Platner has really wasted a lot of time that could have been used to find a better candidate and that's frustrating
Platner has really wasted a lot of time that could have been used to find a better candidate and that's frustrating
In all seriousness, this has me thinking about βAIβ usage in light of philosophical claims about human identity, specifically the idea that we co-constitute each other. That we are *ourselves* with and against each other.
Oh.
Shit.
The New York Times Slurs Filled a Chat Created by a Republican Party Official in Florida After the secretary of the Miami-Dade County Republican Party created the chat for college students, it devolved into slurs against Black and Jewish people.
Slurs spoke themselves unto the mouths of young GOP members again! I just hope that they're all OK!π€‘
Slurs emitted themselves fully formed, from the fingertips of innocent far-right people! That must have been terrifying for them! π€‘
Pray for those that survived spontaneous chat room devolution! π€‘
Second Afternoon Update: I'm now down to needing $870 by tomorrow, March 7, in order to pay February's rent. If I could get 18 people to donate $50 (or 35 people to donate $25) we could get this taken care of quickly #MutualAidRequest
This.
The image is of graves being dug for the girls killed when the U.S. bombed their school.
US ICE arrested journalist in Nashville without arrest warrant, her lawyers say reut.rs/3MMO6ex
Trans ppl under attack from the govt could be identified and outed w/o their consent.
Undocumented immigrants would be cut off from the ability to communicate w advocates.
Young ppl seeking abortions won't be able to access info safely and anonymously.
This is what congress is advancing today ππ»
If you took $1 billion and gave it to the endowment of a different small college each day, they could each provide a free college education to several hundred students per year in perpetuity. Instead we are using that money to bomb schools and kill students in Iran, for no clearly stated purpose.
NEW βWeβre celebrating a tradition that is at its core about resisting occupation and maintaining community in the face of horrors. You canβt keep politics out of Irish music. No one should try, for two reasons. First, itβs ahistorical. Second, Minnesotans are ready for a big anti-fascist party.β
I drafted Articles of Impeachment against Pete Hegseth, free to any Member of Congress who wants to introduce them
www.patreon.com/posts/152348...
Also must say if you read this and got to the part about Georgia Wellness Group, there is so much more that @garnethenderson.com and @autonomynews.co reported in January. Give it a read and subscribe!
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. Sheβs married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
Theyβve already sent her to Louisiana.
Thatβs the good stuff. Iβm really happy for youβand now youβve brightened my day, too.
HEY BLUESKY!
You know how all those folks printed out and shipped a LITERAL MILLION whistles for folks protecting each other from ICE?
Bree is one of those people! Her stuff is adorbs! You might very well find a lil somethin' to give a beloved, or, I dare say, yourself!
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i cannot stress enough that if you know anything about how kristi noem found out she was fired you must tell me
You can and should choose to speak directly to your constituents here. Be proud of your vote. I am, and I need you to act like it. This moment calls for bold opposition.
Celebrate every win. Let it fuel us.
An important clarification:
when you hear people say
βduring Covidβ
they do not mean
back when they
were at risk of catching Covid,
for (alas) that time remains,
no, when you hear people say
βduring Covidβ
they mean
back when they
were trying not to catch Covid.
This.
Bedtime Update: I'm still sitting at $920 needed by this Saturday, 3/7, in order to pay February's rent and stay housed. Thanks so much for all the support today! #MutualAidRequest
Not gonna share the video of Republican US Senator Tim Sheehy breaking a protesting Marine's hand, but you can find it on @charlotteclymer.bsky.social's timeline.
I'll just say that in a functional country, Sheehy would be expelled by the Senate.
Democratic Senators should publicly push for that.
The Massachusetts Department of Correction has been fighting me for months, trying to withhold data about its collaboration with ICE.
Yesterday, I won that fight, and obtained records showing that the state has transferred more than 2,000 people into ICE custody since 2009.
A quick thread:
47 neighbors. Stolen from us by our torment.
Evening Update: I'm now down to needing $997 by Saturday, 3/7 in order to pay off February's rent. Every dollar really does help right now! π #MutualAidRequest
Again: Not hyperbole, misinterpretation, or a joke that Christian Dominionism is a strain of apocalyptic accelerationism which VERY LITERALLY SEEKS to hasten their vision of the Biblical end of the world, & the people who believe this have VERY CAREFULLY worked their way into the halls of U.S. power
It's worth keeping in mind that Kansas has a strict voter ID law, so this law has essentially instituted a poll tax on all trans people in the state because they have to pay to get their ID replaced.
Just paid these two and Iβm adopting one more MN immigrant familyβs rent for tonight, if I can pull it off.
This next family needs $2400 to stay out of eviction court. Can you help them stay housed?
V: @Ian-Coldwater
CA: $iancoldwater
PP: @coldwater
Please share and help if you can! Thank you! π»
I just learned that Northside Mutual Aid (supporting North Minneapolis families impacted by ICE) is still trying to meet $80,000 in rent needs from FEBRUARY.
Can we move some funds in their direction? π»
I've been saying for almost 2 decades now that it should the current paradigm of "AI" acting as a helpmeet to fascism should be no surprise, when the drivers of fascismβ militarism, capitalism, carcerality, white supremacy, &cβ are the soil, the water, & roots from which this idea of "AI" was grown.