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It's kinda crazy to remember that the mass protests today got their start (and name) from a tweet about congestion pricing

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This article on ‘Steps of Life’ inspired the cartoon below: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...

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#NoKings

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This kind of problem is completely predictable and therefore something you'd expect there to be hefty guardrails built to prevent. If they have been constructed they are evidently inadequate!

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You’ll be too young to remember, but there was a time when you could wake up as many as three mornings in a row and not find the world had lost its fucking mind.

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There’s a genre of autobiography which reads: “It was 1962. I was 24 & had jst purchased my first house in St John’s Wood. Thinking I’d better earn a bit of cash, I wrote to the BBC &was invited to meet the head of drama. The following week I was offered a 13 part series- v reluctantly I might add!”

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🗳️ Ready to make a difference in your community? Happy City Campaign School - Affordable Housing, Homelessness, and Youth panel featuring: Hope Jamieson Jen Crowe Doug Pawson Grant Horwood 📅 June 14, 9AM 📍 MUN R. Gushue Hall 📱 Register via QR code! It's Free! Stay tuned for more announcements!

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Wish I could be there - as one of those on the #AoIR Ethics Working Committee I hope it inspires thoughtful debates on where our guidelines should go from here!

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Better save a copy of this now

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A whole crowd of people belting "Battle Cry of Freedom," while wearing Union kepis would absolutely break the minds of the Fox News crowd

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Biking regularly for transportation appears to lower risk of dementia by 19% and Alzheimer's disease by 22%. Cycling might even help increase the size of a brain region important for memory. www.upi.com/Health_News/...

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🧵 Listening to @ethanz.bsky.social talking about AI enshittification I started worrying about how easy covert commercial enshittification would be once usrs got used to "good enough" AI results. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/pro...

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Been waiting for this to start happening. ICE has set the stage, not surprised people want to play the parts.

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... although at least they are being let out I guess? The "original sin" is right-to-buy itself, which, thankfully, the government seems to be doing something about. www.penningtonslaw.com/news-publica...

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The UK govt softened tax reforms on the superrich because of a widely reported “exodus” of millionaires fleeing the UK. Our new study w/ @patmillsuk.bsky.social & @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social shows that the "exodus" was a complete fiction. #BogusExodus #TaxTheSuperRich taxjustice.net/press/millio...

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These are the same people who think one person getting attacked in the subway that 3,000,000 people ride every day is a good reason to waste billions on cops standing around playing candy crush.

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Oppose Car Bloat, London Assembly Members Tell Mayor www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...

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Kristi Noem in Feb 2024: If Biden federalizes the National Guard [to handle border issues], we’ve got a war on our hands.”l Kristi Noem in 2025 as DHS Secretary: …federalizing the National Guard.

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Time Magazine is a publication that once was a flagship of the US media. The text of this article is fine but look at the caption on the image that starts this article! (And shudder at the crappy algorithmic ads at the bottom) time.com/6316978/cons...

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After repeatedly failing fact-checks year after year after year, the Toronto Sun is copy-pasting this 3 paragraph disclaimer to the end of their annual Tax Freedom Day write-ups acknowledging all of the Fraser Institute's numbers they just reported might be "incorrect and misleading":

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Abundantly clear that once we are out of this, the power of the presidency, the ultra wealthy and corporations, and law enforcement have to be majorly curtailed. I don't want to hear from politicians who won't say that.

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So: let's imagine the AI bubble deflates. The people who want chatbots or LLM APIs have to pay a price that's sustainable, and no longer propped up with venture cash. Has anyone run the numbers on what that price would be?

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"I don't understand why maintaining and renewing our infrastructure cost so much!!!" Screamed the desperate local councillor while looking at the Red-Square-Military-Parade-sized suburban residential road in front of his eyes.

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LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

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Statistically “America” is its cities. But we’re stuck with an 18th century political architecture that gives votes to cornfields & thus makes it politically viable to treat them as some kind of weird tumor.

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Yes every conservative social media site becomes a tropical rainforest of school shooters and Ponzi schemes but did you know that there is a left-wing social media site where people are rude to the nation’s center-right political pundits

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New—Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has ordered the military to force the Gaza aid flotilla crew (who he calls "anti-Semitic Greta and her Hamas-supporting friends") to watch footage of 10/7 attack. The group tried to deliver urgently-needed supplies like baby formula & food to people in Gaza.

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“Perhaps unaware that he had sailed beyond the Constitution’s horizons, the president found himself drifting further and further from legal terra firma.”

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kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

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New from me today: Steven Pinker appeared on the podcast published by race science Substack Aporia. I emailed him to ask why and got radio silence. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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Wherever you live in the world, your climate is getting warmer. 21st June is #ShowYourStripes day when we encourage everyone to use the warming stripes graphics to talk about climate change and how we are all already experiencing the consequences. Download your stripes: www.ShowYourStripes.info

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So, to be clear, Musk has now admitted he funded a man he believes to be a pedophile to be president. And Trump has now admitted that he gave access to high level government secrets to a man he believes to be a big time drug addict. This should be the story on the Sunday shows tomorrow.

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A tent big enough for nazis!

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Depressingly I suspect the underlying reason we don't see bigger rich world government action is in this map. Most of us will be less affected and can buy our way out of the crisis. The global South will be screwed (again) to allow us to keep profiting.

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Walked in to www.hosteluppelink.com feeling a bit drained after sightseeing in beautiful #Ghent. Was able to sit, recharge myself and my devices, use free wifi without asking anyone. Can leave my bags there for €.50/hr! Sometimes it's the little kindnesses that make a city or business memorable...

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Merely requiring that AI companies notify creators they have used their works seems to shut the door after the horse has bolted. If creators then want to refuse permission, can AI makers really make their models "forget" what they learned? Penalise the theft! Libraries have managed this for years.

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An entertainingly snarky but also revealing and thought-provoking examination of Jeff Bezos' transformation from eccentric vaguely left-wing nerd to tech bro H/T @stephena1984.bsky.social and @theobserveruk.bsky.social

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If you’re wondering if US climate researchers are freaking out, yeah they’re freaking out.

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Curves are pointing the right way, but absolute numbers of EVs remain worryingly small. We need to move more aggressively to promote EV purchases and take measures to boost transit and active transportation use so that the huge existing fleet of ICE vehicles is used less and retired faster!

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Greta Thunberg has been connecting the dots between climate and capitalism and their ties to imperialism, oppression and genocide for awhile now. Our world leaders could learn a thing or two from her, not to mention everyone else.

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