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Look, I know all the reasons we got here, but we really need to start seriously thinking about what we do in a world where The Markets punish whole countries for voting for decency, compassion, and fairness. We must stop pretending the capitalist machine is an objective, value neutral force.

not to mention AI did the "first hit's free" thing by not charging for AI usage at first, but now that all these companies rely on it, they're driving up the price per token and now AI shit is even more expensive than regular filming expenses

I feel good about boycotting EA since their dismantling of the DA team.

Besides being racist and false, this suggests science is only carried out by a few geniuses who claim prizes, whereas in reality science relies on smart and diligent people committed to collaboration and discovery without special recognition.

I’m seeing people reacting by pointing out that he’s obviously wrong. I appreciate that, but it’s also a pointless exercise. The problem isn’t that he’s wrong. The problem is that this is normal in American politics — and it’s been normal for a while.

Wow 😳👏

Will anyone—anyone at all—ask Trump about the rape allegations published in an official report by the House Judiciary Democrats? Or will he continue to escape accountability for his violence?

So here you go ... Thank you again to my friends at both BioWare and EA. To even dream in your sandbox was a privilege. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBO8...

this is happening because big tech customer support basically doesn't exist and desperate people are asking ChatGPT what to do. ChatGPT is sending them to journalists

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

This is yet more of the shit that traps people into a cycle of epistemic & hermeneutic injustice and deception— frameworks where people don't know what they think they know and can't trust the mechanisms that are supposed to help them gain knowledge. Not only that, but now they have false CERTAINTY…

They're being quietly laid-off.

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

Because big tech doesn't do customer service, we are being inundated with AI-generated emails begging us for help.

Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band's Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour: Philadelphia Freedom Cut Part 4 streams on October 28.

A dozen Black current and former North Carolina state troopers say they have faced years of racist practices and abuse from their White peers. One trooper, Jamere Todd, filed a federal lawsuit Thursday. ✍🏾 Chandelis Duster investigating for The Emancipator. theemancipator.org/2026/10/23/i...

I very much enjoy the dragon fights in Dragon Age: The Veilguard. The Fire & Ice sequence is particularly fabulous. 🤘 #Bioware

Google was really trying to hide its water use figures, to the degree that it got the council to try to keep its water use figures secret. The community finally got the actual numbers and found out Google was using 29 percent of the water in the community. www.wired.com/story/what-t...

Communities can take on corporate power even when the political establishment is aligned against them. The industry entered this fight with tremendous resources. Organized people still forced change.

Big news: The 19th is hiring a sports reporter. Read more about the vision here:

I’m sick of headlines treating these forays as something done independently. No. Anthropic created it. Anthropic did this. And they should be held to account, not some supposedly autonomous AI www.reuters.com/world/us/ant...

lips full of blood and blight, still she kissed it anyway #DragonAge #dragonagefanart #Solavellan

A new pancreatic cancer drug costs $90,000 monthly. Doctors say that's greed, not health care. U.S. drug company says price of daraxonrasib supports innovation, by @nicklogan.bsky.social @christinebirak.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/health/... via @cbcnews.ca

For years, the popular country music event on the Illinois-Wisconsin border has faced sexual assault reports. Police reports show two women also may have been sexually assaulted at the Country Thunder festival in Arizona earlier this year.

Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...

The Trump administration has worked to portray itself as protecting women and girls through their anti-trans policies. Meanwhile, they've worked tirelessly to undermine protections against sexual assault. Wither Title IX, in this exceptional new reported story by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social.

I just want to name that people overcame this. Even against a stacked deck, the good fight is worth it. Win or lose, it's worth it. And sometimes the good guys win.

NEW: A Florida cybersecurity company promised to help clients recover data from ransomware attackers. In a 2019 story, we found the company was making secret payments to hackers and pocketing hefty fees from clients. The CEO was just indicted for fraud.

A Serbian nationalist leader who courted MAGA just lost in a landslide

yeah

Telling headline in the WSJ: “clings to power?” He won the election by more than 3% and with more than 50% of the vote - how about just “prevails” or “wins re-election?” @wsj.com

“AI is not a tool. AI can go fuck itself" — 'Wildwood' director Travis Knight

I'm such a big fan of being able to use Getty Images and not have to worry about whether anything is AI generated or not.

tapping the sign

as I explained to my students, you are the raw data for which the data centers are being built. all that computing power is not meant to serve you, but to serve you up on a platter.

Eric Bauza, 'Looney Tunes' Actor, Has Died at Age 46

Hey Gemini what is my kid's name and what does she look like, I'm at her school play and I can't figure out which one it is

Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

This drives me CRAZY. I grew up playing sports w/ boys. I played on a U12 boys select soccer team, b4 switching to a U12 girls team that kept beating us. Nobody had any issue with any of it. Youth sports have never had the strict sex/gender boundaries that “XX-XY” activists are now trying to defend.