Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...

Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.

I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.

One of the things that I've been writing and researching over the past year is how people are neurologically, psychologically and systematically primed for political cruelty, and one of the only heartening things is this - that it would disappear if it wasn't maintained by massive effort.

AI … is a crisis… History shows us that the right to literacy came at a heavy cost for many Americans, ranging from ostracism to death. Those in power recognized that oppression is best maintained by keeping the masses illiterate, and those oppressed recognized that literacy is liberation.“

In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.

It is such a disorienting feeling when someone you care about but hadn't talked to that much in a couple of years dies suddenly because there is now a freshly dug hole inside of you and yet the day to day routine of your life has not been altered one bit. www.welcometohellworld.com/watertown-ma...

Read Bob Black's The Abolition of Work right before dropping out of highschool (I don't have a career)

Please reach out if you have information about this specific Patriot Front member out of New England, whom I've dubbed "Hair Apparent". An apparently active member since August 2024, he is likely based out of Massachusetts and/or Connecticut.

With this, as with all things, we're absolutely at the mercy of the emotional needs of the very worst people in our society. They don't even benefit from it in any material sense - billionaires could have even more billions if there was UBI etc., but mega-scale sadism is the ultimate luxury good.

If you haven’t turned it off yet then this is yet another reminder

Transition is a practice of self-abolition, and it demonstrates that abolition involves both destroying/ending and building/creating in a way that threatens all ideologies of natural right, of hierarchy and power with a simple gesture of desire and self-knowledge

Attacking trans children is about attacking all children in the same way attacking trans autonomy is about attacking all bodily autonomy. Our actions are particularly powerful, autonomous and brave, and that means even well meaning ppl find us ideologically disturbing

Most folks don’t appreciate (a) the degree to which science feeds the world (as well as helping to keep us healthy and safe from all sorts of harm) and (b) how -very- much facts matter in science. 1/?

@trahan.house.gov ICE/CBP/etc kidnapping residents and abusing people in the streets, republican president threatening lawmakers with death, access to food/healthcare/housing taken away or threatened constantly... Lori Trahan: The socialists must pay for this 😤🤡

It occurs to me, and I'm sure I'm not the only one, that what is happening with the ultra rich oppressing and exploiting everyone else is a mirror of what humans have done to the earth.

On one of the dirty hippy US politics podcasts in 2017, after the torchlit Nazi rally where one of the marchers killed a woman.

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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

I added a couple of entries to this sheet. If you've tabled at an art book fair or zine fair this year, consider adding to the spreadsheet.

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

Lawrence Police Chief Aguilar, on Lawrence's unhoused community at last night's hearing: "There is no amount of outreach in the world that can help these people" ... then why are you vying for control over that very outreach for the LPD via your so-called Camping Ban? #Mapoli #StopTheSweeps

“I got blamed for reaching for his gun, when I wasn’t reaching for nobody’s gun. They were literally beating me to the ground and I was just trying to protect myself.” #Webster #Massachusetts

All the councilors that spoke about the anti-homeless ordinance went on and on about all the calls they were getting from people "experiencing this," - not experiencing living unhoused, but experiencing having to witness unhoused people in public. Those of us with empathy must get louder. Fast.

We need EVERYONE to start making their empathy and understanding and love for our unhoused neighbors infinitely louder than these loser nimby fucks

They should invent a city counselor that isn't a bootlicker

Oh just kidding, they have held the monthly city council hearing and moved another public meeting up ahead of the one about the camping ban "so councilors can get home" That's how little the Lawrence City Council cares about our unhoused community.

2 Lawrence cops are proposing a "camping ban" and there is a public hearing tonight. These bans are a cruel and dehumanizing practice which do nothing to get people housed or keep them safe in any way. Watch here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=gbCN... #Mapoli #HousekeysNotHandcuffs #StopTheSweeps

Been logged off for several months. I’m late but there are shirts (still) available with a design I made. Purchasing them benefits orgs that support people directly impacted by the occupation of DC. Thanks @missmouse.bsky.social and @musicologyduck.bsky.social for the pics.

periodic reminder of the existence of Atkinson Hyperlegible, a free font available from the Braille Institute designed to improve readability for people with low vision I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides

Mass DTA already makes us do this every 6 months. The thought of increasing the already difficult means testing on us is just so demoralizing. Not demoralizing enough for my disabled ass to get a "normal" job or two tho. But nice try.

It's fucking winter virus season. Get vaccinated. Wear masks around groups of other people. If you feel sick stay home! Let's help each other out with this shit, people, jfc.

I hesitated for a long time to join Bluesky, and all of the reasoning behind that hesitation has been proven correct by the absolute shit mods of this site. They have total contempt for their users.

It’s officially potluck season withoffice parties galore. 🦃🥘 If, like me, you harbor an irrational fear of food poisoning, I’ve got you covered. Here’s your ID doctor–approved guide to surviving the season’s buffets w/out ending up in the ER. 🧤🍽️💀 open.substack.com/pub/bktitanj...

New York AG James said she's received complaints of stores in her state refusing EBT cards and has already sent out several cease and desist letters. Stores are not allowed to refuse SNAP benefits. If this happens to you, call the AG's hotline to report at 1-800-771-7755.

When SNAP benefits get partially or fully restored, please do not cancel any monetary or food donations you are making to local food banks. People are still going to need a lot of support.

the tldr for the qt and so much more

even when the democratic party has leverage and one of the craziest election swings the party intentionally self immolates it’s just so exhausting what is even the point of these people

These politicians aren't in disarray. They fucking hate you. They don't work for you.

Also Schumer and Jeffries were totally successful this time in moving the goalposts from "why are Democrats letting Trump destroy the United States of America" to "why are Democrats letting Trump destroy ACA subsidies". And people say Schumer is bad at politics

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

The false hope people have when they hear SNAP will be paid may very well be part of the plan I think the Regime enjoys toying with people When the general public hears SNAP will be paid, donations dry up When Trump appeals to get permission NOT to pay? We have to start the fight all over again.

THIS IS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT, @trahan.house.gov. Fitchburg is in Lori Trahan's district. And Lori Trahan has done NOTHING to resist this. Parents being kidnapped. Babies being put in danger. All while Lori Trahan does NOTHING. She must lose her seat. #mapoli #mass #massachusetts

Police departments that say they're not cooperating with ICE are sure working hard to make things easier for agents (Also, *every* one of these ICE arrests is "hostile")

BREAKING: A federal judge ordered Trump to get full SNAP benefits out by tomorrow. The judge made clear Trump broke the law by *choosing* to force kids to go hungry for "political reasons." "Children are immediately at risk of going hungry. This should never happen in America."

Why doesn't it matter that the mayor of #LawrenceMA just stole the election #Mapoli

Can someone please explain to me why Manny would concede the election when there is explicit proof of fraud and ballot harvesting on behalf of the Depeña admin?? Nobody in Lawrence seems to be on Bsky and I'm not going back to meta I feel like I'm losing my mind tryna understand this shit...

www.nbcboston.com/news/politic... Sec Galvin's office: "While in Lawrence throughout in-person early voting, our staff has unfortunately observed campaign tactics that likely rise to the level of criminal activity." I fear Depeña will face no repercussions and we will be stuck with him #mapoli