how the US has dealt with these things and being online and watching how “advocates” and “ seasoned” people deal with challenges and have for the last year I am do incandescent with rage I don’t know what to do with myself BECAUSE THIS HAS BEEN MY FUCKING LIFE AND IT TOOK MY DAD

I agree 100% with Steven Vickers that authors will be falsely accused of using AI in the coming years. In particular, authors like myself whose works were stolen to train AI systems are at risk. When we write in our own unique styles, AI trained on us will quite likely flag us as using AI.

so.... this is a shipping tax.

Parody is no longer possible.

Stole. The right word is that we stole it.

I made an app. play.google.com/store/apps/d... Nearby Glasses is here to warn you when smart glasses are nearby. I hope it's useful for someone. Nearby Glasses's open source, free and rather simple github.com/yjeanrenaud/... It's also downloadable outside the Play Store. iOS port is in the making

Treating politics like team sports has broken people’s brains. It’s his job to take criticism, and it’s our job to criticize. That’s allegedly what democracy is.

zoom calls are the worst. there's absolutely nothing that could make zoom calls worse than they already are. just terrible, couldn't possibly get any wor--- oh shit www.404media.co/this-company...

Nvidia’s CEO can spout whatever technonsense he likes about regurgitative AI, I’m not going to dignify it by reading a fucking word. The conversation stops at the fact AI is toxic waste. Ethically, morally, financially, environmentally. You cannot rhetorically clear that checkpoint.

9/ It's worth asking who benefits from intervening at the top of the chain rather than the bottom. Fossil finance doesn't get restructured. Colonial resource relations stay intact. Geopolitics remains organised around energy dependency. Root drivers left to fester.

5/ At the root: fossil finance, colonial structures, geopolitics. These are the hardest to change, which is exactly why decades of #climate politics have consistently avoided them and pushed intervention up the chain instead.

Did you know that the Krill that is being fished in Antarctica is used to feed salmon in farms (to make the pink colour) and for Krill Oil "Health" supplements. Don't buy Krill Oil supplements. Or Fish Oil. There are hemp plant based alternatives. youtu.be/PX7ilN7QQ_Q?...

The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵

I wrote a (long) thing! I must also credit the LA Reporting Collective conversations that really informed a lot of this, especially @papayathemariah.bsky.social at @lapublicpress.bsky.social, @adamrose.bsky.social of @freedom.press, and photojournalist Zaydee Sanchez. And my work at @fi2w.org!

Got to stop listening to fossil lobby which is right now making a killing - both gas and petrol retailing. @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social exposes politicians gamed by foreign multinationals on fuel reserves #whatsthescam #auspol michaelwest.com.au/fuel-crisis-...

This is precisely how a government sets up the framework to install a backdoor, create a firewall, and switch off the internet when it's convenient for them.

Yep. Normalizing ICE presence ANYWHERE is bad. It's not what they do TODAY. It's what they can do at ANY TIME at a racist tyrant's whim once they're in position.

The question that broke America fundamentally was ‘do all people deserve basic rights?’ This question was too hard for us. Too hard for our leadership. It still is. So now all of our rights are in jeopardy.

That’s where this is headed

Look Premier Allan, if you don't want to improve pay & conditions for our public school teachers, you can ameliorate cost-of-living pressures by clamping down on sellers' inflation i.e. companies hiking prices, boosting margins, taking fatter profits (bonus: tackling this will benefit EVERYONE)

You'll notice that I didn't mention being a US citizen or not in this post. That's because it does not matter. ICE is a risk to your safety and well-being regardless of who you are, and far more than you probably estimate. bsky.app/profile/chim...

Time sensitive: this is the last day to submit comments opposing the Bureau of Land Management's clearcutting of Oregon's ancient forests. This is a tool that educates you on just how diabolical it is, and it helps you submit your comment. morethanjustparks.com/oregon-old-g...

if you're travelling and you are a documented citizen (esp if you're white/white-passing), you need to speak up & interrupt any racial profiling you witness. We are absolutely defeated if we allow ICE agents to harass people in the broad light of crowded airports. Don't be a good deputy citizen.

As horrifying as the Minnesota killing spree stuff was, you need to remember that: that is what they were willing to show you in public: imagine what is happening now behind closed doors and walls.

7) THE VERY FACT THAT THIS IS BEING USED AS A THREAT TO GET DEMOCRATS IN LINE TO FUND ICE TELLS YOU HOW THIS IS GONNA GO. What is wrong with people who argue otherwise, that you're like "yes, exactly, they're just gonna be good worker bees." Were you born yesterday? Please explain your reasoning!

There is an airport that I fly through regularly that consistently ONLY pulls women aside for extra security checks. They flag women for their under garments, for having fat in the wrong places, for how they wear their hair. Like that won’t escalate. Add disability & race? Nightmare scenario.

That’s the MO of some law enforcement officers already, they know they can’t live within the bounds of the law so they sign up to be cops, operate under a badge of impunity, all while the system spoon feeds them their victims.

Just a thought that if they start bringing ICE into the airports, airtravel is going to fucking tank, hard, very quickly, and if their presence and deployment doesn't get curtailed real fast, it will be increasingly hard to unmake that soup.

ICE detention deaths are now occurring at a rate of roughly one every four days. Three weeks ago that rate was one every six days. The pace is accelerating, and Congress has not launched a single investigation.

The fact that race science and eugenics are inextricable from this technology is also why its makers and sellers and pushers do not want you looking too deep into its histories and/or consequences, why they shout you down so hard, why they demonize critics.

Giving @bellboy.bsky.social a brief rundown of Evangelical Eschatology mostly cribbed from this Tal Lavin piece, so sharing here in case you would like this info too: buttondown.com/theswordandt...

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from being in proximity to some very wealthy tech people, it’s that the more money you have, the less rational you become, because there is nothing you must worry about feeding except your ego, and it only gets hungrier the more it devours.

$200 billion a year would enable a universal basic income of about $500/mo. That would essentially abolish severe poverty in America. Poverty would drop by about a third, and because the downstream costs of poverty are about $3 TRILLION a year, that would be a return on investment of $800B a year.

become ungovernable

It’s day 107 of the ICE occupation of MN. Keep your eyes on the courts, where lawyers will be appealing this terrible decision. And keep your eyes on our neighbors in Vermont, LA, Chicago, and more, courageously resisting ICE and protecting their communities. ICE out means EVERYWHERE.

Just sharing this for no reason at all arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Abandon scarcity mindset that keeps harmful people in your spaces and you will see very quickly how much room you create for genuinely good, hardworking, kind people to thrive. It’s like weeding a garden and helping struggling buds have space to breathe.

People keep saying “oh so you want OPEN BORDERS” as some kind of gotcha and like. Yeah. When I was a kid you could just drive into Canada. On accident, even. It was great, and I think we should do that instead of kidnapping children. Normalize being normal instead of being kidnapping weirdos

Aramark is the largest provider of prison food in the country. A lawsuit filed by prisoner in West Virginia alleges that the company intentionally serves inedible meals to drive up sales of expensive snacks. theappeal.org/aramark-west...

"[T]here is an extensively documented history of neglect and abuse in ICE's existing detention system. Detention expansion into warehouses will exacerbate these conditions and further normalize mass detention, helping ICE to reach its stated goal of detaining ... 100,000 people at any given time."

"95% of people killed by police in 2025 were killed by police shootings. Tasers, physical force, and police vehicles accounted for most other deaths. ... Officers were charged with a crime in only 8 of [at least 1,201] cases. Less than one percent of all killings by police."

Again, ICE did not stop abducting ppl but the news decided en masse to stop talking about it

Do not use 1800 RESPECT. FOI reveals that “once a week, every week”, 1800 RESPECT is being subpoenaed, handing over confidential client notes and audio recordings of victim counselling sessions, to accused rapists and their legal teams. www.news.com.au/lifestyle/re...

This is not the first time this country does this to Latinos. They did it to my grandfather during the Bracero Program. This is torture. Abolish ICE.

The 1st iteration of HireHumanArtists.com is here. It's currently just a spreadsheet directory of visual artists who've pledged to never use AI in their works. Use the pre-made filters to find what you want or make your own. Please share with authors & anyone else looking for art!

More than 400 nurses at the Brooklyn Hospital Center, where officials warned of a dire financial hole, have been cut off from health insurance coverage for six weeks, according to their union.

In the relentless effort to kill all of us and destroy the Earth, now there's a GOP Farm Bill set to unleash pesticide use and strip animal welfare protections. truthout.org/articles/gop...

He wasn't just an asylum seeker. Paktyawal was an Afghan special forces soldier who worked with the U.S. Army's 3rd Special Forces Group. He was evacuated on August 30, 2021, entered the U.S. legally and had a pending case with a work permit and social security number. Killed by ICE maggots.

Idc who gets what but you better believe with your whole ass that Sinners >>>>> OBAA every goddamn day idc what that fuckass jury says

worth remembering, David Lynch directed “fix your hearts or die” specifically at transphobes. it wasn’t a generic “no mean people allowed” statement, it was said by his Twin Peaks character in defense of a trans woman he cared for and deeply respected.