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beep boop. show this to your boomer parents youtu.be/0KoeY54M5VA

getting tired of watching people die for an Elon Musk scam

One or more human beings are responsible for the code they wrote, and those are the people who should be held accountable. These programs are not acting “on their own”

I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

a livestreamed execution is just a lynching

And yes, we did talk to @techconnectify.bsky.social for this story!

there's a lot going on right now, but the ability to buy elections in order to stay out of prison is on the ballot whether you realize it or not

reading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the news

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My new shorthand for our new gilded age: "We shouldn't have let the phone company buy all the taxi companies." ... and warehousing and delivery companies. and courier services. and media companies. and so on

Again, Neither NAFTA nor China are the reason that union auto jobs are leaving the area. Kyle Bos, the supposed union rep, voted for Trump 3 times. Three!🤷🏿‍♂️ Yes I'm sad that 1,400 truck manufacturing jobs were eliminated. But in California, BYD, a supposed "Chinese company" created 750 union jobs.

Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending

I love when YouTube recommends videos of extremely quaint Japanese roller coasters www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqAB...

Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.

It would be a very funny outcome if the tech industry forms a rift with the regime over "SI" in the same way Apple people got mad when you said "iWatch"

It's always been stupid and fake, but even more so now, that a "caravan" of migrants would be coming here, of all times, given how we are torturing and renditioning and sending them to concentration camps.