"They don't care about us enough to hate us. We are simply a form of livestock."

#GillianFlynn quote from a 2017 TIME magazine piece

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First of all, slop is slop because of provenance. Provenance is not a function of content. It's a function of how that content came to be. Provenance is what makes "the same sentence" plagiarism or not-plagiarism in different contexts, what makes "the same apple" organic or not-organic in different contexts.

If there's the result we're hoping for next week, there must be a strong and resolute message to Democratic Senators and Senators-elect.

No more Chuck Schumer as leader. He absolutely, positively must go.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chuck-schumer-ilhan-omar-raid

Meta is an enemy combatant

https://page.iss-corporate.com/webinars/cyber-risk-benchmarking-demonstrating-diligence-and-managing-liability-exposure
#CyberRisk

@peter Trump has singlehandedly manipulated the market, juicing his own personal opportunistic investments and by granting favored gov contracts, deregulating through EOs, and flat out grift, he has falsely enriched himself and his co-conspirators. Musk is not worth $1T without Trump. The collapse is pre-ordained, when is just a matter of time as the curtain is ripped back.

I still kind of think the bottom will fall out of the US market once the Dems take over. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-26/brazil-markets-brace-for-rout-on-lula-s-improbable-election-win

Sharing today, for no particular reason.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ9WiuJPnNA

Using tech to solve problems rooted in human #psychology and tribalism is a fraught exercise.

Ask your local Fediverse instance moderator.

https://www.superversive.co/blog/ai-product-change-management

@uastronomer remember to be VERY clear about how the sun is just a bunch of farts set on fire, and how the earth is not actually a sphere.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117508719699064900

Boston Dynamics employees:

@junesim63

The fossil fuel industry quietly acquired & consolidated property insurers & underwriters for several reasons.

1. Profiting from the catastrophes of their own making

2. To thwart insurers from sounding the alarm on climate change

3. To thwart regulatory oversight into the price gouging & mortgage market manipulations

ie post-Katrina, only the self-insured could afford to rebuild homes.

4. Carpetbaggers started the land grabs immediately after the Maui & Altadena wildfires.

1/

Every one of these neo-nazi fucks in EVERY country where a right-wing exists are inextricably linked with A) violent goonsquads and B) the Republican Party of the United States and its neo-nazi techbro sponsors because they are ALL members of a Fascist International. This👇 is the START of how you MEANINGFULLY deal with them.
https://paydayreport.com/brazilian-federal-police-confiscate-flavio-bolsonaros-passport/

Imagine if we took all the money that would normally be spent on political campaigns and spent it on something useful. Like bike lanes. Or tacos.

I keep seeing "sometimes the LLM is right" which means as much as "sometimes a random number is 4" and I'm so tired.

@paninid @kurtsh

@mookie HOAs, not unlike politicians, used to generally represent their constituents.

Now they're all just another means of extending power & control over others.

The weaponization of HOAs is a casualty of the death of civility, communal spirit, social contracts & shame.

@vij @paninid angering a police union *and* a republican? this guy just keeps getting sexier by the minute

Critical work meetings from 10-11pm at a gym 👍🏽 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/26/mamdani-used-nypd-gym-to-host-pickup-basketball-games-with-friends-01135501