It hurts my heart to see how many people think (demonstrated in their use of generative AI) the only value in writing is producing an end product. I write foremost because the process of writing teaches me a great deal, much of which is never represented in a single word of the final piece.

many Black intellectuals are vehemently yelling about AI and how people need to leave it alone. but Black politicians and celebrities and billionaires are not.

gotta mute Chris Hayes again for being obnoxious

It's frankly telling that Chris wrote "human dignity uber alles" rather than, you know, *human rights*. People on the left have been raising the alarm on this for ages. Words matter. It's not about whether or not the hype is true, it is about human rights and how dehumanising the hype is.

Sam Altman: “AI is going to cure cancer!” Anarchist: “So why isn’t AI being used to cure cancer?”

Scoop: Top FDA official Vinay Prasad overruled the agency’s reviewers when he refused to accept Moderna’s application for a new influenza vaccine, STAT has learned. www.statnews.com/2026/02/11/m...

Please don’t scroll past this. My child is in critical condition after being injured by Israeli drones in Gaza. He needs urgent medical care outside the Strip to survive. A donation or repost could mean life or death. Please donate your kindness could save a child’s life. chuffed.org/project/168482

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"Palestinian witnesses have reported that some prisoners were alive at the time they were taken for organ extraction. In one batch of bodies, the organs removed were those commonly transplanted: heart, liver, lungs... Here, the surgeon acts as—is—a soldier." I'm honestly speechless.

Look at the data! It's all over the map. If you drink half a cup per day, your risk is a little higher than none at all. If it's 2.5 cups, risk is 20% lower. But if it's 4.5 cups, risk is only 13% lower. There's no universe where this makes causal sense. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

You know that coffee & dementia study that's going around? It's hogwash. For starters, it's not pre-registered (that I could find), which means it may have been the product of a fishing expedition looking for dementia associations. But even if it's not ... www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/h...

“Coerced and forced sterilization is considered a crime against humanity under international law and also constituting genocide... over 70,000 Native American women and women of color were forcibly sterilized just in the ’70s alone, when these eugenics laws were on the books.”

Odai is running out of time. Every day without surgery takes away his chance to walk again. This is not a story or pity, it is a real child losing his future right now. One click today can change everything. Please don’t scroll past him. tinyurl.com/odai-care He deserves a chance to walk. Today

15 of the 66 commercials aired during the Super Bowl were either for AI companies or were made with AI. The overall reception was “sharply negative"...nearly 50% of mentions were negative and “far more critical than the broader ad sentiment during the event.” www.marketingbrew.com/stories/2026...

Every organization I work with, including The Flytrap, has noticed this every time we put out an open call for pitches and it gets picked up in an opportunities newsletter, just a deluge of AI slop we have to wade through.

as you know, i'm behind on so much & can only pay bills depending on how much i receive in the form of mutual aid if you click on my ko-fi goal, there's a list of immediate needs that i need to cover & there's also a list of the medical debt that needs to be cleared ASAP. ko-fi.com/rebekamash/g...

The brochure describes Evers’ assassin this way: “Byron De La Beckwith, a member of the racist and segregationist White Citizens’ Council, symbolizes the greater hatred that permeated much of the American South throughout the 1960s.”

china: we invented a nasal spray that cures cancer usa: if it’s not a weight loss drug or dick pill we don’t make it, also the flu and measles are killing everyone

UPDATE: @rooster.info says this assistant professor @OhioState has been SUSPENDED for attacking this journalist who was there to ask about Les Wexner’s ties to Epstein That was fast! Again: in a department about “intellectual diversity” conservatives pushed onto campus🤔🙃

If you've heard of me, it might be because I sued the state of Illinois so trans people could practice law without being deadnamed, misgendered, or subjected to genital inspections, and we won.

“DHS was using her participation in a pro-Palestine demonstration as a pretext to justify the kidnapping…” @premthakker.bsky.social reports on Leqaa Kordia’s hospitalization following a year in ICE detention after being arrested at a routine immigration check-in. Read: zeteo.com/p/why-has-th...

the abandonment of mRNA and therefore, Covid vaccines, is just feeding all the conspiracy theories that believe the vaccine was a tool for mass murder and crowd control... (I've had to listen to both my younger sisters spew this absolute nonsense for a couple days now, it is ALARMING)

the deployment of mRNA vaccine technology was a monumental leap in medical advancement and the crowning achievement of Donald Trump's first presidency but now his administration is scuttling it because their political coalition exists in opposition to the concept of expertise

Brad Lander commits to cosponsoring the Block The Bombs Act if elected, which would ban the US government from transferring cluster bombs, JDAMs, artillery and tank shells, and other munitions to the Israeli government.

www.kare11.com/article/news... An ICE hiring agent/background checker was just arrested for allegedly taking part in human trafficking by Bloomington PD

a school shooting in Canada. at a school that has 160 students total. when will the horrors cease.

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

Adam Siao Him Fa is my fave of the male singles skaters because WOW.

I actually started calling them ethnonationalists because I reject everything about the concept. It is absolutely that deep to me.

To bring it home again to how the Palestinian genocide is only as distant from you as you want, you can talk to a Palestinian who knows people who've actually been evaporated whenever you want. The crowdfunders that annoy you in Gaza do. They can give you testimony. And you can easily help them.

hmm I’m curious about other factors related to Columbia that might have been relevant

Fuck Israel and fuck everyone who defends it. Right now the president of this apartheid monstrosity is sitting down with Australia’s prime minister for a cozy dinner - fuck him, too.

Daughter of Minnesota governor candidate Jeff Johnson (R) fatally stabbed in St. Cloud, leading him to suspend campaign “Police said they believe that Hallie Marie Tobler’s husband, a 23-year-old man from St. Cloud, was responsible for her death. Charges are pending.” mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

this raggedy bitch

There was a guy who was floating this theory in the run up to 2024 as well and what they’re actually doing is jockeying for influence among the writers, pundits, electoral activists who have influence on Dem policy a lot of which do post here.

I'm quoting this so you don't have to see Neil Gaiman's picture to know the lawsuit dismissals were because the (for legal purposes, alleged) crimes were in New Zealand and these suits were in the US.

the part where he told his own daughter he wouldn’t care if she was victimized like the girls and women that Epstein and Trump harmed because he had two other daughters. and then he shot her after that.

Threads has English PhDs saying the Fennell WH adaptation is the same thing as Clueless (adaptation of Austen’s Emma). the nerve to compare this to Clueless….

This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. It’s in the Constitution! www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

No sympathy for a team whose owners let ICE use the team jet to deport people to concentration camps.

Rape culture has to be destroyed if we gon get anywhere. Can't be community if community ain't safe for everybody

What this man is describing would seem to constitute crimes against humanity under international law. Other governments could and should contest the abuses he’s describing the U.S. government committing against migrants.

give Chock and Bates their gold!

Canadians ice dancing to RuPaul lololololol

i thought it was literally in the paper what his role is but hey, let’s pls have more people call for him to step down

"Life cannot just be about one sad thing after another," says the man responsible—directly or indirectly—for like 90% of the sad things that happened in the past year.

I am annoyed enough that I'm having to see wegovy ads but DJ Khaled being in it makes it even more annoying

i just think that if you so much as float the idea of putting 8,000 people in a warehouse designed for the storage of non-perishable goods you should immediately lose the right to own property

He compared a passed out woman to a car or house with unlocked doors. It was horrible!