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Teachers: battling the ad hominems and stigmatizing coming our way for resisting AI mania in schools is essential. Some messages to push back on:

The all-or-nothing framing is how you know it’s a scam. Whether it’s issued by a man at a bar or a sales rep at a tech demo it’s the same truth. People who don’t want you to THINK before you act ARE STEALING FROM YOU. Where is everyone’s survival skills??

I am in my mattress with my cash because this global crypto crime ring will break democratic institutions, steal whatever isn’t nailed down and buy all the water we will be working in the mines to buy after the company Apple Store takes its credits for the air we breathe.

This was a paragraph that ran in America’s most prestigious magazine in 2002, written by the now-executive editor of one of America’s other most prestigious magazines. (It was not true.)

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

we're sleepwalking through damage that will stretch decades into the future, presided over by a clique of scheming degenerates and an aging wannabe dictator

“The dumbest, most tech-brained garbage idea I’ve ever heard of.” “Like a robot trying to conduct an orchestra...” Don't miss @eshugs.bsky.social on the “broke startup founder” who wants Trump to declare a national security emergency and give him part of Alameda. sfstandard.com/2025/06/16/f...

a nation on edge holds its breath as the former host of celebrity apprentice huddles with his advisors, the wrestlemania ceo and the former co-host of fox & friends weekends

As always with Republicans, untaxed inheritance for me, a lifetime of hard work & no benefits for thee

It’s so easy to be an artist. You just do it. That, of course, is why it’s so hard to be an artist. You just have to do it. People despise how artistic courage highlights their own cowardice. Thus, crave the art, despise the artist. my random thoughts on it, better said by all the ppl in history

really bad look for Schumer and Jeffries that they spent Saturday at a billionaire’s wedding in the Hamptons rather than linking arms at No Kings marches like real opposition leaders www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/u...

"the soviets used a pencil"

Trump team is doing literal information warfare around intensified political violence and Democrats are still confirming nominees and cooperating on bipartisan legislation

these are our brothers and we should be building a better world together

Damn ain’t that the truth

The loser energy is so fucking thick it’s gonna drown all seven people that came to this thing.

This is a reference to the iconic, Pulitzer-winning image of a Vietnam War protester. He later moved to SF, renamed himself Hibiscus and formed a drag troupe called the Cockettes. Happy Pride!

#NoKings

"Let's move on to your managerial incompetence. I can see how you misunderstood the president because you're obviously misunderstanding my questions," said the helicopter pilot. 😳

Someone in Chicago made protest flyers that mimic the design of handbills that contractors put on people’s garages. I saw one on my garage this morning and then noticed many more when I went out for an early walk. A lot of contractors are undocumented so they will surely see these.

Real world: - Trump team trying to create a Reichstag moment. - Trump telling military audience that LA is hellhole full of "animals" - Officials in Calif trying both to calm things down, and stand up PUNDIT world: - Is it smart politics? - Is Gavin running? - Doesn't Trump look strong!

Full, unqualified support for Angelenos dealing with this however they see fit. No notes, no "constructive" criticism of tactics, just support for people who need and deserve it.

As expected, RFK Jr. was lying during his confirmation hearing and now is ratfucking the vaccination system in the US. The vast majority of the public does not want this and yet again it’s clear that the Republican administration does not serve the electorate.

not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates

Let me see it(the colts)- ugk/smog mashup

If only the New York Times had made this big of a deal in December 2022 when Trump called for “termination” of the Constitution. (That ran on Page 13. Yes, Page 13.)

I know this is true because I’m posting this from my full-self-driving Tesla driving in a tunnel between SF and LA and my cousin is already on Mars and my roof shingles are generating solar energy right now and also we were probably close to zero new covid cases by the end of April 2020 and

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

i let my son punch me in the head and i tell him the day you can kill me in one blow is the day you officially become a Teen

The flood of encomiums and morality tales about Elon's turn in Washington cldn't be more predictable, vapid & sickening. If you want a story, get me the story about the crisis comms team directing this. He ran anti-constitutional blitzkrieg thru the federal government, did massive harm, violated ...

head of the DOT

A Brief History of Young People Today Don't Want to Work 🧵

The company's sources of personal data include information released in data breaches or sold by hackers? I love living in the future.

The DOGE mindset, perfectly encapsulated in one tweet. Destroy incredible public assets for a short term sugar high that would not come remotely close to ending the national debt

Some good California #water news. Lake Oroville, one of the largest reservoirs, is full. www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

You've heard of "food deserts", and you've loved the trend of adding "epistemic" as a modifier to any category, so, with the onslaught of AI, and the increasingly garbage media environment we are all facing, I gift you all the concept of "epistemic deserts"

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Everyone has one Mitch Hedberg joke stashed in their brain like a squirrel to sustain them whenever they need to feel joy for 30 seconds and mine is “they say the recipe for Sprite is Lemon and Lime but I tried to make it at home, there’s more to it than that”