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Google may be pulling out of Pride but Wikimedia is still interested in hosting an archive of human knowledge where queer people's existence is recorded, with our participation en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event:W...

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The difficult thing to work out is how a microtext social media hivemind is quite generative but not the same as a group intellicence process.

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my favorite parts of being a writer are procrastinating and self-loathing

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I wrote about my recent experience being pulled aside and questioned in the Detroit airport, my history of being "additionally screened" while traveling, getting my Global Entry, and how bureaucracy puts me in perilous contact with my inner fascist johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/low-risk-f...

submitted 5 days ago • 19 comments

AI doesn’t help you work less or get paid more, but does destroy the environment and climate.

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

The genuine problem at the core of dweeb-based analysis of vc capitalism / politics goons, clowns, bastards, and supervillains is a tradeoff between the violence of markets & the violence of the social. The violent reactionary nerd as a type celebrates market violence as safety from everyday cruelty

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My feelings about generative AI: 1) I'm highly skeptical it'll ever work 2) It's distracting from actual use cases for AI 3) We need a pause until it can be done without wrecking the environment or stealing IP 4) If it does have real potential then it shouldn't be controlled by ruthless people

submitted 48 days ago • 29 comments

Can't help but feel we're living through an increasingly existential war between spectacle and substance with spectacle winning battle after battle after battle.

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New from 404 Media: ICE is tapping into a nationwide AI camera network, data we got shows. Flock's automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) in thousands of communities. Data shows "ICE", "immigration" as reasons for use. Local cops doing lookups for ICE, no warrant www.404media.co/ice-taps-int...

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lol I just got momentarily hysterical thinking about the fact that the New York Times got its managing director for communications to confirm on a Saturday that it is standing by its reporting that young women in China have tiny hands and this is why Apple has its factories there

submitted 8 days ago • 325 comments

This blue Bay Area county insists it has 'zero contact' with ICE. But it gets $$ for sharing its info with federal immigration authorities. It's all part of a little-known data-sharing program that exists around the country & only some places have quit. really critical new reporting:

submitted 9 days ago • 17 comments

One of the things that scares me most in the world is the structural resemblances and direct influence from supremacist ideologies in Israel to how Hindutva metabolizes trauma into violence and ultra nationalism. India has more than 100x as many people, and will centrally shape our shared future

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BREAKING: ICE and private prison contractor GEO Group are refusing to allow Mahmoud Khalil to hold his newborn son for the first time, even after his wife flew them over 1,000 miles to visit. We just asked a federal court to order ICE to grant Mahmoud's request for a contact visit with his family.

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Alright i wanted to be sympathetic to the whole Abundance thing (make it about social capacity & prioritization rather than just deregulation!) but I can't take anyone who takes this seriously seriously. AI's for men in middle-management fed up with their wife & kids who dont know how computers work

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"If this was somewhere else in the world, there would be a national outcry. "The pollutants that are coming out of those Woodside stacks are actively degrading the rock art surfaces. "It's incontestable." 🎙️Professor of Archaeology Benjamin Smith #savemurujuga #auspol

submitted 13 days ago • 10 comments

None of the 278 men sent to CECOT have been returned. Meanwhile their lawyer has been arrested and "disappeared" in El Salvador.

submitted 13 days ago • 469 comments

How on earth is there still not a reprint of Joseph Weizenbaum's Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgement to Calculation?? It deeply belongs on many syllabi

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The idea that gofundme donations are the way to respond to a genocide is… well meaning but so deeply and dispiritingly disconnected from any actual analysis of what it would take to get food past blockade by a fascist state. Unless there’s layers to this I’m missing. Donate with a model of causation

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The strongest weapon US fascism / MAGA has is its command of Silicon Valley tech platforms, their role in war & surveillance, and their purported tech superiority. If you’re not considering how to resist their hold on the world & your life, you’re not against fascism. It’s that fucking simple.

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Great article from the vestige of Indian Engl. media speaking independent truth. “War and terrorism are working in great sync. Self-referential loops of thought across the political spectrum sanctify the current cycle of terrorism and war which cannot imagine an outside” m.thewire.in/article/secu...

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Microsoft: we will take anyone to court who forces us to cancel our cloud services in Europe. Also Microsoft: You that ICC guy? Sorry, no more emails for you. apnews.com/article/icc-...

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🌍 Europe is facing an exceptionally dry spring in 2025: 37 out of 38 countries covered by the @EEA have been hit by drought. To help track this growing threat, we’ve launched a new interactive drought map 🗺️— updated monthly & based on near real-time data: water.europa.eu/freshwater/e...

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Republicans slipped into a reconciliation bill a provision that would nullify all state-level AI laws and ban any new ones for the next decade. Consumer advocates and Democrats are furious. The bill will be marked up today. My newsletter: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 19 days ago • 13 comments

Peter Kropotkin telling a story about a crab he saw at the aquarium one time.

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Wanna reduce crime? Open more libraries. "we find within the nearby proximity of the library; there is a substantial reduction in frequency of burglaries, vandalism, robberies, fraud, and assaults." link.springer.com/article/10.1...

submitted 21 days ago • 13 comments

1. This is Piles Copse, the largest remaining fragment of high-ground temperate rainforest on Dartmoor. It’s a tiny speck of green in a dismal, human-made desert. Prepare yourselves for a story of breathtaking perversity, told in this thread. (There’s a one-page version at the bottom). 🧵

submitted 22 days ago • 65 comments

Going insane reading this Politico story about Musk's AI servers poisoning the air of a 90% Black community in Memphis followed immediately by this Washington Post story about states lining up their own communities to host the next ones

submitted 22 days ago • 28 comments

In my dream last night I was explaining Croatia’s situation in Europe and the Balkans, its security guarantees, and complimenting its cuisine. I haven’t in fact read about Croatia, or eaten Croatian food. Apologies to the people of Croatia for dream-me’s blithe arrogance in geopolitical conjecture.

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Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

submitted 23 days ago • 133 comments