The Phoenix 2023 heatwave mentioned in the article killed 645 people! www.foxweather.com/extreme-weat... Also brings to mind that we're already seeing record breaking heat in the US from the strong El Nino this year.

If we're making sci-fi comparisons, AI is more like the Borg. It claims resistance is futile, and it does cause the death of individuality, creativity, and steals everything from them for its collective, but ultimately it can and will be beaten, and it's getting more ridiculous with over exposure.

They want to automatically register you for the draft, but not to vote. Let's streamline the process to send you abroad to die for resource gathering, but complicate the process to effect change at home. This administration should be barred from ... everything.

NEW: A stunning new report claims that the Pentagon summoned Pope Leo XIV’s top American diplomat and threatened him after the U.S.-born pontiff gave his January state-of-the-world address. Leo used the address to denounce a world ruled by “a diplomacy based on force” and “zeal for war.”

Bezos-owned Washington Post recommending we pee in bottles? 🤔

I hate that contract negotiations are not going better, but this is where we are. Today my colleagues and I @propublica.org are walking out. We need management to come to the table with more serious contract proposals that address our real concerns about discipline, job protections and fair wages.

Unless something spontaneous happens, the next big opportunity we the people have as a national and international collective to say "fuck all this shit" is May 1, when Indivisible and other No Kings partners have called for a General Strike/Economic Blackout. www.commondreams.org/news/no-king...

The singular goal of all future US politics is to ensure Trumpism is defeated and cannot again take root here, and everything that serves that end is to be considered and prioritized. It's a holistic organizing principle, from a Green New Deal to Nuremberg 2 to expanding the court to Reconstruction.

they cannot win because they have already lost

Iran has accepted terms of ceasefire, per NYT www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

so, he should still be removed from office as soon as humanly possible

Restart the clock www.youtube.com/watch?v=cijh...

If you think this is exhausting, imagine being Iranian.

Sam Altman Says It'll Take Another Year Before ChatGPT Can Start a Timer https://gizmodo.com/sam-altman-says-itll-take-another-year-before-chatgpt-can-start-a-timer-2000743487

a two week extension would allow for plenty of time to impeach and remove if a handful of vertebrate republicans could be found

@hankgreen.bsky.social interviews @sanders.senate.gov on AI and the need for a moratorium on new data centers now! Tell lawmakers in NY to support a statewide three-year moratorium - act.foodandwaterwatch.org/page/94278/-/1 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLcY...

It feels very weird to be at work tweaking around some spreadsheets when we're also at the cusp of global thermonuclear war, with our fate in the hands of either an orange madman or a feckless body of politicians who are using their time to call their stock brokers to invest in military industries.

I understand folks who are frustrated with space priorities right now in this dark & horrible time, but I also think it is hard for a lot of us not to be overcome by a bunch of truly earnest joyful nerds loving learning & discovery in an era so hostile to all earnestness, joy, learning & discovery.

been said before but man it is crazy how bad slavery fucked this country up. nearly everything bad about Trump and MAGA is a direct lineal descendant of enslaver ideology and politics

When Trump started talking crazy about Greenland, a bunch of European leaders used economic threats to get him to back down. I need those leaders to do the same for Iran.

One of the most shocking things in my life was discovering that so many professors treat the coolest job in the world -- tenure, starting work at noon three days a week 28 weeks of the year, dressing how you want, hanging out with young people talking about favorite books -- as a shitty burden.

people split hairs about the genocide classification all the time, but Trump unambiguously wrote down his intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national group, and then he broadcast it out

Chat, is it okay that the Right have parted ways with consensus reality on climate change, space travel, vaccines, healthcare, women's rights, diversity, scientific research, colonial history and war crimes but we're going to keep nodding along to their thoughts about immigration and trans people?

Remember, Trump didn't just campaign on "no new wars." He also framed his antiwar routine as an attack on the entire warmongering foreign policy establishment. Yet he's enriching it in a major way. People who bought the Donald the Dove line are suckers and chumps.

Looks like AFT is receiving $23 million from Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic to push AI onto educators via "trainings" apnews.com/article/arti... news.microsoft.com/source/2025/...

HORRIBLE. ICE is averaging more than one death a week this year. It's like clockwork. The last death reported was exactly seven days ago.

Now I’m just a backwoods small town hyperchicken, but it seems to me that if a company is big enough to existentially threaten the government then you don’t actually have a functioning government anymore.

Hi question what the fuck

Veep is a documentary

Do you oppose a data center at the former Tonawanda Coke site or in WNY, and support a unionized renewable energy development instead? We're ordering lawn signs so you can make your voice visible in the community to lawmakers and developers- preorders now open! actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-u...

The College Board, already one of the sleaziest institutions in academia, saw everyone else bending the knee to technofascist pedophile billionaires and went "let's steal kids' SAT essays for these guys"

Forget the average Leopard Eating Face story about someone who regrets voting for Trump in 2024, I want a reporter to track down someone who voted for him in every election since 2000 and is only now starting to realize that they've ruined their own life as well as the live of everyone around them.

holy shit i stole this from reddit but it looks like the artemis mission control room at NASA has a plush artemis (cat from sailormoon) AND a guy wearing a sailormoon lanyard i love him

Pod listeners have probably picked up from Mike that something went wrong at SPLC, which abruptly kicked him to the curb. He sued and won a settlement. Here, Mike explains what happened. His story feels familiar to me and many others on the beat. michaeledisonhayden.substack.com/p/what-happe...

This is so, so well-articulated.

I'm sure it's a good and healthy sign that I've had Frank Turner's 1933 running non-stop in my head for like a week.

A couple years ago, Evergreen Health announced plans to redevelop the shuttered Towne Restaurant at Allen/Elmwood as a pharmacy with offices upstairs. NIMBYs freaked tf out, screaming that it was a bad use of the site, with messages steeped in dogwhistles. 1/3

Humanity is so beautiful when we aren’t trying to fucking kill each other, my god Okay ima cry this out and carry on lol

I hate that my brain is so fried by all the horrors that I the Artemis launch is just background noise for me. In the better times, I would have been following live updates for months.

The Buffalo Medical Examiner rules that the death of a legally blind elderly Burmese refugee dropped off by Border Patrol at a closed shop late at night in winter was a homicide. He died of a burst ulcer caused by severe stress brought on by dehydration and hypothermia.

new way that AI can fuck up games just dropped

I am glad that trump is going down in flames on the birthright citizenship question but it is a disgrace that the supreme court ever agreed to hear this case and a disgrace that it won’t be 9-0 and no matter what majority opinion roberts writes this is more proof we must expand the court

lmao Justice Kavanaugh: So this could be a short opinion where we just say Wong Kim Ark was right, this is affirmed? Cecilia Wang: ...Yes. Audience: [laughter] The Trump administration's argument against birthright citizenship is literally laughable

Between the possibility of birthright citizenship being stripped from the Constitution and whatever MAGA is going to try to pull in November to prevent free and fair elections, I hope and pray there's some serious and spicy discussions happening in state houses about the future of this union.

The Town of Tonawanda's Planning Board meets tonight at 7pm at 2919 Delaware Ave. The OSC/RITC proposal for TCC is on the agenda - we plan to attend to listen in and ask a few questions, and will share what we learn. If you're free tonight, please join us! tonawandatownny.iqm2.com/Citizens/Det...

Excuse me, what did you just say? WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU JUST SAY??? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...