"why don't they teach ____ in school?" we do. You were on your phone the entire time and never turned in the assignment, or just cheated and had your parents threatened to get the teacher fired when there were consequences. *balance checkbook, read a recipe, fill out a resume, etc...

“She thinks this is an appropriate place to get married?” Brian frowned. “May I kill her?” “No.” Sugar shook her head. Brian paused, then leaned in toward her. “Is that a not at all no, or a not in public no?” “Let me get back to you on that one.”

All charges brought against protesters at Broadview today must be dropped. When cops and agents attack crowds without provocation, they make shit up to justify their attacks (in his case, an attack waged on a cooperative crowd to produce fascist social media content). These charges must be dropped.

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“Why doesn’t Bluesky leadership ban this known person” because they like that person’s views and work. That’s all. It’s the same reason Democrats cede rhetorical ground to fascists. They like it

In more than 700 cases over five years, Georgia reported inadequate housing as the sole reason for taking a child into foster care, a @wabe.org and ProPublica analysis found. Advocates say it would be cheaper to help families get housing. (Published Jan. 2024) By @stephannnnie.bsky.social

I meant this literally then, I still mean it literally now, and if you've found a similar sentiment phrased more effectively, use that one instead. Even if they notice complaints are being copy-pasted, better they be flooded with those than receive even one complaint fewer. bsky.app/profile/just...

Bluesky is a wonderful place that has flourished in large part because of its artists and intolerance towards facists/Nazis. The Updated policy currently going into effect Oct 15 could fuck that up and we should be very vocal about it. Here are some specific things to mention in feedback (THREAD)

Just saying, if a superhero ever throws my vehicle at a villain, they better not fucking miss

The only article on AI you need to read this week. TL;DR: "If LLMs as a technology are viable, they’ll still be around when and if I decide they’re useful for me. If not, I’ll have missed out on losing my life’s savings in Beanie Babies, The DotCom bubble, or NFTs."

After twelve years upon this wretched earth, a dog has discovered the joy of crunching on an ice cube on a hot day. We can no longer enter the kitchen without her sitting by the freezer and screaming for us to make the cold snacks. Bitch, it's 72F outside. You're not suffering.

I gave my students the writing prompt of 'you're an AI, given a writing prompt of 'reddit post about worst mother in law wrecked my wedding but keep it PG'.

That sound you hear is future generations screaming fuuuuuck youuuuuu

Can't believe I had to issue a request like this, but apparently news outlets are printing completely fabricated quotes now

WTF? I was quoted in this story but I have never spoken to the reporter nor would I have said those things. Is everything just generated by LLMs these days? cosmosmagazine.com/earth/oceans...

Israeli-Palestinian human rights group B’Tselem declares Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocide in its latest report.

Your reminder that our current POTUS is functionally illiterate and a child rapist www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTTI...

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I was just fucked over $1k so if you guys could like sell this bundle into the stratosphere, I'd appreciate it

idk man my stuff might be safe under all these new policies (for now) but god forbid i ever try to write characters that've experienced other hardships. god forbid my friends who write these things be allowed to publish their work and be connected w other readers. esp when trad gets away w it lol...

IT'S WORKING, Y'ALL!! Keep the pressure up!!

please read this painful, beautiful testimony I’m trying not to be a nag but it arrived on my TL below some editorial being shared for rage bait and like. we could share things like this instead. not “we can do both” miss me with that. trash smell will always overpower what’s good when we “do both”

If you say “I’m fine with immigration as long as it’s legal” or “I came the right way” but you’re not sounding the alarm over this, you’re lying. A company says an employee was detained by federal agents during an immigration court hearing, despite being here legally with a valid work permit.

The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.

The disturbing traffic stop video of William McNeil in Florida is the link some of y’all may need to see how we get from normalizing policing and prison to an administration that funds ICE at the level of the top 15 world militaries.

There's a direct line from "no kink at Pride" and "no sex in movies and books unless it Serves The Plot" to payment processors feeling completely empowered to censor art globally

as correct as michael is here this is the inverse of how it works in the world of elite commentary, where a willingness to entertain race science somehow makes you more credible for your "heterodoxy" (see: charles murray)

Until the Civil Rights movement, the majority of conservatives were okay with social welfare policy. Meaning, they were fine with food and income support, housing assistance, tuition assistance, etc, when it benefited whites almost exclusively. escholarship.org/content/qt17...

BREAKING: We just subpoenaed the Epstein files. As a survivor of sexual assault, I know the pain & trauma survivors carry. This subpoena is a massive victory for every survivor who has ever been silenced, dismissed, or harmed. Bondi must release the files immediately. We demand accountability.

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

ICYMI-- I did. A study of software developers found it took them 19% more time to do their work when they used AI tools. At the same time, they *perceived* they had saved time. They thought they would work faster and so they falsely "believed AI had sped them up by 20%."

Call me old fashioned but I don’t think you should be allowed to build a mysterious compound with unclear goals on a burial site.

This, from 17 year old Daniel Trujillo, is a powerful read. It's part of @rewirenewsgroup's "Trans Missives" series, where we asked teens and parents of teens to share their stories.

So the food shelf has just acquired two housewives whose grandparents went through the depression. They now extreme coupon, and their recent haul involved about two hundred pounds of butter. Lot of happiness at that. Everyone fights the power in their own way! Beautiful.

We've got time until the 2028 election. That means we can have standards. You want my vote? 1 - Eliminate everything Trump did. 2 - Prosecute everyone involved in illegal activities, impeaching judges as necessary 3 - Restore and improve social safety nets

Learn from history

So basically what these people have done is reinvent the idea of disparate impact, but inverted it, so that the negative impact you need to look out for is when black people receive any kind of benefit whatsoever, even accidentally

There's no fucking coincidence that theyre putting people in concentration camps and openly saying they're going to lease them out as farm labor. It's the return of slavery, and since these arent even criminally convicted prisoners its an OUTRIGHT violation of the 13th Amendment, no cutesy shit.

Did you see this? Trump appears to believe "exclusive" means "not for publication", the way his friendly publishers would catch-and-kill stories for him. Starting to find it more plausible no lawyer was involved.

Calling all #horror fans! You aren’t going to want to miss this. Get on board now and help us make this incredible book a success

The United States has the world's largest tourism economy, with the highest percent of tourism in GDP in the world.

Okay, I know this is going to be hard for some people to accept, but just because Major Religion A is wrong about what Major Religion B was actually doing or why, that doesn’t magically make what Major Religion B was doing right. It can still be hateful misogynistic hogwash. Both religions are full

BREAKING: District judge presses forward with mass-firings challenge following SCOTUS's order. Judge Susan Illston provided a great example on Friday of how to deal with the current Supreme Court in an order that the Trump admin turn over its mass-firing plans. New, at Law Dork:

Today, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it will shut down its Office of Research and Development and eliminate thousands of agency jobs. According to the agency, this office has long served as the scientific backbone of its efforts to protect both public health and the environment.

I keep seeing people say things like, “Well we’re not going to HAVE elections,” and with all due respect, I think this is both wildly pessimistic and also wildly naive. We are not going to have free and fair elections. We also have not had them in the past.