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we got flu + covid shots this past week from Costco! Made appointments online.

YOU - “Our lives are very different from each other.”

JOYCE MESSIER - “No doubt -- but we share the same time and position on the planet's crust. That counts for more than you'd think.”

AI summaries kill search traffic. This has been an obvious consequence of Google's AI summary strategy since its inception.

Apparently the training data is so valuable that Google is willing to risk the neck of the goose that lays golden eggs.

Screenshot: thebullshitmachines.com/lesson-9-blu...

“Only the vulnerable die of Covid”

“Genuinely disabled people won’t lose Medicaid”

“How many comorbids did they have?”

“Disabled people are stealing my tax dollars”

These are all eugenicist talking points.

Disabled people are not expendable.

They’re conditioning you to accept atrocities.

Some Thoughts on Techno-Fascism From Socialism 2025 "This is the endgame of our isolation."

"Men who sell machines that mimic people want us to become people who mimic machines. They want techno feudal subjects who will believe and do what they’re told. We, as people, are being strategically simplified. This is a fascist process."

organizingmythoughts.org/some-thought...

Autistic People - Where are we in 2025? The Positives and Realities Autism. Here we are, 100 years on from the work of Sukhareva, and 80 years on from the original misunderstandings in the 1940s.   So, what...

annsautism.blogspot.com/2025/06/auti... Hurrah! New blog from me, about the positives of our lovely autistic people, and the real surprises from the last decade of research. Lots to think about.

What are some good orgs for trans youth that could use some donations on this awful day? Reply below.

Workday now allows you to bypass the culture fit interview by uploading your browser history as a ‘culture test’. | Hang 🤙 Xu Workday now allows you to bypass the culture fit interview by uploading your browser history as a ‘culture test’. Thoughts? | 27 comments on LinkedIn

Well, this is terrifying. www.linkedin.com/posts/haxuco...

The news isn’t being clear about this but to people hearing about these Minnesota shootings: Melissa Hortman is the Dem leader in the Minnesota House and was Speaker of the House 2019-2025. She’s probably the most influential state-level Democrat barring the governor.

Two Democratic politicians and their spouses were shot in Minnesota.

Representative Hortman and her husband have died. Senator Hoffman and his wife are out of surgery, and Governor Waltz said they are “cautiously optimistic” about their prognosis.

Love them!

I am beyond bummed about this. I really liked having my own "glitch in bio" and now I have to find another home, I have no idea where. I am no coder. It sucks to lose a community.

screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question). an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question: "there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask. it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same. it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.” there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."

applying for jobs again

We are 100% building a new internet with even more duct tape and an even higher maintenance burden, meanwhile CEOs think LLMs are set-it-and-forget-it

The GOP has spent the last 50 years gradually building a system where protest is harder than it's ever been -- and a system where it's culturally disrespected at a level that's hard to comprehend.

For starters, if most Americans take time off to protest nowadays they'll lose their home.

oh my heart

RFK Jr. is wrong about autism His lies endanger neurodivergent people — and everyone else.

New in PN: RFK Jr. is wrong about autism

"The Trump administration's attack on difference, the idea that people who are different are a tragedy and a burden and that they have nothing to contribute — that is fascism. And it is a danger to almost everyone."

🗣️ The Technofascist Vision of the Future (A ✨NEW✨, free, 101-minute talk)

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They are not as powerful as they want you to think they are, none of them. They’re cowards. Cowards cave if you fight, because they don’t really want to.

For all the posturing, they caved to diplomatic pressure. Wonderful to see.

@the1a.org / @wamu.org are collecting stories about being laid off as thousands of federal workers are losing their jobs nationwide and in our region. This is how I responded.

People want institutions to stand up

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

It works. The government here largely works. Because we are so spoiled by how well it works, we are letting a fool convince us it is broken.

Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”

“Exclusively to Twitter” - just makes open corruption and conflicts of interest with the Trump administration and Musk.

What they imagined about Soros is real life on steroids with Musk.

Going to take a bit of a social media break 😅

Turn from the ruin. Turn and go *forward*.

Opinion | The Rise and Fall of Elon Musk His belief that liberal democracy has failed and that technologists should lead can be traced to the unusual life of his grandfather.

"In 1932, when civilization stood at another fork in the road, the United States chose liberal democracy...Mr. Musk is attempting to go back to that fork and choose a different path. Mr. Musk has measured his achievement in the number of jobs he has eliminated."

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/o...

"He did not hide his intentions. He campaigned on them. He made them the central thrust of his election. He told Americans that he would betray our allies and give up our leadership position in the world."