We covered this: because control is the point, not the art.

"If we don't adopt AI, we'll get left behind! China is adopting AI on a wide scale, we can't afford to lose out." New research done on Chinese students using AI found that in the short term, scores go up, then long term, students do on average 20% worse on exams.

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

"Be beige, not rainbow" is the outcome of librarians saying libraries should be neutral. We cannot and are not neutral, and we gotta stop insisting that we are. At this point, it is part of the book ban playbook.

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Why is it always "work harder," for the people already juggling more than one job to make ends meet... ...and not "pay your workers better" to the companies raking in billions of profits.

If you're a young trans man or trans masc person who needs a dad today, congrats. I am your dad now. I am proud of you and what you've accomplished although some of your young person culture and choices perplex me. I am proof trans men can be middle aged married dudes. You can be too some day. Live.

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Please keep in mind that "Broadview Six" defendants in Chicago collectively incurred over $1 million in legal fees following their dismissed federal indictments for protests at ICE facility. 15 average Minnesotans? Could need $2.5 million.

wow! I am surprised to hear this!

I wish more businesses though this way! You DON’T need AI, even if you feel like it. I get how it could feel seductive but that’s a lie and a trap. Good on these folks!! May more follow them.

It’s been five years since Alex Jones lost InfoWars to the Sandy Hook families. As the verdict came down, he asked: “Do these people actually believe they’re getting any money?” He hasn't paid them a penny. Well, The Onion is going pay them anyway. The new InfoWars begins July 2nd at 8 p.m. ET.

This is the legal defense fund for the 15 anti-ICE organizers who were recently arrested in Minneapolis. Please contribute generously. They are going to have millions of dollars worth of needs. chuffed.org/project/1865...

In the eight months since Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill passed, SNAP enrollment has declined by 4.7 million, according to USDA data. In states where demographic data are available, about half the decline comes from kids losing food aid. The Trump administration describes this as a success story

IF YOU SEE THIS CLOSE THE TAB IMMEDIATELY this is a trick to install malware on your machine. it is not a real captcha system.

10% of the annual budget for WIC is around $720 million, nearly the exact amount the administration wasted buying warehouses for ICE to illegally detain immigrants—a project that has failed instead of feeding our nation’s most vulnerable babies and children, trump just lit our money on fire

I have SO. MANY. QUESTIONS. for people who listen to loud videos in public with no headphones or have conversations on speakerphone with no headphones. One day I’m going to get frustrated enough to ask the folks these questions in person.

”Juneteenth Has Always Been About Black Liberation” by Kaitlyn Greenidge for Harper’s Bazaar. An oral history, as told by members of the Winston-Salem Chapter of The Black Panther Party. www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...

NEW: For @autonomynews.co, I spoke with three providers of gender-affirming care about how they're continuing to serve patients in the face of Trump administration attacks:

Norway you're doing amazing sweetie

Zohran really got an Arsenal and Knicks championships within one month. Now he just needs to cut the police budget and fund the libraries.

I watched a sports draft last night. (shout out the PHWL) I never EVER thought I’d be a sports girlie!! The world contains infinite possibilities! MORE IS POSSIBLE IF WE IMAGINE IT!

If Waffle House doesn’t make this their new slogan, then capitalism has failed

Both Hillary Clinton and Marco Rubio seem to be describing Netanyahu using the same tactic 14 years apart. The difference is, it seems, the same tactic worked this time.

Bummer.

There is a thrill in this. There guys are PUSHING SO HARD. They’re relentlessly doing interviews, writing articles and pushing propaganda. They’re used to everyone buying their bullshit!! But this time everyone’s like “nah”. It must feel inexplicable for them and that is so satisfying.

If you are looking for a way to help the folks in Minneapolis, a member of the National Lawyer's Guild passed along this fundraiser for legal costs for those arrested yesterday: chuffed.org/project/1865... You can also donate directly to the NLG: www.paypal.com/donate?token...

To put it another way, I think Musk’s purchase of Twitter has helped reify the vague pundit instinct that Trump in some way channels the will of an inchoate true Volk, because now the voice of the Volk speaks through X, the everything app

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Billionaires, corporate interests, and AIPAC-aligned groups spent millions to defeat our candidates in California. Jokes on them. FIVE races. FIVE wins. FIVE Working Families champions in California advancing into November. Here’s what happened:

Calvin and Hobbes strip that says it quite well;

Over 470 hospitals wards, clinics, and nursing homes have shut down after Trump and Republicans cut healthcare funding by over $1 trillion.

NEW: A trove of internal records from Dialog, the secret society cofounded by Peter Thiel, was left exposed online. WIRED obtained a second cache of records that reveal who's really attending, how they're screened, and what personal details they were promised would stay private.

Instead of focusing on things in the Indie Animation space that make you upset why not focus on something that's new and upcoming. This Friday , the Kickstarter for The Three Tomes episode 2 launches ! Check out Episode 1 on YouTube and support the campaign this Juneteenth . Support Indie Animation

American politicians want to “take care” of kids the same way a factory farm wants to “take care” of cows. They want a lot of them, they want them complacent, and they want to do as little as they can get away with to keep them alive long enough to extract all possible value from their bodies

You can stop giving your money to Amazon today. It’s easy.

Your periodic reminder that people are *more* abusive online when they're using their "real names" than when they're using a persistent pseudonym and this effect has been replicated in literally every study that has ever been done

Criminalization is the fuel of fascism. And the people who have been saying this for decades are the PIC abolitionists so many deride.

Calling all NYC based writers, authors, and scholars to sign this open letter to the Mayor re: public library budget docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @nycplan.org

The social internet got turned into a giant dopamine farm by a handful of companies who literally hired the same psychologists who design casino floor layouts, and the policy-makers just threw up their hands and said "guess we better ban kids from using the internet then"

One of the things that I think people don't understand about Netanyahu is that they think he is racist in some inscrutable or exotic Israeli way, when he is actually racist in the exact way you'd expect a guy who went to high school in the Philly suburbs in the late 1960s (as he did) to be

Dragon breakfast

You don't have to answer the door for the Feds. Do not voluntarily talk to the Feds. If they have a warrant signed by an actual judge, then they can do precisely what the warrant says. But DO NOT TALK TO THE FEDS. Do not answer the door. If you're arrested, your only words are "I want a lawyer."

NEW: Maryland Democrats are reportedly preparing a special session next month to send a redistricting amendment to voters in November. The move would give the state a path to counter Trump-backed GOP gerrymanders in 2028.

“One of the reasons why I do what I do is I don’t want you to have to buy something, I want you to take what you have and give it new life and make it something that’s even better than what you originally bought it for, because now it’s one of one.”

There are currently three federal book ban bills aiming to ban all trans books from U.S. public schools! HR 2616, HR 8705, HR 7661. Please call your representatives and ask them to vote no on these bills! Follow @authorsabb.bsky.social for updates. #bookbans #bookchallenges #HR2616 #HR8705 #HR7661

A basic income program in central Iowa gave 110 people $500/mo. It caused improvements in savings, stress, and agency. It also found significant changes in scores relating to hope — the ability to create goals and feel capable of working toward them, and also increases in mattering and self-reliance