god damnit I just accidentally clicked on grok on a tweet and it ran automatically

This is gutting.

Pocket has been a crucial part of my strategy for digital sanity for so long, using it is a reflex.

I’d say something about looking for a Pocket alternative, but I still remember the heartbreak of Google Reader’s loss, and how that void didn’t fill.

Donald Trump‘s insane and inaccurate rant about the deaths of white South Africans renews questions about Biden’s mental state

White Afrikaners say the tombstones they erected were protest symbols. Tucker Carlson says they were headstones on mass graves. For busy United States presidents, it can be hard to know who to believe.

Huh.

The new Pope seems to have the right enemies.

The most likely place one of the US scientists fired by a 19 year old will end up isn't in some other country's version of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, but like, McDonalds or Doordash.

The brain drain will be mostly into shitty gig jobs, not picking up that research elsewhere.

That just looks like a Red Queen race with extra civilization-imperiling emissions…

Playmobil riot police. Lego border guards. Toy body scanners. Today’s playthings are training kids to accept surveillance and state control as normal parts of life.
www.codastory.com/surveillance...

As you can see, this 53-year-old’s fake badge is numbered 69420

Imagine sucking so much that countries where you’re not on the ballot vote against you

Forget Canada — I don't think I've ever seen a poll shift this dramatic in *any* modern democracy. One of the most remarkable elections of my lifetime.

Hitler has been bad for free speech. The woke Weimarians were worse.

If you wanted people to be less hostile to "AI" then you should have had a different group of liars trying to push it than the ones behind the metaverse, crypto, driverless cars, NFTs etc.

"Sorry but we're only so gullible!"

"Google’s AI Overviews now reach more than 1.5 billion people every month" is factually true but leaves out the true story. It's not that people _want_ false AI summaries, it's just that a monopolist can do whatever.

Dude.

Google is what happens when a system forgets why it was built but remembers how.

Biological Sex is chromosomes, hormones, gametes, gonads, a whole load of epigenetic stuff, various organs like breasts etc

The only reason transphobes go on and on about chromosomes is because they are the only part you can't change with transition, not because they're important. They aren't

…dusted-off fashion affectation realised with upcycled wrist bands, custom-printed cases (maybe charging/storage for earpods), and a whole different embodied relationship to a screen you look down at occasionally because it isn’t your life, rather than hunching over.

Anyway, that’s the dream.

…for pocket-sized computers in the 80s and 90s: wristpads.

Following this thought, what I want is *not* for some dipshit Jonny Ive to make an Apple version of the wristpad like when Star Trek PADDs became iPads. No, I want the idea to become a solarpunk version of fob watches for steampunk: a…

Since I’m 40s enough to be thinking about the value of smart watches/wearables for picking up on irregular heart rhythms and falls (yes, I know it’s hyperbole, but only a bit), I’ve been looking at wearables wondering why nobody is using the form factor Kim Stanley Robinson thought would be obvious

of parenting is there: picking up on her authentic interest, augmenting it with my own, reflecting on how ubiquitous backgrounds to my life are discrete components to be added to hers. The absolute responsibility to pass on the good, vulnerability to being remembered, inevitably, as a dork.

…breadcrumbs to “Stand,” and I know I have the catchiest songs hooked in.
Then it’s just a slippery slope to “Fall on Me” and “Now this is a cover of that from Daddy’s favourite band.”
[Death Cab’s cover is just slightly better than the original in every detail, IMHO.]

The whole reflective project

Here’s how I see culture being passed down in front of my eyes.

My daughter asks if I can help her find “That song from the Daffy and Porky movie. The one about the end of the world.”

This is her introduction to R.E.M.
Now she’s reading the lyrics onscreen while listening (enviable), then I lay…