MirandaPitcher

DIY hot for robot emoji

Made a new emoji for all the uncritical, fawning writing produced about AI

Every day the case for taxing billionaires and multimillionaires out of existence grows stronger. We should set a maximum wealth ceiling of $50 million per person. Globally. That’s more than enough for anyone.

“The world’s 7 richest individuals are all now powerful media barons, controlling what 🌎 sees, reads, and hears, marking a new chapter in oligarchical control over society and striking another blow at a free, independent press and diversity of opinion.” www.mintpressnews.com/the-seven-ri...

I think it’s also true that loneliness among women has historically been treated as an individual problem, while loneliness among men is treated as a societal problem. That, in turn, comes from an assumption that women are supposed to earn the company of others while men are entitled to it.

Magaziner: How many US military veterans have you deported?

Noem: We have not deported military veterans.

Magaziner: We are joined on zoom by a gentleman who is an army combat veteran who was shot twice while serving our country. You deported him to Korea.

Ah, that's a shame. Well, I think the website does mailorder too....

I keep thinking about how terrible it is that so many people will be losing their health insurance in January due to costs and cuts. I was rejected from insurance once before the ACA [preexisting conditions]. I was hospitalized that year and it almost bankrupted me. We need universal heathcare ASAP.

photo of a monitor playing Pluribus S1E7. Manousos the storage facility guy from Venezuela who hasn't been taken by the aliens is at the river responding to their offers for help. the subtitle shows "Nothing on this planet is yours. Nothing. You cannot give me anything, because all that you have is stolen."

me when an ai tool offers to "help"

Direct confrontation is an option. Some others include: “cluelessly” impeding the asshole, checking to see what the victim needs, creating a distraction, alerting help, recording. People can work together using what they’ve got.

I love your "but in defense of decency" framing

I have a very distinct memory of learning this in middle school and being embarrassed I hadn't learned it earlier. it's just... how you deal with asshole behavior? either you chose to let it pass, or you directly, firmly confront it. no middle ground

Yes! People who pride themselves on being shameless norm-breakers often depend the most on norms… or, on all the other people nearby being too stunned or norm-compliant to resist.

You have to be as defiant and brazen as they are, but in defense of decency. You can be pleasant but you don’t budge.

sure, it can be hard to teach horrible adults shame.

but I think it’s also true that many horrible adults have been treated with kid gloves by everyone around them throughout their lives - and it is possible to break through that if you demonstrate that you aren’t going to take their shit.

the cool thing about shame is that you absolutely *can* force people to learn it against their will

you can very often terrify people trying to break social norms at you by returning the favor even more so

More people on our side need to learn the essential power of Making a Scene

nuns from the sound of music holding parts they removed from the nazi’s cars

the energy i’m bringing to 2025

i forgot the antifa nuns save the day. flawless film.

watching the sound of music for the umpteenth time and still can’t believe how visually arresting it is. just stunning.

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I forget if you're in North Jersey or South Jersey, but if you're at all near Phila you should stop by the Wanamaker Building in Center City in the next couple of weeks and pick up some of these. They're great. The coffee and lychee/red tea especially. baisuncandleco.com?srsltid=AfmB...

I have cried at every single naturalization ceremony I have ever attended, under at least three (maybe four) presidents. This essay gets at why.

My mom has a picture of herself at six, taking the oath that made her part of a country that now gleefully torments children just like her. Both the picture and the truth break her heart.

We have failed each other for 250 years, but we don’t have to. We can become what we have always claimed to be.

It's the absurdly extreme male-coding of omnisex products that gets me. Whiskey-flavored lipbalm! Soap that's so rough it scars you! Don't worry, cishet men, we will make a product so dangerous and off-putting even YOU will feel safe putting it on your body!

Ugh.

Sean Hecker, Kilmar's attorney, once hailed how much courage it took Kilmar to challenge what DOJ/DHS is doing to him. That stuck with me. Kilmar Abrego is just some guy, vulnerable in a way most of us are not.

But he has taken on Trump and ... thus far at least, prevailed.

Just learned about this new exhibit here in Philadelphia! Looks fascinating: tiltinstitute.org/event/homebo...

Going to get myself to see it sometime in the next few weeks while it's there. Hat tip Black Star Film Festival for letting me know about this. #ArtSky

Time person of the year cover for 2025

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

To the New York Times, a constitutional provision is just something that's "traditional."

BREAKING: For a second time in a week, a grand jury in Virginia has REFUSED to INDICT NY AG Letitia James .

99.6% of all cases presented to a federal grand jury result in an indictment.

The chances of the same case being brought to a grand jury and failing twice are about 1:40,000

A New York Times headline that reads: "Calibri’s Run-In With Rubio Wasn’t Its First Controversy."

Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.

There is such a thing as ideological injury as much as moral injury.

"It won't have an effect on me" is literally an invitation for the propaganda to melt your brain. You cannot watch FOX News and other right wing propaganda on a consistent basis and not have it warp your brain. MMFA has a good goal, but the staffers destroy their brains.