Alex Sartor

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

FUN FACT: Mitch McConnell has been on paid medical leave for 51 days now. That's over 7 weeks.

This is a week longer than the 6 weeks of maternity leave that women in the US are not guaranteed after giving birth.

[𝒢𝒾𝓁𝒷ℯ𝓇𝓉 @AbakpaJob]

"There's no way you can write a ten page paper without chatGPT"
WE COULD LITERALLY DO EVERYTHING THAT EVER HAPPENED IN HUMAN HISTORY WITHOUT CHATGPT WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT.

[Rock Solid @ShitpostRock]

What 11 years of progress looks like

[Morbid Knowledge @MorbidKnowledge]

In the late 1990s, when he was still a struggling actor, Zach Galifianakis started taking his laundry to a Santa Monica laundromat where an older woman, Marie "Mimi" Haist, worked in exchange for a place to sleep, she'd been homeless since her marriage ended decades earlier.

The two became genuine friends long before Galifianakis was famous, and as his career took off with films like The Hangover, he quietly found her an apartment nearby (which Renée Zellweger, another friend Mimi made, helped furnish) and brought her along to red carpet premieres, where she happily played the role of his date.

Their friendship became the subject of the 2015 documentary Queen Mimi.

Haist passed in 2021 at 96, having spent her final decades not on the street, but surrounded by famous friends who adored her.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Reporter: Isn’t there concern that this slippery slope to socialism inevitably ends up as full-blown communism?

AOC: I mean, no. I think that’s very silly. We can’t even raise the minimum wage. Do they really think communism is going to happen? No. They’re trying to scare people because they don’t want us talking about the fact that we all have a right to health care.

So they want to call everything they don’t like communist because if people actually wake up to the fact that their elected officials are screwing them over when they get here, they’re going to realize they deserve better and that health care as a right isn’t crazy. They want to call this stuff communist because they don’t want us to realize that the rest of the developed world has guaranteed health care. They want to call it communist because they don’t want you to know that Germany, Italy, the UK, Canada—everybody else—has it better than us, and we spend the most money for the worst care in the developed world.

[Evan @daviddunn177]

This is the most accurate anyone has ever described Elon Musk.

[Mark Slapinski @mark_slapinski]

The Canadian Air Force SAVED 11 teenagers from wildfires last week.

Donald Trump repaid Canada by threatening to impose tariffs on us.

This act of betrayal will not be forgotten.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

[PAR | TKbreezy 🎙️ Supernova @TKbreezy]

Palworld really got EVERYTHING

Tried to dance with the baddie and she IMMEDIATELY left. Canon Event 10/10 game.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Eby: "The United States is a huge market that is impossible for Canada to replace. But at the end of the day, if they don't want Canadian goods, if they don't like Canada, there's not a lot we can do about that. So let's focus our energy on the places that are really excited to trade with us and take this generational opportunity so that our kids are not put in the same situation of being too dependent on the United States."

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Eby: "I feel sorry for Americans. If you can't be friends with Canada, then you almost certainly do not have a friend anywhere in the world. And that is a very lonely place to be."

[Abier @abierkhatib]

Grok is about to be suspended

[Seth Harp @sethharpesq]

Spending trillions to build out AI data centers proves that the American ruling class had the resources and ability to convert the grid to renewables and maybe save the planet but instead deliberately chose to cook us all and die for no reason but to produce demonic digital slop.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Last year, Microsoft made $101 billion in profits, got a $12.5 billion tax break from Trump & paid its CEO $96 million.

This year, it’s raising the price of an Xbox by $150 & eliminating 3,200 jobs.

Please don’t tell me corporate tax breaks create jobs. It never trickles down.

[Klobrille @klobrille]

@IdleSloth84_ I mean WHO COULD HAVE GUESSED Game Pass ceiling is tied to your console base...

If you want to grow Game Pass, you need to grow your ecosystem across Console + (Cloud & PC). Invest in your platform again, have exclusives, give people reasons to go with the Xbox platform.

[Maude Barlow @MaudeBarlow]

Listen up. Naomi nails it.

[Parris @vicious696]

This is bullshit!

[ᑎEOᑎ @neonarcadegrant]

I'm seeing many people having a hard time understanding why Sony would make a number of unpopular "anti-consumer" moves in rapid sequence. You need to realize it's because you are no longer the consumer.

If you are one of the few who doesn't have a completely fried attention span, I can explain a bit of what's actually going on and why technology feels like shit now.

Many of us living through this shift grew up during a time when new tech felt exciting. Gaming consoles, arcade games, computers, and other devices were targeted directly at us, and evolution was rapid. Consumerism was always present, but so was abundant creativity, and companies’ stated goal was to generate profit by providing ways to make life more entertaining and enriching; marketing creative, innovative technology to own, maintain, and use.

With the rise of the Internet, this focus began to shift. Attention became the new commodity, as did the control of information. Engineering machines became less important than social engineering, and we became the product rather than the market. Aesthetic design, reparability, and functionality became pointless; none of that is required to extract information from you on an industrial scale.

The result of this shift is what we're beginning to see openly now: centralization via AI, mass surveillance, and ownership of absolutely nothing. This new model is built on profiling the most efficient ways to lock you into a maze of subscription services and endless debt, while giving you the means to distract yourself just enough to never become a threat to these objectives.

Understand that Sony is not doing anything here other than following the blueprint that many other tech companies and governments have drafted. They know it’s wildly unpopular, which is why the gaslighting is required. It’s why Sony’s short announcement of ending physical media uses the term, "As consumer preferences change..." four times. It’s to convince you that you have no choice, and that all of this is just technological determinism at work.

Technological determinism is a scam. You still have a free will choice. All you need to do is stop investing your time and money into a system that has zero benefit to you, and instead start enjoying older technology and tools that you can use and maintain; or even more importantly, support new stuff built like the old stuff was. Once enough “product” (i.e. you) is removed from the marketplace, it will cease to be useful to the people who built it. The machine will seize, and we can start making a lot of really cool things again. That’s all that is required.

In the words of Ferris Bueller, "The question isn't, 'What are we going to do?' The question is 'What aren't we going to do?'”

So, what aren't you going to do?