Caroline

Also related but I believe that police should have to be licensed by the state the same way teachers are in order to be employed, and misrepresenting anything on a warrant at any level will get your license pulled.

Wa-Taika Waititi is an asshole.

i think that it is plainly obvious that we should bankrupt Palantir on day one by cutting all of its contracts and declaring it a supply chain risk.

if the tech bros were a little less delusional, they would be making so much money right now by offering to let us pay for the AI-free version of their programs

Well, at least I have cheese

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

im just really fucking sick of spending my entire adult life lurching from one worldwide economic disaster to another all because people pretend republicans arent dumb as dog shit morons completely detached from reality

I feel like all the “why don’t we build a highway to bypass the Strait of Hormuz” people should sit down for a chat with the “why isn’t there a bridge from Sicily to Calabria” people.

Genuinely who is watching this stuff..even my parents aren't watching this

But if anyone from the IRGC follows me, consider too that Trump HATES Los Angeles. Like, a lot. More than you do.

He’d be perfectly happy if you targeted us to be honest.

This is absolutely NOT to blame anyone for their very legitimate feelings about being forcibly displaced from their homeland and family by a shitty religious coup.

Only that if I WERE that coup, I’d at least consider the message that would send.

I mean.

I’m not NOT worried Iran might target Los Angeles specifically because of the enormous Iranian diaspora population we have that has been actively rooting for the regime’s demise…

It shouldn't fall to trans people to explain to cis people why creating laws that effectively amount to "If you have or ever had a penis, you must behave this way; If you have, or ever had a vagina, you must behave this other way" is horrifically dangerous for everyone's rights.

there was also a Stanford study that found that a surge in AI slop by lazy people actually created significantly more work for others who had to decipher and correct it

this "I'm being efficient" (but not really) vibes well with the American obsession with artifice and appearing productive

I think this isn't very complicated: when misogynists need to make an argument that women are sub-human half persons, they argue that any kind of sexual attraction to women is a weakness, because otherwise all the heterosexual men might have to worry about what those sub-humans think

Hasbro’s CEO on J.K. Rowling. We just published our new Decoder interview with Chris Cocks, the head of Hasbro. I asked him directly about how he thinks about author J.K. Rowling’s politics and what it’s done to the Harry Potter f...

cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch

www.theverge.com/podcast/8914...

It’s misogyny all the way down.

I don’t think Trump and his people are capable of engineering “distractions,” I think the mind-numbing chaos we see every day is straightforwardly the result of giving the dumbest, cruelest, most corrupt, most selfish people of a generation near-unmitigated power

Big bird in bed: “and the more I thought the sadder I felt”

I wish they’d hurry up on the cure for thinking

It's normal to restrict or move away from treatments when evidence of harms starts to outweigh evidence of benefits.

It's not normal to restrict or move away from treatments when there is evidence of benefits and none of harms, even if the evidence of benefits is "low quality."

Attacks leave dead vs killed

Seriously believe he should run (for real) for president

The rags publishing “how to survive nuclear war” etc thinkpieces aren’t reading the room. Nobody wants to survive. People will be running towards the mushroom cloud.

There is a projector now outside the MDC in Los Angeles. DHS has come out multiple times now to try and secure portions of the fence

My first ever Formula 1 race was very fun. And I have determined that George Russell is most likely a time-traveler from Downton Abbey.

I am maybe a little too conscious as I journal that I’m creating a future primary source.

But I don’t let that stop me from writing whatever the hell I have a bee in my bonnet about. An ancient complaint about the quality of copper ingots is universally beloved.

Rock Soul Anthems Yesterday at 7:30 AM • * "BREAKING NEWS: Bruce Springsteen has sparked a firestorm of controversy with a blunt statement that has divided sports fans nationwide — calling the mandatory wearing of LGBT armbands a "political charade" and declaring he plays for his team, not for any movement... See more: https://newcelebrities.info/breaking-news-bruce…/ The professional golfer emphasized that competition should remain focused on performance and sportsmanship. His remarks immediately stirred discussion within the sporting world, drawing both strong support and pointed criticism. • See details in the comments. STATE "I DON'T CARE IF THE WHOLE WORLD CALLS ME CONTROVERSIAL - FORCING PLAYERS TO WEAR AN LGBT ARMBAND TURNS BASKETBALL INTO A POLITICAL CIRCUS. I PLAY FOR THE IOWA STATE CYCLONES, FOR MY TEAM AND FOR THE GAME, NOT FOR ANY MOVEMENT"

the AI Slop problem at Facebook (the Dollar General of social media sites) is now so bad it is serving people bullshit about "professional golfer" Bruce Springsteen, who also supposedly plays college basketball for the Iowa State Cyclones and hates gay people.