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‘A true writer would embrace A.I.’ Yeah, fuck no.

submitted 19 hours ago • 117 comments

Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

submitted 3 days ago • 1304 comments

that Trumpers think the US Postal SERVICE should be a profit-making enterprise exposes the fallacy in their conception of government

submitted 3 days ago • 958 comments

My laptop has done an update, and now Word is forcing Copilot on me, and I am livid. I want it to go away. It's not enabled, but I have to see the icon hovering on the side of the page, begging to be used. The tips and tricks for removing Copilot aren't working. @microsoft.com, this is TRASH.

submitted 3 days ago • 181 comments

Ive said it before but Ill say it again Gardening is a lot of fun and growing things is nice but also you learn a valuable lesson which is: I would absolutely starve to death if I needed to grow all of my own food

submitted 4 days ago • 158 comments

Every baseball fan hoping the buffoon in chief doesn’t throw his support behind their respective baseball team this season

submitted 4 days ago • 85 comments

Three updates: 1. The Justice Department has deleted a database tracking federal police misconduct. The database was first proposed in 2020 following the police killing of George Floyd.

submitted 4 days ago • 241 comments

It’s time to eat the rich, and I, for one, am ravenous

submitted 5 days ago • 268 comments

Hey, condescending Dem strategists, just checking in on how the whole "approving some Trump nominees to create space so GOP politicians can vote against the worst nominees" plan is going. Just, uh, want to run down the checklist here. Remember, being emotional gets in the way of effectiveness!

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

spent a lot of time preparing to handle peer pressure to do drugs that no one ever offered me and am now completely unprepared for all the peer pressure I’m under to get an air fryer

submitted 5 days ago • 91 comments

Listen. A lot of yall in the last few weeks put your energy into the Philadelphia Eagles. I'm just gonna say it now. With baseball season coming up you need to be putting your energy specifically into Nick Castellanos. We need to be rooting for this man to hit as many home runs as possible. IYKYK.

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

Has Hakeem Jeffries written a mildly worded letter yet?

submitted 8 days ago • 63 comments

If you've ever bought digital books on Amazon, now would be a good time to download backup copies for your personal archive. They'll be discontinuing the ability to download e-books on Feb 26th and everything will have to be done through their ecosystem. #bookSky 🧵 Here's how to do it:

submitted 7 days ago • 27 comments

The important thing to remember about everyone defending the constitutionality of Trump's Executive Order on birthright citizenship is that they all are trying to bring back Dred Scott. Every single one.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Musk is pouring $1.5 million into Wisconsin’s upcoming Supreme Court race.

submitted 5 days ago • 450 comments

Democratic leaders: I think it's abundantly clear at this point that simply going along to get along ain't gonna work. Trying to negotiate ain't gonna work. Being collegial ain't gonna work. What you're doing right now isn't working. Take your gloves off and punch back. Hard.

submitted 5 days ago • 961 comments

Act as if no one is coming to save you.

submitted 6 days ago • 40 comments

I keep seeing "Why aren't the Americans striking" and "Because our healthcare is tied to our jobs" and it never gets less true or less depressing

submitted 6 days ago • 83 comments

This is like saying parents saved money by not feeding their kids as much and skipping doctors’ appointments. People were actually using the services he’s killed off, among them veterans.

submitted 6 days ago • 75 comments

I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths

submitted 6 days ago • 387 comments

People who want to imagine that the dems have A Plan remember that they didn't have any response to dobbs even after it was leaked. I don't mean an effective response, i mean no response

submitted 6 days ago • 46 comments

I love this Cowgirl Rogue! @SnarkyJCosplay

submitted 6 days ago • 23 comments

Do it right kids

submitted 7 days ago • 126 comments

Hundreds of asylum seekers from around the globe are being trapped by the US in a Panama hotel where they'll eventually be sent to a camp in the jungle. One Chinese man said “I thought: America is a free country with respect for human rights. I had no idea it was like a dictatorship.”

submitted 7 days ago • 117 comments

Every day it seems like another person I know casually admits to using ChatGPT for something and I feel like I’m losing my grip. Was it really that hard to Google things?

submitted 7 days ago • 85 comments

I think we really need to repeat, and keep top of mind - The federal employee firings are NOT ABOUT SAVING MONEY. What is spent on those employees is peanuts compared to most of the money in the government. Firing federal employees sows confusion, depletes morale, and degrades government service.

submitted 7 days ago • 32 comments

Yes. There's no voting our way out; how can the rest of the world be reassured that our fellow Americans won't vote like this again, or worse? As a nation, we've lost their trust for at least a generation. And we've lost the standing we've benefitted from since WWII. Doubt we'll get it back.

submitted 6 days ago • 38 comments

I was in a meeting a while ago where the consensus was that Splinter had been wrong to publish Stephen Miller’s cell number. When I disagreed the editor said, “But what’s the point of doing it?” and I said, “Well, tormenting Stephen Miller.” Nobody found that persuasive but I still think I was right

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

We have been careful to avoid using the word coup, but it’s time to call it what it is—this is a coup. Trump signed an executive order granting only the attorney general or the president the authority to interpret laws executed by the executive branch.

submitted 6 days ago • 801 comments

One thing that's been very revealing is how many politicians valorized working-class and middle-class workers, unless those folks work for the federal government. The cheering of the purging of regular people who have had their entire financial lives upended has been something to see.

submitted 7 days ago • 28 comments

A Missouri Representative has filed a bill to track pregnancies in the state. HB 807 will: "Maintain a central registry of each expectant mother who is at risk for seeking an abortion of her unborn child and make the same available to a prospective adoptive parent who has completed screenings."

submitted 7 days ago • 1093 comments

Firings are happening right now at the National Science Foundation. Essential staff are being cut. This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.

submitted 7 days ago • 98 comments

I understand that slogans have a purpose and are not inclusive of all ideas, but the call to "read books" as some sort of inherent defense against fascism nags at me. Which books! Reading is not in and of itself a virtue!

submitted 7 days ago • 27 comments

When a judge stops the president from doing something illegal, that’s not a “threat to democracy,” that’s a check on the president’s power. That's the whole damn point.

submitted 8 days ago • 604 comments

I think I've found a way to articulate what bothers me about the trajectory of the modern tech industry (and to some extent... society). We are on this Earth to provide for each other. That's the "mission" of humanity as I see it. This is incompatible with what the tech industry seeks to do.

submitted 13 days ago • 534 comments

i used to have the sunday scaries about work but now it’s about whatever atrocious inhumane terrifying things the government will do in the upcoming week

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

today is tuesday. there will be distractions and diversions, people and projects that crave your attention. and yet, today you will be served by unseen systems that work unassumingly so you can face your day and all it will bring. there is hope and opportunity in today. today is tuesday.

submitted 14 days ago • 9 comments

Congratulations America, He spent $15 million of YOUR money to take a nap at the Super Bowl and leave before halftime… All, on your dime.

submitted 15 days ago • 1115 comments

Sha’Carri Richardson | Red Cannas (flipped), by Georgia O’Keeffe, 1919

submitted 14 days ago • 17 comments

Pro tip for anyone working in cybersecurity: blame any leak that is obviously your company’s fault on DOGE being compromised instead.

submitted 14 days ago • 70 comments

Instead of saying "I didn't understand the halftime show, therefore it is bad art" maybe try and understand why you didn't get it and think critically about the presentation, symbolism, etc. This is part of the beauty of art and creativity.

submitted 15 days ago • 490 comments