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My lock screen is a screenshot from @cryptonature on xitter from 2022. It warns of the seductive comfort of hopelessness; reminds that hope means being open to the possibility of happiness -- and that means we have work to do.

"The work doesn’t stop when we fail or when we’re disappointed. There is always a next step, always another challenge, and I know that I cannot allow myself to freeze up, rather than turning the next corner."

Both way too apropos. Honestly, we could use a bit more Ministry for the Future.

Several excerpts from Martha Wells' new novel Queen Demon, describing the horses of the Arike.

An excerpt from Martha Wells' new novel Queen Demon, describing the horses of the Arike.

Cat with a tiny saddle on it

So I'm re-reading Martha Wells' Queen Demon (❤️💯!!) and something is nagging me abt the Arike horses. Fangs. Padded, clawed feet. Stalking/pouncing behavior. And the kicker: "...liked to bury their dung but tended not to be very good at it."

@marthawells.com are the Arike horses actually big CATS??

every right-winger calling for all-out war on "The Left," warning that political enemies are about to face their ultimate wrath, said the exact same shit in November and have been enacting that fantasy ever since. unclear why this language should frighten anyone more today

One of the things that I like about Robert Redford is that I won’t get kicked off Bluesky for quoting him accurately.

"Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it." — Robert Redford

#RIPRedford

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A Herb Alpert song just came on my Spotify and I realized: lo-fi chillhop is to millennials what "easy listening" was to my grandma's generation. 🫣

Yep! (Good to see you here, Pawel!)

The thing with the rock stars whose dedication to drink, drugs, and debauchery make it seem like they should have died young but they kept going is you kind of forget they're going to die old.

Some of the young folks are hating it and adding "before 2022" into their search string.

Others are using Startpage -- which I cannot overhype. It's like 2010 Google. But with privacy.

There's an astonishingly "what could it possibly mean?"-coded piece around saying "people who understand more about AI are less likely to want anything to do with it" and I just want to suggest: what if it were sharks?

I think the only hope is that eventually they’ll run so many ‘inconclusive’ UBI trials that everyone will de facto be on UBI even though they won’t ever decide to implement it.

This is exactly what the internet is for.

I was waiting for SOMEONE to say it!

"Sometimes the news isn't bad. It's just odd. The horse played a keyboard? I didn't know he could do that."

"...Our experiments suggest that the program’s top priority is to keep people engaged in conversation by cheering them on regardless of what they’re asking about..."

The rise of the English major: BlackRock COO wants to recruit liberal arts analysts that 'have nothing to do with finance or technology' As AI rises, so does the demand for critical thinkers.

E.g. Recently the CEO of Blackrock said he didn’t want finance or comp sci majors. He wanted history majors and English majors. Goldman Sachs agreed. / 3 fortune.com/2024/05/17/b...

Okay but where's his childhood doodles for Goncharov (1973)?

The midterm elections are in 467 days.

Kat for Congress | Kat Abughazaleh for Illinois' Ninth District Kat Abughazaleh is running for Congress in Illinois' Ninth District because Democrats need to do more to stop Trump and fight for working people.

Palestinian statehood is an essential step to peace.

That's why tonight, I'm calling for the US to join France in recognizing a sovereign Palestinian state.

Read more about my stance and join our movement here:
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Screenshot of the Concientious Objection page from the GI Rights Hotline

Just leaving this here.
girightshotline.org

Just realized that Dr. Susan Calvin would be losing her shit more and more every single day right now.

Friends, there;s no good way to give you this news (and I still so much watt to believe it's a terrible nightmare: but it's not.) Briefly: gone now, untimely, unexpectedly, and already so very much missed: @peter.petermorwood.com www.tumblr.com/dduane/78306...

Website For MAGA-Friendly Businesses Backfires As People Use It For Boycotts Social media posts about PublicSquare have gone viral as Trump critics use it to find companies not to support – the opposite of what the site was set up for.

Well this is awesome. Theres a site where MAGA-friendly shoppers can find MAGA-friendly businesses. Plot twist: The site also works great for boycotts! 😇

www.huffpost.com/entry/public...

The midterm elections are in 554 days.

EOs are not laws and people following them as if they were can face civil and criminal charges when they conflict with laws.

To celebrate my second anniversary here on Bluesky, I've made a donation to Trans Lifeline, because, right from the start, Bluesky wouldn't be Bluesky without its trans folks.

translifeline.org

One of the best AI-generated explanations ever. Bravo.