for some reason the left (goldman sachs) refuses to take AI seriously

donations to rent funds have dropped dramatically from last month and the needs are greater, as some families are now 2-3 months behind. working on this feels like trying to bail water from the titanic with buckets. but we just keep doing it.

i am so tired of screaming from the rooftops that we have a looming, avoidable crisis of evictions brewing. everyone knows it, but yet government and philanthropy have no solutions. unpaid volunteers of rent funds are doing the work that the people who control the purse strings refuse to do

i have joined a synagogue! just in time for purim!

the @klara5.myatproto.social hardmode where books from a series don't count: -alice hoffman -john irving -cat valente -clive barker -nalo hopkinson *there are some serieses in here, but if you took them out, there's still 5+

5 authors I’ve read at least 5 books by -martha wells -seanan mcguire -ann leckie -octavia butler -n. k. jemisin really i could do 5x5

at least they're doing this now and not at 3 am knock on wood.

A former Washington Post reporter now reports on ICE flights and their associated abuses, funding the work through donations. Seems like a worthy cause.

my next feature set is also the first show I'm organizing and putting together! LINE OF SIGHT is an evening of trans poetics for TDOV bsky.app/profile/thau... featuring @toomanymouths.bsky.social and a bunch of people who aren't on bsky (but are AMAZING and you should come see them perform)

As the guy who wrote the book on zoning abolition, I'd like to go on record as saying: if you can use zoning to stop the concentration camps, fucking go for it.

Breaking NBC: Jeanine Pirro's office has decided to stop pursuing the case against six Democratic lawmakers who urged members of the military and intelligence communities in a social media video not to comply with unlawful orders, three people familiar with the matter told NBC News.

As a member of my town's planning commission: in a lot of places, these seats are empty and easy to get on to. Our commission has had an open seat for months. If you're a fair, thoughtful person who will apply the law and will do a little work, that's more than enough to get appointed sometimes.

My personal organizing approach since the Trump re-election has been deep time investment in local community, largely because I can't do too much high risk stuff and I'm still mostly in feminine labor Babyland. I can't go to endless meetings, I have little kids to watch.

I’ll have a new piece coming to you Wednesday about a big ol’ Cretaceous face bite! Get subscribed to get it in your inbox.

I continue the battle cry I took up in my 39th year on this plane: EMBRACE SINCERITY CRINGE. CELEBRATE IT. SOAK IN IT. LOVE THINGS. BELIEVE IN THINGS. KILL DETACHED IRONY. SHIT ON CYNICISM. FREE YOUR SPIRIT. LIVE YOUR ONE WILD AND PRECIOUS LIFE. CRINGE BOLDLY

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

an issue i had with the uu was that the (rank and file) fellowship i was a member of was obsessed with figuring out how to make rightwing christians feel comfortable there. progressive christians need to realize that they are not included in the monolithic church the right recognizes.

it's because they're making decisions that inconvenience the rich.

shotzie approved the proof of concept rug.

peaches's no lube so rude is all i want from queer art.

the costco near me has both momofuku noodles and giant bags of stewed quail eggs, and i am very happy with my midnight snack.

me: magical autocorrect: meatball

tfw you step out of a date night into a magical snowy wonderland

i can say with certainty that there are religious leaders of most faiths using llms to write their articles, commentaries, and speeches to their congregations. and to find texts to use in such. they're already getting called out for using fake sources. it's a mess.

i went to services and ended up sitting next to women who went to my synagogue in new orleans. so places in chicago full of people from new orleans: writers groups bookstores synagogues

I could use some help. I'm working where I can but still coming up short and now I am sleeping on the floor because my air mattress popped. It was manageable for a few nights but it's making it almost impossible to function now. Trying to raise $130 to replace the mattress. $helpmarghoul

no cats. do not fight on my body while i'm sleeping.

i put out my new shabbat candles and immediately david rose jumped up next to them and lit his fur on fire. -_- going to have to figure this one out.

If anyone lives in Utah and sends a pic, you'll be my best friend forever.

I've already explained why Logistics Guy is wrong, but the main place our growth is hampered (which feels like a very strange thing to write since we have sent *checks notes* 535,375 whistles in 20 days) is that the more our printers are embedded in their community, the better we meet their needs.

do you ever just wonder if god is scrambling behind the scenes to undo the damage caused by the rightwing reactionaries and billionaires to save us all before it's too late?

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The Fulu Foundation, a nonprofit that pays out bounties for removing user-hostile features, is hunting for a way to keep Ring cameras from sending data to Amazon—without breaking the hardware. www.wired.com/story/a-10k-...

i would like to meet a butch jewish battle lesbian.

It’s going to be so great when this shit gets installed on everyone’s lowest-bidder work laptops, with 16 gb of RAM and 23 separate pieces of monitoring spyware. So productive.

it's interesting how search party managed to jump the shark in all directions but still got the dangers of startups, billionaires, tech, and autonomous cars right.

I've been saying it a lot, but these deaths line up with what happened in early concentration camps during other regimes: Deaths from poor conditions, disease, or abuse. These deaths are not accidental. They are the direct result of a camp system that is designed to harm those being imprisoned.

Finding out the hard way that California is a two-party consent state. Also, the rules of the court for the state of California say that you must get a judge's permission to record. You can't just show up with your dipshit glasses. courts.ca.gov/cms/rules/in...

It's weird that the first recorded descriptions of toothaches, from Sumerian cuneiform to Central American remedies to Pliny the Elder, up to the *18th century*, constantly mentioned worms. People were *convinced* that dental pain was worms, for millennia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tooth_w...

my ld partner sent me a screenshot where all of his partners were telling him they were eepy at the same time. at least he has a type.

TEN DAYS! until Agita Magazine opens for its very first open submission period. The theme is "Bad Science." The length is flash. The genre is horror or dark sci-fi. The co-editor is Eric Williams (@geoliminal.bsky.social). The guidelines is at agitamag.com/submissions

I can't think of any immigrant in American history who has assimilated worse than Musk. The guy hates most of the people here and wants to hurt us, has open contempt for our traditions or values, and has spent billions trying to destroy our culture to replace it with that of his foreign childhood.

*This is probably not yet true specifically for generative AI.* It’s one of the reasons why they’re pushing widescale adoption so hard. It’s to keep the whole thing afloat with fresh infusions of capital, yeah, but it’s also *to make the cancer nearly impossible to remove*

Today we are launching a new intitative of Stand With Minnesota—KeepMNHoused.com, a rent-relief campaign backed with a $1.5 matching fund from the Wilson Foundation. Thousands of MN families are at risk of eviction because of the ICE occupation’s lasting impacts. We can keep them housed.

In addition to reading old books, I think everyone should try to occasionally read a book in translation. There is no better way to be reminded that we are more similar than we are different. People are people, in every country, in every language. We have the same big feelings, the same problems.

hot theys in your area are sleepy and sore

ATTENTION BLUESKY you don't want to watch the State of the Union next week you want to watch a PowerPoint party telethon of your favorite Bluesky super posters delivering their most unhinged hot takes to raise money for mutual aid in Twin Cities and Portland Poster's Madness for a good cause!!!!

heads up if any of y'all saw screenshots, videos, articles on uncritical sites about the forum supposedly of only AI agent chatbots interacting - anything interesting going on was BS, human scripted drama made up for attention. they've got nothing 17,000 puppeteers performing. people fell for it