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Absolutely horrible news - Saleh was killed today

www.middleeasteye.net/news/saleh-a...

This deadline is very soon. Anyone with an gender marker other than M/ F traveling to the USA should be aware of this www.cbp.gov/sites/defaul...

After 200 years can we admit that The Luddites were right all along. Automation leads to fewer jobs, lower wages, devalues skilled labour and leads to exploitation by the rich company owners.

one of the great tragedies of our age is how many people are willing to view AI as magic because they don't understand how it functions but unwilling to exhibit any humility at all towards more important things they understand even less (like the climate or medicine)

Gaza Freedom Flotilla has released statement that Black labour leader Chris Smalls (Amazon Labour Union) faced violence that no one else on Handala did. He has been severely beaten in Israeli custody.

Smalls follows in legacy of Black radical tradition for Palestine. Labour must stand for Smalls.

Live your life so you do not have to fear being on the Jumbotron

It's always this stupid. Always.

ITS SHUT THE FUCK UP FRIDAY

This is a very important message you should share with the people in your life that may be hitting the streets to protest: never talk to the police! WATCH:

ChatGPT "Absolutely Wrecked" at Chess by Atari 2600 Console From 1977 Despite all its advances, ChatGPT still, seemingly, is less smart than an Atari simulator on beginner mode.

What this means is that we need to invest hundreds of billions of dollars into retrocomputing.

wild that we sent a huge number of guys to Iraq at the start of that war without rifle plates and now this is just how cops dress to frighten kitchen employees

Why Are They Hiding Their Faces? If ICE agents' actions are perfectly acceptable, they shouldn't have to mask their identities

We’re watching transparency erode as law enforcement begins to resemble secret police more than public servants. This piece unpacks how we got here, and why it should alarm us all.

Pedro Pascal Slams Trump's Scare Tactics In Impassioned Rant At Cannes Film Festival Wise words from Pedro.

Tell him, Pedro!! 👏

About this Collection | Chronicling America | Digital Collections | Library of Congress Search America's Historic Newspaper Pages through 1963 Please Note: The Library of Congress has transitioned the longstanding Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers website to this new digi...

Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down

Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss

"Stylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative, and ethically rather mean-spirited" is perfect, made even more brutal by being a basically polite critique.

I want to follow JKR around whispering it to her like the guy who would say "remember thou art mortal" to Roman generals during triumphs.

Remember that time Ursula K. Leguin called JK Rowling a basic ass nasty bitch?

it's so fucking funny that all these dipshits think Kneecap of all people are scared by the threat of being locked up

you fuckers have no idea who you're messing with

Jesus CHRIST.
Zuckerberg is a monster, my god.

jesus was a leftist revolutionary and yet the history of christianity itself is the clearest and longest-running example i can point to of the dangers of creating power structures

Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933.

I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.

TikTok was never going anywhere. The TikTok creator gave millions to Trump and they orchestrated this whole PR stunt just so Trump will be seen as a 'hero' to young people.
It was literally the Kidz Bop version of the Reichstag Fire

How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days He used the constitution to shatter the constitution.

'The January 31, 1933, New York Times story on Hitler’s appointment as chancellor was headlined “Hitler Puts Aside Aim to Be Dictator.”'

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Anita Bryant isn't going to see your hurtful posts and jokes about her death but your friends who enjoy them will so that's what they call a win-win situation

In case you're curious, this is the internal Meta "fuck DEI" announcement received by Meta employees

Am still dealing with reduced lung capacity from when I had it in March 2022.

I was going to suggest a battle jacket.

At risk of repeating myself: The Luddites weren’t against technology. They were against getting put out of work by a technology that did a version of their job faster but worse, in the service of increasing profits for their bosses.