Nathalie D. Medina

Goodnight my friends. Leave a kind comment for our fellow travelers if you are so inclined.

You're right Black Americans historically and presently do nothing about this. At the next general Americans meeting I am going to put your post up on the big screen, and then we will get to brainstorming.

Palantir and other tech companies are stocking offices with tobacco products to increase worker productivity | Fortune Health experts offer a blunt warning on using tobacco products to increase productivity, saying the adverse health effects have been well documented.

They literally work you to death fortune.com/2026/03/04/p...

i am a beloved child of God (RUNS)

Meta has a history of torturing their moderators and providing NOTHING in the way of mental health care. How do I know? Because I used to be a moderator for Meta and I got a $3,500 settlement for the PTSD they gave me.

When we tried to unionize, they moved their moderation to the Philippines.

Imaging a human saying to you, "i will only ever tell you what i think you want to hear, based on what i know about ppl like you, how you start our conversation, & what you say during it. Sometimes that will sound like truth, sometimes like errors or lies. Now: Let's talk about your medical history"

This is worth mentioning to your friends who traded their ChatGPT for Claude subscriptions - Claude helped kill all of those little girls at school in Iran. Anthropic isn’t ethical AI.

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Here is a list of what is expected of having a 5th grade reading level.

"Describe how a narrator’s or speaker’s point of view influences how events are described."

Imagine not being able to perceive and understand the idea of a biased point of view.

This is why even in non-written media, you see people having a difficult time perceiving subtext, context, the idea that the writer is writing for a specific audience with a specific idea in mind, etc.

Because becoming functionally literate is *how* you learn to perceive all that stuff.

People tend to think of functional illiteracy as just being unable to read words aloud or such.

What it *really* means is such as not being able to perceive subtext, context, understand who the audience of something may be, etc.

Media illiteracy is fundamentally part of functional illiteracy.

2024-2025 Literacy Statistics | National Literacy Institute Literacy Statisitics

Fun fact: 54% of US adults read below a 6th grade level.

You have to actively remember literally over half the US adult population is *unable to perceive subtext*

www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-li...

sorry to ask for help again. I'm working hard on completing my novel so we can sell it if God wills. Once I'm done with my manuscript, hopefully at the end of April, I will apply for an MLIS. I am applying for SSI as well. This is all to say, please help us survive through March. We are worn thin.

For months, @jacksonwryan.com has been looking into why so many video games sites have become full of gambling and casino stories, unusual author images, and, most recently, the use of AI. We've connected these sites to Clickout Media. Here's what we've learned.

@alexbores.nyc is running for the open seat in NY-12. His main competitor is Micah Lasher—someone who has been mouthing the words "abolish ICE" recently but, as is the case with nearly every progressive position he supposedly holds, only after the polls showed it's popular. Friends, Alex is the one.

it's all just art. "porn" is just art that makes you horny, in precisely the way that "horror" is art that makes you scared and "metroidvania" is art that makes you write video essays

I haven't bought from Amazon for a long, long while, but I still had public wishlists on there. I just logged on and deleted them. Super not safe.

memories are short. reminder of this crushing statement from (one) woman:

"I dropped my dream of being a comic artist shortly after and fell into a depression while I tried to figure out how I could have my future still be art related. I’ve hardly read a comic since.”

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Oh yeah, he's coming. #TheVampireLestat

LEAVE THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO ALONE IS WHAT I'M SAYING

stop casting white men as characters that were almost certainly not white challenge

Quick sketch of Wednesday Addams glaring. Thing is perched on her right shoulder.

No Time to Cry

Polaroid picture of a sunset in Martinique.

This might be my favorite Polaroid picture I took so far !!

(sobbing) thank you for understanding, I fear I'll wake up one day and Sam Claflin will be standing at the foot of my bed grinning to tell me personally he's going to ruin another of my favorite book characters in another adaptation

(agonized) Jacob Anderson is right there (flees in floods of tears)

michael scott from the office says `` all i can do right now is put on a brave face '' . Alt: michael scott from the office says `` all i can do right now is put on a brave face '' .

Doom upon my crops, doom upon my people, doom upon my ancestors, doom upon my soul

Next he'll play Gregor Vorbarra or Alex Skarsgard will break an arm and Sam Claflin will step in as Murderbot. they'll have him playing fucking Vanyel Ashkevron

GET AWAY FROM MY BOOKS!!!

Do not even mention Sam Claflin's name to me, he ruined my favorite character in The Hunger Games, and now he's ruining my favorite character in The Count of Monte Cristo, one of my favorite books. I am beside myself. STOP TAKING IMPORTANT ROLES IN BOOKS I LIKE!!! YOU ARE NOT MY EDMOND DANTÈS

We lost Michael K. Williams because working on Lovecraft Country brought up a lot of overwhelming pain that had built up over time. This pain kills.