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The future being pushed by both AI boosters and educational censors is one where access to information is tightly controlled. Children will not be allowed to read certain books or learn certain narratives. “Research” will be performed only through one of a select few artificial intelligence tools owned by AI giants which are uniformly aligned behind the Trump administration and which have gone to the ends of the earth to prevent their black box machines from spitting out “woke” answers lest they catch the ire of the administration. School boards and library boards, forced to comply with increasingly restrictive laws, funding cuts, and the threat of being defunded entirely, leap at the chance to be considered forward looking by embracing AI tools, or apply for grants from government groups like the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which is increasingly giving out grants specifically to AI projects.

Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc

Elon Musk Wins $1 Trillion Tesla Pay Package

As Americans starve...

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Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased.

Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power.

Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable.

But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.

Remember this.

His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.

All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:

Dick Cheney and the big lie that should never be forgotten It led to 4,400 dead US troops and 200,000 or so dead Iraqi civilians.

Never forget: Dick Cheney's dishonesty led to 4,400 dead US troops and 200,000 or so dead Iraqi civilians.

Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system!

Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.

Steps for turning off autoplay or blocking sensitive content

You don’t have to watch everything. Protecting your peace online is an act of self-care, not a state of denial.

Learn how to filter your feeds and safeguard your mental space ⬇️

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Timeline cleanse

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I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees.

No refugee underfunded a school.

No refugee closed a hospital.

No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled.

We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!

The CEO-to-worker pay ratio at S&P 500 companies last year was 285-to-1. The median employee would have had to start working in the year 1740 to earn what the average CEO received in 2024. Is it any wonder why so many think the system is rigged?

Affordable housing, nutritious food, clean water, time off, the internet, breathable air, universal healthcare, quick and clean mass transit, and living wages are not luxuries. They're the baseline of human rights.

Ice secretly deported Pennsylvania grandfather, 82, after he lost green card Family of Luis Leon say they were initially told by someone he had died, but they found him alive in Guatemala hospital

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9. If you use Al to write something for you, it is meaningless and we'd all be better off if you had never said anything in the first place. This is the thing: Writing is meaning. The reason we write things is to express some sort of meaning, to pass along important information, to convey a human emotion or sensation. It doesn't matter whether the writing is grammatically correct, or vividly expressed. It matters that it came from you. That is the point of writing. If you ask a Chatbot to write something for you, you are being fundamentally unhuman and foundationally dishonest. I am not going to bend on this one. If it requires an Al bot for you to express something to me, you and I are probably not actually friends.

hell yeah @williamfleitch.bsky.social

Among yesterday's arrestees is Deborah Hinton, an 81-year old retired magistrate with an OBE.
That's Yvette Cooper's idea of a terrorist.
Language has been turned on its head.
The law has been turned on its head.
Murdering children is righteous.
Trying to stop it is terrorism.

Armed police threatened to arrest Kent protester for holding Palestinian flag Officers accused Laura Murton who also had a sign saying ‘Free Gaza’ of supporting a proscribed organisation

While you should be careful of reading too much into the over-reach of individual police officers, the suggestion that protesting at the Gaza war is “expressing an opinion or belief which is supportive of proscribed organisation” is quite something.

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Armed police threatened to arrest Kent protester for holding Palestinian flag Officers accused Laura Murton who also had a sign saying ‘Free Gaza’ of supporting a proscribed organisation

This is abominable and everyone involved in the series of events which led to it, from the Home Office to the police, should be ashamed of themselves.

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Lexiphanicism [LEKS-ih-FAN-ih-siz-im]
(n.)
-The use of excessively learned and bombastic vocabulary or phraseology in a pretentious and showy fashion.

Sentence:
“Lieutenant Larry Longshort’s lexiphanicism leaves his listeners lost in a labyrinth of lofty lexemes and longing for lucid language.”

We’re becoming inured to Trump’s outbursts – but when he goes quiet, we need to be worried | Jonathan Freedland Across the US, without soundbites or stunts, the president is building a police state and eroding checks on his authority, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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‘Alligator Alcatraz’ showcases Trump’s surreal brand of stylized cruelty | Moira Donegan Immigrants are living in brutal conditions at the Florida detention camp, built on a sense of scripted unreality

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Whether you agree with the proscription of Palestine Action or not, you have to question whether it is a good use of police, and the courts, resources to arrest people holding up signs concerning an absolute genocide, as per the UN, and not, I don't know, actually arresting criminals.

We’re calling for a Florida boycott over the inhumane “Alligator Alcatraz” detention site. Cancel your family vacation and choose a different destination this summer.

Britt and Tuberville enter Trump’s fantasy world at Alabama’s expense | Alabama Reflector Alabama's two U.S. senators have fully embraced Donald Trump's world of fantasy and grievance. That will cost our state dearly.

My column from Monday. It’s no surprise Alabama’s two U.S. senators put up little fight against a bill that could seriously harm their constituents. They work for Donald Trump, and that means embracing and affirming Trump’s delusions and paranoia.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

ICE arrested a 6-year-old boy with leukemia and his mother at immigration court.

One officer lifted his shirt to show the family his gun, which terrified the child to the point he urinated his pants. www.tpr.org/border-immig...

Rainbow Pride Flag against a blue sunlit sky.

#OnThisDay in 1978 the #Pride flag designed by artist/activist Gilbert Baker was revealed at San Fransisco's Freedom Day parade. He came up with the design after gay leader #HarveyMilk urged him to create a positive symbol the entire community could rally behind: bit.ly/PrideFlagHistory #PrideMonth