Haven Perez

As I said on my pod with @chrislhayes.bsky.social, one of the main reasons the industry is so vigorously pursuing self-driving is that it frees up the driver's attention, which means you can serve the driver ads. Self-driving cars are going to be ad-mobiles.

a good part of me thinks that in addition to everything else, the reason they are scrubbing these stories is they do not want disadvantaged kids to believe they can aspire to anything other than their designated “black” or “hispanic” or “woman” job

Linda Lavin passed away today at the age of 87. Rip.

We’re now in the Second Gilded Age. As in the first, America’s wealth is in the hands of a few, conspicuous consumption exists alongside homelessness and hun... From Robber Barons to Bezos: Is History Repeating Itself? | Robert Reich

Folks, we're living in a Second Gilded Age.

It can be easy to feel discouraged, but the First Gilded Age teaches us lessons on how we can fight back. Watch.

Is it sinking in?

A meme styled as a text post titled "The Fourth Way," featuring a circular profile picture of a person with dramatic makeup and the watermark "50 Nerds of Grey." The post reads: "I just discovered ominous positivity and I'm obsessed. -You will be fine you have no choice. -Everything will turn out okay you cannot stop it. -You will succeed it's inevitable. -Better days are already coming it's too late now." The tone is a humorous mix of positivity and an ominous inevitability, creating a slightly unsettling yet uplifting effect. Generated with BSky AltText CustomGPT.

I'm a big fan of pronoia, too. (That's this ominous feeling that Universe is about to do you a favor.)

A photo of a rectangular white sign with red lettering. The sign says No Parking Any Time The word Parking has been covered by a wide red sticker with white lettering that says Talking To Cops The sign now reads No Talking To Cops Any Time

It's shut the fuck up Friday.
Every day is shut the fuck up Friday.

The Onion is on their game... 🎩 Well done y'all.

Call for $2.5 Trillion in Cuts Proves GOP Wants to 'Steal Our Benefits' | Common Dreams "Nearly 60% of mandatory spending is for Medicare and Social Security," noted one expert. "If they don't touch those, they'd have to cut Medicaid to the bone."

"The ONLY WAY to cut $2.5 trillion in spending is by slashing Social Security, Medicare, and/or Medicaid," the progressive advocacy group Social Security Works (SSW) wrote on social media in response to the slide. "Republicans want to steal our benefits to pay for their billionaire tax cuts."

A white horse under a tree in front of a towering snow-speckled cliff face.

Took this photo from a moving Amtrak train and I'm prodigiously proud of it. Total luck.

Trump's transition is happening over private emails. Federal officials are nervous. Agencies are weighing in-person requirement for sensitive data.

i recall a time when using a private email server was the single greatest scandal in american history. i guess today’s it’s just tuesday www.politico.com/news/2024/12...

People who've never been dependent on a paycheck should not get to decide how long you can go without yours.

🔥 TWAS THE STRIKE BEFORE CHRISTMAS! 🔥✊

Starbucks baristas are going on five days of escalating ULP strikes in response to the company backtracking on our promised path forward, starting tomorrow in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Seattle... and soon, from coast-to-coast. 🧵

A cover of Karl Marx’s Capital in which the cover image is a hospital bill totaling 153,000

BREAKING: Starbucks Workers United is going on strike.

Tomorrow unionized Starbucks workers are walking out in multiple key cities. And @sbworkersunited.org's rolling strike will grow in the coming days.

537 stores and 10,000+ workers are in the union and could potentially strike.

'Bodies are piling up': Reporter finds GOP-led states are hiding abortion ban death toll Some Republican-led states that passed near-total abortion bans have mysteriously stopped collecting statistics on maternal mortality over the last couple of years — and some observers suspect it's no...

I warned that the GOP would cover up the negative impacts of their policies. www.rawstory.com/abortion-ban...

Remembering, as one does, that the last time there was a citywide manhunt the suspect called in his location because he got bored, but then left because the NYPD took too long to get there and was called in by a bodega worker who saw him leaving. The NYPD was busting up a homeless camp a block away.

Assassin of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson wrote "deny", "defend" and "depose" on bullet casings.

Currently reading “Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity” by Mattilda, aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore. It’s making me feel much more confident about how I am and how I present my trans self.

Brilliant

Badass cat ponders whether to be transparent or mysterious on social media “Should I over explain myself or remain misunderstood “

Graphic shows dramatic reduction in polio, rubella, mumps, measles, and hepatitis A cases after the introduction of vaccines for each disease.

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction

Graphic from Edward Tufte
More graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d... 🧪

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