"Google's own artificial intelligence team just staged one of the most stunning internal revolts in tech history — and it's aimed squarely at a deal the company signed with the Pentagon." via Your Daily Updates

People do not stop eating inside detention because conditions are good. Hundreds at Delaney Hall are reportedly on hunger and labor strike while protesters outside face force demanding answers. ICE says there is no strike. People inside say their bodies are the evidence.

The Republican Party has nothing to offer non-billionaires other than the knowledge that minorities will be treated poorly, and that’s enough for their base

Some of the terms are going to be good, like removing sanctions. Some are going to be bad, like a toll. Some outcomes are already worse, like an extremist government in Iran. We need to accept that, on the balance, Trump made the world worse. It will take a long time to get better.

You have to a special kind of stupid to think billionaires want to help you.

These AI slop videos and images really bring down the quality of the feed. Doesn't matter how many I mute, there are always more.

Important context: This was still a big victory for the war profiteers. Lotta lives taken, destruction of the global economy, further immiseration of the poor... but, hoo boy, some people absolutely made bank.

"I don't always lick my butt. But when I do, I do it in the middle of the living room."

from the moment it was founded activists and human rights watchdogs have warned that DHS was constructed to be an almost unaccountable private paramilitary force at the president's sole disposal.

I'd REALLY appreciate it if anyone who sees this would try out my text generators so I can iron out any remaining bugs. Please, and thank you! trek.epicrandomness.com

Title suggested by my 7yo:

Tom with an IWW hat, there.

Everybody knows this is true. I'd say the mask is slipping, but our oligarchs barely try to wear it anymore.

every one please vote for me to be the next james bond and if you are in line stay in line

Don’t get it twisted: This is a war on Black Americans.

Oof. Tbh, that sounds like the talk of somebody who's afraid to risk the imagination of a new kind of possibility.

“Prices are down.” Okay. Then explain why eggs still feel like a luxury item and one tiny grocery bag costs $101. @32bjseiu.bsky.social

I feel like this gif is primed to get a lot of use.

It is wrong and criminal for government agents to kidnap someone, send them to die in a concentration camp, and disappear them, regardless of immigration status. But it's still worth noting she has a green card. The government doesn't even pretend this is about deporting undocumented people.

What made John Brown a great man was not actually that he was a "great" man. It was that he recognized himself as a regular man that rejected white supremacy. And was willing to die for that. That when he saw another Black face, he saw a human like himself. May 9, 1800 he was born

Really showed us. We can stop dismissing him.

⚠️ Chrome's update installs a 4GB AI model file to your device without your consent! To disable the shitty AI mode*, go to chrome://flags/ and search for these, toggle each to "disabled": optimization-guide-on-device-model prompt-api-for-gemini-nano ai-mode-omnibox-entry-point -

Translation: Power absolutely does NOT belong to the people, and we don't care.

like a butterfly dropping into its grave, of course. a phrase we’ve all used and a very normal, relatable kind of image that conveys clear meaning. i’m always saying this. so beautiful, like a delicate butterfly croaking mid-air and gently floating into a tiny open bug grave at the insect cemetery.

There's a gas station I pass on my way home from work. Every single time I pass it, the price is higher than the last time. The oil companies are gouging us. I don't make enough money for this.

And the oil corporations that buy oil on futures, so they can make windfall profits. #TrickleUpEconomics

Class in the US is entirely a matter of aesthetics now. Rich suburban kids are “country”. Beard Dudes who look like they love IPAs are “working class.” Teachers who make $32,000 a year but have to dress up sort of nice in JCPenney clothes are “elites“. None of these words mean anything anymore.

I went to the strip club for the food. I didn't even see any naked people.

"What does Tucker Carlson really believe?" Whatever's convenient at the moment. Bonus if it's bigoted.

A class at my kids’ school put up little statements about the good they want to do in the world and I was over the moon about this one - then I learned they meant to say “teach people in jail” which is also good!

Scalpers > Landlords. If scalpers did as landlords do, they wouldn't sell you those concert tickets. They'd charge you by the minute to use them.

A May Day protester is asked why they are out protesting today in NYC: "People are suffering. People are dying. The rich get richer off the backs of poor and working class people." Nailed it!

He renamed it "Claudia" btw. And Claudia thinks he's a genius.

"He was more than a hero. He was a union man." - Miles O'Brien #MayDay

Don't lionize Meloni just because she criticized Trump. She's a fascist! A plain fascist. This has gotta stop. People have got to develop some principles.

Stupid Wizard is always trying to install stuff on my computer!

That's an awfully hot coffee pot.

I think letting SNAP recipients have hot rotisserie chicken is good, actually.

Far from being "soft canceled," Bill Maher is actually a major beneficiary of the system that gives outsized megaphones to mediocre white men. Despite his spectacular ignorance and lazy humor he never goes away, he just lingers on our TVs decade after decade like a pustule.

Please help Juno!!!

I like Zappa, but I think calling this "democracy" is farce. And he should have known better. If the people overwhelmingly want Medicare For All, but it can't get a floor vote, that's pretty bad. If the people overwhelmingly oppose genocide, but every major candidate supports it, that's damning.

Doctor I trust more than RFK Jr.