My kingdom for a major media organization that would cover Musk forthrightly like this:

It's just one week away. "No Kings" hopes for a major escalation of its anti-authoritarianism movement with a May 1 general strike, urging "no work, no school, no shopping" Online buzz has been light, but some major unions are on board. Can it work? My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/may-...

Texas tech now bans students from writing about LGBTQ issues in any form. Mentions of gender identity, orientation etc in textbooks must be skipped. Deafening silence so far from all the brave heterodox free speech absolutists www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-tech...

'AI faces a growing backlash from the American public' due to its energy consumption and impact on jobs

I worked with the team that calculated a good chunk of these figures, & the reality is LAPD has two helicopters in our skies 24/7 without any discernible benefit to public safety. All we get is pollution (noise + air) & debt.

The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The fifth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

I'm shocked! said no one.

people hate hasan for moments like this but he really does speak for the youth on this

The important thing is we did this for no reason at all

🚨BREAKING: Internal emails between DOJ personnel suggest that, from the very outset of the effort to obtain sensitive voter data from states — much earlier than previously known — officials there planned to share it with the DHS. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

THREAD: Let's dig into one specific piece of the misguided "protect the kids" social media legislation that Massachusetts lawmakers are trying to rush through: The provisions that involve "parental consent." (Read my Boston Globe piece here for a primer) archive.ph/rAK4P But let's go deeper 🧵

Anyone know wealthy people from Massachusetts who care about human rights and want to donate to @fightforthefuture.org's rapid-response campaign to stop dangerous social media surveillance in the state? Is this skeet a "fundraising plan" ? Asking for a friend.

Eartha Kitt performing in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1955

Wasn't there once some issue where the President's son was supposedly (though without much evidence) profiting off of his father's Presidency and it was the worst thing in the world during the last administration...

Proton's CEO says age-verification is okay so long as its "strictly confined to areas like pornography and social media." Let me tell you how misguided this is — especially from the head of a "privacy first" company. 🧵

finally, someone has figured out how to allow people to put money on what’s going to happen with the S&P 500

“It is no longer enough—or even that useful frankly—to discover the hidden forces of reaction in the world. There just aren't that many hidden forces to find, because reaction has stopped hiding. What is necessary is to fight it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/what-is-woke...

the way this makes sense for RFK is that "healthy people" and "sick people" are ontological categories.

This whole curation is amazing. I've cherished all these films and am so proud to have TRANSIT included. ❤️ @callmebendix.bsky.social @vanniall.com @ashleylatke.bsky.social @robinastera.bsky.social @jamal-phoenix.bsky.social & more not on Bsky

Good news! TRANSIT will screen in a special presentation of trans affirming adult films "Me, Myself and I - Existing in My Body" on May 13th in Zürich. @vanniall.com @ashleylatke.bsky.social @jizlee.bsky.social 🎟️ Tickets: www.xenix.ch/programm/mai...

Omg they are going to try to make weed legal to win the election and it’s in no way going to work but I cannot wait to see them rolling out the PR of them smoking and that hurt them even more

as the good timeline continues all of those websites are going to be taken down and replaced with stuff like this. then you'll know the internet is finally healing. this is a start. :)

Something lacking from this coverage is that "usage" probably isn't even - there are probably a very small fraction of users consuming the vast majority of energy, mostly through agents, coding and video production This isn't "rapid adoption", it's rapid digital bloating and inefficiency.

listen hun if you can't handle the Washington Post editorial board at their the Texas gerrymander "freakout" is "not a threat to democracy" you don't deserve them at their "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss"

The Brits appear ready to shame the US news media into covering this, distracted as they are by gazing at their own navels ...

The fuck

Its interesting that regular people can be charged for "standing by" during a shooting, but cops can't (thinking of Uvalde) www.wzzm13.com/article/news...

I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals

I have bad news for him about conservatives

In 2025, renewables overtook coal in global electricity generation for the first time in over 100 years. Renewables: 33.8% Coal: 33.0% Coal fell below a third of global electricity generation for the first time in history.

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Wanted to show you this post in English because it’s so good and we truly are a global village

California prohibits ballots from leaving the custody of election officials — but that didn't stop a sheriff from seizing 650k ballots cast in last year's redistricting referendum. Now, these officials are left wondering what to do if the same events play out in this year's midterms.

the thing about our current moment is that yes, the anti-AI and anti-big tech people are getting very reactive nowadays - but have you seen what they’re *reacting* to?

Palantir put plans for techno-fascism in a document. Like a techno-fascist manifesto with themselves at the center. Features fascistic distortions of language and declarations of inherent superiority that should be acknowledged and made permanent, but driven by and with a more central role for tech.

need feedback

He's got a primary this year, plenty of time for somebody to announce.

The desperate campaign to push AI down our throats is just what Nestlé did with baby formula, or Monsanto with patended seeds. Manufactured Intermediation—inserting a corporate tollbooth into a process that used to be self-sustaining, using a low initial barrier to entry to destroy the alternative.

Re: nostalgia for VHS tapes and other analog media, I saw someone say like "a VHS tape never sold my information to a nazi" and yes that's true! But the reason it's true is actually because Congress passed a law in 1988 specifically making it illegal for video stores to sell your rental history

It’s honestly really frustrating that there is a kind of corpo dem system that is 1000% in on spamming people without any way to remove permanently as if that isn’t a component in why people hate politicians right now

"Democrats need to break from this path and acknowledge that billionaires—especially those in the increasingly antidemocratic tech sector—are never going to side with them over the GOP." From @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2087...

So ... now we're fighting two terrible social media ID check proposals in Massachusetts. We'll get this call tool updated, spread it far and wide and use it to call your MA state lawmakers. There will be a "conference committee" we can pressure to fix the problems. stoponlineidchecks.org/ma

Did Governor Healey use Chat GPT to write her new social media bill? Because that would explain a lot. The Governor is right that we can't trust Big Tech companies. But her proposal would force us to send them even more of our sensitive data and require them to store that data indefinitely.

THREAD: I've now analyzed @massgovernor.bsky.social's proposed social media legislation and ... ... it is somehow even worse than the House bill that passed last week (which was already one of the worst bills on this issue we've seen in the US.) You might wanna sit down for this. Here goes: 🧵

calls for “viewpoint diversity” are little more than demands for a quota system for political conservatives who otherwise could not hack it www.aaup.org/academe/issu...

I'm seeing the number of people being like "they will live the city" BITCH they already don't live here! Many of these homes are basically fully empty they're just places for rich people to park money

The best part about this is how he solicits advice from various academics, and this one professor responds back with what is clearly just an assorted list of her own grievances.

another tax day successfully extended until october