Kate Clancy

Thread of some services/software I'm using instead of various billionaire-owned surveillance/fascist/"A.i." trash products:

For my newsletters, @buttondown.com. Does the job! Great customer service - usually get personalized responses within 24 hours. (Never gonna join Substack.)

The English Scots and Irish with their long history of getting along as one people

Hillary Clinton: "More people were deported under my husband and Barack Obama without killing American citizens and without putting children into detention camps than were in the first Trump term or this first year of Trump's second term."

"As Orwell noted, a population busy working, even at completely useless occupations, doesn't have time to do much else. At the very least, this is further incentive not to do anything about the situation." . - David Graeber

The Bullshit Jobs phenomenon exists for a reason (well many reasons).

Didn't Jesse Singal's piece kind of do exactly this? I mean it was a distortion of one young person's experience that was so great that it was effectively a fiction.

I ended up adding a whole chapter about this to my book, thanks to the work of Maeve Wallace and people like her.

Adding to my HPM 756 slides. The point about homicide is especially salient.

Suggestions for how to do that here, btw:

firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

w/ @nannainie.bsky.social and Peter Zukerman.

Graffiti that says LOVING YOU IS AS EASY AS HATING THE POLICE

Roses are red,
Jackets are fleece,

…That "Generative AI" does not tell you the truth, that it doesn't give you facts, & that when its outputs conform to factual reality, it's by fucking happenstance. These systems are not all-in-1 answer production machines, they are collections of stats & regularities spat out via fucking dice rolls

How many times, in how many contexts, in how many ways am I going to have to say that this is what "AI" does— what it fundamentally *is*— before it sinks in? That all Bullshit engines do is statistically correlate training data & inputs via their weights to produce outputs you are likely to accept…

I will repost any and all fan art of this King I receive.

Great form. 10/10 no notes. Except Fuck ICE.

If people are not getting MMR that means they aren't getting protection from measles, mumps, and rubella. You know what rubella does? If you get it while pregnant you greatly increase the risk of miscarriage and infant death.

Maryland health officials warn providers about an upsurge in mumps cases Maryland health officials are warning about an uptick in cases of mumps.

Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading.

Now we’ve got mumps rolling up.

Expect more.

This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.

Jersey strong af

Ok I see you UCLA Faculty Association and the Council of University of California Faculty Associations, pushing your university to be better and creating the space for this to happen!

nobody posted the clip anywhere so i went and dug the whole episode up

MAHA: Eating a giant steak cooked in butter alongside beef tallow fries and washing it down with coffee spiked with butter

Not MAHA: Clean air, clean water, health insurance, vaccines, disease monitoring, scientific research, food assistance, food safety, bike lanes

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I'm so sorry.

Mohammed is raising money for food and medicine for his family in Gaza if you can help.

Meet the American Girl Doll Influencers Protesting ICE Creators making content using American Girl dolls are getting political, staging protests and making memes to protest ICE.

Meet the American Girl Doll Influencers Protesting ICE

Some may find it surprising, but for those creating the content, it makes perfect sense: "We've been radicalized since the Nineties!"

Another headline to rewrite: "Money meant for starving children used to provide security theater escorts for OMB Director."

Why Are Senate Democrats Still Voting to Confirm Trump’s Judicial Nominees? On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee held its first in a series of eight...

Democrats on the Judiciary Committee keep decrying nominees as unqualified extremists. They also keep voting to turn those nominees into life-tenured federal judges.
talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/why-are...

The outrageous decision by Kier Starmer's government to unlawfully ban Palestine Action (while maintaining business as usual ties with genocidal Israel) - and immediately announcing plans to appeal today's High Court ruling - should be front and centre of calls for him to stand down.

This is an important perspective. Politicians may want to do the right thing, but they may need visible pressure to allow them to act.

The argument IOC made was around creating a "safe environment" for everyone. I have no idea how this helmet creates un-safety for anyone. Especially after looking at some of the helmets of other athletes - and logos like Kappa's.

This kind of mom gets the comfy chair no matter whose house she's in. No questions, no arguments.

Please stop you're the only hope to save a child
My son is in critical condition after being shot by Israeli drones
He has been taken to the operating ⛺️ and urgently needs treatment outside the Gaza Strip.
Please donate or share — your kindness could save a child’s life.

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