Thank you!

Not even duplicity. She ran as an anti-labor candidate. Unions were wrong to have expected differently.

I appreciate this for bringing the clankers out for me to block. Butlerian Jihad Now.

More confirmation that URLCheck is fantastic.

Please normalize sanitizing links in your social circles.

I appreciate the article, I guess, but the NYT comments are depressing. 'Thank you for bringing the this issue to light." Seriously? Israel’s use of rape as punishment is nigh universally known. Israel literally just had mass protests in defense of the right to rape Palestinians prisoners–something the article dutifly mentions–and people are pretending like this is some recently revealed shock?

That’s good to know. As long as it is building to something.

Thank you!

How is Needy Girl Overdose? I generally love psychological suspense (for lack of a better term) and Serial Experiments Lain is one of my all time favorites, but the first few episodes just didn’t click for me. Anyone else in the same boat?

We need a maximum voting age. People that won’t be around for dinner shouldn’t be in charge of the groceries.

Not that I want to defend Plex which is definitely enshittifying, but I don’t think most people are buying Plex to stream their own media. They’re doing it so other people can stream their media. Not wanting to buy a domain and set up port forwarding or a reverse proxy or whatever doesn’t seem unreasonable to me. My grandparents are never going to use Tailscale, and even if they did, I don’t think there are any Tailscale smart TV apps.

Disclosure: I run Plex and Jellyfin (and Navidrome) in parallel, and bought a lifetime pass years ago.

The US is the enemy of western democracies.

Definitely the former. I’m not a professional developer so this may be inaccurate, but I don’t think there are non-AI users in professional development spaces anymore. Claude seems pretty much ubiquitous at this point; I doubt there have been meaningful numbers of non-AI-using developers for a while.

Which makes the risk of deskilling so much more scary to me, personally. At least now we still have developers that can understand, untangle, and troubleshoot AI code output. Will the next generation of AI-first developers have those same skills?

If anything it seems to be the reverse. The two most anti-slop people I know in real life are developers that are now unemployed due to slop. Anecdotes, though.

Bots are trying to gaslight to into thinking that slop acceptance is inevitable. It’s just bullshit. Everyone hates slop art. Everyone hates slop music. Everyone hates slop text. Everyone hates forced slop integration.

The only people that like AI are the people that own the chatbots that want to deskill you.

Ok clanker.

Edit: Actually, I really like this analogy because it correctly identifies slop support as some shameful flaw that has to be hidden. No offense to toupee-wearers. Although you should probably just go bald.

If they’re pro-slop I just assume they’re a bot. I’ve never met a pro-slop person in real life and nothing will convince me they’re real.

Literally just do it anyway. states use ‘illegal’ districts all the time. The last 10 years have clearly shown that ‘laws’ and ‘judicial rulings’ aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on.

After how badly she botched multiple DC grand juries, having Jeanine Pirro in charge of the prosecution seems like a slam dunk for the defense though.

Nice.

Not disagreeing at all. The mass unemployment of a bunch of industries is terrible. I’m just saying the other side of the coin is also terrible, that we’re heading towards a world where humans have lost the ability to perform important skills to (potentially hostile) chatbots (owned by billionaires) that we won’t be able to properly manage or oversee. That’s the flip side of most ‘positive’ AI stories: ‘AI is better at detecting early breast cancer… And the doctors that use AI have gotten worse because of it.’