletes in youth sports.