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This is so true…

submitted 6 days ago • 164 comments

Just a reminder that generative AI is theft of labor and intellectual property, uses vast amounts of energy/ water, provides at best mediocre results (if not outright lies or misinformation), actually affects your ability to think over time (mind duh), and is in general a really fucking bad idea.

submitted 6 days ago • 36 comments

Exactly! The “criminals” aren’t the ones who are being snatched by ICE or whoever those masked men are.

submitted 6 days ago • 190 comments

Nothing to see here: just cops on horseback, bicycles, foot, and vehicles harassing a small group of peaceful protesters in a Charleston, South Carolina neighborhood.

submitted 9 days ago • 1104 comments

Pink Buick #classiccars #buick #stockport #q343 #american

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

When he put his hand on his shoulder 😭

submitted 9 days ago • 434 comments

I mean, seeing Disney and Sam Altman fight over who owns the work that we made is a little bit like being at the matinee watching stop-motion dinosaurs battling in a Ray Harryhausen film. That having been said, I wish Disney well. Don't quote me on that.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

ICE in CA with Texas plates 🤔

submitted 12 days ago • 574 comments

Boebert: What we’re seeing in LA is an insurrection Pritzker: You don’t know understand what insurrection is. It is outrageous that you are asking that when you are the one condoning the pardoning of people that attacked police.

submitted 12 days ago • 2403 comments

It’s about time any remaining adults in the room face facts. We are watching the start of a well-planned military hybrid warfare operation on American civilians. The goal is the physical occupation of the US by its own Armed Forces—to prevent the 2026 elections. www.mind-war.com/p/it-is-time...

submitted 12 days ago • 48 comments

Awful: News orgs are credulously amplifying the ugly idea that sending troops into LA is good politics for Trump. This gives his lawless abuses of power the aura of conventional politics, obscuring how extraordinary and dangerous this moment truly is. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/1966...

submitted 14 days ago • 162 comments

Dear Journalists, I would like to share two maps. One is the area where the protests in LA are taking place. The other is the area where the US Constitution is under assault by a tyrannical regime. Any questions on the relative scale of the two stories?

submitted 14 days ago • 8 comments

I waitress while I run for Congress. I know what it’s like to stretch a paycheck, juggle bills, and still show up for your community. Washington needs more people who live like us — not just talk about us. Derrick Van Orden talks the talk. I'll walk the walk.

submitted 14 days ago • 454 comments

BEYER: Isn't this embarrassing? BESSENT: You seem not to have seen the economic data. GDP growth has been quite substantial BEYER: GDP growth is half what it was last year, sir BESSENT: Job growth is solid BEYER: Job growth is a third what it was last year, sir

submitted 14 days ago • 667 comments

NEW: Where are the people the Trump administration has deported? The Trump administration's aggressive immigration deportation efforts often have been carried out illegally. What has happened to the people at the center of the cases? Today, at Law Dork:

submitted 13 days ago • 11 comments

ICE is gearing up to deploy to these blue cities: Chicago, NYC, the DC area, Seattle, and Philly. If any of these are your hometowns—get ready. If not—watch anyway, all the way through, because Trump’s unhinged order will affect you. Spread the word.

submitted 14 days ago • 234 comments

Omg They shot her point blank

submitted 14 days ago • 33 comments

I love this so much! Austin, Texas in solidarity with LA. 🙏🏽❤️

submitted 14 days ago • 328 comments

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 15 days ago • 511 comments

Jesus Christ, ICE is trying to snatch children from schools. THIS ADMINISTRATION IS TRYING TO STEAL AND DISAPPEAR CHILDREN

submitted 15 days ago • 98 comments

🚨Secret police! Do you accept secret police? My family fled from Argentina where secret police jailed my grandfather & killed my dad's best friend's father as well as about 30,000 other Argentinians. When people conceal their identities, no one's safe! Anyone could be taken, even me and you.

submitted 15 days ago • 45 comments

The Great Eared Nightjar (Lyncornis macrotis) is pretty much a dragon bird. 🐉 Its large eyes, long, pointed wings, and distinctive ear tufts contribute to a mythical, dragon-like look. It is found in South and Southeast Asia. #birds #nature #wildlife #dragon

submitted 21 days ago • 6 comments

‘Miller’s Crossing’: A Lamentation of Losers by the Coen Brothers cinephiliabeyond.org/millers-cros...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Remembering when a coworker laughed at me and a few other women who were talking about having been at the first DC Women's March. He thought it was hilarious how we were overreacting.

submitted 21 days ago • 62 comments

Kmart Employees in North Carolina watching the moon landing (July 16, 1969). #history #photography #science

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

Welcome to Luanda, Angola 🇦🇴 Please remember that Africa is not the image Western movies keep showing. #travel #cities #places

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

A golden ram and a stone lion, unearthed from a tomb at the ancient archaeological site of Gonur Depe in Turkmenistan, dating back to 2400-1600 BC. The finger in the background highlights the tiny size of these figures, showcasing the remarkable craftsmanship of their creators #Archeology #art #gold

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, with members of the Artists' Union, on the May Day March, Mexico City, 1929. Photo by Tina Modotti. Via PL Henderson.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments