stubborn lights
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Chronic dilettante. He/they
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It may be fake, but it speaks to a deeper truth (I personally agree with what it was supposed to convey)
December 6, 2025 at 11:39 PM
It may be fake, but it speaks to a deeper truth (I personally agree with what it was supposed to convey)
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ANUBIS: (presses button with paw) [guilty]
OSIRIS: im sorry he does this when he's hungry
ANUBIS: (button) [guilty] [bad] [food]
OSIRIS: you already ate
ANUBIS: (button) [bad] [bad] [bad]
OSIRIS: he's right though we weighed your heart against the feather and its not looking good
OSIRIS: im sorry he does this when he's hungry
ANUBIS: (button) [guilty] [bad] [food]
OSIRIS: you already ate
ANUBIS: (button) [bad] [bad] [bad]
OSIRIS: he's right though we weighed your heart against the feather and its not looking good
November 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM
ANUBIS: (presses button with paw) [guilty]
OSIRIS: im sorry he does this when he's hungry
ANUBIS: (button) [guilty] [bad] [food]
OSIRIS: you already ate
ANUBIS: (button) [bad] [bad] [bad]
OSIRIS: he's right though we weighed your heart against the feather and its not looking good
OSIRIS: im sorry he does this when he's hungry
ANUBIS: (button) [guilty] [bad] [food]
OSIRIS: you already ate
ANUBIS: (button) [bad] [bad] [bad]
OSIRIS: he's right though we weighed your heart against the feather and its not looking good
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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November 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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A cartoon by Asher Perlman. #NewYorkerCartoons
See more cartoons from this week’s issue: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/pEDcks
See more cartoons from this week’s issue: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/pEDcks
October 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
A cartoon by Asher Perlman. #NewYorkerCartoons
See more cartoons from this week’s issue: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/pEDcks
See more cartoons from this week’s issue: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/pEDcks
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NEW: The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did.
We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.
We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did.
We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.
We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.
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Kaleb Horton, again: "It's sad how many RTs you get by saying the world is ending instead of admitting the scary truth that it's not and there's work to do in it."
September 30, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Kaleb Horton, again: "It's sad how many RTs you get by saying the world is ending instead of admitting the scary truth that it's not and there's work to do in it."
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“When you agree to debate someone pushing long-debunked conspiracy theories or openly hateful ideologies, you’re implicitly suggesting that their position deserves equal consideration alongside established facts and expert analysis.”
The “Debate Me Bro” Grift: How Trolls Weaponized The Marketplace Of Ideas
Among the attempts to create hagiographic eulogies of Charlie Kirk, I’ve seen more than a few people suggest that Kirk should be respected for being willing to talk to “those who disagree with him” as a sign that he was…
Among the attempts to create hagiographic eulogies of Charlie Kirk, I’ve seen more than a few people suggest that Kirk should be respected for being willing to talk to “those who disagree with him” as a sign that he was…
The “Debate Me Bro” Grift: How Trolls Weaponized The Marketplace Of Ideas
Among the attempts to create hagiographic eulogies of Charlie Kirk, I’ve seen more than a few people suggest that Kirk should be respected for being willing to talk to “those who disagree with him” as a sign that he was engaging in good faith. Perhaps the perfect example of this is Ezra Klein’s silly eulogy claiming that Kirk was “
www.techdirt.com
September 17, 2025 at 8:33 PM
“When you agree to debate someone pushing long-debunked conspiracy theories or openly hateful ideologies, you’re implicitly suggesting that their position deserves equal consideration alongside established facts and expert analysis.”
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When the feed is boring, that's your cue to go have an experience with something that'll make it less boring for yourself and others later.
"Bluesky is boring."
Social media *should* be boring. Being algorithm and dopamine poisoned is bad, actually.
When your feed dries up for the day, that's your cue to go do something else until new stuff shows up later.
Social media *should* be boring. Being algorithm and dopamine poisoned is bad, actually.
When your feed dries up for the day, that's your cue to go do something else until new stuff shows up later.
September 16, 2025 at 12:24 PM
When the feed is boring, that's your cue to go have an experience with something that'll make it less boring for yourself and others later.
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Federal immigration agents were seemingly forced to retreat from a roofing job site in Rochester, NY, after being confronted by more than 100 protesters
The workers stayed on the roof and agents drove away in a Border Patrol SUV on four flat tires, which had been slashed
The workers stayed on the roof and agents drove away in a Border Patrol SUV on four flat tires, which had been slashed
ICE agents in the Park Ave neighborhood spark large-scale protest
The group shouted “shame” and "Gestapo,” and applauded as agents in the ICE-led action drove a Border Patrol SUV away on four flat tires, which had been slashed.
www.wxxinews.org
September 9, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Federal immigration agents were seemingly forced to retreat from a roofing job site in Rochester, NY, after being confronted by more than 100 protesters
The workers stayed on the roof and agents drove away in a Border Patrol SUV on four flat tires, which had been slashed
The workers stayed on the roof and agents drove away in a Border Patrol SUV on four flat tires, which had been slashed
"We have the technology, right now, to form digital wombs from a comforting and misremembered past."
80s nostalgia AI slop: A niche like any other, reverse engineered by 20-something digital nomads in Bali to boomerfy the masses as they astral project to a fake past in service of making fractions of a cent per view on Zuckerberg's cultish algorithmic slop machine
www.404media.co/80s-nostalgi...
www.404media.co/80s-nostalgi...
80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed
AI makes it easier than ever to slip into the comforting glow of nostalgia.
www.404media.co
August 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
"We have the technology, right now, to form digital wombs from a comforting and misremembered past."
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Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.
www.theatlantic.com
August 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
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ChatGPT talks to adults like it’s grooming them. Ohhhh wowwwww you’re so mature for your age. Nobody understands you.
August 12, 2025 at 2:24 AM
ChatGPT talks to adults like it’s grooming them. Ohhhh wowwwww you’re so mature for your age. Nobody understands you.
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The monkey's paw curls, but it's giving me a thumbs up now
July 23, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The monkey's paw curls, but it's giving me a thumbs up now
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preserving my best cohost post before they shut the lights off
September 20, 2024 at 4:58 PM
preserving my best cohost post before they shut the lights off
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A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything
July 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything
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You know I love a good #poem Here's another, h/t @prisonculture.bsky.social
"Sonehow We Survive", by Dennis Brutus, 1968
#poetry
"Sonehow We Survive", by Dennis Brutus, 1968
#poetry
July 12, 2025 at 3:08 PM
You know I love a good #poem Here's another, h/t @prisonculture.bsky.social
"Sonehow We Survive", by Dennis Brutus, 1968
#poetry
"Sonehow We Survive", by Dennis Brutus, 1968
#poetry
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It is so telling how obsessed a certain type of guy gets with either things that aren't problems or imaginary problems. "Oh no I won't live forever and if i do a supercomputer will poke me with a pitchfork like a devil from an illuminated manuscript". You want some IRL problems? I have some to share
check it out: I’m imagining an even MORE powerful AI that will torture you forever if you do any of the stuff the first one wants you to do
February 2, 2025 at 3:21 PM
It is so telling how obsessed a certain type of guy gets with either things that aren't problems or imaginary problems. "Oh no I won't live forever and if i do a supercomputer will poke me with a pitchfork like a devil from an illuminated manuscript". You want some IRL problems? I have some to share
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Tried to vaporize a medieval peasant by playing a My Bloody Valentine riff for him but he was just like "be this Smashing Pumpkins?"
December 23, 2023 at 5:04 AM
Tried to vaporize a medieval peasant by playing a My Bloody Valentine riff for him but he was just like "be this Smashing Pumpkins?"
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i for one think that regularly sharing and reposting transphobic op-eds on this site is sending more traffic to those articles so maybe the best way to fight them is not engaging
June 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
i for one think that regularly sharing and reposting transphobic op-eds on this site is sending more traffic to those articles so maybe the best way to fight them is not engaging
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Christian extremism is a cancer
June 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Christian extremism is a cancer
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The Ring video is bad because it kills whoever sees it in seven days, so it's very important for me to repost and dunk it.
June 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The Ring video is bad because it kills whoever sees it in seven days, so it's very important for me to repost and dunk it.
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It's just too easy to make yourself insane with the computer
May 9, 2025 at 4:57 PM
It's just too easy to make yourself insane with the computer