Kane Watkins
@kanewatkins.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 (he/him/his) Overeducated Oklahomo in retail. Sometimes serious, sometimes sarcastic. 🇵🇸🏳️⚧️
When it's My Side Against Your Side, instead of right vs. wrong, morals are just tactical weapons.
My daughter is 15, a child with a baby face whom I won’t even put in an Uber by herself. Just utterly disgusting from the same people who have spent years demonizing trans people as predators for daring even to exist. What are we even doing right now?
November 13, 2025 at 11:13 PM
When it's My Side Against Your Side, instead of right vs. wrong, morals are just tactical weapons.
Sometimes when current events are overwhelming, I'll read up on nuclear war scenarios or the Bengali genocide of 1971 because those horrors feel soothingly distant
Seeing the Nuremberg trials movie after work because sometimes it's nice to just go to the movies and completely get away from the real world.
November 12, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Sometimes when current events are overwhelming, I'll read up on nuclear war scenarios or the Bengali genocide of 1971 because those horrors feel soothingly distant
I see a lot of people & organizations responding to the Supreme Court's refusal to take Kim Davis's challenge to marriage equality with posts of "Love Always Wins!" While that's a perfectly fine, positive take, I think in this particular case, it's correct to say "Mean Stupidity Always Loses!"
Kim Davis is so angry that the Supreme Court failed to uphold her deeply held religious belief that "marriage is sacred," she's threatening to get three MORE divorces.
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I see a lot of people & organizations responding to the Supreme Court's refusal to take Kim Davis's challenge to marriage equality with posts of "Love Always Wins!" While that's a perfectly fine, positive take, I think in this particular case, it's correct to say "Mean Stupidity Always Loses!"
I see a lot of people & organizations responding to the Supreme Court's refusal to take Kim Davis's challenge to marriage equality with posts of "Love Always Wins!" While that's a perfectly fine, positive take, I think in this particular case, it's correct to say "Mean Stupidity Always Loses!"
November 11, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I see a lot of people & organizations responding to the Supreme Court's refusal to take Kim Davis's challenge to marriage equality with posts of "Love Always Wins!" While that's a perfectly fine, positive take, I think in this particular case, it's correct to say "Mean Stupidity Always Loses!"
Plus, he got over a million votes, the first mayoral candidate to do so since 1969. Driving turnout is just as decisive as percentage.
Beware people trying to minimize Mamdani's win by comparing his number to other democrats in other races. Those other democrats didn't run a three-way race with two democrats and a republican. Getting more than 50% in a three way race is a DECISIVE win. Folks saying otherwise are just mad
November 6, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Plus, he got over a million votes, the first mayoral candidate to do so since 1969. Driving turnout is just as decisive as percentage.
*ahem* The Andrew Formerly Known As Prince
Prince Andrew to join Harvard's Institute of Politics.
November 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
*ahem* The Andrew Formerly Known As Prince
I had a huge crush on Keith Gordon, so this movie was very emotionally complicated for me
watching CHRISTINE, my favorite movie about an evil car
November 1, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I had a huge crush on Keith Gordon, so this movie was very emotionally complicated for me
Do you think if the city council of Noble, Oklahoma, made up a peace prize and gave it to him that he'd be content with it? Maybe it would calm him a bit?
October 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Do you think if the city council of Noble, Oklahoma, made up a peace prize and gave it to him that he'd be content with it? Maybe it would calm him a bit?
Reposted by Kane Watkins
ROLLING STONE RANKS THE 250 GREATEST SONGS OF THE 21st CENTURY SO FAR 🚨
The 250 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century So Far
bit.ly
October 8, 2025 at 12:01 PM
ROLLING STONE RANKS THE 250 GREATEST SONGS OF THE 21st CENTURY SO FAR 🚨
Cocaine so white, it has an L.L. Bean MasterCard
Cocaine so white it comes with a country club membership
Cocaine so white it makes potato salad with raisins.
September 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Cocaine so white, it has an L.L. Bean MasterCard
ChatGPT, Meta AI, Grok, etc.: these will never improve and will always spew out at least some wrong slop. So, cope, I guess.
You’ll be shocked to hear that their recommendation is not limiting the circumstances in which AI is deployed, but rather accepting the inevitability it will occasionally have catastrophic effects.
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
September 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM
ChatGPT, Meta AI, Grok, etc.: these will never improve and will always spew out at least some wrong slop. So, cope, I guess.
Lmao
September 7, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Lmao
In a second article this year, McWhorter doesn't know the origin of a queer slang term that The Kids now say. Here, it's "clocking"; in May, it was "giving". Dude. Get a gay friend.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/o...
Opinion | My Daughters’ Slang Taught Me Something Cool About How Language Evolves
www.nytimes.com
September 5, 2025 at 4:50 AM
In a second article this year, McWhorter doesn't know the origin of a queer slang term that The Kids now say. Here, it's "clocking"; in May, it was "giving". Dude. Get a gay friend.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/o...
I read everything Musk says about trans people as his attempts to explain to himself why his own child is trans. He'll announce the most convoluted rationalizations to avoid accepting that she was born the way she is.
It’s impossible to overstate the degree to which the MAGA Right is rooted in grievances & victimology.
I doubt Elon Musk could point to any real examples of “the relentless propaganda portraying white men as the worst human beings.”
A supposedly offending op-ed here or there doesn’t count.
I doubt Elon Musk could point to any real examples of “the relentless propaganda portraying white men as the worst human beings.”
A supposedly offending op-ed here or there doesn’t count.
September 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I read everything Musk says about trans people as his attempts to explain to himself why his own child is trans. He'll announce the most convoluted rationalizations to avoid accepting that she was born the way she is.
Instead of worrying about how the robots of the future will destroy us, pay attention to how our current robots have changed us and the societies we live in.
An excellent, easily understood explanation
An excellent, easily understood explanation
"Generative AI is a tool for false nostalgia of a past utopia that didn’t really exist, for lying that officials making things worse have accomplished admirable feats, for confusing and frustrating people with a “firehose of falsehood,” and for acclimating them to atrocities."
The Third Algorithm
ChatGPT and other generative AI isn't about to create superintelligence, but even if what we see now is it, the impact is on the scale of Google search and algorithmic social media, except maybe worse
www.arcdigital.media
August 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Instead of worrying about how the robots of the future will destroy us, pay attention to how our current robots have changed us and the societies we live in.
An excellent, easily understood explanation
An excellent, easily understood explanation
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ no notes
August 24, 2025 at 6:12 AM
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ no notes
I need whoever is applying this stuff to the president's hand to understand that Dermablend comes in different shades.
August 23, 2025 at 3:42 AM
I need whoever is applying this stuff to the president's hand to understand that Dermablend comes in different shades.
Slightly diminish a band: Salt Substitute-N-Pepa
Slightly diminish a band: The Manslaughterers
Slightly diminish a band: Malaise! At The Disco
August 13, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Slightly diminish a band: Salt Substitute-N-Pepa
Anti-gay attention-seeker Kim Davis's four marriages to three different men may reveal her commitment issues, but she clearly has no problem committing to affordable lightweight knit separates from Walmart SuperCenter.
August 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Anti-gay attention-seeker Kim Davis's four marriages to three different men may reveal her commitment issues, but she clearly has no problem committing to affordable lightweight knit separates from Walmart SuperCenter.
Whenever the actual NYT uses "uncomfortable" like this, which they do often, it comes across as the same level of discomfort as going to a pool party with plaque psoriasis in a Skyrizi commercial
Some observers say they are uncomfortable with Trump's deployment of the national guard in DC
August 13, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Whenever the actual NYT uses "uncomfortable" like this, which they do often, it comes across as the same level of discomfort as going to a pool party with plaque psoriasis in a Skyrizi commercial
Reposted by Kane Watkins
Multiple times this year I’ve had coffee with fellow immigrants who grew up in corrupt third world countries and the shared sentiment has been that Americans don’t understand how bad things are going to get.
August 9, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Multiple times this year I’ve had coffee with fellow immigrants who grew up in corrupt third world countries and the shared sentiment has been that Americans don’t understand how bad things are going to get.
Reposted by Kane Watkins
Fun fact, while the zombie metaphor gets used for everything from capitalism to scary foreigners, when it entered the popular lexicon, it was from the Haitian tradition of zombi, born of existential fear that someone could so enslave you that you labor forever on their behalf, even *after* death.
I wrote about the horrifying use of AI to resurrect the dead as hollow simulacrum puppeted by the living and why we should reject normalizing this as it dehumanizes the living and desecrates our humanity.
www.thedissident.news/digital-necr...
www.thedissident.news/digital-necr...
Digital Necromancy in the Age of AI
Thanks to advances in AI, we are no longer allowed to truly die. The peace of the grave and the finality that defines the human condition are all being sacrificed on the altar of artificial intelligen...
www.thedissident.news
August 5, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Fun fact, while the zombie metaphor gets used for everything from capitalism to scary foreigners, when it entered the popular lexicon, it was from the Haitian tradition of zombi, born of existential fear that someone could so enslave you that you labor forever on their behalf, even *after* death.
Age verification? I owned at least 6 Swatch watches and wore the first pair of guy's Guess? jeans at my middle school.
Age verification? We wore dog tag necklaces with our M*A*S*H tees and camo pants.
Age verification? I remember installing Windows 95 from floppy discs.
August 1, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Age verification? I owned at least 6 Swatch watches and wore the first pair of guy's Guess? jeans at my middle school.
(front of pants spattered with fine mist) I'm bad at math
I learned geometry just to determine the ideal spot to aim in the urinal to minimize backsplash
August 1, 2025 at 12:59 AM
(front of pants spattered with fine mist) I'm bad at math
"The name's Bondh. James Bondh."
July 25, 2025 at 10:59 PM
"The name's Bondh. James Bondh."