Peace and blessings to the indigo bunting that waited long enough outside my window to let me look at it through my binoculars. It was so beautiful

They look like this!

Telegram and xAI have agreed to a 1-year partnership to distribute Grok to Telegram’s billion+ users and integrate it into its apps. Telegram will receive $300M in cash and equity from xAI, plus 50% of revenue from xAI subnoscriptions sold via Telegram. Together, we win! ❤️📈🏆

🔗 Pavel Durov (@durov)

Telegram exodus imminent?

Talking to friends about Mastodon network possibly, and/or signal. Also seen some people talk about Matrix. What we thinking Gucci gang?

XMPP?

Bruh what

When you are steeped in privilege and/or have earned everything through a mixture of stolen labor and office pantomime, the idea of “effort” is always negative. The process of creation — or affection, of love, of kindness, of using time not just for an action or output — is disgusting to the Business Idiot, because those are times they could be focused on themselves, or some nebulous self-serving “vision” that is, when stripped back to its fundamental truth, is either moronic or malevolent. They don’t realise that you hire a worker for the worker’s work rather than just the work themselves, which is why they don’t see why it’s so insulting to outsource their interactions with human beings.

You’ll notice these people never bring up examples of automating actual work — the mind-numbing grunt work that we all face in the workplace — because they neither know nor care what that is. Their “problems” are the things that frustrate them, like dealing with other people, or existing outside of the gilded circles of socialite fucks or plutocrats, or just things that are an inevitable facet of working life, like reading an email. Your son’s birthday party or a conflict with a friend can, indeed, be stressful, but these are not problems to be automated out. They are the struggles that make us human, the things that make us grow, the things that make us who we are, which isn’t a problem for anybody other than somebody who doesn’t believe they need to change in any way. It's both powerful and powerless at the same time — a nihilistic way of seeing our lives as a collection of events we accept or dismiss like a system prompt, the desperate pursuit of such efficient living that you barely feel a thing until you die.

Ed Zitron, The Era of The Business Idiot

(In case anyone is still in denial that she's evil)

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), after an audience member yells, “People will die,” during her discussion on Medicaid cuts at her town hall:

“Well, we all are going to die.”