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"If you seized all Elon's wealth it'd only be like $2,000 per American."

Do you know what a $2,000 'Fuck Elon' stimulus check would do for people and the country economically, emotionally and morally?

Every billionaire in the Epstein files could drop dead tomorrow and the world would not only be fine, it would actually improve. The quality of our media would improve. Our environment. Our food. Our health care. Our technology.

‘They better take away duct tape’: Trans men say they’ll keep binding despite FDA crackdown Chest binders are a common first step to explore gender identity. Restricting them could push people back to unsafe DIY methods.

This story was fun to write bc it’s mostly older trans guys being like “we used to bind uphill both ways in the snow”

But in all seriousness, binding used to be the wild west. Duct tape, electrical tape, ACE bandages. Now we have good products. But the FDA is cracking down on those. Read more:

Don't congratulate John Roberts or the Supreme Court.

Congratulate Rick Woldenberg, the Chicago-area leader of Learning Resources, an educadtional toy company that had the courage to sue the president of the United States to save his family business.

As well as everyone else who stepped up.

This post is going around again so I will add this excellent resource: leavesubstack.com

still remember the "it's too early/hyperbolic/irresponsible to compare these guys to Nazi Germany" Reasonable Posters - whom, I imagine, are waiting for the renovations to be completed before they update their priors

Concerned about ICE's $45 billion plan to convert warehouses into immigration detention centers? This is what they'll look like inside. From ICE's plan for the Social Circle, GA facility. Each little dot: a person. www.socialcirclega.gov/home/showpub...

Night in the Woods' publisher says TikTok is creating and running racist GenAI ads for its games without permission. https://bit.ly/4kKnB5L

I gotta finalize my PTO request and my plans for aftercare as soon as I get the surgery date. This is gonna be a long weekend

So wild to think it might actually happen! Finally! I really got my hopes up in Dec and then it didn't work out so I'm nervous but there's no reason it shouldn't happen this time

Oh gosh I got some good news about my top surgery today! My insurance has authorized everything for the new year and my surgeon's front desk has me scheduled for a planning call Monday morning! I should get my surgery date then

@chicagoreader.com is one of the only places I'm seeing dig in on this that hits policy, power, and deeply human stories.

It really matters how people act on their stated visions and values. Structural change requires every tool of government and community power to do the thing and this is not it.

Call your house rep and tell them to support HB 2540 which will increase the amount disabled people can save from $2k to $10k and remove the marriage penalty where you lose your only source of income if you get married regardless of how little they make. Switchboard: (202) 224-3121

Black and white photo of Sylvia Rivera, a woman with long curly hair, smiling to the camera

Black and white photo of Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson standing behind a police barricade. Sylvia is wearing a sweater and has her fist raised. Marsha is smiling and holding up an umbrella over their heads.

A color photo of Sylvia Rivera with arms spread wide, wearing a yellow dress. In the background in the Flatiron Building in NYC.

A mural depicts Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson on a background of Trans Pride flag colors. Many flowers adorn their heads and Sylvia's top. Quote from Sylvia: "I was a radical, a revolutionist. I am still a revolutionist ... I am glad I was in the Stonewall riot. I remember when someone threw a Molotov cocktail. I thought, 'My god, the revolution is here. The revolution is finally here!'" Quote from Marsha: "Pay it no mind."

Long live the revolutionary legacy of Sylvia Rivera!

She left us on Feb. 19, 2002.

Newsflash, homeless people don't have to be swept! They can stay wherever they figured they can set themselves up to survive. They ended up there because they were pushed out of housing by hard times. It doesn't matter how unsightly these real humans who are suffering are to you! Deal.

if the RAM shortage and AIpocalypse leads to a wave of repairable and maintainable tech thats efficient and runs software that is optimized and not vibe-coded then it'll have been worth it. i dare to dream we can come out the other side of this with sustainable technology instead of chasing numbers

Frame: the left is hurting itself by not engaging with the god machines

Negation: but this technology doesn't do the things you claim

kirby: the people writing these stories get funding to support narratives of power and inevitability, and that's what we should be scrutinizing

im not falling for ‘you can’t just scold gen AI hobbyists’ like ive fallen for so many ‘be diplomatic and patient with idiots’es before. no. if they can’t live without this machine that’s trying to put me out of a job theyre dumb as a box of hair. like they’re clearly not worried about offending ME!

What is happening to trans people in the United States is the beginning of a genocide.

The right is driving it, but the center is enabling it, and the left is in denial about it.

It’s so hard to have a reasonable conversation about AI, because people refuse to see the massive upsides of job elimination, higher electrical bills, hard drive shortages, poisoning black people in Memphis, and an economy where a handful of pedos with bad hair control your life

Black History Month Art Challenge
Day 9: Gregory Eddie - Abbott Elementary
#art #bhm #abbottelementary #gregoryeddie

Black History Month Art Challenge
Day 4: Bismuth - Steven Universe

#bhm #art #stevenuniverse #bismuth

This 'we really had no choice' justification sounds like a precursor to NS continuing to use AI but just being more careful next time to not get caught.

Dear adam,

I do not believe in any capacity that the AI ads you recently posted were concepts for future productions.

The reason is simple, you posted them. You boosted them with bot views & comments.

Why would you upload a crap AI ad, then a replica with full production? You wouldnt.

Any Dem that comes in without a plan for court reform will effectively be a lame duck on day 1, who will spend 4 years giving orders to agencies that the Supreme Court tears up and reverses with the help of burrowed right wing bureaucrats.

Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop

And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹)

RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless

In today's episode of AI is ruining the thing you love; Godot could really use some extra funding just to judge if something is slop because they're getting overwhelmed

Everything else is commentary

AI will be used in situations where it isn’t best practice for the same reason university admins continually destroy their schools and for the same reason everything good bought by private equity gets worse and for the same reason this criminal regime is stripping government down to spare parts.