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Free states can resist attempts to block funding for healthcare, education, food, and housing by making those basic needs into universal basic rights protected by law. Meet everyone's basic needs, it's the right policy and a defense against fascist division and scapegoating.

"The other day I went to the local pharmacy for my flu and COVID-19 shots, which are free to all B.C. residents. I asked the pharmacist about the vaccination for respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV. I learned that it would cost me about $300..."

Why All Vaccines Should Be Free | The Tyee COVID-19 normalized vaccination for adults, and we should go further to protect people from shingles and RSV.

Why All Vaccines Should Be Free: COVID-19 normalized vaccination for adults, and we should go further... "Want to ease the burden of health-care costs, and especially hospitalization? Easy. Just spend whatever it costs to provide all Canadians with free vaccinations — for life."

"The plants, dead wood and soil in the daycare centre have all been specially selected for their rich micro-biodiversity. They have also dug up and imported a giant live carpet of forest floor..."

"There is the outer layer – the more familiar vision of biodiversity, made up of soil, water, plants, animals and microbial life, that lives in the forest, playground (or any other environment). And then there is the inner layer: the biodiversity that lives within..."

How a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool transformed children’s health In Finland, kindergartens are exposing children to more mud, wild plants and moss - and finding changes to their health that show how crucial biodiversity is to wellbeing

How a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool transformed children’s health - "Across Finland, 43 daycare centres have been awarded a total of €1 million to rewild yards and to increase children’s exposure to the microscopic biodiversity that lives in nature."

"The urban data kept telling them the same thing: the most significant impact on the distribution of plants was not elevation, proximity to water bodies, being close to rural areas or soil type. It was the wealth of people living nearby."

The luxury effect: why you’ll find more wildlife in wealthy areas – and what it means for your health The discovery that affluent neighbourhoods have more diversity of nature has implications for human wellbeing – and sheds light on the structural injustices in cities

The luxury effect: "wealthy parts of cities have more wildlife, and more wildlife diversity – a finding that can have profound implications for human health and wellbeing..."

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If you cloak your racism and bigotry in the lie of just wanting to "preserve your culture" then your culture is racism and bigotry, your culture actually should be destroyed, and it's the duty of every decent person to help destroy it.

"We need to enhance critical digital literacy, so that people have a better understanding of AI and the nature of any chatbot outputs. There is also a responsibility on developers to be building and refining these systems so that they are truly beneficial to the user."

‘Sycophantic’ AI chatbots tell users what they want to hear, study shows Scientists warn of ‘insidious risks’ of increasingly popular technology that affirms even harmful behaviour

"Sycophantic AI chatbots tell users what they want to hear ... Sycophancy has been a concern for a while; an outcome of how AI systems are trained, as well as the fact that their success as a product is often judged on how well they maintain user attention."
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Musk wants to be paid a trillion dollars for building a robot army? Of course he does, he's twelve.

Straight out of his twelve-year-old brain: "It’s just, if we build this robot army, do I have at least a strong influence over that robot army ... That’s what it comes down to ... don’t feel comfortable wielding that robot army if I don’t have at least a strong influence."

Elon Musk defends $1 trillion pay package: ‘I just don’t feel comfortable building a robot army here and then being ousted’ Tesla CEO Elon Musk warns “corporate terrorists” are trying to take away his $1 trillion pay package—and control over building out the company’s AI and robotic future.

He wants to be paid a trillion dollars? Of course he does...
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Leftwinger Catherine Connolly wins Ireland presidential election by landslide Independent pledges to be ‘president for all’ after taking 63% of vote in upset for political establishment

"I will be a voice for peace, a voice that builds on our policy of neutrality, a voice that articulates the existential threat posed by climate change ... Together, we can shape a new republic that values everybody, that values and champions diversity..."

— Catherine Connolly

"Scope downgrades US credit rating on public finance, governance deterioration..."
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The problem isn't actually AI, it's capitalism and AI as we know it. Consider the Holodeck in Star Trek. It's generative AI based on prompts with no regard for IP rights because in a post-scarcity society you don't need to worry about food, housing, and other basic needs.

It has always been necessary to engage critically with mainstream US media. Now, however, we have entered a new era where outlets like NPR, the AP, and others, are repeating what the Trump regime says but not following up to point out they are lying. Extremely bad development.

Nothing US mainstream media reports can be trusted.

Mainstream US media has always had serious issues but it is now completely unreliable. Written articles, radio news, and television broadcasts are uncritically repeating what the Trump regime says, using their specific language and phrasing without fact-checking it.

A recipe for avoiding 15 million deaths a year and climate disaster is fixing food, scientists say Scientists are presenting new evidence that the worst effects of climate change can’t be avoided without a major transformation of food systems.

Without substantial changes to the food system, the worst effects of climate change will be unavoidable, even if humans successfully switch to cleaner energy.
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Abolish executions everywhere, forever.

If you want to take away the wonder of living from any other living thing, all I can think is that you do not yourself truly appreciate what a wonder it is to be alive, to exist and experience the universe. Otherwise you could never want to take that away from anyone.

I will never understand how anyone ever thinks it's OK to kill. As long as I can remember I've thought it was the most horrific thing. Inherently terrible. Irredeemable. As wrong as anything can be. Acting to end other lives is fundamentally incompatible with the point of living.

Replies on other social media to posts of Sotomayor's dissent just burn with ruthless and horrible brutality: "why don't they use a firing squad" - "it's painless" - there's a "more humane" way to do it... All the same things people think about killing animals. I will just never understand people.

People who don't get it seem to think it's strange to know, as deeply as you know anything, that enslaving and killing animals is wrong, and to feel it so strongly that you can barely imagine how it is so normalized. Yet executions of humans are the same exact kind of horror.

Sotomayor's dissent: "Imagine for that entire time, you are suffocating. You want to breathe; you have to breathe. But you are strapped to a gurney with a mask on your face pumping your lungs with nitrogen gas. Your mind knows that the gas will kill you. But your body keeps telling you to breathe."

Home - About Face Veterans Veterans taking action against militarism and endless wars We are Post-9/11 military members and veterans organizing to end a foreign policy of permanent war and the use of military weapons, tactics, ...

Follow @vetsaboutface.bsky.social and learn about their history, for one excellent modern example of the key role veterans have in the movement to end war and build a future based on justice and peace.
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This idea that military service history disqualifies someone from being a leftist is wrong. Veterans against war are essential members of any society and social movement that aims to end military imperialism, and they have often led the anti-war movements throughout history.

We must all unite in unequivocal support for trans people, migrants, and anyone the fascists target. Dehumanizing, scapegoating, and other tactics or distractions are strategies to break our anti-fascist front. The only way to stop fascism is unbreakable anti-fascist solidarity.