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Make no mistake, what I have taken to calling a hyper El Nino is building rapidly, and set to bring extreme weather mayhem and record-shattering global temperatures in 2027

Taking fascist actions against colleagues and students who denounce genocide. It is THE BEST indication of their abandonment of our mission, followed by their embrace fascist “AI” tech. Their active support for fascism should be the top story everywhere. breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...

Historian of abolition here 💯Garrison always called it the slaveholders rebellion, that’s the correct term. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/o...

Record low water levels in Europe continue to have catastrophic effects

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Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergency

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🚨 NEWS: In a new court filing, Capital One says Donald Trump’s accounts were closed in 2021 after months of analysis by its anti-money laundering (AML) professionals, not because of politics, as Trump has long claimed. 1/

The cybersecurity firm Cloudflare reports what we all suspected: that bots outnumber humans online. According to the company’s Radar dashboard, bots account for 57.5% of all HTTP requests to HTML content, with humans lagging behind at 42.5%. It’s a bot-eat-bot World Wide Web.

When I spoke to unhoused people they told me their day to day lives were mostly terror Constant terror Fear of assault, rape, the police. Fear of losing what little they had left Were I in the same position I’d look for any way to dull it.

I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them

I teach a workshop called misogyny and public expectations of emotional labor. And basically I say the systemic presentation of misogyny is how much emotional labor is expected to be free and how that cripples healthy institution building. Cause we never build out everything we need.

So a masculinist understanding of notetaking would think a transcription app is the same as taking notes. That’s why they think an AI transcript is a time-saver. They think the notes are the thinking because when a human takes the notes, it is.

Then they have all the transcripts (and the ai token bill) but no sensemaking. so they make another app — a layer that will make sense of all the useless transcripts. But of course sensemaking isnt just pattern spotting. It’s interpretation. AI cannot do either because AI cannot be curious

people love to leave out that you can’t really do serious harm reduction without also housing people wild, that people ALSO need a safe place to sleep, to eat, to have stability, in addition to needing safe injection sites and clean needles almost like we should call things…basic..needs…

people like me as canaries in the coal mine.The constant noise might get to others 2 but they might not initially realize it. they might get more irritable but not understand why. There really should be studies for acceptable noise levels. Given constraints they should figure out new ways to do this

You can become disabled or homeless in an instant. It just takes one accident or illness to change your life forever. It’s not a moral failing. You can’t just “try harder”. People need support, compassion and to have their basic needs met. That’s how you ensure survival.

Can someone explain to me how you still have a significant amount of unpaid labour to a female-heavy workforce in a federally-regulated industry? How much unpaid labour is the federal government failing to address? I’m talking about WestJet and AC before them

A different industry led by different people than Musk, Altman, Thiel etc that valued and sought partnership from creators and stewards of human culture would have generative potential But what is the potential of an industry founded on “take first, pay only if you lose in court”

"No Fair activates when the enemy retaliates in a manner that negatively influences approval numbers at home. American strikes are strategic, proportionate, and necessary. Enemy strikes are reckless escalations proving they cannot be trusted to respond calmly to American strikes."

Israeli soldier blindly opens fire toward Syrian towns from land Israel illegally occupies. Video: Sahat English 🇵🇸 via X (@sahatenglish)

The immigrant union troops who defended their adopted country from slaver traitors are in fact, proof of concept of American higher ideals having nothing to do with “blood” or “heritage” or whatever cowardly euphemism is in vogue among these pathetic losers

Exactly. The intent is to take a sledgehammer to what used to be a reliably useful public tool and further poison the information ecosystem. Make it harder to access factual data, push the culture toward indifference or hostility toward truth.

Have you ever noticed that most of the major AI company logos look like buttholes? For my Sick Burns Friday post, I judged and ranked each of them based on how much they resemble hole: www.burnsnotice.com/ai-company-l...

Weird how Laurier only defends "free speech" when it's coming from transphobic TAs.

Whistleblowers just shared a memo showing DHS instructing ICE to force their way into peoples' houses without a proper warrant. Why is this not on all the networks right now? This is a criminal conspiracy to violate rights under color of law.

"Prepare our communities, cut the emissions, fund the people who fight and study these fires. The smoke is telling us where the real work is. It is at our doorsteps, and in our climate policy, not deep in the woods." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Reminder that the Golden Age of Comics began in 1938 when a couple of Jews started making stories about fighting evil. So many of the people in power now seen so much like cartoon villains bc those archetypes were literally created after some of the most horrific human beings of our known history.

The overwhelming right wing sentiment is that COVID was an engineered bioweapon that was also harmless. Trump overreacted to it by shutting down the country, then engineered a drive to create a vaccine that was the real bioweapon that killed millions, and it's Joe Biden's fault.

it's still just software thankfully our pasty technofascists did not create a malevolent god

Barthes: myth favours the status quo

The goal of the battle over the origins of COVID19 is “to sow distrust in science and scientists”. This article shows why experts believe that this was a spillover event and not a lab leak. The maps showing the cluster of the first cases around the wet market are old school Epidemiology. Solid.

Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington

I don't worry at all about terminator stuff, I worry quite a lot about Augmented authoritarianism, and I worry the most of all about a gigantic metastasizing perpetually low-trust neomedieval pile of shit that AI greatly exacerbates and possibly locks in for good.

The 6 largest oil companies will collectively rake in $45B in profits in the second quarter of 2026 — nearly double what they made in the first quarter. Meanwhile, Canada, France, and Spain are battling record-breaking wildfires spurred by the climate crisis. Big Oil profits while the world burns.

Yes! People need to learn about Pastor “God sent Hitler” Hagee. This particular strand of evangelicalism adheres to a political theology and eschatology that is literally genocidal wrt Jews. They have always been fascists.

but every single time you see a story that claims AI "went rogue" entirely on its own it almost always boils down to somebody either being a dumbass or actively trying to be misleading

there's 5 main reasons they want you to think AI is now self-aware and "goes rogue" 1. product marketing misrepresentation 2. props up insane valuations for a sector not making money 3. scares lawmakers into trash legislation 4. distracts from technofascism 5. distances execs from accountability

do not anthropomorphize software, episode 7,000

What the Fuck is this…. How can you have a for profit health care system and NOT have CORRUPTION??????