Bad: evidence of yet another white supremacist cop. Big surprise. Cool: his wife is divorcing him because of it and wants to limit his visitation with the kids precisely so he can't pass his hate on to them! […]

Progressives: We need to protect jobs, increase wages, provide a universal basic income, provide universal healthcare, protect the environment, reign in the super rich and their power, and do everything else needed to create a sustainable future where people can live happy and healthy lives! […]

The word "hallucination" isn't going away — it's a widely used industry term — but we need to explain it better for beginners: "Hallucination" is just a fancy word for "confidently makes mistakes": "Remember: AI hallucinates, and you need to confirm all facts" should be something like […]

I've never been opposed to the word "hallucinating" for describing how AI makes mistakes ... until now. I just talked to someone who thought AI hallucinations would be obvious because it would be obvious if you talked to a *person* who was hallucinating. In other words, they equated […]

John Finnemore on the French horn/cor anglais: "I was idly wondering why the cor anglais has a French name meaning ‘English horn’, and the French horn has an English name meaning… well, ‘French horn’. I looked it up, even though I knew there would just be some reasonable but rather dull […]

i never really thought of myself as meeting the autistic steroeotype of a picky eater because i really have very few limitations on what i'm willing to eat, but when i actually stop and think about my eating habits it really becomes clear that the stereotype applies. For example, for at least […]

A visual novel plotline sprung to life: - Kids at a high school in Rome had been telling each other for decades that there were secret rooms under the school. Teachers laughed it off as playground rumors - During a protest sit-in, the kids took the opportunity to go where they’re not supposed […]

i wish i knew how to make friends. i know lots of people and they seem to like me, but no one ever asks me if i want to do anything with them. i think it's because of our age difference. Even though we all like the same things and think the same way and enjoy doing the same things, i think most […]

i am finally starting to understand how deeply CPTSD has affected my life. Today i left work and came home after less then an hour and a half because a few minutes after sitting down at my desk i had a thought about my past trauma that was so triggering that i started crying, had to hold a Care […]

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Gods damn it so much!!!! #blackmastodon https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/chikei-rick-chow-found-not-guilty-murder-killing-cyrus-carmack-belton-rcna348008

Prida month @ #esa (ESAC/Madrid)

Florida Republican compares trans people to mutants from the X-Men. You know what? Magneto was right. #xmen #mutants #florida #republican #trans #transgender https://www.them.us/story/webster-barnaby-trans-people-x-men-mutants-demons

Ooof. Tried to see the movie Backrooms today. i had to leave the movie in the middle of it. i was enjoying it, but it uses a lot of "found footage" type shots that were made with a small handheld video camera and the shakiness of the video gave me really bad motion sickness to the point that i […]

Meet Dr James Barry.

People are cheapskates with poor people but spendthrift with billionaires. I just listened to someone complaining about how "the garbage union" has schemed so that there are always two people operating NYC garbage trucks to "waste my tax dollars" and I guess making too many wealthy sanitation […]

Oh hey! Looks like the Republican war on education, not just by restricting what can be taught, but also by just flat out refusing to provide funding, is finally starating to reach it's logical conclusion. A school district in Texas, where i lived for 45 years, has decided they just can't afford […]

My most consistent unpopular opinion - an argument I've lost many times in the past 35 years - is that Pride is for the community & the community does not benefit from the parasitic involvement of corporate fair weather friends.

Remember when Bernie Sanders unveiled his plan for free college for all Americans, and everyone said we can't afford it? We just spent more than that amount on Trump's war in Iran.

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

And for those who are questioning my reference to “nearly a century” – it is referring to the paper published by Guy Callendar in 1937. To get the full story of the amazing cast of characters who contributed to fundamental understanding of climate science since the early 1800s, watch:

And to everyone who is wondering, “how could humans be causing more than 100% of the warming?” — it’s because, according to natural factors, the earth should be cooling right now. So our emissions are offsetting that cooling AND causing all of the observed warming. For more, watch:

#dissociation #trauma #humor

[USA politics] _The Modern Niemoller_ First they came for the immigrants and I said nothing, for I was not an immigrant. Then they came for the transgenders and I said nothing, for I was not transgender. Then they came for the Black voters and I said nothing, for I was not a Black voter […]

As of today, the Vancouver School Board sent this document rolling out Copilot 13+ AI in schools. he same technology that has been consistently shown to damage critical thinking skills and isolate teenagers is now being rolled out to all Vancouver students above […] [Original post on socialbc.ca]

the infosec people at my work are rioting because the Distant Corporate Overlord sent an email that scores 10/10 on the phishing scale (“We want to give you a present to thank you for all your hard work! [Click here] to claim your gift!”)

i am happier being hated for who i am than hating myself for being someone else

Many have commented on the last sentence. it's a reference to the end of "À la Claire Fontaine", which acted as our natl anthem for many centuries : "Il y a longtemps que je t'aime, jamais je ne t'oublierai." After it was engraved on our parliament, it also became Quebec's motto, "Je me souviens".

A few months ago, I posted this comic about the new Canadian policy that allows citizenship by descent. It went viral, and then gradually, I started to get dozens of messages like this trickling in : people are getting new citizenships. People are moving countries and changing their lives.

President Dwayne Herbert Elizando Mountain Dew Camacho approves. #trump https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/massive-ufc-construction-project-rises-004041302.html

What They Mean #trans #queer #lgbtqia #fiction #nonfiction #author #writing https://twp.ai/9OW3oF

It's Memorial Day in the United States. Here's a story published by @time in 2020 about the forgotten Black history of the federal holiday. https://flip.it/ReimJn #memorialday #blackmastodon #history

Alright, I'm asking on here for obvious reasons: Does anyone have suggestions for good books for adults who suspect they might be autistic? Ideally, I want descriptions of what it's like to be autistic, in analytical terms, so that I can see if I relate to it. #autism #autistic #actuallyautistic

The fact Instagram and all other social networks now have some AI slop feature that allows you to generate captions or whole posts with AI, but NO FEATURE TO GENERATE IMAGE DESCRIPTION / ALT TEXT should tell you all you need to know next time one of these ghouls pretends their new technology […]

There is something really sinister about the fact that i cannot access https://gitlab.torproject.org using the Tor Browser. #tor

In his new encyclical about the need to control AI and ensure it is not used to hurt people, Pope Leo has cited ... Gandalf! #popeleo #catholicchurch #ai #tolkien https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/citing-gandalf-pope-leo-says-we-must-disarm-ai

This article goes over the problems that are faced by girls and women with ADHD. Our presentation is different than that of boys and men, and it often goes overlooked and undiagnosed. As a woman who only received an ADHD diagnosis two weeks ago at the age of 56, this really strikes home for me. […]

Yesterday i saw someone refer to the White House as the "White Supremacist House" and it totally works.

#womenshealthmonth #adhd #misogyny 👀 "Research and clinical guidelines are built around male presentations of ADHD, and science has historically paid little attention to female manifestations and impairments. As a result, many girls and women still battle to receive proper referral, diagnosis […]

My grandmother's maiden name was Hicks, so i can say that i literally am descended from a bunch of Hicks!

#lesbian #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #lgbtqia2s #2slgbtqia

In Yesterday's IO Keynote Google declared war on the remnants of the Web. While they packaged it as a lot of "AI" talk what their whole approach of decontextualizing information, of taking away links to sources and instead producing some LLM generated response means is that they want to […]

No one should ever have to justify being different

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With regard to the gutting of the Voting Rights Act all i can say is "The last vestiges of the old republic have been swept away!" #usa #unitedstates #trump #scotus #supremecourt

Anyone in the market for an (abandoned) Volvo? Ran perfectly when parked. Slight patina to the paintwork. Needs a minor service and a bit of a clean! No time wasters. Open to sensible offers! 💸😂 #Photography #abandonedcar #classiccars #volvo #weirdcarmastodon #classiccar

I hope this dowsing rod finds you well.

Add another Pokémon to the old Pokéball! Caught a CPTSD, too! Just got the psychologists written report in the mail and that was part of it that she didn't mention when we spoke in person. I guess it just seemed inconsequential compared to the others. 🤣 😭 #dissociation #plural #trauma