Why are all companies so anti union? Why is unions busting a thing? Why are companies allowed to fire employees who talk about unionizing? It's because laborers aren't supposed to have rights.

Were Hakeem and Yao not faces of the league? Was Tim Duncan not a face of the league? What am I missing?

I fucking hate that AI has taken over like no.

I be maxing out!!! It's like angriest I get ever so quickly!! I lose my patience so fast start pressing 0 and # until they get me a person on that line!!!

atproto is not the bet. if the vectors for harm are being activated by the organization itself? this is not where you want to plant your digital flags. got vulnerable people on the outside. just like the other place founded by the same founders. i know what you arrrrrrrrrre.

Girl.

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Girl. Once you realize all of this crappy world order exists because white men want to be gods??? And indigenous people figured out we were all god eons ago???? Everything makes sense. Until you forget again. But then you remember. And it clicks back into place.

I was reading something interesting and then someone commented that it could be AI generated How are we supposed to trust anything now!? 🥲

Even the hard pivot to token-based pricing is not enough to outrun the invisible, but impactful, pull of the stories that have been guiding this rabid and voracious shift into generative artificial intelligence.

Free newsletter: The dawn of token-based-billing has shown that generative AI doesn’t have a return on investment. It's too unpredictable, too unreliable, you can't easily measure the cost of tasks, and organizations are already pulling back. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-doesnt-have-roi/

& fuck both of them!

Spending taxpayers money to buy up 50% of AI companies' equity at the height of their bubble phase. What could possibly go wrong?

This is a travesty. We don't need this & didn't ask for it. Plenty of us asked for other things that cost millions of dollars and were told no. The technology brings NOTHING of value to the university system, and it undermines the basic objectives of learning.

And old college friend told me once she couldn't wait for the matriarchy and I said girl, no, I don't want your mom in charge of nothing. And that was the end of that.

this why i am also not in favor of "matriarchy." i don't, and will not, subscribe to any belief that purports just because an identity has been oppressed that they have no capacity to oppress others. even if they're LESS likely that doesn't eliminate the possibility.

One minion asked why I looked sad and I said “someone I care about is having a hard time” and so he said “well I hope you can give them this hug” and he gave me a big hug 😩😭

These people are mad, in the sense that hatters constantly being exposed to mercury went mad

The shift from "everyone needs to use AI" to "wait, tokens cost money wtf" came really quick

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Illustrator John Rooney has teamed up with the Middle East Children’s Alliance to produce and sell this Birds of Palestine print. (All profits go to helping families & children in Palestine.) [kottke.org]

Seen one loud Yoruba man (complimentary) asking for Chinua Achebe to come back and write part two of Things Fall Apart nitori things have fallen apart again o 😩 Meanwhile there is already a sequel. 😅

Someone on here posted a reel about this website that shows you the gas stations in your area that have not added more ethanol (giving you less gas). I tried it the other day and due enough my mileage to E went back up to 400 pure-gas.org

Vengeance is for gods, and justice is for the people.

Yeah everyone who voted for this is guilty of genocides in the plural.

After ICE deported Wendy Hernandez Reyes, it turned her 3-year-old son Orlin over to her sister’s estranged partner, who tortured Orlin and beat him to death. I can’t say what I think should happen to those responsible without violating this website’s TOS. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Girl.

Every so often, I run image/video searches on the trending themes of the zeitgeist just to muse about the optics of the moment. And this was fascinating. There are no combinations of search terms I generated about generative artificial intelligence those showed a majority of BIPOC talking about it.

I wanted to share my "time-spirit" theory but I figured a picture is worth 1000 words so here's a picture:

I feel the same way about LinkedIn as I do watching that ofay fascist in chief speak. 🤢🤮

Ugh. I know why, and I already wrote about it. Everyone on there is a product. LinkedIn is Amazon and your page is your product description. eeeYUK.

it feels desperate

Why does posting on LinkedIn feel particularly gross.

Power is the ability to create change. Every body has it. Especially you.

I am rooting for @propublicaguild.org's fight for protections against AI and I would like to see more academics, media outlets, and non-profits use this contract language for their CBAs and other agreements!

I don’t believe in the project of decolonization.

We need to really redefine "Left" and acknowledge that a LOT of politicians are looking for a job, not to serve a people.

There's a pulsating prism in the corner of my right eye.

The social web is a strange and beautiful place.

Something is up with regards to stateside Nigerian propaganda while Nigerians are experiencing increased insecurity. 👀

In hashtags, it helps if each new word starts with a capital letter. Otherwise, sighted users could see a string of letters and not immediately know where one word ends and a new word begins. Capitalized words also help screen readers properly read out the hashtag.

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

I’m obsessed with this crochet artist from Chicago Chelsea B. Obsessed. The innovation… yeah, she’s exactly who she thinks she is!

My ancestors didn't die for the right to fucking vote. They died wanting liberation.

Yeah. . . I really do need to finish that essay on how voting rights undermined revolution just like integration did

Caffeine don't hit like it used to. 😩

I remember another Black woman who was training to be a geologist telling me how her professor, a white man, stole her methodology. It was years before when she was telling us but you could tell she was still hurt by it.

They are stealing another Black woman’s beauty genius on the other socials, fam. We ride at dawn.

I just want women artists to stop having men be their managers. Especially if they’re romantically involved. IT. NEVER. WORKS.

Where do y'all get your sweatpants sets.