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We're approaching the end of all of this nonsense. Pieces like these are the kind of bullshit you saw at the end of the metaverse and crypto bubbles - Roose wrote them then, too. Humouring the most empty, cynical, nihilistic people in tech and pretending it means you're curious is ugly stuff.

submitted 13 hours ago • 36 comments

For decades the War Remains Museum in Ho Chi Minh City has shown only exhibits on US imperialism and atrocities. A new exhibit would have showcased the US-Vietnamese reconciliation process. But Trump shut down USAID and the US Institute of Peace, which created it. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/w...

submitted 23 hours ago • 9 comments

is this TV show my friend? still no

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

Well, no surprise here: A new study from the Gender Equity Policy Institute (GEPI) found that women are 2X as likely to die during pregnancy in states with abortion bans. Twice as likely. Meanwhile, maternal mortality in pro-choice states fell 21%. jessica.substack.com/p/women-are-...

submitted 13 hours ago • 7 comments

Someone on Threads noticed you can type any random sentence into Google, then add “meaning” afterwards, and you’ll get an AI explanation of a famous idiom or phrase you just made up. Here is mine

submitted 1 day ago • 656 comments

A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...

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do you guys wanna see a hall-of-fame tiktok comment

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Gélineau advanced the term "narcolepsy" in 1880 while de la Tourette described his eponymous syndrome in 1885. "Autism" was coined by Bleuler in 1911, with full diagnoses soon after. But what do I know? I'm not the Cabinet secretary in charge of the goddamn Department of Health and Human Services.

submitted 2 days ago • 1339 comments

I have been teaching college and university journalism in Canada for seven years. I recently polled my online journalism class on this. I showed them a screencap of a blocked new link from an Instagram story. Only a third were aware that this is due to the Online News Act.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Interesting. A couple of months after Jordan Peterson's Academy announced a 20 per cent price increase, sparking a minor revolt (esp. after Peterson's daughter said those who couldn't afford it should "work harder"), memberships are now going on sale thanks to "funding."

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

listen. God works in mysterious ways or whatever but it is hard to describe how spectacularly unpopular the highly conservative U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops has made itself with the rest of church leadership. the Vatican sees them as WAY too enmeshed in GOP politics and Francis legit hated them

submitted 3 days ago • 63 comments

I say this as someone who never had a blue tick on Twitter, and never tried to get one: man alive some of you people are weird about blue ticks and perceived social status on the computer, please care about real things

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

The Onion Looks Back On Pope Francis Busting His Holy Ass

submitted 3 days ago • 68 comments

"If you need help, you are not worth less, no matter how many times that message comes from exalted podia or nosy assholes in the grocery store or family members or even from your own brain. You are in fact worth everything."

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

please do read @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social's beautiful remembrance of Pope Francis and her analysis of his stunning last sermon

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

anyone who uses his last public words to ether J.D. Vance will have my eternal respect. I fear we are about to learn how skillful and valuable Pope Francis’s leadership really was

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This is a good piece on the way companies anthropomorphise sentence generators - not just over-selling a poor product but also deeply embedding a dangerous attitude towards it that engenders overreliance and excessive trust theconversation.com/we-need-to-s...

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

I haven't felt anything other than unrelenting dread for the past four months, EXCEPT every time I giggle because I randomly remember @theonion.com's map of Elon's compound and the "glue traps for escaped surrogates." print edition worth every penny

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You knowe the cool thinge about Gen AI? The thinge that trulye doth redeem it? Aye, me neither. Let it be derided. Let it be abandonid. Let it take fortunes down in its wake. Let it be a cautionarye tale. Let it be a joke for centuryes.

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

Always give money, OR call and ask what you can buy and bring. Some food banks may have grants that specify what can be purchased. Some may have needs outside of that, or even a specific community member with needs they're looking to meet. especially grassroots orgs.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

This is important. Food banks can bulk buy, and stretch that money further than you can. They also know what they actually need. Money is better!

submitted 6 days ago • 29 comments

‪If you're a researcher with an NSF grant that has been terminated or with a proposal now stuck in limbo, I'd like to hear from you. My signal is kvasquez.12. Anonymity is always an option.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

good all-purpose skeet

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If you receive one of these bizarre, unethical, poorly written letters from Ed Martin, please send it to me so that I can write about how bizarre, unethical, and poorly written it is. Signal: annabower.24 Email: [email protected]

submitted 7 days ago • 107 comments

The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.

submitted 7 days ago • 19 comments

A transparency statute passed in Dec '22 could force the U.S. government to disclose any agreements it has with El Salvador connected to CECOT, the facility where Abrego Garcia is detained. Important piece out now in @lawfaremedia.org and @justsecurity.org — www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

submitted 7 days ago • 20 comments

there's no longer any due process, so this person absolutely COULD be deported (she won't & you know why)

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New from 404 Media: that "college protester" you see online isn't real. Instead it's an AI-powered undercover bot for cops. We've obtained documents showing how 'Massive Blue' is helping cops deploy AI-powered social media bots to talk to protesters. Examples: www.404media.co/this-college...

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Yoshua Bengio: Agentic AI will disregard our goals in favour of its own, invent a bioweapon and wipe out humanity ChatGPT: Father can't have two son betakit.com/yoshua-bengi...

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I’ve been laughing about this all morning

submitted 7 days ago • 48 comments

hey it's also ok if you're autistic and you haven't accomplished shit

submitted 8 days ago • 22 comments

The U.S. has ended financial support for family planning programs in developing countries, cutting ~50 million women off from access to contraception. One woman who has run family planning programs for decades told me: "Women will pay for this with their lives." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/h...

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years. This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

submitted 8 days ago • 10 comments

I'm reporting on what's happening at NSF for @cenmag.bsky.social! If you're a researcher who had an NSF grant that was previously approved for funding but is now in limbo because of what's happening at the agency, my signal is kvasquez.12. Always open to discussing options for anonymity.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

NEW from me: RFK Jr. made it clear at a press conference that he'd promote "environmental factors" (read: vaccines) as a cause of autism, and trotted out a new phrase, "epidemic denial," to label people who disagree with his interpretation of data. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 8 days ago • 117 comments

this is murderous hatred of disabled people and naked eugenics

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Judge Boasberg finds that there is probable cause to find the government in CRIMINAL contempt over its non-compliance with his order prohibiting the removal of people to a prison in El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 8 days ago • 57 comments

Van Hollen says that he asked the VP of El Salvador why his government continues to hold Abrego Garcia even though he’s not charged with any crime and there’s no evidence that he’s MS-13. “His answer was that the Trump administration is paying the government of El Salvador to keep him at CECOT”

submitted 8 days ago • 341 comments