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also, there are plenty of text to speech tools that just record and don't analyze and they've existed for nearly my entire life. we've got to stop allowing people to conflate direct, non-generative tools with genAI when they have a financial incentive to do so

I hope no one lets any elected official to pretend to forget about this. They want people to starve.

To clarify, she's been going into multi organ failure for some time. This is life and death ☠️

Not putting sirens on this one in hopes of reaching people who have that emoji muted.

just your random reminder to not repost unsourced screenshots or video from random accounts as news without checking to make sure they're not fake / satire / etc!

The mamdani campaign poster generator: FREE LINK for fuke sake

"But if that were true then your life would be impossible" is an entire genre of dismissals of disabled people's experiences.

It's not that they don't understand when we say how hard it is. It's that they can't believe we're still functioning at all of it's that hard.

Nah I don’t fuck with this.

This is still mocking disability. We must be better than that.

I want these nerd losers hostile to all that is human to be humiliated without it costing *me* money, please.

Norman Rockwell man standing up meme

I don't think the president of the United States should starve Americans

We need to frame the proliferation of untested chatbots and LLMs into under served populations for mental health care as a manifestation of systemic ableism.
It’s both not caring what harms might be caused/but also ‘making do with anything’ BECAUSE these are disabled folk.

I am so used to him choosing the most despicable option in every situation that him making a sound decision literally did not occur to me, so thank you for this.

I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee.

I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them

More important to me than my identity, I am also the Vice President of the NewsGuild of New York, and targeting me with a blatantly retaliatory termination like this feels like an egregious shot against our union and against media workers as a whole.

Wow, did not even notice this the first time but he sure does bolt the fuck outta there.

I can only send 10 right now, who can pick up the difference? 🖤

Mamdani underperformed Harris and every NYC mayor elected in the 21st century: Mamdani is among the greatest underperformers of the century. Early estimates show that Mamdani won X% of the vote, underperforming Kamala Harris’s 68% by X points, and garnering less support than any NYC mayor has won in the last 25 years. If the Mamdani brand of politics can’t overperform in a place like New York, it certainly won’t work in the far more conservative battleground areas.

Thirdway has a memo out about how Mamdani's politics won't work in the rest of the country but they wrote it before he won and forgot to replace "X%" with his actual margin. lol.

I heard that man say:

1. I am Muslim
2. I am a Democratic Socialist
3. I will never apologize for those two things.

And:

4. You will not fuck with trans people, either.

And now, tell me if I'm wrong here, because I'm no Nate Silver or Will Stancil...

...it is a winning strategy.

If Philip were still alive he would have been over the fucking moon about Mamdani’s win (and Cheney’s death as the cherry on top).

Crying so much tonight. Out of joy, grief, hope, homesickness, sheer overwhelm. What a fucking day.

“I can see the dawn of the better day for humanity.” - Eugene V. Debs

caring is punk! Empathy will win!!!

@erinbiba.bsky.social a little something to celebrate this moment

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

When only the pure arbitrary will of the totalitarian leader or his movement's utterly unmoored and phantasmagorical 'ideology' determines state action, anything from the state is possible...mostly meaning mass murder, terror, and famine

Between Gitmo, the Department of "Homeland Security," the Hague Invasion Act, extraordinary rendition, torture gulags, No Child Left Behind, the Patriot Act, and the Great Recession, Bush and Cheney did more to enable the rise of Trump and fascism in the US than almost anyone in the 21st century.

I never turn sound on for videos but on a whim I did partway through, and lordy the piano nocturne underscoring got me.

In Which We Deserve Options Other Than Rapists and Robots I don’t want to be assaulted by a driver, nor surveilled by cat-killing robot cars. Is this really the best we can do?

Have you checked out @coyotemedia.org recently? We've done some good shit in the last two weeks!
〰️ An essay by @emmaruthless.bsky.social on why all our options seem to suck right now
〰️ A guide to places offering free food to SNAP recipients: www.coyotemedia.org/these-bay-ar...

Sora 2 is not being “misused” when people use it to produce racist, transphobic, misogynistic, & otherwise vile images—it exists to make it easier to put these images out into the world. Calling it a “misuse” is a grave misunderstanding of what these companies are up to, & lets OpenAI off the hook.

A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control

New awareness campaign

And in that pause between pitch and contact - longer than logic, shorter than hope - we remembered why baseball existed long before we judged a sport's value by viral moments and betting apps. It is the romance of failure. The mortal beauty of trying and missing seven times out of 10 and still being considered great. It is the only sport where patience is a weapon, and panic the surest death. You cannot simply run out the clock in baseball; you must face it, pitch by terrifying pitch, until it finally releases you.

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper

www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

Moreover, if you're not trans, if you're not homeless, if you're not a farm worker, and you're already all in on Newsom, you might stop and ask yourself why you're so comfortable supporting a candidate who is so willing to throw the most vulnerable under the bus.