Dear Bluesky devs: we REALLY need a label that people can apply to their own posts for graphic/disturbing content.
Just filed this. Should hopefully be out in the next little bit, but in the meantime here's some videos of the awesome, terrifying arrival of the annual flash floods ('sayl' in Arabic) that have watered Yemen for millennia and made Yemenis some of the best hydraulic engineers since 3000 BCE
No no no no no no no I haven't read this no no no that skeet is blanc there's nothing written there aaaaargh
Studying political violence shows you that bad outcomes are highly contingent: there are so many switch points before you arrive at the most terrible outcomes. Forestalling them depends on the choices people make.
It could happen here, it could always happen anywhere under some conditions. And it sounds too pat to be true, but it is: when it doesn’t happen, it’s because people up and down the chains of power, ordinary people and officials alike, stood up for their neighbors and said not here, not today
it's dark dark where society is sleepwalking into enabled by techno-utopianism
![He believes AI could, in the next 7-12 years, help treat nearly all infectious diseases, eliminate most cancers, cure genetic disorders, and halt Alzheimer’s at the earliest stages. In the next 5-10 years, Amodei thinks that conditions like PTSD, depression, schizophrenia, and addiction will be cured with AI-concocted drugs, or genetically prevented via embryo screening (a controversial opinion) — and that AI-developed drugs will also exist that “tune cognitive function and emotional state” to “get [our brains] to behave a bit better and have a more fulfilling day-to-day experience.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:hakzua5btcgcfjye2yujlhos/bafkreifyw635i2kepg6q4jnla5dav3umyyvqggu35faeilxgfn3wnaxaja@jpeg)
Oh weird so it turns out there's a downside to making carrying murder weapons around at all times a major part of your political identity
Two federal officials told CNN there is no evidence at this time to indicate a man who was arrested on gun charges near Donald Trump’s Saturday rally in California was attempting to assassinate the former president.
Two federal officials told CNN there is no evidence at this time to indicate a man who was arrested on gun charges near Donald Trump’s Saturday rally in California was attempting to assassinate the fo...
love when someone says "historians will look back in horror" and historians chime in like "we are presently horrified also", great times to live inlove when someone says "historians will look back in horror" and historians chime in like "we are presently horrified also", great times to live in