Would be easy for them to show moral courage: "Many people use 'AI' products despite the harms—including people in vulnerable situations, who are victims of unscrupulous marketing. We can't in good conscience enable such exploitation. So we're devoting our resources to the following groups instead:"

They asked a Google AI for Ed engineer “how he planned to enact his vision of the future, one where AI filled classrooms rather than emptied them. ‘The professors themselves,’ he said, would be responsible for figuring that out.” They promise utopian and make others responsible for delivering it.

This is delicious

can’t say what’s going through my head right now But something about US history, Black women, Native women, and Nazis

Honestly, I think these two articles are pretty damn close in their tenor. - The companies are barely investing anything meaningful in building new renewables, so they can extend coal and get paid to do it - The grid operator lost all interest in enhancing emissions reductions years ago

Somebody is briefing the Times that the Home Secretary finds inspiration in Kristi Noem's leading the Trump mass deportation effort - which has gone much too far for Americans What a kamikaze piece of political madness that is on the eve of their asylum package www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.

"Australia’s bottom-tier ranking reflects decades of bipartisan policy failure: reliance on extraction rather than production; property speculation, not innovation; privatisation over public investment; and political capture by fossil capital." #renewables #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

Bingo. Corporate welfare is the real welfare you should be talking about.

“As chunks of rotting salmon from a massive fish die-off wash up on the shores of Tasmania’s pristine beaches, the Albanese government rammed legislation to shield the salmon industry through Parliament within 48 hours, with the support of the Coalition.” #shame

Gotta love how Jon Karl and ABC News had this graphic ready to go *the very moment* that Hassett rolled out his Walmart anecdote.

thing about autism is if you work really hard for many years, you can learn through trial-and-error how to navigate social situations and interpersonal connections SO effectively that people don't really believe you're autistic anymore and resent you for not being perfect at nonverbal communication

Chris Murphy on possible military strikes on Venezuela: "It's pretty clear it's just an effort to distract people from the rising prices and the Epstein scandal. No one wants a war with Venezuela ... and by the way, it's wildly illegal."

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Given that people are smoking, it would be good for them to have smoking options that were controlled by platforms that understand it's bad to make products that induce children to kill themselves or Firefox could just stop pushing AI that nobody wants and everyone speaking up about it doesn't want

i'm sorry but we really should just grind the entire country to a halt until we break this fucking monstrous apparatus. this shit is insane. it's insane to go to work while this is happening

As a migrant, I actually /categorically/ disagree with the notion that you can't point out the migrant heritage of politicians practicing anti-migrant policy. You can! And you should!

You do not actually possess the right to close the door behind you, and I have no compunction in calling you a traitor if you do.

it's hard to accept that power and wealth do not require you to be smart or savvy in some way both bc we're told they do and also because it's insulting, but. here we are.

If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.

Bill Gates and Bjorn Lomborg bear a really substantial chunk of responsibility for supplying this line to every climate-delaying pro-fossil government around the world

The U.S. intelligence community concluded Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved the killing and dismemberment of a Post columnist, making President Trump's formal dinner for the prince on Tuesday a dramatic step in public rehabilitation. https://wapo.st/3LOwEFn

The term "antisemitism" has been so cynically misused that people have tuned out. For two years, anyone questioning Israel’s brutality in Gaza has been smeared as antisemitic. Those false alarms have drained the word of its power and made the public stop listening.

An interesting, slightly technical discussion around spectrum management and why it matters if one country thinks the rules (that they actually signed up to this time) don't apply to them.

Waters is an idiot. Just an absolute flog. Most over rated driver in the field. #RepcoSC

Toyota loves fascists.

Apparently the lesson Brendan Carr learned from the Kimmel debacle is that he didn't actually have any consequences for abusing his power to violate the 1st Amendment, so he's just going to keep at it.

Jimmy Carter’s peanut farm says hi.

Best literary analysis ever

If Joe Biden had an MRI a month ago and we had no idea why it was done or on what body part and he claimed he had no idea about either of those things it would literally be all you heard about in the press but Trump just gets a huge pass b/c reporters treat him differently.

FCC Chair Brendan Carr just shared a Truth Social post from Trump calling for Seth Meyers to be fired

Open bribery by a foreign leader. The exact scenario that the Founders feared. "no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State"

"I can excuse racism, but I can't excuse being treated like everyone else"

imagine being hit on by gross old Larry Summers when you just wanted professional advice and then finding out he was getting advice on how to hit on you from Jeffrey fucking Epstein one of the grossest things I’ve ever read

And, of course, a reminder that four months later, the SCOTUS Republican appointees essentially said, “Cool with us.” www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-tru...

"Blending Family and Governance"??? @nytimes.com, must you become a joke? In the 1870s, the NYT helped to take Boss Tweed down. Today, the NYT is shucking and jiving while Boss Tweed is sitting atop the nation's wealth and passing it onto his progeny.

being married to an SEC alum i’ve watched a lot of college games and i’ve never seen anything like this. if he’s this aggro with a couple black players just imagine what he’s like when there aren’t cameras and thousands of people around.

He’ll be off to work for ICE

Glad Americans are finally answering important political questions like, "Should matters of war and peace be decided by one guy in dubious cognitive health," and "Pedophiles: should they get away with it?"

"Legal experts point out that this effectively hands Trump the authority to unilaterally execute civilians who are not waging war against the United States in any recognizable sense." Read that again, I had to.

One of the great heartbreaks of being in the disability community is how often we lose people and how many of our most powerful voices have gone silent. We must live our lives loudly and joyously in their honor and remember that our very existence is resistance.

Kristi Noem waived bidding requirements to give $220 million to a firm tied to her top aide, chief spokesperson, and herself—all for a vanity ad shot at Mount Rushmore. Korruption at its finest.

Trump went all the way to the Supreme Court to withhold food from vulnerable Americans. Now, he’s firing a worker for laying out the facts: Republicans were using hunger as a political weapon. Democrats are going to fight back for Ellen, and all federal workers. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/14/m...

It's really weird to see people like Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly, who once had sweet corporate gigs, have to turn up the creep knob to compete with a generation of personalities that started with an iPhone and a mental disorder.

Spent his life preparing for this moment and he’s not remotely prepared. Democrats need to stop trying to win a Republican primary.

i think a good example of Propaganda Works is the number of you who think that the national Democratic Party spent the years 2013 to 2020 denouncing Americans for insufficient Tumblr-speak

Ketan Joshi on the environmental toll of Meta’s genAI advertising product newrepublic.com/article/2028...

A great microcosm of what I was discussing a few days ago. It's all well and good that AIPAC has increasingly become persona non grata to the Democratic primary base, but what does that mean in translating anything into concrete politics? Many candidates will simply lie, or obscure their ties.

who knows how much the inevitable flood of spending will change things but right now I'm not even sure Fine is really in this race now that we have multiple polls showing it's Biss-Abughazaleh in 1-2 with Fine in a kind of distant third

Yep. We don’t need more anti-protest laws. We need to fire the Nazi-loving police that waive though and somehow fail to tell their minister about (or more likely deliberately hid) the illegal Nazi protests they’ve ‘approved’. The same police that bash anyone involved in an environmental protest.