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the jackboots are here, they’re just not distributed evenly

you can, actually, hate the player in addition to hating the game

They got most of their "best" ideas from visiting and observing U.S. treatment of Indigenous, Mexican, and Black people.

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The Pink News "People are losing their minds over the bi-inclusive Progress Pride flag" post but the flag has been edited to include the Bisexual Ikea Couch design

personally I don't see what everyone is complaining about

"Past Tense" imagines a multiracial movement of homeless, working class, mad, & disabled solidarity in 2024 as a prerequisite for the Star Trek future.

That is to be celebrated and embraced!

But they also imagined Neo-Trotskyists running France and that the Bell Riots would be over in 3 days, so.

"In an unprecedented move, according to two of the sources, the army also decided during the first weeks of the war that, for every junior Hamas operative that Lavender marked, it was permissible to kill up to 15 or 20 civilians..."

‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local C...

The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local Call reveal

This would be a recipe for disaster if they cared who they kill but good news!

Amazon is phasing out its checkout-less grocery stores with “Just Walk Out” technology, first reported by The Information Tuesday. The company’s senior vice president of grocery stores says they’re moving away from Just Walk Out, which relied on cameras and sensors to track what people were leaving the store with. Just over half of Amazon Fresh stores are equipped with Just Walk Out. The technology allows customers to skip checkout altogether by scanning a QR code when they enter the store. Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts. The cashiers were simply moved off-site, and they watched you as you shopped.

Somehow every magical new technology turns out to be thousands of underpaid people in the global south gizmodo.com/amazon-repor...

I feel like we’re learning about a new atrocity so often I cannot even keep track of the level of denial needed to still support the Israeli government (or for that matter our own for enabling it)

Zoomer: the world is getting worse and I’m being told we can’t do anything but make it worse faster. The only agency we have is our method of suicide.

Millenial: ok but have you tried a Water Pick? Changed my life. have you tried AirUp? Changed my life. have you tried Better Help? Changed my life.

The one thing keeping Musk’s inertia going in the public sphere is the avoidance of the utter embarrassment of every institution that lauded his genius or gave him contracts that he has no way of ever fulfilling because he promised Elizabeth Holmes-level impossible bullshit, which they all bought.

Good god new police audio on this poor 15 year old CA girl murdered by the fucking pigs sent to "save her" from her kidnapping father. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

Analysis | Wait, does America suddenly have a record number of bees? A gold-standard source shows a stunning boom in U.S. honeybee populations. Could that possibly be right? A Department of Data analysis found two possible explanations, one more surprising than the oth...

Fascinating story and a reminder than even good news (Yay! Bees!) is more complex than we think it is.

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This is both an act of terrorism and extreme stupidity. In other words core Israeli policy.

I think trans people should be allowed to slap cis people if they make a harry potter reference

WORF: Captain, an unidentified vessel is on an intercept course. PICARD: Send a hail, Mr. Data. DATA: Yes sir. DATA: DATA: Sir, the vessel has left us on read. PICARD: Hail them again. DATA: The vessel has turned off read receipts, Captain. However, our sensors indicate they are still communicating with other vessels. WORF: Outrageous! Arm photon torpedoes! PICARD: Belay that order. WORF: But Captain! This is a great dishonor! We can clearly see them posting but they do not respond to our hails! PICARD: They do not owe us the emotional labor of a response, Mr. Worf. RIKER: Mr. Data, can you check if they've made any wideband subspace vagueposts since we hailed them? DATA: There has been one vaguepost, sir, referring to a "rando" vessel that is "obsessed" with them. PICARD: Arm photon torpedoes.

I’m going to go with “the CEO is a Nazi” and “the cars keep killing people”

kinda crazy how humanitarian aid organizations keep doing everything they’re told to avoid being murdered and the Israeli military keeps doing more Whoopsie Daisys

After Claudine Gay's resignation, Rufo learned that plagiarism was a smear that he could use to attack scholars of race, no matter how flimsy the evidence.

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