Once again taking a social media break for about a month, because everything is bad and fucked up and the combination of constant hyperarousal* and abject helplessness isn't actually going to help any situation If we're friends on Discord, I'll be there *don't be weird, it doesn't mean sexy stuff

I deleted my earlier post about this because it appears that Wikipedia is NOT going to start using a.i. but rather a way for the foundation to charge a.i. companies who are already allowed to scrape wikipedia under the Creative Commons license.

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The total NSF budget was 9 billion. I doubt they spend 89% of it on quail.

This is important and, also, not not new. There were reports of this in LA, Portland, and Chicago, at least, as well.

what a legend lmao

Nature's dippin' dots

It’s the “I swear I’m still cool” show starring I was never all that great anyway with special guest, I was hate couture until the fascists put me in the bargain bin.

Good to listen to people who know what they're talking about before plunging into moral panic. It'd probably be better for all of us if our reaction to apparently awful news were "What? Explain!" instead of "🤬🔥🤬🔥🤬🔥"

Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.

I will say that electoral incentives do not currently seem to be giving Democratic legislators the motivation to lead as history is demanding of them

Minneapolis is headed towards something resembling a general strike, if you were wondering how the campaign to cow working people into quiescence is going

Also: People are confusing the fact that "elections can't solve this problem" with "elections don't matter." Fitting an entire strategy of opposition to consolidating authoritarianism to an electoral framework and timeline is not smart, but every single site of contest matters more than it ever has

This whole thread on limits of/on the Insurrection Act is helpful. "What's happening in MN is not a rebellion & there's no argument otherwise. No one is trying to topple the government of the state of MN." In fact, it's federal govt, not insurrectionists, undermining citizens' constitutional rights.

Again, I have to ask how and why it is that the governor of an entire ass state has time to do a podcast.

Gavin Newsom is the apotheosis of the corporate mainstream Democrat: he had widespread approval among normie libs for yelling at Trump, and has since used that to launder right wing slop to mainstream Democratic voters. Also, ISN'T THIS MAN STILL GOVERNOR, why is he making a fucking podcast?

Gavin Newsom trying to impress Ben Shapiro, an incel who “owns the libs” by proudly talking about how he has never made his wife cum:

emergency shut the fuck up Friday has been declared for all future public defender needers

I mean I think the bigger point is that this admin is doing such flagrantly illegal shit because they don't anticipate any consequences Like if an admin is going nuts violating the constitution while dismantling institutions, it's PROBABLY bc they plan on throwing out the constitution

IF IT’S NOT AVAILABLE VIA. AN RSS FEED, IT’S NOT A PODCAST

Republicans control all 3 branches of government. Even when they don't, both parties pump out constant rhetoric about "real Americans" living in rural areas. The entire premise of this article is a conservative-fluffing myth. Cities have more political power because that's where most people live!

"I own more land, therefore my opinion matters more" is a political philosophy America has not genuinely grown out of in 250 years

It’s actually good to defend yourself and your neighbors from fascist going door-to-door and shooting people in the street in anyway possible no matter what these broken windows liberals are trying to tell you to pacify you.

ICE must be abolished. It has become a lawless, rogue agency. Federal law enforcement agencies must follow the law, if they're going to have any credibility enforcing it. We are demanding justice for Renee Good and the prosecution of ICE agent Jonathan Ross for her murder.

This is Minneapolis: While walking kids to school we passed someone we don't know on the sidewalk. He made eye contact, put his hand on his heart and rubbed, with such a sincere look like "I'm with you." But no words. I did the same and held back tears. This is so fucking weird and hard.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: if elected Democrats have no power to stop this in their roles as officials, they still have the same avenues that are available to every other regular person, with the added benefit that their every move is newsworthy.

They begged us to let them represent us, we pay for their livelihood, they have access to the best of everything making them the best positioned to put their bodies on the line.

can't back down if you never step up in the first place

sorry to bother you @schumer.senate.gov but i found a mistake on your website that needs editing

Apparently this lady was just on her way to a doctors appointment. I wonder what it was about her that made whoever chose the picture feel intuitively that she was probably a violent angry toxic protestor. Hmm. Strokes chin thoughtfully. What could it be?

I was supposed to be in bed an hour ago but sending links and videos to people so they know to avoid the green gas (zinc chloride). Once a lab steward, always a lab steward. Seriously, I was a chemist twenty years ago, you do NOT want heavy metal toxicity. It fucks you up in weird ways.

It's not just Walz. Almost every elected has been less willing to risk their bodies than their constituents.

I will start to take our leader’s resolve seriously when they start shouldering the burden of courage they are demanding of us.

Yes, I do agree that peaceful protest is a mightily powerful tactic. But our leaders must finally show the physical courage and leadership they’re so willing to demand of others.

At this point, our leaders cannot continue to demand that their people peacefully submit to the unhinged violence of ICE without putting their own bodies on that line as well.

Peaceful protest requires leaders willing to put their own bodies on the line. Walz has that option. All of our leaders do.

the president has declared war on an american state and the leaders of the opposition wont shut the fuck up about retraining the stormtroopers

A neighbor was so surprised to find that my grandpa didn’t carry, or even own a gun, and he asked why not. Pap said “because I’m not a little baby who’s scared of everything.”

“Some guy went around trying to get into daycares because they were supposedly empty. It’s unclear why people cared about that” “Was this guy some sort of trusted figure or leader?” “No no one at all had ever heard of him”

“Why were they there?” “Ginned up hate against Somalis” “Did Americans really hate Somalis before this?” “No the average American had absolutely no opinion on them and possibly had never heard of them”

It’s amazing that when these mediocre white moderates get cornered, they start flipping out and trying to personally attack you in the dumbest way possible because Jacob and people like him are reactionaries. Mediocre white men stop being such reactionary piss baby challenge failed yet again

When mediocre white men in the Democratic Party get cornered and they can’t lie their way out of it the go to is that “you’re crazy.” Just like these people did when they were trying to stop desegregation and would claim those who were aligned with the desegregation movement were mentally ill.

I’ll say it again since the fascist sympathizer blocked me : Biden got into Office riding the energy of the largest anti-police protest in history and then turned around and gave the cops our Covid money after allowing Covid protections to end and then follow that by doing a genocide.

The woman in this photo was trying to get around ICE vans to go to her doctor's appointment when they dragged her out and arrested her. She's fucking terrified. If you don't have empathy, then you're the toxic asshole.

The fact that there hasn't been an eviction moratorium issued is the sort of thing that lawmakers should be forced to answer for. Abject, unnecessary cruelty in a crisis.

words from lexi alexander, who had been suspended from this platform for being palestinian

people will tell you with a straight face the Dick Sucking Factory was shut down while the NYT is out there publishing shit like this

Hot take: You're not gonna defeat fascism by merely voting blue. If that worked, we wouldn't have gotten here the first place.

NYT ran 11 stories on trans athletes in 2 days including one about brett kavanaugh’s special POV as a girls’ basketball coach. they sent 6 people to scotus to write up their victory lap & meanwhile this is how far you needed to scroll yesterday to find coverage of ICE in MN. stop giving them money.