“The policy “appears to be driven by the bare desire to harm a politically unpopular group: persons who identify as transgender,” Judge Robert Wilkins wrote for the majority.” apnews.com/article/tran...

“Mr. Hegseth’s actions, which appear to violate the rules governing a promotion system that is supposed to be apolitical and merit-based, were described by four current and former defense officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive personnel matters.”

Not a single word about protecting or compensating Canadian artists whose work has been stolen by tech companies and spit out again in a slightly altered form.

businesses: we’re finding all this AI spending isn’t really paying off and we’re thinking it might be time to pull back public: it’s hard to tell what’s real anymore with all this AI slop and some of my friends are acting pretty weird mark carney: WE MUST SPEED UP AI ADOPTION FOR THE ECONOMY

my main thought on Pride month, as someone who should basically be neither seen nor heard from on it, is that I have seen many times firsthand the raw deal that trans people get in media and publishing, and it needs to be everyone's job to fix that. It's real, material, and unacceptable

“Anniversaries are imperfect records of the thing which is being celebrated,” he said on his show Sunday. “In America’s case, anniversaries often gloss over the racial dynamics underlying much of America’s history and politics, (cont.) www.huffpost.com/entry/ali-ve...

happy pride moth everyone

How many times do I have to tell you: "These AI models … will never say 'no'" ought to be regarded as a Failure state, not a desired performance metric. www.wfae.org/united-state...

Update: New Jersey ultimately exempted press with "verified credentials" from curfew. "Verified credentials" wasn't defined. A big group of press was kettled. Most released without issue but two were arrested. Both @nppa.org members. Other press appear to have been denied sight/sound access.

Please read the bio of @davidcostello.bsky.social, who’s running in the Maine Democratic primary against Platner. Staffer for Ted Kennedy & then for ME’s SOS; USAID worker in 9 countries, top education aide for the Baltimore Mayor, Acting Secretary of MD’s Department of the Environment, etc.

Literally over 15,000 ceasefire violations in 13 months. Someone said the other day that Israel has a phd in breaking ceasefires but that's not really fair. There are quite a few phds in the world. It's respectable but not uncommon. Israel is a once in a millennia virtuoso of ceasefire violations.

Israel already invaded Lebanon twice, in 1978 and 1982, before Hezbollah was founded. Israel had already been continuously occupying the Gaza Strip for 21 years before Hamas was founded. And putting these things aside, not a single thing Hezb does justifies Israel destroying 80+ Lebanese villages.

Give yourself the gift of watching this.

Today in life under competitive authoritarianism

Our elders and ancestors sacrificed so much in the hopes that their actions would bring equity and justice to their communities and descendants. Police violence and incarceration was not a deterrent to those who believe in freedom then, and it won’t be a deterrent now.

We are being kettled in at the Delaney Hall protests. That means they are staging at certain streets to prevent people from leaving after 9Pm even though the rally is not out front of the detention center. They are saying something on the loud speakers but it’s muffled.

You’re read the girl with the dragon tattoo, now get ready for the sequel you’ve been waiting for this senatorial election, the boy with the Nazi tattoo

Men who worship Trump, a man who wears liquid foundation, is *obsessed* with ballrooms, dances to gay anthems from the ‘70s, plays music from Broadway musicals, talks fondly about Arnold Palmer’s enormous penis, and gushes about how hot Jaxson Dart is, are questioning James Talarico’s sexuality?

Is the world ever going to stop hating? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Their hubris has convinced them that they are gods

Incredible piece, but it needs to be said explicitly: these people are dangerous eugenicists. They want the "wrong" people to be exterminated and replaced by AI. That's abhorrent and you can't pretend otherwise.

Opinion: Preservation of MLK’s Prince Hall adds to African Americans’ story share.google/qacWsAPc1Qqf...

"Eventually, though, what's left of the free press will have to reckon with the fact that the far-right fringe is now the modern world's governing elite — and openly declaring an intent to repeat the 1930s. That's a story."

Exactly

now wanting someone to use “oh my sweet child, people have been getting sex changes since before you were born” as a line

HAPPY PRIDE

we don't have a masculinity crisis. we have a patriarchy crisis. patriarchy creates and sustains male unhappiness with its dogmatic, toxic, rigid definition of masculinity which says the worst and most undesirable thing a human can be is female which is how we get insults like "Low-T Talarico"

Say it LOUD ‼️

Progressivism is about making progress toward a future we want in the present. "AI" is the past. Progressives don't need it.

Indeed. “Guardrails” without systemic change in how AI is developed & trained is just performance theatre. The stain doesn’t come out, regardless of how many times you wash it.

See you can just say "it sucks we should ban it"

My latest on the need for the left social democrats to step up in the face of fascist and hate politics. charlieangus.substack.com/p/reflection...

danah boyd recently argued that social media (as we knew it) is mostly dead; what we have now is parasocial media: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... I agree. Networked social media is disappearing, replaced by a new logic/structure of content creator, creator-centered community, & algorithm.

Greenblatt claims the parade is “a celebration of Jewish identity, pride and community.” Jewish identity is a rich tapestry, multilayered across place & time. Reducing Jewish identity and community to being solely about the state of Israel is flat-out antisemitic.

Former human rights lawyer here: under international human rights law, bombing or gassing a medical facility is a crime against humanity. Last night, the NJ state police gassed the medic tent at Delaney Hall over and over and over again until medics had to abandon it and flee for their lives.

Sad news today. Tomi Reichental, a survivor of the Nazi Bergen-Belsen Camp, has passed. His was an important voice in Ireland, since 1960, when he moved here. My thoughts are with his family & friends. He brought great honour on us all by sharing his experiences.

Men need to do hard emotional things and face emotional realities The only way over is through

Again, nearly all religious cults are about one man's quest for sex slaves.

omg

The misogyny inherent in thinking men who betray and harm women haven't really done anything wrong is pretty damn stark.

Amnesty International understanding that this "generative AI" shit as currently conceived and deployed is a project which enables fascism and endangers the already vulnerable and marginalized populations of the world.

It's 1985. IDF troops are getting harassed by hezbollah fire after a "decisive" invasion It's 1999. IDF troops are getting harassed by hezbollah fire after a "decisive" invasion It's 2024. IDF troops are getting harassed by hezbollah fire after a "decisive" invasion It's 2026,

Not sure who needs the reminder but ICE detention centers are actually for-profit concentration camps that are generating billions in revenue for rich prison contractors.

“chickens overwhelmingly donate to party that opposes colonel sanders”

I think the final lineup will be: Rob Schneider 10 minute stand-up James Woods reads "The Art of the Deal" Aloud accompanied by a polka band Kid Rock lip syncs "Bawitdaba"