The Hitchhiker’s Guide was famously written by correspondents like Ford Prefect. It wasn’t an #AI that made shit up based on some random sub-ether drivel. As a result, it was useful.

God, #DouglasAdams would have fucking hated #ElonMusk.

Curiously enough, an edition of The Guide that fell through a time warp from a thousand years in the future defined the executive board of X as “a bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came”.

@DrALJONES

The thrust of the article is that the current perception that Israel controls the US is actually relatively new. This also means that we don't have to look at it as a monolith and feel helpless. There were many times in the past it was reined in and we can argue that it can be put back in its box without expecting US hegemony to have to fall first.

Yes please

German politician suggests boycotting US World Cup

p.dw.com/p/56w9S

Someone really needs to tell this old sex offending Russian asset that just because you sit with a face like a bulldog chewing a wasp you don't always get what you want. Bung us a tariff or two. See how we all weep and gnash our teeth and beat our breasts...not.

I absolutely understand many, many people do not like AI generated videos. I don't like them either.

However, do not get threatening and sanctimonious and dog pile on someone who has posted something in good faith, clearly didn't know it was AI, and doesn't have the skills to spot it.

Because people become terrified of posting anything for fear of it being AI and getting lambasted for it.

AI is DESIGNED to fool people. And when you beat up someone who is fooled, you're beating up a victim.

@jonlang a codified constitution might well have stopped Brexit in its tracks. It would’ve said things like a 2/3 majority for constitutional change, for example. Instead we get tiny numbers that somehow elect large numbers of MPs controlling how everyone else lives their lives

@pluralistic Hi, we are a group of parents in Vancouver that are trying to push back against local school board plans to deploy Microsoft Copilot into classrooms.

We have started a petition to show that parents are concerned and do not consent to their children using genAI in classrooms.

It would help so much if you could share it.

actionnetwork.org/petitions/vo

What #Grok generates is non-consensual and abusive. It is not "AI porn", it's AI sexual abuse materials. "#AISAM", let's call it.

Sex work is work, there are plenty of sex workers trying to make a living publishing their own works.

Conflating porn with sexual abuse materials is how we get to a place where independent sex workers get ostracized and lose their livelihood through being banned by payment processors, while a fascist oligarch can materially benefit from sexual abuse materials.

#AI

There are people who will hate you because you are the face of changes that they refuse to make. And then there are the people who will hate you because you are the face of the changes that they refuse to acknowledge are possible because they are so rare in the world to witness.

@pluralistic I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the search has been optimised to look for the name rather than the code. So it might not be enshitification but in fact really poor UX and not testing things before you release them.

@pluralistic I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the search has been optimised to look for the name rather than the code. So it might not be enshitification but in fact really poor UX and not testing things before you release them.

I understand who elected Trump. My question is who the fuck elected the United States?

After being let go from Microsoft, Clippy fell on hard times

"Data from hundreds of public bodies in England shows only four complaints about transgender women in women’s single-sex spaces over a period of three years, according to advocacy group TransLucent."

lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/almost

Yeah, Musk will become a trillionaire if Tesla, whose stock price is currently 70% of its market peak and who has seen consistently dropping sales due its CEO being a ketamine-fueled fascist dingleberry, manages to get to a market cap eight times its current valuation, so, bold move, Cotton, let's see how it plays out

"Tesla proposes Elon Musk pay package that could make him the world’s first trillionaire"

cnn.com/2025/09/05/business/el

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