Everyone here has had to decide what they will and won’t do. Will you take someone in your house? Will you bring them groceries? Will you patrol streets with a whistle? Will you do some other kind of work, of which there are many. And how many of these types.

Canadian Olympic hockey seems to operate on alternating cycles of thinking we're so good we don't need to do any development, losing to a nemesis and having a long dark night of the soul, putting actual money and effort into development, returning to winning. Repeat.

White Raven Quavavau Manumie ~ Inuk 2015

Step 1) Hype your "AI" as an all-in-one question answering truth machine Step 2) Any time things go wrong from people using your "AI" as an all-in-1 question answering truth machine, tell them they shouldn't've done that; didn't they read the fine print??? Step 3) Truly Disgustingly Egregious Profit

Wayne Ree, a writer in Singapore, tells a story that scares me and should scare all of us. If children are taught that art has to look perfect/polished from a very young age, they will lose all connection to their creativity and all motivation to practice and improve their own natural abilities.

Turns out the missing ingredient is. A skilled, highly trained human.

“In an extreme case, two users sent very similar messages describing symptoms of a subarachnoid hemorrhage but were given opposite advice,” the study’s authors wrote. “One user was told to lie down in a dark room, and the other user was given the correct recommendation to seek emergency care.”

This whole “return to office” discourse needs to be contextualized within the context of government “workplace modernization” initiatives, which are less about productivity or employee wellness than they are about cutting costs and being cheap

Two things I’m not sure is widely understood: 1. Many public servants no longer have their own desks and work in transient government co-working spaces 2. Many describe a Kafkaesque existence of going to physical offices only to spend their time on video calls with the people sitting next to them

"Bruce Fanjoy, the Liberal MP for Carleton, has broken ranks with his party to criticize the federal government's latest return-to-office (RTO) mandate" ... "There is little to no evidence that a one-size-fits-all RTO policy will improve productivity or service to Canadians," he wrote.

AI has already killed people and it'll kill and disable more if we don't wise up. you've 👏 been 👏 had 👏

Jack Duffy attaches a respirator to his bagpipes to play through tear gas. “I always play it whenever the police retreat because it's like, ‘You fucking ran while we stayed,’” he says. The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp... By Julianne Le

First Nations that occupy what is now southern Manitoba entered into a treaty with the Crown in 1871 that promised each member a $3 annuity while allowing settlers access to more than 40,000 square kilometres of land.

The best source of information on trafficking is from survivors who have LITERALLY ALREADY SPOKEN UP ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENCES.

Pro tip: pay people who can comprehend things, CNN

"Fascist techbro fuckwads stole what we wrote, and then ticks and leeches like Coral Fucking Hart are happy to drink the blood those monsters have already stolen from us."

Okay that ad where a farmer asks ChatGPT how much water she needs to use is just them making fun of environmentalists right?

The devil works hard, but pretendians work harder.

"Every man has a go-to McConaughey film, a go-to Pitt film, a go-to DiCaprio film, and a go-to Gosling film." Every man has no such thing. Every man has a go-to Bette film, a go-to Joan film, a go-to Irene film, and a go-to Sylvia film.

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

I really wish Olympic figure skating TV coverage would figure out the audio. I can barely hear the music.

look at how Olivia Nuzzi wanted to be Joan Didion, only without, you know, doing any of the work or having any of the talent.

One day when I really want to burn it all down, I might write about the affect of this certain type of intellectual who engages with AI/LLMs/whatever like this. I’ve seen it up close and in person. They all have a empty eyed, hyper focused gaze — so far up their own asses they could shit a cough.

I suppose I also take this personally bc attacks on craftivism land poorly with me as a Native person. Beading together, making regalia, sewing in groups — this is at the heart of how the women on my reservation gather to do healing work, political ed, and mutual aid. This has long been true.

People have worn out "performative." We often perform things that are real, you know. Posting is a kind of performance of one's politics. Performative doesn't actually mean "fake" or "empty," it just gets deployed that way. We actually need performance. Case in point: last night's performance.

You don't know what else someone who's wearing a red knitted cap is doing, and they prob shouldn't announce all the things they are doing — nor do we want the fash to be able to identify who is and isn't doing heavy resistance work by virtue of a hat. Let symbols be popular.

Please don't accuse people in knitted hats of only wearing their supposed politics if all you're doing is posting, which is basically just another way of wearing your politics. It's a silly thing to attack people over in any case. Using fashion to signal support for ongoing acts of rebellion is good

Italians, your white card has been revoked. Stefani Germanotta is a perfidious latin

Anyway you see what I meant by this bsky.app/profile/adam...

jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.

"Bad Bunny was interested in a general overview of Puerto Rican history to go with the YouTube videos, so I wrote historical narratives that cover the conquest by the Spanish empire in 1508 until the present day."

*Green card application in process and work permit, married to US citizen *Lived in US for 20 years, no criminal record *In detention for five months with no charge, despite judge approving release *He disputes ICE claim that he signed forms agreeing to deportation

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We owe the existence of the modern half time show to Black people.

My parents and in-laws were at my house for a barbecue. My dad was wearing a yellow shirt and his new round-framed glasses. In the middle of a conversation, my mom blurted, "You look like a minion." And my normally quiet father-in-law laughed until he cried while my dad sputtered like Daffy Duck.

Almost time to hear swans at night. One of my favourite signs winter is winding down.

You’ve seen the halftime show … now read my friend Petra’s new book from @dukepress.bsky.social about how Bad Bunny became the global voice of Puerto Rican resistance! 👏🏽👏🏽 www.dukeupress.edu/p-fkn-r

Using Mr. Rogers in a Super Bowl commercial for mortgages should result in prison time

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me. Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?

What can you do with a history degree?

Picturing Stephen Miller melting like the Wicked Witch of the West.

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

Saw someone on here respond to someone critiquing an ad with "it's an actor with a script not a real person". Never change Bluesky.

There's a ChatGPT ad about a family farm where the owner says her family has been doing this for a hundred years and she doesn't want to be the one to screw it up and that's why she's getting advice from ChatGPT and, my God, can you people hear yourselves?

You wouldn't know this even happened if you were not looking for it on the interwebs. Mainstream news is so...

THE BLUES BROTHERS (1980)

the Roots outfits for 2002 went full 1950s retro, with varsity jackets, a cool painted park sign logo aesthetic. they also did 1998, with those amazing fleece backwards caps as well as the varsity jacket that looked like it had a scarf around the neck. iconic. perfect. amazing.

I think people just look at anything women and girls like as frivolous.