The Great Un-Awokening And the Michigan Senate primary remains up in the air.

That Democrats, even now, insist on focusing on and blaming the progressive wing of their party for Trump is exactly how we entered the Nadir a century ago. White Americans and those who wanted to politically ascend abandoned Black people and oppressed groups to reunite politically with each other.

Are you so deep in your MAGA cult, you can't even imagine not every decision has to be along party lines? Bipartisanship and representing all affiliations used to dominate a lot of political decision making, before the right weaponized political alignment and fused it with identity.

This happens when news media is owned by megacorps and foreign investors looking to weaken Canadian autonomy, pillaging our resources via their investment portfolios.

Legacy media is no longer to be trusted. Their only mission is to deliver what lets Empire extract more labour and profit from you.

Hari Kunzru is right to point out that “the ‘can machines do creative writing’ thing is mostly a distraction from the use of the machines to go through text and images to cancel grants and put people on deportation lists.” So the best way to understand OpenAI’s recent claims to have trained a new model that, according to CEO Sam Altman, is “good at creative writing” and “gets the vibe” of “metafiction” is that the company is running interference for the authoritarians using similar technology to automate surveillance, circumvent human scruples, and do away with due process.

That’s it. robhorning.substack.com/p/tastes-of-...

i think we should replace “how are you?” with “hey things are generally bad, how are you personally?” just to make things easier on everyone trying to answer in a way that doesn’t initially seem like you’re either delusional or complicit

Empire regards land only as a resource to own and plunder. They view the entirety of Turtle Island and beyond (e.g. Greenland) as an opportunity to exploit. Empire is death.

CFPB - closed
USAID - closed
Medicaid - under attack
NIH cancer funding - frozen
Department of Education - under attack

But do you know who just got a NEW government contract for $38,858,978 literally today?

SpaceX — owned by Elon Musk

De-weaponize flip-flopping in the face of knowledge and change.

California just debunked a big myth about renewable energy The state went a record 98 of 116 days providing up to 10 hours of electricity with renewables alone.

@s4can.bsky.social www.nationalobserver.com/2025/01/31/n...

Idiocracy is here, and is coming for every adjacent nation via their conservative and neoliberal parties. Vote like your life depends on it because it does.

Heart shattering to learn an Israeli drone has targeted and assassinated Mahmoud Almadhoun, one of the founders and chefs behind the Gaza Soup Kitchen.

What started as four pots and essential ingredients in Bait Lahia had grown into a remarkable effort to feed 3,000 people daily.

A lifetime politician is not a 'business guy'.

Unless you're talking about how his every principle is for sale to the highest bidder.

Since antifa doesn't exist, everyone can be antifa.

If you ever wanted an example of Lawful Evil, here ya go.

I think sarcasm around Elon’s Nazism should stop now. Jokes about the autism bullshit, any sort of validation of his sidestepping of the question, all of it should be replaced by a very cold, sober, direct confrontation with the richest man on Earth and advisor to the president being a Nazi.

ChatGPT's carbon footprint is astronomical and not sustainable ChatGPT’s carbon footprint matches aviation, sparking concerns about AI’s energy consumption and the need for sustainable solutions.

@s4can.bsky.social www.earth.com/news/chatgpt...

There are no self-designated, organized “antifa” groups. That does not exist. Which is practice would make this a blanket law where the state could apply the designation as they chose.

If you’re waiting for a charismatic leader to step up and fix everything, get used to waiting.

There’s no mythical rescuer coming. There’s just all of us and the daily work of supporting our communities.

Find a local org, get involved, help the people around you. That’s the only answer.

plutocracy - rule by the wealthy
kleptocracy - rule by corrupt thieves
kakistocracy - rule by the worst, least qualified

But what if it's all 3 -- what's the word for that?

BREAKING -- Trump RAISES prescription drug costs.

He just reversed all the cost caps that had been negotiated for anyone on Medicare or Medicaid -- over 120 MILLION Americans.

He's pro Big Pharma -- and pro Big Insurance.

He doesn't care about you. It was all LIES.

the people who built this thing need to be caned in public until they lose consciousness

Progress isn’t always about getting better. Sometimes it’s about bouncing back.

Success is not only the peaks you reach—it’s the valleys you conquer. Every experience of enduring adversity and overcoming obstacles is a meaningful accomplishment.

Resilience is a form of growth.

Mark Zuckerberg gave Meta's Llama team the OK to train on copyrighted works, filing claims | TechCrunch Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave Meta's Llama team approval to train on copyrighted documents, according to a new court filing.

Holy shit this filing update is wild! It states that:

1. Zuckerberg gave the ok to train off copyrighted works

2. Engineers wrote scripts to remove copyright info

3. Meta downloaded illegal torrents to train models of

GenAi is a house of cards, I swear.

techcrunch.com/2025/01/09/m...

Meta Deletes Trans and Nonbinary Messenger Themes Amid a series of changes that allows users to target LGBTQ+ people, Meta has deleted product features it initially championed.

New: Meta has deleted trans and nonbinary Messenger themes, as well as the blog posts announcing them. Happens the same week that it has changed its rules to allow users to say LGBTQ+ people are "mentally ill"

www.404media.co/meta-deletes...

$1,131,794,901

That's how much Big Oil has spent over the last 30 years paying off Congress to look the other way on climate action while the planet burns.

Well, the planet is burning.
Don't let them look away.

Still blocked from accessing The Grio site and have no idea why? Not even sure how to report it. Long-time follower (and owner of your book), don't have any idea why it's happening but remember there were others on Twitter for whom this was happening too...

In toxic cultures, people prove their intelligence by tearing others down.

In healthy cultures, people use their intelligence to build others up.

Knowledge and expertise are not weapons to wield. They're resources to share.