possibly: cat

why tweet when I can send mgn a stupid voice text instead. she/her

[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???

[Conor Rogers @conorjrogers]

HEY WHAT THE FUCK

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

As my father said, “BUT IT IS NOT ENOUGH for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society. These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention. And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the negro poor has worsened over the last twelve or fifteen years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice and humanity.”

[🧡✨dreamthem✨💙 @gatx_negrx]

We need to return to the more expansive definition of community that does not end at friends

Because actually there are people who you will not like, be annoyed by, even detest, in the community you live in and are part of. They are not disposable because of your discomfort

[Jeremy Konyndyk @JeremyKonyndyk]

Seasoned humanitarians do not operate this way because it's a terribly risky and ineffective way to deliver aid.

Quick 🧵 on what seems to have gone wrong, and why nothing about today's events was surprising.

(subtitle: humanitarians know stuff, actually)

[Grosdoriane @Grosdoriane]

"It wasn't a seig heil"

Hey man, I'm gonna be honest. I get that it's possible that you're that stupid, but I'm not.

[possibly: cat @winedrunkcat]

@wmata we lost an iphone on the orange like towards Vienna, the train that arrived at west falls church at 5:47pm today. Not sure which car but somewhere in the middle. Can we file a report or ask someone to look for it?

[possibly: cat @winedrunkcat]

@allisona15 I’ve been seeing so much referring to the drama but I haven’t figured out yet what happened

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

If Elon Musk can afford to lose $200 billion in a single year, he can afford a wealth tax.

[taha @KhanStopMe]

american conservatives going face first into the point and still missing it

[Read Jackson Rising @JPHilllllll]

The argument is so tired. The people you should be worried about have $39,000,000 mansions, not $390 coats.

[possibly: cat @winedrunkcat]

@EwdatsGROSS YAY CONGRATS 🍾🍾

[Willie Muse @Williesillie2]

Someone got visited by 3 ghosts last night

[Jorts (and Jean) @JortsTheCat]

What in the TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST HELL is this?! Amazon suspended dozens of workers who felt the conditions were unsafe last night after a fire. All solidarity with @amazonlabor, and all eyes on Amazon bosses https://t.co/KI5nE45cr3

[possibly: cat @winedrunkcat]

@EwdatsGROSS Happy birthday!!! 🍾🍾

[The White House 46 Archived @WhiteHouse46]

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene had $183,504 in PPP loans forgiven.

https://t.co/4FoCymt8TB

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

Today is officially the day that Joe Biden signs the Inflation Reduction Act and I would like to make the case that it is a bigger deal than anything else that happened today, or this month, and possibly this year.

[b @doyalikebaileys]

my official opinion is that domestic violence cases and lawsuits between celebrities should not be televised for entertainment and some of you are fucking weird

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Today’s cover of The New York Times Sunday Review