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Could it be that the destruction of the habitable planet is not just an accidental outcome of Trump's policies, but is in fact the policy? My column this week asks another question that most people, I think, would rather not face. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The Iowa GOP advanced a bill making it a misdemeanor for a healthcare provider to administer a Covid vaccine. Even when a person has requested a Covid vaccine.

submitted 6 days ago • 2632 comments

One thing that needs to get repeated until it sinks in is that “AI” does not simply function as a tool that people in power are using; it’s even more powerful as a permission structure for the destructive & extractive things they wanted to do in the first place.

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

Rembrandt connoisseurship is hard. You never know whether you're looking at a painting by him or if it's just some impasto.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

I’m not trying to beat anyone over the head, but I’m not feeling a real sense of urgency from most elected Democrats and that’s problematic. They didn’t start the fire, but the fact remains that the country is on fire.

submitted 9 days ago • 252 comments

a few years ago if you said "college republican clubs are hotbeds of white supremacism and enthusiastic support for rape" people looked at you like you were wearing a barrel on a street corner and if you said it today most people would still do that because the newspapers won't print it

submitted 10 days ago • 82 comments

Every Republican Congressperson from Missouri voted to cut Medicaid. 30% of Missourians are on Medicaid.

submitted 10 days ago • 169 comments

Our schools are not your churches. No taxpayer vouchers for private religious schools.

submitted 10 days ago • 189 comments

Bwahahaha. Mar-a-Lago was listed as "Kremlin Headquarters" for a little while on Google Maps. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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The 1923 Oregon legislature was colloquially known as the "Klan legislature" because the majority of members were either Klan members or sympathizers. One bill they passed required that history education be suitably patriotic, outlawing materials that spoke "slightingly" of the founders.

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“Trumpism will not be defeated by politicians inside the DC beltway. It will only be defeated by millions of Americans, in every state …, coming together in a strong, grassroots movement which says no to oligarchy, no to authoritarianism, no to kleptocracy, no to massive cuts in programs.”

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If until now, human culture has fed and shaped AI, there is now a desire on the part of many of its backers and makers, including the most powerful among them, to reverse the flow, to allow AI to reshape and retrain, humane society and culture.

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

Fred Hampton Jr. standing at his father’s gravesite.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Much to chew on, as always, and many interesting links to follow up.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

I wonder how Missourians would feel if people started making the connection between General Order No.11 and the desire to remove all Palestinians from Gaza?

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The battle of our day is no longer about Democrats versus Republicans or left versus right. The choice right now is democracy or dictatorship. And we're sliding faster than I ever thought possible into the latter. Everyone must choose which side they’re on. Now.

submitted 18 days ago • 429 comments

Thought provoking post from @mahabali.bsky.social on AI Shaming. And an excellent cake and AI analogy.

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We have been careful to avoid using the word coup, but it’s time to call it what it is—this is a coup. Trump signed an executive order granting only the attorney general or the president the authority to interpret laws executed by the executive branch.

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This is a follow-up to my post, Thoughts on Time Wars. We cannot give our future over to machines and people who cannot see a real future. open.substack.com/pub/guywilso...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

A good and timely read

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Some recent online conversations led me to explore a book I read a few years ago, Jeremy Rifkin’s Time Wars, and to see his ideas reflected in our present time. guywilson.substack.com/p/thoughts-o...

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www.linkedin.com/pulse/we-sho...

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Goddamnit MAGAts, I swear you all have the collective IQ of a fucking fence post.

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"Gulf of America" is just a loyalty test. It's a way of checking who is going to abrogate reality for no reason other than a cowardly refusal to stand up to the bully or an opportunistic willingness to toady up to one. Anyone who will call it that will help you round people up or look the other way.

submitted 26 days ago • 166 comments

Musk killed these people.

submitted 27 days ago • 12 comments

BBC just released damning research on AI assistants' news accuracy. Results: 51% of AI responses had significant issues. 19% introduced errors when citing BBC. 13% misquoted or made up BBC content entirely. 🤐🤐 www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/... via @ezraeeman.bsky.social

submitted 27 days ago • 59 comments

In case you missed US Vice President JD Vance's speech at the Paris AI summit, here's a rundown (strap in for this wild ride 👇🏼)

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

The Linux WatchPad

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Some of the earliest gen art was not visual, but musical; "Musikalisches Würfelspiel" games were so popular in the 1700s, even Mozart wrote one! Guillermo Brachetta has created an online version so even without piano (or dice) you can listen to some of the waltzes Mozart's algorithm creates.

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I'm starting to believe that the world makes more sense if you see it through a Lovecraftian lens. All of the weirdness and most of the other nasty features of the world suddenly become readily explicable. It just means losing what's left of your sanity.

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Breaking: Punxsutawney Phil sees the shadow of death and fall of an empire, so there will be 6 more weeks of winter and then groundhogs inherit the earth.

submitted 36 days ago • 107 comments

These three posts/documents are connected. I think they ask the right kinds of questions. higherai.substack.com/p/can-you-re... www.cnn.com/2025/01/29/h... www.commonsensemedia.org/research/res...

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thebulletin.org/2025/01/why-...

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