HOLY SHIT prosecutors kicked off grand jurors and then re-presented the case against the Broadview 6, then altered the grand jury transcripts to hide it from the judge. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

One of the most important goals of trying to spread pundit brain to the population at large is that it eliminates the idea that there can be *any kind of principles at all*. One thing that makes blue-no-matter-who folks most furious is when I ask “what principle would you never compromise?”

One of the best things you can do as an adult is realize that you didn’t actually have to stop drawing, coloring, painting, playing with clay, doing whatever else you loved as a kid. Even if you’re bad at it. Maybe especially if you’re bad at it

Ms Rachel and Mychal the librarian are out here trying to shut down a child jail. Let this be inspiration to others to do the same.

Well what the fuck did anyone believe that for??

EdTech: rich kids get humans poor kids get tech EdTech: you’re welcome

Digital marketing is part of my job and AI is making things markedly worse (and costing my clients money) because now I have to spend large amounts of time cleaning up the messes AI makes.

For years we have lived with unnecessary risk. www.theguardian.com/world/2021/j...

A document for those looking to push back on flawed pro-AI arguments in K-12 and above:

i have many justifications for hating AI but ultimately don't think i need any besides "they stole the book it was my life's dream to write without compensation, and did not get punished." their hands are literally in my pocket and they can fuck off

Our greatest power is our ability to withdraw our cooperation.

The problem is not that we don't have good ideas. It's that the people with money have bad ideas.

The early trajectory of the Ebola outbreak in DRC is alarming. Spread of the disease likely went undetected for months. Fast detection and response are crucial to stop outbreaks.

Landback isn't just a fantasy, but an achievable reality we should be working toward. The Land remembers. The movement to return it to its original stewards is, at heart, an effort to honor that memory, to protect & build something better on what's still here, for all of us STILL & NOW here.

How infantilizing --- you thought you were looking to find something that someone else wrote on the web. But woah! Now you've been "dropped into" an "interactive experience". Yeah, Google can just fuck right off with that. >>

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Call me old-fashioned but for me the best part of the search experience was the finding what you wanted when you searched part.

Running on less then 2 hours of sleep but more than 2 cups of coffee. When the crash comes it's gonna be bad.

1. Number of stories about Trump buying and selling hundreds of millions of dollars in stocks in the first three months of 2026: CBS: 0 CNN: 0 Fox News: 0 NPR: 0 PBS: 0 Politico: 0 Semafor: 0 Business Insider: 0

Idk, sometimes it feels pretty disabling to not be able to do a thing I really want to do, just because my brain squirrels have decided the task initiation costs are too high 🤷‍♀️

Trump is straight-up stealing your money to redirect it to the freaks and sex offenders who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Google really going all in on shitty updates nobody wants. I miss the don't be evil days.

Pervert glasses. Anybody who buys these things should be deeply ashamed and shunned from decent society.

The horrible zombification of the Dept of Education is worse than just killing it

Wait a minute... Are we actually losing the ability to use the Google search engine? This... sucks. I have tried to leave Google behind, but it's remained the most functional search engine. Not as good as it once was, but still providing an easier way to find what I want than its competitors.

I just do not understand this. Why are people including citations they haven't read in the first place??? You citing a paper because something materially in the paper (generally in the results or methods) emphasizes or supports something you are saying. How do you get there without reading?

Does that mean... could we just offer the billionaires all seats on a rocket and we'd be rid of them???

Privileged GenAI advocates trying to claim they are speaking for marginalised ppl in pushing their plagiarism machine agenda is one of the most disgusting parts of the whole vile scene. No, disabled people do not need GenAI to produce art or write. An outsize number of us are writers and artists.

A reminder the CDC posted this prior to Trump and it’s obvious we all have growing populations that are becoming more unwell by ignoring these serious post infection risks to all.

Users: We don't want AI Google: What if it were an Ask Gemini button Users: no Google: What if we drafted reply emails for you Users: NO Google: What if we redid search to be an "experience" Users: WHAT PART OF NO ARE YOU NOT GETTING

They bought all of our choices, political, lifestyle and economic. But they did not wager the cost of our *refusal*. It is fascinating. Grim but fascinating.

It is clearly well past time to un-google-ify my life.

Google is justifying a move to default AI search by saying it "removes friction." The problem is that friction is a necessary part of life and this incessant need to rid ourselves of it is going to lead to so many problems we can't anticipate.

What.

And I don’t just mean an opposition that loses elections. I mean an opposition that loses even when it wins elections—that cedes ground narratively and on policy; that is so cowed, agenda items from presidents decades ago are now treated as radical ideas; that polices its own side to thwart change.

Today in We Can’t Teach the Kids to Use AI Ethically When the Adults Aren’t

Google is going to make it impossible to use Google and although I’m worried about the damage this is going to do, I also hope it encourages us all to de-Google our lives as much as possible

My coworker who knows I pay attention to these things, asked me how worried I am about the hantavirus. So I told her: I’m paying attention, but I’m more worried about the coronavirus. And when she asked: why are you still worried about that? I wanted to say: precisely.

im dreaming of a time when using ai is widely considered as embarrassing and big ai is viewed as a danger to the public on a par with big tobacco and big oil

The Trump $1.776 billion slush fund is not mere corruption. Trump is giving his brownshirts money for recruiting, logistics, AR-15's and tactical gear. Nobody in the national media seems to be talking about this, or about how the Paycheck Protection Program played a central role in funding Jan 6

Ew.

Wow.

I wish I could just spend my day reading.

Update on Ebola outbreak from @who.int: "There is significant uncertainty about the number of infections and how far the virus has spread. As of 19 May, more than 500 suspected cases, including 130 suspected deaths, have been reported by the Ministry of Health."

I know there's a lot going on, and it's hard to cover it all, but I think "we are only taking white people in our refugee program" should be getting more attention.

these have been the true joy of commencement season for me ... graduation isn't about a diploma, it's about the techno-determinist AI bullshit we booed along the way

And they actually think people who critique AI are the cultish ones instead of the ones buying billionaires' lies hook & sinker because they don't like expending the effort that makes them human to do their own tasks. Please! We're the ones using our minds.

Some really big news out of Minnesota today! Story time. On a cold night in February, ICE agents chased a Alfredo, a DoorDash driver, through Minneapolis streets. Panicked, he called his partner and his best friend Julio: both urged him to come home. He almost made it. /1

put another way, investor who stands to gain from widespread adoption of asbestos donates money to have asbestos put into university walls.