Nate Cavalieri

one of the most infuriating parts of the Epstein story is over the same years that young women went to police and reported assault, and were ignored, law enforcement is pushing this idea that they need massive grants and manpower to rescue thousands of girls they say don’t even know they’re victims

Post from "The Rundown" July 18 at 5:30 PM · DuckDuckGo has introduced a new feature allowing users to filter out AI-generated images from search results, addressing growing concerns over synthetic content overwhelming authentic visuals online. The filter can be activated through a dropdown in the Images tab, search settings, or by using a dedicated AI-free domain: noai.duckduckgo.com. The system relies on curated blocklists, including uBlockOrigin’s Huge AI Blocklist, to detect and suppress AI-generated imagery. While not perfect, it significantly reduces synthetic content visibility. This move sets DuckDuckGo apart from competitors like Google and Bing by giving users direct control over their exposure to AI-generated material. Source: TechCrunch

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

Literally had someone ask me this today in response to a point about Israel deliberately starving Palestinian babies death.

Despicable callousness. Beyond inhumane. There’s nothing to say to such cruel people. Let’s instead continue to raise our voices & actions relentlessly to end this genocide.

I still can't get over Trump being lobbed a nice softball question about why he kicked Epstein out of Mar A Lago, and instead of saying, "Because he's a pedophile," he said, "He did something totally unforgivable...he was stealing my workers."

dudes rock

im never going to vote for gavin newsom

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Oakland cops gave ICE license plate data; SFPD also illegally shared with feds The illegal data sharing started soon after Oakland's cameras went live in August 2024.

Ride a bike, f*** with the surveillance state.
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Opinion How We Are Ruining America By David Brooks July 11, 2017

Recently I took a friend with only a high school degree to lunch. Insensitively, I led her into a gourmet sandwich shop. Suddenly I saw her face freeze up as she was confronted with sandwiches named "Padrino" and "Pomodoro" and ingredients like soppressata, capicollo and a striata baguette. I quickly asked her if she wanted to go somewhere else and she anxiously nodded yes and we ate Mexican.

happy anniversary to all who celebrate

The wind chimes in Cristopher Cross’ “sailing” don’t sound real but it also seems too early in recording history for fake wind chimes.

FWIW you seem great at sarcasm

Done holding my nose at @nytimes.com dehumanization of Palestinians and wack pearl-clutching about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. Transitioning my subscription $$ to @coyotemedia.org, @natechinen.bsky.social's substack and @oaklandside.org. ✌️Free Palestine.

@chaninicholas.bsky.social justice called Gemini the queerest sign of them all and I love her.

Instead of Substack, consider: starting something called a "website"

I made my living just writing *record reviews* for a handful of them. Wasn’t getting rich, but feel honored that I got to catch it before it died totally.

ICEblock, which allows users to alert others to the geographical location of ICE officers, is the top social networking app in the App Store right now after Karoline Leavitt condemned it from the podium yesterday.

Mamdani is like a honey trap for Democratic officials who need to get primaried out of a job

Wait a minute this bill isn't beautiful at all

In February, 7-year-old Dolma Naadhun was crossing the intersection of Newtown Road and 45th Street in Astoria with her mother and sister when the driver of a 2021 Ford Explorer blew through a stop sign, striking and killing Dolma. One month later, New York City Department of Transportation commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez visited the crash site with other officials, met with community members demanding a traffic signal be installed, and promised to make changes to the street - including "daylighting" the intersection using curb extensions and plastic bollards. State assemblymember Zohran Mamdani also visited the scene that day and realized that something else needed to change. "When you take a step back and think about traffic violence in New York City," he said, "you start to understand that this is a systemic issue that is incentivized by the policies that we have in place with regard to the design of our streets and what kind of vehicles we allow to be on our roads." Whether a driver runs a stop sign or a red light, statistically, certain cars - namely, bigger SUVs and trucks - are more likely to kill a 7-year-old. This is why Mamdani is co- introducing legislation for a weight-based vehicle-registration fee intended to discourage people from purchasing heavier vehicles. "The car industry is pushing the sale of heavier and larger vehicles," he says. "The state has to make it clear that these types of vehicles come with a certain kind of cost."

soar above adult shoulders. But there may be another way to disincentivize the purchases of such vehicles, says Edwards. "One other potential idea would be for someone, maybe a city's DOT, to start keeping a list of the different makes and models of vehicles that are killing pedestrians and cyclists, or kids specifically, and post that publicly," he says. "That could bring awareness to which cars are more dangerous and also potentially affect insurance rates, which would possibly convince people not to buy certain cars." There's a bit of accountability in New York's bill, which would require the State DOT to track all fatal crashes by vehicle weight. But the other encouraging aspect of the proposal is that the collected fees stay local, by county, and, after the annual dedications to highway, bridge, and transit trust funds are met, a full 75 percent of the funds raised will go toward safety improvements like bike lanes, bollards, road diets, pedestrianization of streets, and raised crosswalks. This means the neighborhoods most impacted by large vehicles are likely to see the biggest changes. And that might be the most important part of the legislation, says Mamdani. "This is an initiative to make our streets safer for our children," he says. "And we are making sure a significant portion of this funding goes toward creating the very streetscapes that we know will save their lives."

Two years ago I interviewed a 31-year-old NY state assemblymember about a 7-year-old girl killed by an SUV driver in his district. I hung up the phone, astonished that I'd talked to a legislator who so thoughtfully articulated what actually needs to change on our streets.

He'll make a great mayor

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social getting that chilly welcome from the @nytimes.com

TIL 40% of American Nobel Prize winners are immigrants!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Waymo brand team having a serious case of the Sunday blues.

The Silicon Valley fascists genuinely think that technology (i.e., cool robots and spaceships) has nothing to do with science (i.e., girls filling out spreadsheets wokely). I am not being sarcastic. I know that sounds insane. But that's really what they think.

"What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity."

- William S. Burroughs

The image shows a Kamala Harris wearing a colorful rainbow-patterned jacket, a black top, white pants, and white sneakers. They are holding a microphone and smiling. A person in the background is wearing a black shirt, cap, and glasses. The text overlaid on the image reads "KICK COPS OUT OF PRIDE." The scene suggests a public or outdoor event, possibly related to LGBTQ+ pride.

My home of Missoula just voted to establish the pride flag as an official government flag of the city, thereby circumventing the state's asinine pride flag ban. 🏳️‍🌈

Missoula is once again showing how to fight back against policies that seek to erase the LGBTQ community.

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@oaklandside.org celebrating Rebecca Kaplan for the stunning achievement of being marginally competent. Ooof.