Edit: I purposely posted this without a warning. The first image of the woman on the train is too powerful to ignore and the threat of the Nazis marching on DC is real. Feel free to use the block button if it is too much for you, trust me, I've used it several times on the reply guys today.
Looks like Trump is finally going to have a crowd at the Nazi State Fair
Amazing photo by Cheney Orr of Reuters from today. Black woman sitting alone on the DC Metro with a crowd of masked white supremacists on their way to the capital to march with confederate flags.
There is also a deeper analogy for what I keep hearing over and over from Black people: finding themselves surrounded by white people who either do not know, or do not care, about how America looks from the Black person's perspective.
What if we ban computers from using kids instead?
Reminder that Mark Zuckerberg really really really wants you not to read Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams.
So, obviously, whatever you do, don't read it or little Mark will get upset.
I am childless because I wouldn't send anyone on a suicide mission I did not believe had a reasonable hope of success, and you are lighting your kids' earth on fire to watch a sesquinquagintillion stochastic parrots squawking into an ever-weakening jet stream.
ABC NY reporting the LaGuardia runway will be reopening first thing tomorrow.
Wife: (reads The Giving Tree to a group of 6 year olds)
Student: that tree is so stupid
Wife: so's your mom
#kids #school #reading #shelsilverstein
Some people think that venture capital is a fundamentally evil business structure. I disagree.
Thought experiment:
If you could press a button tomorrow, that would cause 50% of the entire population of the continent of Africa to die within 5 years😮, but would 50X your profits and create dozens of trillion dollar companies, and help humanity become interplanetary 10 years earlier, would you press it?
If you're on this weird little Mastodon thing reading this, then you are most likely:
1) A technologist of some sort
2) Not a genocidal maniac
So you would of course say no.
Some of you suspect that I'm going to *imply* that many VCs would say yes. But I'm not going to imply anything. I don't have to. Because many of these VCs have written papers and blog posts under their real names, celebrating the fact that they believe that it's wrong *not* to press that button.🤦🏿♂️
The problem with VC is neither the profit motive, nor the business structure.
The problem is that the vast majority of the funds that our entire society uses to solve hard problems, are controlled and allocated by people that believe that it is their duty to create new buttons like the one above, and then mash it repeatedly.
you mess with the bull you get the horns. you mess with the goat you get the woodwinds. the horse has the string section and the rabbit is on percussion
#Via Dante Atkins
@DanteAtkins
2:06 PM · May 8, 2026
"One must fully understand that the Virginia Supreme Court ruling is not simply overruling the voters based on a technicality--it is overruling the voters on a technicality THAT THEY LITERALLY JUST INVENTED FOR THIS PURPOSE AND EXISTS NOWHERE ELSE IN VIRGINIA OR FEDERAL LAW"
Last week I tried to make a donation, via my Fidelity Donor Advised Fund, to the SPLC, which I've donated to previously. Fidelity rejected the transaction.
SPLC is a 501(c)3 charity that is fully eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions. They are the target of a Trump DoJ investigation, but they haven't been found guilty of any crime, and their 501(c)3 status remains valid.
I'll be moving my DAF to one that respects my (lawful) wishes.
So, heads up, I'm seeing this post announcing palantirwatch.org being boosted a lot: <excised>
However, the site seems to be vibe coded and, while I've just picked stuff at random, most claims are lacking sources and/or just plain wrong. I think it is all generated by an LLM.
- For example, the "Court Dossier" page mentions a 2019 case "Kik v. Palantir", about a "former partner" suing them for stealing fraud-detection tech. But a far as I can tell, there was no such case.
- The op-eds listed on the "Media & Narrative" page don't exist. E.g., Alex Karp never wrote an op-ed for The Atlantic.
- The few links given are incredibly generic (e.g., linking to a Bloomberg search result for "Alex Karp" rather than an actual story) or incorrect (like the Palantir page on OpenSecrets.org, which should be https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/palantir-technologies/summary?id=D000055177, and the figures don't match the website's).
- None of the quotes on the "Karp File" page seem to be real.
The creator's other sites appear to be LLM slop as well.
edit: the toot is taken down, site is "under construction".
#Via Ian Boudreau
@ianboudreau
10:06 AM · Apr 19, 2026
"Palantir is a quasi-fundamentalist subversive right-wing movement with a stock symbol."
#Via Kat Tenbarge
@kattenbarge
11:12 AM · Apr 19, 2026
"At a time when mass surveillance and autonomous weapons companies like Palantir are openly announcing their plans for violent world domination, it is crucial that our attempts at 'big tech reform' don’t actually give them more power—ie via government mandated age verification/identity software."
#Via Better Things Are Possible / internethippo
8:57 PM · Apr 19, 2026
"Browsing this company's website and the only way I can describe what I'm seeing is imagine a school shooter was a management consultant."
Cartoon by Michael de Adder.
#MisheardLyrics
The elder Bush had a devil for a son, woe's me, woe's me, woe's me
“Chicago-based #music superfan Aadam Jacobs has been #recording the concerts he attends since the 1980s, amassing an archive of over 10,000 tapes. Now 59, Jacobs knows that these #cassettes are going to degrade over time, so he agreed to let volunteers from the Internet Archive, the nonprofit digital library, digitize the tapes.”