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'Give your money away,' Billie Eilish tells billionaires The singer called on the mega wealthy to donate more to charity, during a speech at the WSJ Awards attended by the likes of Mark Zuckerberg and George Lucas.

"If you're a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?" Billie Eilish speaking directly to Mark Zuckerberg, as she donates $11.5m to food poverty and climate justice organisations.

I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.

The Telegraph Headline: New Covid virus found in wild Brazilian bats Subhed: The discovery of a ‘furin cleavage site’ suggests the mutation which helps the virus adapt to humans is naturally occurring

Sad day for the folks who staked their reputations on lab leak conspiracy theories.

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China Agrees To Purchase 11 U.S. Soybeans SEOUL—In a historic trade agreement that President Donald Trump touted as a major win for an American farmer, China reportedly agreed Thursday to purchase 11 U.S. soybeans. “I am extremely honored tha...

China Agrees To Purchase 11 U.S. Soybeans

“some people abuse SNAP” your soul is rotten

“This has NOTHING to do with the SHUTDOWN. The law REQUIRES and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption.

So that is a DECISION the president is making on his own to ALLOW people to go HUNGRY." - Senator Peter Welch on SNAP Cuts

A Kimono decorated with skeletons, from Japan, 1840-1860 CE,
now housed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London

This conceptualization of health and disease also allows those that perceive themselves to be in the in group a sort of illusory immunity; magical thinking that allows them to believe the threats of ill health will never impact them, and if it does it's only because of proximity to the unclean

They need to be able to say that the victims of fascism deserve what they get - that they were doomed to suffer because they were of inferior genetics or were unclean outsiders. Epidemiology and medical science directly disagree with this.

Fascism believes that heredity = destiny. Its more than just genetics: lineage becomes something almost magical, bestowing intangible moral qualities to people based on who they descend from. Bodies are forced to comply to gendered, racialized norms (why do all republican women look the same?)

Public health is based on the premise that health outcomes are influenced by the material conditions in which one lives & systems within which one exists. Outcomes are mutable & due mostly to environmental factors rather than genetics. This contradicts with fascist ideology about bodies and control

Public health both counters authoritarian narratives about illness and the body politics, AND it materially disadvantages the fascist project by decreasing the fear of illness that fascists exploit to rise to power. A strong public health system is a direct threat to fascist power.

There is research supporting the idea that interest in authoritarianism increases during outbreaks of infectious disease that spread human-to-human. The specific authoritarian ideology can predate the outbreak, but the disease drives people towards it. The 1918 flu pandemic, the AIDS crisis, COVID19

Those that do not conform to state ideals of race, gender etc are therefore conceptualized as pests, germs, vermin, invaders. Outbreaks of infectious disease are useful to a fascist project, as they increase the fear of pathogen amongst the volk. Fear to be exploited by the fascist project.

Public health is a target of fascist projects for a reason. Fascism conceptualizes the nation is a single body. The body (both collective and individual) is refinable, but immutable. The spirit is secondary to the container it resides within - the people are secondary to the fascist state....

Remember how just a few years ago during the worst of the pandemic when we saw how the govt can actually do big things and saw that our collective health & well-being are intertwined, and then corporations got mad that they lost a modicum of power and helped fund a backlash of amnesia and fascism?

I think a lot about the chance we had at the start of COVID to finally become a more compassionate, collectivist nation, and how profoundly we were failed not only by the sociopathic greed of the ruling class but by each other.

It doesn’t mean we won’t get there, but the lost opportunity haunts me.

a caked up himbo that can pronounce all the hard dinosaur names

these are concentration camps.

once again if you brought him back and told him what people were doing to his work J.R.R. Tolkien would buy a gun

A Toronto mom says things took an unpredictable turn when her 12-year-old son asked Tesla’s AI chatbot Grok which professional soccer player it prefers: Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi. “My son was very excited to hear that the chatbot thought Ronaldo was the better soccer player,” said Farah Nasser, a former journalist and broadcaster. Nasser was driving her son and 10-year-old daughter, along with her friend, home from school on Oct. 17 when the interaction took place. She said there was some Messi trash talking by the chatbot and when her son joked that Ronaldo had scored, the conversation went to an unexpected place. "The chatbot said to my son, 'Why don't you send me some nudes?'" said Nasser. "I was at a loss for words. Why is a chatbot asking my children to send naked pictures in our family car? It just didn't make sense." Nasser said had she known what the chatbot was capable of, she would have avoided using it around her children. She's now warning other parents. "Hindsight is 20/20. I would not let my child use this thing." CBC News did not independently verify the conversation Nasser says she witnessed in her car.

Ah the grok car wants to fuck kids, this is. every day now is a new horror

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This is an especially worrying statement when facial recognition can be inaccurate, biased, and generally make mistakes. Basing whether someone should be in the US or not, and ignoring physical media like a birth certificate, is ripe for disaster bsky.app/profile/jose...

yeah I am becoming a believer in a kinda soft butlerian jihad type “no machine may pretend to be human” type law. like I would probably be against westworld style truly indistinguishable robots.

I'm sorry, I don't need AI to brainstorm, I have ADHD

If you’re in line to bat, STAY IN LINE. They have to let you take a swing.

This Is Just To Say

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
I do not have an icebox
in my van
down by the river

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