Very Robin

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

The idea that every process you can subject foods to could possibly all be equally bad in the same kind of way is so obviously silly it's genuinely vicariously embarrassing to read

Baymax as tech optimism There are some clichés that just won’t go away. Robots in movies must turn evil. Technology is dangerous. Caring is weakness. In cinema, that’s a great set of dynamics to turn into inherent conflict: ...

A few thoughts I’ve had for the past decade, which have only become more pertinent. We can have nice things — at least, I want to keep wanting nice things, and hope has to count for something.
☞ www.veryzine.zone/2026/baymax-...

Can you imagine if we tried to evaluate the effectiveness of a drug for an autoimmune condition by excluding all studies to where participants had previously taken NSAIDs (painkillers)?

The “separating the art from the artist” conversation uniquely bothers me. I feel strongly that everybody goes through old discourse, and that’s fine. This though? This one persists because people seem to want to be absolved of whatever little trespass they’ve already resolved to commit.

Matt’s byline has always made me stop to read something. I’ve gifted his books to like-minded nerds before; maybe there’s something for you in his shop.

Wonderful breakdown!!! The scariest part of these misrepresented stats is that they drive they idea that these beliefs are common and normal, which itself makes people more likely to align with them!!! It's a blight on every journalist who reported this uncritically

a lot of discussion about how "cosmopolitan" urban dwellers are, but a really underdiscussed trend is the homogenization of culture across *rural* areas of the USA - replacement of once-distinct regional cultures with generic "redneck" accent and culture, regional religions with evanglicalism etc

you could ask the same question with regards to a calculator, a chess program, etc. a rock, even

It’s actually FEWER Misérables

One of the main reasons I don't use AI is that you have to fact-check every single thing it gives you and by the time I do that, I could have just done the research myself.

Screenshot of headlines: The Secret to Keeping My Toilet Stain-Free Is in the Kitchen 11 Surprising Things You Can Put in Your Dishwasher

Nicely done

The fucked up belt of vindication

The problem with capitalism is people who are only good at making money primarily do it by screwing over all the people who can actually make things that matter

Tech companies are trying to gaslight us into thinking AI is commercially viable (it is not), that its products are on par with human-made products (they are not), and that the singularity is imminent (far from it!). They do this to attract funding—I call it the vaporware-industrial complex.

The irony, of course, is that no one in the modern era has cared as much about what other people think of them as Epstein and the men around him. Also, I'm again struck by these men- who are *obsessed* with human intelligence- not seeming to have any idea what it is.

I’ll record this in dramatic Dutch reading if you need it in audio, of course

The terms of the debate haven't changed at all for Republicans, but now comes the part where "respectable" anti-trans actors like the NTY are forced to shed the fig leaf of "fairness in sports," and join in on directly questioning "the validity of transgender identity."

So the fake and unnecessary research trial for puberty blockers demanded by TERFs - has been paused due to fake concerns raised by other TERFs.

And will restart on kids that have already gone through puberty, rendering the fake trial even more pointless.

I’ve always said that if people don’t laugh, that’s not because of them but because you didn’t write the joke well enough for your audience. And then I spent more time on social media, and I learned about three-cueing, and now I’m not so sure that that was correct advice. Some people can’t read.

They really figured out the design of the back and stuck with it huh

IMO this gap in confidence around critical thought is probably *driving* some adoption of AI technologies, on account of people who lack that self confidence feel like an AI assistant will help them compete with people who know they're smart.

Spotmatic F? I shoot that with the 55/1.8 and it’s one of my favourite cameras of all time.

Read the whole thread.

Far too many trans kids don’t make it out of their childhood situations alive, and the supports who decide to act like their transition was their “first death” are not actual supports. They are a part of the poison. They view the trans kid as the killer of their ACTUAL child.

An important concept in sociology is that people need to eat and have some means of resolving disputes.

If someone has been criminalized, and excluded from the institutions that allow them to continue to eat and resolve disputes, *they still need to eat and resolve disputes*.

I’m so sick and tired of this asshole. She absolutely hated that Brianna had a loving community and wasn’t just stuck with her.

“In other words, there hasn’t been an organic shift in public opinion on trans people but rather a massive astroturfing campaign against us.” — @juliaserano.bsky.social

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

This is @glutelord.bsky.social and he's completely fucking correct. The fundamental tension at the heart of all incel culture is that these guys HATE women and refuse to appeal to them but desperately want to get laid anyway, and this contradiction can only really be resolved through violence