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I've mentioned before I've updated my contracts to make sure everything in the production of my books is done by humans and not "AI"; if you're wondering what such a thing looks like, here's a clause covering that from a recent contract.

Elon absolutely sucks but this is just a preview of the kind of control AI companies are playing for with their push into government, education, and every other industry

Question 3 would let billionaires rig Massachusetts primaries and shut out working class candidates, candidates of color, and first-time candidates. Stand united with @ayannapressley.bsky.social, labor, activists, grassroots and community leaders TOMORROW 📣 & vote NO on 3 through 11/3!

In Tuesday's Maine Senate debate, Senator Susan Collins said she once couldn't afford health insurance. What she left out: after she lost a campaign in 1994, an assault-rifle maker who’d donated to her campaign helped land her next job. She later backed a bill shielding gunmakers from lawsuits.

Trump is historically unpopular, launching an illegal war no one wants, doing everything he can to increase prices, and breaking records for corruption. Any Democrat running for office who embraces transphobic talking points is acting like a loser in a defensive crouch. Nobody likes losers.

Genuine questions: why are Captchas so intensive lately? I thought it was getting easier for them to know if you’re human. But lately I have to go thru 10-12 screens of identifying crosswalks before I can complete my transaction. Is it just that I’m bad at doing them, or that AI needs more data?

A Florida grand jury found the DeSantis administration “misappropriated” $10 million meant to provide health insurance for poor children. Part of a “sophisticated scheme to fund political activities,” the money was funneled through multiple organizations before reaching two PACs and the Florida GOP.

BREAKING: The union of Starbucks workers is officially calling for a boycott of the chain. @sbworkersunited.org has over 12,000 unionized baristas, and they're calling on customers to stop visiting Starbucks until they get a fair union contract.

Passing this would be a step in the wrong direction. No on Three, please.

"The news media need to say plainly: Trump is building a dictatorship. Use the D word...say that the president is mentally unstable...state painful truths directly and loudly before it’s too late." Via @markjacob.bsky.social, the conventions of political reporting aren't up to the moment:

This is incredibly disturbing. The number of cases in Mississippi alone of Black people who met their deaths in dubious/highly suspicious ways, only for authorities to shrug it off and do a piss poor job if investigating...there are so many names

ICE fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a Houston enforcement operation. His family says he was a hardworking father on his way to work. This is a deadly pattern at DHS: no transparency, no oversight, no accountability. We demand an independent investigation.

@progressivemass.bsky.social what is your take on the ballot measure to move to all-party primaries? It seems to me like a bad idea, that will lead to vote-splitting, but I’m not sure if I see all its likely outcomes clearly.

Dear Santa, This year for Prime Day I want the breakup of Amazon as a corporate conglomerate monopoly, with Kindle and Audible being nationalized into a sort of publicly owned internet library funded by a progressive tax on the hyper-rich and an annual stipend for authors.

ICE is not about immigration. ICE is about normalizing a paramilitary force on peaceful streets. Abolish ICE.

When people compare AI to the industrial revolution, what they leave out: the IR was hell on earth for working people. Their pastoral lives forcibly destroyed, their new jobs dreary, dangerous, low pay, and monotonous compared to their varied work before. It took decades of violence to fight back.

In case you haven’t heard we are all boycotting REI until they respect the union. Please spread the word.

This is happening in the middle of Tel Aviv 👏🏼👏🏼👇🏼💙

This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him. I don’t know how else to say it…

Disappointed to see this. 160 union workers are fighting for a fair contract at Individualized Shirts, a US factory that makes high-end men's button-ups. The managers there have rejected the union's request for fair wages and health insurance. The union is asking for support 🧵

EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.

So What Can Our Elected Reps Do? 🧵 1. Nothing about what is going on is normal. Dems are presenting, let's say odd, responses to the dismantling of this nation, from protesting at different agencies, to throwing their hands asunder as if they're powerless, to this nonsense. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Please call us in the USA if you need any stories about how SHIT a privatized healthcare system can be!

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New study from IIHS shows that car bloat is dangerous even at low speeds: If hit by a sedan going 27 mph, a pedestrian has a 60% chance of a moderate+ injury and 30% chance of a serious one. If it's a pickup going 27 mph, those odds rise to 83% and 63%, respectively. www.iihs.org/news/detail/...