Lenhart

Bit of a gamer, bit of a human | @CloseSociety

[Lenhart @ALenharrt]

chat, is this as cool as a tomahawk-ending 4 piece or no?

[Lenhart @ALenharrt]

@Marvelizd you think? i know we're never gonna get a crazy barrett again but the scope just kinda reminded of the bo6 barrett, i also assume base ads is always gonna be slow

[stace 🐞 @staystaystace]

I do not want an ai shopping assistant I do not want ai search help i don’t want to see what my pictures would look like with ai slop I don’t want an ai DJ I don’t want ai anything please leave me the FUCK ALONE

[🌋 @hum_dunkin]

(trying to say "there's plenty fish in the sea" but forgetting the phrase) there's animals all over the place

[You Know Who @MuskTillDawn]

Posting like this while defunding the forest and national park service is such bullshit, man

[fogbrain བདེ་འབྱུང😶‍🌫️ @FogbrainArts]

This is like a forlorn fantasy thinking about back in the olden times, you could get on Xbox Live and stream Netflix as a shared account with your friends to watch a movie together online, with full text and voice chat, emotes etc. -- and only 1 person had to have netflix for it to work iirc.

It's crazy. 6th gen may well have been a hallucination considering how backwards we've gone.

[Jonjoeeeeeeeeee @Jonjoeeeeeeeeee]

I think Gen Z's a lot more open minded because "nostalgia" isn't just wishing you were young again. The times were legitimately better and the world held more beauty to it. Not because we grew up, but because someones been taking it away for decades now

[Zito @_Zeets]

One of the problems with people not reading anymore is that the quality of overall storytelling is being reduced in everything. So many songs and their lyrics sound remedial now. Like they’re being written for children.

[first order violet 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇻🇪 @chefthechefuh]

I think what I hate the most about being gen z is how I not only saw the transition of this
But only got to experience the world before minimalism for a brief few years before I could really maintain stronger memories

[Kerry Sinanan @kerry_sinanan]

People are saying this is a new level of evil but they already charge you to eat, to be sheltered, to be well. Air is already a cost: pollution affects Black, Indigenous and poor communities most…This is capitalism

[Ikkyū the Younger @idlematts]

Modern slop is based in decades of scientific research into how to manipulate humans with strategic dopamine hits. Yes, people can learn to "unlove slop", but slop itself is a symptom of capitalism that must be treated until capitalism itself is annihilated.

[Sarah Everett @goddammitsarah]

this is fucking devastating. we are on the verge of losing the few beautiful things about this country

[Financial Physics @FinancialPhys]

Americans need to earn about $8500 per week full time minimum wage to have the same spending power as a car wash kid in 1971 earning $64 a week

This happens when your govt destroys a currency

[tanya @Tanya_Sabrinaaa]

actually the plan is to drive you into poverty, criminalize poverty, then put you into prison labor camps.

the 13th abolishes slavery *except as a punishment for a crime*

[Matt Kramer 🔪 @kramerposts]

The concept of your attention and gaze being "trainable" is one of the most electrifyingly powerful (and terrifying) ideas out there because it means that how you see the world is both a choice and a skill. Do you see beauty or do you see ugliness? Well what do you want to see..?

[Nima Shirazi @WideAsleepNima]

This is extremely horrible.

[🦬 Dr Red Bison, PhD @redbison.bsky ♀🏳️‍🌈🌻 @RedBison]

USFS turned over to a logging CEO, HQ moved to anti-Fed Govt Salt Lake City, all 10 regional offices closed, all research labs shuttered, all the science lost, public lands handed over to corporations for logging, mining, fracking. Our country is being raped, looted, stolen.

[Matt Kramer 🔪 @kramerposts]

something about the modern world that is tough to deal with is it feels like there are so many people and forces who are not on your side. I know the baristas at my local coffee shop are on my side, and they know I am on theirs. I don't really feel like my doctor is on my side. I don't feel like my health insurance provider is on my side, or the government agency running it. In fact they seem to take a perverse pleasure in creating systems that are as incomprehensibly bureaucratic and evil as possible, denying services they are legally obligated to cover as they play procedural cat-and-mouse games, making you jump through 10 minutes of robocall menus just to speak to a human, who says the person you are supposed to speak to is on lunch, or vacation, or has been temporarily transformed into a worm and can't help me until I confirm that I still love them? (Bitch I never did)

I was recently staying at a friend's place while New York, and their cat was sick and they arranged for an in-home vet visit. One of the things she did for them was to give their cat fluids. Having tended to a cat with kidney disease recently I knew exactly the procedure she was doing and how much the components needed for it cost (~$25 to do it 5-8 times at civilian, non-bulk-buying rates). Now obviously you're going to pay SOME kind of a markup for convenience and expertise, but...

She charged them $625 for it.

That's not $625 (including the fee for the home visit and time, travel etc), that's $625 for the procedure, by itself as a line item on a much larger bill including the other costs identified.

It was one of those situations where you just kind of blink and think to yourself, "huh. This is... usury, this is... morally indefensible." The final bill was thousands and thousands of dollars and the level of care and expertise provided was not commensurate with the price that was paid.

And there are similar stories from across so many institutions and even small businesses in America now, from mechanics to handymen, people just SHAMELESSLY taking advantage of the people who are trusting them to help in desperate circumstances.

Ultimately there are no easy solutions or quick fixes here, but as systems and institutions wrestle with the gravity of embracing fundamentally anti-human design structures and incentives, we need to find ways to identify and celebrate people and institutions who are on our side, who are honest, who do fair work at fair prices. It's not something that will happen frictionlessly or organically, I fear, especially as the characteristically short-term thinking of the MBA-class is replaced by an even more efficient and optimized version of that ethos powered by AI.

[Matt Strickland @MattForVA]

This isn’t a small deal. Restaurant Depot is where most mom & pop restaurants go to buy inventory because Sysco is so expensive.

Restaurant Depot was privately owned. Sysco is owned by… you guessed it, BlackRock & Vanguard.

Now private equity can control pricing for food costs with zero competition. Just like they did with housing.

This should be an anti-trust violation, but we have politicians that work for Big Corp, not us.