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my child just told me her roommate from SWITZERLAND flew home this week so they could VOTE in ELECTIONS our elections may be hanging by a gd thread, but PLEASE VOTE

look I don't care who #vote for I care that you do it at all. Who you vote for is your own damn business. VOTE it is your legal right to do so. #usmidterms #bcvotes two birds one post. Protesting by not voting doesn't help anything, voting for an independent is a better option than not voting.

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My heart is with the families waiting for news after the tragedy at CFB Wainwright, and with the first responders, doctors and nurses caring for the injured. We’ve offered Alberta all the help British Columbia can give. Please hold our Armed Forces members and their families close today.

This reads like a diary entry or letter home, rather than an article for Slate. I've seen this writing style bleeding into local news coverage too. If you want to stay away from the discourse on socials all you gotta do is use a following feed rather than the for you or discovery feeds.

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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. The only way for humans to create sentience is through reproduction. babies are sentient. Your computer/phone/tablet isn't. no, not even if the search engine sounds conversational. #humanity #noai #nogenai

Puff the Magic Hater@mskellymhayes.bsky.social

The "is AI slavery" discourse is exactly what the tech bros want. It doesn't end with fancy autocompletes having human rights. Its logic ends with you having fewer rights. If you believe AI is sentient (it's not) & are down with enslaving it (it's not slavery), then why do human labor rights matter?

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Replying to @thebookwyrmshoard2.bsky.social

Author, Musician, Artist. See how much it cost you and then ask yourself would you pay that much for some AI slop? If you would go away. If you wouldn't fucking get mad. Y'all they ain't gonna listen until those of us who pay for it holler.

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4/ This isn't simply a shortage of therapists. It's also a system of financial and administrative barriers that can keep people from getting the mental health care their insurance is supposed to cover. For our Repairing America series, Misha Valencia reports on what it would take to change that.

damemagazine.comWhy Having Insurance Still Doesn’t Guarantee Mental Health CareWhy is mental health care so hard to get, even with insurance? How ghost networks, denied claims, and Medicaid cuts block treatmentβ€”and what could fix it.

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it is true, buckaroos genuinely want their erotica to be made by humans because erotica is art and art is about genuine connection. many 'bizzaro' writers immediately switched to ai covers or writing and it revealed to the world WHY they write. this has and will backfire on them. nobody wants that

Richy Craven@richycraven.bsky.social

There's a screenshot going around of authors admitting to AI use and one of them appears to write hardcore monsterfucking fics and this makes me sad. If you're not writing monsterfucking fics for the sheer, genuine love of the game then what the hell are we even doing here?