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Additionally, we punish the unemployed with what is, essentially, torture. Starvation, homelessness, no way to seek medical help, no ability to travel, move, or do anything. Even if AI could do all the jobs, there is NOTHING in place for the millions of people without income.

YouTube video by Democracy Now! "Empire of AI": Karen Hao on How AI Is Threatening Democracy & Creating a New Colonial World

And BINGO was his NAME-O! MBA-brain (thank you) got it all sorted. Finally a solution to get rid of the Overheads!!

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I’m an interpreter/translator, and I’m 0% worried that machine translation can actually do my job at an acceptable level of accuracy, but I’m extremely concerned that court admin will see the chance to save $ and put people’s equal access rights in the hands of freakin ChatGPT or Grok

You should regard anyone exhibiting signs of MBA-brain as having a "The Last Of Us" style cordyceps infection.

They just want to eat things, and the fungal infection wants to spread by biting the uninfected.

MBA-brain is what leads to Private Equity buying companies, saddling the companies with massive debts, paying themselves a fantastic annual bonus for their cleverness in, say, selling off the land and assets for a quick cash turn and paying rent on facilities they used to own.

"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'."

MBA-brain is real.

#NEISVoid New Definition:
#SpatulaTime When you're completely out of spoons, forks, *and* knives, and the only way you can do anything is if someone scrapes you off the floor/bed/couch with a spatula.

The thing that really gets under my skin about this is you all get angry at TERFs and their "think of the cis women" and then go do it yourselves by centering how cis women will be inconvenienced. You're no better. In fact, you're worse

If only media reported on the trans people who have actually died because of all these anti-trans laws and policies and not the cis women who were inconvenienced when they were called ugly or were accused of being trans oh the horrors of being called trans

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Last of an era - found one more Swarovski drop buried deep in my stash.

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Army Green DeLite - who wants to snap up this beauty?

#Handmade #ShopIndie

As people have their heads in syllabi and classes, I’d like to highlight how ‘In the Land of the Lacandón: A Graphic History of Adventure and Imperialism’ (MQUP 2025) can be used in teaching. (Please repost and push this thread along.)

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Poem of Manuel Bolom Pale in Tsotsil and English translation.

Because the book riffs on who gets to speak, tell stories, and make history, we invited Manuel Bolom Pale to write an extended poem about the episode from an Indigenous Maya point of view and in his language, Tsotsil.

Louis Tulley voice: "Yes, have some 🐈." Seriously, please help. Have a cat and/or drop some cash. 🐾 #Caturday bsky.app/profile/jnxo...

Doaa's story has just been covered in this piece, too

Help me evacuate my family from Gaza to Egypt Hello, world a world that understands humanity and peace.

Please contribute if you're able or share if you're not.

Directly asking people you know is most effective

Doaa and her family could really use more support right now 💕💸🍉

*updated Saturday morning I need $450 to be safe for a week, or $105 for a night. At least prices have come back down a bit. I am very grateful for any help at all. Please consider helping if you can, and please don't if you're struggling. Thank you I paid for tonight in the nick of time. I desperately need help securing a safe place to be before checkout tomorrow. I'm broke now, and I have nowhere to go Sunday morning. I can't express how shitty I feel about begging for my survival when there are so many people who are far more worse off than I am - but I don't know what else I can do. I have a car but because of my health & mobility issues it's not possible for me to sleep in it. CashApp/Venmo: saorsiek (the spelling is different to my name)

Please share and consider helping 🙏🏻 #HomelessSenior #Disabled #SickAF #VeryUrgent #MutualAidRequest #KeepFolksAlive 💕💸
It’s 3pm, and I have no money at all, the stress is killing me

Right or wrong, I hold queer people to a higher standard on trans issues.

When we cis queer people talk about trans issues against/over trans voices

it is carried off as 'SEE! SEE! EVEN THE OTHER QUEERS AGREE WITH US AGAINST THE TRANS'

In short, fuck Pete Buttigieg

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420 keeps us safe a week. 450 gives us a day or two of food too. Anything helps us stay safer longer.

a woman is sitting in a chair and says " full stop " ALT: a woman is sitting in a chair and says " full stop "

Don't know who needs to hear this but there is no reproductive justice without disability justice.

Court overrules Ford government’s plan to remove bike lanes An Ontario judge has ruled that Premier Doug Ford’s plan to remove 19 kilometres of protected bike lanes around Toronto is unconstitutional and would not reduce traffic congestion. The Ford government...

It's true climate laggard provincial governments are attempting power grabs & trying to rip out progress at the city level but it's also true they're failing at it, which means our city climate engagement is more important now than ever. We need fighters /3 #BikeLanes #yyc www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Infographic titled “Climate Action Engagement Levels” showing three categories of climate action. Individual – icon of two people. Text: “Ease ↑, Impact ↓ (but still important).” Municipal/City – icon of buildings with a road. Text: “Ease ↑, Impact ↑ (the sweet spot).” Systemic – icon of a gear with Earth inside. Text: “Ease ↓, Impact ↑ (but still important).”

To see real impact happen before your very eyes you just can't beat city-level #ClimateAction. It's why @calgaryclimatehub.ca does exactly what we do & it's why engaging with your mayor & city councillors is so critical at election times, budget sessions or any time you've got something to say. /2

Rosie the Riveter says "CLIMATE ACTION NOW!!!"

🧵 It's said that a politician only has 2 jobs:

1) Get elected
2) Get reelected

They need your vote like you & I need oxygen. That's our POWER & nowhere are we stronger than at the municipal or city level. It just so happens that at the city level is also where #ClimateAction is most viable. #yyc

At Home Depot garden center where some amazing activists are holding up signs that say “ICE WAS HERE TODAY” and even still there are day workers all over the parking lot. LA isn’t going to abandon our neighbors and friends and family. Fascists can’t understand that but it is the case nonetheless.

Kicking off with @melissaryan.bsky.social talking about starbucks workers, teachers, #TEslatakedown and what it means to create friction! #NN25

What in the actual fuck is this misguided nonsense?
You care about Gaza (apparently) - how TF does this shit help anyone? Seriously?

YES! Imputing "delusions" to a chatbot is like saying your Scrabble tiles are delusional because the seven letters you drew misspell a perfectly good word.