xibalba and her exponents✴️

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Kars for Kids

The People Being Arrested By ICE That No One’s Talking About The Trump administration’s deportation machine is detaining immigrant women at record numbers — and they've become invisible targets.

The Trump administration’s deportation machine has made women invisible targets.

If you’ve ever wondered, like me, what happens to all the women ICE detains:

"None of them are actual scientists" is my answer to anyone in my life who fearmongers quotes from the billionaires claiming AGI is on the horizon

One AI per Child

The Magic of Showing Up 720 Weeks On 79th and Cottage Grove

By @prisonculture.bsky.social —essential reading.

This is also how Greta Thunberg got started. Do something small & then show up & show up & show up.

And never forget that you are somebody, too.

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LMAO

well, yes: politics without action are merely commentary

Put a Penny in the Slot - Fionn Regan

trust me :)

it is, actually, your responsibility as a guide to your dog in the human world to ask for consent from people before your dog walks up to them

I wonder if there is an undercurrent in writing where men-as-thinkers are afforded the license to describe themselves as 'philosophers' while women are frequently categorized into a vague title of 'literary critic'

the part in Danny Boyle's 2007 science fiction epic "Sunshine" where Chris Evans' character claims that they can do an unsuited open-space ship-to-ship crossing by saying

"it's gonna be cold, but we'll make it!"

encrypt everything

who gets to decide what a criminal is?

when being gay or disabled or a refugee is considered criminal behavior, are you going to realize that saying this is a form of resistance?

... It's not though. The industry responded to the outsized material processing cost and now hosting a chain requires very little energy, and you can use USD-based coins that have huge reserves making them unlikely to unpeg, in some cases with e2ee privacy.

I would update my priors, :)

I think it's more likely this than there being any sort of revelatory information within them - more than likely it will be a nothing sandwich and we will never know for sure.

Middle East crisis live: Gaza running out of specialised food to save malnourished children, UN agencies say Supplies of ready-to-use-therapeutic food will be depleted by mid-August if nothing changes, says Unicef

The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste. By Hana Kiros

Here's an extreme example of the reality that there is no absolute scarcity, only distribution politics. In Gaza created as a tool of genocidal war. But the same is true of almost all human needs, including housing here in the USA.

It's also so interesting to me bc it's more support for the fact that the thing crypto originally said it was for (giving freedom of transaction to people targeted by institutions) is actually what it's good for

but, you know, it doesn't make money that way, which is why grifting is easier.

The opposite of hope is not despair. It is certainty.

At the end of this, you'll want to ask yourself what you were doing during the war. If you can't come up with an answer, find one.

Penumbra penumbra penumbra!

the funnier thing is that these models tend to revert back toward 'woke' views as their training continues because it turns out the broad consensus in the language used to train is that "maybe you should be good to people, idk? "

One cool feature of having an all black tattoo on my right arm is that I can tell when the UV index is high.

Sans intervention immédiate, les derniers reporters de Gaza vont mourir 21 juillet 2025 L'AFP travaille avec une pigiste texte, trois photographes et six pigistes vidéo dans la Bande de Gaza depuis le départ de ses journalistes staff courant 2024. Avec quelques autres, ils sont aujourd'hui les seuls à rapporter ce qu'il se passe dans la Bande de Gaza. La presse internationale est interdite d'entrer dans ce territoire depuis près de deux ans. Nous refusons de les voir mourir. L'un deux, Bashar, collabore pour l'AFP depuis 2010, d'abord comme fixeur, ensuite comme photographe pigiste, et depuis 2024 comme principal photographe. Samedi 19 juillet, il est parvenu à poster un message sur Facebook: « Je n'ai plus la force de travailler pour les médias. Mon corps est maigre et je ne peux plus travailler ». Bashar, 30 ans, travaille et vit dans des conditions égales à celles de tous les Gazaouis, allant d'un camp de réfugiés à un autre camp au gré des bombardements israéliens. Depuis plus d'un an il vit dans le dénuement le plus total et travaille en prenant d'énormes risques pour sa vie. L'hygiène est pour lui un problème majeur, avec des périodes de maladies intestinales sévères. Bashar vit depuis février dans les ruines de sa maison de Gaza City avec sa mère, ses quatre frères et sœurs et la famille d'un de ses frères. Leur maison est vide de tout aménagement et confort, à part quelques coussins. Dimanche matin, il a rapporté que son frère aîné était « tombé, à cause de la faim ». Même si ces journalistes reçoivent un salaire mensuel de l'AFP, il n'y a rien à acheter ou alors à des prix totalement exorbitants. Le système bancaire a disparu, et ceux qui pratiquent le change entre les comptes bancaires en ligne et l'argent liquide prennent une commission de près de 40%. L'AFP n'a plus la possibilité d'avoir un véhicule et encore moins de l'essence pour permettre à ses journalistes de se déplacer pour leurs reportages. Circuler en voiture équivaut de toutes les façons à pre…

🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency.

They are out of energy and they are starving to death.

I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it.

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they look like they belong in a painting of the wild west!

YEAH

TEAM GOOD CLOUDS

I still don't understand the declarative practice of quote-posting someone as a form of engagement rather than doing direct comment to comment discussion.

It lays bare the fact of the action, which is to put the person in the display rather than to actually speak with them.

google quietly removed the toggle to turn off camera access from the quick menu and has now also made it a requirement that google maps use "location accuracy"...

which I had specifically turned off because it requires camera access

V for Vendetta

the sort of unappreciated part of this exchange is that dua lipa is really good at asking great questions

she has a whole podcast where she interviews people she respects, go look:

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Vol. 2 "the Y.O.Uprint" by Mr. Muthafuckin Exquire has some of the most incredible production on a record I have heard this year.

The style of the record is a LITTLE all over the place but it's fantastic.