This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.

For every Great Novel™, there's a dozen random fanfics with bigger ideas, lusher prose, tighter plotting, and more exquisite characterization.

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yeah.

So many people i talk to mention that their out-of-state friends or family have heard little to nothing about what’s going on in Chicago. Some viral stories like the South Shore apartments raid or Rev. Black getting shot break through but the persistent Fed violence in the streets in lost.

ICE is evil. ICE is bad. ICE is blatantly and actively fascist.

So anyway, this is how the governor of a blue state who is supposedly against what’s going on deploys his state police to support it. Don’t let his posts fool you.

Amphibians unite 🐸🐸 #WarRavagedPortland

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

We just published "Decolonizing autism research: Integrating indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

PSA: help me help you, I am begging omg 😂😂😂

But it’s very, “let me get $50 cash back from this post-dated check I wrote for groceries in 1999.”

I did this last year. No shaming for my lack of insurance, or for my disability, just professionalism and kindness

This is just one of the many panels that's happening Oct 4 & 5 at the 6th annual Rainbow Space Magic. This free virtual con is for writers & readers of queer speculative fiction. Full schedule at www.rainbowspacemagi...

the furries defended us the juggalos defended us and even knowing this, I was still not prepared

So, looking for something unusual to be part of today? Try this! "Send Diane Duane to the Reichenbach Falls to outline a cyber/steampunk Sherlock Holmes novel": www.tumblr.com/dduane/79531...

As someone who has been tear-gassed, briefly, you cannot underestimate the sheer determination that must be driving him. He’s a role model, and the photographer should be in contention for a Pulitzer.

Listen to excerpts from writers Oct 4 & 5 at the 6th annual Rainbow Space Magic. This free virtual con is for writers & readers of queer speculative fiction. Full schedule at www.rainbowspacemagi... #LGBT #writing #ScienceFiction #fantasy

You’ll be shocked to hear that their recommendation is not limiting the circumstances in which AI is deployed, but rather accepting the inevitability it will occasionally have catastrophic effects.

AragOolong, son of ArathOolong.

geez good thing we’re only using it for health insurance claims, legal arguments, mortgage rates, teaching students, predicting crime, mental health care, automating government services, fact checking, and pointing out other AI

anyway fuck censorship. we should all get weirder and worse

I actually love getting reusable water bottles b/c i buy carabiners and attach the bottles to my fence with a sign saying "free, please take if you need." We have unhoused neighbours who frequently lose life-saving items (like water bottles) when cops/city workers destroy their stuff on purpose.

The acceptance of the need for girls to fight against “Nos” in society will likely have an impact on the development of feminism in Japan.

Some people might wonder what to give an extremely wealthy, handsome talented, and famous person who can have anything they want for their birthday, but not Kim Seokjin. Jin knows that you give him a gift that he has to explain away to a million people on a live stream but it still won’t work

They shout “America first” but are always putting Americans last. Cutting SNAP and food assistance doesn’t make children healthy. You can’t talk about making America healthy again while taking food out of their mouths

A very new addition to the auction: a piece with Wee John as a DJ, made by @ndkiwi.bsky.social The current highest bid is $41... so go for it and get yourself a print of this Wee John art! :D #ofmd #ywmlp

Who's ready to discuss queer stories under a different light? I know I am! I'll be part of @spacemagiccon.bsky.social this year! Join me and these lovely people for a panel about queer stories that don't necessarily have queerness as a plot point!

Over the course of our interview, Dylan O'Brien and James Sweeney opened up about everything from the film’s intimate emotional core to their unexpected off-screen bond. qburgh.com/twinless-dyl...

I just realize I did a whole-ass thread on respectability politics w/o giving a specific, solid definition of what it is. So here goes: RP is when a minority lionizes the majority as existing the best way possible, & asks only for those rights that assist them in becoming more like the majority.

With news of a reported settlement with Anthropic I went back to check the class action form and it now allows authors outside the US to input their address, so it may be worth adding your known pirated titles (from the LibGen pirate database) www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

Oh no, it would be terrible if there were a handy link to a page on how authors can file a claim attached to this action authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

We need to stop using a framework of 'ChatGPT killed someone', it feeds into the myth of the system's agency & OpenAI's framing. The right framework to use: OpenAI is continuing to perpetuate an indefinite industrial disaster. The oil pipe is not at fault when it breaks. The company that built it is

If you mock a fascist for being fat, you mock fatness. If you mock a fascist for being fascist, you mock fascism. Stay on target.

dear everyone MOCKING PEOPLE'S APPEARANCE ISN'T HOW YOU BUILD A MORE JUST WORLD MOCKING ABILITY OR HEALTH MOST *CERTAINTLY* ISN'T how many times must we cover this yes this includes "chosen" things like self-tanner FFS it doesn't matter people's SPEECH & ACTIONS are what matter GO AFTER THAT

If I hear “boys are falling behind!” one more gd time FINISH THE SENTENCE falling behind WHOM, motherfuckers? SAY IT SAY AND OWN THAT YOU THINK IT’S UNNATURAL FOR GIRLS TO BE BETTER AT SHIT THAN BOYS

Most Americans genuinely believe there's some grand overarching force that stops illegal things from happening. That's the truth. We think there's a Boss who says "I won't allow this" and are genuinely surprised when an illegal or unfair thing happens anyway.

Whether or not AI can suffer matters less than the suffering its human creators can cause aftermath.site/ai-suffering...

Trump on deploying the National Guard to Chicago: "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States."

Today’s Executive Order creating a *nationwide* military “quick reaction force” and setting up an online portal to permit random fascist vigilantes to join soldiers is one of the scariest things I’ve seen in U.S. politics in my adult life. Why is it not getting more attention?

This birthday we’re supporting those who grow the magic behind the mug and help to fill their tables. ☕

I wonder if some kind of light installation could shine rainbow colors onto the crosswalk

I dream of a roving band of queer punks armed with sidewalk chalk and washable paint markers, rainbowing every *other* crosswalk while these jerks guard one specific one

A political party that relied on its voters to be impoverished of power, would constantly present them with temporary, ineffectual, insultingly obviously shitty half-measures that barely deal with one problem today, not the other 10 closing in.

A United States Senate investigation has identified more than 500 credible reports of human rights abuses in US immigration detention since January, including alarming allegations of mistreatment of pregnant women and children.