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I think folks need to understand that Disabled people who pay attention to accessibility (and the lack of it) in multiple areas of life already know where it goes when we're not supposed to ask for better accessibility from folks who "mean well".

there is no hell hot enough. we will have to do it here

How about we just shutter OpenAI and distribute the billions of dollars in VC money they've been given among the people who rightfully said 2 years ago this would result in an unusable internet.

It is beyond insane that Donald Trump just murdered a bunch of people on a boat and nothing is happening other than him announcing military takeovers of major Black cities.

Virginia Giuffre was first sexually assaulted when she was 7. Later she was repeatedly sexually assaulted by Epstein and Maxwell and Prince Andrew. When she sued Prince Andrew, he settled out of court. As we say in Greek, may her memory be eternal: people.com/virginia-giu...

There’s too much tolerance for people that know better but choose to be charlatans.

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military flyovers disrupt the Epstein victim press conference

We tried so hard to explain that the anti-trans panic wasn't just going to hurt trans people. Whether through recklessness or intent it resulted in extremely weird, broad, harmful laws. I'm not mad, but I'm telling you, we really tried.

ah yes, "celebrated" with unemployment, homelessness, discrimination, violence, no health care, and no place to piss in public.

It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.

This is not reporting. This is propaganda.

the letter linked in the Scarleteen post has now been turned into a zine; see next post for a link to an audio version and well as one you can print, for young trans people you know (or don't know, if, for instance, you work in a place frequented by teenagers).

Growing and preserving food is a lot of work, and access to land and time to do so isn't (yet) distributed fairly. But in the pockets where it is possible it's an act of connection, of divestment, of re-investment, and sometimes, healing.

If you haven’t read this yet, you really should, especially if you, like me, are absolutely, positively, going to die in this hill if you must: anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

“Vulnerable people turning to AI chatbots instead of professional therapists for mental health support could be ‘sliding into a dangerous abyss’, psychotherapists have warned.”

In case you're wondering why a youth sex ed site would create something like this—a leading cause of youth homelessness is coming out as LGBTQ to your parents. I'm a big fan of Scarleteen & you should throw them a donation if you can.

This is maybe the worst part about being an educator in the AI era. AI companies are *stealing your time* by making you work around it/find it/adjudicate it. Time that, 4 years ago, you would have used to improve your materials, or stay up-to-date on some area of research.

Today was one of those days I woke up thinking about how we aren’t even seven months into this shit. What will things look like in four years? They want to grind us into dust.

I feel like this story needs to recirculate now..... www.motherjones.com/politics/201...

If you want to understand the modern origins of biphobia, look no further than this Newsweek cover, which instantly freeze-dried every pair of panties it came near LOL

If I were in charge of PBS or NPR I would be doing 24-7 programming right now about the end of PBS and NPR

When the AI bubble pops people will try and do the “how could we have known?” And the answer is “if you thought about the economics of generative AI or actually talked to people using it.” Everything I report is public. I am a dumbass. I have listened to the same metal song 8 times in a row tonight.

have I mentioned lately that grotesque levels of U.S. corruption means we genuinely no longer have federal consumer protection standards or corporate oversight?

just thinking about a NY Post story i saw the other day that was like "Former AOC supporter warns against electing Zohran!!!" and it took like 15 paragraphs to reveal the person currently does social for Bari Weiss' website lmao

disagreement and criticism of ideas are great! I argue for a living! But if the first thing you have to say to me on here includes an unprovoked insult there won't be a second thing, and I don't especially care what point you were making along the way. I think this is pretty good online etiquette

so get this, right? this guy, he correctly filed his college admissions forms, truthfully reporting where his family is from. but THEN, as if that wasn't enough, he also did well on his SATs. that's right. so, do you hate him yet?

Maura Healey still fails to grasp that dismantling ICE is the moderate position. Complete and utter condemnation of ICE is the only acceptable position for a Democrat in Massachusetts. www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...

This belief is a huge part of what has gotten us here: An obsessive insistence that “debate” should take precedence over all other values, including the *merits of the thing being debated.* It is a value antithetical to journalism and they keep pretending it is the only thing journalists should do

Amy and Brett will fight over who gets to say the most offensive shit in this case. Alito will win.

what could go wrong

That last line hits hard

They're the greatest family in America, folks, absolutely undefeated and unable to be defeated

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Is the media going to do its job and tell Americans the SSA email breaks government rules, is likely illegal under the Hatch Act, and is packed with lies? Or are we just normalizing state propaganda because it’s coming in serif font from a .gov address?

maybe im out of touch with voters but i just dont think “accurately described his race on a college application” is a scandal

NYT running a story based on illegally hacked info obtained by a white supremacist is fine, but one of their columnists criticizing that is a bridge too far

I know it’s boring but 48% of Americans haven’t heard about the Death Bill is a massive media failure that should result in a complete reconstitution of our information environment, but…lol nothing matters

worth noting the pipeline here: * Trump-supporting anons hack Columbia data * Nazi twitter accounts dig around in the data * NYT picks up on Nazi substack posts, publishes Zohran story to damage his campaign * Chris Rufo immediately boosting the story

Every time I posted about how much my insurance was through the Exchange, people would say, “what are you talking about? I’m only paying $33 a month.” Those people are about to find out they were on Medicaid.

Come what may, I will bet on us, every time, because there is no other bet worth placing. I am all in, fam. I will never stop looking for openings and aiming at them. I will never stop reaching for people and saying, “Take my hand. We can do this.” Because we are worth it.

I don’t think we should just accept the most prominent news organ in the country being intimately intertwined with race scientists, and I don’t think it’s savvy to encourage others to accept it either.

"An absolute moral failure." Around one in three disabled people are on Medicaid. I spoke to disability advocates about how devastated they are that the House passed the budget bill that will slash close to a trillion from Medicaid at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The ICE budget is now set to be approximately what the NIH budget was. We’re shifting money from solving real problems to solving fictitious problems.

Once again, this is a massive public jobs program for fascists. This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.

Save every human being. Fight for every single person that you can. AND it's all of us or none of us, truly. We must continue to fight back in all the ways that we can. AND literally: Save every single person that you can. There is no buffer time. It's now