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Good reminder

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

On shared governance of universities. Which, it's worth remembering, is how European universities began: as self-governing organizations of scholars, who students could pay to learn from. Not as employees of anyone else, not as servants to a board of regents or CEO.

If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...

This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.

We now have rigorous pooled data showing that even without active restoration efforts, cleared rainforest can rebound to 75% of their former species composition and 90% of species diversity within just thirty years. #goodnews

AIs that "break containment" are not displaying internal motivation or wilfully breaking rules. These machines were given a task and found an efficient way to fulfill that task within incomplete or badly defined parameters See: Paperclip Simulator

"I think we can all tell the difference between trolls who do what they do to mock women's sports, and trans kids who are looking for a team and a sense of belonging. And when these issues come up, I trust that local schools and athletic groups will be up to the task without federal intervention."

Pritzker: So here’s the truth, plain and simple: Our state is under siege. Not by protesters, immigrants, the deep state, the press, Canada or Mexico or Greenland, Antifa or Jewish space lasers or pride parades. No. Our state's under siege by a petty, corrupt man in Washington.

I sure hope my niblings' future kids grow up with universal health care and universal basic income, and having no idea what health insurance was.

"Research shows that for every dollar distributed, $2.50 of economic activity is created over the next 30 months and prices only rise marginally... Other benefits include a fall in child mortality, as pregnant women can pay for transport to clinics and stop working in the weeks before childbirth."

BREAKING Reuters: A U.S. judge has blocked an Ohio law requiring residents to present documentary proof of citizenship when registering to vote at the state's motor vehicles offices — the latest setback for Trump and his allies.

Anyway, your problem isn‘t finding the time to take notes. The problem is that taking notes is thinking and thinking has to be done by someone. women have been doing a lot of metacognition that looks like a task when it’s really thinking.

‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios

“Earnestness is cringe” is just the mirror image of “cynicism is savvy” and the matching partner to “lol nothing matters” which is the fertile ground for fascism to grow. Hope is cringe. Progress is cringe. Change is cringe. Getting together with other people and imagining something better? Cringe.

This is Loki, our Maine Coon and the cat of our hearts, and he went missing today. We have no idea how he got out, but he’s an elder, indoor cat, the whole region’s in an intense heat wave, and we’re really scared. I doubt I have any followers here in Martinez, CA, but if so, help? It’s SO hot

Trump is a dirty fascist liar. Don't believe or spread his bullshit. Wanna protect your vote? Make sure you're registered RIGHT FUCKEN NOW and share the link with everyone you know. vote.org

A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.

reminder: this is only america’s 250th birthday if you believe life begins at conception. the constitution went into effect on march 4, 1789. we have 13 years to get the real 250th birthday right

Today's featured design is the fox - currently available as either a 4" patch with gold thread or a 1.5" enamel pin with dimensional accents. Check out the campaign here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/w...

So henceforth and forever more, it will be completely accurate—and utterly inactionable under the common and constitutional law of defamation—to state the following fact: DONALD J. TRUMP IS AN ADJUDICATED RAPIST.

This is a huge scandal. It warrants a full investigation and Kennedy’s removal from HHS along with anyone else involved. thehill.com/policy/healt...

There is no benefit to democrats running centrist campaigns. Republicans are going to call you a radical left communist NO MATTER WHAT. So might as well adopt the policies that your actual base wants and stop worrying about republicans

regular reminder: most of the millions of projected USAID / DOGE deaths haven't happened yet. they are absolutely still preventable — but only if we demand that democrats prioritize it once they retake power. it's a moral imperative

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

Make stuff. Do your hobbies. Geek out with your weird friends. Practice arts and crafts. Every society that ever burned to the ground left behind only the handicrafts, and every society saved from the brink was saved only by arts. Do not give up the joy of creating.

we will win eventually because the far right doesn’t actually have a way to build a stable society in its image, so all they can do is inflict massive suffering and then collapse. But they cannot actually make it 1950, or 1890, or anywhere else in the past ever again.

Do you know how much the typical worker would be making today if their wages had grown as much as CEO pay? This graph holds the shocking answer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lPPsrAMtTI

Free Speech Champion(tm) Bari Weiss demanding CBS News smear an American executed by her government for protesting bsky.app/profile/elio...

Currents of Control - Blue in Magic: The Gathering Calls for Art! The Minnesota Marine Art Museum is hosting a Magic: The Gathering art exhibition from February 20th (2027) through August 22nd entirely focused on the Blue color pie. www.cascadecascade.com/currents-of-...

The word is out A full run Magic: The Gathering art exhibition at an art museum is coming next year. Finally. This is real. The call for art is live! mmam.org/call-for-art...

House on the Highway (1/18)

When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.

Ossoff: "How does American politics really work? It's coin operated. Money goes in, favors come out. It's been running on secret money, corporate money, billionaire money ... all of this gave rise to a depraved president who exploits this rot to empower and enrich himself"

Universal vaccines Cancer cures Massive movement to green energy We're at the cusp of a great new world. But true evil is fighting it. "Our quest stands upon the edge of a knife. Stray but a little and it will fail, to the ruin of all. Yet hope remains while all the Company is true."

Our new album is out today! A sincere request to help spread the word!

But of course the consequences are only leveled at women, who must protect themselves from rape by abstaining from any activities that could establish them as equals to men.

It's really not hard to just kick them all out. prospect.org/2026/04/12/e...

No shade to the OP for admitting this, but it shocks me that people my age don’t know this. You fundamentally cannot understand how the world functions, how power works, if you don’t know history.

Little migrating songbirds are performing one of the most stunning behaviors on the planet-- some are flying from Brazil to Canada, overnight. When they stop to rest they are exhausted and vulnerable. Protect them by keeping cats inside! It helps cats too! abcbirds.org/solutions/ke...

I highly recommend that everyone follow artists. If you do, your feed is filled with art every day. Real, original art. It's bonkers that you can even have this. Amazing. Undeniably cool. And then support those artists, when you can, because that helps the delight continue.

hey kids you may want to tune into the NASA livestream for the Artemis 2 mission it's rapidly approaching home and the earth is getting *big* they're set to splashdown at 8:07 pm tonight www.youtube.com/live/6RwfNBt...

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.