I'll just quit a game when I'm stuck as god intended

you ever think how disturbing it is that the upper ranks of US media is full of incredibly violent people? people who defend genocide, rape, police brutality, war. kinda (read: really) fucked up!

corporate media and centrist pundits are largely ignoring the drop in crime because their focus on crime during and after the George Floyd protests was about racism 🤷🏾‍♀️

First CES panel. Intuit CMO Thomas Ranese is proud of his company's integration with OpenAI, which involves giving AI read/write access to tax data. Since prompt injection attacks are unavoidable, I asked him who will be liable when customer data is exposed: Intuit, OpenAI, etc? He had no idea.

No, it was a successful coup. None of the people who led it were punished, and are in fact back in power, rewarded for their efforts to break the system by running it. Donald Trump is currently the dictator he attempted to become 5 years ago, and it’s because nobody treated trying as a crime.

“Families of those detained, journalists, the public and many legislators are just as in the dark as they were in July about how the facility is run, who is there, who has been there and been deported and who works there.” #AbuseofPowerWatch

in February 2023, the nation's first openly nonbinary state legislator described the death of 16-year-old Oklahoman Nex Benedict, and the policy and rhetorical attacks on trans life, as part of a "transgenocide." Mauree Turner stepped down from public office the following year.

NEW from Important Context: Genocide experts, including two past presidents of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, are speaking out about escalating attacks on transgender Americans in the U.S. www.importantcontext.news/p/experts-wa...

if you host a podcast, ben bowler is feeding it to AI, stripping it of ads, and profiting from it. i spent my morning submitting DMCA takedown requests and getting a cease and desist request because how fucking dare you profit from our IP when we don't even make any money from it???

This was just a few months after January 6, which is when I knew law enforcement organizations had every interest in defending January 6 because that was how they would amass power. Police do not work for "the people." (Then, of course, Biden funded them anyways.)

I keep seeing ads like this and envision the site giving me a blank image

The Facebook group formerly known as "New Yorkers Against Excessive Quarantine" has rebranded to "Mamdani Watch: Charting the Intentional Destruction of NYC!" Admin Aaron Dorr, is from the famous Dorr Brothers Family Circus of Facebook groups and gun rights organizations and Facebook pages.

The one thing you should know about evangelical Christians... If they are against it... It's a hit

we need more allies doing stuff like this instead of sharing screenshots of content by white supremacists

Hello friends, please share these beautiful pictures of my small farm. Let them reach others / and donate if you can / My family needs you

As Israel continues to break the ceasefire in Gaza, nations are tabling their proposals to sanction Israel and falling back to the status quo. We must continue pressuring our governments to stop providing Israel with weapons to kill Palestinians.

District 3 is my home and I would be proud to serve it in City Council. Stay tuned for more.

A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.

some identify publicly with the left because they hate oppression, others because they hate being oppressed. things will make more sense when you keep in mind that these are not the same - or even similar

It's not just Grok folks. OpenAI's Sora and TikTok are both being used to distribute sexualized images of minors, often with links to platforms like Telegram where actual CSAM is distributed. www.wired.com/story/people...

RESEARCH REQUEST: I’m looking for a local news morning show producer to interview for book research. Bonus if they’re based in New Orleans, Atlanta, or Nashville, but open to yankee cities. If that’s you or you know someone, please connect us! Thank you! I’ll put you in the acknowledgments 🙏🏾

The impacts of this admin recklessly shutting off all childcare funding to a state are grave. Our childcare system is struggling from an EXISTING supply crisis - anything that closes programs will have ripple effects on children, care workers, folks' ability to work, & the economy for years to come.

New year but still job hunting! If anyone has leads on narrative design, writing (video games or tabletop/board games), DEI consulting, or editing; HMU via LinkedIn or I can DM you my email. Unfortunately, due to past harassment, I don't have a publicly available email address.

the 6% is the WaPo editorial board

An aim of the global far-right is to rehabilitate and legitimize the colonial project.

'There is no humane colonialism There is no democratic colonialism There is no non-exploitative colonialism' - Samora Machel, Mozambican military commander, politician, revolutionary... President (1933-1986)

As someone wrestling with a parent's home care, blaming tax regs for the rising costs struck me as a weird take. Then I learned it came from a former House Republican Policy Committee analyst whose recent work includes an attack on minimum wage laws and a piece titled "There Is Only Male and Female"

I wrote about reporters’ refusal to use “act of war,” “invasion” or “coup” when covering Trump’s brazen attacks on Venezuela, instead echoing WH-approved euphemisms, and the broader trend of our press dutifully giving Trump’s lawlessness the vague whiff of international legitimacy when it has none.

THREAD: Viral misinformation on US capture of Nicolas Maduro - 4 January This video, shared by Alex Jones and others, falsely claims to show millions of Venezuelans in Caracas celebrating Maduro's capture. In fact, it shows anti-Maduro protests in July 2024 over a highly disputed election.

I FOUND IT!!!!!!!! turns out looking through the same spots over and over again *can* help 😭 thanks to everyone for the sympathies and encouragement

starting off the year with losing my work notebook that has all my notes from the past year 🤠

The average child sexual predator looks like the average, church-going husband or father—the very person many faith communities think is safest and most worthy of significant power over others.

Just a couple weeks ago I heard Frum on a podcast predicting that Trump would never invade Venezuela because doing so wouldn't be rational. Yet here we are, and Frum is punching the anti-war left.

Snuggle up close, rest, and relax. Maybe even do a little tooth purr! It's #SundayBunday . #bunny #rabbit

“Do you think other dictators are on notice now, afraid that it might happen to them?” No, they are already thinking about how they are going to make this work in their favour. Historical precedent abounds of violent authoritarians claiming “capitalism” and “democracy” to remain in office.

Why data centers are being built in places that are far hotter than ideal: https://restofworld.org/2025/data-center-heat-map/

So it's appropriate to arrest a world leader if you consider them criminal? You can just go get them? Just asking questions here.

finished the game & I liked it overall! the parkour is better than the rpg trilogies. I loved the investigation structure. the combat is ass, but it forced me to be stealthy. the DLC was a nice, emotional story that made me like Basim a little more. AND it wasn't hella long like Odyssey or Valhalla.

seriously. not everything is about Epstein! he'd be doing this stuff regardless

What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things

Sometimes the enemy of your enemy is also your enemy.

I guess I will no longer be shopping at Wegmans. It’s a shame because I love that store. gothamist.com/news/nyc-weg...

The belligerent violation of the lives of human beings, the imagery of fire and flames over there, the screams muted under the overdub of commentators— fuels the tech, the violence, the l racism and hate, that legitimates kidnappings here. You cannot be for one and against the other.

The Liberal International Order in practice. bsky.app/profile/ians...

ok, y’all. I’M LOOKING FOR WRITERS: who understand 1) global politics, 2) colonialism and 3) liberation struggles across the African/Black Diaspora tag yourselves or others, or DM me

has anyone asked Elon if he identifies as a serial killer thanks to all the deaths created by DOGE cuts?

When I said earlier that literally every single thing happening today can be traced back to us not just allowing but encouraging it to be done to the black community- this is another example. ‘drugs as criminal’ happened in the US almost exclusively by connecting drugs to black community.

“The only place in the world where the Cold War was cold was in Europe and North America”. Similarly the only place where the US military has shown “restraint” is in Europe and North America. The “rules based order” is a normative ideal rather than a description of reality. It was an ambition.

no money for health care but unlimited money for death and destruction. how American.