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THERE ARE NO ETHICAL USE CASES FOR GENERATIVE A.I. IN MY FIELD PERIOD, END OF SENTENCE I AM NOT GOING TO USE THE TECHNOLOGY GOOD DAY, SIR

Let me tell you what happens when they can’t manufacture enough parts for critical medical equipment: the companies will exit making that equipment and your insurance company will say “too bad, do your best to keep it working”. Phillips did this with pediatric ventilators.

Seventh Immigrant Dies in ICE Custody This Year open.substack.com/pub/austinko...

A Dem that runs as pro trans gets a SIXTY ONE POINT BUMP WITH DEM VOTERS and a NINE POINT BUMP WITH INDIES over ones that go silent. The failure to get this is a prior beliefs/incentives problem but it's also a research problem. The current establishment's understanding of voters is utterly cooked.

Love that AI, a thing we hate and don’t want, steals everything, ruins everything, shittifies everything. Drinks our water, plagiarizes our art, pisses all over our information fidelity, drives kids to suicide, serves the right-wing, and fucks up our devices and services. Good job, techbros!

Saw this walking out of immigration court in Chicago this morning.

I say this with much regret during Black History Month: Every skeleton in this man's closet needs to be yanked out. He needs to understand that aligning with fascists to kneecap a Democratic candidate and push antiblack policies is not worth the money they are offering. (That typo annoyed me.)

Imagining an ICE officer who *raided the concentration camp so children couldn’t write more letters about how bad being in a concentration camp is* going home tonight and being asked “how was your day” and going “yeah pretty good”

At each stage in America's fascism, the current stage is admitted by commentators while the future is denied. Once they denied Trump was fascist. Now they concede it. Now they deny the concentration camps & that there will be attempts to overturn elections. They are more useful to Trump than ICE.

I have always bet against generative A.I. improving my life in any way, and I have yet to be proven wrong, so call it the Gambler's Fallacy if you must, but I'm going to keep avoiding it like the literal actual Plague

The Discworld bundle is back if anyone is interested that didn't get it the first time. It's a great bundle of ebooks. I'd jump on this if i didn't already buy most of them.

I still don't know why Microsoft didn't learn from Clippy. We hated him and we hate this too. Also, I can just write my own email.

Lol AI ruining everything. Making everything more expensive or impossible to find.

CBS challenging Fox News for regime TV bragging rights

The FCC has given the gift of incredibly good free PR to the Talarico campaign

How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

If you want to see how big the threat of #ChristianNationalism is to American democracy--the topic @jamestalarico.bsky.social addressed in his banned @colbertlateshow.bsky.social interview at CBS, @prri.org has data on its prevalence in all 50 states--just released today. prri.org/research/map...

BREAKING: #CBS bans interview w/ @jamestalarico.bsky.social, who highlights the threat of Christian nationalism, @colbertlateshow.bsky.social. "We were told in no uncertain terms by our network’s lawyers... that we could not have him on the broadcast," Colbert said. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ...

THE ROGUE APARTHEID STATE IS STILL COMMITTING GENOCIDE AND VIOLENTLY ANNEXING THE WEST BANK.

This is the sort of juicy story of government suppressing speech that Bari Weiss loves to cover! [No mention in CBS News or The Free Press]

Sex work is work. Solidarity to these workers as they unionize. And kudos to my @wbng.org parent union, @cwaunion.bsky.social, for supporting the organizing. www.cbsnews.com/news/sex-wor...

THIS MAN CREATED ICE

The Tumbler Ridge newspaper puts it better than I could

"you're going to face consequences" #pixelart #humanart #humanartist

We should THANK the states that have refused to submit their voter rolls to the DHS’s centralized “SAVE” voter purge program, which the GOP knows has reported error rates as high as 14% & links to an SSA database that the GOP knows was compromised by DOGE. Harmeet Dhillon is suing them instead. 1/

“Did you know that for a long time, Girl Scouts has openly included transgender and nonbinary individuals in its membership?” Support these wonderful kids and order some cookies today 🍪

Right-wing media is never held to any level of accountability because 90% of its audience doesn’t believe it’s right-wing media

If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''

AI guys insisting on the inevitability of the tech are so irritating. every comparison they make is to something whose utility was immediately apparent. "it does things faster and we can fix its mistakes later and that'll be the job now" does not compare to "metronome that doesn't need winding"

The color of this one looks much better irl, greenish blues can be tough to photograph 👇

Sagan’s “Pale Blue Dot” essay in 1991 urged that we focus on fighting AIDS, reducing homelessness, and developing green energy sources instead of trying to colonize space. Pethokoukis mentions all this but then says that today we have Elon Musk, so he thinks a Sagan would be psyched for Mars now.

Any time a poor person‘s actual life and argument because inconvenient, this is what you get. You are meant to be a useful tool for various parties to bludgeon the other parties with, nothing more.

Urge your reps to ban Surveillance Pricing and boycott any business that uses it. If it’s allowed to take root, you will be robbed for the rest of your lives.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but listening to an audio book absolutely counts as “reading” a book. In fact, I’d argue that listening to an author read their own work aloud is an exceptionally magical and even holy experience. I love it so much. Especially as my eyesight gets worse.

Apologies and regrets are worthless without actions. Like okay, sure, you're sorry for electing a pedophile rapist who organized his own private SS to kidnap and disappear brown people, but what are you going to DO about it? Because they'll still vote Republican after saying sorry. I guarantee it

fuck ice, fuck collagen-lipped nazis, come put me in a camp you dim toddlers

Amen! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

"By removing writing from reporters’ workloads, we’ve effectively freed up an extra workday for them each week" is an insane sentence.

Democrats should boycott the State of the Union and send Epstein survivors and people illegally detained by ICE in their place.

Reddit, Google and Meta have reportedly handed over the personal details of a number of anti-ICE accounts to the US government. This comes as the tech giants increasingly take the side of authoritarianism in the USA.

Hey everyone. Potentially the biggest story in the country, right here. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Yes, that's right.

Our story @chicagotribune.com: Chicago teen Ofelia Torres, whose father was detained by ICE while she fought cancer, dies. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/14/c...

The vast majority of people who "detransition" do so as a result of the transphobia they face from a hateful society. Hillary Cass, who has access to the statistics on this, claiming the opposite in interviews is an open display of how her review was an ideological effort to a predetermined result.

Change your gender, become a poet, catapult yourself into the sun. There are no rules. You can do anything you want.

I am pro worker, pro union, pro maker, pro artist. I am anti boss, anti Nazi, anti fascist, anti billionaire, anti oligarch. I believe in reading, writing, education. I don’t believe in a robot voice coaxing you to kill yourself. So yeah, I guess I don’t want ChatGPT to write a fucking email for me

This year at the Munich Security Conference vs. Last year at the Munich Security Conference

For all you fans of The Pitt. 💀