a n d r e w

silly and yearning. it’s chaos, be kind.
he/him

[a n d r e w @hcirdak]

This is my brain, and it's fine. It's where I spend the vast majority of my time. It's not perfect, but it's mine.

[a n d r e w @hcirdak]

@hankgreen But aren't they winning right now anyway? This is a time trial and if we aren't committing, hard, to cutting emissions and moving to renewables NOW we're losing. Is there news I've missed that humanity is on track to avert the climate crisis?

[The Serfs (youtube.com/theserftimes) @theserfstv]

Where's this energy for fascism?

[Cohen is a ghost @skullmandible]

it's crazy how few people are actually on site maintaining these data centers. it seems like if there was a fire or something, not only would it take a while for anyone to notice, but it would be really easy for everyone to get out without being hurt

[Rachel True @RachelTrue]

Variety sucks for this headline💩

America hates unions because they put power in the workers hands & an old school almost extinct defined benefit pension in their pocket

Most grandparents couldn’t have left you that old house w/o union wages & a pension supporting them

[Sam Stein @samstein]

The algae infested reflecting pool is a metaphor

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[a n d r e w @hcirdak]

Funny how many people let billionaires tell them, from the top of their mountains of wealth, "No don't take more of my money, it won't help you." And people just believe them. I hate this scum-fuck country of scammers and gambling addicts.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Bezos on CNBC: "You could double the taxes I pay, and it's not gonna help that teacher in Queens. I promise you."

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

Truly a golden age for scammers.

[Sawyer Hackett @SawyerHackett]

Almost all of the most galling trades are listed as UNSOLICITED—meaning they were NOT recommended by a broker.

[Pedro L. Gonzalez @emeriticus]

I think this episode perfectly encapsulates the new right: Trump says he doesn't care about Americans. JD Vance is asked what he thinks about that, and the quote is read to him word for word, but all he can do, because he has no spine, no moral compass, no self-respect for himself as an American, is deny that Trump said it at all. Then Trump doubles down, knowing full well that his base will swallow his contempt for them, and that no one around Trump, least of all dogs on leashes like Vance, would dare ask him to mask his hatred for the average person, while conservative media from The Blaze to The Daily Wire will praise Trump for being so refreshingly candid about how much he hates this country and its people, which they will also call patriotism.

[Sarah @ScarahFGC]

When they mash on your +3 c.s so you sajamuinely have to hit them with the plus on guac stare

[Dan Pfeiffer @danpfeiffer]

The kind of quote that used to end political careers

[Jessica Burbank @JessicaLBurbank]

THIS IS AS SIMPLE AS I CAN MAKE IT #jeromepowell

[a n d r e w @hcirdak]

So I don't really care if it's engaging in conspiracy theory to say this: the WHCD shooter is a false flag to build Trump's ballroom/bunker complex. And to try to scold people into dropping the Epstein stuff. It feels pretty open and shut as far as conspiracies go.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

Build the White House Ballroom.

[Turnbull @cturnbull1968]

Sir, terrorists have flown planes into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon what do you want to do?

“Convene the Joint Chiefs and the White House architect. We need a ballroom.”

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

This is not a refugee program. It is a "whites only" immigration program.

[Dimi Reider | dimireider.substack.com @reider]

I'm extremely sceptical of Tucker as an ally. But as long other household-name journos in America keep walking on eggshells around all issues Israel, Tucker's appeal will only grow - along with the legitimisation of the hard right positions he espouses on so many issues other than Palestine.

[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

Good to know. I stand with Michigan.

[Joseph Kahn @JosephKahn]

The solution to the theatrical problem is very simple. Extend the time before it goes to streaming. Make it 180 days. 6 months. If you don't watch it in theaters you won't get to see it for a long time. Studios have devalued their product by letting the consumer know there's no urgency. They're going to see it for "free" later. They've cheapened the business into a buffet and violated basic supply and demand.

[Pat Just Pat 🍉 @PatTheSocialist]

America being unaffordable is the most bipartisan project to ever exist