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So.... have I got some lovely HK protest er... art for you

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Hey journos/other latecomers to HK. I'm a former volunteer ambulance officer and current journo (tear gassed twice this week), and today we're going make some Hotel Room isotonic saline. But first, let's talk about tear gas.

submitted 2098 days ago • 1 comment

very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867

submitted 1 day ago • 279 comments

Billionaires ke paas already sab kuchh hai. Ab, aapka time aageya. Billionaires already have everything. Now, your time has come.

submitted 2 days ago • 67 comments

OK, amid all the bottery and other AI panic, one final post from me on the subject:

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Darren Beattie - the State Dept official who dismantled the US government's main center for fighting Russian and Chinese propaganda around the world - turns out to have personal ties to the Russian elite. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

submitted 3 days ago • 173 comments

A reminder that in 1990 Trump PRAISED the CCP's violent crackdown on Tiananmen protests www.businessinsider.com/trump-praise...

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毋忘六四

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TikTok, Douyin, WeChat: Same Code, Different War. How China’s platforms become weapons—and why Taiwan sees it first. This is about more than short videos. This is about cognitive terrain—and the tools to capture it. Source: media.defense.gov/20...

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When warnings of Insectageddon were issued a few years ago, there was widespread denial. Less so now. It's devastating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 3 days ago • 85 comments

I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives: www.404media.co/teachers-are...

submitted 4 days ago • 113 comments

Unbelievably horrified by this attack in Boulder. We don’t know the full story of the attacker, but no matter what it is, let me be clear: Senseless, antisemitic attacks do not help Palestinians, Jews, or Israelis. Committing terror attacks against people standing for hostages is disgusting.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

children should be vaccine and not hearsed

submitted 7 days ago • 15 comments

Based Bill Burr giving the most based take

submitted 12 days ago • 175 comments

Hey aurora nerds (anyone with a camera who wants to see sky lights, phone cameras count), looking like we’re in for a possible treat starting Sunday evening North American time. Charge those batteries, download notification apps, find a local dark sky location, this could (could!) be a good one.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

「五月五日天中節一切惡事盡消滅急急如律令」 FIFTH DAY OF FIFTH LUNAR MONTH ALL THINGS WICKED AND PESTILENT VANQUISHED INSTANTLY INSTANTLY WITH THIS SPELL We could really do with such a 急急如律令 these days. A peaceful #端午節 to all - [Dunhuang fragment @britishlibrary.bsky.social S.799]

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

that’s right

submitted 7 days ago • 156 comments

The real tragedy of young men today is not that they're being held back from success by a bunch of woke scolds. The real tragedy is that they're being told that success & happiness come through escaping all constraints, dominating & controlling others, & suppressing all vulnerability or weakness.

submitted 10 days ago • 65 comments

"When we think of AI, we should think less of Terminator 2 and more of the TV show Severance, in which office workers search for “bad numbers” on the strength of vibes alone." www.theideasletter.org/essay/our-sp...

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Tech bros: “Move fast and break things!” Observers: “Why are you breaking things? Now 300,000 people are dead.” Tech bros:

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⚠️ For those unfamiliar with the term “remigration,” it does not only mean deportation of undocumented immigrants but also the expulsion of non-white people to the country of their racial or ethnic ancestral origin without regard to their citizenship, legal status, or place of birth.

submitted 8 days ago • 77 comments

Bc journalists have dropped all skepticism, EVEN ABOUT Elon's claimed departure, here's my non-exclusive list of DOGE debunkings. The entire thing was a fraud that seems to have achieved one main thing: consolidating govt data in a way ripe for totalitarianism. www.emptywheel.net/portfolio-it...

submitted 7 days ago • 25 comments

The first screening of Ryan Coogler’s ‘Sinners’ in Clarksdale, Mississippi. This is the first time a lot of people in Clarksdale have been abled to watch the film for the first time. Ryan Coogler, Zinzi Evans, and Miles Caton were all in attendance. 📸: @/Carmen_A_Jude (on X)

submitted 8 days ago • 19 comments

A lot of y’all’s brains are cooked from arguing with people on social media. “Liberals” are not a bigger threat to you than right-wingers, they just yelled at you on social media more. “Leftists” are not a bigger threat to you than right-wingers, they just yelled at you on social media more.

submitted 8 days ago • 54 comments

hell yeah

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social

submitted 11 days ago • 266 comments

Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..

submitted 10 days ago • 81 comments

The best Memorial Day speech is only 271 words and wasn't delivered on Memorial Day, but on November 19, 1863. Read it carefully, it's the most important speech in American military history (and maybe all of American history).

submitted 11 days ago • 39 comments

It’s been two months since I wrote about AI which, as someone who detests having to write about AI, feels like not much time at all. On fake books, cash traps and magic beans, and why I continue to hate every vapid tentacle AI thrusts in our direction. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

submitted 13 days ago • 10 comments

The political theory behind IRA was roughly as follows: We have lost control of the information landscape and can no longer win rhetorical or purely political battles; however, if we make substantive policy progress that directly touches voters' lives, they will notice and reward us.

submitted 14 days ago • 106 comments

Not sure how many people realize that battery storage already supplies 30% of California’s electricity demand at peak. Batteries aren’t the future — they’re here now.

submitted 14 days ago • 17 comments

MAGA, Trump, and RFK Jr. want you to get sick and die. That is not hyperbole. It is fact.

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

and yet somehow still less insane than non-AI french numbers

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.

submitted 17 days ago • 351 comments

Most of my friends think I'm wasting my time and, I probably am. But I had to try. Here is an open letter, and an honest plea, to Clarence Thomas, in hopes that he might do the right thing this decision season. He hates me as much as I hate him. But I had to try.

submitted 17 days ago • 141 comments

1/ As promised, a 🧵on an interview with Richard Webby at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis. He's been studying avian influenza viruses since they first started popping up in people nearly three decades ago. The article is behind a pay wall, so that's why I'm making a 🧵about it.

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

Congrats to all Republicans and 16 Democrats for passing the Bribing The President Is Legal Now Act. A cool side effect of this bill is it makes it considerably easier for your kid to buy fentanyl-laced narcotics from a new class of predators on Minecraft, also likely created by this bill.

submitted 18 days ago • 170 comments

attn. @wxdam.com

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