everyone loved the tech industry's free music and friendship machines of 20-30 years ago. it's unclear what could be causing people to feel the opposite about the industry's new racism and insanity machine

More confirmation that it's useless, perhaps dangerous, to expect many men to be our steadfast allies. What a pathetic state of affairs and soul crushing realization. #GOPWarOnWomen

When you put it like this, a $75 million bribe to Melania and gutting the Washington Post seems like a small price to pay.

OpenAI employees pushed for the company to inform Canadian police about a user they thought would engage in real-world violence months before the person did just that, killing eight people in a horrific attack in Tumbler Ridge. The company only reached out to police after the shooting had occurred.

“i have to use AI because i’m bad at drawingggg 😭😭😭”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... The Dept of "Justice" is terrorizing Americans by knowingly pressing false charges. Even when charges are dismissed, there is no compensation for the harm suffered, the time spent in jail, the loss of reputation. Bondi is evil and must be held accountable.

eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor is it known unto the human heart, the magnitude of hate Pope Leo has for JD Vance specifically

More cowardly actions by Harvard. I was genuinely considering going to my 25th reunion this year, because there are friends I'd love to see. No more. I DO have a talk scheduled there in April. Guess I'll have to bring this up! www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Don't congratulate John Roberts or the Supreme Court. Congratulate Rick Woldenberg, the Chicago-area leader of Learning Resources, an educadtional toy company that had the courage to sue the president of the United States to save his family business. As well as everyone else who stepped up.

You would think that finding out the whole heroin chic waif look and ubiquitous fatshaming of women in the 90's was influenced by a handful of elite pedophiles as both their preference and a way to sex traffick more easily, would have made a bigger splash in the news.

Aide Wearily Begins 5th Explanation Of Why Trump Can’t Pardon Prince Andrew https://theonion.com/aide-wearily-begins-5th-explanation-of-why-trump-cant-pardon-prince-andrew/

Study Finds Intermittent Fasting No More Effective Than Conventional Eating Disorder https://theonion.com/study-finds-intermittent-fasting-no-more-effective-than-conventional-eating-disorder/

Last night, I was notified that another person has died in ICE custody. That’s 39 people who have died on ICE’s watch during Trump’s second term. We cannot grow numb to this. There must be immediate oversight and accountability.

theyl'll do anything but hold men accountable

This story was fun to write bc it’s mostly older trans guys being like “we used to bind uphill both ways in the snow” But in all seriousness, binding used to be the wild west. Duct tape, electrical tape, ACE bandages. Now we have good products. But the FDA is cracking down on those. Read more:

It’s giving middle passage

We don't get paid maternity leave because a bunch of pervert billionaires didn't like it We didn't get rape protection for the same reason Women's healthcare lags decades behind because pervert billionaires wanted to spend that money on stealing babies at the border

that's fucked up, you should tell the mayor to do something about it

Finding out the hard way that California is a two-party consent state. Also, the rules of the court for the state of California say that you must get a judge's permission to record. You can't just show up with your dipshit glasses. courts.ca.gov/cms/rules/in...

If only we had people who devoted themselves as a career to knowing what happened in the past

YOU BETTA REEEEEEEAAAAAD.

We’re horseposting post your horses Not my horse but one of my all-time faves by Sarah Andersen of Sarah’s Scribbles and you deserve its cute lil face

"AI will cure cancer" No bro, it is fully on cancer's side

“None of the deportees are Cameroonian citizens. And almost all had received protection from American courts, which banned the government from sending them back to their home countries, where they would most likely face persecution, according to government documents obtained by The Times…”

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

this is my entire reply to the guy who was like "the left isn't happy with AI"

I just wanna give Amber Glenn a hug.

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

im not falling for ‘you can’t just scold gen AI hobbyists’ like ive fallen for so many ‘be diplomatic and patient with idiots’es before. no. if they can’t live without this machine that’s trying to put me out of a job theyre dumb as a box of hair. like they’re clearly not worried about offending ME!

Liberals say that concentration camps filled with children have no place in a democracy. They're wrong—concentration camps filled with children have no place in a republic.

the logic of his position is that you would them abandon those issues and so on and so on until you’ve fully sacrificed a group of vulnerable americans to reactionary bullies for the sake of a percentage point (if that)

UPDATE: Congressman @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social has confirmed that Juan Nicolás and his mother were deported despite the 2-month-old’s recent hospitalization for bronchitis. “They were abandoned across the border in Mexico.” thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/17/2...

SPEAKING OF UNIONS UIUC faculty - want to learn what higher ed unions are about and ask some questions about what's in it for us? Come to this event Friday! Rep. Carol Ammons will be there to show her support for our campaign! cfaillinois.org/2026/02/13/h...

At Harvard in the 90s, Randy Fine allegedly: bribed students to vote for him in the Republican club election & used student government to try cashing in a $8,000 EPA grant for himself. A classmate said Fine “was a laughing stock: not just a pompous prig, but also outrageously corrupt.” Read more:

I have to start a new campaign for something in the works for a year. If you can help boost one of my campaigns, it will help enormously, because I won't be able to give them my attention, and my hands are worse than ever Priorities are Ahmad's kids, Spark Space, Seraj (here: linktr.ee/divyamp)

Jesse Jackson at one of our UNITE HERE union events, probably around 2005, New Haven CT. I think I got to shake his hand. Mostly I just remember being proud to be an organizer and getting to live in moments of solidarity like this, following the lead of Jackson and those he taught.

One of my most sobering memories of Jesse Jackson was going to my civil rights veteran uncle's funeral, looking to my right and seeing Jesse Jackson sitting next to me, damn near inconsolable and in tears.

People on this website can be overly negative but Threads shows it’s also possible to be overly positive

civicshout.com/p/tell-state... Tell State Leaders: Protect Access to Abortion Pills

IN FOR THE FRIDAY WOMEN'S OPEN SOLO. Just a warning to everyone I know in person that I will likely be insufferable for the next few months.

Trump tried, and failed, to ban abortion for migrant girls in U.S. detention during his first term. Now his administration has quietly and easily instituted a de facto ban by incarcerating vulnerable, pregnant children in Texas, an abortion ban state.

The network of Edward R. Murrow covering itself in glory.

Lots of folks chiming in about benefits/risks of AI notes in a medical setting and that's a convo with having, but my larger point is, if you, as a physician are bothering to ask if it's ok, it's worth thinking through the ethics of how/where/why you are asking. Otherwise, what's the point?

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Once again, behold the unparalleled parsimony & explanatory power of the Dennis Green Unified Theory Of American Politics

Wesleyan University President Michael Roth, a leader in organizing college presidents, has proposed Democracy Summer 2026, evoking the heroic Freedom Summer of 1964 that aimed to advance voting rights in Mississippi, now employed to safeguard the midterm elections. From Bob Kuttner:

Are you a normal person trying to get, like, concert tickets, or are you me, waiting until 10am EST to click a link to sign up for your first hyrox solo?