YouTube video by Farm to Taber ICE Raids Are Only Half The Story

If you've been thinking "How are they gonna run their farms after Trump arrests their workers?"

don't worry, they planned ahead for that 💀

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utterly depressing that Nixon-level scandals are now a normal Friday night news drop, barely remarked upon, just another day in Trump’s America

Unbelievable story of Afghan refugee, a highly vetted fluent English speaker who helped the US against the Taliban and now lives here with his US citizen kids, declared “illegal” and perhaps about to be shipped home by the Trump admin to his likely death

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

Need everybody to bring the same fire they had for Jimmy Kimmel to this

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

Ian McKellen giving this speech www.williamlanday.com/2017/02/28/s...

If "AI" was as valuable as they say it is, they wouldn't be selling it to you. They'd be using it themselves in secret to make the next Minecraft, the next Avatar, the next Hello Kitty and then they'd sell that to you.

They're trying to sell you a sick goose, while pretending it lays golden eggs.

We laugh at this shit -- I mean, how can you not? -- but it's serious: these guys want to infuse reactionary thinking into AI and then infuse AI into every nook & cranny of American life. They can't win the argument so they are trying to blunt-force their views onto us with money & power.

Derek Yu wrote about this like 12 years ago and it sucks how it still applies: makegames.tumblr.com/post/5102949...

There were reports of >50 armed agents marching through Chicago today. Many were masked, which likely violates Mayor Johnson's EO banning face masks for law enforcement. Some brandished weapons

And Schumer thinks making GOP friends will stop this? Why not go all in with a strongly worded letter?

YouTube video by Farm to Taber Ballerina Farm: A Small Farmer, Mom, & Onetime Mormon's Thoughts

IT'S FINALLY POSTED. If you've ever wondered

-what the Ballerina Farm dynasty is up to

-if their meat is worth the $11/lb+ pricetag

-how the trad hype stacks up against the real live Mormon women of the 1800s

I got you covered

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Trump is ordering the military to use “full force” against an American city, while the Supreme Court declares him the Sun King and Congress hides under a pile of coats.

The checks and balances only work when the institutions aren’t run by utter cowards and the complicit

Has anyone collected the vile statements congressional Republicans have made calling for the murder, assault, deportation and/or imprisonment of their colleagues?

Seems like there’s a lot of this coming straight from the GOP but the nation is more focused on ordinary liberals on social media.

Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say Doesn't that make more sense than lots of people caring about Cracker Barrel?

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Release the Epstein files NOW

Rest in power, Ms Shakur.

My conspiracy theory is that the violent people on the right were hired by ICE this year and that's why their recorded criminal violence has dropped.

Add:
- attacking all potentially anti-regime institutions, including Press, Universities, NGOs
- demonizing The Other
- State Capitalism with special privileges for cronies
- Valorizing a hazy, historically non-existent past
- Kinder, Küche, Kirche as program for women

We don’t call everyone who disagrees with us a Nazi, JD, just the ones doing Nazi shit like:

-masked secret police kidnapping people off the street
-creating concentration camps
-attempting to eradicate trans people
-banning/burning LGBTQ/opposing viewpoint books
-murdering fishermen in open waters

Consensual Non-Consent In Real Life A 3 panel comic Panel 1: Kink Negotiation Blushing Person: I was thinking maybe we could try out some CNC play... Person #2: Yeah, we can totally try that out, sweetie! We should plan out what we're willing to do! Panel 2: "The Scene" Person #2: The sex pollen.... it's... taking over. I... I can't...Hnngg.... Blushing Person: Noo! Please, you have to snap out of it! Panel 3: Aftercare Blushing Person: Thanks so much, that was fun. Let's do it again sometime. [end of comic] "The Scene" is the fantasy within a CNC framework. Some fictional works tell a story depicting two (or more) characters following the process of doing CNC kink, just as they would in real life: Consent discussion, Kink negotiation, “The Scene", and Aftercare. [image of a blushing person reading the above comic] Some fictional works focus on “The Scene only. A framing device is not required, as the fantasy is contained fully within the story. This lets the reader engage in the kink the same way as if they were engaging in “The Scene" portion of the CNC play. [image of a blushing person reading only “The Scene” panel from the above comic] CNC play, and both sorts of fiction are normal and healthy!

A comic about CNC kink I've been thinking about for a few years, and I finally decided to sit down and make it.

Y'all fight for comedians. Which is why you don't have Black journalists to oppose Trump, but you do have famed resistance leaders *check notes* Matt Parker and Trey Stone.🤷🏿‍♂️

Kimmel is interviewing Gavin Newsom in his return. His podcast guests were the dudes that got the Black journalists fired.

We are producing a generation unable and (somewhat) unwilling to think, read and write without relying on tech controlled by some of the most evil people on the planet to tell them what to think, read and write and they don’t seem to see the dangers of this dependency even if we point it out

From NYT article about the increasing use of AI in the classroom: “Writing is one of the most challenging tasks for students, which is why it is so tempting for some to ask A.I. to do it for them. In turn, A.I. can be useful for teachers who would like to assign more writing, but are limited in their time to grade it.”

Why even have a brain, any ideas, any ability to express them, any kind of communication with other people, any desire to solve problems or invent anything, any reason to learn, any use for your eyes or your heart, or any reason to teach or create

‘Worrying’ levels of screen time means young people losing confidence to socialise in person, minister warns – UK politics live Culture secretary Lisa Nandy says ‘majority of young people spend all, or almost all, of their free time alone in their bedrooms, online’

This is not caused primarily by "screen time".

It's been caused by the mass eradication of third places for young people in basically every city over the past three decades - and a society that's hostile to the concept of teens socialising in public spaces.

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5 companies now control 90% of the 🇺🇸 media market. Not great!

And they have all either caved to Trump, or are owned or may soon be owned by his allies.

(Per @moreperfectunion.bsky.social — A 1996 bill signed by Clinton set us on this path 😕)

“AI hallucinations represented not a temporary engineering challenge, but a permanent mathematical reality requiring new governance frameworks and risk management strategies.”

… I can think of a strategy that’s 100% effective for reducing this particular risk

Just over on @cnn.com leaning into #newspeak

But enlighten us. What exactly is a “chief loyalty enforcer?”

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended.

It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.