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Another reason to cancel your subscription.

And there’s not a damn thing former employees can do about it. Fun! 🙃

Hell, you pay a premium for doing something worthwhile. People know you’ll work in education, healthcare, elder care, child care, research or NGOs out of the goodness of your heart. You gotta spend 50 hrs a week finding new ways to exploit workers or fool consumers to get paid a market rate

THIS IS WHY WE CAN’T AFFORD TO HAVE SCHOOLS, GADDAMMIT.

Despite Israel’s genocide—these 7 Democratic Senators voted AGAINST a resolution to block sale of weapons to Israel 🔵Blumenthal (CT) 🔵Coons (DE) 🔵Cortez-Masto (NV) 🔵Fetterman (PA) 🔵Gillibrand (NY) 🔵Rosen (NV) 🔵Schumer (NY) Vote these 7 fascists out. A record 40 Dems voted to block. Vote failed 59-40

The collapse of the gulf stream will be catastrophic for the entire planet. The crisis in the earth's circulation system continues to be ignored while politicians promote massive oil/gas expansion. We are killing our children's future. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Going to be a whole lot of this sort of nervous rebranding happening I think.

Hey Fort Wayne IN.........heed these warnings! Stop the data center!

Solid metaphor. And something the Dems are very studiously avoiding addressing in any constructive way at all.

Sen. Wyden: Republicans and the Trump administration specifically killed the direct file program and put those workers back at the mercy of the tax software giants, who overcharge for a service that ought to be free.

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Just attended an illuminating panel discussion, so I wanted to share the letter sent to the ASA today by Sociologists for Palestine in case any sociologists could use an update about their vital work, which necessitates action for a free Palestine! 🍉 www.sociologistsforpalestine.org/asa-boycott#...

D’ya think JD is angling to become Pope Shitweasel the First when the schism comes? 🤔💩

Huh. Looks like stacking steroids and meth to fashion yourself into a sterile uncanny-valley “manly man” isn’t a good life plan after all. (My primary question about this guy is, and forever will be: WHERE THE FUCK WERE HIS PARENTS?!)

A woman sued OpenAI last week alleging that ChatGPT reinforced the obsessive, violent delusions of her stalker (her ex-boyfriend.) This woman's claims (as detailed by TechCrunch, left) are chillingly similar to those of a completely different woman whose story Futurism reported on in Feb (right):

I really appreciate this thread because as a woman I feel like I’m going crazy sometimes trying to asses risk. It’s overwhelming and confusing.

Years ago, a writer friend was passing through on tour. I didn't know him that well, but I liked what I knew of him - and when he suggested that I join him (and the other writer touring with them) to hang and sign stock, I said "Sure, let's do it." So the three of us spent a day doing that. (1)

new bucket list unlocked for my adhd craft friends:

Looking for recommendations of payment processors who aren’t: Block/Square, Shopify, or PayPal… Fuck I am SO tired of these people.

i said this about substack all the way back in 2021 and it's as true now as it was then and has always been and will always fucking be

Imagine what useful things they could have been studying, instead of wasting their time debunking our Idiot In Chief.

"If DHS follows through on [its] promises [to reimburse local law enforcement for the salaries and benefits of officers trained to participate], the [287(g) task force] program ... would become the largest federal police funding effort in the country by far."

man, how many people have fucked up international diplomacy this badly, this quickly? vance managed to completely shit the bed on two top administration priorities in, like, less than 48 hours, across two different continents

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A new report from the University of California shows that the state's decision to raise the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20/hr didn’t hurt jobs, or raise prices much. Data from over 2,000 restaurants shows that the $20/hr minimum wage didn’t reduce employment. /1

Please explore alternatives to Substack, if you are a decent person who currently publishes there. I hear good things about Beehiiv & Ghost, for starters.

I don’t even have words for this.

“Cease normalising AI hype (…) The technologies do not have the advertised capacities & their adoption puts students and academics at risk of violating ethical, legal, scholarly, and scientific standards of reliability, sustainability, & safety.” openletter.earth/open-letter-... cc @olivia.science

Once again I think you are stupid and do not respect you if you are falling for this dope. You are a Tulsi Gabbard person to me

NEW: In 2020, as President Trump tried to overturn his loss to Joe Biden, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held — barely. A @propublica.org investigation found that, ahead of the midterms, Trump has systematically demolished those guardrails. 🧵

Why is the answer always "The Dems should move further right" though? 😂 They’ve been doing that since 1980 and everything has been getting measurably worse for everyone but the ultra wealthy ever since. IT’S A TERRIBLE IDEA. FUCKING STOP THAT.

🚨🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Opposition leader Péter Magyar WINS the election for prime minister of Hungary, defeating Putin and Trump’s ally Viktor Orbán. 🇭🇺

JD Vance *wracking* up the losses this week!

I too have written about white conservatives in southern state legislatures rushing through bullshit changes to the law just to thwart the advancement of literally one black man, but I'm a historian who writes about the Jim Crow era South and not a reporter discussing current fucking events there.

Some more meese.

Repost for alt:

Feels relevant #Artemis

::taps the sign::

Someone already messages to ask/accuse how I could possibly be legit in fundraising for the emergency surgery I had yesterday and be working on Medicaid defense. They're trying to kill my people and I won't stop fighting for them until I'm dead — is the short answer.

Frank Conniff: My fellow writers might not want to hear this, but AI is a useful tool for certain aspects of the craft, like for instance when you’re engaged in the process of being a talentless shitbag hack who is too lazy to do any fucking writing.

For a month now I've been asking for your help for my brother Waseem, but the donations are very slow. I can't afford his dental treatment or pay the doctor's fees. Please don't let my brother down so he can speak and eat easily Please make a donation www.gofundme.com/f/Help-Hanaa...

Kerry: I was part of the any number of conversations with Netanyahu. Psaki: Pitching the US strike Iran? Kerry: Yes, he wanted us to strike. He came to President Obama. He made a presentation to ask to strike. President Obama refused. President Biden refused. President Bush refused.

Schools are like "hey lock up your cell phones they're too damaging to the learning process. now please open up your lying plagiarism machine and start generating content"

Nightmare shit. A prisoner from the George Floyd Uprising has just disappeared from state DOC records after weeks of being held in solitary and having no access to communications.

I keep hearing people say that Democrats can't push away A or B or C but I never hear them say "A needs to include trans people; have we considered NOT selling them out?" or "B is the peaceniks, so let's go for that?" It's always group C, Liz Cheney voters, and Liz Cheney lost her election.