Becky Vesey

We are at rising unemployment rates. This is a rule that would just render a lot of people unhoused.

I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

There is a specific type of demoralizing fascism where people lose rights they had, in their lifetime, fought to get recognized.

Not *just* losing rights, but seeing decades of hard effort dissolve.

Reconstruction, Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute, Dobbs, the coming overturning of Obergefell, etc

Our beauty standards are set by pedophiles

We've seen this with LLMs and any kind of "AI" for decades now: bias in, bias out. And all our data inputs are biased.

The techbros see that as a *feature* - putting it through the black box of "AI" gives the illusion of objectivity while preserving white supremacy/ patriarchy.

The fucking ACCURACY.

A graphic with two vertical halves. The left half, with green background and check marks, says: "A safer internet IS MADE BY Encryption, Privacy, and Open Source"; the right half, with red background and crosses, says "A safer internet is NOT MADE BY Age verification, Scanning communication, or Tracking & data collection." #saferinternetday

Reposting this with alt text.

Once again I'm ruminating on the certainty of someday being assumed I was a "good American" and okay with the fascism, no matter what I say against it or do to resist it.

I remind myself that an unknown number of Nazi-era Germans also spoke against it and silently resisted, to the same assumptions.

GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Sigh. 'We show that large language models can be used to perform at-scale deanonymization ... Our results show that the practical obscurity protecting pseudonymous users online no longer holds and that threat models for online privacy need to be reconsidered.'

Photo of a grey catbird sitting on a white fence post in front of some ivy

Post a pic you took, no context, and bring some chill to your feed.

More footage- Student led peaceful protest in Quakertown, Pennsylvania. The police chief showed up in plain clothing and assaulted two students.

Which is why Congress is looking to pass a bill that overturns Section 230, which is going to go far beyond "chilling" dissent and straight up into removing it completely.

Quakertown parents, groups demand release of students in police clash Civil rights groups and parents gathered in front of the Quakertown Police Department Saturday demanding answers for the violent confrontation Friday.

INBOX: the police chief of Quakertown, Pa., led a group of plainclothes officers to disrupt a peaceful high school student sidewalk protest yesterday.

They threw an underage girl to the ground, choked her, and disconnected all calls to the detention center where she and others are currently held.

This is why all those moron liberals waving off Newsom’s anti-trans position as “just about sports” are catastrophically wrong. Fuck that guy and fuck anyone defending that move. We all know where it’s headed

"yeah, turns out the reason every model for like 2 decades was emaciated was that this let guys in the Epstein files transport teenagers around to each other with less scrutiny"

You would think that finding out the whole heroin chic waif look and ubiquitous fatshaming of women in the 90's was influenced by a handful of elite pedophiles as both their preference and a way to sex traffick more easily, would have made a bigger splash in the news.

Ah shit! We let pedophiles decide our beauty standards. Post the release of the harrowing Epstein files, and the powerful men in media and fashion, considered possible accomplices, it feels fair to say this with more gusto!

loved this article! dunno if you already saw/shared it jameelajamil.substack.com/p/ah-shit-we...

Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Eighth Week Will the world as you know it end this week? Well, it is possible the world as you know it will end this week. But as of now it is Monday and you are probably just at work. * Please note: it is dan…

When they ask you
how you can be
so concerned about Covid
given all of the terrible things
that are currently happening,
kindly but firmly tell them
that Covid
is one of those terrible things
that is currently happening.

*

The 308th week:
librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/p...

I've told this story on ContrabandCamp but it's worth sharing for BHM because it's one of the greatest stories ever.

A thread.

King: boy those Epstein emails
King: it's really sobering to see how money and power allowed sex predators to operate
Neil Gaiman: hello everyone
Gaiman: i'm back
Barker: oh boy
Barker: oh boy you sure picked a time

A cream-and-sandy-colored little wild cat poured along the shady interior of a hollow log. Her paws are outstretched, her eyes are slits. Chelbi ain't moving.

Sand cat Chelbi doesn't feel like it.

Any of it. At all.

[via Phoenix Zoo]

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

Alt text: Picture of Minneapolis with an ICE agent slipping and falling superimposed in the middle. Above the falling agent is the text: ↘️↗️ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA 1/23/26↘️↗️

Below the falling agent is the text: MINNMAX WILL DONATE $1 TO
THE IMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA FOR EVERY REPOST

SACRAMENTO – As President Trump withdraws the United States from the World Health Organization, California is stepping up under Governor Gavin Newsom — becoming the first, and currently the only, state to join WHO’s Global Outbreak Alert & Response Network (GOARN), strengthening public health preparedness and rapid response coordination. During his recent trip to the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, Governor Newsom met with WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to discuss collaboration to detect and respond to emerging public health threats.

In response to the United States’ withdrawal from the World Health Organization, California announced that it has joined the WHO’s Global Outbreak Alert & Response Network, the first state to do so.

Pro tip: If you are attending a rally or action, wear a N95 mask & bring extras to give to others.

High quality masks can serve triple-duty: they prevent you and others from getting sick from airborne viruses, they keep your face warm in the freezing cold, & they can protect against surveillance.

Fascinated how basically in every country now rightwingers complain about "woke," using the english word or similar (e.g. "le wokisme"). When you think about it as a specifically anti-African American reactionary movement, you could say facebook's big accomplishment is globalizing the confederacy

But again: don’t expect collapse, but rather an impoverished economy. Think affordability is bad? Just wait until interest rates climb up, bc the world is no longer as inclined to park their money here…

Defund the police cost dems so badly in 2020 they won congress and the presidency

“Yeah but they would have won by more”

I think people underestimate how big this is. Like a city-wide strike is not something that has happened in the US for nearly 100 years