Brian Young

"Won't somebody please think of the opportunity cost of killing Iranians" is quite a moral posture

Anthropic refuses to allow its AI to be used for mass surveillance or to control autonomous weapons

News: what will happen with this standoff between Big AI and Trump?

Normal people: wait, the government wants to build robot weapons and mass surveillance systems?!?

This is a completely broken, leaderless US government

The combination of her story and who is cutting her job pretty much sums up where we are at. The story: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

I feel like one of the great disservices of education and cultural messaging was expecting authoritarianism to be ... impressive. It's not, it's stupid and inane and grasping, maladjusted people taking out their problems on everyone else

Honestly must kind of suck to learn that the answer to the question "what would I do if masked agents of the federal government ever started murdering people in the streets" is "I would shitpost in support of it"

Bei Dao, translated by David Hinton

They definitely double teamed him at the half. Celtics are gonna have to draw up plays for when Pritchard draws 2-3 guys end of every quarter

Apple doesn't make it easy to share, but ... top 10 artists for me from 2024:

1. SZA
2. Lauryn Hill
3. Kendrick Lamar
4. Radiohead
5. Noname
6. Jazmine Sullivan
7. Jamila Woods
8. Joni Mitchell
9. Angélique Kidjo
10. Anderson .Paak

Messi: "It's an honor even being mentioned in the same breath as <checks name on plaque> Landon Donovan."

Something deeply funny about Lionel Messi winning an award named after Landon Donovan. It's like Lebron James winning the JJ Barea Award

i keep trying to get people to use the much-more-accurate "demagoguery" to describe Trump's approach

Just think of the levels of evil here: hacking emails to cover for a company that has for decades knowingly destroyed the climate of the entire planet.

Breathtaking

It's such a cliche but I'm all about "the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference" right now.

Bad messaging by Democrats? Not my problem! More infrastructure for organizing and strengthening communities? I'm on it!

Increasingly convinced that the only way to predict Trump cabinet picks is by the "what's the stupidest possible pick" metric.

So, for Labor ... Vince McMahon? The My Pillow Guy?

Can we just all admit that Putin won?

I don't want another Twitter, I gotta think of this place as a place to create an informative community, not a news source

RFK really pushing the Overton window on "weird" today

"Haha, spin this mainstream media! <tells story about having sex with aquatic wildlife while scamming elderly people into buying worthless crypto>"

*high fives comms staff*