A.S.K., a librarian

Read another article about how LLMs have a certain discernible vocabulary or style, and that people might now be imitating this style, and I think the missing clue you’re looking for is books. Books writers wrote. People are accidentally becoming literate.

There's an owl living in/around my back yard! I haven't seen them but I can hear them whoo-ing 🦉

First Trump claimed his attacks on immigrants were targeting "illegals." Now people who followed the rules are being denied US citizenship.

First Trump told Europe to pay more for defense. Now his National Security Strategy is bashing Europe for not being white enough.

The common thread: racism.

The *polite* techno-optimistic version of slavery is “we’ll invent robots with superhuman AI and they’ll be our servants.”

But the real Tell is that Balaji et al are trying to jumpstart their little Galts Gulches *right now*, sans-robots.

So where’s the labor force supposed to come from? Slavery.

The thing to understand about all these network states is:

(1) they require a permanent underclass to do all the labor that keeps cities functional,

(2) they have no answers to how or why free people en masse would sign up to be that permanent underclass

And

(3) that’s because they want slaves.

I want $5,688.37 for Christmas to be exact tpfwoman2woman.funraise.org

I am now two days past due on rent. I could be put out on the streets at any time. I have NO income because I am disabled and unable to work; and awaiting my appeal for SSDI.

I simply cannot continue going through this every two weeks.

Still $690 short; needed RIGHT NOW. Help me, please.

🙏🏿🙏🏿💸💕

If you call it a “male immaturity epidemic,” a very different set of phenomena come into focus, as this thread shows

Are you on generic Vyvanse? There was a nationwide recall in the fall that a lot of people missed because they put out the news generally but didn’t tell people who were on it directly.

Check your lot numbers here: www.pharmacy.ca.gov/about/recall...

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Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.

One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.

When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?

The LA Taco daily memo is legit the best approach to covering these widespread, disparate raids, bar none. A simple, three minute roundup that gives you the sense of the scale of the terror attacks every day. Why every news org in a town getting hit *still* hasn't copied this is beyond me.

Three-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court More than a dozen undocumented minors were forced to make their case in front of an immigration judge as the Trump administration ramps up removal proceedings.

There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.

And just to be clear--If you're an administration that has just mishandled the instructor who gave an F, then you post this (even if the conduct is as alleged in the statement), you are sending a signal.

okay folks, “government name” doesn’t mean “work for the government.” it is a slang term meaning “your full name”

It's really depressing to see the United States pull up our inheritance and global comparative advantage like this

Zotero really is the only good software.

Yes, my life has been crushed by this administration. I am so ashamed that people like my partner have had to go back to their countries of birth when they were doing everything by the rules.

queer chronically ill person (currently unemployed) fighting with disability here would love to get $50-100 for the holidays ♥️

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Just to be clear: this is Nazi shit

If you've ever been to a naturalization ceremony, you know they're filled with people whose palpable love of this country is twenty times stronger than the pinched "patriotism" of any native-born MAGA chud.

Just unspeakable assholery.

To propose that GenAI can compensate for "archival silences" perverts Trouillot's work. It's is a contradiction to say that a product whose logic exacerbates power imbalances--creating a most-likely guess based on the existing record--can restore absences that are the product of those imbalances.

Screenshot of Netflix's "The 13th" documentary

Today is a great day to watch....or re-watch Ava DuVernay's EXCELLENT documentary on the 13th Amendment.

Today is the 160 anniversary of the passage of the 13th Amendment which effectively ended chattel slavery in America

but with an asterisk*

I'm told Franyelis needs housing the most. (She's been bouncing around with her kids in shelters.)

Please chip in a few bucks, if you can, to help get Franyelis into housing before she delivers her baby early next year. And, help to transform the situation for her and her family for the better. 🙏🏼

I'm not sure it's in the self interest of America's tech bro billionaires to suggest that we bring back public executions to punish the most destructive people in our society.

National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people Free entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth.

It might be easy to find things like this merely petty or superficial, but that would be a mistake. Demeaning, erasing or eliminating celebrations or acknowledgments of Black America is straight from Redemption playbook, and is intended to reinforce the racial hierarchy and signal its reinstatement.

Trump's dementia has grown so extreme that a select group of advisors are now running the country without his input. To find who those advisors are and what their plans are, buy my new book, which will appear in March 2029.

Every legal story now is either

Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach

or

In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

Only baseball fans will really understand, but the point is that Roberts is wildly inconsistent, refuses to change his approach, makes terrible calls at key moments, and ensures everyone feels cheated and angry by the results