"10a labs", a 'security research' firm employed by the big AI companies has begun collecting information and attacking organised opposition to data centres, framing them as "NIMBYS" and wildly exaggerating claims. www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/grou...

BREAKING: Starbucks workers have launched a massive, nationwide strike. Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year. Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.

in online corners like these I think people largely recognize how credulous, unprincipled opposition to "wokeness" functioned as lightly papered over defenses of impunity, but it's one of those drums people should probably start beating for normies

On November 11, 1887, four anarchists were hanged, after being found guilty of murder of a cop in Chicago's Haymarket Square, though the prosecutor admitted that they were actually tried for being anarchists.

There’s been a lot of ink spilled on QAnon and its effect on Trump’s base, and rightfully so. We need to have the same lens applied here, considering the broad buy-in to the idea that there is no organic support for the Palestinian people by our political, academic, and media elite.

TEXAS folks — the Carter Lake Dam is at risk of failure! Evacuate NOW if you live south of the dam, especially along Henry Darden Road, Marie Road, Community Drive, Bo Peep, Herb Collins Road, Girard, Rafford Road, and Cleophas Lane.

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lol

notes on gatesnotes, in a thread "A new way to look at the problem" - er, no, he's been running this line for DECADES On the headline: you can absolutely guarantee anyone presenting themselves as telling tough, hard truths is about to deliver some self-aggrandising nonsense

it turns out actually Doing Activism makes me feel less miserable about what I see on the internet news who knew

I have rounded up everything going on re: rainbow crosswalks in Texas. Galveston became the first city to remove theirs this week. Houston and Austin say they'll get rid of theirs, and San Antonio and Dallas are holding firm: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

Bluesky deleted my post complaining about the CEO lol. I did not delete it myself! Full on Lowtaxing from Jay here.

nice decentralized protocol they got here

Just a bunch of cowards showing their ass, honestly.

Ecological problems are social problems. Apartheid is an innovation in the laboratory of domination, from which comes modern policing that suppresses effective climate struggle and the surveillance state that preempts it, and interdependent sociopolitical systems that reproduce the problem at scale.

In case you need any more evidence that digital autonomy and privacy rights are not just privileged nerd shit but actual things that effect the most marginalized.

All you have to do to manipulate U.S. politics is add a "for [scapegoat]," at the end of the sentence. "They want free healthcare...for immigrants!" "Economic opportunities...for black people!" "Bodily autonomy...for trans people!" "Freedom of speech...for the left!" It's too easy.

Jane was trying to tell us!

our @fossilfreebooks.org comrade @peter.polari.com has made these gorgeous risograph prints to raise money for the Sameer Project, a Palestinian-led mutual aid group supporting people in Gaza. Only 50: get yours quick polari.press/shop/art-pri...

Capital restructures to discover new avenues of maladaptation. Contradictions are displaced temporally (future generations), spatially (Amazon rainforest), and culturally (racial capitalism, gendered labor). When the less vulnerable finally get "mad enough," there will be nothing left to fight for.

#OtD 4 October 1945 US President Harry S. Truman ordered the Navy to seize half of the US's oil refining capacity in order to break a three-week strike of the nation's oil workers. More info in this excellent book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

"Surely *this* silicon valley-backed social media app won't enshittify."

They're arguing about UBI while you can't afford childcare. They're doing a climate cost/benefit analysis while your brother has a heatstroke. They're crunching numbers on healthcare while your mom rations insulin. Call your representative. Wave some signs. Write a letter to Santa. Stay civil.

The "paper of record" ignoring the stochastic terrorism of the right and treating each escalation as an isolated act due to "mental health problems" is so wild considering that the state has labeled entire marginalized groups as terrorists using the thin pretense of actually isolated events.

Jfc if you don’t understand that this is the Gestapo kidnapping our neighbors to be put into concentration camps by now… I don’t know what to tell you

Oracle employees who expressed support for Palestine were "referred to internal mental health resources." Oracle is about to own TikTok.

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

Pay attention to the language that will be used by much of the media. The Global Sumud Flotilla never entered Israeli waters. They are in international waters attempting to reach Palestinian waters. Israel is once again breaking international law

THEY CLOSED PUBLIC POOLS RATHER THAN SWIM WITH BLACK PEOPLE YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP

Please remember that the establishment has zero options that threaten the status quo, so of course they will collapse around "wedge issues" like trans rights so that they can capture more votes from the center. They have no other move than to completely defect from their donor base.

Please understand that on every for-profit platform, you have exactly the audience size that the owner of that platform cares to permit. They retain control at all times, and your fantasies of revolution via Twitter or TikTok are just that.

I disagree. The biggest mistake we made was not amassing forty-four billion dollars to purchase the largest microblogging platform on the internet so that we could present our most extreme views until they become banal while also rigging the game against all dissenting voices. Big L, honestly.

What "impact"?

The biggest mistake the left made was not staying on a website where the most popular posters are great thinkers like Cat Turd

Don't let the drive to appear as enlightened as possible turn you into a hagiographer of demons.

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When someone is having a mental health crisis, please do not call the police. 1 in 4 people killed by police are, or are perceived to be, experiencing a mental health crisis. A person with unmet mental health needs is 16 times more likely to be killed by the police. Cops don’t keep us safe.

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"The report zeroes in on 16 cases where people have been arrested by government agents and held for extended periods of time without access to a lawyer, or to the outside world. The legal term for such detentions is “enforced disappearance." www.kuow.org/stories/secr...

Justice-minded folks have a habit of fetishizing youth participation and throwing masses of activated young people at a problem while pledging support and having reverence in the background. This leads to most of those young people getting ground under and burned out and leaving the work w in 5 yrs.

DO NOT CALL THE COPS FOR MENTAL HEALTH CHECKS IN DC. Now more than ever. Unless you want it to be the last call you make or the last time you see a person.

In recognition of us doing fuck all to reduce emissions, let me remind y'all that carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is useless unless we decarbonize drastically. rdcu.be/dbFbB

This is that episode where the boss comes back from retreat with the epiphany that he has not been listening to his gut enough, and it makes him insufferable until everyone threatens to quit.