Nick Rosano

I like words & the world. Also soccer. M.A. @AU_SIS '23. Formerly: @MLS. Views still mine. He/him.

[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???

[Jan-Albert Hootsen @jahootsen]

Here's a sad thought: Mexican local media were the ones providing the public with crucial information on Mencho's death and the resulting violence, while AI generated uncertainty and panic via false images and information.

But the money is going to AI, not local journalism.

[Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones]

ITV pulling zero punches in this incredible footage - "This landscape of destruction looks otherworldy, but it's not, it's this world - What is happening may come to define one of its darkest eras, one that casts a stain on humanity, which will endure for generations" #Gaza

[Bobby Wagner @bwags]

most profound thing I’ve heard an athlete say in a long time and he just says it casually at an all-star game availability lol

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

I'm alarmed by how many people think AI is actual intelligence and not a blender that makes content smoothies.

[Sam Stein @samstein]

Press Sec clarifies that Elon Musk will self-determine when there is a conflict of interest involving him and DOGE.

[yoshimi battles video game addiction @nise_yoshimi]

reactionary nationalism's core idea is that the nation is being taken advantage of by a rigged international system and must reassert itself. This is an especially stupid idea when adopted by the US, the nation that the international system is rigged *in favour of*

[Michael Caley @MC_of_A]

if you're voting in New York City

-don't forget to flip your ballot for the ballot questions
-vote yes on 1 to write abortion rights into the state constitution
-vote no on 2-6 because they were shoddily drafted at the last minute by Eric Adams and will screw up NYC governance

[Peter Beinart @PeterBeinart]

this first question: would you support a preemptive strike on Iran rather than how would you stop this regional war pretty much encapsulates what is wrong with US media coverage of this conflict

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

This is a horrific tragedy, but all of this is nonsense.

This story is on the homepage of every national newspaper and on all the major networks constantly.

A federal national emergency was declared. FEMA, National Guard, state-level nat guard are all being activated.

Spreading this lie to hurt Biden/Harris is gross.

[Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff]

Robin Williams left us 10 years ago today. He was wildly talented and deeply feeling, but also astonishingly prescient. This scene from "Mork & Mindy" is from 1981.

[Jodi Kantor @jodikantor]

Really striking view of Tim Walz from deep in the @nytimes archives https://t.co/8OqLTC77H6

[Brett Meiselas @BMeiselas]

This explains a whole lot

[Soccerwise @SoccerwiseHQ]

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[Jason Longshore @Longshoe]

Folks, the US and these stadiums host major sporting events on a regular basis. It's not like they got amnesia and forgot how to do that. Look at the differences in organization and it's not hard to figure out who to blame.

[Cincinnatus🏗️🚊🏙️🇺🇦 @Cincinnatus56]

Guys, if you want Biden to drop out because you think the vibes are off, fine.

But this guy getting extremely deep in the weeds on obscure industrial policy and hard foreign policy questions off the cuff is not senile.

He’s simply not.

[@eliothiggins.bsky.social @EliotHiggins]

For some reason, @elonmusk's X is now claiming the link to this article about Russia bombing a children's hospital is unsafe, because apparently it has "been identified by X or our partners as being potentially spammy or unsafe". Unsafe to who, Putin? 🤔

[Aric Toler @AricToler]

Click through the link below and see what happens

[Nick Miller @NickMiller79]

This is so great, and it also emphasises something that the usual sorts are too thick/obtuse/racist to understand: that identity - national, cultural, whatever - isn't binary. You can be many things at the same time, which doesn't dilute any of them.