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no one is doing it like josh mecouch

I think I understand the many reasons why people believe it's not worth it to phase out fossil fuels, but I also feel exhausted and vaguely insane living my life knowing that while the world seems normal on the surface, the fossil-fuel economy is, right now, breaking the world forever.

The Great Barrington Declaration remains one of the best-timed confidently-wrong statements ever published. Usually there's some wiggle room in the data when it comes to science, medicine, public health, etc; it's rare to make a big generalized assertion that is instantly proven wrong.

The Guardian is reporting that since Israel and Hamas signed the ceasefire and full hostage exchange agreement, Israel has violated the ceasefire 47 times, killed 38 Palestinians, and wounded another 143 more. Meanwhile Hamas has released all remaining hostages. It Was Never About The Hostages.

I found this a really illuminating thread on what demonstrations do and why they matter.

Stunning. That it’s 2020 is — very much part of the piece, I reckon.

The first two episodes of the revival of Reading Rainbow have nearly 500,000 views each 🤯 Do you know how cool that is for literacy, for book joy?! We are all worthy of reading, we are all readers 💚 And NOW episode three is out! Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋 youtu.be/e4VIV48ZB0M?feature=shared

my favorite detail

During Thanksgiving and holidays, people want to do food drives where they collect canned goods etc... and I really would love to offer that food banks need MONEY so if you can collect and donate MONEY please do that. They can then use those funds to purchase what's needed AT DISCOUNTS.

it is never okay to take out your frustration on service people and people who do have low moral character

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.

This averages out at a violation roughly every four hours, around the clock, continuously since 10 October. At what point do we stop calling it a ceasefire when Israel has just literally not ceased firing

“Average musician makes $12 a month on Spotify. The fact that they are not even able to sell a record and it’s taken from them by rich motherfuckers on streaming platforms who get paid royally by record labels,Ticketmaster, merch companies. They’re all fucking getting paid, except for the musician.”

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

We do have the power to stop this...

If you were at the No Kings events, please wear a mask for the next few days. Covid is not over. You can infect others before you feel symptomatic. People are losing their healthcare. They’re losing their food assistance. They’re losing housing. We need to protect each other.

I genuinely find this very worrying, as someone with settled status! sure, Lam probably won't be home secretary tomorrow, but the mood music is changing, you can feel it, and I just don't trust Labour to fight like hell on our behalf, so unclear where this is going to go

I love whatever is wrong with them 🙂‍↕️

In the same article it says that Microsoft executes believe OpenAI would fail www.theinformation.com/articles/mic...

You know, it would only take one country making life thoroughly ugly for fash in order to make life real ugly for fash the world over

I know folks have been litigating the value of these protests all week, and I would remind those who have been eyerolling that one VERY important part of mass dissent is making it impossible to round up all the dissenters. They see the crowds and have to reevaluate gulag plans

“People [in tech jobs] worry that not being seen as uncritical AI cheerleaders will be a career-limiting move…for those who aren't insiders in the tech industry, it's vital that you understand that you've been presented with an extremely distorted view about what tech workers really think about AI”

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

this is really good

“well it’s only good if people actually put in the work in between these events” yeah and how do you think they get the motivation to do that? sitting around and posting on the internet all day about how much everything sucks doesn’t seem to be very effective

After 2024, pundits brushed off the Resistance as cringe. I submit: Yes, it was. And cringe is good. Cringe, in fact, will save democracy.

now is a really excellent time to set up a monthly Wikipedia donation if you don’t have one already

Same mistakes everywhere.

More on the attacks on Wikipedia and its editors: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

the difference between a wonderful audiobook performance by a gifted voice actor and this "digital voice" horseshit masquerading as legit audiobooks makes me steaming mad. good narration is important and deserves to be paid for!!!!!!

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

Hey #halisky, my colleagues have an exhibition on food & migration on at the Cdn Museum of Immigration until January. I wrote a short blog about cookbooks & migrant communities because there's a cool little cookbook collection (and comfy chair) in the exhibit: pier21.ca/immigration-...

South Korea pushed AI hard in schools. The national program was aborted within months, following massive pushback from students, parents and teachers, after a fortune had already been spent by both the government and education publishers restofworld.org/2025/south-k...

HOLY FUCKING SHIT GUYS GUYS THIS IS IS SEISMIC GUYS I CAN'T EVEN TELL YOU OPUS DEI IS THE SCIENTOLOGY OF CATHOLICISM THEY ARE THE ONLY THING "THE DA VINCI CODE" GOT RIGHT THEY ARE AWFUL AND THEY ARE EVIL AND THEY HAVE ENORMOUS POWER AND THEY ARE INTEGRAL TO TRADFASH CATHOLICISM

For @spitfirenews.com, I found that increasingly realistic AI-generated videos are being deployed to harass, smear, and create endless offensive content of influencers, whose likenesses are already readily available online. It’s happening to private figures, too. spitfirenews.com/p/ai-generat...

I got access to the Sora AI app the other day. It's weird. It's unsettling. It's set up like TikTok, but for AI slop videos. It's bad.

"we've created a new technology! it's very exciting!" "what's the main use case?" "gross nonconsensual sexual stuff, mostly"

A similar thing happened to me about 25 years ago, when I was a preteen. It was a nightmare. Now, thanks to AI, so many young girls all over the world will have to live that same nightmare.

IT’S SOUP SZN POST YOUR FAVORITE AUTUMN SOUP this one is great because it’s vegan and a crock pot recipe

I was at my old high school today, for the first time in over twenty years, to talk to the teachers about how their curriculum can better support students. AI came up, and so many teachers were saying "Well it's a tool, they have to know how to use it, it's the future so we have to accept it!"

Israel is bombing southern Lebanon again This is what the Israelis call ceasefire: you cease, we fire

This Dunkin’ ad is murdering me

There is no anguish quite so sweet as learning about an apple that you hadn’t heard of and likely won’t taste

god if I had a house this is so the shit I’d get up to!!!

so thoughtful