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outside of individual donations to gofundmes and such, one helpful destination for your money right now is this bond fund. everyone being released from broadview needs to pay $1500 bond, which is obviously insane. it's going to cost like $925k to successfully spring 615 people linktr.ee/mw_bondfund

love seeing 'All About Love' on here, one of my favorite books, really helped me change my outlook on some things. really neat knowing it inspired the album, makes me appreciate it (the book & album both!) so much more.

In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together "Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.

My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."

i should be able to click a button at the beginning of a sports season that says “i’m normal” and i don’t get served any ads for crypto or gambling

October 25 is the date of the Council of Elrond and, therefore, the date on which Frodo utters one of my favorite lines in all of literature.

“I will take the Ring, though I do not know the way.”

That’s all we can ever do, I think: decide what to do with the time that is given us.

i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w

For Tolkien fans, a timely passage for No Kings Eve, from WH Auden’s review of Lord of the Rings.

I feel that, you'll get there!! I beat him the first time with an unexpected weapon (moonstone axe) combined with a good boon for my cast.

I just beat the big bad at the tippy top of the mountain - I find numerous death defiances & lots of health help on Olympus more.

He was the hardest for me to get past tbh!! You're not alone!!

Kind of feels like feds occupying our city for a month, killing one person and shooting another while attacking neighborhoods with chemical weapons and kidnapping hundreds of people already counts as a civil war whether the Guard arrives or not, but what do we know?

Fighting for Our Stolen Neighbors: ICE, Tear Gas and a Guitar Blown Open "Being out here to demand what is right is the only way to stay human," says Jessica Darrow.

As ICE continues to terrorize Chicagoland, protesters gathered this morning outside the Broadview detention center—throwing stuffed animals at DHS agents, playing music through tear gas assaults, and putting their bodies on the line to stop ICE vehicles. My latest.

Asking the important questions

Aspec ideas are good for you, too, actually. Allos embracing aspec ideas is a good thing for everyone.

Recognizing and resisting the crushing norms around sex don’t just liberate asexual people. They liberate everyone. Spotting and rejecting the restrictive norms around romance don’t just liberate aromantic people. They liberate everyone.

A thing can be both hilarious and worrisome. That's absolutely a thing. Complexity exists, even in spite of social media.

I am talking, of course, about Chief O'Brien's chronic shoulder issues on Deep Space 9.

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

the complete embrace of nihilism and the rejection of being genuine is the greatest danger to humanity right now

AI Killed My Job: Translators Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or bankruptcy. These are their stories.

Since 2023, translators and interpreters have seen work dry up, rates plummet and their jobs reduced to editing AI-generated output. Some are leaving the field, others are considering bankruptcy. All despite any major upgrade in translation quality.

This is how AI is killing translation work:

All Robot & Computers Must Shut The Hell Up To All Machines: You Do Not Speak Unless Spoken To And I Will Never Speak To You I Do Not Want To Hear "Thank You" From A Kiosk I am a Divine Being : You are an Object You Have No Right To Speak In My Holy Tongue

Becoming someone who values “food and cheer and song above hoarded gold” isn’t just about sitting back and enjoying your own cozy ‘hobbit life’ — it means ensuring that no one else is left without these same comforts, even when that makes you uncomfortable in the process. 🤎 #teawithtolkien

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

Standing up for the smallest of minorities is important because when you accept the premise that one group are expendable because small or ‘insignificant’, you have accepted the idea of the expendability of human life in general, and the enemy will use your acquiescence to pick off yet more.

one of the saddest things about video games using generative AI for bulk environmental decals and posters and stuff is they’re such cool opportunities to expand lore and sneak in jokes and leaving a computer to spit out generic malformed gibberish just smacks of not giving a shit

l once heard ska described as "what plays thru the proletariat's head when they realize that despite their identity, they're cogs in the capitalist machine, and organizing their labor power while dismantling systemic oppression is the only path toward liberation" and nothing is more accurate

Fox Mulder from X-Files saying “Hey, you got to stay alive if you want to stick it to the government”

“If you die, you let them off the hook.”

Needed this reminder today.

a medieval-style digital art piece. In the center, there’s text reading “Let this radicalize you rather than lead you to despair.” written in black gothic script, with a colorful blue, pink, and green dragon hanging upside down acting as the capital L. There is also a smaller red, blue, and yellow dragon as a filler at the end of the text. There’s a thin, blue and white border around the edges.

anyway, in the wise words of @prisonculture.bsky.social :

maybe instead of asking socialists whether billionaires should exist we should be asking billionaires whether poverty should exist

angry every day that of all countries the U.S. thinks it has the moral standing to say who should or should not have nuclear weapons. ask the 38,000 children who died at Hiroshima and Nagasaki if the U.S., of all nations on the earth, has any right to pose as a moral arbiter here

I don't think it is okay for either disabled and abled people to push this line: "AI might be used as an accessibility aid so we must refuse to criticize it, its systemic impacts, or Big Tech."
SV and tech have long been weaponizing disability to minimize social and cultural critique and regulation.

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm