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And you know if they had actually succeeded in making products that broadly improved the lives of anyone outside software engineering they might have gotten away with it! Instead it's been "now your potato peeler costs $15 more because it has AI, use it or we'll shoot this puppy"

@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this. "Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves." 🎯

it feels odd that what's holding technology back from benefiting humanity at this moment, isn't really a technological problem, but a bureaucratic issue of incentive structures there's so much money being wasted on things that are either neutral or a net negative within tech now, it's weird

"I'm not quite sure yet how to stare into the fourth dimension" is a pretty great sentence

This is a video about Angela being angry and it's very relatable because I am also angry and on some level I feel like not being angry in 2026 is like... kind of a yellow flag tbh

You can't tell me it's impossible to go through life without using chatbots because not only am I doing that just fine, literally so was every single other human less than like four years ago. Is your memory really that short?

I feel like the dystopia finished manifesting real quick all of a sudden

Today's episode of The Pitt was very stressful

a post that should be incoherent but is not because we're all trapped on the same emotional roller coaster together

Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat

Trump is as insecure about nothing as much as he is insecure about crowd sizes.

I've never had emotions like this about the fate of a TV show.

I think I was 13 when the first photograph of a live giant squid was published. I remember watching those old Discovery channel shows where they'd talk about searching for things like this and then not find them. And then... we did. And now... this??? There's so much cool shit out there.

I do not like it when my personal troubles and my national troubles line up at the same time.

Every time these folks talk about "expanding the tent," they're actually talking about MOVING the tent. Just picking it up & moving it to the right & leaving a lot of HUMAN BEINGS behind w/o protection. All to pursue these mythical centrist voters who, what, don't mind fascism but HATE abortion?

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

yes!

Badly need news outlets to realize the Democratic Party having super low approval does not mean it's too far left

Everything---*everything*---is politics. If you're "not talking about politics" what you're actually doing is talking about something that isn't politically controversial among the people who are in the room with you. Change who's in the room, and suddenly it can become politics again.

Can't depend on anyone these days smh

I am home. I am tired. I love all of you. #WotCon

@mostlybree.kitrocha.com I feel like you use this meme a lot

Temperature discourse. All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again.

If you're a giant megacorporation and you have a division somewhere that makes art or entertainment and that division doesn't break even in your profits do you think it's possible that isn't the end of the world? Don't you want people to like you? Like as a company? Isn't that good for business?

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

Joy has been my favorite non-reader reactor since I found her videos. She's truly a part of this community and her reaction here speaks for all of us, I think. (Also, she's going to react to the books, which should be amazing) #TheWheelOfTime #SaveWoT youtu.be/jfe_ceIOsnE?...

Help me, @chrisparnell.bsky.social. You're my only hope... #SaveWOT

Remember that time when I said that Amazon Video was weirdly one of the only capitalism places selling me something I actually wanted hmm...

So #WoTSkies let’s get prepared for a #SaveWoT campaign to Apple because it’s too soon to give up on a new home for #TheWheelOfTime

So, we need to get very loud about something: There are at least 16 people dead directly because of cuts to the National Weather Service and NOAA. A tornado went *unwarned* in a major community for over 30 minutes last night. No sirens, no alerts. Multiple people are dead. This is Trump's fault.

[hasn't heard from a friend in a while] my brain: do they hate me what did I do

Every time a meme from @kangus.bsky.social goes viral Ribbit Jordan comes out of his home to judge us. #TheWheelOfTime #WotSkies

I did that thing where I finally checked the mail after like two months and sure enough there was a pile of new postcards from @meej.dragonsworn.net and every one of them was beautiful, somehow in my 30s I accidentally managed to have amazing friends

I was watching a video by a someone unrelated to WoT and he was talking about creator integrity and something he said really stood out to me: that because algorithms favor conflict, it's more profitable to lie and say you *do* like something than lie and say you don't. The haters are the shills

I do like the idea of "oh look the Dragon Reborn is a woman! She won't go mad!" [goes mad anyway] Don't need magic madness just regular mental illness