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Reminder that every single anarchist should have a copy of the Tilted Guide and always always remember to never fucking talk to cops at your door. "Leave behind a card and our lawyer will talk to you."
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the OpenAI paywall is imminent. idk why else they would publish model weights

Do not get on this internet on the 20th anniversary of Katrina and rehabilitate George Bush I swear to god.

if you're crossing a street and the car hits you... why didn't you move out of the way? just asking questions.

isn't this the guy who blames pedestrians for vehicular manslaughter

wandering around aimlessly is a sign of dementia

40% humidity and >>100° temp i am in hell

So fun fact: Al Gore won Florida in 2000. That's not BlueAnon or anything like that, they eventually completed the recount and he won. The Dems just told him to stop fighting it so everybody could move on and unify. The Brooks Brothers Riot was basically the test run for January 6

My Democratic colleagues and I just left the state of Texas to break quorum and stop Trump’s redistricting power grab.

Trump is trying to rig the midterm elections right before our eyes. But first he’ll have to come through us.

It’s time to fight back.

Just endless corruption from top to bottom.

Uncovering the Christian Right’s Anti-Trans Disinformation Network with the Southern Poverty Law Center — Assigned Quinnehtukqut McLamore traced the vast disinformation network poisoning the science on trans youth care.

Disinformation has been a key driver of the anti-trans backlash, and @ghawinriver.bsky.social is an expert on how it is developed, spread, and leveraged.

Dig in with this interview by @rikiwilchins.bsky.social.

in both cases the environment has become more hostile to unstructured activity but, omg, that doesn't mean it has simply up and vanished 😭

is "the Internet is just five sites now" the latest iteration of "kids don't play outside anymore"?

i am gen Z and have friends i met fifteen years ago on a random forum, on a game, through art communities. i promise y'all that making friends online outside of social media was not just a Your Generation Thing. it's definitely harder now but like it is very much still happening.

A “Striking” Trend: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.

More women have nearly bled to death during miscarriage under Texas’ abortion ban.

Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care.

“This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.”

cis folks, please understand that the stuff happening in legislatures across the country right now is why we get so upset when some of y'all rant about "purity tests" for milquetoast candidates for an election still more than 3 years away.

this is quite literally about our right to exist in society

Teen Hannah Cairo's Mathematical Discovery Sends Ripples through Harmonic Analysis When she was just 17 years old, Hannah Cairo disproved the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, breaking a four-decade-old mathematical assumption

I had an enlightening conversation with mathematician Hannah Cairo about how she broke a huge conjecture in Harmonic Analysis at just 17 years old, what being a transgender mathematician means to her and how math has supported her along her journey! 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌊 ✨

Read the Q&A here:

oh wow this is going to financially ruin all the worst people you know

the technology to create fakes via things like photoshop, generative ai, and the like is not merely to convince people to believe in false things, but to give them an excuse to deny the reality of true things

"slaughtering the disabled to harvest their organs is good, because it protects the sanctity of cultists who think donating your organs condemns you to hell"

We use dead things to fuel everything from our body to airplanes, and I like think of it as necromancy, as I do of books whose creators have passed away. Our whole civilization is necromantic in how it powers itself and retains its identity. We don't just owe a lot to the dead; we are the dead.

while they are distinct from each other (ie i cannot implement __eq__), it would be really nice to have an unused binary operator like /equiv to use to express this other kind of comparison.

putting my foot in my mouth rn so that i can complain about Python from a Julian perspective-- other than multiple dispatch, static typing, and algebraic type system, the thing i miss most from Julia while writing Python is operator overloading. i have objects that need to be compared and ...

being trans is, somehow, fraud, but using the silicon idolatry machine to impersonate a dead child is journalism. 🫩

My philosophy and experience with students is that they can almost always do incredibly difficult work, but if you ever waste their time with soul-killing meaningless work, you have essentially poisoned the well when it comes to getting them to spend any additional effort on your class.

the least viscerally off-putting Jim Acosta segment

it's so considerate of the university to build all these sidewalks. where else would the cars go?

That near-50/50 split before 10 years old followed by a PLUNGE in the transfem rate taking it down to just 30% of referrals at 10-19 is... a lot of transfem suffering condensed into one graph, that's for sure

some of my days are "wake up at 4:30 and rewrite three modules + unit tests before leaving for the office" and other days, like today, are "it's 9:30 and i am having a hard time eating breakfast"