I think every single paragraph of this story managed to be infuriating. What a pack of evil thugs Trump assembled.

Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

Always pause to enjoy the nice things in life. For instance, a post that has reached sixty-nine likes.

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

Got dm'd by a faceless account saying they were blocking me for the Trans Cherokee word posts, then got called a trumpanzee?! for supporting them, they blocked me after. So all I can say is die mad about it, Trans people are people, trans rights are human rights. Fix your hearts or die

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...

I'm in need of #MutualAid now, because I decided to be an anti Gen AI whistleblower. Please share or help me. @mutualaidvoid.bsky.social @vastramutualaid.bsky.social @mutualaidlanetwork.bsky.social ko-fi.com/kimatstopgenai medium.com/@kim_crawley...

Today, our article "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly" is finally published in PNAS. I hope that it proves to be a wake-up-call for the whole scientific community. reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a...

This is how you know the blue wave is hitting everywhere - Beaver County elected Democratic Lincoln Kretchmar as the new mayor on November 4. In doing so, the Democrats broke the GOP's 113-year winning streak in the borough. 917 to 904. Clearly every vote counts!

"If this nice friendliness would spread about in Mordor, half our trouble would be over." "... But that *is* the spirit of Mordor, Sam; and it has spread to every corner if it... But you can't get much hope out of it. They hate us far more, altogether and all the time."

THIS. We need political permaculture: examine the space you're in, then fit that space with the beneficial things that will do well in it. There is no One Leader for everyone opposed to the Trump/Vought/Miller/Thiel crop pests, and there does not need to be.

The world is breaking into pieces and I have to pay attention to a bunch of useless techbros and petrocrats who want to break it faster.

it doesn’t get any clearer that america’s betrothal to fossil fuels is about letting energy companies pick our pockets to prop up their obsolete industry

There's a lot of speculation about what Trump can & can't do against the left with his new executive orders. To cut thru it, I spoke with FBI counterterrorism veteran turned whistleblower Terry Albury about how he & his old colleagues use the powers they have – and what the average citizen should do

Hmm. Looks like it's time to flood the Zine Zone.

Guys, I promise I’m not a shill for Bethesda, but this is not a drill: you can have four count them FOUR Nazi-killing games (on the PS4) for the price of one right now. 12$ to both make Nazi killing cool again and show companies we thirst for it.

I can't describe how beautiful tonight's murder of crows against a red sky was. I'm kindof emotional about it. 50% speed. Narrative video in next post 🪶

Georgia is still counting votes in the big blue counties, but the trouncing currently stands at 63-37. It may be a larger gap come the final tally, since the big counties so far stand at >90% Democratic votes instead of the usual 85% or so. Go, solar! Down with data centers!

Listen and follow Black people. www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/pas...

Meanwhile Republicans are acting puzzled and bewildered by all the elections they lost yesterday. I hope they're extra puzzled by Georgia, which *already* has regular voter-roll purges, requires ID, and has a paper trail. 2 Dems got 67+% of the votes.

In 2021, we published a series of portraits and interviews with people shot in the eye during the George Floyd protests. One of them, Soren Stevenson, just won his race for Minneapolis City Council.

I think we've found the slogan for every election between now and 2028. #NormalPeopleDontWantThisShit

"Many of them, he said, held legal status, but were unable to immediately produce their documentation to the agents. “Some people left their property, their work permits in their lockers here,” [their boss] said. “I could bring it to them and get them released. But I don’t know where they are.”"

Speaking of stunning numbers, Georgia, which already requires voter ID and purges voter rolls on the regular, but which also has electronic/paper ballots to check against each other, just had these statewide results:

November is #Manateeawarenessmonth

A key figure in US politics that I think a lot of European observers obsessed with MAGA voters haven't really got their heads around is your average boring middle class suburban voter who in the face of incomprehensible reactionary chaos hankers after a Normie Revolution.

Our message to Andrew Cuomo was loud & clear in June. It’s louder & clearer tonight.

Ēadmēdu the oak seedling - the tree equivalent of a puppy that’s all big ears & paws

I have tasted the sandwich that was lobbed at my bulletproof vest and which you probably spent your hard-earned money on forgive me it smelled delicious so onion-y so mustard-y

I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Anybody got money?

It's a lovely day and the great outdoors is calling, but I'm going to take #3 as permission to spend a little quality time with Elrond and his fic to fortify myself against then writing the nasty fellow in my original work. Some characters you have to put on your hazmat suit to write.

In a world of ignorant haters, be a Susan B. Anthony. #Resist

And there is another seat up in 2026. Win the two seats tonight and Dems have a chance to flip the board.

Speaking of studying history post-1865, a good thread:

Shell is doubling down on causing a climate catastrophe.

I posted this as soon as I woke up because I very much want Dick Cheney Big Naturals to be the way as many people as possible find out that he’s dead

Dick Cheney, architect of the invasion of Iraq, was found dead near the toilet today. He shitted so much that he lifted up into the air and sustained 800 broken bones when tumbling off of the top of his geyser of shit. Officials have elected to concrete off the area rather than deal with the corpse.

I have done my civic duty.

The Germans, nailing it.

I so much look forward to the day I never have to think about Micro Johnson again.

Georgia peeps: www.wuga.org/local-news/2...

The Base: 1/2 cup red or green lentils 1/2 cup quinoa 2 cups water Pinch salt, or favorite sub Few drops cider vinegar Pepper Rinse lentils and quinoa, put in good-sized saucepan w/ other ingredients. Bring to boil; clap on lid and simmer on low heat until lentils are soft. Plonk whatever atop.

Sweet potato fruit stuff: In crockpot or big stove pot cook two large chopped sweet potatoes, 2-3 chopped apples and pear, and 4-6 dried apricots* with a spoon of cinnamon and a shake of powdered clove and/or ginger. Nut garnish optional. * handful of raisins also works.

Garnet bowl: 1-2 good sized red beetroot, trimmed, peeled and cubed 1 can black beans, 2 for big batch Whole-wheat couscous or white rice Boil beet cubes and black beans together in generous amount of water until beets are tender...

And here I thought Miller was busy.