rounding error

A lotta folks have been warning for YEARS that govt subsidies encouraging US farmers to invest near-exclusively in two crops (soybeans and corn) could have catastrophic consequences.

Most were thinking climate-change implications (making these crops ungrowable) but here’s a self-inflicted one!

I'm going to say something that is going to get me cancelled probably but IDC.

Neurodivergence exists on a continuum of human behaviors. If a neurodivergent person recognizes a characteristic in themselves that they see in another person that doesn't mean that person is neurodivergent.

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department. Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of public schools as we know them.

NEW: Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools.

It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of public schools as we know them.

Don’t listen to anyone who minimizes the threat of a government that “only” wants to tighten the authoritarian surveillance noose for “some” people. THATS ALWAYS HOW IT BEGINS YOU FASCISM ENABLERS.

Yeah, pretty much. A lot if, not most, of the hunting done in the US in on public land, and most hunters here would also consider themselves conservationists. (And they wouldn't be wrong about that). Poaching is just a dick move proving you think you take priority over everyone and everything else.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

this makes my back hurt

someone needlepoint this on a pillow for me, please and thank you

Miyazaki: in this movie two young girls (one is a toddler) are uprooted from everything they know to start new lives near the rural hospital their mother is in; she is possibly dying of TB. Their dad works several hours away and they are largely unsupervised.

AI Bros: so homey! So comfy!

A post by Rebecca Johnson: “I finally learned how to teach my guys to ID the passive voice. If you can insert "by zombies" after the verb, you have passive voice.” A tumblr respond from mightymur: “The final, brilliant word on passive voice. "She was killed [by zombies.]"<--passive "Zombies killed [by zombies] her." <-- active”

Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.

alt take: these dudes are going to shoot so many innocent people :-/

Outside groups are spending to try to take down Bruce's re-election campaign. Just this week, a political action committee backing Bruce’s opponent dropped another $75,000 into the race, bringing their total to nearly $200,000. And more money is waiting in the wings. Let’s be clear: this money will almost certainly be used to attack Bruce, twisting his record and misleading voters about the real progress Seattle has made under his leadership. Bruce has worked tirelessly to make Seattle more safe, more affordable, and more compassionate. He focuses on results, not grandstanding. But his opponents are gearing up to flood the airwaves and social media with negativity.

Incumbent Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell, a career politician and beneficiary of $1.3 million in business PAC funding SO FAR, is trying to portray himself as the victim of his underdog opponent, Katie Wilson, and her progressive supporters.

Seattle's "Real Time Crime Center":
• $3.1M taxpayer cost
• Expensive staff monitoring 14 hours/day (can't afford 24/7)
• ZERO revenue generation
• Effectiveness unproven
• Built while cutting $1.8M in rental assistance

This is surveillance theater, not public safety.

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

IF cameras literally turn off for 10 hours:
→ Criminal activity just shifts to the 10-hour dark window
→ Surveillance becomes theater, not deterrent
→ $3.1M for part-time cameras is even worse value

EITHER WAY: This undermines every justification for the investment

IF cameras record 24/7 but are only "monitored" 14/7:
→ Then we're building a $3.1M archive system, not a crime prevention system
→ Footage reviewed AFTER crimes occur, not preventing them
→ This is evidence collection, not the "real-time" crime prevention claimed

Eight thousand iterations of this discourse later, there is no political utility in calling fascists fat. All you're doing is propping up the brutal hierarchy which lets people like them work up from deniable social torture to state violence.

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

What's it like living in Chicago today? This image gives us a strong sense of the fear that Chicagoans fear from Trump's secret police.

REPORT: Princess Peach’s New Album, “Life of a Toadgirl” Features Track Entitled “Pipe” That Describes Mario’s Penis in Excruciating Detail.

So one key part of the venture capitalists thinking taking over the world is as a mode of production they don’t understand the idea that people can decide not to buy a product

A few yards away from Schiffman, Finn Cervino of Queens was defacing a poster with a Sharpie. He included a web address for a website predicting the future of AI and wrote “This is not science fiction. This is reality.” “We’re living in a world where you got friends that are computers — that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard,” Cervino said. “They’re destroying the world for the dumbest invention I’ve ever seen in my life.”

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EXCLUSIVE: Newly obtained bodycam footage from the May 24 bust-up in Cal Anderson shows a Seattle police sergeant beating a protester on the ground

Apparently, the sergeant also fabricated probable cause for the arrest.

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Harrell was THIRTY SEVEN YEARS OLD when he did that btw

"Mr. Defendant, what kind of collection do you--"

*interrupting* "I HAPPEN TO BE A COLLECTOR OF SPECIFICALLY NAZI AND CONFEDERATE HISTORY"

Reminder to cis people that anti trans legislation can and will also hurt you, if you’re not already motivated to care about trans rights. We need stronger state level privacy laws around medical records in a post-Roe world for abortion rights, too.

Dunno guys maybe states should stop paying federal taxes weird no one has come up with a plan for this obviously no one saw this coming it was impossible to predict

It's been two weeks since Adelita Grijalva was elected and Mike Johnson has still refused to seat her, unlike in past cases where he swore in new members within 24 hours.

There cannot be one set of rules for Rs and another for Ds.

Also, release the damn Epstein files already.

Ok so using Hive to evaluate images for moderation doesn’t train the Hive AI - those are two different systems. How do we know Hive isn’t saving the images to evaluate afterwards? Is this a take their word for it situation?

(not fighting. I’m fact checking cause I don’t know how this stuff works)