Since this post, nearly 300 of you donated about $11k and I just wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart. The union shared photos with me today of food being distributed. Remaining money will be evenly distributed among the 160 union members in the form of gift cards. Thank you. ❤️

Pirro said the pipe bombing suspect had "not a lot of social media". She should call me, because I have now found his: Twitter, Tumblr, Soundcloud, YouTube channel, songs he made on YouTube, Steam, and about five fanfic and gaming forum accounts.

BEHOLD: MOON 🛰️

My ten cents is that newspapers should stop calling it a drug boat if there was never any evidence presented of it being a drug boat.

If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...

Yep, the Supreme Court really is just a House of Lords—a purely political branch with bizarre veto power, wielded capriciously and without accountability. Time for massive reform.

Why do I have to pass a drug test to assemble light fixtures as a temp worker but they don't have to take one to run the country?

Scrambling to try and borrow enough money to make rent today and not have to pay another $150 late fee... log in and half the posts in my timeline are people posting their cash app for MA. The other half is economists arguing we need to have more kids for the economy... I literally want to die.

Google's AI search is the acme of enshittification (with apologies/thanks to Cory Doctorow). What a joke that outfit is now. Further to this, this tells you how much credence you should give to anyone citing an AI/LLM for an argument they're making. AIs say what their owners want them to say.

There is a botulism outbreak from baby formula & the FDA director is busy posing shirtless to promote his friend’s expensive & nonmedical (& evidence baseless) device on social media. We figured out how to make food & drugs safe then let attention-seeking narcissists bring back preventable diseases!

We know everyone is asking for your money this month, but here's a twist: We're NOT asking you to donate in December, we're asking you to spread the word. Help the trans people and allies who don't know Assigned Media's reputation for excellence and originality in trans news find us!

Financialization is as antithetical to society as fascism and needs to be expunged and resisted from every angle possible.

We should have just thrown every bit of money at the Segway and built our Economy around it. It's better than AI and would have more value after it caused a Global Economic Crash.

exhibit #81823840 in my "Terry Pratchett should be recognized as one of our foremost worldly philosophers" file

Being a class member against Anthropic is nice and all I guess but I don’t want settlement money, I want the book I carved out of my trauma as a warning against unregulated tech to be taken out of the machine that pollutes small towns to encourage people to kill themselves

Also notice that Dem leadership is being totally fucking silent about defending Omar.

a load-bearing component of “the magic of Christmas” is the invisible domestic labor of moms you are now realizing how much she was doing for you and instead of just thanking her you’ve decided it’s about the decline of civilization

the hater's council just vetoed this actually. "a real hater hates attention seekers by ignoring them" wise words from one hater elder. "hate reading is for homework dorks" said another senior hater on condition of anonymity as this statement was a compound diss targeting other council members

while obvious insane as a whole I do agree that nothing is more virgin than computer

"that new book is so bad here's our second review, 4th profile, and third podcast about it"

Will continue to bang this drum: this is the system university admins are cramming into every aspect of education. This is the system we are told “isn’t going anywhere” so we all have to adjust to it.

This was published in a newspaper owned by what is currently the third richest person in human history.

I do not think that all or even most Gaza gofundme are scams - however - in the last couple days I have been followed by several with identical profile pictures & posts. I want any scammers impersonating people facing genocide for $ to know - you are the lowest of the low. The scum of the earth.

I just want to sleep... why can't I sleep...

Dear All the Retail Websites That Aren't Ours: How do I know if I want to trade access my inbox for 10% off... if you haven't even let me see your products yet?

I stg if I see one more upper-middle-class economist post "but economy numbers good, young/poor people must be lying about struggling to pay rent" I will turn into the fucking Joker.

There's a couple reasons so many IWW songs are set to the tunes of hymns and one is that the Salvation Army Band would show up and try to stop workers organizing by playing hymns to drown out speeches, so the Wobblies came up with words so they could sing along. SA has been trash all along.

1. Smarter cities & communities that use a lot less energy & generate a lot fewer emissions. 2. Rapid transition to sustainable energy sources. 3. Transformation of food systems, industry & air travel. We know the solutions. We lack the will to defeat those actively blocking them. #ClimateCrisis

They were 8 and 11 years old

Everyone saying ”giving that essay a zero was probably too harsh, I would have given it like a 70% to avoid conflict” are perfectly demonstrating how the us education system has been successfully dismantled.

I used to think that people who wanted all gambling outlawed were overly moralitstic killjoys (even though I'm definitely not a gambler) but like... holy shit. Ban it all. Right up to the stock market.

Message to the members of the military carrying out Trump and Hegseth's illegal orders: these MFers don't have your back. They will make you take the fall in a heartbeat.

Like literally. Strong floor, indeed.

oh they gave me a blue check now I can say how I REALLY feel!!! trans rights free Palestine housing is a human right universal health care for all six hour day for eight hours pay mandatory minimum wage raises that track to rent & cost of living protect the oceans & the rivers and bring back Jujubes

y'all I really don't want basic research to become the domain of the idle rich again.

This is a huge part of why so many people think we're in the middle of a widespread "anti-woke backlash": Small movements opposed to social progress are collected into trend stories by conservative media. Far larger movements that want more diversity are ignored or cast as threats.

I’m thinking about misinformation and online troll farms because of how this CBC Toronto article that I’m quoted in, posted just 4 hrs ago at 5am on a Sunday, already has nearly 200 comments. In comparison, most articles on CBC Toronto’s site has ten comments or fewer.

The same political party that treats a single murder by someone from a foreign country as a pretext for "a complete & total shutdown" of immigration from that country, is at the same time calling for a "let 'er rip" approach to AI chatbots that are harming (and sometimes killing) us in myriad ways.

the single defining “new technology” of the 21st century is in fact nothing more than the subscription, an early modern innovation

When a customer says to a normal business "I don't want this," that business has to either change course or die. When a customer says to Meta "I don't want this," Meta says "oh you just wait, we'll figure out some way to convince you that you indeed DO want this, plus, where else can you go?"

Remember this picture, & others like it, every time you hear someone in your city say "we're not Amsterdam." This was #Amsterdam in the 1970s. Many of the cities we admire made better choices regarding cars in the past. and are still making better choices today. Better choices instead of excuses.

Imagine if they just subsidized newspapers and magazines the way they’re subsidizing this slop

Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from. tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this. 🧵⬇️

the Michelin man is kinda like a Greek god in the sense that he presides over tires and which restaurants are good

"Don't follow illegal orders" would be more meaningful if Democrats had prosecuted literally any of the prominent war criminals of the last 30 years instead of, you know, fucking campaigning with them

It's insane how the tech that we should be embracing 100% (solar) is being hamstrung, while the tech we neither need nor want (AI) is being shoved down our throats while the environment is ravaged to build data centers to enrich like 12 people. smh

a lot of imaginative fiction is actually assuming that incidental and contingent traits of 20th century america are properties of the universe

All chess is 4D chess that's why they have that time clock thingy.

The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.