Richard Becker

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

America may have always been like this for far too many people but this administration is bringing it home, directly and in person, to a ton of folks who have never seen it before

that this is their response is extremely encouraging

Gallup Will No Longer Track Presidential Approval Ratings The monthly poll has been used to measure presidential performance for almost nine decades.

A grim reminder of just how far our “norms” have fallen and how I miss conversations truly centered around political discourse — I feel they’re important to make real change, hard to do when they’re flooding the zone with chaos.

None of this is normal, it should be a wake up call, one of many.

Omg, this is beyond psychotic. The level of dehumanizing hatred you must feel towards someone to do this to children is jaw-dropping.

This is the sort of stuff that requires truth and reconciliation tribunals—there’s no crime here, but it demands public accountability.

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first time in new york since zohran took office and other than having to recite the shahada on arrival at laguardia nothing much has changed

Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.

I’ll hold out for details, but I’m pretty sure I’d take whatever pay cut I have to to get that job

“The Constitution does not permit the government to arrest thousands of individuals and then disregard their constitutional rights because it would be too challenging to honor those rights.“

Spellcheck and grammar check have been around much longer and seem way easier to do and professionalize than “magic AI that replaces reporting” and yet the need for editors has not been eliminated; this is one small reason why I’m not dooming about AI as much as others in media

David Roberts: it is really unfortunate that it’s not possible to have a reasonable discussion about AI on here

Once again: people are angry for very good reason, and this brand of post is perhaps one of the most tedious and bewildering. Practically every social media platform is rabidly pro-‘AI’ so are govts, academia, companies. This one small space being critical of AI is okay, I think.

AI toy maker exposed thousands of replies to kids, senators say Sens. Blackburn and Blumenthal pressed AI toy companies about child privacy in letters sent Wednesday.

New: Remember Miko, the Google-affiliated AI touchscreen toy robot for young children? Turns out that until yesterday, you could listen online to the audio files for its LLM-generated responses to kids, no password or anything necessary.

Ending this operation is not enough.

We need justice and accountability. That starts with independent investigations into the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, economic restitution for businesses impacted, abolishing ICE, and the impeachment of Kristi Noem.

AI shirt that reads "Curd Pesicil Tgpotiiigl Tore Whole Man Disposal Service (meat)"

Well well well. If it isn't the Curd Pesicil Tgpotiiigl Tore Whole Man Disposal Service (meat).

Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.

More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...

Imperialist colonisers (sic) unable to conceive of people going to a country for any reason other than pillage and domination

photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

It's brute force computation, made possible by reckless environmental destruction during the time we can least afford it, paired with a vast program of unapologetic informational larceny. No it's not self-aware: it doesn't have a self to be aware of. It's a fucking *crime scene*, is what it is.

That’s not what the Space Needle looks like, nor is that what Pete Carroll looks like, nor is Pete Carroll coach of the Seahawks anymore. AI slop!

Helluva statement from Colorado Rep Crow (D) on the Trump administration's failure to indict him and others

Oof this one hurts

Oh, well that sounds sustainable. Let’s stake the entire global economy on it!

One out of every 1,000 residents of the United States was arrested by ICE in the past year

Remember their one rule above them all, he can say and post whatever he pleases, the rest of us have to stfu or off to an ICE camp we go.

halftime show fromt eh supebowl showing a set on the field featuring a nyc bodega

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.

Free Images and Open Access | National Gallery of Art Free open access image downloads are now available directly from the object pages located on this website. Close to 60,000 images are available for download, and we will continue to add more images fo...

Regarding the Discourse, lemme just say that if you can't draw, yes you can.

Everyone can draw, and folks will almost certainly respond more positively to your stick figures than some generic "A.i." slop.

Also, there are LOADS of resources for free images. Like this! 🧵

www.nga.gov/artworks/fre...

cantina worker/manager in star wars yells we don't serve their kind here in regard to c3p0 and r2d2

stumbling out of my time machine to explain to child me that this guy was actually right about not letting the bots in

I love this so much

The Wayback is now so load-bearing we should be protecting it with our actual lives