I think I hated wrestling even more. Wrestling was, in my mind, basically formalized fighting, but on the floor. I was terrible in fights. I always got my ass kicked and I got my ass kicked a lot.

School phys ed wrestling was no different.

I wound up spraining all four fingers on one hand at one point. That was fucking terrible.

Did anyone stop to help me? Nope, they just tossed insults at me.

Ask me why I think sports is bullshit. I fucking hate sports. I associate it with childhood trauma.

There is a direct and inevitable through line from the abuse and barbaric behaviors I witnessed and experienced every day among my male age peers and the fascist who occupies the oval office.

He's there because we, as a society, revere these behaviors and these ways of being as good and proper.

That's how we got here.

That's not the only reason why but it underlies much of it.

In a just society, the person responsible for "videos that start autoplaying on top of a text article you are trying to read" would be jailed for crimes against humanity.

"To allow businesses to hide behind the excuse of faulty AI in those same circumstances would be a massive handout to companies, and would introduce disastrous incentives for corporate misbehavior. Why hire human writers, lawyers or doctors when AIs are not only cheaper, but also absolve employers whenever they make a mistake?"

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/06/ai-and-liability.html

@martinvermeer

Trump Epstein Files-worthy behaviour.

#patbagley #transphobia #sportsmanship

@Urban_Hermit
The one who invaded Iraq
@lowqualityfacts

https://variety.com/2026/biz/news/weird-al-yankovic-rejected-ai-commercial-money-offer-1236800794/

Yay! All I hear is he's a good dude. love it.

@the5thColumnist @benlockwood
You're forgetting the most important part of college - shitty rich kids networking with other shitty rich kids.

The useless loop of students using AI to write papers that professors use AI to grade is the ultimate endpoint of treating education as a product rather than a process.

There has recently been a wave of AI-generated accounts signing up pretending to be real people.

Server admins are trying to ban them as quickly as they are discovered, and some servers have temporarily closed sign-ups while they deal with it.

If you spot an account you think might be AI-generated, click ⋯ on one of the account's posts and select "report". Remember to give your reason for reporting, so that the admin knows what to look for.

#FediTips

Actually it's a program i made that queries all the most popular LLMs to find you the best deal on bridges in Manhattan, so you don't even have to trust me on this. I swear! That's what the LLM told me, and it's entirely accurate. That's why no one gets mad when they are cited by them

If you think you can ask an LLM how often it serves up your name for something and you expect a real answer, i may know an LLM that can sell you a bridge in Manhattan for pretty cheap

goose ready to go to the concert of a band he only knows 3 songs from

What if Elon doesn't understand Kessler Syndrome? What if he doesn't care that he's cannibalizing his cash cow by plugging it up with space junk?

What if his personal net worth was tied to the destruction of our orbital pathways?

@tante Spacex, as I predicted, was the only comprehensive fraud the market, and larger business community in the US, could digest and pretend wasn't a fraud.

They rushed Spacex to IPO knowing 80%+ of its projected value was from AI and that its AI arm, XAI, had no market share or future + the ~$4B in launch revenue was billions less than even OnlyFans, which had revenues in excess of $7B in 2025.

There's no appetite for another fraud, and business knows OpenAI/Anthropic are just that.

Street near the Roman temple in the ancient inland city of #Vic, about an hour north of Barcelona.

#photography #TravelPhotography #StreetPhotography #Catalonia #Spain

Uncle has an electric wheelchair which was deemed medically necessary and paid for by his insurance company.
He is much less mobile now than when it was approved.
It's broken.
The insurance company won't authorize a repair until Uncle's doctor writes a "prescription" for the repair and sends it to the company that services the chair.
I've been asking the doctor's office for weeks to send the prescription and they've been ignoring me.
This is some serious bullshit.
#healthcare #healthInsurance