Politics is now a choice between people offering real solutions to imaginary problems, or people offering imaginary solutions to real problems.

@charalanahzard.bsky.social Not sure if you’ve seen this before, but had to double take in the airport yesterday. Thought you’d taken in a job as an AI…

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

I am a writer, so an LLM paragraph instantly makes my skin crawl.

Anyways, it gives me sympathy for those who celebrate LLM stuff as being useful or of high quality. Forgive them internet, they know not how to actually learn or engage with information.

Not sure if this is something I’ve posted before.. but I love how AI works as a competency test. You can tell how skilled you are at a thing by how unimpressed you are by the slop generated equivalent.

I’m not a photographer, so AI photos fool me outside obvious tells.

Trump and Musk
Sitting in a tree
Ra-cist i-de-ol-og-y

In gamedev, we joke about how we shouldn't care so much because "we ain't curing cancer" so chill, right?

But you know what? These last few weeks reminded me that the Arts, esp accessible Art like videogames is incredibly important because games have a big place in sculpting cultural norms.

Big Day for Marie over on Real Bird Fake Bird.

Please remember to keep it fast and keep it furious.

realbirdfakebird.com

bless you @folly.studio 🐦

There is no Middle East crisis. There is a genocide crisis. There is an apartheid crisis. There is a US-backed terrorism crisis. There is an international law crisis. There's a Western morality crisis. The crisis is Israel - its lack of accountability is the cause, the effect, and the result.

Just something beautifully funny about it. Imagine your name is Darren Lewis and one morning the world says "hey Darren a new type of hyperwanker just dropped and well I'm sorry to tell you this but the now irrevocably global term for it is: Darren Lewis". You'd think: what an unexpected setback

My favourite thing to happen this year was when we woke up one morning and the Americans were going "hey we've decided on a word for people who are addicted to masturbating over multiple porn screens every waking moment of their lives and the word is gooners" and all the Arsenal fans said hang on

This place feels a school reunion for people who stopped checking Twitter years ago.

“Hey, I used to talk with that guy all the time!”
“I remember her face, but I’ve no idea who she is”