Damn, I *hope* I look better than my body feels

I have feelings about how powerful evil people can shape the world in their image and the rest of us are just supposed to suffer through it

Here I am

ok, all your posts are hilarious and I am ashamed and berefit that more people haven't followed you

Also, Hello Kitty isn't even the best character in the Hello Kitty universe:

I love that movie! And Joan Blondell! I've had a few movie days structured around her early movies

What I want is for David Brooks to go down for the dumbest, most idiotic thing possible. I'll take this, surely not the most egregious, but up there with the most idiotic

I just listened to your episode on Elon while getting a dental procedure. If there is another way to make a dental procedure painful, or to create a painful physical response to a mention of Elon going forward, I have not found it

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-fV...

I hadn't read your thread on the book, but now that I have, I am even more happy that I bought it, and more excited to read it. I need life-affirming, I need a good read, I need something to take me away.
Thank you

In case you've ever wondered if it's worth it to post things like this on Bluesky, it is worth it! I am a book lover, just logged in,and immediately ordered this book.
(A case could be made that I am avoiding cleaning the apartment right now, but that is so, so cynical)
It sounds great

The rot runs so much longer and deeper than AI. I've been practically begging people to understand we went to war in Iraq without even substantial *faked* video/photo evidence

Corporate media's abandonment of truth in favor of clickbait, false balance, and stenography left no one to adjudicate AI

It's not that "no one was ready" it's that literacy efforts don't get funded, fact-checking is now "censorship", grants got killed, taxing companies to mitigate social impact =nonstarter in the US, politicians focused on the wrong things. Trust & social norm breakdown the are major non-tech issues.