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why does the US continue to support Israel, despite condemnation from its own citizens and the world?

Israel helps the US crush liberation movements in the region. and the occupation of Gaza upholds the structures of capitalist imperialism.

@jasonhickel.bsky.social on the Better Future podcast:

Idea: keep the inhalers, get rid of half a million cars per year.

The hypocrisy of the left when it comes to the idea of “following the science” is truly staggering.

‘My son genuinely believed it was real’: Parents are letting little kids play with AI. Are they wrong? Some believe AI can spark their child’s imagination through personalized stories and generative images. Scientists are wary of its effect on creativity

Is it wrong for your kid to play with a "racist pile of linear algebra" (h/t @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social ) that's deployed by Big Tech companies whose primary desire is to scale scale scale through evermore exploitation and extraction?

It's enjoyable so far!

DC to LA.

Masked selfie taken from a speeding Amtrak car with the blurry Maryland woods visible through the window.

Me for the next 3 days:

Work mode

I am starting a new service where I slash the tires of expensive cars in Silicon Valley unless their owners specifically opt-out.

Italy was shut down for Palestine by our amazing Italian comrades, as more than 75 Italian cities participated in a nationwide general strike, demanding an embargo on israel and the severing of all ties from the white setter colonial apartheid ethnostate currently committing genocide in Palestine.

Every week is #WeekWithoutDriving when your license has been expired for 13 years. 😎

Continually shitting on the people who dedicated their childhoods to making you a billionaire all because they occasionally politely contradict your hateful views is so contemptible lol.

Step one: build more prisons

Step two: make homelessness illegal

Step three: cut housing assistance

Now you have a huge population of workers doing unpaid labor in prison for your corporations!

Drawing of a young woman in a jumpsuit looking over her shoulder with a black background and a red spray paint fill.

Wrote just shy of 1000 words in my novel and drew my main character. All in all, a creatively productive weekend. Now, back to the grind. #writing #scifi #art #noAI

they didn’t burn witches, the burned women. in england, they often weren’t burned, they were hanged - usually after long periods of torture - for a crime that isn’t real. it’s not a quirky piece of history, it was fucking murder

Screenshot of a Bluesky user posting, in reference to Greta Thunberg, "Sure it's dramatic and headline-friendly, she's great at that. But is this really shaking power structures, or just another round of "look at me, I'm humanity's conscience"? Feels like equal parts activism and performance art."

When people accuse of others of doing good for attention (in this case, Greta Thunberg participating in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla), I can't help but think they are projecting their own childish motivations onto others.

Mario Guevara faces imminent deportation after being detained by ICE for over 100 days.

His crime? Livestreaming a “No Kings” protest.

If you were outraged about Jimmy Kimmel, you should be more outraged about Guevara.

It’s time to #FreeMario now!

if you're still using the term "tankie" derisively and unironically while literal nazis rule the country, i need you to understand that consciously or not you have chosen sides and i need you to change your mind like immediately

DetectiveMike_ - Twitch Revachol needs a hero, but it got me instead | FIRST PLAYTHROUGH

Live with some more Disco Elysium.

I wonder what trouble we'll get into tonight...
www.twitch.tv/detectivemike_

Writing - Longing

My tenure on Spotify is rapidly coming to a close because they're evil but I did recently put together a writing sprint playlist for myself with built-in 5-min breaks if anyone's interested. #writing #sciencefiction 🎧💻🪐🚀💫🛰️

open.spotify.com/playlist/67U...

With RFK's Attacks on the COVID Vaccine It's Official: We Don't Have the Tools RFK's moves to limit access to the COVID vaccine are the latest in a long line of moves that shrank- rather than expanded- the size of the so-called anti-COVID "toolbox"

“As politicians turn on this final tool, can we not at last agree that our government has no plan to control COVID-19?

The plan is to offload the costs of this virus - of mitigation, of infection, of long-term damage to health, of lost wages- onto you.”

www.thegauntlet.news/p/with-rfks-...

There's a reason they seem to be mostly targeting women to beat up, and we all know what it is.

It's scary how susceptible we all are to gaslighting. I filed EEOC charges against an employer who vehemently denied even my most objectively true claims and the case was thrown out. I was full of self-doubt until a big news story broke and a bunch of people I never even met confirmed my claims.

these motherfuckers

AI ‘Workslop’ Is Killing Productivity and Making Workers Miserable AI slop is taking over workplaces. Workers said that they thought of their colleagues who filed low-quality AI work as "less creative, capable, and reliable than they did before receiving the output."

A new study, based on a survey of 1,150 workers suggests that the injection of AI tools into the workplace has not resulted in a magic productivity boom and instead increased the amount of time that workers say they spend fixing low-quality AI-generated “work.”

🔗 www.404media.co/ai-workslop-...

YouTube video by Bear McCreary, Composer "Prelude to War" - So Say We All: Battlestar Galactica Live

Maybe it's the state of the world but I've been feeling a lot of sentimentality for Battlestar Galactica, lately. Anyway, I love this performance so much.

youtu.be/NohlZt1NB0g?...

This was extremely obvious from the increased inequality and concentration of wealth stats. People who refused to see this are stupid.

Remarkable document: hundreds of European politicians are calling to mobilize European resources to protect the Sumud aid flotilla as it faces escalating attacks on its way to Gaza.

In other words: European politicians are trying to protect humanitarian volunteers *from Israel.*