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Someone else said something very similar to this the other day, but. It really burns me that our (millennials') generation was legally terrorized for like, downloading Radiohead discographies But we're supposed to be ok with billionaires stealing human intellectual output in its entirety bc AI

submitted 4 days ago • 107 comments

A bill to cut 13 million people off health insurance and add $5 trillion to the deficit. Tariffs that could* add a $1400 tax to every family. DOGE, rather than saving a dime, adding $135 billion in costs. Gutting hurricane and tornado forecasting abilities. Harm in so many directions.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Companies, schools, even governments are outsourcing low to mid-level "thinking" to LLMs controlled by oligarchs. Why *wouldn't* they manipulate the thoughtscape to their advantage? They won't usually be as clumsy as Elon telling Grok to talk about white genocide in South Africa.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street

submitted 25 days ago • 1027 comments

It’s time to reconsolidate a counterculture and politics against this shit. Science, art, medicine, poetry, philosophy as the beautiful life, the fullness of human civilization, that they want to destroy. Humanism, not cynicism, not slop, not tech “””nerd””” culture

submitted 28 days ago • 24 comments

Kinda wild that so many Very Serious People take the need to build data centers for AI as a given when the main use case for AI so far seems to be degrading people’s ability to read, write, think critically and connect to other human beings

submitted 27 days ago • 10 comments

More about the solar vs ethanol study (this is not a typo): “…if farmers took a bold leap and covered 46% of land currently used to farm ethanol with solar panels, that would then generate enough energy to reach the 2050 decarbonization goal for the US.”

submitted 38 days ago • 8 comments

National political reporters, this is a thing you could do at briefings

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Congress is debating cutting IRA incentives for EVs and batteries in the US while CATL and BYD are competing over who can produce the best next gen battery for EVs that charge in <5 min. Worlds apart.

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

Two Chinese companies are competing to bring 5 minute/500 km charging for EVs to market. In America we're just trying to make it more expensive for a domestic auto companies to use any of this tech.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

A #squirrel gets gently brushed and clearly enjoys it. When the scratching stops, it taps for more. This reaction is common in #mammals, as grooming and gentle touch can trigger calming responses and even release endorphins.

submitted 45 days ago • 370 comments

If you want to strike a blow against fascism, one thing that’s under most people’s control is to electrify instead of buying new fossil fuel autos and appliances. In almost every case they’re better than to fossil fuel equipment they replace. Spread the word.

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

the neatest analogy isn't to technology, it's to prion disease: it displaces a functional form with a nonfunctional and malformed variant that serves no purpose and ultimately sickens the body it inhabits

submitted 49 days ago • 3 comments