time.com/6337835/ai-m... — good read

Ruby Bridges, the little girl who was the first african american child to attend the first desegregated all white school, has an Instagram account. History is definitely not that far away

a lot (most?) people understand racism as “being a meanie” and if you aren’t a meanie then you can’t be racist, even if you believe in, say, the biological inferiority of entire groups of people based on phenotype

"Can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding" is such a hard line and it's accompanied by accordian. TMBG, man

Just insane. New Jersey Gov Mikie Sherrill says DHS just denied state health inspectors full access to Delaney Hall. She's calling for it to be shut down.

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so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

Dear Stephen Colbert, You may be no fan of dictionaries or reference books, but we're fans of yours. ❤️ -The Wordinistas at Merriam-Webster

just open contempt for the united states as a pluralist and secular democracy. and a reminder that the function of the fiction that the united states was founded as a fundamentalist christian nation is to establish a hierarchy of human worth with white christians at the top

Well, it happened. A client disregarded my advice about using generative AI and guess what? It gave them bad advice AND the judge ruled that by using it, Client waived confidentiality and ordered us to turn a bunch of private stuff over. STOP USING GENERATIVE AI FOR LEGAL THINGS. I BEG YOU.

40 percent of Mississippi residents are Black and overwhelmingly prefer Democratic candidates and there are *checks notes* zero districts that represent their interests. But sure, the VRA isn’t needed.

BIG STORY: ICE arrested, shackled and separated Israel and Max Makoka as they were about to board their school bus in Diamondhead, Miss. While one brother endured confinement and pressure to self-deport in a Louisiana prison, the other was sent to a youth home in Texas. Now, they tell their story.

this Elon Musk plot to steal your 401(k) money is really going underdiscussed

HAHAHA Bruce Springsteen WAS NOT HAVING IT with Chris Christie. SNUBBED!

Eric Trump on a US state visit to China "could raise questions about potential blurred lines between the government and the Trump family’s business interests." What an odd journalistic convention — refusing to state the obvious, instead hiding behind others hypothetically noting a mere possibility.

We obtained the Dilley detention center’s 911 call logs. Among them are pleas for help for toddlers having trouble breathing, a pregnant woman who passed out and an elementary-school-aged girl having seizures.

interesting rationale from a prospective juror in the Elon Musk Twitter stock manipulation case

Dems and mainstream media are trapped in a doom loop. When objectively scandalous things happen, the media waits for Dems to treat them as scandals and Dems wait for the media to treat them as scandals. Eventually everyone just moves on.

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

Interesting piece, but I resent how Peter Thiel is represented in the Gawker saga. Thiel didn't "emerge from the shadows" to magnanimously tell the NYT he funded Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker. He did it because my colleague and I exposed his involvement. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

People losing their ability to distinguish actual antisemitism as a.) existing and b.) a flashing warning sign for other bigotries is going to be a real problem in left-of-center organizing spaces, I suspect

C'est une pipe

I think a lot of people are underestimating just how politically radicalizing this stuff is, when you see what the right is getting away with, including with the blessing of the Supreme Court majority

"The Government cannot escape liability for DOGE’s work by scapegoating ChatGPT." A US judge slammed DOGE's use of AI in a decision today blocking the termination of $100M in humanities grants, finding DOGE lacked authority and unlawfully based decisions on race and viewpoint buff.ly/Qw0qcDH

A worrying trend is that I think what the median voter actually wants is someone as dumb as they are. Policies don't matter much. Dumb is what matters. You gotta be authentically dumb

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"Chef Andrew Gruel, of American Gravy Concepts" is 100% a Tim & Eric bit that escaped containment into reality

i see a horse has won the kentucky derby again. this is beginning to feel rigged

In 1998, a court decided that a woman's denim jeans meant she must have consented to being raped. This horrifying ruling inspired Denim Day, a day for sexual violence awareness and solidarity with survivors.

Dr. Douglas Kelley who peered into the minds of the Nazis on trial at Nuremberg, to make sure they were mentally fit to stand trial, came back to the US to warn that it can happen here, and raising critical thinkers is the best way to prevent fascism. The war was over. No one wanted to listen to him

This is a modern-day Lost Cause campaign to once again white-wash our origin story, erase the true history of the myriad of people who helped build this nation, justify genocide/ slavery by painting an idyllic, racist portrait of an America that never was. You do so to justify the horrors to come.

Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom. Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country. (Published 2022)

it is important to emphasize that this was *the point*. this was *intentional*. elon musk is a vicious white supremacist who thinks poor african children ought to die, so that the world can be whiter

The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”

Happy 80th to the remarkable Mr. Curry, who has brought us so much joy.

Here a grandmother is forced to do a gig job with no job security because she can’t afford to retire? What are we celebrating here?

We have many decades of verified, repeatable, consistent research showing that is exactly how mass media works. Several enormous industries are built on the idea of media affecting attitudes and beliefs. Reporters who deny this in a fit of pique at facing down their own behavior just look unserious.

I am becoming a 80s-90s tough on crime reactionary but for white collar crime specifically.

Yea it’s imperative we make these people stop voting

AI generated pizza ads are so short sighted, we literally just spent the last 50 years finding out how to make food look more appetizing on camera than It really is and you've thrown that sacred deception out the window in favor of cheesepulls that look and move wrong to sell a pizza on low price.

I do find it ironic how we have to have all these delicate conversations about what to do about ICE when Trump and co. have executive fiated USAID, DOE, the Wilson Center, institute of peace, CFPB, and now the Forest service

This is the way. The American resistance muscles are weak. This is how we condition them.

I'm on the train back to DC – I call on all my colleagues to come back, too. Congress must vote to end this war IMMEDIATELY.

bring back consequences and shame

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