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In case facts still matter

As a former teacher, I never scrubbed in for a gender reassignment surgery, but I did instruct the kids on how to get the window screens off in case of an active shooter…

BRAZIL I LOVE YOU

Guillermo Del Toro dropping another one liner that’s exactly how I feel about AI slop, the “punishment” is built in

A morning reshare - I've worked on this one for months, so would love it to be shared far and wide.

I feel it's important to share this again. The internet is so hostile toward creators nowadays. I've seen people have their work stolen, and no longer feel comfortable sharing their creations. We can do better. Let's be supportive to the people that make this a better place! 💞

Writer @naomiaklein.bsky.social says the rapid rise of artificial intelligence is part of a much longer project of privatization. "After 50 years of outsourcing and hollowing out of public functions of the state, the very last stage is the outsourcing of thinking, of intelligence itself."

It pains me that we have to talk about this. But to build a better world, we need to understand what we're up against. The AI doomers are useful idiots for the AI industry. We can't let them dominate the conversation about the future. We have to dream of something more, and more human.

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Go listen to @dreamingagainstthemachine.com and pls support if you can. @adambecker.bsky.social is a voice of sanity in this time when warped ideas is being given way to much space and attention without being questioned or properly confronted.

Cartoonist: Dave Granlund

Big tech actively interfering in everything from protests, to elections and even warfare, world wide and we're seeing it happen in real time. This is absurd.

www.yahoo.com/news/politic... We Got Zucked.......

Don't let billionaires convince you slop is the future. They're used to managing & directing, not making things themselves. Of course they can't see the difference. They don't understand your love for the craft. Keep making personal, beautiful games. You've got my support 💖

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

It's pretty clear that billionaires and big tech is a global threat to democracy.

🚨 BREAKING: Elon Musk personally proposed slowing down Ukraine’s Starlink access, and Trump agreed, The Telegraph reports, citing four sources. Musk reportedly later feared backlash from European customers and publicly denied responsibility, blaming the White House instead.

an expert here: designing chatbots to be anthropomorphic, sycophantic yes-men is a choice ai developers make

please vote.

You can add that data to existing models but they need billions of images to be able to generate anything remotely useful and that means you’re just adding a thin veneer on top of the same foundation of theft everyone else is using.

JD Vance running around the country saying he’s fighting health care fraud while his nominee for the senate in TX who he completely supports is partying in Dubai with a guy whole stole over $300 million in health care fraud and gave Paxton $190,000. This is the Republican Party.

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Keep up the destruction of data centers. It seems to be good for humanity.

The "Party of Reagan" has the United States siding with Russian aggression against NATO allies and a brutal war on a European democratic US partner. Yes, the whole party. If they didn't, they would impeach and remove the president who is blatantly breaking US law to help fund Russia's war effort.

That time someone dumped a toy house on the cemetery wall and, when I crouched a bit, some ✨ Hollywood Magic ✨ occurred.

Let me see if I understand this . . . 1. The U.S. is at war with Iran. 2. Russia is helping Iran in that war. 3. The U.S. is now giving Russia money that it can use to help Iran destroy U.S. bases and kill U.S. troops. Donald is smart & patriotic like that.

Billionaire families have spent $1.7 BILLION on the 2026 midterms so far — a 5,200% increase since the 2010 midterms. Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day. Big Money is the root of our dysfunction.

From the plundering of other people's work, to defacing shared community resources like Wikipedia in order to replace them with walled gardens with paid access, to forcing everyone to invest in more cybersecurity, the latest developments in AI have been one endless attack on the Digital Commons.

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

an ai system doesn't have a will, intention or feelings. nor the capacity to want or care. a neural network does not go rogue, escape, or rebel. just tech bros' narratives projected onto machines. and pls, don't mansplain my post to me

people in 2020: DON'T GET THE SHOT. THAT'S HOW THE ELITES ARE GOING TO LURE YOU TO YOUR DEATH people in 2026: THE LIL ROBOT WHO TELLS ME I'M SMART AND SEXY PROMISED ME A LIVING WAGE AND I TRUST HIM

This is a good illustration of how so much of AI theft isn't indirect (ie, data sucked into a model to train the chatbot) - it's actually **direct** copying, but *enabled* by GenAI. Of course it is: chatbots absolutely suck at creating good, new stuff.

"The Israeli government exploited the trauma, the pain, the fear of the Israelis after the October 7 massacre to change the status quo from conflict management to ethnic cleansing," says Maoz Inon, who lost his parents in the October 7 attack.

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This should be considered a 5-alarm democracy fire.

The G7 just agreed to release 100 million barrels of oil, in exchange for the US agreeing not to ban diesel exports.⁣ ⁣ That's not a solution. That's political leaders agreeing to look like they're solving a made-up crisis. https://youtu.be/I8waaPcvpQA

I don't need more money to live comfortably but I wish I could afford to support more creators and independent media.

never the wrong time for this classic

The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...

In the history of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most. SMH. Politicians lie. These politicians lie so often it seems like breathing.

A tiny bit of gentle advice for the men: before you try to explain or pontificate anything about the Cornell 7 to a woman, please remember chances are she’s already an expert 🙏🏻

I suppose in the same way that eugenics was also the "biggest idea"?

This was a rough watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tsr1...

When I read about the White House airing campaign ads with taxpayer money, I immediately thought about an exhibition I saw last year in NYC about how Mussolini and his regime went about not only controlling the government but every aspect of Italian society. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/me-me-me

Trump: Sleepy Joe Biden, have you heard of him? *a few moments later* Trump: 😴😴😴