I'll be honest, I'm pretty sure I have PTSD from this. I still wake up thinking about the article I need to write to save USAID.

"Lifted" is doing a lot of work in this sentence.

Textbook racism.

democrats should internalize that this is what their colleagues think of them and act accordingly

So they're *stealing* their documents, and the next time they say, "Papers please," they won't have any. I hate this world. Not the whole thing or worlds per se... THIS one, right this minute.

Because of course it is

Did anybody at any AI company red team ANYTHING before they released it? Did they just imagine that loosing a new technology on the world (that they have been warned about repeatedly) was going to suddenly make people better?

Please shoot me.

It seems to me that the foundational 'wrong turn' in education was the increasing rhetoric from universities themselves and their supporters that the primary value of a university education was increased earning power. That leads pretty directly to this place we're in now.

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What you idiot commies don’t understand is that if we tax rich people they will JUST LEAVE, depriving our nation of tax cheats, political bribery, and national acts of perversion

and we are a tiny and weak country, unable to do things like regulate wealth and property transfer, we are only able to stare forlornly at the activities of the super rich and say, gosh, were that it were different

Hey, Einstein's estate - DON'T LET THEM GET AWAY WITH THIS CRAP. One of the epitomes of curiosity with a deep orientation towards social justice should not be so abused.

In the video of Trump talking to the US men's hockey team, when he says "I must tell you, we're going to have to bring the women's team, you do know that" as a joke about how annoying it is to have women around, the most painful part for me, are all the hockey players laughing. Actually laughing.

The future of education is... probably paper. Possibly without assessments. Pretty much reserved for people who actually want it, because the credentialing battle is lost. Look, if you don't want to think, read, write, make art etc... just *stop pretending.*

It makes sense if you are going to get to use the money as a slush fund and... y'know. Keep it.

there is a lot still to go on this fundraiser and these women need your help. deporting a married trans woman to the US right now is not going to end well for anyone. if you can help, please help.

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this is horrid

Written English has barely changed in 300 years. If you can read Harry Potter, you can read Robinson Crusoe (1719).

Canada must immediately stop treating the US as a safe country in cases where asylum seekers arrive at the border having transited the US.

Literally the plot of Flushed Away.

Nachos: not cheesy enough. This guy has the answer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y73T...

Me: <just sitting here very tired, hoping the 8yo will go to sleep soon.> The 8yo: “daddy, I know the universe is constantly expanding, but if we DID reach the edge of the universe, what would be on the other side?”

Wow that franchise took a dark turn

"Stoicism is not resurgent and popular because things are going really well." www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9rK...

Going to be difficult to send a medical ship when the only two the US has are both in drydock for maintenance. So, what is Trump planning here? Is he actually sending a regular military vessel? And if so, to what end? #Greenland #Denmark #cdnpoli gcaptain.com/trump-announ...

"Once a user verifies their identity with Persona, the software performs 269 distinct verification checks and scours the internet and government sources for potential matches, such as by matching your face to politically exposed persons (PEPs), and generating risk and similarity scores...

Humans aren't fungible resources being "trained" for productivity; we possess intrinsic worth beyond utility. That a billionaire views twenty years of childhood as merely energy expenditure for worker creation reveals technocracy's dehumanizing endpoint.

the Black Panthers were right

Doritos. Especially the "Cool Ranch" flavour, which I doubt even while eating them. *Nom nom nom...*... "Pretty sure this is a bad idea." *nom nom nom*

truly, what real benefit is being plausibly offered to normal people? Meaningless, unproductive lives, lived at the sufferance of AI capital? Maybe you can get some wirehead pleasure as you live through the death of human species-being as such.

Sam Altman responds to data center energy usage concerns by talking about the inherent wastefulness of human life and then people wonder why the public has an increasingly negative view of AI.

I, myself, do not hate the US. I am terrified of it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

What's the end plan here? Are the indigenous peoples of all the places that Britain (etc.) invaded over the years *also* getting to send everybody "home"? Are you going to tease apart the genetics of all the multi-cultural homes? Are you sending the Saxons back? Picts OK, Normans not?

Man. Many (many) years ago, I worked on a project to automate customer service, and I said, "This is terrible! Why would we want to turn our reps into a verbal interface for a Turing machine!??" I guess... some people just want to be that? "Please turn me into a puppet that looks successful."

If someone says they’re not political, I’ll assume they’re happy with the current administration.

My friend asked me if I had my ducks in a row for a writing project. I sent back this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3N6...

One of my old lady opinions is that I hate the use of the word "compute" as a noun.

Trump: "I am allowed to cut off any and all trade…I can destroy the trade, I can destroy the country, I'm even allowed to impose a foreign country destroying embargo…I can do anything I want to do to them…I'm allowed to destroy the country, but I can't charge a little fee."

I am sorry but this is still the core problem with trying to parse anything he says about tariffs.

“People aren’t really resisting “ Hi when the government is a racist death cult. Preventing people from being murdered based on race and origin is resistance And what you call “not happening” is now a regular Tuesday night for someone’s knitting circle in Minneapolis

It is so incredibly humiliating that this dumb motherfucker is running a society of 350 million people into the dirt because he's scared of dying.

Just found a highlighted note in Obsidian that says, "Most important skill to learn" but I didn't bother to tell myself what it was. Good work, Past Seonaid. Aces.

literally everybody is saying 'please mr trump let us solidify your authoritarian rule - we'll basically make you king just stop hitting the Make Economy Bad button, it's literally the only thing you can't do' and he is seriously saying no

This oldmanbaby makes so many of us so happy. Thank you @cait.bsky.social for this spark of beauty.

9/n from flooding. If you have a better way, do it. If it’s truly better, people will copy you. If it’s less efficient, it will still be helping the overall effort. Help or get out of the way. Again: HELP OR GET OUT OF THE WAY

7/n “Do Good – All the good we can in all the ways we can; we’re only limited by our creativity.” The people saying that “You’re helping incorrectly,” or “that’s not helping efficiently,” or “that won’t matter anyway,” or “it’s just performative” are HURTING everyone,

5/n Some are in courts fighting the people controlling the dam to get them to stop releasing too much water. Others are feeding the people in antifa. Some people are sewing the bags to hold the sand. Some people are online asking strangers in areas away from the shore to send sand and bags