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Everyone, please send 5 bullets to Elon, he asked for it

submitted 11 hours ago • 4 comments

Man, people will soon be begging for the days when we had egg, food inspectors, and free transgender.

submitted 12 hours ago • 68 comments

To accept this post in this circumstance is to demonstrate that you are unfit to hold it. To accept this post is dishonorable.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

This is a thug and a bully and a tinpot dictator, not a president

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Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)

submitted 1 day ago • 98 comments

One of the big BIG ways you can help support an author is to ask your library to acquire their book Any author with any sense loves a gd library

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

GOOD

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So I have now had five separate people volunteer to me that they are afraid / reluctant to file their taxes this year, either because they're "afraid that DOGE will steal it" or because they think "the IRS is going to be so screwed up that nobody will notice if I don't." This seems ... suboptimal.

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Something I wish educators would grapple with more is the environmental cost of genAI/AI. Even beyond LLMs, at the high school level, there really isn't anything our students are doing that is so important they need to burn down the rainforest and drain the local water supply for.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Connolly: "The fallacy of Musk's argument is they never look at revenue. They only look at expenditures. If you want to save social security, it's a fairly easy fix. Raise income threshold subject to withholding tax & you can extend social security by 40 to 50yrs. He doesn't want to talk about that"

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Ex NFL player @chriswarcraft.bsky.social protesting the inclusion of a MAGA acronym in the Huntington Beach library plaque at last night’s council meeting. He was arrested and cited.

submitted 3 days ago • 236 comments

Someone out there, do this STAT!

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

I deeply resent that society is falling apart except for all the parts where WE still have to obey the rules & pay our taxes & pretend things are normal enough to function day in & day out. Just couldn’t vote to survive, could you, America?

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

Precisely the kinds of things that corporations + billionaires fail to credit as contributors to their wealth — the Andreessens who forget the publicly funded foundations of computing, the Bezoses who ignore the publicly funded transport infrastructure under-girding their logistics co's...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

It’s weird how we’ve memory holed the fact that Obama entered his first term with a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate and a majority in the House and McConnell’s response was “We’re going to make Obama a one-term president,” not “there’s little we can do”

submitted 5 days ago • 87 comments

The more you know…💫

submitted 5 days ago • 41 comments

Today’s 50501 rally in Little Rock.

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So cops are threatening us?

submitted 5 days ago • 203 comments

A BBC study just found that generative AI can't even generate news story synopses with any consistent accuracy, and here we are happily pretending it's a symmetrical replacement for education and experience

submitted 5 days ago • 31 comments

My ADHD is a threat to no one. My chronic pain is a threat to no one. My diabetes is a threat to no one. Taking away the medication that treats them effectively threatens my life. Naming me a "dire threat to the American people" threatens my humanity.

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Happy President’s Day from Union Square in NYC, where over 10,000 people filled the streets to oppose the Musk-Trump coup. Impassioned calls for Congress to do their job. The Resistance Revival Chorus led the march down Broadway. #StopTheCoup #ResistTheDictators #NotMyPresidentsDay

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

🚨Elon Musk’s DOGE operatives are attempting to access confidential tax information — tax returns, bank data, Social Security numbers — for millions of Americans. Illegal access can lead to jail time under federal law. @wyden.senate.gov and I are investigating and fighting back.

submitted 5 days ago • 661 comments

Newsletter: Generative AI is a marketing con perpetuated by Sam Altman and Dario Amodei through a mixture of lies and half-truths carried by a tech media that fails to ask the right questions. Outside of ChatGPT, generative AI companies barely get any traffic at all. www.wheresyoured.at/longcon/

submitted 5 days ago • 66 comments

HOLY FUCK. FTFNYT morning newsletter this morning was literally "Yeah, maybe it's causing a teeny tiny Constitutional crisis, but Democrats could learn something from Trump's ability to ignore obstacles and just get things done." This is real "Mussolini made the trains run on time" bullshit.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Democrats are convinced the reason they lost is because they're not Republican enough. Because the only voters that matter to them are Republican voters. Because Republican voters are overwhelmingly white.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

If the Democrats can't demonstrate that the power of the state can be used to rein in people like Elon Musk and Donald Trump there's really no reason to ever vote for them again.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Too bad I can't cancel my subscription again. Honestly, I feel like we had a brief few decades when there was an interest in things like "facts" and "truth" and now we have drifted willingly into a solipsistic surreal dream state

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Presidents’ Day falls during #BlackHistoryMonth, and the #BHM2025 theme focuses on labor. Today is a good day to learn about the over 300 known enslaved men, women and children who built and staffed the White House. Their story is part of the fabric of American history.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

it’s also obvious that the only common thread behind the firings is that everyone is “probationary” and thus doesn’t have the same employment protections there has been not a single effort to determine if any of those probationary employees are performing well or working in critical infrastructure

submitted 5 days ago • 20 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 5 days ago • 2287 comments

The other side? No matter how you count, we haven’t even gotten a century into the idea of MAYBE doing something with our world other than burning EVERYTHING down in wars of conquest every single generation & that’s proved so intolerable oligarchs would rather end us all than allow it to continue

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

In case I haven’t made it clear enough I wish for the death of ai. I want ChatGPT (and its clones) gone. I want characters ai gone. I want it out of insurance claims and decisions on who to hire. I want it out of every application that replaces a human/humanity

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Boy howdy, do I, a trans woman, have some thoughts about how the gender revolution put a lot more emphasis on letting girls do boy stuff, and almost none on letting boys do girl stuff, which if anything reinforced the idea that girl stuff is inferior if not shameful.

submitted 6 days ago • 39 comments

Just wanted to put something beautiful in my timeline:

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hey for anyone who might want to actually own their kindle books instead of renting them, or who might be thinking of switching to kobo etc and will want to convert them to epubs, you now only have one week before amazon kills your ability to download its ebooks www.theverge.com/news/612898/...

submitted 6 days ago • 406 comments