Jason

god damnit I just accidentally clicked on grok on a tweet and it ran automatically

This is gutting. Pocket has been a crucial part of my strategy for digital sanity for so long, using it is a reflex. I’d say something about looking for a Pocket alternative, but I still remember the heartbreak of Google Reader’s loss, and how that void didn’t fill.

Donald Trump‘s insane and inaccurate rant about the deaths of white South Africans renews questions about Biden’s mental state

White Afrikaners say the tombstones they erected were protest symbols. Tucker Carlson says they were headstones on mass graves. For busy United States presidents, it can be hard to know who to believe.

Huh.

That just looks like a Red Queen race with extra civilization-imperiling emissions…

Playmobil riot police. Lego border guards. Toy body scanners. Today’s playthings are training kids to accept surveillance and state control as normal parts of life. www.codastory.com/surveillance...

Imagine sucking so much that countries where you’re not on the ballot vote against you

Forget Canada — I don't think I've ever seen a poll shift this dramatic in *any* modern democracy. One of the most remarkable elections of my lifetime.

Hitler has been bad for free speech. The woke Weimarians were worse.

If you wanted people to be less hostile to "AI" then you should have had a different group of liars trying to push it than the ones behind the metaverse, crypto, driverless cars, NFTs etc. "Sorry but we're only so gullible!"

"Google’s AI Overviews now reach more than 1.5 billion people every month" is factually true but leaves out the true story. It's not that people _want_ false AI summaries, it's just that a monopolist can do whatever.

Dude.

Google is what happens when a system forgets why it was built but remembers how.

Biological Sex is chromosomes, hormones, gametes, gonads, a whole load of epigenetic stuff, various organs like breasts etc The only reason transphobes go on and on about chromosomes is because they are the only part you can't change with transition, not because they're important. They aren't

It’s International Haiku Poetry Day today apparently so here are a few haiku with which to start the day.

A plank of wood is practically worthless to me, I should get it for free. And the next plank is too. As is the next. I’m just gonna take it, and you shouldn’t object. Now, pay me for this house I built. Actually, have the government subsidize my house building. And you better praise me for it too.

Things are not going well: The EU issues US-bound staff with burner phones and barebones laptops over spying fears. This precaution used to only apply to visits to places like China and North Korea. www.ft.com/content/20d0...

These are the fuckers who actually scare the shit out of me.

Trump's moves are already imposing immense costs on the United States and on the world via lost scientific progress on preventing Alzheimer's, curing cancer, etc.

from "learn to code!" to "learn to put screws in iPhones!" in a few short years. really makes you think about Employable Skills

they called it GamerGate because it opened a portal to a hell. Anita Sarkeessian did nothing wrong.

Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.

Today’s crash is not to be referred to as Black Monday. It is White Boy Monday. by Karoline Leavitt

"There’s a delicious Russian verb that derives from the criminal underworld: “koshmarit,” literally “to nightmare someone.” It usually denotes how authorities give criminals, or anyone they dislike, so much relentless hassle from so many different angles they bend them to their will."

It's been noted that the last time stocks fell this sharply, we were in the midst of a global health pandemic. To which I say, please be patient. by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

This is called ‘The Futures aren’t Bright, the Futures are Orange’.

Here’s a poem called ‘Prayer for Uninteresting Times’.

Yglesias will forever be burned into my memory of 2016 as the guy whose confident Dunning-Krugerness exemplifies why we can’t trust confidence.

This man is 53 years old.

Befriending fascists doesn’t make them become less fascist. Consider this your reminder that the civility / contact theory discourse doesn’t work when talking about political elites with power and profit at stake.

I feel like this is true of most of his executive orders.