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I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

You sound like an unhinged person if you in plain words describe what’s happening, but the Trump admin demanded Anthropic’s AI be able to kill things for it w/out human approval and also do mass surveillance.

Anthropic said no, and now the admin is trying to destroy the company in retaliation.

@lunarriviera.info is this poetry

This has me crying in real life 😂😂😂

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Secretary Hegseth announced this afternoon that DOD will cease ALL graduate study by military personnel at universities including MIT, all the Ivies, Stanford, etc because such schools teach "the enemy's wicked ideology" to officers.

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If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.

tcpipeline.org

Another donation option to help our trans neighbors flee Kansas.

I’m so sorry 😢

To do this, anti-trans lawmakers in Kansas moved fast to change the law, overrode the governor’s veto, and pushed for the legal changes to go into effect nearly immediately. That kind of power—to void gender on official documents, to compel gender conformity—is terrifying and it will not stop here.

And this is why every “moderate“ Democrat is in essence really a moderate authoritarian. They will continue to invest in a broken system as long as the rich and the white are at the top of the pyramid.

The only way out is revolutionary change.

Broadly speaking, there are 2 political factions. Not Labour v Tory/Reform, Republicans v Democrats etc, but an economic elite, operating globally, versus all of us. Though they are small in number, through the power of the political, media and social media systems they control, they keep winning.

This is horrifying. I am unable to form coherent sentences, my brain can only spit out single thoughts.
Self-mutilation. Toxic masculinity. Impossible beauty standards. Patriarchy hurts men too. WTF

Here is @aoc.bsky.social thankfully telling everyone exactly what to do to stop a concentration camp from being built where you live.

Please take it to heart and take action.

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How far back in time can you understand English? An experiment in language change

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.

It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.

www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

I refer to this photo as St. Metro. She gets it, but I'm sure someone tries to hit on her anyway.

This doesn't seem worth having a Discord account

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What’s Happening to Discord Is Going to Happen to All Your Favorite Websites The platform says it’s about safety—but it might soon become the new default.

wrote about Discord's new age-verification rules, the resounding backlash to their implementation, and why the users who are (rightfully) angry about this change need to aim their ire at the real culprit: the bad social media laws getting passed worldwide that are *forcing* platforms to do this:

You don’t hear it much, probably due to corporate capture of media, but this is what FDR did that got the ‘33 Act and the ‘34 Act passed. generational anger at corporations funneled into aggressive legislation that would have been unthinkable ten years earlier.

Last weekend.
This weekend.

@washingtonpost.com
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More leaders like Kat

Normalize observing and noting that we actually live in precedented times.

What does it profit a man to have billions of dollars if he has no one to, lovingly, tell him to shut the fuck up

Masked paramilitaries marching in front of a hanging Trump banner on the DoJ

This picture is so crazy that if you had this as a scene in a made-for-TV dystopian scifi movie in like 2014 people would switch channels because you’d ruined the suspension of disbelief.

I never ever want to hear *they just need to come here the “right” way* ever ever again

Amazon's cloud was hit by two outages involving AI tools in December, FT says Amazon's cloud unit suffered at least two outages in December stemming from errors involving its own AI tools, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.

"The agentic tool, which is capable of taking autonomous actions for users, decided to 'delete and recreate the environment.'"

Amazon's cloud was hit by two outages involving AI tools in December, FT says
www.reuters.com/business/ret...

Qualified Immunity is up there with Citizens United as The Worst and reasons we are in the darkest timeline in the US

Corporate Democrats won’t confront fascism or corporate power because too many are funded by it. Justice Democrats are doing what leadership won’t: primarying complacency, backing working-class fighters, and rebuilding the party from the ground up. This is how power actually changes.

They saw France bust down the doors of X for being pedophiles and immediately started developing the national sex crime VPN.