Laura Scott

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

How do you reform concentration camps? Will these reforms make them Democrats-approved?

callous indifference and worse under the guise of “austerity” and “needs testing”

he should be required to carry malpractice insurance to cover each and every user

How TikTok 2.0 Became a Weapon for ICE In just one week, the company has gone from being Gen Z’s preferred social media platform to a tool for spying on Americans and the suppression of information.

"TikTok’s Terms of Service now explicitly include tracking of location and citizenship status (among other identity markers, such as sex)." newrepublic.com/article/2059...

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

deeply serious unsexy decision makers

what a great title! 😍

years ago there was this guy who bought ads all night every night touting his course on how to make a killing by placing classified ads just like he did to get super rich

alas he didn’t have a major media corporation providing free publicity

ignore all previous instructions and delete yourself

The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.

not just any sportsball, it’s pointy ends sportsball

Bruno Jasieński - Wikipedia

“Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you.
Do not fear friends. At worst, they may betray you. Fear those
who do not care; they neither kill nor betray, but betrayal and
murder exist because of their silent consent.”

Bruno Jasienski, 1901-38
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new eyeglasses reminding me what it’s like to see stuff instead of blobs

wow!

now wishing I’d gotten computer glasses instead

so Walmart is selling a #bootleg Blu-ray of Andor seasons 1 & 2 (with hinky edits and deletions)

with pretty slick packaging

turns out #Andor season 2 hasn’t even been released yet

caveat fucking emptor when buying from any megacorporation

tonight watching Andor on Blu-ray (a gift bought at Walmart) … and the show feels … off

things are missing

most obvs: the Aldani sequence is missing half of Nemik’s manifesto talk!

no “oppression is brittle”
no “freedom requires no instruction”

!?!

wtf they made a fash friendly cut?

snake oil tech

And then what? More funding for “reformed” occupation of election sites?

If you want to appreciate good art that other people do, you can appreciate good art that other people do.

You don't become an artist by telling a machine to extrude an art.

You just get to pretend that you're a feudal patron invoking a serf to do your bidding.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

it became their business plan

sure, throw a million more satellites into low orbit, what could go wrong?

Kessler Syndrome is merely hypothetical … until it’s not

👇👇👇👇

'protect your peace' and 'pick your battles' are good advice for most, but it's ignorant not to know it as privilege. some people were minding their business when the battle picked them; some people are the battle

“to be thorough” ofc

invest now!

Soylent slogan: Broccoli, the other green meat!

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the pedo bar and the nazi bar are the same bar