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Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

submitted 23 hours ago • 583 comments

One last LLM AI post. For the night In general, history has not been kind to people who have argued some variation on, “ignoring the moral dimension for a moment, lets talk about the utility of (X).” It’s frequently not an immediate kind of judgment, but it is an inexorable one.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Given the literal definition of deportation is removing a foreigner or noncitizen from the country, we - journalists, media orgs - should probably all stop referring to the ‘deportation’ of a 2 year old US citizen. It’s NOT a deportation. I’m not sure what it is. A kidnapping?

submitted 10 days ago • 2050 comments

Y'all, I promise you that it's possible to defend trans people without conceding "legitimate concerns about sports" or similar bs. 1) No, there aren't. It's all just bigotry and propaganda. 2) Cede no ground to fascists. None, ever. Reject the question and just fight them.

submitted 9 days ago • 20 comments

What should really drive this point home for folks, imo, is that ICE has even been targeting people who are loosely accused by police of the lowest of violations. Just being in any sort of police database is enough to get people kidnapped these days. The system has to be torn up

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It seems Tesla is detecting vehicles that may have problems, and artificially running their odometers faster so the warranty expires before they have to do any service Just incredible grift

submitted 21 days ago • 569 comments

Reposting with alt text

submitted 22 days ago • 31 comments

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring all removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

submitted 22 days ago • 1326 comments

no lies detected. #civilrights

submitted 46 days ago • 32 comments

There's a lot of ink spilled on how Democrats should win back low-info voters (particularly young men) with rightward shifts when "stop being weak and pathetic" is the better tack. The reason AOC gets respect from low-info voters is that she doesn't let people walk all over her the way Schumer does.

submitted 26 days ago • 52 comments

Ambassador Spock modeling the proper “fuck you, make me” response to intimidation tactics. Our current-day institutions could learn a lot from him.

submitted 26 days ago • 374 comments

It's going to be more important than ever to avoid police when people are in crisis. Here's a useful list that includes crisis hotlines and warm lines that do not contact police: translifeline.org/resources/co...

submitted 81 days ago • 18 comments

Sign the petition against book bans at www.bookbanpetition.us

submitted 27 days ago • 10 comments

Just came out of work call about content production for manufacuring; someone suggested content related to ramp up in manufactring due to tarffis and I said, "I don't want to plan ahead for that type of content because I expect that to change week to week" ...IT'S LIKE I'VE DONE THIS ADMIN BEFORE

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

i once heard a queer kid explain that one of the things that brings them the most relief and comfort is seeing a tattered pride flag with faded colors - because that's a sign of a place where a pride flag can soak in the sun and breeze for years and years.

submitted 27 days ago • 13 comments

💯 Dems should also commit to a specific position: Trump has not honored the promises and agreements of his predecessors and we will not honor his. If you're gullible enough to trust an assurance from Trump, understand that it is gone the moment he is.

submitted 28 days ago • 29 comments

I'm not kidding that any Dem who wants to run in 2028 should get out ahead of this and loudly say if El Salvador puts American citizens in Trump's gulag we'll fucking invade.

submitted 28 days ago • 79 comments

Honestly, the first member of Congress in either chamber who just pretends the tariffs don’t exist because they never voted on them has the power to make themselves frontrunner for the ongoing presidency

submitted 30 days ago • 4 comments

There's a certain faction on the left who think anything short of revolutionary uprising is pointless and self-indulgent. But I don't see them doing a revolutionary uprising. So.

submitted 30 days ago • 28 comments

we all understand that this just means we have to yell at our reps more, right

submitted 35 days ago • 11 comments

if you do tricks and lies on this day you are just doing the devil's work for him, you will be thrown into hell for your bullshit.

submitted 35 days ago • 5 comments

going to start calling myself a centrist and then listing all my leftist views as proof, just going to start moving the overton window by force

submitted 37 days ago • 554 comments

In light of recent developments I would like to encourage feds to assume there is a journalist in the chat.

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submitted 56 days ago • 4 comments

Important messaging research out of Navigator: Always call it "Musk's DOGE"

submitted 45 days ago • 8 comments

so far I'm seeing a lot of universities respond to grant terminations with "oh I guess now we don't have that grant anymore" instead of "your assertion of a grant termination is executive overreach, see you in court" So, universities: respectfully, what the fuck?

submitted 46 days ago • 36 comments

we fucked up a perfectly good planet is what we did. look at it. it's got billionaires

submitted 48 days ago • 18 comments

the rise of fascism was a cooperative bipartisan effort

submitted 48 days ago • 20 comments

you cannot say harris was more likely to put an embargo on arms to israel when she repeatedly stated that she would not do that. that's maga level shit, his voters watching him say he's going to cut social security and then saying "well i don't think he's going to cut social security for me..."

submitted 48 days ago • 7 comments

just a reminder that we shouldn’t be disappearing ANY people to El Salvadoran prison camps, whether they have been convicted or even accused of crimes or not

submitted 49 days ago • 30 comments

Unironically and sincerely: This is why Trump won.

submitted 50 days ago • 13 comments

at this point the only way America can regain trust and legitimacy on the world stage is if the next administration prosecutes most of the current administration

submitted 52 days ago • 119 comments

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submitted 52 days ago • 9 comments

A reminder in dark times: kindness, mercy, decency, and respect towards the least of us enrages Trumpists. It burns them. It’s like a mirror that shows them how they fall short of humanity. Kindness and decency towards the people Trumpists hate is not just right; it torments Trumpists.

submitted 52 days ago • 271 comments

Can I just say that I love these mass booings so much. Even more than money these fascists want the fearful respect of the people who have historically disrespected them. Refusing them that respect is a meaningful show of resistance, especially in places that traditionally fetishize decorum

submitted 53 days ago • 53 comments

Almost 20 years ago, a doctor on TV was asked, "Isn't 12 a little early for a kid to be deciding to transition?" And her response was, "It's old enough for them to decide that it's not worth living anymore if they can't." That was the only argument I ever needed to hear about gender affirming care.

submitted 98 days ago • 20 comments

AI models in hospitals miss 66% of patient injuries, failing to detect worsening health. A study urges integrating medical expertise, as 65% of US hospitals rely on these systems for patient care. 🩺💻 Direct link to the study: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

submitted 55 days ago • 32 comments

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

submitted 62 days ago • 896 comments

Again the fakeout here is the guy in the profile passing his positions off as "traditional beliefs": he wasn't raised with his current religious/political posture; it's his own contemporary synthetic creation. He turned against the culture so he could accuse the culture of turning against him!

submitted 56 days ago • 5 comments

the manosphere methodology is mostly scolding too

submitted 59 days ago • 40 comments

This argument comes up regularly, and it has nothing to do with how progressives are talking to young men. It has a lot to do with the way misogyny is normalized in homes and schools and churches.

submitted 59 days ago • 34 comments

Figure skating world championships were considered to be for men only until 1902, when Madge Syers showed up and took home silver and the ISU went "whooooops guess we need to segregate them." It happened again in 1992 Olympic skeet shooting: Zhang Shan took gold and then they segregated the event.

submitted 61 days ago • 70 comments

I can go on at length about this, but essentially: there is a major difference between an authentic, nuanced portrayal of asexuality and the deliberate sanitization of allosexual characters. We rarely see the former, but we’re seeing a troubling rise of the latter.

submitted 60 days ago • 3 comments

"the only things dems need to cave on are race, gender, policing, and immigration" what kind of victory would this be

submitted 61 days ago • 508 comments