Newspapers: if your headlines tomorrow don't say "tanks for nothing" then you are all cowards

@isocat I tend to only CW posts that are genuinely outside the bounds of regular conversation — gruesome pictures or descriptions of assault for example, and frankly I rarely post those. I know that’s not everyone’s preference but I’m not going to get into the habit of CWing posts that are general observations of the world around me. I appreciate you may disagree, I’m not offended if you need to block or mute.

Any law enforcement org that does not publicly demand every state sanctioned officer must identify themselves with their name, badge, and face after this is complicit.

@molly0xfff threw in some Camus for some light summertime reading

DOGE Track, an open source project by @harrisj to catalog the damage being done to our government, is a tragically necessary project.

https://dogetrack.info

@mattcomi I’m genuinely excited to see their take on this UX. I also know I just might be getting a bit too old for this.

@czeins always punch the hawk

@mattcomi hahah yeah this liquid glass interface hits the same year I get reading glasses no thank you

@ben https://www.nokings.org maybe?

Tune into KEXP.org right now to celebrate the life of a true American creative genius

Impossible to overstate Sly Stone’s influence. Rest in peace to a legendary artist whose music reveled in everything it means to be human.

And another thing, IDEs should be optimised for reading rather than just writing, they've always been too focused on generating code but now that's become a more chronic shortcoming because tools are generating the code, the humans need to understand, explore, fix, enhance etc, and IDEs are mostly rubbish for these things.. they don't focus enough on the output of what you're building, which is why I always gravitated towards glitch, manipulating other environments into doing that is painful

@sue oh damn this is so smart. Call it “code review mode” or whatever to bring the nerds along.

Kara Swisher has been booked on about 74 emergency podcasts in the past twenty four hours to poorly explain the situation she gleefully and very profitably helped create. Meanwhile, the best post about what actually happened comes, naturally, from Max Read

https://maxread.substack.com/p/admin-is-crashing-out

(Obviously the real plan is to give about a billion dollars a year to left of center media to do whatever the hell they want without a need to turn a profit or even be self-sustaining since that’s exactly what the right has done for 40 years)

Instead of wasting millions of dollars trying to build tHE JOe roGaN oF THe LefT or whatever, those genius Democratic billionaires should just run endless commercials with the message: aren’t you tired of these weird assholes constantly making everything in your life objectively worse?

Christian evangelicals and AI accelerationists are a match made in… well I wouldn’t say “heaven” exactly

https://www.404media.co/why-do-christians-love-ai-slop/

A database that tracks the activities of every person on earth is, at its core, fascistic (sorry friends that means Instagram, too). Leave it.

If I’m hopeful of anything about all of this, it’s how blindingly obvious it is now.

There’s a straightforward solution to this: robust consumer protection. The tiny agency that was doing the best they could just got dismantled by the architect of Project 2025.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/consumer-financial-protection-bureau-stop-work-russ-vought

The surveillance state created by Facebook that so many of us have warned about for decades only to be told we were being hysterical is about to be weaponized by the absolute worst people.