It will never cease to amaze me that many Americans believe having to work two jobs for a small studio & still not be able to afford a health crisis in the only wealthy country that charges schools for gun violence training to safely teach dictatorial pledges is "the best lives on the planet".

anyone else having trouble juggling are we becoming hungary with did you remember to pick up cheerios

Truly one of the most amazing shrugs in literary history

#tolkien

Mister Rogers never misses

I'm endlessly kind of baffled by the lack of urgency on housing California. This is the state's number one problem—a crisis so bad that's imperiling national Democratic ambitions. And all we can pass are heavily compromised bills that take effect in like five years, if ever.

This article’s got it all! “Working-class” Lower East Side woman with three masters degrees teaching “trauma-informed” music classes at “nearly three dozen Pre-K” classes across the Bronx five days a week says $9 toll will eat up one-sixth of her income www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

Every day this feels less like an election and more like we’re trying to fight off being taken over by a venture capital firm made up of the meanest, dumbest people.

Tomorrow on wheresyoured.at - recent data about OpenAI's revenue heavily suggests that the generative AI industry is much, much smaller than people think, with only 28% of their revenue ($1bn) coming from people integrating their models. I do not see how OpenAI survives the next two years.

Conservatism is seeing a woman having a nice time and getting so mad you start posting about [checks notes] anal hobbit births.

The enshittification of therapy

mentalhealthmatch.com/articles/for...

There’s a security guard with Taylor holding a suitcase with an emergency break-up album in case Travis loses.

This (from Cory Doctorow) is the crux of the AI dilemma, that everyone in Silicon Valley wants you to ignore.

What AI does well is cheap stuff like clickbait web copy. Minimal savings there. So who will actually pay for costly AI when investors stop subsidizing?
locusmag.com/2023/12/comm...

Reading endless credulous media coverage of AI is making me think about this old Crichton quote. www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213...

the Bandcamp thing feels like we're now at a stage of capitalism where if anything is good - if it is useful, if it fulfills a purpose, if it creates something beautiful - that tells capital that someone is not being exploited ENOUGH

before picking out a movie to watch, i like to watch the trailer first. then i watch the first 10 minutes. then i start it over and watch the first 20 minutes. and i do that over and over until i've seen all but the last five minutes. then i look up the director's number and call them on the phone

He’s not fucking wrong

lol you ever think about how george santos is still in congress

it’s been years since I listened to Chapo but one of Matt Christman’s vlog rants about empathy has stuck with me since I first heard it