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We could all do with some wholesome trans content and this had me bawling: here’s the moment where Beth McCarthy gave a trans person a new name at her concert. 🎥 @Bethmaymcarthy on instagram

submitted 18 days ago • 87 comments

I hate this explanation/apology trope in AI output. Gemini did not decide to demonstrate what the requested email might have looked like after realizing it couldn't find it. It generated a plausible-seeming output to the query because that's what it does.

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

Trump’s attempts to dehumanize large segments of the American people in order to use military force against them fits the classic definition of “tyranny,” and right wing rhetoric using the phrase “third world” to justify it is no accident (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 10 hours ago • 42 comments

A Sun-Drenched Greenery-Filled Home in the Heart of East London

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

Another gift link to an insane story. Read how one of Musk's minions confused the claim that 40% of fraudsters try to redirect payments via phone calls with the claim that 40% of phone calls are by fraudsters. Watch in amazement as the guy DOGE puts in charge of SS compares himself to Schindler. 😳

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Fletcher is always ready to lend an ear! Bat-eared foxes can rotate each ear independently, which helps them pinpoint the source and direction of sounds. 🔊💨👂 📷: Zookeeper Emily

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

“MeToo went too far!” was the rallying cry in elite opinion and polite society basically the minute #MeToo became a thing. And eight years later, the few prominent “victims” of MeToo who we’ve been told had their lives irrevocably destroyed by the cancel mob are back without ever showing contrition.

submitted 10 hours ago • 5 comments

THE CONFEDERATE IRONCLAD (1912) showcases the typical Hollywood approach to the Civil War: it's an at-times chummy rivalry, often with romance between the two sides, and the reasons for the conflict completely obscured.

submitted 11 hours ago • 16 comments

Here's what I had to say about this at Miami University last week. Am working on getting this talk published soon. tinyurl.com/ydtx6sbd

submitted 60 days ago • 5 comments

New Murderbot article from the LA Times: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

submitted 14 hours ago • 10 comments

Don’t bug me I’m resting on Dade’s pillow.

submitted 13 hours ago • 19 comments

What they are saying: Make America Healthy Again What they are doing: - Removing millions from healthcare access - Restricting vaccine access - Slashing the budget for medical research in half

submitted 5 days ago • 52 comments

Masks are under serious threat at being banned widely due to politicization. This would be a public health disaster. If you are only wearing a mask at protests, please consider also wearing them elsewhere. The more people mask, the more we normalize masks and protect them against bans.

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

An examination of the consequences of abortion restrictions. A study to test a protocol to prevent HIV transmission. An investigation into why LGBTQ+ adults are dying by suicide. This is the scientific research being lost as Trump cuts NIH funding.

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Gatekeeping protesting is the funniest fucking shit

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Also: these "alt" fake government accounts have definitely dabbled in Q-adjacent conspiracy fodder posts, skeeting shit like a series of numbers, followed by "please ignore." What the fuck even FOR, fuck outta here with that shit. Whoever's running these accounts are grifter assholes.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

next level pattern matching IG salve.studios

submitted 1 day ago • 88 comments

Kinda wild that we all get to pay taxes to fund a civil war against us

submitted 1 day ago • 403 comments

All of this, and among the reasons that AI pushers consider the falsehoods acceptable: it is baked into the technology. There is no fix. The choice is accepting falsehood or rejecting the technology, and they have all their chips on forcing acceptance for the technology.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The thief has been found! His name is Guðmundur Pedro and Nettó gave him a bag full of dried fish.

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

The owner of Twitter sends out 100 right wing propaganda tweets every single day and the algorithm is set up so that every single person on Twitter has to see every single one of these tweets. Now here’s another piece about Blue Sky’s ideological diversity problem.

submitted 1 day ago • 160 comments

The contrast between the sad showing at Trump's birthday parade yesterday and the many vibrant and active protests across the nation reinforces what many polls have been showing, that Trump's policies are enormously unpopular. Attending a protest allows that to sink in to our feelings. 1/

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

The new kitten, Mo, in training for an Everest ascent:

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We want healthy local food in public schools. Here’s why we have killed all the farm-to-cafeteria programs and bankrupted local farmers. by RFK Jr and Linda McMahon

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

(1/X) I wanted to do a quick thing about something I've noticed a lot here. Ostensibly anti-Trump centrists gloating over how Trump is screwing liberal/left institutions for being too extremist, even as they say they don't approve of what Trump is doing...

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

When WSJ hires a Marxist columnist I’ll listen to them about ideological diversity.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Yesterday I joined @maindivisible.bsky.social to say: No kings. No dictators. No going back. Together we march for trans rights, lgbtq+ joy, and the protection of democracy. Pride is protest—and Massachusetts has always and will continue to lead the fight.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

ChatGPT has become the ubiquitious example of AI folly in part because it's the mode that shipped sloppiest, but the problem is all models are basically variations on "can we trust drivers to pilot a car with no breaks" and OpenAI said "sure why would that be dangerous"

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

In case there’s a test - the Kings I recognize: BB, Carole, Billie Jean, Don, Rodney, Regina, Albert, Stephen, Nat, MLK, King Floyd, King Crimson, King Kong, and the King cakes of Louisiana. :)

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

It’s amazing that in 2020 democrats swept federal elections, won a trifecta, swept many states, and had the opportunity for a true restoration of democracy (yes they squandered it). If that’s what the 2020 protests enabled … good?

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Today's the last day of the raffle. You can donate to support Sahar and her family to be entered to win. forms.gle/tNaezcNiX5Vb...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Zoomies! At the kennel

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Here's the front pages of the NYT and WaPo today. Each leads with two columns on the assassinations in Minnesota, and four on the protests (and Trump's parade).

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Just thought I’d note that the front page of the New York Times does not have a single article about the gigantic protests yesterday. Millions of people in the streets, and not a single word. It’s been disappeared.

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

I count 49 news headlines on the NYT mobile app home page right now, not including opinion, sports or cooking. None of them are about the massive protests yesterday.

submitted 1 day ago • 293 comments

Goodemorning Gonzobongos! Keepe yore beanz cleen!

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

submitted 2 days ago • 219 comments

The "outside agitators" are pretty much always the cops. Just as a reminder.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments