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I'm hearing these SNAP benefit updates:
-100% Washington state
-100% Michigan
-100% California
-Partial Illinois
-Partial North Carolina
-1/2 Vermont

(Note that not everyone in these states received money today because their typical day of the month for benefits may not have passed yet)

Indie Authors, please love yourselves and your work, and hire a qualified translator who can actually provide reasoning, consistency, and awareness, as well as the ability to bring a point of view to the translation. Your readers will notice.

Signed: someone who works with translations.

I’m already on record here as supporting real translators for real translations. I have too much respect and appreciation for my own translators to ever NOT be supportive … and I detest this Amazon play, even if we all knew it was coming.

This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility.

Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.

Trade Group Representing Studio Ghibli, Other Japanese Companies Tells OpenAI to Stop Using Their Content to Train Sora 2 Video Generator Japanese content trade group CODA, whose members include Studio Ghibli, issued a letter to OpenAI demanding the AI company stop using their content to train Sora 2.

Haha yesss. Japanese copyright law doesn't fuck around.

Since I get challenged on this a lot: U.S. and Japan are both Berne Convention signatories, meaning the copyright is recognized between countries. They CAN go after American companies. And they are. And I love it.

variety.com/2025/digital...

The fact that 30% of our stock market is wrapped up in “help-kids-kill-themselves” technology seems to be an important datapoint in the evolution of late stage capitalism.

The words "FIX YOUR HEARTS OR DIE" placed over David Lynch's face (a still from TWIN PEAKS THE RETURN).

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

OpenAI faces 7 lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide, delusions OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues.

"OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues. The lawsuits filed Thursday in California state courts allege wrongful death, assisted suicide, involuntary manslaughter and negligence."

I don’t know why this hasn’t already happened, but let children chalk & paint rainbows 🌈 on crosswalks

Video it
Make clips go viral

Make the rainbow destroyers look like monsters by erasing the art work of children

We have the list of affected airports. As expected, largely cutting at blue cities.
Los Angeles and Orlando. The Mouse and families that have paid out the nose for theme park trips are gonna LOVE THAT.

Extends it to Thanksgiving. Make it worse. People SHOULD BE ANGRY at the GOP.

The Publisher's Marketplace announcement. The category is YA nonfiction, and the announcement says: Biologist and author of forthcoming HOT CITIES and FROM MUSHROOMS TO THE MOON Alexandra Vivelo, Ph.D.'s A DOZEN DYSTOPIAS AND HOW TO DODGE THEM looks at twelve of the dystopian fiction scenarios that have gripped our collective interest, dives into the real science of how those not-so-desirable futures could come about, and explores what we might need to do to keep them from becoming a reality, to Joanna Wattenberg at Bloomsbury Academic, by Lauren Bieker at FinePrint Literary Management (world English).

I am beyond thrilled to announce that Bloomsbury has acquired my YA nonfiction book A DOZEN DYSTOPIAS AND HOW TO DODGE THEM, about the real science behind fictional dystopian scenarios. This is an absolute dream project.

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If your flight is cancelled this weekend remember this:

It’s because Trump and Congress want to make your health care more expensive and Democrats won’t give them the votes to do it.

That’s it. That’s what the entire shutdown is about.

Good thread, and I will add that men DO NOT LIKE IT when women say "hey, you fucked up," and to the extent that women tend to soften the blow with indirectness, it's because men feel like their honor is insulted if they have to take feedback from women.

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McConnell is now defining "irreparable harm" for the gov't.

McConnell orders the administration to make FULL SNAP payments to states by tomorrow.

Court grants plaintiffs' order for second TRO. The administration decided not to use full Sec 32 funds to fund SNAP....

"The decision not to use those funds to fully fund SNAP benefits was arbitrary and capricious. The USDA arbitrarily and capriciously created this problem by deciding not to use the full Sec. 32 funds. They can't now claim they didn't have time to make partial payments."

This is why you DON'T stop the shutdown. Clearly the voters know who's responsible for the shutdown and now it's gonna be even worse. Since the news isn't willing to be honest with Americans about what Trump was and is, this will have to do so they can get the message.

BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike.

Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%.

Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.

OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.

“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Last month marked worst October for layoffs in more than 20 years: Challenger Employers announced 153,074 cuts last month, the highest total for October since 2003, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

For the "AI has no impact on labor" community:

Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent Sean Dunn faced single misdemeanor offense after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.

BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

SANDWICH GUY AVOIDS TOASTER

Judge orders Trump administration to pay full SNAP benefits for November by Friday The Trump administration recently said it would not pay any SNAP benefits, but then offered partial funding of the food stamp program after a judge's ruling.

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the Trump admin to pay full SNAP benefits for November by tomorrow, rejecting the administration’s plan to only partially fund food stamps for 42 million Americans.

www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/s...

I see lots of apps and pop "science" socmed trends about this too: face shape/body shape/limb length etc can tell you something about the person. It's not cute or a curious game or quiz (as it's often presented), it's normalizing race science and eugenic thinking. It's all been debunked, stop it

K-Pop Idols Reportedly Forming A Union To Fight Back Against Harsh Industry Conditions 10 singers have also joined.

K-Pop Idols Reportedly Forming A Union To Fight Back Against Harsh Industry Conditions

For some reason the media is not mentioning that the reason GTA6 is being delayed is they fired 40 staff over threats of unionization and now the rest of their staff are revolting

The union is calling on people to boycott btw!!

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