it's always nice to be reminded of how incredible a public speaker Barack Obama is. here's part of his eulogy of Jesse Jackson
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it's always nice to be reminded of how incredible a public speaker Barack Obama is. here's part of his eulogy of Jesse Jackson
Okay, I 100% had the bunny/duck optical illusion experience when I scrolled by this photo. (My brain went - why is that bunny in a trenchcoat so taken aback?)
I’m with the Adopt A Rent team at standwithminnesota.com. If you want to help prevent further evictions for MN immigrant families affected by ICE, you can send us rent funds here:
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We keep us housed 💛
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kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it
Anyways.
"you need to learn how to use gAI or you'll get left behind!"
counterpoint!
the absolute fastest way to render yourself unemployable is to build your skillset around a tool that does your thinking for you, that everyone has access to, and that one company can change or take away at any time
A picture of PEW poll on global attitude survey, saying the % who rate the morality and ethics of people in their country as good vs bad, where the US has the worst rankings and Canada the best
Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best
Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!
Let how exhausted I look here give you a window into how hard mutual aid organizers have been pushing to keep our neighbors safe and housed when no one else will. Please write to your councilmembers and the mayor and urge them to pass Pause Evictions, Save Lives!
Ian Coldwater makes a statement before the Minneapolis City Council. They wear a black knit hat and a vintage KubeCon EU 2019 (Barcelona!) t-shirt - a shirt which some of you also probably have in a drawer. The lower third from this livestream says: March 03, 2026 Committee of the Whole Temporary pre-eviction notice extension ordinance lims.minneapolismn.gov
Powerful statement earlier today from @lookitup.baby in support of a pause in evictions for Minneapolis families in this time of crisis.
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trans is an advanced class, like druid in 1E; you have to have have a certain number of levels in gay first and then defeat the Keeper of the Grove.
I'm mad a lot.
I'm sad more often.
The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.
A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.
Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.
This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.
Hemingway was once bet that he couldn’t write the world’s happiest short story in just 5 words. He replied,
“is there a technology that the left is excited about?”
Trains. We love trains, actually
A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".
2026 basically
Tired: Claude
Wired: Marvin
I'm just a girl, standing in front of the entire medical establishment, begging them to stop being a bucket of gaslighting fake PVC body-unsafe jelly dicks and actually listen to the patient in front of them and not the patient in their mind
Habits and routine.
In Dublin last year, an annoying interviewer demanded of me: “Your country has been overtaken by fascists. Why are you smiling?” I was too jetlagged to have a sensible answer so I said, “I’m smiling because I have a knife between my teeth.” The knife might look like this:
NEW: Documents obtained by @wired.com show that ICE has or plans to open more than 150 facilities around the US, in nearly every state, many near major metro areas. @leahfeiger.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-ex...
Living in Minnesota right now feels like being in the emergency room. Literally everyone is suffering in different ways, even if it's "just" a badly twisted ankle rather than a kidney stone or a full-on heart attack. The staff are working as hard as they can but energy and resources are dwindling.
A picture of bad bunny with the word love
Bad Bunny understood the assignment…
Leave it like this! Fall of empire! Wabi sabi! Don't fix a damn thing.
Jeffrey Bezos is destroying the Washington Post for the same reason Musk destroyed Twitter and Ellison is destroying CBS—oligarchs oppose the free press when if it threatens their wealth and power.
They don’t want normal people to see what is happening in America.
Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes."
After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc
400k raised so far! A red hat becomes a quiet form of protest in Minnesota : NPR share.google/gBJlCyqsAmu4...
As far as we know, the primary cause of death in ICE custody is a refusal to provide medical care.
It’s a form of structural violence and extremely common component of eugenics and ethnic cleansings.
Bodhicitta, precious and sublime
May it arise where it has not yet come to be
Where it has arisen, may it never fail
But grow and flourish, ever more and more
It just isn't savvy politics to go into a fight compromising in advance. Say what you want to have happen. Start from there.
If you are a person who works in social media, and your job requires you to manage an account on Twitter/X, please ask your boss, in writing, to verify that you are required as a responsibility of your position to be on a platform that knowingly creates and monetizes child sexual abuse material …