Amanda Unvarnished

New!
From the producers of
Kids Say the Darndest Things
it’s…

My Coworkers Say the Dumbest Shit!

—@the_etrain

Callisto and I are leaving for the post office and Phoenix is NOT HAPPY about staying home. She is singing the song of her people! I am asking Callisto for obedience behaviors because she is thinking about barking back.

—@Pawpower

Woke up feeling like death, drank water, now I’m about 85% to normal. Drink water, kids.

—@simon

Mar 29, 2023, Elon Musk and others urge six month AI pause, citing ‘risks to society’

https://www.reuters.com/technology/musk-experts-urge-pause-training-ai-systems-that-can-outperform-gpt-4-2023-03-29/

104 days later Elon Musk launches xAI ‘to accelerate risks to society’

https://x.ai/

—@chrismessina

“Pay no attention to the HOA, they’re going to be increasingly irrelevant.”

A post I’ve seen in a few quarters, people positively gloating about the “HOA” culture being diluted by Threads joining the fedi.

But who is the HOA?

Is it the people recommending CWs on posts or Alt text for screen readers?

Is it the people with a zero-tolerance policy for racism and transphobia that bans servers trafficking in such things?

Like if you just can’t wait for the firehose of edgy bigotry, just say that.

—@oliphant

If Thunderbird 115 is called Supernova, Thunderbird 116 should be called Hal. #Only BlindPeopleWillGetThis

—@seedy

Whether the Supreme Court’s affirmative action decision was constitutionally correct or not, it says something when a person sees ending affirmative action as the biggest civil rights and racial justice priority. Just as it says something when a person’s main concern from a government spending standpoint is ending welfare programs—instead of, say, reducing military spending.

—@arossp