I reject inevitabilty - “with defeatism, despair, doomerism, cynicism… ppl pretend to know what the future can and can't be as a way to pretend they have a power that no one has while abandoning the power we DO have to make a future that doesn't exist yet in the present.” Rebecca Solnit
Yes Shannon! Yes. 😭 including MANY women of color
half-articulated wailings of the ghosts of all Herod’s murdered Innocents
Someone made a 4 minute song about why you should hate Curtis Yarvin.
I had to post it in two parts.
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Barf
almost hidden in a discoloured, rolling, and oftentimes tumultuous and bursting sea
1925
Sam Lavigne
Yes. This is why you should beware of people who speak of the lessons or verdict of history as if future students of evil will always judge it harshly rather than glorify and aspire to it. If history teaches anything it is that history will not conform to your pleasant delusions at some later date.
the skewer seems loosening out of the middle of the world
Needed this today, I love these tiny apertures, a reminder that when all feels overwhelming and helpless, there are still cracks and chinks where the light gets thru
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
TikTok’s age-detection tech “will inevitably expand systematic data collection, creating new privacy risks without any clear evidence that it improves youth safety,” Director of Research @alicetiara.bsky.social tells @wired.com. www.wired.com/story/age-ve...
There was a largeish Apple YouTuber (Luke Miani) who made a video about this stuff earlier this week. He had never once talked about politics on his channel until this week. But he did not mince words.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzHa...
Documents from lawsuit claiming Meta & Google purposely marketed addictive & dangerous products to children reveal corporate strategies for pushing into a schools to force young kids into their ecosystems.
Below slide from internal Google pitch deck.
www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...
FYI:
Internal documents show how Google viewed its work in schools as a way to hook children on its products, @tktk.bsky.social reports.
One slide said “You get that loyalty early, and potentially for life.” Another imagined a world where parents ask their kids “Why aren’t you watching more YouTube?”
But we, insofar as we have power over the world and over one another, we must learn to do what the leaf and the whale and the wind do of their own nature. We must learn to keep the balance.
Meta Fights Late Data Request In Instagram Addiction Suit www.law360.com/personal-inj...
"Australian businesses are throwing money at heavily hyped artificial intelligence solutions but just one in seven companies is seeing revenue gains as a result, new surveys have shown as CEOs worry they are not keeping up with AI’s risk and complexity." ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...
An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
The disconnect between management and employee on AI usage is big. At the same time, CEOs are reporting they aren't seeing any revenue growth from AI.
🤷
www.wsj.com/lifestyle/wo...
This is true for AI pushers but also so many more
Holy shit.
Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.”
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
The simple, powerful truths here…too many to list. I'm a nobody from nowhere, but this is how I strive to impact people when I do my work too. We need so much more of this.
Urban Consulate: Jason Reynolds & Tressie McMillan Cottom
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwwn...
Jason Reynolds and Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom join Urban Consulate in Detroit for a live conversation with Orlando P. Baile @ "Daring Ideas for the Future Series" Nov 2025
Video by JP Leong of Afrochine.
youtu.be/UwwnjdXMhco?...
you say "i asked chatgpt"
i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]"
an improv group wrote this report
instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group
Here is a (likely incomplete) list of apps that are enabling ICE to track your smartphone's location.
Download, mirror, and reshare.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society formed upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution.
The first two hours this morning
