The Infinitely Prolonged
@wowbaggert.bsky.social
he/him/his
Either way - patriot or treason
it's gonna be one long hard ride
- Melissa Etheridge
Either way - patriot or treason
it's gonna be one long hard ride
- Melissa Etheridge
Pinned
"AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations"
- Corey Doctorow
pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
- Corey Doctorow
pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
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Most of the derangement about Mamdani is for the obvious reasons but part of it is also that a surprising amount of people were committed to the Cuomo rehabilitation project because they hated the idea that anything could have consequences for men of the right class.
January 2, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Most of the derangement about Mamdani is for the obvious reasons but part of it is also that a surprising amount of people were committed to the Cuomo rehabilitation project because they hated the idea that anything could have consequences for men of the right class.
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Families need predictability to budget. Our economy needs stability to grow. Our democracy depends on trust to persevere. Donald Trump brought chaos into every one of these spaces, and Americans are the ones paying the price.
January 2, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Families need predictability to budget. Our economy needs stability to grow. Our democracy depends on trust to persevere. Donald Trump brought chaos into every one of these spaces, and Americans are the ones paying the price.
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The weird thing about having kids is that you can also ... teach them what you want them to know! Instead of bitching them out for not knowing things to score Internet Points with your fellow Olds.
This fellow runs a journalism program.
This fellow runs a journalism program.
It's 2026.
Things many American school kids probably don't know how to do:
* Dial a rotary telephone
* Tell time from an analog clock
* Read or write cursive
* Decipher Roman numerals
* Navigate with a paper map or use a compass
* Balance a checkbook
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Things many American school kids probably don't know how to do:
* Dial a rotary telephone
* Tell time from an analog clock
* Read or write cursive
* Decipher Roman numerals
* Navigate with a paper map or use a compass
* Balance a checkbook
(Please add more below)
January 2, 2026 at 4:21 PM
The weird thing about having kids is that you can also ... teach them what you want them to know! Instead of bitching them out for not knowing things to score Internet Points with your fellow Olds.
This fellow runs a journalism program.
This fellow runs a journalism program.
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Saying "Grok apologized" is like saying "my phone predictive text chose words that look like apology."
January 2, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Saying "Grok apologized" is like saying "my phone predictive text chose words that look like apology."
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I have said this before, but I do wish one prominent tech YouTuber would do a BTS tour with a transit agency, showing off all the tech that makes its stuff work. Even just the various systems on a bus today is wild. It'd go a long way to help the image of public transit.
January 2, 2026 at 2:44 PM
I have said this before, but I do wish one prominent tech YouTuber would do a BTS tour with a transit agency, showing off all the tech that makes its stuff work. Even just the various systems on a bus today is wild. It'd go a long way to help the image of public transit.
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I wrote about how surprised I still am a candidate for NYC mayor won in large part by talking incessantly about buses, and also about how making them fast as promised will be an immense challenge. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
With Mamdani, the Humble Bus Gets Its Due
Enthusiasm for NYC’s mayor-elect may reflect a little-understood reality about the essential role of buses. Still, making them faster won’t be easy.
www.bloomberg.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I wrote about how surprised I still am a candidate for NYC mayor won in large part by talking incessantly about buses, and also about how making them fast as promised will be an immense challenge. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Since Reagan, the GOP has systematically sought to increase the public's cynicism about our government by making our government more dysfunctional. It has worked.
New in PN: The blame for alleged fraud in Minnesota belongs to conservatives
"Republican policies have created a perfect vicious cycle: Privatize services, let private companies run amok, then declare that the government is the problem. And the Trump administration is turbo-charging it."
"Republican policies have created a perfect vicious cycle: Privatize services, let private companies run amok, then declare that the government is the problem. And the Trump administration is turbo-charging it."
The blame for alleged fraud in Minnesota belongs to conservatives
Privatization and a lack of oversight creates a vicious cycle.
www.publicnotice.co
January 2, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Since Reagan, the GOP has systematically sought to increase the public's cynicism about our government by making our government more dysfunctional. It has worked.
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One thing I wrote about here is how technology has made buses *way* more convenient while techno-futurists were obsessed with flying taxis and self-driving cars.
January 2, 2026 at 2:17 PM
One thing I wrote about here is how technology has made buses *way* more convenient while techno-futurists were obsessed with flying taxis and self-driving cars.
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A gentle suggestion that the correct response to any right-wing tool going on about Rama Duwaji's boots is "go fuck yourself," additionally that "go fuck yourself" is the correct response to any right-wing attempt at DARVO or distraction. It's easy and fun and all they deserve in 2026 and beyond.
January 2, 2026 at 3:37 PM
A gentle suggestion that the correct response to any right-wing tool going on about Rama Duwaji's boots is "go fuck yourself," additionally that "go fuck yourself" is the correct response to any right-wing attempt at DARVO or distraction. It's easy and fun and all they deserve in 2026 and beyond.
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2026
God, it's creepy. Do we actually have to go in?
January 1, 2026 at 10:03 PM
2026
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we are all but programmed by our own evolution to intuit these models as if they were an actual intelligence
buttondown.com/apperceptive...
buttondown.com/apperceptive...
January 2, 2026 at 3:34 PM
we are all but programmed by our own evolution to intuit these models as if they were an actual intelligence
buttondown.com/apperceptive...
buttondown.com/apperceptive...
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im not going to spend the day arguing about bush. bush was a terrorist who killed hundreds of thousands and invoked bigoted policies that made life appreciably worse for the entire world. he was not a patriot. he was a fucking ghoul who crushed the skulls of humans for political gain.
January 2, 2026 at 3:33 PM
im not going to spend the day arguing about bush. bush was a terrorist who killed hundreds of thousands and invoked bigoted policies that made life appreciably worse for the entire world. he was not a patriot. he was a fucking ghoul who crushed the skulls of humans for political gain.
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⬇️ And will add that the institution is conservatives. Not MAGA, Q*non, or white Christian supremacist, but still conservative.
January 2, 2026 at 3:27 PM
⬇️ And will add that the institution is conservatives. Not MAGA, Q*non, or white Christian supremacist, but still conservative.
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Not trusting anyone who makes a big deal about being pro-natalist continues to be a winning move
January 2, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Not trusting anyone who makes a big deal about being pro-natalist continues to be a winning move
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sure they may be gutter racists, but at least they don't say offensive stuff like "I think the government can help people" or "we're gonna pay for universal childcare by taxing the richest an amount of money they will not miss"
January 2, 2026 at 1:12 PM
sure they may be gutter racists, but at least they don't say offensive stuff like "I think the government can help people" or "we're gonna pay for universal childcare by taxing the richest an amount of money they will not miss"
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If anyone in town is willing to Dumpster-dive for this stuff I'll pay you to ship it to me.
The Trump administration is shutting NASA's Goddard library down today and things will be archived in a warehouse or "thrown away."
Much of this material is literally irreplaceable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...
Much of this material is literally irreplaceable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...
NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts
www.nytimes.com
January 2, 2026 at 1:43 PM
If anyone in town is willing to Dumpster-dive for this stuff I'll pay you to ship it to me.
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Something I have started trying to ask - as non-assholish as I can - when someone I know asks an LLM something and gets a completely wrong answer, is, "why do you think it would have that information" -
January 2, 2026 at 3:53 AM
Something I have started trying to ask - as non-assholish as I can - when someone I know asks an LLM something and gets a completely wrong answer, is, "why do you think it would have that information" -
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Stop showing me the Grok “apology” like it matters, like it’s not just a meaningless string of pre-determined output. Stop normalising the idea that software is capable of accepting responsibility in the place of the people who created it.
January 2, 2026 at 1:51 PM
Stop showing me the Grok “apology” like it matters, like it’s not just a meaningless string of pre-determined output. Stop normalising the idea that software is capable of accepting responsibility in the place of the people who created it.
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you think the Revengepornatron9000 produces revenge porn? Dummy, it's actually the greatest invention of our time: it speeds up global warming
January 2, 2026 at 3:28 AM
you think the Revengepornatron9000 produces revenge porn? Dummy, it's actually the greatest invention of our time: it speeds up global warming
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AI companies are playing a game wherein these computer programs are presented to the public as autonomous individuals capable of issuing a meaningful apology. The machine is just a machine. Human beings owe the apology for building the machine irresponsibly and unleashing it on the world.
so x dot com’s ai generated CSAM and they admitted it may violate US law and … i haven’t seen in anyone in power say much at all or call to stop using the platform
January 2, 2026 at 1:23 AM
AI companies are playing a game wherein these computer programs are presented to the public as autonomous individuals capable of issuing a meaningful apology. The machine is just a machine. Human beings owe the apology for building the machine irresponsibly and unleashing it on the world.
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Guy whose favorite insult is “pedophile” creates giant CSAM machine.
more on the nightmarish situation on X where users are apparently generating non consenting pirnographic imagery & sexual images of minors (csam) using xAI’s Grok. Musk merged xAI and X (fka twitter) last year.
January 2, 2026 at 3:40 AM
Guy whose favorite insult is “pedophile” creates giant CSAM machine.
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Tapping the sign so hard I'm about to put a finger through it
January 2, 2026 at 2:02 AM
Tapping the sign so hard I'm about to put a finger through it
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Hi, I’m Dani Sterbinsky, and I’m running for Congress in AZs 9th District, against Paul Gosar.
I’m a veteran who believes our government should work the way good teams do—by listening, collaborating, and solving problems.
Please sign to help get me on the ballot:
👉https://go.azsos.gov/267p
I’m a veteran who believes our government should work the way good teams do—by listening, collaborating, and solving problems.
Please sign to help get me on the ballot:
👉https://go.azsos.gov/267p
December 18, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Hi, I’m Dani Sterbinsky, and I’m running for Congress in AZs 9th District, against Paul Gosar.
I’m a veteran who believes our government should work the way good teams do—by listening, collaborating, and solving problems.
Please sign to help get me on the ballot:
👉https://go.azsos.gov/267p
I’m a veteran who believes our government should work the way good teams do—by listening, collaborating, and solving problems.
Please sign to help get me on the ballot:
👉https://go.azsos.gov/267p
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Plantation Owner Explains "If I had to pay them a livable wage, my business wouldn't be viable."
January 2, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Plantation Owner Explains "If I had to pay them a livable wage, my business wouldn't be viable."
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If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
January 2, 2026 at 2:26 AM
If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov