Americans 'horrified' as new image of Trump's White House 'wreckage' emerges - Alternet.org https://www.alternet.org/trump-white-house-wreckage/

In Ecuador’s Pastaza province, the Kichwa community of Pakayaku has kept 400 km² of Amazon rainforest free from mining, oil and logging through a self-organised guardian force. 45 women patrol the territory, enforcing ancestral laws and mapping sustainable livelihoods in a “plan of life.” Their […]

I’ve been testing a theory: many people who are high on #ai and #LLMs are just new to automation and don’t realize you can automate processes with simple programming, if/then conditions, and API calls with zero AI involved. So far it’s been working! Whenever I’ve been asked to make an AI flow […]

Exactly. And there’s virtually no effort by almost anyone to challenge any of it. We’re not even sheep. At least they make some noise when they’re led to slaughter. We just swipe left and wait for the next abuse. We don’t even seem to have the good sense to be ashamed of ourselves.

Top #fanniemae officials ousted after sounding alarm on sharing confidential #housing data A confidant of #billpulte, the #trump admin’s top housing “regulator”, provided #confidential mortgage pricing #data from Fannie Mae to a principal competitor, alarming senior officials of the govt-backed […]

NPR said this morning that in their review of the Epstein emails that dropped yesterday, Trump was mentioned over 1,000 times.

Woman with Pima-Maricopa whakapapa—which makes her more American than the ICE agents who detained her—almost deported. https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/115543058484312939 #usa #racism

Trump, ordinarily unable to unglue himself from camera lenses and fawning "press," know that anything he says will further sink him into #EpsteinFiles hell. #ConsciousnessOfGuilt

My own personal health insurance cost went up by $960 this year. For only myself, I will pay roughly $6000 in health insurance premiums in 2026. I haven't calculated the rest of my family yet, but it's a lot. If you live in a country with socialized healthcare, fight to keep it.

'Last year, a report from the Senate Budget Committee found that the withdrawal of insurers from many markets threatens “a collapse in property values with the potential to trigger a full-scale financial crisis similar to what occurred in 2008.”' Meanwhile the BBC apologizes to Trump-flake for […]

...ya might be a redneck...

Okay, but hear me out, what if we produce an entire generation of students who are *all* the ones who did nothing in the group project?

[I offered myself as inspiration porn.] The below is part of an actual letter I sent in the mail to a bunch of rich people, across industries. A few wrote me back to see if I was real. As an esteemed businessman, I'm sure you'll find the value proposition in my exclusive event offer. I’d live […]

New York Times social media guidelines prohibit expression suggesting partiality on things like ICE, execution of foreigners in fishing boats, or whether law is a thing. However, tipping off notorious serial pedophiles about other reporters is absolutely fine.

Hmm.

JK Rowling destroyed this woman's life and has never apologised as far as I'm aware. #jkrowling #imanekhelif #transphobia #ioc #lgbtqia

Now read something like 9 different hot takes on why the Dems made an “obviously” stupid mistake by “caving” over the shutdown. But each of them has a very different rationale. How can it be such an “obvious” unforced error if no two analysts even agree on its fundamentals?

Every potter is a bit of a pyromaniac. As soon as the temperature drops below 60°F, it’s fire season. I have an entire body of work that I only make in the winter because I fire #pottery in my outdoor woodfire kiln. #Permaculture geeks will love this: I built […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Still thinking about this story. Imagine how cooked your brain has to be on Fox News -- how terrified you have to be, every day in your isolated suburban castle -- to start *shooting* when you see brown people at your door, before the door is even open. We're such a nation of terrified cowards.

In the Netherlands, cycling meets art & sustainability in a remarkable way. A glow-in-the-dark bike path inspired by Vincent van Gogh's painting Starry Night lights up the town of Nuenen, where the artist once lived. The bike path uses thousands of […] [Original post on mastodon.nu]

Christiana Figueres: The global south is now leading the clean-energy revolution. The architect of the Paris Agreement argues that while politics remain paralysed, economics and technology are driving unstoppable change, led by emerging economies from Nigeria to Oman. Clean industries are […]

Huh, Tim Miller and I agree on something. Despite the press’s need to help Dems implode, the Dems got a lot more out of this shutdown than most will accept right now. There was not the smallest chance the GOP would fold. They WANT to crush the safety net. We had no game. But the Dems used the […]

#housing official #billpulte fired #ethics workers who were looking into his ally The actions have also sowed uncertainty & undermined confidence in Pulte across the #mortgage industry. …Relatively unknown before joining the #trump admin, Pulte has built tremendous influence since he was sworn […]

79 year old Trump Losing Cognitive Ability Trump spoke about people being forced to flee “South Africa” due to communism, when he meant to say “South America.” He recalled getting “indicted” over allegations he improperly sought help from Ukraine, when in […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

North American zoning has strict separation of residential uses from industrial and commerical ones. We normally think about the traffic this generates just trying to do trips to things that should be local services within walking distance, which is a real problem. But the most tragic irony is […]

@CurtAdams "So that leaves Durbin and Kaine that I can't explain." Last night's vote was to bring the bill to the floor. They still need 60 votes to end debate and bring up the final vote. So Durbin and Kaine are the available "pressure points". We need to get them to change their minds.

I'm having an unpleasant experience with information deterioration in the Google economy. My husband needs treatment for rabbit allergies, but his allergist says he can't do it (which a quick perusal of literature shows is false; he's just lazy). So I want to find a new allergist. In the old […]

Why did 8 Dem Senators cave? King - not actually a Democrat. This is what happens when people vote 3rd party. Fetterman - lost his mind. Hassan, Shaheen - lost the thread. Rosen, Cortez-Masto - represent Nevada; their donors would be wiped out by air traffic disruptions. So that leaves Durbin […]

Plus that twerp is an untrained cosplayer holding his gun sideways like an extra in Pulp Fiction.

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Trump pardons child sex offender: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-jan-6-pardons-keep-child-sex-predator-out-of-prison/

They had me at the headline: AI isn’t replacing jobs. AI spending is "From Amazon to General Motors to Booz Allen Hamilton, layoffs are being announced and blamed on AI. Amazon said it would cut 14,000 corporate jobs. United Parcel Service (UPS) said it had reduced its management workforce by […]

Kristi Noem authorized buying 10 planes. That didn't have engines. From a company that didn't own them. https://ca.news.yahoo.com/kristi-noem-reportedly-authorized-purchase-190122856.html?guccounter=1

This is what good journalism looks like. Go talk to the people actually impacted by all the nonsense, rather than just presenting the view from nowhere...

This Catalan mother-daughter duo is simply sublime together. Elizabeth Roma is a fabulous and celebrated classical guitarist known for her phrasing and technique. Her daughter, Rita Payes, is a young, talented and award-winning jazz singer and trombonist who has a voice like an angel. She can […]

Remember when Harris said she would go after price gouging companies and everyone yelled about communism? Fun times.

When the AI bubble pops, zero mercy to the AI bros. Just read yet another heartbreaking story of AI-encouraged suicide. One of many now. I think that the AIs should be telling their owners to do that because when karma and justice catch up to them, they ought to wish they had. They are […]

Tradwife? More like RADwife!

Meta, Meta, Meta. So Meta. This Reuters report is 🔥 "Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show" "Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. And the social media giant internally estimates […]

A bold proposal: let's treat high-voltage transmission lines the same way we treat gas pipelines!

The Independent - US President Trump confuses South America with South Africa during a speech to a business forum in Miami. https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/donald-trump-south-africa-south-america-b2859462.html

For those of you keeping up with our neighbour news, the follow up to our mattress henge is now loo henge. The fifth 🚽 is in the back. Our neighbours left when they went into foreclosure, these are the new ones. While we understand new neighbours have […] [Original post on mastodon.thirring.org]

One other thing I absolutely hate about generative SLOP now is that every single time I search for something I have to mentally prepare myself to have my time wasted by SLOP. I also hate the fact that I idly wonder when I hear music or see a video and go, hmm, this sounds like SLOP and then […]