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One of the things I find so dismaying about the AI-ification of engagement with writing is that it’s not just anti-creativity, it’s anti-aesthetic. It’s violence against the power of language and words, against their capacity for every kind of beauty

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here’s what the onion’s full page spot is running next to this morning

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Wikipedia said that Rob Lowe was engaged at 21, and I was like “that’s some adhd behavior” I googled “does Rob Lowe have adhd” and google AI was so eager to tell me yes he does and link to an article where Rob Lowe isn’t mentioned! The only Rob Lowe associated with ADHD is a doctor in Australia!!

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Fantastic 🧵 I will not have the media smack talking my punk rock drummer brother from another mother without pushback. Little bro on the right didn't do anything wrong, he literally got shot, and then the police are charging HIM for this? Insane.

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Thank you to my son and his day care for this terrifying Father’s Day gift.

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THREAD: The assassinations in Minnesota highlight a dirty secret hardly ever mentioned in the news: U.S. has 1.1 million private police officers. There is an unprecedented footprint of privately organized violence that is doing all sorts of things most people have no idea about.

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I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.

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Remind me to do a thread on police crowd control formations. This is known as the "crossbow" formation, a riot police at the front with a column formed up behind it. The column will burst through the front to surprise the crowd. Often used as an arrest team to grab someone, sometimes for shock.

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People citing the "3.5% rule," please check out this episode. It doesn't mean what some of you think it means.

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i remember watching the ferguson protest live and seeing cops deliberately escalate when the crowd was entirely peaceful. told a friend; they couldn't believe it. hope people see and believe their own eyes now.

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it is Illegal to not enjoy this. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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In the early part of the 20thC, the Swiss artist Hans Emmenegger began making recurrent themes of enigmatic, dark forest interiors, exploring the optical effects of light and colour. This work was painted in 1933.

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The suspected assassin, Vance Boelter was the CEO a security services group in central Africa and the CEO of Praetorian Guard Security Services based in Minnesota.

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KARE and KSTP are both reporting that the AP has announced that the the man who shot the Hortons and Hoffmans is 57yo Vance Boelter.

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if I have to see that neil degrasse tyson masterclass ad again I will SCREAM

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Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government. That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.

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No sleep for ICE tonight as activists found their hotel again. Hotel managers have to decide whether that GSA per diem money is worth having their hotel completely surrounded 24/7 by protesters.

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Our spring production of Much Ado About Nothing opens in 13 days! Do you have your tickets to this delightful and heartfelt romantic comedy? Act now to secure your seats: sytmn.org/tickets

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2005 and 2008 are like two decades apart in my head

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really annoying that we still only really have one national politician who does stuff like this and he is eighty fuckin three years old. let peepaw rest

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The Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize awards $1,000 for “an outstanding book collection conceived and built by a woman aged 30 or younger.”

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it took years, but the instagram reels algorithm finally figured me out

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I always come back to how the proponents of the particular right wing resentment politics brand of “masculinity” have just the absolute most virulent hatred and scorn for men that I’ve probably ever come across To them all men are and should be weak whiny incompetent little infants

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There is always something you can do to gum up the works of fascism. A story. Claude Cahun. The queer nonbinary French-Jewish photographer. Nazis conquered France, were training soldiers on Jersey, where Cahun lived w/their partner, Marcel Moore. They did disinfo & morale smashing via Surrealism.

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Posting again to ask for help saving up money so we can move somewhere safer and pay our bills. We are doing our best but we are struggling. Anything sent goes toward immediate bills and what is left goes into a fund saving up for moving out of a republican controlled state. gofund.me/f390b4ac

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Is it just me or does it feel like there’s been a lot of bad news today?

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this is the tallest waterfall in the world

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gritty has seized control of the federal government

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I didn't share this when this story first came out because it is so personal, but Dr Potter was one of my surgeons during my double mastectomy for breast cancer. It could have been me on that table (except I don't have UH 🙏). She is so courageous for speaking out. This is an additional horror.

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'Witnessing and disapproving will not save us. We must be willing to act and refuse to act on the basis of what we know is right. We must build a rebellious culture of care in defiance of a death-making culture of greed. We must reject the disposal of our fellow human beings'.

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More of this please

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I'm a paid subscriber, and I highly recommend becoming one if you can! Kelly's work is one of my compasses in these dark times - her analyses are brilliant, and she focuses on concrete actions people can take to build a better world.

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Sorry for the confusion - when I wrote "as per my last email", I was referring to the last email I will ever send, immediately before my death at 10.12am on 6 July 2043.

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