Ok guys should we use the world's remaining carbon budget to A) power the transition to 100% renewables B) power the plagiarism machines that only a tiny managerial minority wants and aren't profitable even though everyone is being forced to use them?

🔴 BREAKING: Israeli settlers attacked a school in the occupied West Bank, killing two Palestinians, including a teenage student, after advancing on the building while children were taking their monthly exams. Full story: iamdonnyevans.substack.com/i/194969291/...

“There is a culture of accepting sexualised assault against Palestinians, and the fear is that it's only going to increase more and more. If we don't speak about these 16 cases, it'll be 1,600 – and then it will be out of our hands,” Ms Ansari said. www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20...

Just a friendly reminder to surround yourself with the kind of people who support their local library, theatre, bakery, bookstore, and café.

EXACTLY

Yet another reason I cannot stand shills who claim AI/LLMs could be great for translation and/or preserving threatened languages. 🙄 They most emphatically are not and won't be, because the data colonialism machine was built to parse (and prioritize) privileged languages and lacks cultural context.

Billionaire Justin Sun invested $75 million in one of Trump's crypto coins, and now he's suing them, alleging that his multi-million dollar investment was procured through fraud and the project is now “on the verge of collapse.” He still supports Trump, though. www.mediaite.com/lawcrime/bre...

The income to housing price ratio

"Honestly, you should be thankful we’re freeing you from the burden of having massive amounts of money... We’re going to have to spend a good chunk of it on bunkers and machine-gun-wielding robot dogs to protect us from the mass social unrest we’re creating."

everyone with real American manliness and a basic knowledge of military history knows that serious war efforts have never been derailed by such trifling matters as "communicable diseases"

We need a matriarchy run by lesbians with clipboards and earpieces who do not take any shit.

A reminder during #NationalLibraryWeek, libraries are our best and last defense against the fascist monopoly on knowledge and information

April 20, 1926: A member of the all-female Achille Serre fire brigade during a training session in London.

The Ascension, by Paolo Veronese, 1585, 📸 by @gwephoto

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

I’d never do Simpsons trivia because I know roughly 10000x more about the Simpsons than the median human being and roughly 10000x less than bearded men who do Simpsons trivia

“In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political, I must listen to the birds. And in order to hear the birds, the warplanes must be silent” - Marwan Makhoul

The decline of the United States is a key goal of tech fascism, which aims to end democracy and remake the world as a billionaire-run enterprise. It only looks like "chaos" if you don't grasp the strategy.

A peer reviewed study shows a promising link between flu and shingles vaccines and a reduced risk of dementia. A heroin addict who cut off a raccoon’s penis for “further study” says these vaccines cause autism. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Door Dash setting up a staged moment with Trump means I'm not using Door Dash going forward. It's pretty simple: Help promote Donald Trump and you're dead to me. www.newsweek.com/doordashs-pr...

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

"The rise of extreme wealth is one of the clearest signs of this imbalance. In 1987, billionaires held wealth equal to 3% of global GDP. Today this tiny elite, just 0.0001% of the world population, owns the equivalent of *16%* of world GDP in wealth."

Stop subsidizing sprawl! If you want a big fully detached house with a private yard, you should have to pay what that actually costs. It’s outrageous that we’ve artificially made suburbia cheaper than the city in North America.

I’ve read, commmissioned or been part of many studies like this one, and the results are ALWAYS the same — low density suburban development is incredibly expensive for everyone, and doesn’t come close to paying its own way. It needs to be heavily subsidized by denser, mixed-use areas. Sound fair?

Post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet. (Orange cats for the win!)

The same week the NYTimes was devoting its significant resources to producing this ridiculous piece about Lauren Sanchez Bezos's call for rich people to not worry and be happy, Ryan Hass, an independent journalist in Oregon, was investigating this horrifying story about a death in an Amazon plant.

“I Wasn’t That Stressed About America’s Falling Birth Rate. Until I Realized It Was Women’s Fault” “Did Planned Parenthood Ruin the Birth Rate?” “We Asked Eight Women Why They Didn’t Want Children. We Forgot to Write Down Their Answers”

I work with historical sources that have and never will be digitized, I collect oral histories and work in hospitals. So no I don’t think that ‘AI can do research better than humans with PhDs’. And I’m tired of AI pushers who don’t know my fields demanding that I ‘try LLMs’ or risk redundancy

As the playoffs (play-in tonight, whatev) start, I am once again bummed that much of NBA twitter shrugged and stayed over there. Someone tell the big accounts that they could force a migration if they felt like it, and that we have video here and links aren't suppressed. Also no nazis. #NBAsky

Next time someone asks me why I won’t buy from Amazon, I’ll show them this article.

We need computer classes back. We need to teach people how to troubleshoot and how to type and how folders work. I am frequently shocked at how little people know about computers these days. This has "Back in my day" energy, but like... it's a necessary skill that we seem to have lost.

Just a friendly reminder that your desire to have a bookshelf with a rolling ladder is valid. Don’t allow anyone to disrespect you by telling you otherwise.

This part exactly. We are currently repeating some of the worst moments in history and everyone keeps calling it unprecedented because history is poorly taught and we are making all the same terrible decisions with higher stakes

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

Trump and his administration do not care about women’s lives. Posting a video of a woman being graphically murdered is yet another form of objectification and dehumanization. The purpose of it was to shock and offend, in order to encourage racism against immigrant men. It is a form of terror.

It's been nearly five hours since the president of the United States posted a graphic snuff video of a man beating a woman to death with a hammer and there's no mention of it on the New York Times, Washington Post or CNN websites.

No no no. Sideburns is an anagram of Burnsides? WTAF!!!

Cars should be mechanically incapable of turning/changing lanes without the turn signal having previously been engaged.

WE NEED BAD IRRELEVANT TAKES IMMEDIATELY FLOOD THE TIMELINE

Using your debt, your search history, and your private data to decide how much you’re worth? Hell no. This is what happens when technology is built to serve profit instead of people. This is why every worker needs a union.

Ok I'm bored and want to procrastinate work so let's do a thread instead. Wanna hear a story? Alright then, story it is. So gather around, children, because now we're going to talk about the most important science book you've probably never heard of. Ready? Off we go, then.

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

Dow Jones closes down 11 points as Apocalypse destroys all life on Earth

We elected an administration on the messaging that all of society’s ills were a result of DEI & immigration. So we’re left with no choice when we look at all this immediate & staggering abject failure, death & unnecessary suffering around you but to understand that it is a direct result of whiteness

Americans suffer from a desperate need to believe in the inherent goodness of the American electorate--the idea that a voter in 2024--after nearly a decade of unfiltered, widely broadcast, deeply fascist rhetoric from Donald Trump--was simply "tricked" by a Facebook algorithm or a Fox News segment.