Genuinely, a corporate death penalty would be an appropriate remedy in many regulatory incidents. Imagine a situation wherein no individual is found criminally liable for a massive harm to the public by a corporation. Automatic death penalty, since it organized itself to dissolve responsibility.

Yesterday, Block Club reported that the feds have said no more prayer outside the facility which is of course not something they can demand or enforce.

You guys: I’m looking for a public domain text I can adapt into a film. What is some public domain stuff that you like? Fiction, non-fiction, poetry maybe, philosophy, etc.

Man, I just don't know how anyone gets over the GLARING reason not to use Generative AI for writing & visuals: It's non-consensual training on artists' work, environmentally devastating impact (esp. on poor areas) & it being pushed by the worst people in the world combined w/the pointlessness of it.

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Gonna confidently say it is. They dont appear to be on bsky but you can let them know where to stick it on their insta www.instagram.com/thisislaborw...

Spotify is crashing HARD because of the boycott. Their stock dropped 11% in value over the last month. Let’s keep this going! Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists. We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.

Truly a joy to read this:

This is one of the reasons as a humanist who does not believe in the supernatural, I am still not anti-theist. Everybody needs different frameworks to deal with the curse of consciousness and motivate right action, if it gets you over here on Team Decency, we can argue about the terms as we go.

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“There were about seven other day laborers on the corner there that scattered, and [the agents] seemed to just grab the first person they could get their hands on,” a witness told @katieprout.bsky.social. Horrifying reporting on unhoused people disappearing: chicagoreader.com/news/reader-...

Part of the reason I think there isn’t as much pressure around stopping ChatGPT re: suicide/psychosis as compared to stuff like Panera Lemonade is because people are inclined to blame it on mental illness versus the tech, a kind of victim-blaming mentality that fits neatly into just world fallacy

St Louis if you want to see fall colors, today is the day -- they arrived all at once and it will freeze this weekend!

My theory on stuff like AI Enhanced Thumbnails and Shorts is they’re trying to get people used to the AI sheen look so that when companies churn out slop people aren’t immediately turned off by how it looks

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As someone who has managed to not cross a picket line even when it was nearly all the grocery stores in the metro area on strike, really don't wanna hear anyone talking about how they just HAVE to cross the Starbucks picket line. This is like the easiest solidarity ever.

LET'S GET LOUD! 🗣️ On Starbucks's busiest sales day of the year, workers are holding rallies in 16 cities. And we need YOU there! When customers and community members speak out, the company listens. Let's stand together against corporate greed and union-busting! RSVP: bit.ly/redcuprallies

Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship was immortalized in a surprise hit 1976 folk ballad by Gordon Lightfoot. n.pr/3JKj19D

All of you are critically misunderstanding what blocklists are. They aren't centralized moderation, and there's no right to due process or objectivity or accuracy involved with them. They're one person's opinion about you. People who agree with the maker's opinions can act on them automatically.

Hey illustrators/agents! I’m a #kidlit art director starting work on a new picture book—we’re looking for: expressive, commercial, human characters; texture (printmakingish); AND BATS! Lively, active, swarming BATS! Please respond w/ samples + folio link. Please no emails/DMs. 💙❤️ #artcommissions

Hey mutuals & followers! Anyone have experience with Pencil Booth for sending newsletters? I signed up a couple years ago and am now looking into it 😏 I long for something simpler than Mail Chimp and not filled with, ya know, white nationalists & terfs.

2/ 2024 shifts in certain demographics represented a structural realignment as opposed to Dems getting walloped because of being the incumbent party in the aftermath of the pandemic was always basically bogus. an assumption based on very little evidence.

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i’m at damen/belle plaine in chicago’s north center neighborhood for an emergency anti-ice rally. around 7 a.m. this morning, masked federal agents chased a preschool teacher *into* nearby rayito del sol and abducted her—in front of traumatized children, parents, and coworkers.

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

Hardly anyone even noticed that Dick Cheney died.

Oh hell yes

New awareness campaign

It’s not just New York City: Dozens of other cities are hosting intriguing mayoral elections on Tuesday, including Albuquerque, Atlanta, Detroit, Jersey City, Miami, Minneapolis, and Seattle.

you don't have to put on blackface to get social media attention. you can simply develop mild depression, join a menswear forum, spend the next 15 years arguing about pants, and then weaponize the knowledge against your enemies on social media.

ATTENTION! Chris here: Down to the wire. About to lose our storage and home. If we can last a couple more months here I can move us to an apt that is far more affordable/avoid sleeping in the car. Im going to open a new digital bundle tier for $105 which gets you everything in the shop plus bonuses.

It's the eve of Election Day, & turnout in Georgia is a small fraction of what it was 12 months ago... Still, there are 2 statewide races to be decided by whomever has voted by tomorrow. Where we're at: —640,048 Georgians have already voted. (Roughly 4 million at this stage 12 months ago.) 1/2

The privacy issue with KOSA "resonating with a large swath of people"-- that's you, that was you calling your reps. Don't let anyone tell you it's pointless Let's do it again for the censorship bills in this new package

Reverend David Black has a Bible open and is preaching to the police now, inviting them to join him in standing with the persecuted inside the detention center. "Which side do you think Jesus wanted his followers to be on?"

Organizers said they followed Department of Homeland Security protocol and formally requested access more than one week ahead of the Mass. The request was denied, according to a statement from the village of Broadview. No reason was given. trib.al/C6InDHk

It’s the first of the month. That means tenants in Los Angeles have officially been on utility strike for 6 months. They are refusing to pay their RUBS (ratio utility billing system) utility bills while they demand transparency for their high monthly bills.

More pepper balls. Troopers arresting at least 2-3 protesters, ripping shields away from the crowd.

As someone who's weighed in on Maine's Senate primary (June 2026) it is my duty to tell you all that THIS Nov 4 ELECTION DAY Mainers will be voting on whether to MAKE VOTING MORE DIFFICULT (curtail absentee voting, ID requirements, etc.) ballotpedia.org/Maine_Questi... Vote NO to keep current laws.

#HappyHalloween y'all! Have fun with your night ramblings >;)

this graphic is everything. this is why people overestimate the prevalence of violent crime and terrorism and support punitive police measures. they are quite literally distorting reality in order to keep you scared of the wrong things.

This lady running for senate in Maine has an incredible website: sites.google.com/view/natasha... She's for UBI and all that, but then is also like "we need bigger, better prisons!" I honestly enjoy wild candidates like this. I can't find with search if she's okay with trans folks, though :(

I, er. Couldn’t get a pumpkin in time this year. So am improvising.

Chase allowed someone to open an account — online, without providing ID — under the name of a Boston garage. That account was then used to solicit hundreds of thousands of dollars from fraud victims around the U.S. (Published June)

Instead of whining that a Nazi tattoo and working for Blackwater is a line for a significant number of people, maybe these Youtubers could platform other Maine progressives while the window is open?

there are good campaigns out there zeroing in how you can, in fact, inflict massive casualties with kindness

Actual fucking ghouls.

Always a bummer how many leftists are horny to abandon explicitly anti-racist, -colonialist etc practices to employ an "Economics Only" model. Cuz yeah, most bigoted white* folks would gladly have more social programs as long as "Those People" didn't benefit; that's BEEN a pitch for fascist movmnts.

anti-trans laws will continue to harm cis people until cis people demand the end of anti-trans laws