It was never complicated at any point.

forgot* that i'd written a story, of a kind, about AI driving humans to psychotic, if not suicidal, breaks. the first story in this @bigechoscifi.bsky.social piece www.bigecho.org/4-paranoid

Your phone addiction is making it impossible for you to be a competent and involved parent. Your child is not inside that device, and the dependence on screens is harming you and them.

This was so infamous that law and order criminal intent did an episode where a university president is murdered and one of the key suspects is a Black professor who was slighted so similarly to the way Larry did at Harvard that the crimson noted it www.thecrimson.com/article/2002...

"The Washington Post said it, too, was impacted by the data theft and extortion campaign targeting Oracle E-Business Suite customers, compromising human resources data on nearly 10,000 current and former employees and contractors." cyberscoop.com/washington-p...

If AI is inevitable then why does it need so much government support and why are they constantly worried Rhetorical RHETORICAL

This is the most glamorous opening to an article about a white supremacist flattering journalist who lied to her readers and editors while having an affair with narcissistic crank who eats roadkill, swims in sewer water, will cause children to die, and is 50 years her senior that I've ever read.

And I’m tired of the R&B girls having an obligatory Chris Brown feature. Keep that menace off ya shit!

Every screen grab of these emails makes me realize learning to read was my first mistake.

This has gotten surprisingly little attention — it's not even on the front page of @science.org right now — but it's really hard to describe what the SAFE Research Act would do to US science and scientists without sounding insane www.science.org/content/arti...

As someone who misses his mom, paternal grandmother, and paternal great grandmother… This shit is ghoulish and should not exist! That is NOT your loved one…that is a digitized fabrication of your loved one, with NONE of their essence. Kill this shit with fire!

Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics" guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation

I’ve never been sad AFTER having pasta

DAMMIT!!!!!!!! i was looking forward to purchasing something called a "brownstone"

Y’all are NOT about redemption. Y’all are not about restitution. Y’all are not about fixing the wrongs a person has done. All you want is for people to hurry and STFU so a white man can take power. He had done NOTHING to fix shit, not een a DONATION, ht he should wield govt power? GTFOMF

Elmiene just doesn't miss

Celebrities are getting banned for suggesting pedophiles be put down. This really is Twitter 2 now.

I wish we talked about kids better. Not just about the news, but generally. Adultification has been true for people of color for quite some time. It's not just a legal issue, but a moral and ethical one. Our society could do more to let children live in their fullest childhood.

Hedgie hung out a little after his morning 💩 to watch me prep for this meeting. He’s still so adorable. ♥️♥️♥️

I have the most wonderful story for you all today: baby alligator spotted in Charles River, then immediately rescued by local reptile enthusiast

Am I getting old or is Instagram just LOUD everytime you open it now? Lol

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Voice-chatted with mutuals on Discord while doing chores this evening.

Bitch. I just saw a proactiv AD on the tv. p r o a c t i v . If that ain’t a recession indicator, idk what is.

But what alarms me in all this is how the girls who were victimized by these men are largely forgotten. I want us to find ways of centering them in the discourse.

It is almost an expected Nigerian tragicomedy for people to die suddenly without wills. One parent is with his other family; they can deal. I’ll only show up for the funeral and leave. As for my mama, she’s getting put in an urn with my hedgehogs for company.

I can feel my chest exploding reading this. 😩😩😩

How I start my work mornings. It works.

ntm there’s so many BETTER coffee shops around you if you just LOOK

When the median homebuyer is nearing retirement, you don’t have a housing market. You have a crisis.

Yep. The playlist depends on my mood and how fast-paced my work (lots of writing and comms) is going. This evening, I’m listening to some downtempo R&B as I annotate my work.

I went down a work rabbit hole, but I finally secured that cup. ♥️♥️♥️

Circling back bc on the subject of Drake: I watch a lot of hip-hop and industry content, and I will also say: The prevailing narrative about Drake v Kendrick is that it was “just music and mudslinging.” The industry at large is more critical of him over the lawsuit than the actual allegations, so….

Pedophilia, sexual assault and child sexual assault is not a racial thing. It is a misogyny thing. It is a power thing. It crosses cultures, genders, religions and races!

Half-caff time.

Yeah, we're not gonna get free by creating a myth about the purity of black folks

Also, look at the lyrics from songs written about teenage girls by male singers. These weren’t even songs written as if the men were speaking as young boys. Benny Mardonnes, Bruce Springsteen, Aerosmith, and many more.

Michael Jackson had heavy rumors and a documentary*, and he is still highly beloved. People are very excited about this new biopic. Boondocks did the R Kelly ep yrs before folks disavowed him I just don’t think this is true. *whether or not MJ actually did it is irrelevant to the point of my post

Same. It’s a sorry facet of every community worldwide. No race or belief system is exempt. Not one. Children are really seen as lesser beings throughout the world, and that needs to change. 😞

*loudly clears throat*

i grew up muslim in detroit - it's a thing. i know african immigrant muslims who say it's a thing. jdubs have said it's a thing. the "fringe" religious orgs say it's a thing. look at elijah muhammad! "dr" york!!!!! please. it's a POWER AND DOMINANCE thing, not a "white evangelical" thing—

child harm just like any other forms of abuse and sexual harm, are power-oriented. so naturally it's found in the church; but don't be so usa/west centered that youre oblivious to how power structures work within nearly ANY religion or culture! this happens in virtually every religion/culture

for the sake of giving a flying fuck about ALL KIDS, idc what race you are: you're doing a huge disservice to all the kids of color in the world when you suggest it's "white evangelicals" who shield pedo/ephebophiles. THIS IS A HUGE HUGE PROBLEM BOTH IN *RELIGIONS PERIOD,* *AND OUTSIDE OF THEM*

I mean. It took a lot of people a lot of time before they stopped defending R. Kelly ("but I love his music"). Bill Cosby still gets a pass from too many folks ("I grew up with him"). Every community has a lot to answer for when it comes to looking the other way.

people just didn't like him anyway or sided with kendrick because he came out as the obvious winner. it's been said many many times that he also has predators in his circle. people dgaf about the predator part. they're just fickle.

The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.

If your entire body hurts please ask yourself if you are cold and if you answer yes, remember that tensing every muscle in your body will eventually lead to all of them hurting so go get a blanket, a hot cup of something, some sort of heating pad...