Since folks are talking a lot about democratic socialism this week, just gonna re-up this thread on how MLK voiced religious support for democratic socialism — but most folks aren't aware of when he did so most explicitly. That was in an obscure, little-known speech he gave in Frogmore, SC in 1966.

I posted a while ago that women tend to think of the office as “place to do work” and a certain kind of man thinks of it as “happy fun play place.” Recall how many bosses wanted to RTO during COVID because they don’t like being home with their family.

Employment lawyer here: the number of male employers who genuinely believe they should be able to sleep with their female employees and pay working mothers less than working fathers is most of them. They genuinely believe that it is an injustice against them that they might face repercussions.

curious what many of these terms mean and what they have to do with each other? come on down to "Africana Studies"! notable alums including the Mayor-elect of New York City

Kwame Nkrumah's namesake! 💜 Indeed!

Pleasure in victory

I am taking particular pleasure in the complete collapse of trans-as-unbeatable-wedge-issue narrative this morning. It might be an 80-20 issue in voters minds, but it has to be on voters minds to matter. The results in VA demonstrate that it is very much not on voters minds.

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

Africans! We won! #mamdani

You African Studies majors out there: you too can become mayor of New York City!!!

Losers’ Revenge does seem to be the main theme here

This is where I do draw the line. Our biggest mistake is thinking the right is dumb. They are winning. Our side is losing. So.

We are being ruled by absolute losers

Much love to @versharma.bsky.social, who did the lord’s work at @teenvogue.com. What a loss for our industry.

So upset about @teenvogue.com being absorbed into Vogue. Teen Vogue’s political reporting has often been sharper than other mainstream outlets. Now there will be no political staffers left. www.thewrap.com/teen-vogue-e...

I have watched this work locally. When things are going terribly and the local GOP abandons their people and the local dems show up with food pantries and stuff to help anyone who needs it. It bleeds through the noise. Sometimes it radicalizes them into our cause. But we get NO support down here.

Universal Healthcare INCLUDES Universal Mental Health Care for this VERY reason. If you don't give it for free, people will find the free option. Churches. Cults. Chatbots. Violence. Cheap substances, whatever it takes to stop the pain.

I had a thought partnership call with a person who is not technical at all tell me that they vibe code. 😩

We need regulation on unlicensed therapy bots like yesterday.

We asked for universal healthcare and in response we had both parties say, "Best we can do is unchecked tech companies making a chatbot that only sometimes tells you to kill yourself." We might be cooked.

Most people hear "factory jobs" and think "1950s economic prosperity," which was only possible through strong unions. The GOP says "factory jobs" and means "1880s corporate dominance over the working class." Recognize the difference.

I think that people are forgetting what paid work was like before the labor movement: 18 hour days, 6 days per week (if you were lucky). No holidays, no weekends, no sick time, no safety regulations, no legal recourse.

Maybe I was lucky as a kid, but my English teacher had us read books about the inhumanity of cruel manual labor conditions (I.E. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair”) Or farming during the Great Depression (The Grapes of Wrath”. ) Theres an ahistorical danger in romanticizing body-crushing labor.

I don’t know… people have been telling my their life stories lately!!!

At this point, since our “leaders” have failed to regulate this— I’m envisioning a future where people have to go into no-tech rehab centers to help cope with their emotional dependency on LLMs. Like alcohol and other drugs, some people really might not be able to handle AI responsibly.

As a therapist, this is concerning. There is more and more research and evidence that confirms that these AI "therapists" end up causing harm to the user. Whether its encouraging relapse/substance abuse, AI psychosis, or more dramatic suicidal gestures, AI damages the user. Its a scary time.

Paper diaries too!!! Slow down think about what you’re writing

Wait until everyone has to pay the actual *cost* of AI under a profit model. Right now they’re handing it out like crack hoping to get us hooked. Human therapists will be a lot cheaper than those giant server hangars sopping up lakes and rivers.

In addition to the slavery aspect you aptly point out, a good percentage of Americans are not physically capable of manual labor—never mind how many of those jobs are also likely to eventually be replaced with/automation.

White europeans literally forced Black Africans into slavery, and depended on the Chinese to build the west of America-- so as to have these groups do the lions share of backbreaking manual labor to build this country. So.. uh... good luck with that, America.

The immediate adaptation towards a "logic" that at it's core is: it's a person when I decide it's a person (i.e. 'therapy') and not when I decide it's not (i.e. a 'tool') is chilling. As a black person AND a therapist, it's not that we're cooked... It's the collective decision to cook ourselves.

Yall! Help support one of my faves !

Probably… Signed, a therapist

I used to get real annoyed at people about this stuff. Now I see it more as feeling sympathy for people who are desperate for help, and being furious at the billionaires exploiting people by suggesting LLMs are on par with therapy.

FYI here's a site to use to find free and affordable therapy. www.opencounseling.com

Therapist (in training) here. This is very, very, very bad. There are so many ways a therapist can damage a client if they say the wrong thing. AI bots have proven they will say the wrong things. They can encourage: * delusions * harmful relationships * narcissism * self-harm and suicide

The problem with having AI boyfriends is that these platforms are still programmed by men… the biases are baked in. Deepseek assumed I was a guy for three days.

Honestly it’s probably better than nothing if he doesn’t have pre-existing psychosis. I can’t imagine a rideshare driver can afford a therapist and lots of guys that age have no one to talk to. Better Grok than unloading on someone who doesn’t care or isn’t equipped to handle it.

based on the ChatGPT/suicide lawsuits already filed, we’re entirely cooked

Grok is going to be the primary search, reference and instruction tool for millions of people including the military. Cooked was a long time ago.

I’ve thought about this a lot. ChatGPT becoming people’s personal diaries now.

I had a 45 year old rideshare driver tell me recently that he uses AI for therapy. I asked him which one. He said “Grok— I like the voice it uses, the tone doesn’t talk down to me like ChatGPT’s does.” He bragged that he had a 4 hour “therapy session” talking to Grok. Chat, are we cooked?

I swear, Artemis could destroy my house and he’d get off Scot-free because of his pretty-kitty privilege

A certain housecat is contemplating stealing my Nutella crepe.

yeah, the idea that Trump will stop Boko Haram types by ending aid to the Nigerian federal government is as confused as the idea that he is actually interested in the welfare of the same Nigerian Christians he put on a categorical travel ban 5 years ago news-archive.hds.harvard.edu/news/2020/03...

Two of the five people arrested on Wednesday night in connection with the Louvre heist have been charged, the Paris prosecutor’s office said in a statement on Saturday, as the frantic search to recover the prized jewelry continued.

Switching from bodybuilding / powerlifting back to combat sports. My goal for now? Just showing up consistently and having fun. Feels good to be back to Muay Thai. Let’s gooooooooo

😻Happy Halloween Birthday Dear Artemis 🎂 10/31 ♏️ 4 Of Hearts❤️🥳

💯 You have named it perfectly: #AnnihilationCulture they want to disappear us. Our mere existence is evidence of facts, truth, history, & a world where diversity, inclusion, equity & justice are positives. These are vilified by perpetrators (fascists) +facilitators (corp media) of racism & all hate.