Have you been asked by a medical provider recently for consent to have an "AI" scribe record your visit? Us, too. And we have **thoughts** buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

Bus stops all over San Francisco have an ad for some AI company that says "San Francisco has lost a lot of its soul" And it's honestly the most "hot-dog-suit guy meme" energy ever

I need everyone to understand this is eugenics in action—not just “quackery.” Much like the “anti vax” movement as a whole.

Fuck yeah, Nasa highlighting Liliana Villarreal as Artemis II landing and recovery director and immigrant who fell in love with space during a Kennedy Center visit when she was 7.

“conscientious objector” by edna st. vincent millay “Am I a spy in the land of the living, / that I should deliver men to Death?”

I take no pleasure in saying that I and my @propublicaguild.org colleagues are on strike. It shouldn't have come to this and i can only hope that seeing the overwhelming majority of staff walk out today opens management's eyes and convinces them we're serious about our demands.

see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

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It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened. And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.

New from 404 Media: the removed DOGE deposition videos have already been backed up across the internet. A judge ordered their removal from YouTube on Friday. By Saturday, the videos were available on the Internet Archive and as a torrent file www.404media.co/the-removed-...

You are not going to get me to empathize with these grown men - Cavanaugh was 28, and Fox was 27 (they are 29, and 28 now IIRC) You can argue they didn't know it was potentially criminal but even if what they were doing was legal it was steeped in bigotry. They don't get a pass on that.

"To be where the rising ape meets the falling angel?" AH. I HEAR YOU HAVE MET HIM TOO 3/3 #GNUTerryPratchett

"Fondly?" I DO NOT JUDGE. AS A RULE, I SPEND LITTLE TIME WITH PEOPLE AS THEY LIVE "No, but you spend some time with them after, like now." Death halted. THERE WAS ONE, TEN YEARS AGO. HE TAUGHT ME A LOT ABOUT WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN 2/3

The first thing I noticed was that the pain was gone. The tall, thin, hooded figure let me bask in that for a moment. IT IS TIME "Oh," I said, looking down at the frail vessel I had inhabited all my life. "Right." COME "Do you remember," I asked as we walked, "everyone you come for?" YES 1/2

NO NO NO YOU DON’T GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL tell everyone you know www.freetaxusa.com

Challenge for people who believe Claude *is* conscious and use it anyway: Explain how you’re not a slaver.

'BEYOND THE LAW?' Lexis-Olivier Ray (2025) #ShotOn35mm 🎞

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Just read the text of the bill and made a call and will be doing so pretty regularly as I have been. But man is this just one of the most blatant and poorly written attempts as culture war "think of the children" nonsense I've ever seen. It'd almost be funny if it weren't people's lives at stake.

Breaking — Planned ICE concentration camp near Nashville canceled!!!!

>credit card verification so you admit that biometric verification is largely superfluous, overly invasive and also completely unnecessary as it yields no immediate benefits over other kinds of identity verification. so... why are you still pushing biometric verification lmao (i know why)

There's this audio from the mid-1970s of men at the Univ of Texas (head football coach, president of the univ, chancellor of the entire UT system) on a radio program and the host makes a joke at the expense of the *idea* of female athletes and all those men laughed. Same feeling, 50 years later.

In the video of Trump talking to the US men's hockey team, when he says "I must tell you, we're going to have to bring the women's team, you do know that" as a joke about how annoying it is to have women around, the most painful part for me, are all the hockey players laughing. Actually laughing.

Oh - this woman is spot on and takes the US men’s hockey team to task for , well, being assholes and not distancing themselves from Patel and laughing at the gold medal winning women’s hockey team. ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan. darksky.org/news/two-sat...

Here is @aoc.bsky.social thankfully telling everyone exactly what to do to stop a concentration camp from being built where you live. Please take it to heart and take action.

Here is a drawing I did, color pencils, pen and ink on cardboard. Abolish ICE.

Last re-skeet: I need to print that out and post it everywhere. Ev-ereeeee-where.

This post is going around again so I will add this excellent resource: leavesubstack.com

ATTENTION BLUESKY you don't want to watch the State of the Union next week you want to watch a PowerPoint party telethon of your favorite Bluesky super posters delivering their most unhinged hot takes to raise money for mutual aid in Twin Cities and Portland Poster's Madness for a good cause!!!!

ICE killed a teacher in Georgia today when they chose to chase a man who posed no danger and had no criminal history.

Smashed that "disable this ai shit" button so fast...

Bumping this up! Hailey was one of the first transfeminine ppl to run for political office in Brazil. She's the founder of a transfeminist community and an incredible writer/translator/teacher. Cancer sucks. Please please help if you can! Even a little bit is really appreciated.

Again, all I'm asking is that any Democrat who wants my vote support 1. Reverting Trump's anti-trans policies, 2. Commit to fighting against the future erosion of trans rights, and 3. Support legislation codifying trans rights into law. Very weird how many of you centrists think that's unreasonable

Ofelia Torres, the teenage Chicago Public Schools student whose fight against cancer while her father was detained by ICE came to represent the federal government's overreach during Operation Midway Blitz, has died. Brave young woman. I will never forget her. RIP.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life & you will call it fate. You deserve to heal & be healed.

This Saturday 2/14, be our valentine by making whistle kits for your community! Just steps from the Northgate light rail station in north Seattle

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Please take the time to read what the children detained in Dilley wrote me in their own words: www.propublica.org/article/ice-... 10/

Please don't accuse people in knitted hats of only wearing their supposed politics if all you're doing is posting, which is basically just another way of wearing your politics. It's a silly thing to attack people over in any case. Using fashion to signal support for ongoing acts of rebellion is good

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

the worst human art is still better than any AI art

I’m not arguing with no account defending AI. My grandmother lives in an area being environmentally compromised currently by an ai data center. I remember the color of the lake before they built it and the sludge I see in it when I go to see her. Shut the fuck up about “the benefits of AI” forever.

You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.

People who use generative AI to skim past creative things the rest of us have to work at fundamentally do not comprehend the most basic elements of the relationship between art and the human mind and spirit They are denying themselves the greatest pleasures of it and that’s sad and also pathetic

Sometimes not being good at the thing is the whole point

A small but very deep thing that bothers me about generative AI as a shortcut to practice and work and skill is the basic assumption that it’s impossible to take pleasure in a creative pursuit that you aren’t very good at and I assure you that is not the case

The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley. Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo. Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles. Get them out!

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