Venezuela's first act must be to appeal to the UN and international courts to get Trump formally labeled a war criminal.

I'm sure many other nations are so grateful to the US for setting this precedent on how to deal with Putin, Netanyahu, and Trump himself.

This is precisely the outcome that attacks on DEI were meant to produce. When diversity is viewed with scorn and deserving of penalty, and the state insists that whiteness is the factory setting, censorship and oppression become the norm.

Many people have not been invited at all. I’ve talked to a substantial number of Black speakers who have seen bookings plummet, who have been virtually frozen out from engaging in public talks on college campuses.

Not usually, which I suppose is what makes it newsworthy.

In Maine, CCDF supports thousands of low-income families and helps keep child care providers’ doors open. Even a temporary disruption could mean fewer available slots, higher costs for parents, and even more strain on a workforce that is already stretched thin.

Congress appropriated these funds, and the Administration has a legal obligation to distribute them as intended—not impose a nationwide freeze driven by politicized claims rather than clear, evidence-based oversight.

The whole "Grok admits" "Grok apologizes" thing reminds me of the famous IBM presentation quote that evidently everyone has forgotten. And I do think representing your brand on social media counts as a "management decision".

This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc) #1: Reuters

And even then, it is hard to imagine dedicated Fox/Newsmax viewers switching to Bari Weiss's plausible deniability theater Fox News Zero no matter how closely it starts to resemble the version with sugar in it

This is going to end in blood.

Today a young nonbinary friend talked about being screamed at and threatened with violence on the subway with their (also trans) partner on New Year’s Eve. No one was hurt, but they’re shaken up. I share this bc people are telling me that it’s unreasonable not to compromise with transphobes.

What's amazing to me is that these same guys are pushing desperately to end section 230, which specifically exists *so they do not get sued for what their users do* Like, these guys are actively begging to be sued into the fucking ground, you can tell by how much they spend to kill section 230

It’s almost like green energy is the only way forward and a handful of oil barons are doing everything in their power to keep that from happening so they can get even richer at the cost of literally everything else in the world.

A Japanese artist made the print DHS lifted to spread anti-immigrant hate. Can't make this up.

1. Headlines everywhere today read "Grok apologizes." This is bullshit. A chatbot is not something that can apologize. Pretending otherwise is simple laundering these companies' bullshit about what AI is, while diffusing blame away from the human beings that developed and released this system.

Tl;Dr it's the ebike, car took 30% longer You're not *in* traffic you *are* traffic

I'd argue that Missy was superior to her peers, and it is only because she's a woman that she doesn't get the level of respect she is due. (Mind you, Missy is very respected, I just think she deserves even more.)

The only producer we actually wanted to see all in the videos dancing.

Exclusive 🚨 Libyan immigrant Hayat Bzezi had two miscarriages while working at Amazon's Staten Island warehouse The Expose Amazon Campaign alleges that the company is violating the federal Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. New for @documentedny.bsky.social t.co/XIP0wDnKw5

Yes, there are lots of moral reasons to dislike generative AI, but the issue I have in this particular case is that the product ends up being SO DULL. Soulless. Devoid of genuine culture because of a lack of proper context.

Conservatives are all like “If we got all these welfare queens off entitlements and free government hand-outs and deport a few million people who have absolutely nothing then I’d finally get the government-issued girlfriend I’m entitled to!!”

I, for one, applaud CBS News for being honest about its new POV

It's a steady, unbroken line of figuring out exactly how much Lost Cause they can get away with. BOAN is more genteel than the Dixon novel. GWTW the novel is more genteel than BOAN the film. GWTW the movie is more genteel than GWTW the novel and set the pattern for Hollywood Lost Cause romanticism

Hello friends, it was a very rainy night for us at the Muwasi camp. Thankfully we stayed dry, but I had to use a shovel to divert the water away from our tents. Please share and donate if you can. chuffed.org/project/help...

There are multiple national political commentators who earnestly predicted that Eric Adams would be a legitimate presidential candidate and a national figurehead of the Democratic party by now and those commentators still have careers somehow.

while my mom was pregnant with me, she was delivering chinese food on bike in new orleans. i like to think that the music she heard in the streets made me the way i am now. happy new year everyone!

Lexi Alexander is the sort of person Bluesky would never have dared to ban ... if she weren't Palestinian, a nationality which the world treats as free license to subject its members to anything whatsoever

had missed this: a member of xAI’s technical staff publicly acknowledging it is internally addressing complaints that users are using image gen to undress underage girls xAI is not turning off image generation while it addresses the issue though

And they’re running a gas-powered data center in a poor neighborhood in Memphis to do it.

Magic Johnson was the grand marshal of the Rose Parade today, and as someone who remembers his November 1991 HIV announcement: if you had told anybody that day that he would be alive and healthy 34+ years later, I don't think they would have believed you. Medicine and research—they work.

A lot of people are noticing the spread of AI sexual abuse material on X now, but it has been happening for years. Young actresses like Jenna Ortega and Xochitl Gomez fled the platform. Even celebrities say there’s nothing they can do to stop it. Misogynistic violence is the main reason I left X.

If you see this I am begging you to repost. I can't work because I'm disabled and have no way to pay rent while I'm waiting on my disability ruling. And rent was due at 5 pm. Just please help if you see me.

Being someone who likes to crochet, it’s fucking hell trying to navigate finding patterns. It’s not that the AI isn’t obvious (it is super obvious when a pattern is using an ai photo) It’s that there’s so much shit you have to wade through to find actual patterns now

On the day that Adams was indicted, he began maneuvering to gain favor with the Trump White House to get the charges thrown out. (Or to wrangle a pardon, whichever.) So that day represents a pivot point—the day that he sold out his administration to Trump. That's the before-and-after here.

“they’re still on that site they deserve it” if you’re saying a woman or a child deserves to be exploited you’re fucked up no matter the rationale

what’s happening with grok and nudity spam requests should be a global wake up call about AI image gen and instead very few media outlets have even covered it yet

Honestly, this would shock you if your only info about NYC is from local news or NYT too. News likes to focus on crime because it sells.

Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.

We didn't make it to 50% of our fundraiser by yesterday but we're only $1555 away. gogetfunding.com/black-zine-f... - please support the Black Zine Fair if you can.

Seems like the religious right figured this out a long time ago and apply it to their base. All that culture war stuff like "war on Christmas" stuff always seemed like ways to force a "circling the wagons" to get out the vote.

There is a dark side to The Military-Industrial Complex

The people who publish this shit could find $630 between their ass cheeks.

tim walz won his governorship by running as a pro-pipeline moderate who was in touch with rural people he got pushed to the left by the house DFL caucus and Minnesota organizing

Hi Dems...You should 100% be going after Lisa Demuth rn She's just out here straight up saying "why yes, I absolutely helped direct these racist attacks on our Somali community in which a weird white man tried to break in to a daycare to find out if there were kids there. Also I'm running for Gov."

unobjectionable ways, making law enforcement look like the shitty monsters they're being when they overreact - think a stereotypical roid rage Chad screaming in the face of a grandma, whose response is to blink at him, shake her head, and tsk in a devastatingly disapproving way he feels to his core.

It's hard to exactly describe the undaunted nature of Minnesotans to those who haven't experienced it, but I think the response to ICE's presence encapsulates it nicely - when masked thugs threaten our neighbors, Minnesotans gamely learn to identify and track ICE vehicles, memorize the IPA, and

Honestly the theme of each city's resistance having its own vibe continues beautifully with Minnesotans politely becoming a god damn brick wall that is disappointed in your life choices.

Sameer Project update about their Refaat Alareer camp: “We have nearly 500 students in our Hasan School on the grounds of the Refaat Alareer Camp…We recently expanded to accommodate additional students from the surrounding areas to offer quality education and an approved curriculum.”

wild how we're simultaneously enacting what amounts to a creeping state-by-state porn ban and also telling everyone the whole future of the internet is robots that simulate CSAM and non-consensual sexualized images on demand