not only am I reposting this but I am doubling Tony's emphasis on "hard *cannot*"

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.” Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

main economic message from the president is that you will be poorer and you will like it

The bartender at our local brewery said her monthly premium is going from $450 to $1250. Per month. This is more than the increase those of us with employer insurance see when we grumble about premium increases and I need such folks to understand. It is literally unaffordable.

Haymarket’s Books Not Bars program receives an average of 50 letters each week at its post office box, many of them requesting books about Black liberation, radical poetry, and political history.

When I was starting out as an erotica writer, I hung out a lot with an older gay man who'd been writing smut forever. He told me that without straight women writing gay paperbacks in the 1950s, gay culture as we know it might not exist. He insisted gay men owed these ladies a huge unpayable debt.

Zero masks in the cancer center (again). Absolute raging fucking indictment of our society.

Numbers in the news sound fake now. Studio acquired for $83 badillion? New CEO pay package of a gajillion??? My brother in Christ, I'm trying to process that a McDonald's breakfast sandwich is almost $3 now.

There are so many people living lives of quiet dignity despite horrific medical news or poverty or tragedy where every day they still wake up and try to be good people in the world even as the world pushes against them and it makes me even angrier at the absolute shitheads that rule over things

If you've noticed that ChatGPT is improving, it's probably because I've spent so much time grading its work.

This is ALWAYS what the TikTok ban was about. It was never about China or “child safety.” Same for KOSA and these other “online safety” bills in congress right now. The goal is complete and total control over online speech and independent journalism

U.S. job cuts have reach 1.17 million this year, the most since 2020.

i wonder where anyone got the idea to call zionists colonizers could it be from their conference in 1899 voting to publicly declare their intention to colonize the holy land? their language not mine.

I have been thinking and talking about Israel my whole life, and have taught about Israel, Palestine, and the Middle East since 2008, well before TikTok existed. I can attest that young Americans’ opinion of Israel has gotten more negative over that time, and the main reason is Israel’s actions.

There are now 2,900 billionaires, and they hold $15.8 trillion. The wealth of the bottom 50% of the global population, over 4 billion people, is estimated at $3.7 trillion.

Folks, the basic justification for enslaving Africans was that they were naturally able to endure hard labor. To the point, of making up theories on our physical abilities and muscles. Y’all…What is happening? Why is there so much white washing of race science?

"In response to prompts as simple as “[name] address,” we found Grok repeatedly offered up accurate, up-to-date home addresses of everyday people, while offering astonishingly scant pushback."

I am also going to add , that part of the reasons we don’t means test is because of how often disabled people are abused by people in their own families . That the PARENTS being rich doesn’t mean they actually take care of the kids and in fact often use that as control

I don't care if a non-disabled person accesses a disability accommodation for the same reason I don't care if a child whose parents are rich gets free lunch at school. We don't need to means test being a kind person. I have better things to do with my time than be a cop over social services.

I finally got around to reading this. You should read it too. "We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice." www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

Its clear you do not know what eugenics was and is. Eugenics was, in the 19th and 20th centuries, considered the science of crafting "fit" populations. Eugenicists targeted disabled people, the poor, people with alcohol issues, immigrants and people of color.

Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business

Reminder: It's never too late to start wearing a mask again

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The max monthly gross income you're allowed to make to qualify for SSDI in 2025 is $1,590 a month. Not even counting state taxes, that's down to under $1,399 after federal taxes. The poverty line is $1,304 monthly. You have to be less than $100 a month above the poverty line to qualify for SSDI.

THIS. Also, most folks have no idea that to receive govt benefits you: - need to become essentially impoverished - usually can't be married - have to give up any idea of saving for retirement - have to fill out a TON of paperwork constantly - *literally* get surveilled in case you're "faking it"

People act like being disabled is great because you get all these ‘benefits’ but forget you have to actually live with your illness or diagnosis or impairment

For anyone who knows anything about genocides and the incitement of genocidal violence, this is the kind of hair-raising stuff you find in transcripts of testimony before special tribunals.

This is not a thing that’s happening lol relax

What it's like to be chronically ill/medically complex: in 2025, I will have had (at least) 76 medical appointments. Hitting 70 today, with 6 more in the next couple weeks. No, I don't have anxiety or hypochondria. No, this doesn't include time making appts, emailing docs, doing research, etc.

This snooping + impunity sounds like police are super sovereign citizens

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Make Layoffs Embarrassing Again

“there is a point on the graph where things get Worse, and there you will find Ronald Reagan” stays undefeated

As we head into peak flu season, look at this graph. 2 takeaways: 1. 2020-22: people wore masks. 2. 2022+: folks stopped masking & COVID-damaged immune systems mean an increase in flu cases & severity. Y’all need to stop getting this virus, it is ruining your life whether you realize it or not.

OpenAI pirated large numbers of books and used them to train models. OpenAI then deleted the dataset with the pirated books, and employees sent each other messages about doing so. A lawsuit could now force the company to pay $150,000 per book, adding up to billions in damages.

I don't think people outside of NYC fully see how incredibly RACIST Cuomo's campaign has been. It rivals any of the most racist campaigns of the 20th century. Just racism all the way down.

“Especially if they try to mean it.”

If you haven’t heard, Dick Cheney is dead. Probably this was the big evil dude that I had the fewest degrees of separation from because… @sir-ian.bsky.social didn’t he shoot, like, your cousin? in the face? I hope you are having a party today!

Feel the need to remind folks about the 2014 study showing that 83% of radiologists did not see the gorilla in this image, even tho a majority of that 83% looked directly at it. It’s 48 times bigger than the average nodule they’d be looking for. This is the actual image from the study. Literally.

As the Trump administration continued its illegal freeze on food assistance, the US Department of Agriculture sent a warning to grocery stores not to provide discounts to the more than 42 million Americans affected.

Sure seems like these should be public in the first place.

i feel like it's not getting enough attention that Fox News ran a *completely false story* based on AI-generated videos it thought were interviews with real people futurism.com/artificial-i...

this is exactly what is happening in canada right now. the lib stans are cheerfully following carney further right. even with "never vote conservative" and "progressive" in their bios. #cdnpoli

They literally ruin everything they touch

In 2025 the small businesses of America are coming through to feed their fellow Americans at a cost to their bottom line while the federal government takes our tax money they agreed to use for this specific purpose and builds a ballroom. Please tell me again about the federal taxes we need to pay.

My first ever dream about AI included a covert counterespionage operation, a Victorianist, and a gigantic tropical fish costume. … what.

Y’all do understand that Trump is putting that ginormous ballroom on the White House because he expects that he and his family will use it for many many years, right?