people are angry that chatbots are being thrust on them; that the industry is unregulated; that it’s deskilling young people; is being used as a weapon against labor and popular gAI is built on theft of the work of millions of artists and authors. You don’t get to demand civility.

Yesterday, millions marched against fascism. Now our elected leaders need to take action to confront Trump’s assault on Democratic cities and states. In The Guardian today, I outline a strategy: “fiscal disobedience” as one part of an “anti-fascist federalism.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Spirit Halloween is gonna have a banner year, and it has antifa to thank. #antifa #resistanceeconomy

It’s all about alienation.

One of the only welcome things about this current period in the U.S. is that the "this is not who WE are" stuff might finally be over.

Air ICE

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Less cowbell.

Presidents? SCOTUS gives them immunity. Corporations? SCOTUS makes it easier for them to pollute. Billionaires? SCOTUS says they can buy elections. But if you look Latino, speak Spanish, or work at a low wage job, SCOTUS says you can be abducted by masked agents. The legacy of the Roberts court.

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

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It was very telling that for three days, none of the major TV anchors would have me on air one-on-one to talk about my firing from the Washington Post over Charlie Kirk. The first offers were from Black media, independent media, Substackers, and podcasters.

“I trust my immune system - I don’t need a vaccine.” I trust my immune system too, but it thinks pollen and cardamom are trying to kill me, so I’ll be giving it some directions, okay?

Social injustice warrior who said shootings are the cost of liberty, dead of irony at 31.

If you’ve ever called the (armed) police on someone committing a crime, or voted to increase police funding—- then yes, you believe in the threat of lethal violence to deal with others.

Fun fact, despite what the lower 48 may think, only about 2.6% of Alaskan workers are in the oil & gas sector, per state labor stats. Only “Information” and “Wholesale” sectors have fewer. Local, state, and federal government employees outnumber oil & has 10:1. Oil is dead

I feel like maybe the Hyundai raid stemmed from MAGA marketing department’s realization that their first pick for scapegoat ethnic group isn’t working out

That thing you promote as free from/of ideology, probably *is* ideology

It's so much easier when someone is both incompetent and an asshole bc when someone is incompetent but a nice person I can't help but let their incompetence color my otherwise favorable opinion of them lmao

Massive and growing protest in Anchorage against President Trump and Putin meeting tomorrow on Ukraine without Ukraine.

people: police need to be held accountable police: that’s why we have body cams people: ok show us the body cam footage police: no

As you ask “who’s gonna harvest crops?” Remember that people are being thrown in for-profit prisons where the 13th Amendment incentivizes slave labor as a revenue stream. Wise up and resist, future slaves of America. #forprofitprisons #slaveryisnotgone

not my job to see the "utility" of AI; NOT MY JOB. If I am ALLOWED TO DO MY ACTUAL JOB of teaching history/humanities to my students and supported the way my students deserve to be supported, they will know enough to know when AI will fail them/be critical of the tech/use it wisely, if at all.

Anyway, when all of this started, I kept saying that you have to always look at these new technologies through the contempt that the tech world has for labor, and their campaign to destroy anything they can get their hands on for a bit more money. Human deskilling, not flourishing, is their goal.

1776? Nah, we need Project 1789 #nokings

When humanities folk talk about how uncritical scientism/technocultism is dangerous, some of us at least are saying it because we have seen how dangerous ideas like this can incubate/manifest in students from STEM backgrounds. I've had students defend experimenting on Nazi concentration camp inmates

Why are so many Republicans pedophiles? Could it be that their whole worldview is based around domination and humiliation and that their sexual practices often derive from that impulse?

A sexual politics that prizes reproductivity, eroticization of male dominance, and women’s humiliation as a marker of men’s status will inevitably trend towards valorizing pedophilia.

If I want an explanation that may be right or may be bullshit, I’m going to a bar, not AI. #fuckai #preservehumanconsciousness

47 taking credit for putting “real Cane Sugar” back in coke. Who’s gonna tell him the name for that is “Mexican Coke?” #realcanesugar #mexicancoke

Given the sexual politics of the MAGA right I’m honestly kind of surprised that they view Jeffrey Epstein as scandalous and not aspirational.

Al Qaeda won. The Taliban won. After 911, the US initiated wars that did little more than enrich the arms industry and train troops to treat civilians as threats. Now back with Taliban beards and experience killing these supposed threats, they’re being aimed at us by theocratic political leaders.

Operation Excalibur in Los Angeles Was Show of Force open.substack.com/pub/kenklipp...

I know Eric Lipton blocked me for telling him why the NYT should be shunned, but here is reason number 13457987, Eric

Show me a man who can have his economic concerns assuaged by Trump, and I'll show you a man who can have his beverage concerns assuaged by Jim Jones.

Enough with the “Deport trump’s wives and their anchor babies” memes. They accept deportation as a weapon. Convict for crimes, not birthplace.

The tobacco industry knew their product would kill us but lied and denied for decades. The oil industry knew their product would wreck our climate but lied and denied for decades. And yet people think AI will just make our lives easier?

Typically excellent reporting from @michaeljohnlo.bsky.social‬ on the continuing impact of the Lasqueti Island community-oriented archaeological project led by SFU's Dana Lepofsky 🏺 www.timescolonist.com/islander/in-...

Amazing.

The US economy is a series of valves that send more money to the rich. bsky.app/profile/rbre...

you can’t spell unicorns without unions

www.msf.org/deadly-israe... GHF uses food as bait, not aid.

More than 100 Gazans killed this year week trying to get food. GHF food is not aid, it is bait.

Reports keep saying the Minnesota assassin was “impersonating” a cop. Have we eliminated the possibility that he is a cop?

Stand up! #resist #nokings #betankman

Check out this zine about a zine! (And then read my article about the zine linked at the end of the thread 🏺)

Hell fucking yeah!!! Read this article and share -This is the way. #fuckwar #fucktrump #resist #fight

Anthony Bourdain, sitting in Moscow, summing up Putin…in 2013