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Writers: gen ai is theft

Artists: gen ai is theft

Narrators: gen ai is theft

Environmentalists: gen ai is killing the planet

Scientists: gen ai is killing the planet

Tech bros: BUT MAKE BRAIN WORK MUCH HARD NEED MACHINE FOR BIG THOUGHT

It has always been a problem with the use of the phrase “machine learning” that models like these, unlike human beings, cannot actually learn anything. If the status quo is racist, they will remain racist. They can parrot antiracism, not because they have learned it, but because someone else did.

Color me not-shocked that he's the first director of IMLS that's never worked in a library or museum. Hate this for us.

A tiny little zine named "A Zine About the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Why It Needs Your Help Today".

Today I made a zine to inform people about the EO that would gut the #IMLS. I was asked to share, so hey, why not share widely? You can download and print your own copies at drive.google.com/file/d/1DUsm....

If you need help folding, search for Hotdog Booklet and you should find directions easily.

In February 2025 alone, we tallied 2085+ protests, incl major protests in support of federal workers, LGBTQ rights, immigrant rights, Palestinian self-determination, Ukraine, demonstrations against Tesla, & protests against Trump’s agenda more generally. This compares w/ 937 protests in Feb 2017.

“That wasn’t on my bingo card” babe we’re in the Hunger Games

Cellebrite Is Using AI to Summarize Chat Logs and Audio from Seized Mobile Phones The proliferation of AI through law enforcement tools already has civil liberties experts concerned. “When you have results from an AI, they are not transparent. Often you cannot trace back where a co...

Cellebrite, the ubiquitous company that cops use to unlock phones and copy evidence, is now offering cops AI to summarize chat logs, audio messages, more. Civil liberties experts already concerned about AI hallucinating for cops www.404media.co/cellebrite-i...

What on Earth Did Captain Planet Accomplish? The green-haired superhero tried to turn kids into environmental warriors—did it work?

Decoder Ring has a great episode about Captain Planet!

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Student loan debt makes me want to fake my own death. Like this shit is ridiculous. I just want to do my PSLF time & get this over with, but the govt won't let me give them money.

It is so 2025 that a film with a trans storyline that the trans community fucking despises wins some of the most prestigious film awards in the world and the cisgender winners don’t even mention what’s happening to the trans community in the very country they’re accepting the awards in

I saw the tv glow movie poster

I just want to point out that for everyone sick of hearing about Emilia Perez, 2024 had a truly great movie about the trans experience by a trans person that you should watch

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The fact that the USA has banned visas for trans people but welcomed rapist Andrew Tate shows how all this "defending women" stuff is total bullshit

Clay recently disclosed that one person is responsible for 94% of all objections and appeals.

He does not qualify as a parent or legal guardian, but after HB 1285 was supposed to limit him to one objection per month, he found a parent willing to submit his “book reports” to get around the limit.

photo of a really big frog and text that says the big fucking frog says: hey it's okay. it's going to be good again. it's okay to not be good right now but look at me i'm a cool frog and i've had my share of troubles but it gets good again. i am sending good frog vibes your way.

reminder from the big fucking frog

Lots of strange things in this article....one towards the end "Write a thank-you note following interviews." hiring managers HATE when people do this. HR people advise NEVER reply to one bc it can send weird signals esp if you say "you did great!" and they don't get the job.

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Researcher Captures Contents of ‘DEI.gov’ Before It Was Hidden Behind a Password The list includes budget claims like "$3.4 million for Malaysian drug-fueled gay sex app" and "Disbursed $15,000 to 'queer' Muslim writers in India."

we now know what was on waste.gov before it even had a Wordpress template, and before it went behind a password wall: a long, long list of unsourced claims about government spending www.404media.co/dei-waste-go...

How Dismantling the Department of Education Would Harm Students | NEA Educators and parents will not stand for the destruction of our country’s commitment to equal educational opportunities for all students.

Millions of students rely on programs run by the Department of Education. Eliminating it would be equivalent to "giving up on our future," says @neapresident.bsky.social Becky Pringle.

We need leaders who will stand up for students—not dismantle the very systems that support them.

Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt.

Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.

When you see these displays in your public library, write a note to the branch manager and director thanking them for supporting queer rights. Speak up at board meetings. I guarantee that library is already getting complaints. Admin/the board will cave to whoever is loudest, even bigots.

You know what

Fuck every single person involved with this

And fuck you too if you are hyping up AI - in any sector

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Uber: we can't make money if we have to follow the law

Google: we can't make money if we're not allowed to be a monopoly

Nestle: we can't make money without using slave labor

OpenAI: we can't make money if we can't steal

media: should shoplifters be executed?

i have a special disdain for older folks who claim kids don't know how to go outside anymore.

firstly, these same folks are the ones inside and online complaining about it.

secondly, air quality (especially this year) has been atrocious (at least in my area).

The irony of every panic that TikTok is turning the kids into transsexuals/CCP agents/terrorists is that everything we know about who is susceptible to misinformation and propaganda online suggests the kids are not, in fact, the problem

I worked at a college library where occasionally "fruit man" would wreak havoc by hiding fruit in the least used parts of the library. The flies and the smell would start, and we'd start to hunt, knowing it was never just one fruit.

It really was a masterstroke of propoganda to convince people that the working poor are lazier than the 1%. That, if you're struggling to get by working common jobs, it is on you for not being a hustler, not on the boss for exploiting you or the system that rewards them doing so.

Turns out Moms for Liberty are a bunch of Nazis, there was no way to know except for literally every single thing that hate group has ever done.