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The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US | Bryan Armen Graham The real risk for American broadcasters is not that dissent will be visible. It is that audiences will start assuming anything they do not show is being hidden

Why did the American audience apparently hear different audio of JD Vance's appearance at the Olympics than the audio heard by the rest of the world?

NBC denies muting. But it's part of overall disturbing developments in the US corporate media world.

My entire 2nd semester of US history follows the essential question: "how do workers gain rights?" The answer is always, "through civil engagement, protesting, striking, and electing members of that social movement".

It's never "I'll vote for the lesser evil".

always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post

Luigi Mangione surrounded by flames grinning with the text Repent or Perish

Westboro Baptist Church tried to make an Anti-Luigi Mangione poster but it just looks like Luigi is threatening billionaires and goes unironically hard af

Your Friend Asked You a Question. Don't Copy and Paste an Answer From a Chatbot Your friend came to you because they respect your knowledge and opinion, and outsourcing the answer to a machine is lazy and rude. Just answer them yourself.

Your friend came to you because they respect your knowledge and opinion, and outsourcing the answer to a machine is lazy and rude. Just answer them yourself.

A cursory glance of the day’s news & I’m ready to slip back into my unemployment coma

I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this

Can’t wait to hear Saeed’s reaction to Castlevania Nocturne

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BREAKING: Letitia James has announced a Government portal for Videos and images of ICE Agents who may have committed crimes.

Please Use it and SHARE!

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The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.

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Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

A vital corrective to the Charlie Kirk hagiography, from Ta-Nehisi Coates: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Sometimes what your "strong friend" really needs is psilocybin therapy and two weeks off.

Your Therapy Session Just Became Fodder For AI Artificial intelligence note-takers are listening in on your therapy sessions while retaining the right to “exploit” patient data.

🚨INVESTIGATION: Tech firms marketing AI note-taking software to therapists have quietly included fine print that allows patients’ therapy records to be sold and manipulated to train other AI applications. 

What stage of capitalism is this?

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You can’t defeat fascism by capitulating with it. You absolutely cannot beat fascism by burying your head, and pretending electoralism will save you. You cannot reason with fascism because it is intentionally unreasonable. You have to excise it from society like the cancer it is.

“Trans people have kitchen tables. People that love trans people have kitchen tables. Immigrants have kitchen tables,” Abughazaleh said. “Democrats have been messaging on this issue, which is basic human decency, wrong this entire time. It’s a two-pronged thing. When it comes to extremism, if you’re constantly ceding ground that trans people don’t deserve to exist, or that there are carve-outs for that … it never stops with the people that you deem inhuman, it will always come to you.”

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It’s not every day that UX researcher whistleblowers testify before the Senate. Yesterday, two former Meta researchers, Jason Sattizahn and Cayce Savage, shared their concerns with safety research for Meta VR products, and more broadly within Meta. So how does UX research move on from here? 🧵

The Decades-Long Plan To Rob FEMA To Pay ICE Trump is using regulatory tricks to funnel disaster-relief funds to immigration enforcement, even as climate disasters threaten millions.

🚨INVESTIGATION: Trump is exploiting a loophole buried in post-Hurricane Katrina legislation to stealthily funnel FEMA's disaster relief funds out of communities & into ICE.

The Lever exposes the secret scheme & how lawmakers created the little-known loophole - please re-post this on your own feed👇

As I've said before, if Kendrick taught us anything it's that we haven't been hating hard enough.

Also fascinating how many well-regarded senior scientists have gone all in on this. Pondering a forthcoming essay collection on the political threats to science from…the American left?

We must fight age verification with all we have | Taylor Lorenz Get more from Taylor Lorenz on Patreon

SO thrilled to publish this fantastic piece outlining the problems with age verification and "child safety" by Pratika Katiyar and Rebecca Williams at the ACLU and Cynthia Conti Cook who leads the Surveillance Resistance Lab.

The Media Should Be Biased—Against Authoritarianism UMass Amherst journalism historian Kathy Roberts Forde says the news media has helped both entrench and erode authoritarianism in the U.S. in the past and should lean into its pro-democracy history now.

The news media has both helped entrench and erode authoritarianism in America, and should lean into its pro-democracy history now.

It *should* be biased—against authoritarianism. trib.al/XNYgJ4A

The only thing I can say about this paragraph is read it. Sit with it. Read it again. @michaelharriot.bsky.social

Join the fight!! 👇👇👇

I remember as a kid wondering what 2025 would look like.
We all speculated flying cars, robots doing work...

Never would I have imagined the world got completely stupid as we are now.

We can see the problems, there are solutions to the problems, but we don't act.
Why? Because greed won't let us.

Establishment Dems need to step aside!

The AI Industry Is Still Light-Years From Making a Profit, Experts Warn Some AI investors seem to finally be waking up to a huge problem: that the industry has not yet figured out how to make a profit.

"We’re absolutely shutting things down."

A spectacular sight 1225m (4019 ft) beneath the waves off Baja California as EVNautilus encounter the amazing Halitrephes maasi jelly.