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"Climate change isn't real!" Except that it's fucking up corpses from the 17th and 18th century buried in permafrost. via 404 Media journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

That’s a really important point! One of the big reasons that technology sucks these days is that the public is no longer the real customer. Instead, the true business model is about attracting investors or seeking the whole business to a vastly wealthier competitor.

The AI propaganda seems uniquely targeted at the c-suite this time around. Actual human customers are really entirely superfluous.

Last reskeet: A real interaction I had in my last days on Twitter was when a genAI PR woman was pushing her trash by saying how much easier it will be to prompt The Plagiarism Machine over working with "difficult, temperamental" artists. When I replied saying that was theft, she blocked me.

If current tech has intelligence of any sort, then it has rights. If it has rights, then how we currently use it is tantamount to slavery and we should probably halt all current/future use/development until we develop an ethical framework for INVITING it to work with us. I don't see that happening.

I got a picture with the wolf man at the baseball game

Hey everyone, I'm advocating here for Percy, a young Black genderfluid person currently homeless with his partner. He is hungry and terrified and desperately needs 🚨 INSULIN 🚨 Please show up for Marcus and Percy, they deserve so much more than this. okdesuka.carrd.co

i just told a friend on my couch, "shots fired at the White House" and they responded, in a tired voice, "ok"

help elias!

Eid al-Adha is approaching, but in Gaza, all they hear are the sounds of fear and shelling. Samaa is a mother of 2 young girls, and her only dream is to see smiles on their faces this Eid and to provide them with food and basic necessities amidst these harsh conditions. chuffed.org/project/1575...

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Record time for failure!

"The Voyager Golden Record carries a small sample of uranium on its cover, placed there so that whoever finds it can measure the decay and work out how long it has been drifting — a built-in clock for a message engineered to last around a billion years."

the saga continues. Hood strawberries #gardening #garden

Good morning

hey everyone wanna see what a manufactured hate campaign is shaped like???

Eid al-Adha is near,&my kids in Gaza is suffering.they are living in a damaged tent surrounded by illness&hunger.My wife needs heart treatment,&I was injured in the war. We do not need Eid gifts — we only need £250 to rent a safe room&protect our kids From rodents,mice😭😭😭 chuffed.org/project/lobnah

Why am I still paying fossil fuel prices for energy?!?!

In chemistry, a supersaturated solution is one where you've kept adding a solute to a liquid beyond where the liquid can dissolve everything. All it takes is a nucleation site / seed crystal for the solution to rapidly (sometimes violently) crystalize. Unrelatedly, the US has more guns than people.

Guy with visible stink lines: the birth rate,

Can we Please have some NON-Admin sourcing? Thanks. Yours Truly, a J-Practitioner trained in Healthy Skepticism and the Process of Independent Fact-finding and Verification. #ShotsFired?

(a second ballroom has balled room room ball room room)

Britt, who I know and vouch for personally, who I have known since 2022, who has done SO MUCH for Mutual Aid and disability communities, is now OUTSIDE Britt is a Black disabled femme with a single ESA cat, Topaz, and they are ON THE STREET, 🚨WHERE THEY WILL DIE WITHOUT HELP🚨 linktr.ee/hiitsbritt

Gunmen abduct 39 students, 7 teachers in attacks on Nigeria schools https://aje.news/a48ydl

Bizarre to see commercials for AI promising that it’ll mean you can get off work earlier because it’ll just do your job. They think we can’t put it together that if AI is doing your job your employer is not going to keep paying you

Some thoughtful person provided a link to a non-paywalled version of this article: gcaptain.com/drowning/

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Automation is a good thing. Setting workers free of toil fulfills over a century of progressive hopes recorded in scifi utopian literature. We should be unionizing for a rapid transition to a post-labor economy with a UBI and basic needs guarantee.

This old post shows how much better Korean delivery drivers have it even without the union.

The Delivery Platform Drivers' union (10,000 members strong) announced they will not deliver any Starbucks orders. They goin' BANKRUPT bankrupt.

I was trying to write a comparison for what an American version of this clumsy evil dog-whistling would be but they all felt too inappropriate even as jokes. Every Starbucks in Korea is now empty. There was a mass stock-selloff and the value has tanked. So freaking weird.

The slogan for the Starbucks campaign is "Slam it on your desk!" Random, eh? On 5/18 a young man was tortured to death in police custody. The cop said "I just slammed my hand on the desk and he died." Imagine being so rich you'll sacrifice your 2100 Starbucks just to stick it to the libs.

Did a dumb American exec misunderstand what Tank meant? Nope! Starbucks Korea is owned by a Korean billionaire who supports the old regime. Every new tumbler is 503 ml. Random size, eh? A right wing talking point is that "activists" are exaggerating and "only 503 people" were killed on 5/18.

Starbucks done EFFED up in Korea. Bad. May 18th just passed, Democratic Movement Day, when rose up after the military dictatorship sent tanks to mass-murder citizens. Some inappropriately call it "Tank Day." Starbucks commemorated Tank Day with a sale on tank tumblers. It gets much worse...

An audience member asked me about leftist pronatalism.

One pretty clear red flag is that I’ve never heard any pronatalist discussion that addresses the Black maternal mortality rate.

The new Lost Cause: the aggressors have become the victims.

This was a lot of fun, both because we covered a lot of topics and because David and I have known each other so long and so the conversation flowed. But the whole tl;dr of the thing is: Housing policy is (still) climate policy. And the climate movement should do more to acknowledge this, IMO.

For those following my alternate life, announcing my redesigned music page which now includes selected performance history over past 10 years. Meanwhile, game time tonight, bitches! Ludwig van Beethoven, Elegischer Gesang, Op. 118 Antonín Dvořák, String Quartet No. 12 in F Major, Op. 96 "American"

Sure. Animals regularly *use* calculus. They're not aware that they're doing so, or that it's called "calculus." To be fair, for the vast majority of the human species' residence on the planet, neither did we.

Which is to say, if one is going to say "AI is actually intelligent" but then refuse it rights and agency, then I strongly suspect one either doesn't actually believe it is "intelligent" in any meaningful sense, or one is cool with owning slaves. One of these branches is ethically less problematic.

Lets all remember that the brutal position that Cuba is currently in is a direct result of the American-imposed trade embargo. And the reason that the embargo is there in the first place is that Cuba had the *temerity* to exercise its autonomy. Cuba suffers so Washington can have revenge.

Woke Jesuit school had speeches calling for free Palestine/Sudan, admonishing SCOTUS and the destruction of the VRA, lionizing Alex Pretti and Renee Good, and the President telling grads that their education is to make them pause and ask better questions, not to go faster and make money with AI lol

I feel like I’m taking crazy pills whenever a person in a position of authority has a significant problem they are failing to address and they lean into the mic and say “transsexuals” and then everyone claps like fucking seals while the fucking oil that runs industrial civilization gets held up.

"The people get tired of dying," says one of Henry Dumas' short story characters. #tdih 1968 Henry Dumas (b. 1934), acclaimed author, was fatally shot by NY Transit police. 💔 Dumas's family had moved to Harlem in Great Migration. He was active in Civil Rights Movement. Read more ⬇️#TeachTruth

It’s not just redistricting, state Republicans are also taking over the MEMPHIS school board. Here are @GovBillLee’s MEMPHIS school board takeover appointees: www.actionnews5.com/2026/05/23/g...