shadowsong @ surviving capitalism

the average minnesota mom has done more to fight donald trump than almost the entire senate democratic caucus

A cop shot a person three times point blank and instead of the streets being deserted. They filled with people yelling at the cops [who could have shot them too].

⚠️Flu is at Very High levels across the US, looking as bad as last year.

Covid has reached High levels in the Midwest and Northeast, but remain low generally in the South and West. Overall Flu>>Covid at the moment because of the very high prevalence of H3N2.

living in the 2020’s

Well all the people who say “we need to hire the most qualified people” are getting a chance to run things and it turns out they aren’t qualified to shovel shit into a bucket.

When I teaching the Holocaust I note the Holocaust museum’s definition of a concentration camp is a prison whose inmates are denied due process. These are by definition concentration camps.

TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by Al 29 Apr 2025 - Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that 20% to 30% of code inside the company's repositories was "written by software" - meaning... Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com Microsoft admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 1 day ago - Except it's not totally terrible. What makes it terrible is the privacy invasions and the consent issues Microsoft has with its users, along ...

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Your Favourite Game Dev Is Probably Using AI; CD Projekt Red Joins Larian In Claiming There Are "Meaningful" Benefits To The Tech CDPR is already implementing AI technology into "productivity areas".

CD PROJEKT RED

Oof. Super disappointing, as a person who has loved Owlcat's work in the past.

"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read

Can you spread the word about weaintbuyingit.com? This is one of the easiest and safest ways possible to fight back against the current administration. If you've been saying there's nothing you can do - you're wrong! All you have to do is not buy from Amazon, Home Depot, or Target for five days.

From LinkedIn.

Well, yes.

It's taken a full year for BA.3.2* to just get this far, but the 8 new sequences out of Germany makes me wonder if it has finally reached a turning point where it could move toward dominance over BA.2.86*.

Up to maybe 10% in Germany. We'll have to continue to monitor this one.

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

Over 30,000 Charlotte students absent from school in protest of ICE operation, reports say Over 30,000 Charlotte students were absent on Monday, according to school officials.

The kids get it. www.wowt.com/2025/11/18/o...

If you want to honor her and her work, mask more places, more frequently.

Uh

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ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.

Exclusive: The parents of a man who killed himself are suing the company that created ChatGPT, claiming the product encouraged him to commit suicide.

Picture is of Tom Hanks, sitting on a subway train with his legs crossed, wearing black boots and black pants with a green sweater and a green toque sitting on orange chair. He’s holding onto a support pole, and wearing a black respirator. Behind him on the walls, the subway map.

When asked by Stephen Colbert why he was wearing a mask in public, Tom Hanks said..

“I’ve had Covid enough in my life I don’t need to do that again. I’m wearing this for health reasons”

More celebrities need to speak out like this.

there are a lot of people who spent the whole 2024 saying look just vote for the party candidate and the whole 2025 poignantly refusing to say that and i can't wait til they start talkin about the Big Tent again cause i'm cussin everybody fake ass out

There is no version of capitalism where poor working class people aren't getting exploited. No version. To do capitalism is to exploit the working class, to reward greed, and to promote hate and bigotry. There's no "good" capitalism, same way there's no "ethical" multimillionaire or billionaire.

AI replacing jobs right now feels like every CEO's kid just got their MBA and is now your boss with no experience, no track record, a bunch of naive, amateur ideas, and is blackout drunk at least 15% of the time.

Boycott anything Harry Potter. It's incredibly easy to do

📍 #EmergencyFood #DoorDash

My dad sent me this

Having lived through two cat 5 Caribbean hurricanes: Jamaica will require aid for years. The devastation's hard to overstate. This is our new norm under climate change.

Infra like elec/water will be disrupted for weeks for critical locations, months for residents.

DO NOT DONATE TO USA RED CROSS.