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Limited edition benefit sweatshirt for The Trans Continental Pipeline from Bikini Kill Limited edition benefit sweatshirt for The Trans Continental Pipeline from Bikini Kill

While I have your attention, this is ONLY available today. bikinikill.bandcamp.com/merch/limite...

06.03.2026 14:08 πŸ‘ 98 πŸ” 60 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 4

#rstats dark humor

06.03.2026 18:39 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Parents’ Rights and Parents’ Wrongs Forced Outing from the School Hallway to the Supreme Court to the State of the Union

On Monday night, SCOTUS issued an order indicating they may be inclined to side with policies that force teachers to out LGBTQI+ students to their legal guardians. Forced outing is something kind of hard to talk about. So it felt like maybe we should talk about it. sames.substack.com/parents-righ...

05.03.2026 19:51 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Parents’ Rights and Parents’ Wrongs Forced Outing from the School Hallway to the Supreme Court to the State of the Union

sames.substack.com/p/parents-ri...

05.03.2026 21:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

oh my

05.03.2026 20:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

One of our MSBA TAs had a really great banned-for-life-from-LinkedIn story that amounted to exceeding the API limit and getting caught

05.03.2026 19:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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It’s not the priests. It’s the system. Why so many young clergy are leaving β€” and what the Church refuses to see

open.substack.com/pub/deconstr...

05.03.2026 18:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Generative AI isn’t intelligent, but it allows people to pretend that it is, especially when the people selling the software β€” Altman and Amodei β€” so regularly overstate what it can do. 

By giving warmongers and jingoists the cover to β€œtrust” this β€œauthoritative” service β€” whether or not that’s the case, they can simply point to the specious press β€” the ethical concern of whether or not an attack was ethical or not is now, whenever any western democracy needs it to be, something that can be handed off to Claude, and justified with the cold, logical framing of β€œintelligence” and β€œdata.” 

None of this would be possible without the consistent repetition of the falsehoods peddled by OpenAI and Anthropic. Without this endless puffery and overstatements about the β€œpower of AI,” we wouldn’t have armed conflicts dictated by what a chatbot can burp up from the files it’s fed. The deaths that follow will be a direct result of those who choose to continue to lie about what an LLM does.

Generative AI isn’t intelligent, but it allows people to pretend that it is, especially when the people selling the software β€” Altman and Amodei β€” so regularly overstate what it can do. By giving warmongers and jingoists the cover to β€œtrust” this β€œauthoritative” service β€” whether or not that’s the case, they can simply point to the specious press β€” the ethical concern of whether or not an attack was ethical or not is now, whenever any western democracy needs it to be, something that can be handed off to Claude, and justified with the cold, logical framing of β€œintelligence” and β€œdata.” None of this would be possible without the consistent repetition of the falsehoods peddled by OpenAI and Anthropic. Without this endless puffery and overstatements about the β€œpower of AI,” we wouldn’t have armed conflicts dictated by what a chatbot can burp up from the files it’s fed. The deaths that follow will be a direct result of those who choose to continue to lie about what an LLM does.

@edzitron.com is bang on the money here. The financial analysis at the start of the post is secondary to this section at the end that very clearly explains the absolute dishonesty and moral vacuity of the people running these AI firms.

www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-bubbl...

04.03.2026 11:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The flag of Naperville

05.03.2026 03:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Stealing this one

05.03.2026 02:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a woman in a pink sweater is sitting at a table and making a sad face . Alt: a woman in a pink sweater is sitting at a table and making a sad face .
05.03.2026 02:23 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Farmer & schoolbus driver

Farm implement mechanic & sawmill guy

05.03.2026 02:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

magnificent

04.03.2026 13:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

❀️

04.03.2026 00:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

good grief. There is so much good work elsewhere in the Atlantic. This is an outlier.

03.03.2026 21:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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When Compliance Becomes A Crime What Does Transgender Citizenship Mean after a New Kansas Law?

An important piece by @isaacsederbaum.bsky.social and @paisleycurrah.com

donmoynihan.substack.com/p/when-compl... 3/3

03.03.2026 17:56 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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When Compliance Becomes A Crime What Does Transgender Citizenship Mean after a New Kansas Law?

"It’s no wonder many transgender people are moving out of states with hostile policies toward ones thought to be more welcoming."

"Not having an ID that matches one’s appearance creates a subordinate form of citizenship. " 2/3 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/when-compl...

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When Compliance Becomes A Crime What Does Transgender Citizenship Mean after a New Kansas Law?

"When Kansas attaches penalties to its definition and the federal government reverses decades of passport policy, the already limited room individuals once had to piece together workable identity documents across jurisdictions narrows even further." 1/3 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/when-compl...

03.03.2026 17:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The mind melting cognitive dissonance required to complain about affordability and then argue to pay people "less" πŸ™„
bsky.app/profile/bria...

03.03.2026 16:29 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Amen brother.
The Illinois Tollway System has almost no visible enforcement, & it wouldn't take many lines of code to come up with automated fines for traversing from exit to exit too quickly.
But they won't because the "value" of the toll is the government looking the other way when so many speed

03.03.2026 16:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Illinois tipped minimum is $9/hour for adults

These other places are just barbaric.

03.03.2026 14:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you. Another great one.

03.03.2026 03:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

March's tabular playground
#rstats #databs #tidytuesday
www.kaggle.com/code/jimgrum...

02.03.2026 16:26 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Lost lake farm Iowa alpine

Lost lake farm Iowa alpine

Risotto night

02.03.2026 00:18 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

#livemusic in Naperville
Carmina Burana

01.03.2026 21:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Community College drop out

01.03.2026 21:24 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Echoing this. There's joy in doing new things for the first time, even later in life. Even in school. In work. I'm rooting for you, for finding the joy.

28.02.2026 16:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I guess I knew that it would come to this from national.

The question is what to do locally with families here going forward. Our charter, a Presbyterian church, will continue to be welcoming to all.

27.02.2026 19:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Never gets old, man

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+1

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