National high speed rail would be so amazing, but we have to spend the money bombing Iran, setting the Middle East on fire, and tanking the global economy. Because national security terrorism Jesus something something.

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A classic anti-masker tactic is to claim that if you don't wear a mask 100% of the time, it isn't worth it. Untrue. Every single time you wear a mask, you reduce the chances for viruses to spread. Wearing a mask always improves public health, even if you only do it occasionally.

Freelancers of Bluesky, this week’s Scratch newsletter features a long talk with an anonymous author/tax preparer about how our system sets us up to feel extraordinary shame, stress, and guilt around taxes. (This post will always remain unpaywalled, because we think it’s that important.)

Eh, why should we research Alzheimer's, diabetes, cancer, and heart disease? It's not like these issues could ever possibly affect me, personally, because I, like every Republican, have no conception of time, probability, or cause and effect, I exist in a void filled solely by malicious urges.

“Our instinct at the firm is, every time we hear about another attack, we need to see the chat logs because there’s [a good chance] that AI was deeply involved…”

This may upset you but if you cancel your subscription all you will do is hurt a news organization that is evil in a time when they’re struggling more than ever

I think about this a lot.

18 Dems just voted *today* for Trump’s agenda. Does it make sense yet why they’re so unpopular?

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The vast majority of Americans are against it, we’re committing war crimes, and it’s about to tank the global economy. But on the upside, you get to look weak and ineffectual

MASSIVELY resent struggling to find the meaning in some turgid, repetitive text only to realize it's "A.i." bullshit that no one wrote and that contains no meaning. Fuck billionaire-owned "A.i." companies forever for WASTING MY TIME, which means STEALING FROM MY ACTUAL LIFE.

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This isn’t contradictory if you believe that both women and children are property

In a conversation between June Jordan and Angela Y. Davis, published in 1990, Jordan said she was concerned about how much despair there is cuz people often take it out on themselves. She said she wanted a return to rage, where it’s taken out on the system.

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Hard to argue with the voters on this one

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Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

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Thank you for this.

HNY everyone!

There’s going to be Covid style shortages of cars, TVs and even washing machines and fridges, then job losses because assembly lines can’t source solid state memory, just so the stupidest person you know can state with 100% confidence a chatbot confirmed dinosaurs coexisted with humans.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Measles is one of those nightmare diseases that, if it hadn't been killing people for hundreds of years, people would ABSOLUTELY be pushing conspiracy theories about right now. It's too nasty in too many different directions to seem natural. But oh, boy, it sure is.

It's easy to be concerned about vaccines when you stop being concerned about viruses. You can only stop being concerned about viruses in a world with vaccines.

Can’t believe we are still doing this

The money has always been there.

For anyone researching alternatives right now.

i highly rec nisus writer pro as a Word alternative for mac. i’ve been using it for …20 years? it’s native .rtf, but you can open .doc, save as .doc, see track-changes, do footnotes, stylesheets, multi-language spellcheck, thesaurus, and more. it updates VERY rarely, and so far zero whiff of ai. 🙏🏻

It's Mandatory Monday and AI is clearly the future. mandatoryrollercoaster.com/post/8081046...

Gemini "summarizing" the contents of g drive folders is only really useful if you assume users are constantly opening gdrive folders without having any idea what MIGHT be in them, something that is I think generally untrue, and in the cases where it IS true it's a cybersecurity nightmare!!

really we can't get more dipshitical or everything will fall apart completely

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

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if the whole genocide thing wasn't enough for you, another good reason to get AIPAC money out of democratic politics is that the organization now exists to move republican donor money into democratic races to sow chaos and get the most republican-friendly democrat elected

Every day I don't run screaming into the forest forever is an act of extreme courage and bravery. The forest never stops calling

I genuinely have no idea how to convey this to the American people, but I think the biggest impediment to any kind of immigration reform is that people are convinced that "legal" and "illegal" are immutable, intrinsic categories instead of a rapidly-shifting arbitrary constellation of regulations.

Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps

I was at the peaceful Union-led protest earlier today in Portland. ICE shot munitions into an apartment window above our heads and glass rained down all around. They also gassed tons of families protesting with their kids, completely unprovoked and without warning.

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Anyone who gives a dime to the Democratic Party right now is a fucking chump.

At briefing with Metro officials, Police Chief John Drake says they are investigating a third storm-related death in Nashville. They believe this person died from carbon monoxide poisoning.