Pope Leo has released his first encyclical, on AI.

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Cambridge vote calls for ShotSpotter gunfire detection to be turned off and dismantled within 90 days

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An auditor for the Ontario, Canada government found that AI agents tasked with turning doctor/patient conversations into structured notes routinely hallucinated false treatments, replaced drug names with entirely different drugs, and missed crucial information

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Trans people could soon be banned from homeless shelters Shelters would have to house people based on their birth sex or lose federal funding, according to a new HUD proposal. 19thnews.org/2026/05/trum...

Wildly disappointing to be reading Kim Stanley Robinson's novel "Green Earth" about... How to mobilize international response to this & other major climate events... And then realize it's not going to get better. www.goodreads.com/book/show/25...

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

Can't doomscroll on here because open phone, see this shit, put phone down and go stare at tree

"How does one hate a country, or love one?" Ursula Le Guin always out there expressing my exact feelings in trying times.

Happy Saint Patrick's Day! I wrote a review for a Mexican-Irish fusion restaurant in Jersey City, but also wrote about American identity in an empire in decline ☘️ johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/everyone-i...

Mom’s Last Gun My mother has severe mental illness. Our family has spent decades trying to keep her from using firearms to hurt herself and others. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/03/06/g...

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“None of this has been thought through very carefully,” one intelligence official said of plans to share criminal case information with intelligence agencies. “There are a lot of privacy concerns out there, and nobody really wants to deal with them.”

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Meta's director of AI safety allowed an AI agent to... accidentally delete her inbox. This is supposedly the person at the company who is working to make sure that powerful AI tools don’t go rogue and act against human interests www.404media.co/meta-directo...

Predicting inmate suicidal behavior with an interpretable ensemble machine learning approach in smart prisons pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

“It’s an auspicious coincidence that Sunday’s Super Bowl offered a counterargument to Ring’s dystopian vision in the form of Bad Bunny’s halftime spectacle, which featured the ‘La Casita’ concept that made his recent Las Vegas residency so critically acclaimed”

Technofascism: AI, Big Tech, and the new authoritarianism link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I interviewed 300 high achievers about their morning routine, and you will never believe, they all have inherited family wealth.

I will simply never recover from reading this sentence: "Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."

by popular request i have turned the meme into a blog post, which explains how it works, links to the template file and includes a selection of examples from the thread #KirbyFraming

‼️MAJOR UPDATE ‼️ Last night, DHS used TWO canisters of Defense Technology "Large Style Maximum Smoke HC" at the ICE protest in #PortlandOR. This is the first confirmed usage of HC in almost five years.

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I've never seen a population more united. If people can hold onto that unity, if people can accept that different people will have different ways of confronting fascism, if we can remind NGOs and orgs that they can join but not control the resistance, then, well, people here will write history.

HRT does have dangers, though. Like it’ll make you want to keep living, forcing you to do stuff like *shudders* come up with a ten year plan or clean off pile full of clothes chair

I find it really difficult to recover from the shame of working homelessness. Even though my career now is in system-level work (with "lived experience") the narrative that I just made bad choices sits deep in my chest. Seeing discussion like this is an antidote & reminder that I'm not alone.

I think about this quote from the Luddite movement all the time

The stone is rolled away; lo, He is risen if ever signs and wonders were, here is one atop the Cristo Rei, I survey Lisbon as Elizabeth Holmes is forcefem castration kinkposting from prison

Crime rates near Toronto’s supervised drug consumption sites dropped A recent study revealed supervised drug consumption sites in Toronto have not led to an increase in crime – in fact, most rates dropped or even declined. www.thestar.com/news/gta/con...

oldhead advice from an oldhead. every couple years, newcomers to the movement think "THIS is finally it, the moment when the dam breaks and the whole system is overthrown" and when it doesn't happen they lose patience and get disillusioned and drop out of movement work gotta build for long term

“[P]utting data into GISAID is like dropping it in a mail slot in an unmarked building,” says @colincarlson.bsky.social. “It’s wonderful that there’s so much cool stuff in that building. It would be great if we knew who owned it, or who paid for it, or what they plan to do with it.” #IDsky 🧪

ggCheysson is based on colors, patterns of these _Albums_ maps collected by @infowetrust.com Cheysson fonts by @kennethfield.bsky.social

‪It has a name now 😜 Many thanks to Ken for agreeing to put his good name to my...artwork. The image is in the public domain (CC 0), but citations to the linked documents are warmly welcomed. ✅ zenodo.org/records/1808... ✅ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24452418/

in 2026 we are NOT hustling, we are NOT grinding, we are doing just enough Job to have money for Video Game

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Some closing thoughts for my students this semester on LLMs and learning #rstats datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-12...

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🚨New Paper🚨 US doctors are paid very different amounts for treating different patients—even when providing identical services. How much less are physicians paid for treating non-White patients? In @jamahealthforum.com, we offer the 1st national estimates. (1/7) jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

I remember when there was a discussion on Twitter about Shein's manufacturing practices and some apologists invented all sorts of fantastical machinery and technology to avoid facing the more horrifying truth. Reminds me of this comedian's joke. IG bscomedian

A new state-by-state evaluation of the projected energy and water use of "AI" data centers in the US. Looks… real bad. Like, "undoing tech sector climate gains" bad. Strongly recommends immediately ensuring any & all new "AI" data centers to run on existing & expanded renewables grids. Which… yeah.

Uh is this why Google drive is down?

grano apples, painted by james marion shull, 1909