Tom Oates

How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More via @ConsumerReports AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

oooh. Bookmarking this! "How to turn off AI tools in Apple, Google, Microsoft, and more." Step-by-step instructions from Consumer Reports.

You hang up first. No you hang up first. Ok, we’ll count to three and hang up. 1. 2. 3. You didn’t hang up either! 🥰

#WarRavagedPortland

Republican Sunday: YOU HAVE AWAKENED A DRAGON OF WHITE RAGE WE WILL SWIM IN THE BLOOD OF OUR TERRORIST ENEMIES AS THEIR CHILDREN WORK OUR SLAVE CANPS

Republican Monday: we’re sweet widdle puddy tats what never hurted a fly and the mean man’s post fwightened us so bad we cwosed up our widdle eyes

“Americans are free people, and we do not take infringements upon our liberties lightly. The time has come for resistance and to reclaim our God-given right to free expression.” Rand Paul in January. Also Rand Paul:

cato institute analysis of murders by political ideology since 1975, excluding 9/11

No word has ever done more work for rightwing politicians & pundits than “they”

Self proclaimed Christians

Mamdani 1 FIFA 0

Barcelona

Getting yelled at on the internet is not what turns people into fascists.

Hitler targets ethnic and religious minorities. Critics see big risks.

WHAT IS FOOTNOTE SIX???

I doubt a Black reporter could have done this story and been "invited in."

But, apparently, the Times does not consider that this fact may bias their story? How is segregated access "objective?"

Whiteness is a credential often presented as neutrality.

But on the other hand, our winters are brutal!

Yes - as well as Las Casas and others.

More safety tips from the party that claims the COVID vaccine is more dangerous than COVID.

Note that the same folks pushing this depraved perspective are simultaneously limiting our ability to critically question what our present “culture and society…treat as no big deal.”

Not a wheelie!

How many more studies need to be conducted worldwide to show that giving people things they need actually helps them.

I am no constitutional scholar, but I can't help but feel that "the President gets to dictate what every university can teach and what every television station should broadcast" is closer to what the founding fathers were worried about when it comes to free speech than trigger warnings on syllabi.

Fits of anger and aggression are Trump’s whole brand.

“Uncontrolled fits of cheerfulness”

WNBPA now selling “Pay Them What You Owe Them” T-shirts, too.

Sean Duffy: "Crime actually is up in New York City ... I don't think things are going well in New York City." (Violent crime is at historic lows so far this year in NYC.)

Faces of Death as part of my driver’s ed training. For real.

‘Big Beautiful Bill’ passes Senate with Mike Lee and John Curtis’ votes Utah's Sens. Mike Lee and John Curtis vote for the "Big Beautiful Bill," narrowly securing Donald Trump's domestic policy agenda in the U.S. Senate.

CORRECTION: An earlier post said experts estimate 100,000 Utahns will lose access to health insurance under Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill."

That number is actually about 200,000.

Oscar Robertson to receive Arthur Ashe Award for Courage for work shaping free agency Oscar Robertson was not only one of the best basketball players, but he left a legacy in shaping free agency in the NBA.

Oscar Robertson was not only one of the best basketball players, but he left a legacy in shaping free agency in the NBA.

White supremacy explains a lot of apparent contradictions. The GOP was for states’ rights when the politics supported white supremacy. When they can accomplish white supremacist goals with federal power, they are against states’ rights.

*Biden tries to forgive student loans*
SCOTUS: Whoa there, that is, uh, a major question. Which means you can't do it.

*Trump revokes part of the constitution*
SCOTUS: Obviously, we got to give the President the benefit of the doubt on this one.