We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over

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it's wild how the positive use cases are like "save 5 minutes reading a long doc" and "write a generic email faster" and the negative use cases are "get encouraged to dive deeper in psychosis, misogyny, or suicidal thoughts" and we're still on the fence about overall value

I'm excited to announce this new study, published in The Lancet Planetary Health, which explores public support for degrowth and ecosocialist transformation. The findings are quite surprising. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Lamento, mas a série que mudou a televisão chama-se Lost.

So... spells. We're using spells to undo the work we've done... tricking rocks into thinking with lightning. And trapping evil cars in circles of salt. The old ways are new again.

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

Anything you would perish without (food, housing, water, healthcare) should be free.

my most woke belief is that most of the world's suffering stems from systems of inequity enforced with violence at the sadistic behest of an incurious & frightened elite; liberal democratic governments believe their responsibility is to provide them with labourers, and we can change it all today.

That's the thing about manufacturing consent and driving discourse for decades: people have stopped recognizing real, impactful oppression in their and others' daily lives so profoundly that any discussion of, and possible solutions to, it is considered too extreme.

I started up Notepad on my Windows laptop yesterday and it told me that it now has AI. Notepad. The simple little "look at a batch file and edit it" program that should be 200k long. Now with AI. The world has gone crazy.

With current pledges, the world's on track for 2.6°C of warming in 2100 compared to preindustrial levels. 10 years ago, before the Paris agreement, it was 3.6°C 20+ years ago, we thought it would be 4-5°C So 2.6°C is better, but the problem is that climate impacts are way worse than we predicted.

Seven *more* families? And this is only the families who have the means to sue, and (critically) the families who FOUND OUT. How many more vulnerable people has ChatGPT convinced? Will we ever know? Fuck all this. techcrunch.com/2025/11/07/s...

kind of wild just how much of modern day living is millions of people saying “we don’t want this, it’s dumb, bad, and evil” and then like 10 dudes going “lol too bad” and then they get their way

Big day for people who care about other people

I gotta give it up to the writers tho. If NYC elects a Muslim mayor on the day Dick Cheney died, that is one hell of a slow played story arc. Every time you want to fire 2025's writers room they give you a little narrative resolution as a treat.

New awareness campaign

There is no way to win this game. There is no behavior that will satisfy them. You are either failing to live within your means, i.e., swearing off all frivolities like some sort of financial anchorite, or you are ruining the economy by not buying things.

Até quando se vai permitir que isto aconteça?

Uma das minhas inspirações para voltar a "existir" em redes sociais faz anos hoje. Muitos parabéns, @aestrelaleonina.bsky.social! 💚

I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time

Awesome that every search engine and major social media site is forcing AI news summaries onto everyone // Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Elon Musk wants to build a private robot army that he would have "influence" over. This is Bond villain shit. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

my woke take is that entirely too many people feel entitled to the benefits of a social contract while not feeling bound by the responsibilities of said contract

Evan: I feel like I could figure you out if I knew your big three star signs Me: My big three signs are SCIENCE, RATIONALITY and SKEPTICISM AND I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH THIS CONVERSATION

What we must all remember from the Gaza genocide is that the international system is rotten to its core and needs to be completely replaced. We cannot accept a system where Western governments and leaders can commit genocide and war crimes with total impunity.

Israel isn't complying with the ceasefire agreement (letting in aid, releasing Palestinian hostages, simply not killing people) because the state doesn't want a ceasefire: it wants full liquidation. Don't allow a complicit media to paint Palestinians at fault for their own genocide.

my opinion on peace in the middle east is that there isn't peace in the middle east.

when someone first explained carbon offsets to me i thought "oh so they put 16 bajillion tons of co2 into the air and then they pay someone to take 16 bajillion tons out of the air, and that's how they plan to get to net zero." then someone explained it to me and that's when i knew it was a scam.

you know what fair

CDU, voto eu e votas tu

Hoje é um bom dia para relembrar a escala do genocídio por Israel. Depois da ocupação ilegal de Jerusalém Leste, Gaza, Cisjordânia e Montes Golã, do apartheid, Israel está a nivelar Gaza, torná-la incapaz de sustentar vida, a provocar uma fome, a matar crianças todos os dias.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Furthermore, in this metaphor the masses are the gravity acting upon the pendulum, not the pendulum itself. Failing to recognize this, as can be seen presently, has periodically led them to push the pendulum away from their interests.

Imagine being the CEO of a company that solely exists, & attracts investment, because a critical mass of people abandoned your competitor over bigotry. Now imagine crashing out publicly & asserting your userbase has no value to you because you don't want to eject a specific & named bigot.

Instead of demanding their citizens immediate release, the Portuguese State begs the Nazi-terrorist regime to treat them “gently.” Salazarist subservience still lives on. Mariana, Miguel & Sofia embody true dignity. It is they, not this government, who truly represent us. Freedom now!

I can think of no more cruel yet majestically appropriate fate for Donald Trump: wasting away into emptiness, while his uncaring minions tirelessly torment him with AI-generated specters and shades of what never was and what will never be

"single-use plastic of the mind" had me GAGGED

THE MEME IS REAL

"Whoever forbids Antifa, wants fascism! Make Antifa Great Again!" - Bayern Munich fans on Friday, right behind the goal, so guaranteed to be in the broadcast worldwide.

... And Portugal, and any self-respecting, non-imperalist country

Both forms of Fascism are immensely cruel, where humanity is to be subjugated before The State. But, original fascism mythologized the state into an almost religious organisation. This new fascism isn't even willing to pay its stormtroopers sick leave,- it's so much more fragile. It can be broken.

Original fascism had cruel aspirations of remaking the human condition into an idealistic myth, simultaneously ancient & new. This post-modern fascism is empty, replicating the ostensibly transitional means by which fascism was to achieve its future, but as its end goal. Camps for the sake of camps.

I for one am not at all worried that the most powerful people on earth have optimized my society and my brain to be ultra-reliant on the misery machine we keep in our pockets.