I'm once again asking how rent can go up more than the rate of inflation every single year but no one gets raises that big... why am I supposed to think the economy is good

So uh I've got questions

Post: why don't women want to have kids Woman responds with reasons Replies from men: f all that you just don't appreciate what a good man can offer, you are gonna suffer --- Every time

The U.S. won't even fund necessary programs and infrastructure for basic literacy or media literacy. But we're supposed to believe we will do better with AI literacy? And that we should be looked to as global influencers? 📚 www.dol.gov/newsroom/rel...

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

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Have these people ever stepped foot in a library

If these white nationalist "save western civ" types actually wanted to reduce immigration and migration, they'd stop destroying the climate and pull back the US military from across the globe (among other things).

Since the rise of AEW, there has been a much more public outlet for progressive wrestlers to have an opinion about politics. Brody King is a true, honest to god, Washington state punk who fronts his own metal band and tells ICE to get fucked. He's exceptional, but not the outlier that you think.

There are few things in life as fun as going to a local wrestling show

Seen several friends react to this and I share the initial snap reaction, but I find myself compelled to go further in on it for people who might not know. Professional wrestling and by extension, professional wrestling fans are not who you think they are. And in Mr. Takei's case, they're his fans.

Like we said at ALA Annual last year: this technology is being used to gut cultural funding and institutions. So why do you want it in your library? 📚

The devil doesn't need any more advocates, but also: do you see the dehumanization in the move you made there? We don't "sample", we interact. Language is fundamentally social and reducing people to their "output" is the basic problematic move of the AI boosters.

Anyway, well done effective altruists. I'm actually not shocked that you are the ones coming out swinging against (checks notes) the request to treat other people as fully human.

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Jaywalking in the United States is a made up "crime" that was literally a psyop campaign.... funded by automakers because their cars were killing pedestrians So they turned it back around on the victims. "Jay" was a negative slang at the time for someone who was a gullible rural person.

…That "Generative AI" does not tell you the truth, that it doesn't give you facts, & that when its outputs conform to factual reality, it's by fucking happenstance. These systems are not all-in-1 answer production machines, they are collections of stats & regularities spat out via fucking dice rolls

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Do the 'pro-life' anti-vax folks understand that things like mumps won't just cause short term pain but can ultimately lead to infertility?

I worked in retail, so pick a mainstream Christmas song or 30 and I heard it more than that before I graduated high school

Support/Tank/DPS

Half the images when you search for Nintendo Switch 2 Pokémon Legends Z-A are fake

straight out of those Civil War histories where some ill informed white Union soldier got a view of slavery up close and became hyper abolitionist in an instant

The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.

WPD’s position is they don’t collaborate with ICE. 👇

North Carolina lawmakers have voted to remove all college campus voting sites. Specifically at the largest HBCU in the US NC A&T. They now have to walk 30 minutes to their nearest polling place. Students are protesting this - pls share and support. www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/

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Our leaders are failing on every imaginable front right now

Dear journalists, There is still a (worsening) affordability crisis. Maybe focus on that. Signed, Everyone who bought groceries this week

For Everything is Political, I reported on young people working multiple jobs. It's about more than side hustles—factors like worker exploitation & lack of opportunities to break in have impacted multiple generations. Now, some young adults say working only one job has never felt viable.

This elitist view that only rich/Ivy/private school kids should study/have access the liberal arts is so deeply ingrained in so many highly educated Democrats’ views (including tons who majored in the lib arts themselves) that they don’t even realize they hold it, let alone how ugly & elitist it is

Mass murderers, all

Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country? Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.

This is worth trying, I like it, but ymmw

get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship

How about I start labeling myself a "responsible use PirateBay/SciHub" champion. Maybe even offer programming on using them. And none of you claiming to use ChatGPT responsibly get to complain about it.

Restart the earth It's over

Thanks to the way plows have piled up snow, there is no way to safely cross from Grove to Park St if you aren't tall enough to step up onto snow banks and balance yourself on the shifting melted/not/ice. This is an aspect of what we call Car Culture. #WorcPoli

You might be cool, but you're not librarian providing book recs in VOGUE cool But Martha is 🤘

Treat yo self

Why Why Why For what purpose Why though To do what And how How will it help In specific terms Why

"Concerns are filtered not through their merit, but through how inconvenient they are." #WorcPoli www.worcestersucks.email/p/it-was-nev...

At a certain point, I think we need to acknowledge that conservatives don’t like art as much as the IDEA of art. What it represents as “Western Civilization”. In the same Shakespeare was often used in colonial contexts to enforce domination on the colonized.

"Feeding interview data into ChatGPT helped us to develop realistic character profiles and dialogues." I may scream. doodletodemo.com

They're mad about THE SYMPATHIZER being in libraries now. 😒

Dude regularly works for Disney, DreamWorks, Netflix and CN so speculate away. But this sucks no matter which studio is doing it, and gross to think some major movie this year is running with a plagiarized image from ChatGPT.

I need folks to understand this. The idea that local police forces will intervene at scale against ICE is a utopian fantasy totally disconnected from how policing has always worked

Technology is not neutral.

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