Under Construction

Making the dinner announcement at Davos

>she laughs and says "it's a good epoch sir"
>buy a membership
>its farce

This is the best lede I've seen in a tech story in...years? There should be an award just for ledes.

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:

www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

Why on earth would it be on the medics for taking the officers at their supposed unimpeachable word and not on the cops for lying such that a man was intentionally denied critical care and died

Officer having anxiety attack took ambulance sent for man dying from police shooting, report says A man who was shot by Connecticut police last year and later died had to wait 10 extra minutes for another ambulance to arrive at the scene, after another officer having an anxiety attack took the first one.

A man who was shot by Connecticut police last year and later died had to wait 10 extra minutes for another ambulance to arrive at the scene, after another officer having an anxiety attack took the first one.

The ruling class is in a permanent tax revolt, but not because its members fear higher taxes. They successfully evade taxes set at any level. What worries them is the proliferation of public goods, which tends to enhance the independence of the working classes.

Considering muting the word "terrified" or "terrifying"

Losing patience for people who are responding (even rhetorically) to current events with shock and fear instead of being motivated to action by anger and disgust

If you're scared of protesting or a general strike because you could lose your job, healthcare, and housing, or even go to jail, now you understand why the US has no universal healthcare or housing and no guaranteed parental leave, but DOES have the largest prison and police system on planet Earth.

Hell is real and its for you, anonymous NYT staffer

like even just shoe inserts solve this

Or that they are not particularly good problem solvers

both plausible

Marco Rubio greets Chuck Schumer in January 2026 at the Capitol Visitor Center

A close-up of his foot shows his shoes are too big

hmm

Increasingly of the opinion that the correct answer to the Trolley Problem is "fuck you, why are you so fixated on finding reasons to justify killing people?"

Hot (ice cold) take it is manufactured to make those comment sections completely fractured and unusable

worth remembering, David Lynch directed “fix your hearts or die” specifically at transphobes. it wasn’t a generic “no mean people allowed” statement, it was said by his Twin Peaks character in defense of a trans woman he cared for and deeply respected.

rt if u hate nazis and love boobs

Florida: where you can hear a news analyst say things like "This is like one of Chandler's girlfriends from the hit tv show, F.R.I.E.N.D.S,"

that's so weird because i keep being told that everyone gets their money exclusively from israel who "owns them"

are you telling me it was american capital this whole time 😮😮😮

the last few times iran has accepted a ceasefire, the US and israel have taken the opportunity to restock their weapons and then surprise attack iran again. "there's zero point in engaging in diplomacy with us any more" is what that strategy teaches

John Lennon doing that stupid walk

Walking away from Omelas like

Oh shit

If the EU had real strategists and politicians then like 1-2 sin eater nations would do it and then charge every other nation out the wazoo to fly their flag or do business with their vessels

Maybe we can create parallel non-capitalist institutions while still living under capitalism. and then just non-violently swapsies those bad boys in after a while.

it will definitely work, and not be targeted for violent repression since as i said, it would be a non-violent thing.

Please don't apollo's dodgeball yourself

NYT article “How ICE Plans to Put 8,500 Immigrants in This Warehouse,” with the comment “Experts say the initial designs raise health, safety and security concerns.” The image is a vertical floorplan with pods tightly packed that resembles diagrams of slave ships in abolitionist literature from the 18th century

The person who made this image is well versed in the iconography of the transatlantic slave trade.

Remembering this past year needing to fight tooth and nail to not have folks fuckin use the term "Zio" because there is NO rehabbing neo nazi slurs

A bunch of people who are friends and neighbors share stuff and are neighborly and help each other

wow so cult