killing the group chat for three days by ranting about how the Dems don’t have any ideas big enough to counter a soviet style return to spheres of influence politics through anti-globalization imperialism
now that every writer's been forced to pivot to a one-man-show newsletter, every post is like 'i wrote about Anora (2024), the end of the USSR, vladimir putin, child labor laws, Alf, and the postmodernism of fredric jameson ❤️'
Wrote another thing on substack…a cultural analysis that is somehow about rockstar work culture in the 2010s and overconfidence in the 2020s.
https://t.co/2NdphBEFVM
@lydialaurenson Chiming in from Spain--not really the case here. Occasionally yes, but parents are often talking or hanging out at the cafe next to the playground. Dog parks are maybe 1/4-1/3 of people on phones.
ChatGPT can write stories and then tell DALLE-2 prompts to illustrate them. I asked it to write a children's story about "a robot that wanted to be a human." Here's the story it came up with: (0/11)
(not sure if I should post here???? or mastadon? Or fb? but)
Every time I read Dirt I discover some new, informed articulation of a thing that bothers me and this is both sad and satisfying
https://t.co/lFoHIYt1b9
A few months ago, I was visiting family in Florida (where I grew up) and a friend who works in health care there told me she got this weird memo about trans kids, and how science says it's bad. She showed it to me. So I started clicking the links 1/
https://t.co/hCXk3CEqHq
@Pinboard These tests were standard in Austria at least in the summer before mass vaccination. Some restaurants supplied them (for free) as you needed a test to dine (even outdoors). You could buy similar tests at Aldi for around 2-3 euros a piece.