TracingVRL by A.J. Fish

A lot of it’s not laying off people for AI. It’s laying people off, hiring contractors in cheaper countries, and *claiming* they were replaced with AI.

YouTube video by Politics and Prose Book Talk: Julia Ioffe — Motherland - with Sabrina Tavernise

Given the demolition of the first lady's wing, the "East Wing," given Dr. Oz said this week American families are "underbabied" it's now a requirement you all know about @juliaioffe.bsky.social 's reporting in her new book about her native Russia, "Motherland" www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMvu...

I am an infectious disease Dr and I would gladly find something else to do with my life if we were able to eliminate all infections through vaccination and public health measures.That's how strongly I feel about infection prevention & the positive impact of vaccines. I am ok with being out of a job.

Until SNAP is funded, here’s an ongoing list of Bay Area restaurants where SNAP recipients can receive free food. Just bring your EBT card!

CREATION STORIES: A SHOPPING CART FULL OF BOOKS CREATION MYTH I: A Shopping Cart Full of Books

Comics and classifieds were the gateway to picking up a newspaper in the first place. After years you might read a column, or a news story, or goddess forbid an editorial. junot.substack.com/p/creation-s...

This is why the AI "bubble" will not "pop" anytime soon. Also, the antivaxx-fossilfuel axis lives. #alberta #antivaxx #AI

My GenX friends (and ex-friends) are funding their GenZ kids' college tuitions by marketing this stuff.

You must be joking

Another manager-class retired friend told me "I don't think there's anything we can do to stop it [AI]. Just with China, and North Korea" he trailed off.

I dined this week with retired CEO friend and this just does not compute for people like him. "You have to use AI to stay competitive" is on their lazy controller, their walking heuristic. They can't fathom genAI is a net loss in the long run.

Pivots, Trolls, and Blog Rolls Reflections on 25 years of digital media.

My newsletter addresses infected media about infectious diseases.

I care about mass media because it raised me!

This series at @talkingpointsmemo.com is so special & important, I am re-reading each installment. Thank you for producing it. Happy 25th Anniversary!

talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25

It's torture!

I expect a lot more of this "action for action's sake". When you can't surrender or submit for true connection, provocation & fighting are sufficient substitutes

www.nybooks.com/articles/199...

My tech-worshipping elders fall out of the spell, temporarily, when Peter Theil's name comes up.

Elon Musk is still a great guy in their world.

The articles I saw didn't appear to be duped by his shtick.

Case Studies

A lot of the butterfly attacks from Russians, etc. disguise their accounts as those of the perpetually unsatisfied left.

Butterfly attack described somewhere here mediamanipulation.org/case-studies/

It took me a long time as I was conditioned to accept that culture even before Silicon Valley.

I still like the craft of coding.

Who is falling for this? I agree things are urgent and people are checked out.

I went through this trajectory on a personal level. Computer programming freed me from the complexity of dealing with people, or so I thought. Eventually I had to learn to feel, integrate feelings, rightsize. Thank you, Paulina, for bringing this to light.

The art for this series is a nice touch

YouTube video by Aden Ng The True Story of AltNPS

If you want a deep dive into the background and operations of the Alt National Park Service, I highly recommend this banger of a video by @adenng.com.

And Aden did what I couldn't: he found AltNPS's likely t-shirt distributor, and got us a much better idea of how much money the account is making.

Sending people back to their phones "post more TikToks" is the strategy to not even win yesterday's war. I'm willing to be proven wrong but this is a good way to exhaust one's self while accomplishing nothing.

People are getting different facts because they're in different algorithms/silos.

You can say that again 😨

Sara Whitmer • • • 1h • 88 I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and Is further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town. Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming. Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance. 75 12 comments

The kids are alright, y’all.

Yikes

Best case scenario ⤴️

I'm so excited! Where do I pre-order

About time

It's also because antivaxxers are now running government departments.

You have it exactly right.