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Oh, look, a new MIT study shows that LLM use rots your brain. Quelle surprise. Your Brain on ChatGPT: "the LLM group's participants performed worse than their counterparts in the Brain-only group at all levels: neural, linguistic, scoring." arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872

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BREAKING: The White House lashed out at the creators of this ad for "fear-mongering". It must have really struck a nerve. Maybe they don't like being outed as fascists. You know what to do: SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE! #MAGAKidnappers

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BREAKING: The White House lashed out at the creators of this ad for "fear-mongering". It must have really struck a nerve. Maybe they don't like being outed as fascists. You know what to do: SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE! #MAGAKidnappers

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The Alt National Park Service account calls itself the official "resistance" team of the US National Park Service. With 887k followers, is one of the biggest accounts on Bluesky. It is the 11 most followed account according to some trackers. This thread will dive into its activity. 🧵 1/x.

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The so-called Stronger Borders Act makes Harper’s Bill C-51 look like child's play. It allows for gross violations of our civil liberties and privacy. 1/ www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

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AI bot scrapers are hitting every site on the web in search of training data. This report is the first good attempt to evaluate the impact of these AI scrapers, especially on smaller institutions that are trying to make their collections open to the public www.404media.co/ai-scraping-...

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World’s largest banks pledged $869bn to fossil fuel firms in 2024. Planet sizzles whilst banks, their shareholders and execs count profits, dividends and fat paychecks. Yet their websites talk about corporate social responsibility. There is no planet B.

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Palestinianism? Its amazing the degree to which dehumanization of Palestinians has become normalized. Palestinian is a national identity. Its not a hateful ideology or a disease. Using the term Palestinianism is undeniably a form of racism

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"Boelter exploited the trust our uniforms are meant to represent. That betrayal is deeply disturbing to those of us who wear the badge with honor and responsibility." So this gunman went on a killing spree that hurt the feelings of the cops -- and they still took him alive? Did I get that white?

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Ok, this fucking rocks. Everyone should be able to use the bathroom when they're out and about.

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If you or someone you are protesting with gets hit by one of these compounds, knowing how to act can help alleviate symptoms and provide relief. Read about what you need to know about these compounds, and what to do if you’re affected by it.

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Resources via the @aclu.org #NOKINGS #rights #protest

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When Stephen Miller gave the orders to ICE to conceal identity, Miller helped get these elected officials shot. He’s complicit in these attacks. Impeach, remove, prosecute, imprison.

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Two Minnesota Democratic lawmakers & their spouses were shot in their homes by someone impersonating law enforcement. Former state House Speaker Melissa Hortman & her husband have since died from their wounds. Days ago, a sitting U.S. Senator was forcibly removed from a DHS press conference;…

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America has no king. America needs no king. (I'm no artist / Toreador, but you get the idea) nokings.org

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Since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, U.S. immigration officials have deputized a record number of local police to function as deportation agents, according to a new investigation by ProPublica and @azluminaria.org.

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Holy fucking shit, dude. This is abysmal (Reposted w/ alt text)

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

This, by the way, is why you should never RSVP to a protest that wants your name & address.

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

Seems relevant.

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WATCH: “I WAS AN INTERPRETER IN AFGHANISTAN FOR 3 YEARS.” ICE grabs a man whose name they don’t even know at his immigration hearing, shackles him, expedites his removal. Q: Why would anyone ever help our military again? — Trump is endangering and weakening our military.

submitted 7 days ago • 577 comments

Israel is a criminal, fascist settler colonial state engaging in a genocide & bombing civilians in at least 5 nations right now. Any escalation into full blown war is both its aim & its fault & our continual sale of arms,- & frankly anything else, to them endangers the lives of everyone on Earth.

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

They're arresting senators. They're shooting journalists. They're surveiling judges. They're running over protesters. They're doing everything you've understood to be signs of crisis, & everything they've convinced you only the Evil Others of Earth do. Please fucking organise yourself. Fuck ICE.

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

It sounds hyperbolic, I know, but I genuinely believe that wikipedia incorporating LLM-produced article summaries, or sanctioning LLM-produced articles, would signal the end of the internet as we've known it.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

RFK Jr’s ACIP pick, Martin Kulldorff, said one of the most disturbing images from the pandemic was a toddler crying about having to wear a mask. I see toddlers cry about everything all the time, and I found it far more disturbing to see refrigerator trucks full of body bags outside of the hospitals…

submitted 8 days ago • 296 comments

rightwingers freaking out about 6 or 7 burning driverless waymo cars is the perfect illustration that conservatives view human life worth less than property

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Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

submitted 8 days ago • 597 comments

Take a listen and seriously consider it. While this is not an uncommon practice, I am glad people are beginning to speak up about it.

submitted 9 days ago • 297 comments

They handed out bullets 💔🚨🚨 We went today to receive flour near Netzarim, Central Gaza. It was a trap. 😩 Bullets rained down on the hungry. Drones above. People were shot around us. We ran under fire — just for flour. This isn’t life. Please help. gofund.me/be672f7c

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I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

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Today, my NIH colleagues and I did something scary but really important. We spoke up about egregious harms we are seeing happen to research participants and public health through thoughtless and politicized policies at NIH. 🧵1/3 apnews.com/article/nih-...

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Everyone needs to see this. They shot a woman calmly walking to her apartment with a rubber bullet and harassed them as they are tended for their wound. This is happening right now, this is in our streets. What the actual fuck. www.reddit.com/r/World_Now/...

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Greta Thunberg, arriving back in Europe after her abduction by Israel in international waters, explains in 40 seconds why western governments are colluding in genocide:

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NEW: A data broker owned by major airlines sold domestic US flight data to DHS, telling the dept. not to disclose that, according to records obtained by @404media.co—copublished in partnership with @wired.com. No paywall bc FOIA @josephcox.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/airlin...

submitted 9 days ago • 39 comments

Did you know with the Libby app and a library card you can borrow library books from your local library district and read them on your phone or kindle? You can also get audiobooks! It’s magical! Libraries are amazing!

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Hey as a reminder, if you have contact with a bat, that should be treated as a potential rabies exposure and if a fucking healthcare worker tries to dissuade you from getting the vaccine, report their fucking ass because holy hell you do NOT mess around with rabies??

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💉 The #HPV #vaccine isn’t just safe — it’s revolutionary. A major Swedish study found it cut cervical cancer by nearly 90% when given before age 17. We’re not just preventing infections — we’re eliminating a cancer. #VaccinesWork #HPV #CervicalCancer #PublicHealth www.cancer.gov/news-events/...

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I have no problem saying that Greta Thunberg is braver than I’ll ever be. Admit it instead of deepening your cowardice and insisting that she’s done something selfish when she’s done something truly selfless.

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didnt realize that my first leader of this game hadnt died yet, managed to get Ptolemy to 100+ years old in #OldWorld

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The federal government is telling you they cannot afford to house you, feed you, educate you or heal you — but that they do have enough resources and scale to criminalize, assault, deport and incarcerate your neighbors simply going to work or taking their kids to graduation.

submitted 10 days ago • 46 comments

This needs as much coverage as protests or ICE raids. Los Angelenos FTW. ❤️🙌

submitted 11 days ago • 27 comments

The feds kidnapping and trafficking people is a violent crime. Protesting it is fighting back against abuses of power. The government claiming protestors started the violence is DARVO—Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender. It’s what abusers do when they face consequences.

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i think most white americans who have never been Policed don’t realize that you are always already a criminal. the second anyone with institutional power believes you to be, needs you to be, or wants you to be a criminal you are and always have been.

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Canada Post wants to create a new class of flexible, part-time worker that will better compete with Amazon and implement “dynamic routing” so delivery routes can be changed on the fly. It’s a good example of how Amazon degrades workers’ rights even beyond its walls. Workers are right to push back.

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BREAKING: Canada exported $18.9 million of military goods to Israel in 2024, despite the Liberal government's "pause" on new export permits. international.gc.ca/transparency...

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Republicans have included 300 MILLION in the budget for......Trump's golf trips. You heard that right. But there is no money to feed hungry kids school lunch. #TrumpsBillWillKill

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