Al
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You’ll feel different about that when you’re older.
He/Him
He/Him
What’s the over/under for when the administration starts talking about needing the draft to come back?
Pentagon will begin review of 'effectiveness' of women in ground combat positions
Pentagon will begin review of 'effectiveness' of women in ground combat positions
The review, outlined in a Pentagon memo obtained by NPR, comes after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told admirals and generals in September that women must meet the "highest male standard."
www.npr.org
January 7, 2026 at 12:38 PM
What’s the over/under for when the administration starts talking about needing the draft to come back?
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brilliant idea, everyone I know *loves* having to do this once a year at work, bet they can’t wait to do it all year long on an app
January 4, 2026 at 10:09 AM
brilliant idea, everyone I know *loves* having to do this once a year at work, bet they can’t wait to do it all year long on an app
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[wakes up] “I’m sorry, what”
January 3, 2026 at 12:36 PM
[wakes up] “I’m sorry, what”
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This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:
December 5, 2025 at 9:49 PM
This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:
After blocking “No. Do your own homework” is the only valid response to this kind of poster
January 2, 2026 at 8:22 PM
After blocking “No. Do your own homework” is the only valid response to this kind of poster
MTG found out what everyone who thinks an abuser is their friend eventually learns. They apology tour is just the next step it usually lasts until they inevitably make amends. People who fall for the act once look like fools. People who continually fall for it are their own kind of enabler
I’ve seen a bunch of responses to the Draper profile of MTG complaining about her pushing ahead a bill that restricts gender-affirming care for minors. This is a misunderstanding of what she’s doing. www.thebulwark.com/p/why-marjor...
Why Marjorie Taylor Greene Gives Me Hope
People don’t change—but they can remember who they are.
www.thebulwark.com
December 30, 2025 at 3:48 PM
MTG found out what everyone who thinks an abuser is their friend eventually learns. They apology tour is just the next step it usually lasts until they inevitably make amends. People who fall for the act once look like fools. People who continually fall for it are their own kind of enabler
Between storm sunset
December 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Between storm sunset
Disappointing but not surprising
By the way, Gavin Newsom is apparently raising money to fight AGAINST the billionaire tax. So thoughtful of him to come to their aid at this particular time in history,
December 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Disappointing but not surprising
This is a pretty long thread for it to be almost nothing but receipts
"Why Peter Thiel is leaving Silicon Valley" (2018)
December 28, 2025 at 12:45 AM
This is a pretty long thread for it to be almost nothing but receipts
Definitely a “you go out and I’ll catch up later! I just need to get some laundry done and I promised to help my wife move some furniture first so I may be a bit “ kind of day
December 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Definitely a “you go out and I’ll catch up later! I just need to get some laundry done and I promised to help my wife move some furniture first so I may be a bit “ kind of day
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One of the right wing's top cultural initiatives was trying to destroy the idea that assholery deserves shame and we'll have to reverse that. "I'm just expressing an opinion I'm entitled to." Ok but you're an asshole. "I'm simply doing a business practice that technically isn't illegal." Ok. Asshole
October 29, 2025 at 11:56 PM
One of the right wing's top cultural initiatives was trying to destroy the idea that assholery deserves shame and we'll have to reverse that. "I'm just expressing an opinion I'm entitled to." Ok but you're an asshole. "I'm simply doing a business practice that technically isn't illegal." Ok. Asshole
Christmas was yesterday
December 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Christmas was yesterday
Since @erinbiba.bsky.social got me thinking about DS9 I’m going to reveal my one reasonable wish for a new DS9 story. I’d like a le Carré esque novel that explores Garak’s origins and what he does on Cardasia after the Dominion War. Bonus points: get Andrew Robinson to narrate the audiobook
December 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Since @erinbiba.bsky.social got me thinking about DS9 I’m going to reveal my one reasonable wish for a new DS9 story. I’d like a le Carré esque novel that explores Garak’s origins and what he does on Cardasia after the Dominion War. Bonus points: get Andrew Robinson to narrate the audiobook
I know I won’t shut up about this but we did the same thing except with CDs. It was shocking to me to see just how bad streaming services got and how easily I could get distracted playing music on my phone or laptop
In the age of Spotify and AI slop, tapes remind us what we’re missing when we stop taking risks.
Why I Quit Streaming And Got Back Into Cassettes
In the age of Spotify and AI slop, tapes remind us what we’re missing when we stop taking risks.
www.404media.co
December 24, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I know I won’t shut up about this but we did the same thing except with CDs. It was shocking to me to see just how bad streaming services got and how easily I could get distracted playing music on my phone or laptop
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here's the 60 minutes cecot video part 1 of 5 - recorded/uploaded by and all credit to @jasonparis.bsky.social
I just reduced background noise, chopped the 14 minutes into 3 minute segments each compressed under 100 mb for bsky's limits, cropped and rotated a few degrees for easier viewing on here
I just reduced background noise, chopped the 14 minutes into 3 minute segments each compressed under 100 mb for bsky's limits, cropped and rotated a few degrees for easier viewing on here
December 22, 2025 at 10:58 PM
here's the 60 minutes cecot video part 1 of 5 - recorded/uploaded by and all credit to @jasonparis.bsky.social
I just reduced background noise, chopped the 14 minutes into 3 minute segments each compressed under 100 mb for bsky's limits, cropped and rotated a few degrees for easier viewing on here
I just reduced background noise, chopped the 14 minutes into 3 minute segments each compressed under 100 mb for bsky's limits, cropped and rotated a few degrees for easier viewing on here
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This has been made available, so for purposes of commenting on Bari Weiss's decision to spike the story, here's a live-post of that segment.
It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process
It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process
December 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM
This has been made available, so for purposes of commenting on Bari Weiss's decision to spike the story, here's a live-post of that segment.
It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process
It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process
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SCOOP: Flock left at least 60 of its AI-powered, people-tracking surveillance cameras exposed and livestreaming to the open internet. We tracked ourselves. The exposure highlights the power of these cameras and types of things they're tracking. Not just cars.
www.404media.co/flock-expose...
www.404media.co/flock-expose...
Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves.
Flock left at least 60 of its people-tracking Condor PTZ cameras live streaming and exposed to the open internet.
www.404media.co
December 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
SCOOP: Flock left at least 60 of its AI-powered, people-tracking surveillance cameras exposed and livestreaming to the open internet. We tracked ourselves. The exposure highlights the power of these cameras and types of things they're tracking. Not just cars.
www.404media.co/flock-expose...
www.404media.co/flock-expose...
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In general, AI adoption levels are a measurement of to what extent a particular reward system (a corporation, a market, academia as a whole system) has ceased to distinguish between doing a thing and pretending to do a thing
One of many things the pro-AI crowd doesn't seem to understand is the very important distinction between academic scholarship and the production of papers. Of course they can be related but they're not necessarily the same thing
December 22, 2025 at 12:04 AM
In general, AI adoption levels are a measurement of to what extent a particular reward system (a corporation, a market, academia as a whole system) has ceased to distinguish between doing a thing and pretending to do a thing
Describing AI marketing as a traveling salesmen shoving their foot in the door is as on point as it gets
All of this thread.
I understand the self interest that AI salesmen have to push their product, but the grasping way they’re doing it — the internet version of a traveling salesmen putting his foot in the door so you can’t close it — is only going to drive more people away.
I understand the self interest that AI salesmen have to push their product, but the grasping way they’re doing it — the internet version of a traveling salesmen putting his foot in the door so you can’t close it — is only going to drive more people away.
You absolutely will not convince a bunch of historians and sociologists and whoever else is in this thread that you know more than we do about this and we should use it. I wish you AI enthusiasts would stop wading into our conversations. You have nothing helpful to contribute and are snarky.
December 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Describing AI marketing as a traveling salesmen shoving their foot in the door is as on point as it gets
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It's a whole genre it's beautiful
December 21, 2025 at 12:26 AM
It's a whole genre it's beautiful
For her birthday my wife asked for a couple of CD players for the around the house. It worked so nicely that I got one for my home office. This whole thing has given me a new appreciation for purpose built devices because it works so much better than listening to music on my phone or laptop
December 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
For her birthday my wife asked for a couple of CD players for the around the house. It worked so nicely that I got one for my home office. This whole thing has given me a new appreciation for purpose built devices because it works so much better than listening to music on my phone or laptop
Turns out that the neighbor that drives a giant pickup that no one likes is definitely MAGA. I assumed as much with fake bullets he bedazzled onto it but now he’s got one of those KKK flags to remove all doubt
December 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Turns out that the neighbor that drives a giant pickup that no one likes is definitely MAGA. I assumed as much with fake bullets he bedazzled onto it but now he’s got one of those KKK flags to remove all doubt
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hey troops this guy thinks you’re stupid
So, not a bonus. Robbing Peter to pay Paul, who are in this case the same person
Trump rebrands Congressionally-approved troop housing subsidy as ‘warrior dividend’ bonus
More than $2.9 billion in reconciliation funds was allocated to beef up troop housing allowances. Now it’s being used for $1,776 checks.
www.defenseone.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
hey troops this guy thinks you’re stupid
From the same person that brought you the definitive “Roblox is terrible and you should never let your kid anywhere near it” thread comes the definitive “editing posts is an abuse nightmare” thread with bonus “starter packs were a mistake” content!
It's interesting that "editing posts" is the feature that everyone is citing as "a really easy thing that everyone wants that they should do instead", because allowing post editing, while *technically* very simple, is probably about two orders of magnitude more difficult to implement than this is.
December 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
From the same person that brought you the definitive “Roblox is terrible and you should never let your kid anywhere near it” thread comes the definitive “editing posts is an abuse nightmare” thread with bonus “starter packs were a mistake” content!
The rare exception to Betteridge's law of headlines
December 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The rare exception to Betteridge's law of headlines