god just say you wanted the money www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

genuine question: are there any examples of colonialism ending without violence?

People got mad at John Oliver for pointing out that Marc Rich's pardon under Clinton basically established the precedent Trump uses to enrich himself and double his net worth this year, but like I'm sorry you have to understand this did not all happen at once lol

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

Chat GPT

Body doubling and similar exercises of roping other people in work because empathy can outweigh the ADHD urge to lose focus; it matters that someone else is involved because it matters that what I do or don't do impacts them. It matters that I know they expect things of me and are aware of progress.

Lambrini Girls 🖤❤️🤍💚👏

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

mf'er is a united states senator who acknowledges that the country is becoming a lawless dystopia but still won't object to giving the GOP majority unanimous consent because he doesn't want to to sacrifice his three-day weekends

as a kid growing up right-wing i regularly heard people express their desire for "a government so small I can drown it in the bathtub". imagine my surprise growing up to realize i was the only one who actually believed that.

Those who claim to be Christian seem to be facing a cross roads. You cannot believe that Jesus Christ himself would be on the side of the masked thugs of ICE.

The current paradigm of "AI" encodes & recapitulates eugenicist, fascist, and generally bigoted tendencies— but previous paradigms did, too, & if these facts had been addressed, then, in the culture of technology specifically and our sociotechnical culture writ large, it might not still be like that

because it's not the technology, it's the data collection and use as a mass spying apparatus.

Abolish. Fire. Prosecute.

I am once again asking why these data centers are all fucking SECRETS "A controversial plan to build a 2.2-million-square-foot data center on farmland may still happen. A rural community... is looking to settle a lawsuit recently filed by a development firm working for an unidentified tech giant."

“finish adding a feature” we literally all thought was there from the get go. “finish adding a feature” when jay yelled at all of us to shut the fuck up and federate if we wanted change. unbelievable

give greta thunberg a gundam

yeah gee I wonder why, of course you'd lead with those untrustworthy transes

This is personalism. It's the Charles I scenario -- the king rules without the a legislature and simply taxes and spends in whatever way he feels like. Impeach, remove, disqualify.

This is a fair question (the answer is no) but I am begging people to just quickly check out U.S. Const. art. I, § 9, cl. 7 because it's really not about counting dollars.

California has now banned algorithmic price fixing. The state has outlawed the practice of landlords colluding to raise prices using rental software and AI. This is a huge victory for renters in the biggest state in the country.

when merrick garland was sworn in he knew the clock was running: trump would need to be prosecuted & convicted *before* the next presidential election instead, garland didn't even appoint a special prosecutor for more than a year & a half just silly to blame garland's failures on aileen cannon

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

This is insane

Same thing happened in LA, same thing happened in DC: prosecutors charged people with assaulting a federal officer and then furiously backpedaled when the evidence didn’t support it

She's so good man. She makes us all look like assholes

Nineties comic books were crazy, because folks would really be out in the street beating people's asses dressed like this. Tell me that Black Canary wouldn't have rolled out in something like that--with fishnets, of course.

Greta Thunberg, deported to Greece, says the targeting of the Sumud Flotilla is "not the story" @teenvogue.com — instead, she says: "Israel once again violated international humanitarian law by preventing aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved.”

There is no evidence that breaking up the MMR shot would make the immunization safer or more effective. The reason why the acting CDC director wants to separate the MMR shot is to discourage people from getting vaccinated by creating larger hurdles.

"Days before mowing down two 17-year-olds on the street, the accused teen killer revealed on a YouTube livestream that he had been tormenting one of his teen victims — in part, he says, because she laughed at the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk." nj1015.com/cranford-mur...

HAHAHA I was added to a list for "AI Racists" and buddy, my buddy, you can not be racist to a non-living machine. Not how the word works. Stop fucking worshipping a theft engine dictionary predictive text brick layer, ya wierdos (derogatory).

Every accusation is a confession. The right has been the perpetrators of these kinds of attacks and they want you to believe a dozen people writing in chalk outside Kavanaugh's home is terrorism.

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words. The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

Boston Smalls has interesting takes that I often agree with.

Oregon Republicans know they can't use an image of the actual (small, tame) protest in Portland to illustrate Trump's fever dream and their fake intel, so they had to make one from stock photos of South American "Policia" leaning on riot shields + what looks like Brazilian football fans with flares

now you can lie instantly with zero effort! also introduces random errors automatically

1/ This is so f'ing outrageous. You cannot safely restrain people on their stomachs. They're going to kill people. This is very well known now.

Judge: That's what I'll do. Prohibit federalization or deployment of any NG troops into Oregon. For all reasons in prior opinion. Deployment of federalized military is ultra vires and contrary to law, violating Title 10, section 12406. I also find it's likely that defendants violate 10th Amendment.

No, actually they are doing exactly what they were trained for. Those hired after 9/11 were chosen for their right leaning views. They have been purging the immigration enforcement agencies preparing for this for decades but most Americans refused to believe this.

sic semper tyrannis

This is exactly why I’ve been saying state governors need to be coordinating with each other in economic and military alliances. Trump is trying to pick us apart piece by piece.

As I literally just yesterday was saying to somebody, if their "AI" is so good and useful for literally, why do they have to keep tricking us into using it, shoving it without warning into all the tools we actually *Want* to use, or otherwise forcing it on us without our consent?

Like, some of you are gonna think this is hyperbolic or w/e, but: rape culture is real, y'all, and it thrives in silicon valley and "AI" spaces bsky.app/profile/wolv...

It appears that the federal agents occupying Portland have people embedded with them charged with the task of producing stories presenting the government’s version of events. Ironically, this was the sort of work JD Vance did in Iraq before he decided he was against that war.

Stephen miller is actively calling for a civil war right now on Twitter. I really do not think Americans are taking in the reality that the federal government is openly admitting to waging war against democratically held cities and states and what comes now that this is being openly said.

reminder: break the jaw of anyone who giddily talks about political opponents or marginalized groups getting 'helicopter rides'.

If anyone wants to use this moving forward, go right ahead.