We have unlimited money for paramilitary forces that kidnap people off the streets but also have something called "school lunch debt" what are we doing here
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We have unlimited money for paramilitary forces that kidnap people off the streets but also have something called "school lunch debt" what are we doing here
Over the past couple weeks, I‘ve felt terrified, angry, and proud all at once watching news of my hometown and my friends and family there. There are multiple ways to support the incredible folks on the ground who are working collectively to keep people safer during this siege.
Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
“We need to get better at treating this like a business,” ICE acting director Todd M. Lyons said at a border security conference in April, according to the Arizona Mirror. The administration’s goal, he said, was to deport immigrants as efficiently as Amazon moves packages: “Like Prime, but with human beings.”
“Like Prime, but with human beings.”
No I do not want LinkedIn Wrapped I do not want NYT Games Wrapped I do not want my bank account Wrapped!!! I do not want a 2025 retrospective for every app I’ve ever used!!! Take my data and/or money and leave me alone!!!
I appreciate the reporting AND I want everyone to stop using criminal records as a stand in for whether people should or should not be harassed and deported.
a chatgpt branded magic 8 ball
"i love that you asked this"
the small language model arrived
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Sarah from Pretzels.
Time is owned by Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, which is currently trying to sell its AI tool to ICE in order to triple their recruitment. just a thing I think about sometimes while I’m at work, implementing his product for nonprofits.
Reminder: It's never too late to start wearing a mask again
This entire country is being scammed — we can afford health care. You reason you don't have the health care you need because someone is making profit. That's it.
“School officials have created a Microsoft Copilot prompt to review course descriptions with an eye toward avoiding ‘advocacy-oriented or prescriptive terms.’”
Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”
I've been shook this year by how pausing a streaming show will now bring up a separate ad, turning my TV into a billboard
enshittification's venerable ancestor is advertising
one insidious thing about gen AI is it's not just causing us to mistrust dodgy images, it's also making us mistrust images that look perfectly normal. this is gaslighting in a very literal sense bc the technology is undermining the trust we have in our own ability to perceive reality!
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
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Alice Wong, Presente. Thank you for everything.
WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
Sorry guys, I ordered a Filet-o-Fish meal on the credit card one too many times this month because I’m sad and tired, and I may have skewed our national economic data
This is what I try to always tell people: food banks can do way more with your money than you can, due to bulk buying deals. And they can do way, way more with your money than with the canned goods you didn’t want to eat
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
Not only that, but so much AI tech extracts the metadata and open info created/enabled *by* library and data workers. The labor of our field is being consumed and then resold to us in the hopes that we’ll decide our own jobs are obsolete @404media.co
If you told them people you was leaving... be out ✌️
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
AWS outage seemingly takes down Medicare website during open enrollment...
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Hey idk if anyone has thought of this but maybe we shouldn’t be hosting 40% of the internet on Amazon servers ?
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I am beyond excited (and nervous!) to announce that my first book, "The House Archives Built and Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities" is available for sale!
This series of essay includes reworked talks, new reflections, and a lot of my heart
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