Generative AI is not only fundamentally based on the rejection of consent, but also *standards*. Artists have been micromanaged and hounded over individual pixels, academics fighting to defend every minute detail of their thesis, etc, and then are tossed away in favor of the get shit wrong machine.

I don’t know if the AppleTV crew will have time to mention it between betting lines and, well, other stats meant to help in-game bets, but the Dodgers appear to have embroidered “VZ” into their caps. No doubt to show support for Venezuelan quake victims. (Clubhouse leader Miguel Rojas is from VZ.)

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"I run the protection program. We’ll take care of you." The clear point is that Republicans have turned Congress into an body that does not engage in oversight, that operates to protect the president's family, the cabinet, his donors, friends.

a giraffe disappears and tom kean jr shows up and we’re supposed to pretend these are two separate stories. wake up sheeple

GUYS 😭 (source: @daveostowdraws.bsky.social, www.instagram.com/p/DaA2JvBPeQO/)

The FBI found that an officer violently threatened transgender people on TikTok. His agency investigated, he resigned. He went on to work at two other departments. He’s one of 148 officers disciplined for biased conduct. Most kept their jobs. w @emilymzentner.bsky.social & Marnette Federis

This technology is SO GOOD! It's the FUTURE! You are FORBIDDEN from discussing ways to remove it!

Six years since the start of COVID and this type of misinformation by omission is still rampant. The best protection against airborne pathogens is wearing a high quality mask.

I'm leading a cohort with Futurescapes 100-Page Workshop this September! This is my favorite part of editing, talking craft while an author and I figure out how to bridge the gap between the story they're trying to tell and what's currently on the page. futurescapes.ink/100-page-wor...

BREAKING: On the 39th anniversary of the founding of ACT UP, protestors have shut down traffic outside Grand Central demanding “Money for AIDS and healthcare, not for ICE and warfare.”

NEW — The sentencing of the Prairieland demonstrators shows the brutality of Trump's war on dissent, but it's not without precedent, @kimkelly.bsky.social writes. History shows us the government has always punished anti-fascism. But this time we can change the narrative in real time. Read here:

They keep pushing this "ZOOMERS ARE COMING BACK TO CHRISTIANITY IN DROVES!!1!" story. You should be suspicious by now.

And the flip side of this coin is becoming cynical of media. Not skeptical, cynical. And when everything is a lie, what is true. It's grim. So grim. And part of fascism.

After missing more than 100 votes in the House due to an undisclosed health condition, New Jersey Republican Tom Kean Jr. has reappeared, waiting for a NYT reporter in a suit and tie with his wife silently smiling in the background. Honestly, the sighting raises more questions than answers.

A handful of left-wing candidates in deep-blue New York City is not going to hurt the party as a whole. But this circular firing squad shit? This is what hurts.

I agree. RFK Jr. is openly eugenicist.

TikTok's latest illegal 'life hack' seems to be 'dispute credit card transactions for free stuff' and legality aside I am here to beg you: Do not do this to small businesses. It really fucks them over in ways you may not be aware of beyond stealing from them (which is, to be clear, what this is).🧵

my child was born with an aggressive, life threatening cancer. he would have died if he had been born 10, even 5 years earlier. because of advances in treatment protocols, he's currently curled up in my arms. this is dangerous, murderous bullshit

In the four years since the Dobbs decision, the number of crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) has surged nationwide. As an ob-gyn, you can help educate your community on the dangers of CPCs and how to access safe, legitimate reproductive care. Review ACOG’s resources on CPCs: https://bit.ly/4vvhzdK

I won’t shut up about this but lots of housing discourse assumes nobody in their right mind would actually want to live in a condo, so the prices were being automatically inflated

Last night I had my recurring dream that I was in command of the Death Star guess I was Tarkin in my sleep again

girl whos addicted to really saturated colors on a quest to prove that hot pink can also be scary (it's me i'm the girl) #AOTH🫀👻 #wip

The replies do not disappoint (cat pics)

If my BlueSky experience is an echo chamber, at least it's an echo chamber that says "Change is possible," "This is how we win," and "Look at my cat."

I wrote this thread kind of distractedly so let me be clear, my point is that the arguments about "oh it uses so much electricity, it's too expensive and it's bad for the environment" don't hold water if *governments* subsidize the AC infrastructure, paired with solar

Excuse me, not it. HE. A.I. will never have a clear concrete personalty. Gluing those ping pong balls on the coat was like putting the magic hat on Frosty. I will not be taking questions.

How many people have belonged to a niche craft forum in the early internet days who had someone fake their own death? 🙋‍♀️

you’re gd right i went to the annual cat tour. i love you mpls 😻

There have been fewer than 50 red alerts in the last 40 years. There were 2 in Venezuela tonight.

The crew is so fucking dismissive of the Doctor’s attachment to his mobile emitter and they really just do not take him seriously. But the man spent years trapped in a single room. They promised to install holo emitters around the ship and never did. It’s literally a disability accessibility device!

Lynda Barry did not squeeze your heart and simultaneously explain the point of all art with the barest of line drawings so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

We are creating the mythology of the future.

The Republican president of the Utah State Senate lost his 2026 primary because of his support for "AI" Data Centers. UTAH. Democrats, i really really really need you to get this message and get it right now.

4. Attorney General: I do not want Jena Griswold to win. When she was Secretary of State, she settled claims for racial discrimination, and her office kept emptying out. Former employees have all come forward and said that she was a terrible, abusive boss.

I'm watching the upcoming Colorado election (one week away: get your ballots in!) with anticipation and hope. I believe that good things can happen.

Every time I make the typo "grabity" part of me wants to argue that it should have been called that all along.

as a committed centrist, it saddens me that both parties are falling captive to their extremes - the right to insurrectionist cultists who want to invade american cities, and the left to socialists who want better bus service

This is all about instant gratification - conservatives & fascists have been playing the long game and it has paid off for them. We have to do the same. People said it about the Women's March, which was quickly followed by record-breaking midterm gains, mostly w/ female candidates

At least 12 states break down SNAP program participation by age, and of the 1,670,011 people who are no longer receiving benefits in those states, 776,134, or 46%, were children. Read our full investigation: https://propub.li/4eB1PPb

air conditioning discourse again? really?

Specifically in the context of organizing, building a new resistance, doing all the work that eventually leads to more social progress. Basically, that we can't always be lucky enough to live in a time when rights are being expanded. Sometimes you have to work for a better future that's years off.

And here's the thing: this is just one thing in a myriad of daily microaggressions that trans people face. It's ongoing minority stress that just makes it so fucking hard to EXIST. I just needed to pick up my meds.

Your health insurer is not your partner in your care. It is a company that decided, in advance, that some amount of your suffering is an acceptable cost of doing business. It denies claims because denying is cheap — and because it's betting you won't fight. 🧵 www.patreon.com/mattbc/posts...

Today, I spoke on the House Floor to honor the life and legacy of Juniper Blessing, a beloved UW student who was tragically killed in May. Let’s honor Juniper’s life and legacy by making this moment a rallying cry of love for all our transgender students across this country.

imagining a grizzled hardboiled detective saying this while gripping some guy's lapels at a shady bar

“This preservative she had now obtained; and at the age of twenty-seven, without having ever been handsome, she felt all the good luck of it.” God. Austen is just gonna take my heart out, drop it like an ungainly water balloon, and watch it explode over reading about how Charlotte thinks of herself.

Folks are in the mentions here saying "oh ho but those movements did nothing, look, we have fascism anyway" And my loves where do you think people cut their teeth learning the skills that effectively repelled fascist agents in the street during the ICE invasions

Older lady peeped the rainbow flag on my bike, asked in a thick Russian accent “It’s your Pride?” She told me her youngest grandchild is “not she berry or he berry but no berry.” I said “Nonbinary?” She got so excited. Yes! Yes! And “Is a secret, but they are my“ *looks around, whispers* “favorite.”