USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked

American society peaked at roller rink/arcades imo

The comments on this are all about how sweet it is and I feel insane. Using AI to make fake memories of your grandma with dementia and telling her they happened and then filming her reaction

Parents will see this headline and immediately feel rage on behalf of their daughters. But what you need to address is what if this was your SON

Ms. Soskin was an actual Rosie during WWII. In the late 1960s, she held fund-raisers to support the Black Panthers and delivered the proceeds to Kathleen and Eldridge Cleaver. She was a delegate to the 1972 DNC. She wrote and performed songs in the 1960s and 70s… Free: archive.ph/2025.12.22-0... 🌱💐

This and the discussion about how academics can now just read AI summaries of things really drives home how much these guys always confuse the product for the goal. You don't do a coloring sheet because you want to have a colored sheet at the end!!! The coloring is the point!!!

The most annoying thing about genAI is that eventually the genAI proponents are going to get to the end of the novelty of it, realize its limitations, and then claim to be the innovators of doing things the long way without genAI. Call it "slow productivity" or something.

i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"

I do not like how "unc" has been co-opted and mis-used

There are people being paid by the federal government to sit around and think of increasingly outrageous posts to titillate Nazis on the 9th most popular social media site in the U.S.

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I find the idea that you need to know “how to use” AI tools really funny, as if it isn’t incredibly easy to type in prompts and the marketing these tools is that literally anyone can do it

rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn

"Has feminism failed women" is just like asking "Has freedom failed black people".

RFK Jr. is going to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines. It will take a few years before the deaths and disabilities ramp up to a level that even the most vile Republican cannot tolerate. RFK Jr. will be long gone and unaccountable, as our babies die from preventable illness.

I keep saying: This country/dominant culture hates children. Absolutely hates them. Regards them as property far more than (vulnerable, in need of guidance and conscientious, respectful protection) full human beings

NEW: A Texas district in which Black students were allegedly taunted with monkey noises. An Arizona school where students admitted saying “slavery is good.” These are some of the incidents Trump’s Education Department has ignored:

Burning carbon to make electricity usually means offloading the environment costs to someone in a distant part of the world. It's not surprising that this is happening in MS and LA.

There’s a direct line from ‘just asking questions about women’s sports’ to criminalizing our health care, we warned you it was coming, you said it would be fine and you just had a few more questions.

'Kills children after 2 days of use' was the kind of thing that would end a product back in the day

Every trans person--including every trans child--deserves the chance to be fully themselves. I'm so sick of seeing trans folks harmed repeatedly and unrelentingly, against all reason and scientific precedent. To my trans friends--I'm so sorry the world keeps trying to dim your light.

"Starting 01/21/2026, AI Companion features will be automatically enabled for your account." Zoom is planning to auto enable AI on all accounts in January. You CAN disable this tech now and you CAN click a setting to not auto-enable it in the new year. Check your Settings.

the oppression of children runs so deep in our society that one of the primary ways that we disempower people is by assigning them child-adjacent status as adults. license to abuse flows from that

im thinking about the parental estrangement forums and shit and it feels like such a natural thing to come from a culture that doesn't see children as full human beings with agency, to extend the status of problem child past the age of majority and allow publishing and media to be complicit in abuse

Ms. Rachel is an absolute hero. She’s gotten so much abuse for her extremely compassionate, humane - and in my opinion, common sense - views on children being hurt and killed in Gaza. But she’s not letting that silence her. Bless you Ms. R.  @msrachelforlittles.bsky.social

White men are 30% of the US population but are 80% of show runners according to this article. I fear that if white men ever got to parity in influential jobs in media & politics & banking instead of having a super majority they would drop nukes on this country.

Great job opt for any writer friends in Louisiana. My dear friend is hiring a tech reporter for his news org’s latest vertical in the South. technical.ly/entrepreneur...

I lived thru the end of public smoking. Early in my career I presented to city councils who were smoking, in front of audiences who were smoking. Smoking in restaurants, airplanes, hospitals… All of that seems insane now, but it was very controversial when we DID change it. We CAN change things.

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

Let people be their true selves, as they know and understand them. Let children explore their identities. Celebrate difference and variety and the incredible spectrum of humanity. The only alternative denies an opportunity to celebrate the joy of human flourishing and is ultimately unspeakably cruel

I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.

“I’m leaning into AI because we can’t escape it.” I’m so weary of yall being stupid.

GenAI/LLM stole my work. Thinking it would make me more creative is like stealing a pie I made, eating it, vomiting, and then telling me that to eat the vomit to make pie. Like, no thank you, I know how to actually make things, not just steal, vomit, and say "I made this" over the steaming pile

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Here are a few reasons off the top of my head why creators don’t LOVE AI: 1. It has been used to create videos of them saying inappropriate things 2. It has been used to sexually harass them 3. It has been used to scam their fans 4. It directly competes with their business and devalues their work

if i were a young person that survived multiple (!!!) school shootings at different schools and the big fancy media outlets interviewed me about it and all of that was to absolutely no effect that would really, really demoralize me

AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone - tech is now more expensive - you cannot trust most media of reality anymore - programs barely function - energy prices - literal psychosis - your voice can be literally stolen for evil - more spyware but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.

"Weissman was in her dorm room at Brown when a friend called to warn her that a shooting was under way. Her initial feelings of panic soon turned to anger, she told NBC. “I’m angry that I thought I’d never have to deal with this again, and here I am eight years later,” Weissman told NBC News."

The anti-Semitic mass shooting in Australia will cause a national conversation and policy change. We know this because the 1996 Port Arthur massacre led to significant restrictions on guns. The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.

so far tonight msnbc has interviewed two students from brown university that are also survivors of separate high school shootings. insanity.

I wrote about teetotalism last year. I walked away convinced that we were in the midst of a consumer-religious wave. “Lifestyle Puritanism” is a better term for it. All conspicuous consumption of truly grotesque privilege.

and the first step to being a parent is recognizing that your children are their own people, not extensions of you

too many people want to have kids but don't want to parent

I could be wrong (I frequently am) but most people who call out racism, transphobia, ableism, and other prejudices, at least in my experience, aren't trying to cancel anyone. They're asking for accountability. They want us to own our errors and be humble about them. And that's reasonable.

We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions. It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.

The whole "actually food is cheap right now" line of thought reminds me of the last two years (and probably beyond) when some pundits kept talking about how great the job market was amid no one being able to find a job.

Kamesha Mumford will be the new senator for Mississippi Senate District 26 after a special election runoff on Tuesday. Though the special election was nonpartisan, she is expected to serve as a Democrat in the Senate. John Horhn, who is now the mayor of Jackson, had held the seat for 32 years.

some folks will do anything to sound well read except for reading any books

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