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@jesswash.bsky.social lays out the stakes in this piece: denying some children access to public schools isn't just cruel to those children and harmful to communities, it is destructive of the mission of public education and another sledgehammer the right wants to take to it more broadly.

As soon as the computer stopped being contained by a large piece of furniture in a dedicated room

Federal privacy regulation would have been nice

this is not an amount of money any individual or household should be able to have and we have to abolish both billionaires as a group and the economic system that makes them possible

This is not just cursed, its monstrous. The digital resurrection of a historian who died in January of this year, all so Grammarly can get some more clicks and engagement from students and/or scholars and/or others.

It feels so wrong on so many levels, these ghosts enslaved to AI forever

Americans Who Can't Afford Beef Have 'Many Proteins to Choose From,' Says US Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith Americans who can't afford beef a year into Trump's second term "have so many proteins to choose from," said U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith.

Americans who can’t afford beef a year into President Donald Trump’s second term “have so many proteins to choose from,” U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, a Mississippi Republican, said in response to a question about steep food costs.
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Mar. 3, 1819 | Congress Allocates Funds to 'Civilize' Native American People Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

On this day in 1819, Congress allocated funds to "civilize" Native American people and force Indigenous children to replace their tribal cultures with white Christianity.

N.Y. Attorney General Orders Hospital to Resume Youth Transgender Care

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Oh no I 100% got got by this! I try to be more careful about only sharing pictures directly from photographers or people who clearly credit images and got sloppy. A good reminder to share with more care and intentionality.

Thermal Drone Footage Shows Musk’s AI Power Plant Flouting Clean Air Regulations Images confirm xAI is continuing to defy EPA regulations in Mississippi to power its flagship data centers.

A resident was forced to abandon the home that's been in her family for generations after xAI parked gas turbines across the street. "I do feel like xAI is playing by a different set of rules."

How Kansas Republicans weaponized the law to target 300 trans driver's license holders SB 244 was put into effect virtually overnight, causing chaos, panic and fear in the trans community.

New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:

Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.

Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

I do actually think there is a serious imbalance on this app. A lot of politics and not enough culture. Some of that has to do with the fact that Black Twitter mostly went to Threads.

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

James Baldwin

It should be much more at the forefront of our minds, the extent to which the most politically activated and politically empowered segment of the authoritarian American cult calling itself "Christian" see the apocalypse as something to hasten, not prevent.

I mean, you’re not wrong! Shows my friends worked on for years were canceled and then used as tax write-offs.

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

No one should be using ChatGPT or partnering with OpenAI for anything.

there are a lot of people working in the government right now who want to intentionally trigger an apocalypse to create the conditions for the return of jesus christ and I know how crazy that sounds but its absolutely true

Over 50 Killed In Strike On Girls’ School In Iran, State Media Reports Over 50 Killed In Strike On Girls’ School In Iran, State Media Reports

More than 50 people were killed at a girls’ elementary school in southern Iran.

A digital drawing of author Maia Kobabe, a white nonbinary person with short brown hair wearing a patterned blue shirt, who scowls while holding up a copy of eir book GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR. Maia is saying: H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban my books, and any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps and say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

people care about a lot of things. they cannot take action on everything. one only needs to look at oneself to understand this.

Screenshot of a tweet from Katie Miller that reads "Restoring entertainment to a shared common culture devoid of overt liberalism will make our country a better place. Our children deserve programming without a forced trans agenda. A win for consumers. A win for Americans. A win for our children."

This is the wife of the second most powerful person in the American government, openly cheering on the censorship of stories and narratives and values that conflict with her own. It's appalling, and Democrats should absolutely fight back hard.

People are always like what’s something you miss from the past and one of mine is antitrust laws

maybe let’s not humanize a pedo

I know it’s difficult right now, but I insist that you seek and enjoy beautiful things, even if it seems frivolous or irresponsible in the face of overwhelming horror. I want you to feed yourself artistically, spiritually, and literally, because you can’t Do The Work when you’re starving.

Kansas just invalidated the drivers licenses of every trans person in the state. They’re being told to surrender their current licenses and get new ones listing their birth sex. No grace period. Get caught driving with your now-invalid license and you’re looking at jail and a fine.

They’re scared of children with crayons.