BRB gonna invent "Amish 2" where its rejecting any technology invented after 2020

But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.

Or to put that upshot more pointedly:

google is a blight, and all good it ever did it has undone one thousand times over

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Has anyone seen any work done about the framing of AI critics as irrational? I feel like, in talking to these people, we can lay out 10 different logic-based reasons not to use this thing, and somehow having so many reasons is going to be framed as being sticks in the mud.

Dems are polling crazy high based on the flaming catastrophe that is Republican fascist rule, so primarying as many of the bad weak complicit Democrats in favor of good determined angry ones has rarely if ever been more crucial

“Instead of student loan forgiveness we’re doing a coup forgiveness program”

You can just make silly stuff for no reason

it took this country five decades for the surviving interned Japanese-Americans who were deprived of absolutely everything and imprisoned for no cause to get $20,000 in reparations per person. we are currently awarding the guys who did the Beer Hall Putsch five years ago orders of magnitude more

Of all of Biden’s failures to meet the moment, few piss me off more than his not using SCOTUS’s “presidential immunity” ruling to cancel student debt. Especially after the election. He had four months to cancel it and delete the records!!! What were they going to do? Impeach him? Lol

This was quick and easy to do, and is the kind of thing that can have a meaningful effect. I strongly recommend taking the angle of a socially conservative argument against this motion. Persuading your opponents works best when you show the flaws in an argument based on their own logic.

sorry I seem distracted just have to keep checking my phone to see if one of my freedoms is being arbitrarily taken away

Ah, but it is a threat to the US. The US response to Russia and Israel has forcefully said that no country without nuclear weapons has sovereignty that has to be respected. But nukes are hard, and Iran is demonstrating that there is a credible cost to randomly attacking a country.

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Not just lobbying! our new paper maps 27 mechanisms of regulatory capture used by Big AI + 11 narrative framings that rationalise capture. “Big AI’s Regulatory Capture: Mapping Industry Interference and Government Complicity” will be presented at #FAccT2026 next month arxiv.org/abs/2605.068... 1/

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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.

Our social media feeds are swamped with fake videos purporting to depict interviews with “ordinary voters” complaining about rampant immigration, or preened news anchors spraying out false headlines about asylum seekers. the cost of producing propaganda has dropped to near-zero

If you're mad at this (and you should be): Tomorrow at 1pm 120 Schermerhorn in BK Rally to demand accountability from the absolute ghouls in our courts.

Hey I actually found the information again now that the deadline's coming up and I need to get on this. Maybe you meant to also, dear computer friend.

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NEW ESSAY — Alex Wright rediscovers the thrilling world of typesetting races, which, at the height of their popularity in the 1880s, drew crowds in the thousands, offered huge cash prizes, and helped women "Swifts" fight for workplace equity: publicdomainreview.org/essay/twilig...

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"whY aRe PeoPlE nOt hAviNg cHildRen?" Meanwhile, the statistics in this article: hechingerreport.org/school-parki...

WHO has declared the #Ebola outbreak in DRC and Uganda a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). First time this has been done without consulting an emergency committee. Extraordinary move that speaks to how concerning the facts on the ground look right now

It’s Mer-Steed #OFMD

#signalboost #ofmd

Dejanea Oakley in shock after running a 48.92 400m at SECs to become second-fastest in collegiate HISTORY! 😱😅

Together, European nations hold $3tn in US treasury bonds. When the current (m)administration threatened Greenland, voices across Europe said we should (threaten to) dump them. DW News is a German govt channel & explains if that's possible & what it would do.

...And according to the article, she's not the only one...?

In May 1940 the Germans invaded the Netherlands. After the surrender Dutch troops were ordered to hand in their weapons and vehicles to the Germans. When the commander of the Hussars got the order he said "Never". They gathered their 30 cars & 150 motorbikes on the Malieveld...

Prof. Hotez highlighted critical issues facing the world stage. Despite the agenda of the Trump Admin. these facts and the fallout from it, need to be researched w/solid science (not MAHA+influencer trash) and solid protocols set up and funded. @who.int @covid19disease.bsky.social @ec.europa.eu

Reprinted a quote from @megsmith.bsky.social's good #ACH2025 talk, by popular request (original sold out!) on neon fuschia this time. I'll donate 50% to Action St. Louis, a grassroots community effort Meg suggests. (This & other prints are at store.wolfproofpress.com.)

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Working with THE Katherine “K. A.” Applegate is everything I wanted when was thirteen and trying to get Animorphs fans to join my Everworld fan page on Yahoo Groups. Working with her on Wombat Waiting is a childhood dream come true! people.com/mara-wilson-...

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Kickstarter officially banning adult content now. Knew this was coming, but it still sucks to have yet another part of the internet that I've been explicitly evicted from. Digital gentrification is exhausting.

There are so many Black self-liberation stories like this - just the coolest shit anyone’s done & I truly believe that if America liked stories of revolutionaries or rebels defeating elites as much as we used to act like we do we would have mined these types of stories more for film & television.

WOMBAT WAITING is a #1 NYT bestseller. Absolutely overjoyed by this news. 🧡 I'm indebted to @artofjen.bsky.social for her perfect illustrations and to the amazing @harperkids.bsky.social team. And to everyone who has read Wombat's story. She's such a good girl, and I'm a grateful, lucky author. 🐕

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#OtD 13 May 1985 Philadelphia police attacked the home of Black liberation and environmental group MOVE, then dropped a bomb on it, killing 5 adults and 6 children, destroying 61 homes in the predominantly Black neighbourhood, and making 250 people homeless.

Stock up on frozen veg NOW

My takeaways: Yes, you do have to hold even your rockstar politicians to their promises, not make excuses for them when they flake out; at the same time, IMO, you actually should give them a cookie for course-correcting to reinforce the desired behavior. gothamist.com/news/mayor-m...

dear god PLEASE let this also lead to a wider acceptance that treatment needs to include *improving quality of life* and not just "how to make them have baby"

As the Poetess says: "Evening Star, you reunite those tbe day parts from each other: You bring home the sheep, you bring home the goat, you bring home the child to their mother--" Venus (low) and Jupiter here, astonishingly bright from a city center. (1/2)