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tyrants, butchers, murderers!

I did the things. I am such a grown up.

Two weeks ago: “The Committee to Protect Journalists is gravely worried about the safety of Al Jazeera Arabic’s Gaza correspondent Anas Al-Sharif, who is being targeted by an Israeli military smear campaign, which he believes is a precursor to his assassination.”

Anyway, it's that part of the night.

Huff Post White House correspondent 👇🏽

Does anyone else feel like getting ready for bed is this seriously labor-intensive thing (even tho it's not that serious) and actually delay going to bed because you don't want to get up to brush your teeth and whatnot? Or is that just me?

Also, I am amused by the argument that we need more child-free bars. What bars are these people going to that are overrun by children?

If you see this, post a bad woman you love

This is a good time to remind y'all that Project 2025 equates "transgender ideology" to pornography.

Israel continues to murder the journalists documenting the genocide being committed against Palestinians.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Headline from nyt of Cuomo resigning from office.

This day in history, an abuser resigned in disgrace. He will never hold such power again. We won’t let him.

This conflation of rent stabilization, rent control, and affordable housing is galling enough before you remember that this fucking guy literally ran HUD

this is the standard for convictions under terrorism legislation. you'll never pass a DBS check. that's a life bar in jobs in teaching, healthcare, social services, civil service etc. it's an international travel bar. there's also upcoming legislation for bans to social housing and access to finance

😂 no, I had not seen it

The fact that he recommended these facilities (and encouraged a variety of cruelties to young people) is something Phil doesn’t get enough criticism for.

"Günther Thallinger, a board member at Allianz, one of the world’s biggest insurers, recently outlined how the world is fast approaching temperature levels where insurers will no longer be able to offer cover for financial services, such as mortgages and investments."

seems problematic.

anyway,

Violating it *while sustaining a monopoly of legitimate violence* is the trick.

"Not every harm or manipulation has been intentional, because Big Tech doesn’t move with intention. It moves with indifference, clawing its way to higher valuations and a larger user base. Fostering dependence is a normal business practice in Silicon Valley."

- @mskellymhayes.bsky.social

this episode is spot on, educational & encouraging

Must-Reads and Some Thoughts on Chatbots, Addiction, and Withdrawal "Fostering dependence is a normal business practice in Silicon Valley."

My latest list of must-read articles and some thoughts on the GPT-5 freakout. Here, I go off about why chatbot dependence isn't "parasocial," but rather, an engineered dependence. It's a behavioral addiction, not admiration run amok, and we should be clear-eyed about who's responsible.

the dependence on theft of people's work is an excellent reason to spurn generative ai, but so is the idea that ai companies, just like so many tech companies, need to get people hooked.

just a reminder again that we were told over and over that a 13 year old downloading a Limp Bizkit mp3 was an existential threat to society

look, it doesn't matter if the night-night man isn't real. a number of voters have very real concerns that the night-night man is waiting under their beds ready to eat them as soon as mommy and daddy say night-night and you need to have a plan to address those concerns regardless

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)

Don’t let this die. Keep elevating this.

I don’t understand how anyone can feel confident that any particular set of rights will necessarily survive this administration and whatever follows it.

Don't tell me what you "meant" by your post. I, the post consumer, will decide what you meant. And frankly what you meant was disgusting

As electric bills rise, evidence mounts that data centers share blame. States feel pressure to act Amid rising electric bills, states are under pressure to insulate regular household and business ratepayers from the costs of feeding Big Tech’s energy-hungry data centers.

Has your power bill gone up?

ChatGPT might be part of why.

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