MagicBear

Do cats just think humans basically don't age after adulthood because we live so much longer?

The answer to problems in sociotechnical systems is not always "more software", "better software" or "open source software".
A lot of the time the best solution is _less software_ and sometimes even _no software_.

Your friends do good pressure. Thank you for sharing this!

You Don't Have To YouTube video by Ross Kirsling

Got out of my songwriting drought by making a protest song against generative AI...in the form of an adult children's song. 😂

The song congealed in two hours; the drawings took another two weeks (but I'm thankful to my friends who pushed me to make a lyric video 😁).

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdD-...

What we are seeing is a deliberate, well-funded campaign to make transgender Americans second-class citizens—without legal protections and vulnerable to state violence.

Don’t run away from diversity initiatives, pay people a living wage with good benefits, keep the shelves full and the store clean. There fixed the problem

Audiobooks don’t really count as reading? Think again. — Harvard Gazette Education scholars say rigor, learning same as paper, stigma an unnecessary hurdle.

"Not only does the brain operate the same when reading print books or listening to audiobooks, Gaab said, but the learning process is also the same."

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news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

abolish ICE is a majority position among INDEPENDENTS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC

you have 23% among REPUBLICANS

we have at least three more years of this shit

what I am saying is: the next Dem president had better be ready to walk into DHS with a chainsaw on Day 1

Today is International Sex Workers’ Rights Day, a time to support and uplift sex workers everywhere—and a particularly good day to throw some money to the United Brothel Workers in Nevada who were illegally terminated after their historic union drive with CWA went public! ☂️

For years, Graceware has gotten away with abusing the DMCA because they've targeted large platforms that comply quickly with takedowns, or individuals without the resources to push back.

Then they fucked with us, a non-profit organization with a special interest and an expert legal team. Whoops!

Cartoon by Stephen Collins for the Guardian, here's the script: [Scene is the inside of a SOUP. Some CARROTS and BITS OF BROCCOLI are floating around and a STOCK CUBE and a BAY LEAF have just been dropped in.]  1 STOCK CUBE: Alright lads - this is Bay Leaf. My colleague from the spice rack. 2 BROCCOLI: Hi Bay Leaf BAY LEAF: Yuh yuh hi 3 CARROTS: You up for getting proper blended with us later, Bay Leaf? BAY LEAF: Nuh mate, getting scooped out before soup stage. 4 CARROTS: Oh! So… you’re not being eaten then? BAY LEAF: Eaten! Haha 5 BAY LEAF: Not allowed mate. I’m afraid I’m a lil’ bit *toooo intense*... 6 BAY LEAF: Just here for the flavour hit. Special forces, y’know. That’s why there’s just one of me. 7 BAY LEAF: Over-deploy and you’d have this whole soup stiiinking of bay leaf… 8 BAY LEAF: You might wanna stand back actually. This place is about to get preeetty bay leafy... 9 [Silent pause] 10 CARROTS: Are you doing something BAY LEAF: Sure am mate. 11 BAY LEAF: Suuuuure am. 12 BAY LEAF [Getting scooped out by chef’s spoon]: You need training to perceive it. CARROTS: OK

I’m convinced this is how a bay leaf would talk

this war has already wiped out the stated gains from what DOGE did last year lol

i totally get this and it seems like a no brainer, but you've got to understand that fraudsters are professionals.

stealing credit cards puts food on their table and they're as good at their job as you are at yours.

their job is making this obvious scam seem plausible to their victims.

New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice | StateScoop A bill under consideration in New York would provide a private right of action, allowing people to file lawsuits against chatbot owners who violate the law.

“A bill under consideration by the New York state legislature would prohibit artificial intelligence-powered chatbots from providing legal or medical advice, and it would allow users to sue chatbot owners who violate the ban.”

In the last decade, the Atlantic has not platformed a single trans person to speak about issues affecting them or the broader trans community. Not a single one. Yet, they have monthly screeds by Helen Lewis and endless money to pay random transphobic grifters to pump stuff like this out.

Fwiw at least the pt for this is fun? (especially the part where I'm no longer woken up by a rib stabbing me in the lung any more!)

Stand With Minnesota Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

It’s day 89 of the ICE occupation of MN.

It may seem as if everyone in MN is furiously raising rent for our neighbors, trying to prevent a massive eviction crisis on top of the federal occupation.

That’s because Minnesotans know that we keep each other safe, and no one is coming to save us.

timothy_thelen 7h Follow Them - You can't throw sandwiches at ICE Agents. Grabs a hot dog. "I guess we'll finally answer the old question."

Experimental philosophy

Screenshot of a Wall Street Journal opinion article titled “A Guaranteed Income Won’t Stop People From Wanting to Work,” by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo. A subheading says evidence from programs around the world suggests basic income does not make recipients lazier. Below the headline is a photo of several women sitting outdoors at a table working.

"Not only don't people work less when they are guaranteed an income, they might actually put in more effort at work. And the fact that they have more money to spend leads to the creation of more jobs."

Nobel Prize–winning economists Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo

“Of course,” Astrid says with great professionalism. “There are many wonderful women-loving-women stories to choose from. Do you have any other parameters for me to narrow the search for you? Do you like stories set on the high sea? In the Old West? Or maybe with a speculative element, you know, like—” “Like in Barbarella?” Gus Anderson’s eyes light up. Astrid has only the vaguest impression of a young Jane Fonda in a skimpy outfit on the Barbarella movie poster, an image that serves the male gaze as its raison d’être. “Comparable titles in the sense that these stories are also set in the future, or in space, or sometimes both,” she says firmly. “Would you like some recommendations?” “Absolutely.” The old man sounds giddy. “Bring them on.” Astrid writes down This Is How You End the Time War and Gideon the Ninth for him, and then personally takes him to the stacks to retrieve The Stars Are Legion, by Kameron Hurley. “There isn’t a single man in this book. Everybody on this planet is a woman.” “Oh, my!” Gus Anderson, his head probably brimming with images of thousands of chicks making out with one another for his delectation, checks out the book and leaves happily.

A fan messaged me about this passage from Sherry Thomas's book, "The Librarians," in which a librarian has an annoying older male patron ask her for some woman-on-woman sf😂

A two-child household must earn $400,000 a year for childcare to be affordable, according to a new study.

Thank you to @authorsabb.bsky.social heroes @beccacoffindaffer.bsky.social and Ed Underhill, we have some slides that can be shared by anyone about this, with particular reps to target. Let's kill this bill in committee.

The Conference of Catholic Bishops is... not playing around in this brief.

www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

Abortion laws show that public policy doesn’t always line up with public opinion Polls indicate majority support for abortion rights in most states, but laws differ greatly between places that uphold such rights and those that ban the procedure.

Representational government rests on a simple idea: that the laws the nation lives under generally reflect what the public wants. But abortion serves as a clear example of how difficult it can be to translate public opinion into law.

A Nationwide Book Ban Bill Has Been Introduced in the House of Representatives Hours after the State of the Union address, House republicans introduced legislation banning LGBTQ+ books from public schools nationwide.

Following the lies and hatred targeting trans folks during the State of the Union Address, numerous republican House representatives introduced a bill that would create A NATIONWIDE BOOK BAN.

Here's what it is and what to do: bookriot.com/hr7661-book-...

A four panel comic strip. Panel one: text reads “I love drawing my scrungly guys at the computer.” A coyote is shown looking at the viewer over his shoulder whilst typing at a computer. Panel two: text reads “But what are they computing?” A close of view of a badge on the computer reading “CBM- Coyote Business Machines.” Panel three: text reads “Making a game? Drawing up a budget? Home automation?” The coyote says, “I use the computer to communicate!” Panel four: a close view of the computer screen, showing a simple program written in Basic: “10 print “yip” 20 goto 10” Run Yip Yip Yip Yip Yip

Which definition of "print" here? 😅 if you mean the onto-paper kind, it disappeared in the early microservices-architecture era and i think that's related

FYI for fellow narrative designers/game writers: the studio in question is Sentona Games and it’s my understanding they are currently interviewing to replace me. Be very careful with them. They were very nice to me and easy to work with right up until I needed the money I was promised.

Wisconsin Cheese Mart ships cheese curds nationwide! and if the order hits $90 shipping is free to Texas. Their products are pretty reasonably priced so I usually go in on a big group order with a few friends every year or two, but you could also pay shipping.

if you kill yourself in the process of trying to support everyone else the future we're all building towards will have a you shaped hole in it

please fill your own cup up first.