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"If you set out to design from scratch a tool to facilitate authoritarian rule, it would look exactly like AI. You would cherish it for its ability to destabilise our shared reality and its creation of disinformation on a scale unprecedented in human history." What a banger to start any essay with.

This whole thread is eye-opening in the way those accounts are a new avenue for plausibly deniable corruption.

Octopus is the easiest thing to cut out of your diet on moral grounds because it’s basically never around, probably has dreams and emotions and tastes like a tire.

"JK Rowling is already a billionaire and everyone already knows about Harry Potter, what's the point of boycotting?" Nobody thinks boycotting will bankrupt her. We know she's gonna die rich. We're just asking you to show a shred of solidarity with trans folk. Absolute low bar bare minimum shit.

When I was in rehab years ago and got caught drinking a Monster energy I wasn't supposed to have and was sentenced to write an essay about it, that was ridiculous, but at least a fairly proportional response

🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.

Watching Beavis & Butthead Do the Universe and you know what just occurred to me? I bet being very stoned and at a Michael Bolton concert could really rule

MapQuest is now the No. 1 U.S. app after bucking Trump’s ‘Lake America’ renaming

I gotta admit, I misread this myself the first time and was kind of into "fearmongrel"

Never forgiving Apple or Google for participating in this bullshit.

My first wedding, I walked down the aisle to that song and it was pretty pimp

"We can't use your product if anyone knows it's your product because everyone hates your product" is maybe a sign that your company stinks

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK

looking at the headlines and reflecting once again on how all the smart, hard-working, honest people I know feel like they’re going at least a little insane in our era of total Stupid Immoral Asshole ascendancy

This Fred Meyer is playing Silverchair and I think that means I now have to walk into the sea

This shit is not inevitable, it could be made illegal tomorrow if our governments weren't in the pocket of Big Pervert.

Tor Thom's unabashedly but contextually surprisingly misogynistic and homophobic voices in the Game Changer series audiobooks are basically unforgivable, but also up there is his mispronunciation of the word "toque."

"The future offers us little hope for those who expect that our new mechanical slaves will offer us a world in which we may rest from thinking. Help us they may, but at the cost of supreme demands upon our honesty and our intelligence.” ~Norbert Wiener, God and Golem (1964)

Was in the backyard yesterday, reclaiming some space from all the stuff growing up through the fence, when these guys came along and made a pretty persuasive case for leaving the lilac intact

Cream cheese, caramelized onions, and jalapenos, baby #seattle

"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...

Meta Glasses are like, a Cybertruck for your face.

I dunno about great, but it definitely popped back into my head fully formed just from seeing that post, so

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to show up in full combat gear on a hot summer day to the pool he filled with algae because he gave a paint job to one of his cigar puffing cronies. you are ordered to stop tourists from touching the green water. good luck soldier

Tbf, remaining uncommitted is very Washington of us

Picard morality tip: If one side of a conflict preaches purity of bloodline above communal benefit for all, join the other side.

#WorldBeeDay

I think the reason I've been a little ambiently mad all day is because January 6th rioters are statistically the most likely group of pedophiles in the world and they clubbed a guy to death and they're going to be rich from the tax money that I give to the country I live in.

The best place to be when It happens would be a music venue mid-concert. A little drunk. A little sweaty. The news rippling through the crowd as people’s phones light up. An abrupt halt to a banger before the announcement is made from the stage. Everybody kissing like it’s V-J Day in Times Square.

A simple plea from me to you. Read and share and knock this shit off. www.esquire.com/news-politic...

A class at my kids’ school put up little statements about the good they want to do in the world and I was over the moon about this one - then I learned they meant to say “teach people in jail” which is also good!

Both for content and quality, probably the one on my ribcage that says, "nolite te bastardes carborundorum." The spacing sucks, it's fuzzy. I got it ~2014 maybe? Definitely pre-Trump, pre- Handmaid's Tale TV show. I liked the book and liked the secret pep talk

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.

Yeah man, the way I felt momentarily buoyed every time I was told I was a "trouper" yet again as a child who had learned that the easiest way to get praise was to just not have asks...

Possibly should have realized sooner that this brand is by and for shitbags

But we mustn't dwell... Not today...

Splitting the word helicopter by meaning isn't 'heli' and 'copter' but 'helico' (spiral) and 'pter' (wing) and that's neat.

I hate every bot I see. From gpa to gpt