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AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.

Charlie Warzel tees up his version of mid-tech thesis and its deeply linked. I’m old school. I love a lot of links.

He captures the ennui of mid very well.

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Excellent taste either way

Does anyone have handy the statistics about how much the arts put into the American economy?

hell yea

“Zohran Mamdani Helped Us Love New York. We Helped New Yorkers Hate On Andrew Cuomo.” Scrappy leftist organizers are learning their political campaigns “can succeed by being creative and speaking the truth in interesting ways.”

"But what if we apply the same creativity that you see in Nike and Starbucks campaigns — which are well researched and highly professionalized — and turn it into a tool to activate people into becoming...protagonists in their own salvation?"

hammerandhope.org/article/zohr...

www.thehandbasket.co/p/federal-ag...

Leaving the studio to briefly glance at news headlines that all make me feel like I’ve had a brain injury

Tabitha Arnold : Gospel of the working class — Field Projects

I'm looking forward to visiting this exhibition of Tabitha Arnold's work opening on 8/28- www.fieldprojectsgallery.com/tabitha-arno... - "Gospel of the Working Class"

2) Unequivocally show that businesses stand WITH immigrant workers and clientele, and AGAINST Trump’s secret police tactics.

Protect your community from fascist ICE raids by signing up to complete a Signs of Solidarity canvass. 👇

(between colorful flowers and the No Kings logo) WE STAND WITH IMMIGRANT FAMILIES (around an image of a butterfly and the No Kings logo) NO KINGS. NO ICE. NO FEAR. IMMIGRANTS ARE WELCOME HERE.

Slow down ICE by visiting local businesses, speaking to small business owners or store managers, and distributing signs that do two things:

1) Clearly mark "Staff Only" areas to create safe zones where ICE can’t legally operate without a signed judicial warrant.

Occurs to me that Trump's entire regime consolidation strategy is to persuade everyone through displays of force that the regime is already consolidated and there's no point in resisting. Which I don't think will work, but also shows how important public acts of noncompliance are.

if you're in the Bay Area and are interested in learning more about writing about food, I'm offering a 4-week class via 18 Reasons in SF in September :) 18reasons.org/classes-even...

Feeling that way too—though hopeful younger candidates are savvy enough to understand too much proximity to DNC establishment represents a kind of unspendable compromise in terms

“Trump says” vs. actual data on crime dropping in DC is not “Trump says vs. the Mayor says.”
It’s “Trump says” vs. fact.

Trump’s “crime & squalor” excuse is pretext & his naming other cities all w/Black mayors as his next targets compels an honest confrontation w/Trump’s racism & authoritarianism.

Temu Sun King

Bea & Her Business has a similar ethic - Safety Net & If I Was A God maybe two solid starters

A reasonable yearly subscription that costs less than monthly and an option to auto-resubscribe that is easy and doesn’t result in postcard inserts/mailed prompts or more emails. I like the paper thing and mostly wish to be left alone about it. Maybe a good canvas tote if it’s elegant. That’s all!!

I realize broad science-literacy problems cannot generally be solved just by shoving more facts at people but I really wish more people understood that the entire purpose and mechanism of a vaccine is to educate your OWN immune system, making it about the most "natural" medical intervention possible

I do not want your AI scam
I do not want it Sam-I-Am
I will not have it in my house
I will not use it with a mouse
I will not put it in my pocket
Launch it to the sun in a rocket
I do not want it in my life
Using it would cause me strife
I do not want your AI scam
Stop making this shit Sam-I-Am

As Democrats wrestle with the question of retaliatory gerrymandering they should remember that it is the Supreme Court has driven us to this moment. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Regional differences in culture, education access, child development - a whole host of reasons. Please, do not take the Monsanto (one size fits all) approach to children.

As a constituent, @governor.ca.gov is it possible for California to pick up the tab here (in whole or part)? How could this work? RFK’s impacts on public health are egregious and CA is already a massive global economy. Just saying 👀