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A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

I love this. The Norwegian Government has a four-minute ad for "The Enshittifier," the person responsible for figuring out how to take something you enjoy and make it worse. It's part of their campaign to the EU to encourage adversarial compatibility and right to repair.

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This is why I’ll never accept AI art. A whole industry just to recreate & reorder reality. Yet the beauty of human emotions don’t need enhancement. We’re doing it every day. Look at Alysa Liu's face. The JOY. Fuck off, AI.

Credit to human photographers: Matthew Stockman/Getty & Christophe Ena/AP

I’m going to check my meat in all grocery stores now.

Definitely this, but also my wife and I keep pausing Heated Rivalry to analyze the relationship dynamics. #LesbianProblems #IDontUnderstandBoys

damn. I just searched and the piece I wrote for them years ago about domestic violence and Title IX is gone

“AI”: A Dedicated Fact-Failing Machine, or, Yet Another Reason Not to Trust It For Anything I search my name on a regular basis, not only because I am an ego monster (although I try not to pretend that I’m not) but because it’s a good way for me to find reviews, end-of-the-yea…

Today in "Don't Trust AI to Tell You Facts": How several different "AI" programs messed up the simple fact of to whom I dedicated a book, and what that means for how much you should trust "AI" to tell you the truth about things (spoiler: not much at all):

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MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”

Pennies Are Trash Now The government has no plan for America’s 300 billion pennies.

I still can’t believe the U.S. stopped making pennies with just…no plan. NO PLAN!!!!!! www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

somebody brought this up once in the context of Florida voters in 2000 and it fucked me up so much

just the cascading effects on our whole society from losing such a tidal wave of queer people

People from the suburbs: New York City is a hellscape going up in violent communist flames this very second!!

People in New York City: *walking to the grocery store, crunching fall leaves under their boots, minding their own business, singing that “my name is Mamdani” song under their breath*

Amor Towles does this perfect little thing in Gentleman in Moscow where he gives a character a small but strong identifying detail and basically says “just so you know, this person will come back later.” It is truly delightful!

We watched on mute. :-/

I finally read The Wild Robot last month and could only think to myself, “oh shit, I read this about one year too late to actually enjoy a sweet tale of a robot and its animal friends.” :(

every character on The X-Files is in love with Scully, except Krycek, who is in love with Mulder, and this is the hill I will die on

Friend told me he doesn't like Superman because "he's such a morning person" and I really can't argue with that

If Same-Sex Marriage is Overturned An explainer for the worst case scenario.

"No, same-sex marriage will not entirely dissolve in the United States if Obergefell should be overturned, but it will be much, much more difficult for millions of LGBTQ families if that happens."

Exclusive | Justice Department Told Trump in May That His Name Is Among Many in the Epstein Files Attorney General Pam Bondi told the president that the department also decided to not release more Jeffrey Epstein documents because of the presence of child pornography and the need to protect victim...

Here's a gift link to the WSJ breaking story that Trump's name appears multiple in the Epstein files: www.wsj.com/politics/jus...

@nerdgirlwalking.bsky.social

AP New headline: "Democrats fret about national fallout after Mamdani stuns in New York City"; photo shows a person in a ZOHRAN shirt with a sticker saying "DIDN'T RANK CUOMO"

Welcome to the backlash, bitches. #IHeartNY

Tweet from @tomgara Randomly on this subject, my (Egyptian) wife had never heard of Stonehenge when I mentioned it recently, so I showed her photos of it, assuming she’d recognise the look but not the name etc, and she was just like, this is pathetic, your ancestors were small and weak

Remembering this great tweet on the Summer Solstice

AOC during Zohran for Mayor rally: "There are people out there who say, 'If you go out and make this endorsement, your political career will be over.' And to that I say: I don't care. We will never get to a better place if everyone is just worried about themselves. If it's over, so be it."

Another remarkable view down 5th Avenue.

Tens of thousands united in saying no to Trump, no to ICE, no to fascism and #NoKings.

(🎥 Unheard Voices)

Okay, the straights played Pink Pony Club so they’re all right.

Hey, can someone please re-send the memo to the straights about not having a wedding on Tony Award Sunday?

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

Seriously, do not buy, stream, or otherwise support of promote more Harry Potter bullshit. It is no longer theoretical - Rowling is funelling those wizard bucks into getting the law changed to actively oppress an already-vulnerable minority.

And was it J/7? 🙏