Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

This is NORMAL @heywoodjablowme420.bsky.social · 6h

This is like, half a step removed from just saying "uh uh no kings is gay lol"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

This is NORMAL @heywoodjablowme420.bsky.social · 6h

Scott Bessent is such a smug idiot, he's actually accidentally funny, in the same way a car full of clowns driving into a school for the blind and exploding is funny.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Bessent: "This crazy No Kings rally this weekend, which is gonna be the farthest left, the hardest core, the most unhinged in the Democratic Party, which is a big title. No Kings equals no paychecks."

1

This is NORMAL @heywoodjablowme420.bsky.social · 6h

Fuck yeah.

LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 8h

She gets all the flowers. I mean ALL of them. If we see her, we immediately have to give her flowers.

This is NORMAL @heywoodjablowme420.bsky.social · 11h

This falls under the classic Alan Dershowitz brain rot pattern of "PEOPLE HATE ME EVEN THOUGH I'M NICE, IT'S NOT FAIR"...maybe if people hate you it's because you're not nice, ever think of that?

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h

a person too narcissistic and egotistical to engage in self-reflection and who has also surrounded themselves with people who will indulge their worst qualities, many such cases.

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

defector.com

This is NORMAL @heywoodjablowme420.bsky.social · 18h

When I was in college a complete stranger bartender glanced at a TV report about a dating website being forced to provide same sex options, and casually said to me "it used to be faggots knew to keep their mouths shut."

Being a white man from Texas exposed me to tsunamis of this shit.

1

This is NORMAL @heywoodjablowme420.bsky.social · 18h

Years after I graduated, a friend of mine's younger sister, who was 16, was seduced and statutorily raped repeatedly by a teacher. Word got out and the school didn't like it and expelled HER. The family sued and ex-students and PARENTS I know personally said she was a slut who ruined his marriage.

1 1

This is NORMAL @heywoodjablowme420.bsky.social · 18h

When I was in high school in Dallas the only out lesbian in my class was expelled because a bunch of mean cunts made up and spread a rumor about her doing coke in the photography dark room, administration demanded she do drug tests, and she refused.

1 2

This is NORMAL @heywoodjablowme420.bsky.social · 18h

This dipshit is talking about right-wing bugbears nobody even remembers or cares about.

Dude, nobody cares about Charlie Kirk anymore and that was like three weeks ago.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

This is NORMAL @heywoodjablowme420.bsky.social · 18h

People who think this kind of shit is any significant escalation of nazi/fash tendencies among right-wing conservatives has very clearly never lived in an area of America where there are lots of them and they feel comfortable. They've been saying extremely vile shit like this my entire life.

grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 19h

They have 100% always been this way, though notably the transition from helicopter rides and referencing crushing minorities abroad humorlessly transitioned to nazi shit, but like that's basically a new layer of paint instead of a new perspective.

Amanda Marcotte
@amandamarcotte.bsky.social
+ Follow
For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this.
That's why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed -because Young Republicans weren't radical enough.

5 10 42

This is NORMAL @heywoodjablowme420.bsky.social · 18h

congrats on what I wrote not applying to you? not sure why you're telling me this

4

This is NORMAL @heywoodjablowme420.bsky.social · 1d

My wife's uncle (nice enough guy) was talking with me about AI, and when I commented that I get annoyed about AI "analysis" he gently argued that he "believes" it is analyzing things.

By definition, a computer cannot analyze anything because it is incapable of independent thought.

This is NORMAL @heywoodjablowme420.bsky.social · 1d

Lexis-Nexis' landing page now has a giant ad that says "WANT TO KNOW WHAT AI THINKS?" No, I don't. Because AI can't think. And I've used the AI tools and they're absolutely terrible for anything other than sorting. When oh when will people understand what a computer is.

1

This is NORMAL @heywoodjablowme420.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, all leftists love Iranian dictators and Putin, you've figured us out.

go to bed.

1 4

This is NORMAL @heywoodjablowme420.bsky.social · 1d

exact same deal with NVIDIA investing billions in open AI, who buy NVIDIA chips to...run AI...wait a second...

1

This is NORMAL @heywoodjablowme420.bsky.social · 1d

do libs all have word salad brain disease or something

2 5

This is NORMAL @heywoodjablowme420.bsky.social · 1d

all those leftists that lost to Donald Trump twice huh

1 44

This is NORMAL @heywoodjablowme420.bsky.social · 1d

wtf are you blathering about gramps

This is NORMAL @heywoodjablowme420.bsky.social · 1d

In these trying days of having a newborn, I've unlocked two phrases that have done absolute wonders for defusing arguments with my wife:

"I think we're saying the same thing in different ways"

and

"I don't really want to argue about this right now" (tone is important with this one)

This is NORMAL @heywoodjablowme420.bsky.social · 1d

In like two weeks Trump is going to tweet an "executive order" saying it's illegal to wear a frog costume at a federal agent in a threatening manner, and Karoline Leavitt will act mortally offended when a reporter suggests that is stupid.

Torr 🧵 @torrleonard.bsky.social · 1d

"Portland’s protests are getting ridiculous.

That’s the point.

Protesters in cities like Portland, Oregon, are using humor to reveal the absurdity of MAGA’s claims about them, joining a rich history of clowning against authoritarianism."

www.fastcompany.com/91421423/por...

Portland’s protests are getting ridiculous. That’s the point

Protesters in cities like Portland, Oregon, are using humor to reveal the absurdity of MAGA’s claims about them—and it might be working.

www.fastcompany.com

This is NORMAL @heywoodjablowme420.bsky.social · 1d

"The human woman who was hot and had 11 toes and 900 teeth and 40 fingers on each hand was very hotly hotting. She took out her size 800ZZZ tits and said "fuck ma cowboy" to the cowboy who had a gigantic wiener. "oh my god this is so hotttttt on god no cap" the cowboy said 6-7"

--chat gpt erotica

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

This is NORMAL @heywoodjablowme420.bsky.social · 1d

If this had happened today, @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social would write a 900 word op-ed about why we need to understand Anita Bryant and respect her.

gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Anita Bryant Humiliation Day

A four-panel image of Anita Bryant being pied in her sanctimonious face by gay rights activist Thom Higgins, 1977.

This is NORMAL @heywoodjablowme420.bsky.social · 1d

honestly, that is so fucking awesome. sucks that this is even considered abnormally cool behavior now instead of just common courtesy, but what're ya gonna do (continues to yell at cloud)

2

This is NORMAL @heywoodjablowme420.bsky.social · 1d

LOL, right??? I think it's because conservatives so often use moral abstractions to push horrible, nonsensical policymaking, and the dems paint themselves as technocrat arbiters of data and science, so anybody who demands dem candidates actually have beliefs and a political spine is "radical."

1

This is NORMAL @heywoodjablowme420.bsky.social · 1d

I notice dem libs are now using the term "wrecker" to describe anyone to the left of, I dunno, Joe Leiberman?

1 2

This is NORMAL @heywoodjablowme420.bsky.social · 1d

Like Pritzker more and more with every passing week. Newsom's still got a huge hill to climb in my estimation for his stupid focus-group pivoting to anti-trans anti-"woke" bullshit, but he gets massive points for finally just straight up calling out lies about "failing blue cities and states."

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com