Josh Barrett

AI is already taking jobs away from entry-level workers Software and customer service are most at risk right now and could be the canary in the coal mine.

Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks

www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...

"Children are dying... That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words."
~Steven Erikson, Malazan Book of the Fallen

Somebody somewhere
Needs flowers tonight

Fascism has festered in our nation since its inception.

In slavery, in Jim Crow, in capitalism—it’s morphed to survive, to build, to dominate.

But all that time, freedom has grown too; America has progressed and the world has connected.

We are more ready for this than ever before.

Good will win.

white smoke rising

legolas looking at the sky

white smoke rises. a pope has been chosen this vote

When I was a kid my imaginary friend didn't destroy the environment in order to chat with me

"What works reliably is to know the raw silk, hold the uncut wood." ~Laozi

Two moose kissing

Sometimes the most radical move
Is just to be yourself

Give it a try
Be the person you've always wanted to be

#NoKings

An illustration set against a bright red background. At the bottom half of the illustration is a rabbit, mid run. It's head is pointed down and the iris of it's eye is the same red as the background. Text overlaying the image says 'If they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you.' Which is from Watership Down by Richard Adams.

bunny

When a dog lays down and wags their tail a few times as they get comfortable is just the purest thing.

Disney Heiress Epically Slams 'Sociopath' Billionaires Who Hoard Their Wealth She's exactly right.

Exactly.

Floral garden finds in May

Simple neuroscience-based hack for anxiety:
🌿go & be in a place with plants & trees for 15 mins
🌳You'll inhale plant oils(phytoncides) from foliage
📉your stress hormone(cortisol) will drop significantly

Many of our brain pathways evolved to motivate us to forage for plants-they're still very active

The disordered family
Is full of dutiful children and parents.
The disordered society
Is full of loyal patriots.
~Laozi

The strongest thing you can be in the face of a cruel society is kind.

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

Just be kind to people. The best way to get grace is to give it.

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.

Opportunities are everywhere.

Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

Microsoft Probing If DeepSeek-Linked Group Improperly Obtained OpenAI Data Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI are investigating whether data output from OpenAI’s technology was obtained in an unauthorized manner by a group linked to Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek, ...

Oh no, the Chinese plagiarism machine might have plagiarized the American plagiarism machine

search.app/gLKPBELL2weQ...

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍🌈

No, I don't need a bloody copilot for this document, thank you.

Writing is, in no small part, a tool for thinking. If you outsource that element to a machine that cannot think, you shouldn't be surprised if, at the end of the process, neither you nor your reader are any the wiser.

Post from user 'bald ann dowd' reads, "democracy dies in honestly a pretty well-lit room."

This hits hard.

I don't know how you've done 19. I'm ~half a chapter away from finishing my first... I just need to sit down and hammer it but every time I open it my fingers won't move. I know exactly how and where it's gonna go, I don't know if I'm just not ready to be done with it or what.

While this might be accurate, an important thing to remember is that smart people can focus on solving problems because everyone else is doing the basics to keep society running and allowing for specialization into more complex tasks. We're only strong together.

The first truth is that fascism was an act of cowardice. Its adherents wanted an easy solution to a complex world. Franklin D. Roosevelt