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‘reconstruction 2 tonight queen 👀’

Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

'The Chair Company' Is a Masterful Thriller for the Age of Enshittification 'The Chair Company' starring Tim Robinson centers on a man whose life is falling apart through phone calls, emails, and other tech-led glitches.

I wrote about 'The Chair Company' and how nothing works the way it's supposed to anymore:

‘reconstruction 2 tonight queen 👀’

if you told 17 year old me how thoroughly, world-historically vindicated ICP would be within a couple decades...

historians, every day:

I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently.

In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?”

And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.

A yellow bridge in front of a city background with three banners reading "POST-GAZETTE STRIKERS WILL WIN".

BREAKING: We won!

Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.

pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...

if i was a politician i would do good things and then say “you know that thing you like? i did that, and i will do more if you vote for me again” … seems like an obviously better strategy than purposely keeping people’s lives bad and then saying “if you don’t vote for me it will be even worse”

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Canada loses measles elimination status | CBC

🤪🤪🤪🤪 www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.

dem senators saw this a few days ago and thought “absolutely… and i bet we can do it the other way around too”

a secret third thing (fingers pointing every which way)

Great to see a full-page ad in Le Devoir condemning Canada's military spending.

How Catastrophic Is It If the AI Bubble Bursts? An FAQ. The AI industry's most important product is not a chatbot or a video generator; it's the story the AI industry is telling about itself

"The AI industry’s most important product at this moment is not a chatbot or a video generator; it’s the story the AI industry is telling about itself.... According to an MIT study, 95% of businesses that have deployed generative AI have gotten no value from it." www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/t...

apropos james watson’s death i had an idle thought today about how stupid race/iq stuff sounds. “buh if your skin is darker you are biologically less smart” is a thing only a dumbass can believe

just a reminder that yesterday ICE tried to probe northwest portland and got shut down by blocks worth of people roving the streets looking for them. they didn't return today.

it's wild that for a decade now that we've entertained a social panic about assaults in public bathrooms when that is just full stop not a place where assaults occur. you could make all bathrooms everywhere completely coed and it wouldn't make one difference for public safety.

DULF co-founders Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum were each found guilty of three counts of trafficking meth, heroin and cocaine this morning.
The pair are launching a constitutional challenge later this month of the CDSA and their convictions won't be entered until then. Story up shortly on @thetyee.ca

Shamblin’s conversation partner wasn’t a classmate or friend – it was ChatGPT, the world’s most popular AI chatbot. A CNN review of nearly 70 pages of chats between Shamblin and the AI tool in the hours before his July 25 suicide, as well as excerpts from thousands more pages in the months leading up to that night, found that the chatbot repeatedly encouraged the young man as he discussed ending his life – right up to his last moments.

1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

The future being pushed by both AI boosters and educational censors is one where access to information is tightly controlled. Children will not be allowed to read certain books or learn certain narratives. “Research” will be performed only through one of a select few artificial intelligence tools owned by AI giants which are uniformly aligned behind the Trump administration and which have gone to the ends of the earth to prevent their black box machines from spitting out “woke” answers lest they catch the ire of the administration. School boards and library boards, forced to comply with increasingly restrictive laws, funding cuts, and the threat of being defunded entirely, leap at the chance to be considered forward looking by embracing AI tools, or apply for grants from government groups like the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which is increasingly giving out grants specifically to AI projects.

Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc

no chief o'brien? i'm out. the disrespect non-commissioned starfleet officers face is one of the uglier sides of federation service

Bahahahahahaha

this is b/c transphobia is a brain-melting cognitohazard. it's v. important to understand this. once you go down this path you cannot shut the fuck up about it, whether you're a republican reactionary or a beltway centrist, to the point where it resembles any other kind of net-induced cybersickness

the market is all-powerful and all-knowing, the perfect instrument to organize our society, but also if you look at it wrong it WILL explode

Zohran says you’re trans now

I’m still laughing about the “aloof wife” last minute scandal