Aaron Kimball

Happy Amazon Prime Day! Amazon collects mountains of data about how you use the service, but there is a setting you can change to make it harder for the company to use that data to sell you more things. #OptOutOctober www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Here is a Reddit threat that explains how to disable Copilot in Windows, which I've just followed:

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And so, instead of falling into the trap of getting online and being the one billionth person to give my hot take on the state of affairs, I recognize the futility of that. And I recognize the delight that the billionaires and corporations take in all of us being distracted with online fist-shaking. My solution, instead, is to write a book that encourages positivity, that encourages empathy, and in this case, it’s encouraging people to keep the reins of your life in your own hands and don’t allow corporations to decide what happens with all of our natural resources. That’s what it comes down to: By lazily handing over this agency to AI or whoever is running the algorithm, then you’re saying “I don’t care what you’re doing with the oil, or the ocean or the fish or the soil. Or the people.” I think it’s incumbent upon us as citizens of this nation and this planet to always give a (expletive) about what is happening to all of those resources. I’m not a literally religious person, but that’s where my spirituality lies. I think we’re responsible to one another — and to the creation — to care for it, if for no other reason than to be a good ancestor to the generations coming after this.

At a time when so many are saying AI is a fait accompli, Nick Offerman is one of the few celebrities I've seen to give a full throated "I think the fuck not" as he does in the preface to his new book

He encourages things like *thinking* and *problem-solving*!

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we need to abolish this shit

All of this to avoid giving drugs to the “wrong” people.

This is just going to reinforce bias over and over, meaning white men will be adjudged worthy and the rest of us will have to hear all about the “objective” machine.

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

If the US can ever vomit this stupid era out we're gonna need widespread all-ages education on basic facts like when you'd see old billboards or MST3k shorts advertising the concept of hand washing or being good. Stop Using Gasoline To Wash Clothes. Springs Are Ubiquitous & Essential To Modern Life

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Your enemies will tell you there is no point in fighting back. They tell you this to break your morale, but in so doing, they tell on themselves. They fear being stood up to, or else they would not work so hard to downplay it. If someone says fighting back doesn't matter, make it matter.

Just Jack Kirby in 1939, reminding us not to make deals with Nazis

If you don’t see the link between ICE and the IDF, you haven’t been paying attention. We are being asked to accept a world where whole communities are made disposable and marked for disappearance. If we accept that for anyone, no one is safe anywhere.

BREAKING: Prominent Palestinian journalist Saleh Aljafarawi has been killed by gunmen in Gaza City’s al-Sabra neighbourhood, making him one of more than 270 journalists killed since Israel’s war began in 2023.

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Spreadshirt to artists: We’re taking your designs for AI Spreadshirt is an online print-on-demand store. You can sell T-shirts and mugs and so on. My wife Arkady Rose is an artist as well as a musician, and had a pile of designs on Spreadshirt and Redbub…

Warning to anyone who has their art on Spreadshirt.com: They now have a feature where anyone can remix your art and it's impossible to opt out unless you just leave the site altogether.

Spreadshirt to artists: We’re taking your designs for AI pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/19/s...

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

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Dayum!

Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive) Diane Keaton has died at age 79. Keaton was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'The Godfather.'

Terribly sad news about one of the greats. Diane Keaton has died at 79.
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A gentle reminder for whoever needs it: you don't have to make yourself small for anyone. You are perfect, exactly the way you are.

Hey Minnesota: ICE is now on the ground in NE Minneapolis. See thread. Stay alert everyone!

He LITERALLY calls out trickle-down economics.

“Leo described a ‘new tyranny,’ […] where the economy is structured ‘in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful.’ The poor, he wrote, are only allowed ‘drops that trickle down.’”

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Today is International Lesbian Day and my wish for all the International Lesbians is that they keep being awesome.

Laying in bed all day bingeing DS9 and Voyager episodes isn't a productive use of my time. Somewhere deep inside me, I think I know this.

The Dude has spoken:

"ICE? Let's get ICE off our streets and into our beverages. This aggression will not stand. Let's just abide together"

A reminder to author friends to check if your work is listed in the Anthropic lawsuit and file a claim. Get paid for your work.

We wouldn't know her, she goes to a different school.

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

Minimum demands from here on:
- Abolish ICE immediately
- Prosecute and jail all ICE leaders nationwide, and any ICE goon who can be proven to have violated the Constitution
- Prosecute and jail all Trump administration officials responsible, inc. Cabinet level
- Abolish Dept of Homeland Security

Every part of this sentence describes an abomination before God. People are going to hell for this.

These guys are so vulnerable to defecting to Chicago