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[Rick and More Tweets @PatPasq]

@RapSheet Can’t believe they didn’t use the large hadron collider to steal signs

[Fav ⛧ @Favwontmiss]

Having trouble brainstorming and want to use AI? Talk to your friend with adhd. We have so many ideas and never drink water.

[Jordan @SLCLunk]

It’s such a perfect metaphor to have something that gives joy to tens of thousands get ruined by one Republican billionaire asshole

[Claire Giangrave @ClaireGiangrave]

Pope Leo XIV on war in Iran:
"I think this has already been made very clear: the notion of a just war no longer applies. The problem is that just war theory developed in centuries when no one could have imagined the weapons we have today or humanity's capacity for destruction."

[DeeDee - ADHD Helper @DopaminePlsMe]

Calling ADHD "procrastination" is the biggest joke. procrastination implies I am actually enjoying the distraction. I am NOT. I am actively MARINATING in a toxic soup of my own avoidance, intensely aware that I am making my life ten times worse, screaming at my body to just get up, and my brain is just like "no ❤️"

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.

[Rick and More Tweets @PatPasq]

President Lincoln experienced an anomaly at the Ford Theater

[Blue Origin @blueorigin]

We experienced an anomaly during today's hotfire test. All personnel have been accounted for. We will provide updates as we learn more.

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

this hasn't been true since 2008, AI is just the first time that executives doing commencement speeches have stopped saying "work hard and you'll get rewarded" and changed to "this software that I don't really understand will take your job, but don't worry, I'm rich!"

[Rho Rider @RhoRider]

Imagine firing a quarter of your company and your first inclination is running to Twitter to post a rambling AI slop humble brag about how innovative and awesome you are for firing people.

[Sunrise Movement 🌅 @sunrisemvmt]

When the candidate you endorsed just lost their election to a socialist from Philly

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Mayor Zohran Mamdani mocks Ronald Reagan’s infamous quote.

“I can think of nine words more terrifying than ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help…’”

“I worked all day and can’t feed my family.”

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

What stage of elitism is it when the punditry is declaring that people who make $60,000 a year have “failed at life”?

[swagmoder 🏳️‍⚧️ @swagmoding]

mamdani is the democrats’ worst nightmare because he’s living proof that they just aren’t doing their jobs

[Rick and More Tweets @PatPasq]

@Jolly_Olive “let’s watch him run” alley oop from the booth followed by zero frames of him on the basepaths. Video prod team stays fumbling

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

You reduce crime by eliminating poverty. You reduce crime with universal healthcare, public housing, livable wages, and free college. You reduce violence by creating happy, healthy communities that aren’t constantly fighting over basic needs and material resources.

[Nate Blouin @NateForUtah]

Democratic Socialism is much closer to the politics of the median Democratic primary voter than the corporate centrism we get from establishment Dems.

[The Tech Oversight Project @Tech_Oversight]

$653 million in political donations. $200,000 a day in lobbying. 307 lobbyists — more than 1 for every 2 members of Congress.

You don't spend like this when the public is on your side. You spend like this when you need to buy the referees. Read this week's Dispatch for more.

[Rushi @rushicrypto]

I don’t care if someone works in an office, a warehouse, a restaurant, or cleans floors. If you give 40 hours of your life every week, you should be able to pay rent, buy groceries, cover your bills, and still have enough left to breathe a little. That shouldn’t be some dream. It should be normal. The fact that so many people work full-time and still live stressed, behind, and one emergency away from disaster tells you this system is failing the people who keep it running.