Rob

Some shots from the Obama Adbul Benson rally in Detroit today

Not the Tommy cameo ☠️

As a Muslim who has been accused of dual loyalty and asked to denounce everything from ISIS to the Iranian state, I breathed a sigh of relief that I think I’d been holding in for like two decades watching this.

Abdul is campaigning so much I’m learning about new cities in Michigan from him.

Me and my friends agree to a coolness slowdown because we were getting too many girlfriends at the other school. You wouldn’t know them

Kinda crazy Mike Rogers sold his soul and flooded my high school with OxyContin all so he could live here. Grim stuff

I’m just going to start dialing random numbers with Michigan area codes and asking who they like at this point

Hundreds of troops googling “who is the Iranian equivalent of SpongeBob and Spider-Man?”

Fauci should have ended every sentence with “or not, it’s a free country 🤷‍♂️”

The Great Filter Theory might be true unfortunately

My parents told me they turned in their ballots for Abdul El-Sayed. They were able to go to an event with him in their small town of Coldwater. I asked if any other politician had ever visited their city and my dad said he saw Tim Walberg eating in McDonalds once 10 years ago lmao.

Growing up in Michigan, I never met someone who didn’t like Taco Bell until I got to college and met someone from Bethesda Maryland

Extremely apocalyptic feed today

This will be forgot about in a week but are the margins for shipping oil greater than 20%? Because if not then those ships are not moving either way.

If you are an international World Cup viewer this type of cheating may seem embarrassing and shameful but it is actually an essential part of US Republican’s culture

The worst people in the world are coming together to determine how we access journalism. Nobody wants this. Research shows people don't want to get news from chatbots and that they can fuel misinformation. @ziggywest.bsky.social @mayaschenwar.bsky.social and I wrote about the need to fight back.

“They would make up stories without AI” is going to become eulogy shorthand for “they were a good parent” in a few decades.

I see all these layoffs as an admission that the current Silicon Valley CEOs are out of ideas. They have the ability to write millions of lines of code in a day but no next big thing to build.

Trying to imagine how this will look as a Lego in like 3 days

Going to sell all of my KodakCoin cryptocurrency and invest in this asap

The Trump Admin is dumb enough to think you can negotiate peace in a single day but to see journalists also think that is really depressing

I followed my daughter’s daycare on Facebook because they occasionally post cute pictures of their activities and now other random daycare pictures/posts are showing up on my timeline. This seems like an extremely bad feature

Silicon Valley owes a debt of gratitude to Iran for finding the use case for Crypto (sanctions avoidance/ dedollarisation) and AI video (social media propaganda)

I am open to using AI in video but every time I do it’s slow and looks bad or prohibitively expensive because I have to re-roll the prompt 4 times to get something. I’m not surprised a film festival is getting AI entries but for real video work that pays money it’s not that useful

Trump is holding an entire nation hostage. But, somehow, the rest of the world continues on. The markets chug along. Congress continues to be in recess, with dissent confined largely to social media. It is hard not to feel like we have failed some critical test of the bounds of our own humanity.

I don’t think this argument really holds up considering Bush is still walking around free and Kamala celebrated Dick Cheney’s endorsement

You wouldn’t know it from listening to corporate Western coverage, but thousands of Iranians live on Kharg Island, which Trump is currently threatening to occupy. The US simply renders them invisible.

Right wingers explicitly use the letter J (for Jew) and the NYTimes covers for them. Meanwhile if anyone on the left or even center left criticizes Benjamin Netanyahu or Israel it’s instantly called antisemitism.

There’s a 10% chance that after all of this is over we set up a second strategic oil reserve to keep consumer gas prices low during wars of choice

Part of woke 2 is going to be un-banning DJI drones but also banning DJI microphones (for aesthetic reasons)

For the first time in his life Donald Trump might face a consequence. I have bad a feeling the democrats will magically find the votes to bail him out and keep the killing going

Nonzero chance that his advisors are making him talk to AI former presidents on the phone

Besides the obvious Islamophobia, Dearborn is an extremely above average city. I’m not just talking about the food either. Schools, museums, parks, Ford and Carhartt are both headquartered there. They even have free associate’s degrees for students!

This is the exact thinking that the Bush admin had regarding the Taliban. No deals, only total victory. 20 years later the US took the deal that was on the table since 2001

Enraged, sad, frustrated, but life feels too precious to fall into despair. We have to do every single thing we can to stop the US from inflicting this kind of violence onto Iranians and the rest of the world.

Looking back, the craziest insight of “The Three Body Problem” was that there are people among us who are fundamentally anti human. Crazy that people feel comfortable talking like this in public. I would destroy every LLM in the world to save a single 20 year old human.

You are letting fascists write your emails for you

Omg the “it’s illegal to peel a banana at a daycare” lady funded ICE

Daycare had to ask for a parent permission before giving the kids hot chocolate. MAHA has gone TOO FAR!

Just took the DC metro home for one of the last times. On the station platform: 4 national guard 3 “WMATA special police” 12 passengers

Besides how depressing this is, does this company have a single lawyer working for it? The back of infant medicine will say “don’t give to infants unless you ask a doctor” because it turns out babies are very fragile!

Remember when they cancelled Colbert for financial reasons?

This looks like that NFT that sold for 69 million dollars in 2021

cc all those podcasters

Can’t they just charge the people who think they are dating it before they take my tax money? A nickel every time you want to talk to your computer girlfriend