YES! THIS on GenAI! Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins: "An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

Two HUD Civil Rights Lawyers Dismissed After Raising Concerns About Fair Housing Act Enforcement www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

Polyurethane foam from mattresses, furniture, and sponges can now be fully recycled into new materials using a safe, non-toxic process, supporting a more circular approach to plastic waste. doi.org/g95cc5

Um, anyone who read project 2025?

Perimenopause, racism, two teenagers....seasonal depression apparently didn't know she wasn't welcome this year. How did she find room in the mini van? Anyway...what's your favorite way to be gentle with yourself? Im already medicated and like my job.

AND they made sleeping outside illegal! Oh boy! I am sure those are not related at all.

New: four million people could be forced to leave public housing and other federally assisted housing under new plans from the Trump administration, according to experts who reviewed drafts of two unpublished rules obtained by @propublica.org.

Some guy on TikTok is threatening to release the Grindr profile of Mike Johnson. Please human, please don’t let God down. 🙏

totally normal behaviour by a private company to claim universal jurisdiction to which copyright is an exception to the norm

The National Archives under the Trump administration released @mikiesherrill.bsky.social full, unredacted Navy personnel file to Jack Ciattarelli's campaign. This is an unprecedented and illegal weaponization of the National Archives and private, personal records to attack a political opponent.

In theory. The ideas are welcome in theory. In practice....not so much

A police officer was killed in the attack on the CDC by an antivaxxer. Trump did not mention it. Use this as a benchmark to compare how the Trump administration responds to an attack on an ICE facility to judge which federal employees are deemed worth protecting. abcnews.go.com/US/1-week-af...

Libertarian governance simply requires ensuring there's an unlimited supply of democratic governments that can bail out their economy every year or so, per the vision of the Mises Institute. It's an elegant system.

My husband stole all the coloring sheets from the library because they were inaccurate regarding one of his special interests..... But sure. The tylenol.

This ⬇️

We're like a sexism litmus test, a homophobia litmus test, and a bodily autonomy litmus test all rolled into one demographic. Opposing our rights opens the door to opposing women's rights, gay rights, and abortion/contraceptive rights. We're the ultimate wedge issue. Same as in the 1930s.

About ten years ago I internalized the realization that "none of us are free unless all of us are free" isn't just a good quote, but a core truth of any anti-fascist existence.

Two possibilities here. One is that Patel somehow doesn't know about Dylan Roof's racially-motivated mass murder. The other is that he does know, but is playing dumb in order to deny the reality and threat of rightwing violence. As usual with MAGA, the incompetence and malevolence are imbricated.

“Of all the epitaphs that may one day be written on the gravestone of western liberalism, the most damning is this: Faced off against a nihilistic, endlessly cruel manifestation of conservatism and somehow managed to make it close” One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, Omar El Akkad

Anyone else sit through sermons and conservative talk radio about no one should be punished for saying the truth and punishing people for thought crimes is evil and now you are watching those same people delight in people getting fired for having an opinion and literally quoting Charlie Kirk?

I marvel at Meghan McCain's ability to type on her phone while simultaneously having her head up her own ass

You know who was also a young husband and father—not to mention ex-Marine—who died, not attacking others to make himself rich and powerful, but to save the lives of others? David Rose, the officer killed by the anti-vax domestic terrorist who attacked the CDC. apnews.com/article/deka...

The neurodivergent processing is wild. I was told something in Tuesday. Handled it well. Mentioned it to my friends they were like Abby that is effed up. And it is Friday and I am crying in my car before work about it.

Jail not Bail has been proven to be ineffective and actually harmful to marginalized communities. Know what helps bring crime down? -Housing -Secure food -Proper medical care (using the US to compare is like saying a bomb isn't dangerous because at least its not mustard gas)

This has always been my main criticism of the whole "AI alignment" movement: how can we expect to align AI values to human values when centuries of ethicists haven't managed to align human values to other human values yet?

Reports of more ICE kidnappings around Chicago are rolling in this afternoon. Wait for orgs to verify accurate totals (they are as overwhelmed as anyone else rn), but this isn't slowing down.

So is she in it?? Asking for real.

Praying for public school teachers. I remember how hard it was to teach after a shooting.

Just last month the FBI forced out its top agent in Salt Lake City, a Pakistani American woman whom a former FBI agent describes as a “legendary case agent who was involved in some of the most significant national security cases of the last two decades.” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rc...

If you've experienced domestic violence or supported DV survivors, you'll recognize the walking on eggshells dynamic. SSHHHH be quiet, make yourself small, don't anger them so they don't lash out again or further...

Some recent quotes from the man so many Liberals are memorialising as some sort of voice of reason who broached the political divide

Important to note: Charlie Kirk's shooter is, per the head of the FBI, still at large. At present, we don't even know the identity of the shooter, much less a motive. The president, however, has posted a message about the shooting in which he specifically rails against "radical left" rhetoric.

I love her.

💔 Fred Guttenberg whose daughter died in the 2018 Stoneman Douglas High School shooting

It is worth remembering that Jesus could both love all humanity unconditionally while also saying that those who live by the sword die by the sword.

Three students were critically shot at Evergreen High School, Colorado; suspect neutralized. Meanwhile, Trump focuses on Charlie Kirk—does anyone actually care about the kids, or is it just another tragic footnote in endless school shootings? abcnews.go.com/US/shooting-...

Am guessing Republicans and the media will be talking a lot more about Charlie Kirk than they did about Minnesota Democratic politician Melissa Hortman, who along with her husband was killed in an act of political violence by same perpetrator who tried to kill Dem John Hoffman and his wife.

There is a SHOCKING amount of people who do not understand what a rabies test entails. It is VITAL that you know there is no way to test a living animal. Vaccinate your pet.

Given the Supreme Court ruling I think it's even more important that we refer to what is happening in Los Angeles and elsewhere with ICE as ethnic cleansing. The US government is engaged in a violent campaign of ethnic cleansing that has already cost at least two lives.

Happening now: smelled a chemical smell wafting from the parking lot, went to check it out. It's Chicago ICE agents unwrapping and assembling a stack of fresh riot shields.

the thing that many are thinking and few are saying.

Every time Ron DeSantis does some fucked up shit, folks start posting that gif of Bugs Bunny sawing off the state of Florida; it's nasty behavior. Not everybody wants liberation, some people just want to be the boot on the neck.

Just a note that they wouldn’t be doing this if they didn’t believe they will make this much money by using these copyrighted works and cannot make it without using them.

I guess that I am just once again asking that ethics professors not have romantic relationships with their subordinates.

“I miss when Disney didn’t push an agenda!” 😁 Disney in 1943: GET VACCINATED!

Give us the ability to make sure the bills are paid, and we will thrive! Again and again the "experiment" works--take the damn boot off our necks God knows I'd love to be able to get off SNAP & afford my rent, instead of doing the financial equivalent of shuffling deck chairs around on the Titanic

We're at the stage that if you have a better idea of what people need to do, then you have to do it. And maybe it starts with a couple of people and grows. YOU really have to do it.