I don't understand how that doesn't cut through with sharp moral clarity: Living, breathing, feeling people with hopes and dreams and fears and loves are dying and suffering *now*
They're not statistics or political points or abstract concepts! They're *people* and need protection and support *now*
Like, no, I am not interested in having an intellectual discussion about invading Iran or arming Israel or trans rights or systemic racism.
PEOPLE ARE FUCKING DYING, and their lives aren't an intellectual exercise.
I think the most frustrating thing about *gestures generally at all the fascism* is the Very Serious People who insist that we cannot, in fact, do better than this and mock those of us who think there's no such thing as a disposable human life.
Some of the biggest (mostly white) panic merchants on here strain to compare current events to Nazi Germany, and while there's always something learn from that era, the best comparisons for Trumpism are wholly American: Jim Crow, the Klan's terror, on and on. We beat it before, we must do it again.
there is no opposition party in the U.S.
Was going to make a joke but it's actually REALLY bad they feel confident enough to say this shit out loud.
These asshole twerps with no brains or education from DOGE really did use ChatGPT to find NEH grants to terminate ILLEGALLY - ruining hundreds lives and destroying hundreds of the greatest humanities projects and partnerships of our time. I’m overwhelmed with rage and anger all over again.
Dawg the fact they’re just saying this is wild enough let alone that they may actually believe it
It would be only fair to the reader to say frankly in advance that the attitude of any person toward this story will be distinctly influenced by his theories of the Negro race. If he believes that the Negro in America and in general is an average and ordinary human being, who under given environment develops like other human beings, then he will read this story and judge it by the facts adduced. If, however, he regards the Negro as a distinctly inferior creation, who can never successfully take part in modern civilization and whose emancipation and enfranchisement were gestures against nature, then he will need something more than the sort of facts that I have set down. But this latter person, I am not trying to convince. I am simply pointing out these two points of view, so obvious to Americans, and then without further ado, I am assuming the truth of the first. In fine, I am going to tell this story as though Negroes were ordinary human beings, realizing that this attitude will from the first seriously curtail my audience. W. E. BURGHARDT DU BOIS Atlanta, December, 1934
I'd forgotten how hard the preface to DuBois's "Black Reconstruction" (1934) went...and am saddened by how contemporary it still feels.
…I've said it so many fucking times, now, but I'll say it again, that it's really fucking messed up that all of these conversations seek to apply to fucking LLMs a standard of personhood we still don't consistently and meaningfully apply to other fucking humans.
every single employee being jailed is the moderate position
Multiple news outlets are reporting a US attack on an Iranian #desalination plant.
If verified, this violates international law protecting #water systems during wars, and it sets a dangerous precedent, given intense dependence of Gulf countries on desalination.
timesofoman.com/article/1691...
Gavin Newsom, Kristi Noem Nod Silently To Each Other In Plastic Surgeon’s Office
Gavin Newsom, Kristi Noem Nod Silently To Each Other In Plastic Surgeon’s Office
Unconscionable.
Congress needs to aggressively reassert its authority. Stop this illegal war from becoming even more deadly. Now we know it was likely a U.S. bomb that caused mass casualties at the girls' school in Iran.
No more of our taxpayer dollars funding this savagery.
“Be kind, be involved, believe in your art,” he said. “At a time when people tell you art is not important, that is always the prelude to fascism. When they tell you it doesn’t matter, when they tell you a fucking app can do art you say, if it’s that important, why the fuck do they want it so bad? The answer is because they think they can debase everything that makes us a little better, a little more human. And that, in my book, and in my life, includes monsters.”
Love this from Guillermo del Toro
Caitlin KALINOWSKI over X I resigned from OpenAl. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together. This wasn't an easy call. Al has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the team, and I'm proud of what we built together.
OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying…
“Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”
They act like they're invincible because they think they're invincible because no one in power is doing anything to stop them.
'What are they going to do to me?' he said of critics who opposed his efforts.'
Hey, there are legal mechanisms for dealing with shit like this. There are many ways to deal with things like this, and the *bare minimum* is to at least object and oppose?
Sitting in his Senate office this week with canisters of Planters peanuts and hundreds of scattered papers on his desk and signed MAGA hats on his shelves, Graham was almost giddy about persuading Trump to bomb Iran. One of the newer hats reads "Make Iran Great Again." "What are they going to do to me?" he said of critics who opposed his efforts. The senator said he was already talking with Trump about further military interventions in Lebanon and potentially Cuba, which he said would happen soon. He wasn't particularly concerned about what was next in Iran, he said.
These lunatics should live in a zoo
The word you are looking for, Tom, is "bad." A demented authoritarian illegally and immorally bombing a foreign country is bad.
I am absolutely convinced that one of the reasons our imperialism continues unchecked year after year is because white suburbs never see the consequences. They're not occupied by soldiers or bombed by munitions. Even school shootings are just a fact of life, so dead people abroad barely register.
Me: "Are you aware of the intersection of Taco Bell and Literature?"
Writer: "Yes, I met you in Seattle, you offered me drugs, and you were the first person I told I was pregnant."
So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right
I saw someone say Air Force pilots are the modern day equivalent of a gas chamber operator and I can’t stop thinking about it
IF Gavin Newsom is on a ballot
THEN me and many others will refuse to vote for him
THEREFORE instead of bitching at me and others like me
YOU should take the *years* you have and make sure that doesn't happen if you actually fucking care
BECAUSE my position is immutable
This is quite literally the job of a political campaign! bsky.app/profile/atom...
Oh, close! It was her job to do that, actually!
This woman, US citizen living in Skokie, was detained at Ohare yesterday, taken to Broadview, then transferred to a detention facility in Wisconsin, now released. We know all this not because of DHS, who repeatedly denied that they even had her, but because her phone was pinging in those locations.
and the thing is this isn’t even uncommon among law enforcement agencies! local cops will do the same shit! law enforcement stenography is easily the worst habit the press in this country has, every one of these claims should be treated with the skepticism it deserves
they lie every single time
it’s always murder, they’re always smearing the victim in order to cover for themselves
DHS statements should be treated, presumptively, as the exact opposite of the truth
not exaggerations, not inaccurate - brazen, total lies
