Ellie Schaffer

Is gen AI the ultimate tech debt? Borrowing from our collective past selves until no one is left to create new capital

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What was his beef with the agent to begin with?

I was responsible for these for two years as a manager. What an epically colossal, demoralizing waste of time.

Does anyone _actually_ find lavender calming? I find it the opposite

There are no estimates, only @woodyzuill.bsky.social

I went through LAX and unfortunately they are serving as shelters for the unhoused there

How many mf'ers gonna die in Walmart stampedes due to shortages

the rotten fruit of the Supreme Court's decisions in Terry v. Ohio and Whren v. U.S. to allow pretextual traffic stops

I can't even begin to tell you just how disastrous a traditionalist Catholic pope being elected would be. It would be gasoline on a conflagration of fascism sweeping the globe.

I have really good news to announce to everyone.

Because of our reporting and many readers contacting Planned Parenthood of Arizona, the organization will NOT over comply with Trump, and is restarting its trans adult care.

Good work everyone.

I barely have the words to even talk about this-when I was doing immigration justice organizing in my past- border vigilantism was rampant and resulted in multiple deaths and increased IPV against immigrant women.

Having a normal one

Me in the national security group chat:

There has been an implicit agreement between the IRS and undocumented migrants that they can pay their taxes without fear. Many undocumented migrants do so, in part so they can apply for citizenship/visas in the future. Now that trust is going to be abused to potentially deport millions of people.

8. They also ruled in favor of parental rights: “Based on the foregoing, we conclude that parents have a fundamental right to seek medical care for their children"

Dude was visiting his fiancé, who lives in Vegas. His English isn’t good so he misunderstood the border goons when they asked where he lives, he said Vegas, they took him away for questioning without a translator and now he’s been in a jail for two weeks.

Federal marshals forced entry into the US African Development Foundation and escorted Musk staffers inside, after agency employees resisted their entry. Once inside, they changed the federal agency’s locks. Musk staffers were seen plugging in an external hard drive and going through everything.

“Undeterred, Marocco and DOGE threatened a security guard with a lawsuit and told the building’s property manager that they would bring in U.S. Marshals and the Secret Service unless they were given access to USADF. Their threats were unsuccessful.”

1. A new Texas bill outright criminalizes being transgender as felony fraud. It is one of the most alarming bills that I have ever seen.

Though it stands little chance of passage, its rationale is already being used in other places and by the trump admin.

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I was interested in management for a long time because I had progressive ideas I believed I could implement. It turned out to be mostly wishful thinking... in any case the forced perf review was a colossal waste of my time as manager, aside from all the other ills

Yesterday, I was speaking at USC and one of the students brought up that they had witnessed Charlie Kirk raising his arm in a Nazi salute as a "sarcastic" response to a student berating him for standing by Musk.

This stuff will keep spreading. As always, it will be framed as a joke. Until it isn't.

A very big ray of light in the worst of times. The ONLY reason this didn’t pass is bcz of organizing. Let’s keep going.

Five former defense secretaries condemned Trump’s firing of senior military leaders as “reckless” and urged Congress to reject their replacements.

Iowa Legislature Votes to Strip Trans People From Civil Rights Protections The bill will now go to the Governor for a final signature, and will mark the first state to strip any group from a civil rights act.

1. Today, the Iowa Legislature shamefully stripped transgender people from the State Civil Rights Act.

It becomes the first state to ever strip any group from a civil rights act.

There were powerful speeches, and huge protets.

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Picard management tip: When you've gotten enough sleep, an impossible task becomes an interesting challenge.

Trump pardons violent people who attacked officers, but peaceful protest—that’s where we draw the line.

Following executive orders, ‘The President’s Own’ Marine Band scraps concert The U.S. Marine Band’s canceled collaboration with Equity Arc was to feature high school musicians of color who competed to perform with the ensemble.

certain respectable, centrist pundits have said or implied that i'm basically hysterical about the idea that the trump administration is segregationist but then we get stories like this one. huh, wonder what ideological perspective might explain this decision.

Despite Republican Attacks, Americans Are Queerer Than Ever In Latest Poll According to a Gallup Poll released on Thursday, more Americans identify as LGBTQ+ than ever before, despite heavy attacks from right-wing politicians.

1. Despite Republican attacks in recent years, America is queerer than ever before.

LGBTQ+ identification has risen to 9.3% in the last Gallup Poll, a huge jump from 7.6% last year.

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Share of U.S. adults who identify as L.G.B.T.Q. climbing from under 4% in 2012to 9.3% in 2024

If you're in need of a real reason to maintain hope remember that billionaire-backed propaganda campaigns and mass censorship across state and federal governments has only made the country even more queer