hey cis friends

when i say we need you to be an accomplice, not an ally

this is what i mean

I for one, am looking forward to all manners of transhumanistic nonsense this will inevitably lead to

Julia Steinberger: What we are up against (German translation) — Céline Keller Original article: What we are up against I made this translation comparing two Ai translations and editing a bit. It is probably not perfect, but better than none. Please let me know, if you find...

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"Wir wissen, daß die Klimakrise durch höchst ungleiche und undemokratische Wirtschaftssysteme verursacht wird.
Die jüngste Geschichte dieser Wirtschaftssysteme auf dem amerikanischen Kontinent und in Eurasien wird vom Aufstieg der neoliberalen Ideologie beherrscht."

Thread. “AI is patching up the holes in conspiracy theories and so making them seem more reasonable, making them easier to spread and more resilient to collapse” was not on my bingo card.

AI relieves the pressure of cognitive dissonance. That’s … not great.

OMG what the hell.
This is just cruel
Jewelry often has a value beyond the practical, it's often a reminder of loved ones.
Could this timeline be a little less reminiscent of 1930ies Germany?

This person was the President of Harvard University, the US Secretary of the Treasury, and the Director of the National Economic Council of the United States.

Chapter 4 contained many references to Bill Gates' interview with Jimmy Fallon about how AI will replace humans.

F: "Will we still need humans?"
G: "Uh...not for most things."
[gasps from audience]
G: "We'll decide!"

The obvious question: who's "we"? Williams warns it isn't the democratic we.

This is one of the things I hate most about modern capitalism. The idea of making money has been fully peeled away from delivering any kind of goods or services that people would want to pay money for.

When I talk about the invention of "AI" as an attempt to manifest the Infinite Money God, this is part of what I'm talking about. Private equity achieved the ability to make money without a good or service—AI is the attempt to make money without even customers or employees.

ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy

How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

Ain’t gonna happen. Trump never
gives out money without ropes attached.
And it’s money he took from US,
in raised prices due to tariffs.

Joyce Carol Oates sitting across a desk from Kendrick Lamar:

"So I'm putting a team together..."

Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.

This would be “worst NFP print since Dec 2020,” adds the Goldman desk.

Opinion | The Ruling About Passports Isn’t About ID. It’s About Social Control.

This essay on Trump v. Orr, the transgender passports case, is excellent. The short of it: The Supreme Court put a lot of people in harms’ way, both at home and abroad.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/o...

7-day forecast for Seattle, WA, shows unrelenting rain and clouds.

Severe geomagnetic storm watch in effect, aurora likely visible across much of the US.

Seattle:

25-125 DAVIS, KIM V. ERMOLD, DAVID, ET AL. The motion of Foundation for Moral Law for leave to file a brief as amicus curiae out of time is denied. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court DENIES former county clerk Kim Davis's request for the justices to take up her longshot bid to overturn 2015's Obergefell v. Hodges marriage equality decision. No justice even writes about the request.

> @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social

I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong,

it is right.

No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,

it is a strength.

No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,

it is unlimited.

A post on Mastodon by small cypress (@small_cypress@indieweb.social): As an art teacher I was worried AI would come up as an issue of "why should I learn how to draw when I can use AI instead." But the real issue is that my middle schoolers CONSTANTLY believe all art I show them is AI. Digital art. Photography. Oil paintings from the Western canon. "A human couldn't do that" Being convinced that humans can't make great art is kind of terrifying

I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.

America’s Future Is Hungary MAGA conservatives love Viktor Orbán. But he’s left his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished.

In honor of Viktor Orban's visit to Washington, here's a reminder that Orban has made his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished:
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

A majority of the days the government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was president. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...

This week:
•FAA orders ground stop at JFK & O’Hare due to staff shortages
•USA has now lost 1M jobs under Trump—most since 2003
•US Army told soldiers to go to German food banks
•History's longest Govt Shutdown persists
•House in session only 12 of last 105 days
•Trump blocks SNAP to 42M Americans

Meanwhile, CEOs make 280 times the typical worker today.

The system is rigged.

“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states

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Seven more families are now suing OpenAI over ChatGPT's role in suicides, delusions | TechCrunch In one case, 23-year-old Zane Shamblin had a conversation with ChatGPT that lasted more than four hours.

Seven *more* families?
And this is only the families who have the means to sue, and (critically) the families who FOUND OUT.

How many more vulnerable people has ChatGPT convinced? Will we ever know?

Fuck all this.

techcrunch.com/2025/11/07/s...

In the article below, you can learn how Peter Thiel and Palantir have seized control of all core government infrastructure. Thiel, Karp, and all of the techno-fascist billionaire friends of theirs are the biggest threats to democracy, and they’re moving rapidly, in the cover of American bureaucracy.