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I spoke to the person who AI-generated the Chicago Sun-Times reading list. Says he's very embarrassed. This was part of a generic package inserted into newspapers and other publications, so likely to run elsewhere. He didn't know it'd be in Chicago Sun-Times www.404media.co/chicago-sun-...

submitted 15 hours ago • 158 comments

"AI's" rushed integration into journalism by incompetent, fail upward brunchlords who primarily see it as a way to cut corners and attack labor continues to go smashingly, thanks for asking

submitted 16 hours ago • 4 comments

covid threw into high relief how many working class people are absolutely necessary to keeping society functional, and rather than that sparking a renewed commitment to an economy that rewards such workers, we've seen an elite backlash against even modest increases in their market power

submitted 1 day ago • 143 comments

microsoft making sure everyone knows about the white genocide in south africa

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Democrats dont wanna face the fact that until this genocide stops, you’re gonna KEEP losing. The young ones coming up don’t give a FUCK if it all burns down. They’re saddled in debt, unemployed, and hate you old motherfuckers. You have no integrity and you’re killing the planet. They DONT care.

submitted 2 days ago • 34 comments

“If I were a science journalist writing an article about a supposedly shocking development like this, I would email some experts and check to see if it’s for real. But plenty of science journalists don’t bother with that anymore: they just believe the press releases.”

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

In other words: Vox Media laid off 18% of their actual journalists already this year but they found money for… this

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I’m appalled at the extremist idea of “eat all the billionaires.” Please! Have you all lost your minds? Do you realize how disgusting they would taste?? They will serve as biofuel.

submitted 2 days ago • 38 comments

Tens of thousands of people in the Hague protesting the Dutch government’s failure to respond meaningfully to Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Dressed in red to mark the ‘red line’ that has been crossed. (📸 ANP) nos.nl/l/2567762

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Noticeable that teenagers routinely demonstrate an ability to speak more clearly about right and wrong than almost every elected leader in the Democratic Party. (See also: gun control, gay rights, racism, etc.)

submitted 4 days ago • 19 comments

no midway ads in torrents tho

submitted 6 days ago • 15 comments

build community, fight back against oligarchy

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Facebook isn’t just packed with AI slop; it’s also full of scammers looking for any opportunity to take advantage of you.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Gaza residents say Mossad offered immigration interviews at the Netzarim corridor, a move condemned by Hamas as psychological warfare. “This isn’t a service. It’s a security trap,” one resident said.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Reminder that Trump 2 is so far less efficient at using the deportation machine than Biden or Obama and so is using terror to try and make people self-deport, similarly less effective at utilizing intelligence resources + justice dept and trying to make up for it with terrifying gestapo shit

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Every time I remember that I went to law school I shake my head and chuckle like they really got my ass. They tricked me into believing that there are laws

submitted 5 days ago • 109 comments

"It's a great sign to see that people are challenging the notion that we all have to do AI now," Geuter said. "Because we don't. It's a choice. A choice that mostly benefits monopolists."

submitted 10 days ago • 8 comments

"The world does not need to be compatible with computers and digital systems, rather, it is the other way around" — @tante.cc

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Not to beat a dead horse, but this is the kind of shit that Democratic Party leaders should be screaming about from the rooftops. We're turning into a gestapo state, and most Americans have no fucking idea that it's happening.

submitted 5 days ago • 28 comments

"directly decreases GDP per capita" in the same way that Bill Gates walking into a bar directly increases the average income. This kind of elementary arithmetic fallacy should have no place in public life

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

We’ve reached the threshold in the required 7 countries, but need to push to reach the total to 1m signatories. If you haven’t signed this initiative to ban conversion “therapy”, please do. If you have, please share and get the word out: the collection period ends tomorrow. Sign it and share it!

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

When anyone to the left adopts reactionary policies, they win over no one but convince a lot of people that the reactionaries are making sense!

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

It’s so engrained in New Labour ideology that the working class are white and racist that a far-right millionaire can set up GBNews and they’ll get Bastani and Starmer doing little dances for them because ofc going on RacismTV is naturally where one finds the working class

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

"the best move may be to completely avoid relying on AI chatbots to provide factual information" lmao

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

yes clearly the white supremacist south african who lobbied to bring afrikaaners here as refugees and who destroyed u.s. aid as payback for its role in ending apartheid and who is trying to bring about american apartheid was in no way responsible for his chatbot obsessing over white genocide

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

If you're still on Audible, you can abandon it with ease using OpenAudible. It'll rip your audio books to an unencrypted format like MP3 and allow you to share it to any of your devices, no strings attached and no proprietary app required. openaudible.org

submitted 5 days ago • 25 comments

one of the great disconnects around public policy: it is often incredibly expensive to do invasive anti-fraud measures and you end up spending more money than the actual cost of the fraud you're preventing and of course it makes the user experience miserable every single time

submitted 5 days ago • 64 comments

The MAGA cultists who think Donald Trump is their buddy are about to get a real eye-opener. I miss the days when even Republicans understood that Bush had fucked up FEMA and caused the Hurricane Katrina humanitarian crisis. MAGA? They'll just blame Obama or DEI or anything other than Trump.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Fucking THANK YOU. Like, for real, I need a lot of you to dispense with the fantasies of objective, impartial tech. You are watching the intended purpose of this shit on display as we speak as Grok is hammered into compliance behind the scenes.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Oh wow. All the best to JR. He is the voice of our generation, and a true legend. Not to mention, open to new ideas, conversations, and changes in society while adapting to it. It's been wonderful hearing him in AEW. Sending all the love and hopes for a positive outcome for Mr. Ross. 🙏

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

democrat who spent all of 2024 saying trump was a threat to democracy then voted to confirm 98% of his nominees: people don't trust us, we need to say someone is old

submitted 5 days ago • 23 comments

The people doing messaging for Democrats don’t seem to realize how fractured our media ecosystem is. There’s zero excuse for not knowing this in the year 2025. The majority of people get the majority of their news on social media that is curated for them individually by an algorithm

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

I will never forgive the global north for making us watch a man-made famine and genocide streamed live and turning us into the freak sponsors of the Hunger Games. I hate this.

submitted 5 days ago • 17 comments

And as soon as Democrats stopped flying to the gulag and everyone stopped talking about it, Trump’s immigration numbers started climbing back up

submitted 6 days ago • 66 comments

The idea that an employer is benevolent when hiring you is laughable. You sell your own body, as you have nothing else to keep you alive. They buy it at rigged prices. You are supposed to grovel at their feet, after their predecessors took the lands & livelyhood of your ancestors! What a farce.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Meanwhile, the Trump admin has imported the Tate brothers, members of the Sinaloa cartel, and antisemitic Afrikaners.

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

I’m trying to find a phrase to describe an important phenomenon: When we fix a problem, we forget it. Pop culture forgets, and the mass media forgets, and young people never learn about the problem or how it was solved. Can you help suggest a name for this phenomenon? Read more here:

submitted 6 days ago • 82 comments

this is a proud day for people who never stopped calling it "HBO Max"

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

and because the right wing funds fake protestors constantly I saw it happen during the net neutrality fights, both at real-world protests and in comments made to regulators

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Incredible example of why work requirements are a sham--and how they hurt working people:

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Guys I’m going to say something difficult… fail them

submitted 6 days ago • 71 comments

Immigrants are desperate to get to the US because the US destabilizes their home countries- not because they love freedom

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments