I think it’s a mistake to assume the public holds strong beliefs about trans rights. Polling shows a shift over just the last couple years, as GOP elites actively worked to gin up public prejudice. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

mainstream media report on jd vance’s twitter mutuals, challenge level: impossible

genuinely crazy-making how much the national press is indifferent to the verifiable fact that jd vance is buddy buddy with internet nazis, and the degree to which this is almost certainly a form of solidarity among people with a similar institution pedigree

This graph (and the 2022-23 food insecurity data) is why I find the economics profession and academic field to be detestable at best.

The US is the purple line bottoming out. Our economy may still roar, but we’re killing ourselves. Hoarding wealth, refusing to even ensure our kids have enough to eat. That line is an indictment. It reflects our warped values.

Implement UBI. Seriously. You want to end sex work? I promise that UBI is the single best thing you can do to help those who want to leave the profession to do it. 🧵

You want to end sex work? Then give people choices. When you ask the sex workers who do want to leave the profession why they don't, they answer that they lack the resources to do it.🧵

Whenever I meet a "feminist" who wants to abolish sex work, I instantly know I'm talking with an unserious person who is not willing to do the work. Let's imagine, for the sake of the argument, that they were right and all sex workers were trafficking victims who wanted to leave sex work. 🧵

Here in Sweden, we have laws against buying sex and being a procurer, but not selling. As a result, some sex workers get evicted because if they work from home their landlords can get charged with procuring.

Such a perfect example of what we all give up when we refuse to address basic inequalities. I don't want to live in a country where all the public space is militarized to keep hungry people from stealing food, just give them money to buy food!

centrists and conservatives will always do 'no not like that.' the green new deal was to address concerns about making transition politically acceptable, while spreading costs and benefits equitably, and the response was 'why is all this non-green stuff in there'

This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism. The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.

You will never, ever satisfy the centre-right. There isn't any actual, material, clearly-defined goal they're seeking. Their goal is to send everything onto the far-right travelator. Their dissatisfaction must by definition be permanent

A dishwasher is already a robot that does your dishes

There is perpetual hand wringing and recrimination about leftist elitism towards right wingers. But I never hear anything about extreme and hateful elitism towards those the right deems beneath them. Look at what they're saying about snap recipients right now. They're seething with rage.

So there were some AI-generated videos that purported to show Black women ranting about SNAP benefits, and... Fox News is reporting on this like these are real people. They're not! They're AI! This is truly insane. Total unreality. www.foxnews.com/media/snap-b...

There's no such thing as anti-war right. They're bloodthirsty imperialists who are fine raging war both on their own people and abroad

It's so telling that centrists want Dems to back off from $15 to a $12 minimum wage. No real logic behind it - no economic reason, no political reason, nothing. They literally just looked at the numbers and said "well $12 is sort of halfway"

A reminder that Musk is a mass murderer. It's not hyperbole.

BOSTON (AP) — Judges order the federal government to use contingency funds for SNAP food aid payments during the shutdown.

Hold up lemme just put two things together at the same time. 1: Billionaires are giving each other hundreds of billions of dollars in an incestuous business venture to keep a bubble afloat despite record losses. 2: People are going to starve to death over Christmas because they can't afford food.

A drunken tourist attacked and beat a trans woman in Thailand. A crowd formed up and chased him and proceeded to beat him to a pulp. He was left screaming in agony. The Thai people do not mess around with protecting their trans women.

The media is about to blitz us with stories about how awful Maduro is and I want you to remember that even if they're all true, they are being issued solely for the purpose of manufacturing consent for invading Venezuela and killing innocent people.

New article on ★ daiz.moe ★ Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason daiz.moe/crunchyroll-... A ton of research and effort went into this one. This is the article to read to get to the bottom of Crunchyroll's subtitle changes! Replies here will show up as comments (eventually)

so @matteowong.bsky.social & I wrote on data centers: arguably the most important buildings in the world & are, in a way, holding the economy hostage. Byzantine financial instruments, private equity, depreciating tech, hype, $trillion valuations. it’s all there. an ai crash prob starts here.

For fuck's sake. The lawmakers behind Oklahoma's new "public obscenity" law seem to be asking for the power of prior restraint — that local cops can block an LGBTQ+ event before it happens because they believe it might be obscene. Which is not how obscenity works, but it is how censorship does.

Another reason to hate AI- Gop propaganda accounts are making fake AI videos featuring Black women talking about how they scam thousands of dollars of food stamps a month, and now they're going to go broke. Racism and propaganda never sleep, AI is just making it even more efficient.

Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming. Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:

I'm fine with aggressively spreading the rumor that JD Vance and Erika Kirk are fucking. What do I care

call me crazy but i think inviting someone under federal indictment to an interview, peppering them with questions about the indictment that you know they can’t answer until you cause them to leave, then calling it a “Katie Porter moment” is not good journalism

Honestly it's a good thing there's no negative psychological consequences to everything being casinos and upsells everywhere you look, all the time, in all of society

“some people abuse SNAP” your soul is rotten

They hanged the people who got us the 8-hour workday.

Oh weird it's an article from 2020 by some anonymous journalist predicting that exactly what's happening now with CBP would happen if DHS wasn't reigned in under Biden I'm sure Will just have expressed the same concerns no way he ignored them entirely share.google/zHaphHYkFeE6...

Author's name is being hidden. Blatant propaganda from the ruling president masquerading as journalism.

so a reporter with a right wing UK outlet set out to file a Mamdani hit piece, emailed who he thought was former Mayor Bill de Blasio but it was really a Long Island man who now lives in Florida named Bill DeBlasio, who used ChatGPT to give the reporter a quote that was published

Fix the City, the largest pro-Cuomo super PAC, is displaying anti-Mamdani/Sliwa ads on LinkNYC kiosks now (photo from last night snapped by a source). The LinkNYC system is a public-private partnership between the city government and Intersection, a media tech company.

looks like it matters who after all

No. Next question.

I have a number of colleagues who think that LLMs will be very useful as individualized tutors. One of their arguments is that unlike previous generations of AI tutors, LLMs have the full context window of the conversation and that’s better understand what a student knows and doesn’t know.

"when a bad thing is happening it's taboo to discuss the reasons why it's happening" is fucking infuriating.

This brain-dead discourse is *everywhere* and it drives me insane.

We literally do disagree about this, though. Some politicians want to take food from children and some politicians don't. Pretending this "isn't political" just allows the child-starving ghouls to get away with it. Tell people who supports the *political program* to feed children and who doesn't!

Part of our national problem is that many refuse to accept the stakes of politics, and the in-their-face-but-somehow-denied reality that “let’s not starve children, especially when there’s money for a ballroom and a foreign bailout” is not appealing to shared values, but to a partisan position.

A powerful win for the poster’s rights lobby

timeless

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

Grok is a pedophile.

They’re developing one that tracks “reproductive health”. If that includes a monitor for HCG (the pregnancy hormone), depending on what state you live in…maybe don’t use this.