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63% of American adults had unfavorable views of Martin Luther King Jr in August 1966, per Gallup surveys 46% of Mississippi GOP voters said interracial marriage should be illegal in a 2011 PPP poll to push w/e is popular instead of trying to popularize justice is to admit you lack moral leadership

A story about why Democrats are losers, in four parts.

Doug Bowser: Diversity is important to Nintendo “We always want to attract the best talent we can and retain that talent. We also believe it’s important for that talent to be diverse in terms of their backgrounds, their experiences, and their understandings" nintendoeverything.com/nintendo-on-...

Movie you've seen more than 6 times, no Star Wars or LOTR.

Literally EVERY SINGLE MOVE he makes is to benefit the uber-rich and subdue the middle/lower classes and I still see those goddamn ugly red fucking hats!!!!

It really is that simple❤️ #studioghibli #ghibli #hayaomiyazaki

OpenAI is using Studio Ghibli-style memes as an ad hoc promotional campaign for its new image generator—despite Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki's famous hatred of AI. Sam Altman made his X avatar a 'Ghiblified' portrait. Disgracing Miyazaki is part of the point: It's more proof to them tech has won.

Congestion pricing is an unqualified triumph. One of the most immediately, strikingly successful public policies of my lifetime.

"It appears that virtually no HIV-prevention programmes funded by the US are still in operation, save a handful principally providing drugs to stop pregnant women passing on the infection to their babies." www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Please boycott my country and tell US airlines that you won’t waste money on a ticket to nowhere. Make the airlines lobby the administration to end this fascist madness. They will scream loudly when their lucrative international revenue dries up.

the clearest proof Jackie Robinson was one of the most consequential people in history is that nearly a century after he started playing baseball, cowards are still working tirelessly to shut him up

There’s a great interview with Nick Park about Wallace And Gromit in last month’s Empire, and this bit in particular stood out. It sums up what artists have been trying to say about AI. The mistakes and the learning aren’t things to be bypassed, but a vital part of the process 🤟

If I were a smart Democrat, I might run on this instead of following the current strategy of “do nothing except publicly shit the bed”

The first Trump administration felt like it was full of 1960s Batman villains who’d use a flock of birds to steal a bank shaped like a giant ceramic pig. The second Trump administration feels like it’s full of 1980s Batman villains who’d break into your home and shoot your daughter to make a point.

this is a golden age for walking out of your lab with a USB key in your pocket getting on a plane and going to Luxembourg

these are our party leaders now, ignore all other opinions

Gov. Walz, "There’s nothing conservative about an unelected South African nepo baby firing people at the VA."