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Since I’ve been getting this a lot - if you feel like supporting me by buying a jersey or something, I would rather you make a donation to Trans Lifeline or The Trevor Project www.thetrevorproject.org

submitted 2 days ago • 281 comments

The idea that the harm will only come to other people is such an under-appreciated part of how we got here.

submitted 6 days ago • 38 comments

After going quiet on bird flu, CDC scientists have published a report on its spread among veterinarians. The findings suggest a need for better surveillance.

submitted 11 days ago • 132 comments

The real MeToo “cancel culture” was what happened to the women and other victims who came forward. They were retraumatized, harassed, humiliated, sued, fired, and blacklisted. Then they were the subject of a revisionist history that MeToo went “too far” and deserved a reactionary backlash

submitted 12 days ago • 72 comments

For a minute I forgot the Super Bowl was last night and thought Philly just decided to throw a wild party

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

I really really need you guys to make a conscious rejection of generative AI tools part of your ongoing political resistance. Don't use ChatGPT. Turn off Gemini. Don't read the AI results forced upon you at the top of Google search. Don't use AI art generators or support anyone who does. Please.

submitted 19 days ago • 180 comments

It's worth reiterating - Microsoft's own research indicates that use of generative AI degrades critical thinking skills and erodes confidence in unassisted decision making.

submitted 15 days ago • 14 comments

for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care! EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession

submitted 14 days ago • 143 comments

ITS SHUT THE FUCK UP FRIDAY This is a very important message you should share with the people in your life that may be hitting the streets to protest: never talk to the police! WATCH:

submitted 17 days ago • 17 comments

this has been the entire democratic party since the election

submitted 17 days ago • 11 comments

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submitted 22 days ago • 8 comments

Calling out racism is not a "purity test" Calling out Islamophobia is not a "purity test" Calling out antisemitism is not a "purity test" Calling out queerphobia is not a "purity test" Calling out misogyny is not a "purity test" Calling out ableism is not a "purity test"

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

RFK Jr's nomination to HHS head has advanced to a full Senate vote (date TBA). It's crunch time. Please call your Senators and tell them to vote NO. Call your Senators regardless of what position you anticipate they will take. Use this tool: www.usa.gov/elected-officials

submitted 20 days ago • 9 comments

We never made classrooms COVID safe. Schools were hotbeds of COVID transmission. Kids died. Teachers and other school staff died. Family members living with kids died. Many who didn’t die—including kids—got long COVID. THAT is what we didn’t reckon with. All we ever hear about is harms of closure

submitted 20 days ago • 23 comments

there is no way for artists and comedians to be "too mean" to nazis. we're at a crucial moment in world history and we're not gonna half-ass humiliating them. no more "ha ha orange skin" stuff. draw pictures of trump rimming a ghoul and blast it on to the white house lawn with a t-shirt cannon.

submitted 21 days ago • 6 comments

Know Your Rights: What To Do If You Encounter ICE (Free Link) rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

submitted 24 days ago • 8 comments

The people at CBECI were kind enough to send me a copy of their updated Bitcoin power consumption data At the end of 2024, Bitcoin's total consumption for 2024 did end up matching that of Pakistan. 2024 saw the biggest jump in power consumption ever. Absolutely wild stuff -> ccaf.io/cbnsi/cbeci

submitted 24 days ago • 11 comments

Reporters: Please stop calling things DEI that are not DEI. This is only cementing the propaganda being used to legitimize the dismantling of all types of initiatives that are not DEI as well as legitimize efforts to end civil rights enforcement. Be specific with your language. Be accurate.

submitted 26 days ago • 235 comments

I spoke with a friend today about trans rights He genuinely thought that children were having surgery to transition. When I explained what gender affirming care for kids really is (ie socializing them as their preferred gender, puberty blockers) he said “why would anyone be mad at that?” Exactly.

submitted 25 days ago • 12 comments

I paid sixty dollars for No Man's Sky nine years ago and they refuse to stop making the video game. I've begged them to go home to their families but they won't stop adding new kinds of weird little guys and like, optimizing the gentle patter of rain on an alien ocean. Please let me pay for a DLC

submitted 26 days ago • 283 comments

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...

submitted 26 days ago • 1272 comments

the first but definitely far from last savory "fuck off, bozo" of the term we get to enjoy

submitted 26 days ago • 17 comments

"AI" programs like chatgpt have zero intelligence going on, they do not know anything, they have never had a thought, they don't understand the things they say, they will tell you false information, they are not capable of verifying anything they tell you

submitted 27 days ago • 40 comments

Trans kids are not a bargaining chip. Being trans isn’t a culture war. Not giving an inch in my support for trans and nonbinary people of all ages to live freely and openly, and neither should you. Gender is what we make of it, and that’s what they’re afraid of.

submitted 26 days ago • 35 comments

I think a lot of people have mutual aid confused with charity on here, maybe because folks most often see it in the context of fundraiser asks (which are great!). I want to talk a little about what it looks like in everyday life. Because we need it more than ever. Government is getting shredded.

submitted 28 days ago • 23 comments

I swear if this DeepSeek thing turns into “this is why we need more of ppl’s work and data for FREE so we can compete with CHINA” BS, instead of what it needs to be, a reveal of how pointless and inept the tech and its peddlers are and have always been, i’m gonna be so pissed.

submitted 27 days ago • 65 comments

No, I don't need a bloody copilot for this document, thank you. Writing is, in no small part, a tool for thinking. If you outsource that element to a machine that cannot think, you shouldn't be surprised if, at the end of the process, neither you nor your reader are any the wiser.

submitted 29 days ago • 341 comments

The threat of ICE has tons of people on high alert, the result is claims of ICE seen without firm or specific info people can actually use — & sometimes, no ICE at all. It’s never “ICE spotted in Queens,” but “4 SUVs labeled DHS seen parked on 57th & 59th in Maspeth at 2:34pm.” Be specific!

submitted 30 days ago • 34 comments

the answer to this sort of insipid bullshit is always to shift focus to the politicians failing to reach those voters. the democrats could have won, laughably easily, with different tactics. they could have not sent bombs to be dropped on kids for a year, for a start. but they didn't want to change

submitted 30 days ago • 57 comments

the democrats lost because they hid biden was going senile, didn't do a primary, delayed kicking him out while doing a bunch of embarrassing infighting, promoted an unpopular candidate, & had her run as a conservative palling around with the fucking cheneys. they fucked it all by themselves

submitted 30 days ago • 136 comments

the ai sloppification of the world will only end if organizations stand up for artists like this. this is another great reason to unionize your workplace as you can include NO AI ART in your work contract

submitted 31 days ago • 29 comments

Similar to the last time Donald Trump rose to power, interest in fleeing across the United States border to Canada grew. This writer explores how Canada isn't the progressive dreamland some Americans think it as. Read the full op-ed below ⤵️

submitted 30 days ago • 28 comments

I can't help feeling a "game-changing" technology that's going to "transform" the way we work wouldn't need to be sneaked into products without the user's consent. All I see is posts asking "How do I switch this f**king thing off?" Copilot's the U2 album nobody asked for, except it's not free.

submitted 30 days ago • 73 comments

The reason A.I. is being shoved down our throats is shareholders want a return on their investment. Every company that integrates this crappy tech into their products knows you don't want it, but they've sunk too much money into it and don't care. Turn it off, don't use it, don't look back.

submitted 31 days ago • 87 comments

Some disabled and chronically ill people don't have access to doctors who will write them notes to advocate for them to work from home. That's why blanket return to office mandates that do acknowledge the ADA can harmful, especially as more people become disabled via Long Covid.

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

it’s a long road ahead and there’s lots to do. don’t forget to drink water, take your meds, check in with your circle, wear a mask, and take things a step at a time. the horrors persist but so do we.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

the motivation to finish this paper on accommodating episodic disability in the workplace has uhhhhh certainly dwindled over the last 48 hours

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Shutting down medical research — not just within NIH, but everywhere that’s funded by NIH — will have long-term effects on medicine & short-term effects on state, higher education & hospital budgets. This affects all of us, not just researchers.

submitted 32 days ago • 87 comments

With Indiana becoming the latest state to put forward a mask ban & Trump ordering CDC, FDA and NIH to stop providing public health updates… it’s a good time to remind people to push back on mask bans They’re discriminatory & dangerous. Everyone should have the legal right to protect their health:

submitted 32 days ago • 13 comments

use a burner email for this

submitted 32 days ago • 44 comments

I am going insane. This company will lose $10bn this year! Generative AI has peaked! There isn't a sustainable business model, and the products are mediocre and error prone and don't even do anything cool despite costing billions and accelerating climate change and stealing everybody's artwork!

submitted 32 days ago • 85 comments

Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research. I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.

submitted 32 days ago • 835 comments

Someone just “recommended” I feed my medical records into ChatGPT and ask it to help parse out the most important information. Just in case anyone needs to hear this… do not give your medical records to AI. Don’t do it. No good can come from giving all your private & personal info away like that

submitted 32 days ago • 16 comments

As usual, the entire premise here is false. Left-leaning people talk constantly about how to improve government programs. Meanwhile, conservatives are not 'talking seriously' about improving efficiency, they are attempting to gut government services en masse. www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...

submitted 33 days ago • 78 comments