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Screenshot of a hulu cancellation for Alexis Mercedes Rinck.

This is a small action you can take today to take a stand in defense of free speech. Join the boycott.

If you’ve already cancelled, sound off in the thread. 🧵

It feels weird to be pro-LA but shout out to the pro-testers in LA

Karma paid off and I got a really fucking good job!

Reposting from my cousin's facebook. My cousin dedicated her whole life to USAID and it serves an important role in our world.

@nytopinion columnist Ezra Klein argues that if you look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term, you’ll see something very different than what he wants you to see. #nytopinion TikTok video by New York Times Opinion

I hate linking to tiktok but this video actually helped me a lot so if you are feeling hopeless check it out
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I am living through my terrible no good very bad week so if this karma doesn't pay off I am going to rebalance my dice

OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor White House AI tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theft

OpenAI says it has found evidence that Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek used the US company’s proprietary models to train its own open-source competitor, as concerns grow over a potential breach of intellectual property. The San-Francisco-based ChatGPT maker told the Financial Times it had seen some evidence of ‘distillation’, a technique used by developers to obtain better performance on smaller models by using outputs from larger, more capable models. This allows them to achieve similar results on specific tasks at a much lower cost. OpenAI declined to comment further on details of its evidence. Its terms of service state users cannot “copy” any of its services or “use output to develop models that compete with OpenAI”.

I'm so sorry I can't stop laughing. OpenAI, the company built on stealing literally the entire internet, is crying because DeepSeek may have trained on the outputs from ChatGPT. They're crying their eyes out. What a bunch of hypocritical little babies. Cry more, freaks.

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I didn't know seattle harvested the methane from our landfill and I just thought that was such a good idea.

Found a sign that said something like "xyz location produces a ton of methane because Seattle sends all of the compost to cedar hills to produce METHANE!!!" so I wanted to fact check this. Not only does compost to to a compost facility, but seattle WM actually harvests methane from the landfill

The Case for Resistance In this analysis, we explore what to expect from Donald Trump's second term and how we can prepare to confront it.

If you feel despair, if you feel defeated, if you catch yourself dissociating or focusing on what our oppressors are doing rather than on what you can do yourself—that is territory that the enemy has claimed within you.

Give them nothing. Focus on your agency. We are in a fight that we can win. 🏴🏴🏴

People are bringing up nazi punching discourse and my hot take is we should normalize low level physicality. Like idk I think if someone is being a dick you should be allowed to go to their minecraft server and grief them

"there's only 2 genders" nah but there are only 2 balls slapping against your mom's jaw

This is why I love Philly so damn much.

Hey if your job listing asks for a prefferred name on the application, could you plllleeease use it on the website. I have created job applicant accounts for like 3 different things that ask for a preferred name, yet every time they are like "hello "deadname""

I choose to think on the bright side. Now it is overt and mask off, but they are just revealing and accentuating a fact that has been true for decades. At least now people see these platforms and news outlets for what they really are and leaving. It was impossible to get this type of exodus before

It sucks how overt social media companies and news companies are being right now with censoring queers and progressives, but like this has been the case as long as social media has been corporate. Like all major news outlets put up headlines like HAMAS child soldier violently stood in way of rocket

Right now being trans really sucks. The best thing that helps me rn is remembering that this level of hatred is the same as 20 years ago, except we didn't have rights to defend back then. Regardless of what the government does, they cannot change my heart, and in my heart I know I am a man

Have to admit I wasn’t expecting to be explaining the concept of anisogamy on Inauguration Day.

Hey other trans people I have big feelings about being written out of existence but just remember: the law doesnt define you

Short king, playing basketball against (cis) girls who were literally a foot taller than I was. There are plenty of issues of unfairness in sports when it comes to gender based discrimination, but trans people are not the source of this issue

An EXTRA conditioning session, which they were granted because, despite being a really awful team that lost basically every game, they had priority over a well-performing girls soccer team. This is not even to mention the biological unfairness in girls sports. Why the fuck was I, a 5'2" (3/?)

Getting kicked from training rooms due to boys teams deciding they wanted to use them despite the same boys teams not competing as well as we were. When I was on my high school soccer team, I distinctly remember us getting kicked from the weight room we reserved because the football team wanted (2/?

Obviously transphobes don't actually care about fairness in girls sports but, as a transmasc who was in a lot of girls sports when I was pretending to be a girl, its so wild that THIS is the issue people focus on. When I was in sports up through highschool, we would regularly have to deal with (1/?)

Not OK, Rob (whoever you are.) Remember, we vote. The SLU streetcar probably underperforms, but mostly because it’s stuck in traffic. Let’s get rid of the real problem and also give the streetcar a dedicated right-of-way. (The real problem? Seems to be Rob.)

Happy to see you here! Idk who is in charge of this, but as a cyclist I really like when the street parking is on the other side of the bike lane. It makes me feel safe having the street parking provide a barrier to car traffic. Seems like a great way to integrate existing infrastructure with safety

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Santa con needs to be better. It's just a bar crawl. I want a real convention with panels and events. I want to hear tips and tricks for the best strategies to spread Christmas cheer from professional Santas. I want to see the premier of this year's NORAD santa tracker.

Does anyone know how to remove these from my house?

THERE IS A CRAB FEED APPARENTLY

WHY WAS I NOT FOLLOWING THE CRAB FEED?

PEOPLE, FOLLOW THE CRAB FEED! 🦀🦀

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