Once again taking a social media break for about a month, because everything is bad and fucked up and the combination of constant hyperarousal* and abject helplessness isn't actually going to help any situation
If we're friends on Discord, I'll be there
*don't be weird, it doesn't mean sexy stuff
I deleted my earlier post about this because it appears that Wikipedia is NOT going to start using a.i. but rather a way for the foundation to charge a.i. companies who are already allowed to scrape wikipedia under the Creative Commons license.
these beautiful babies need to eat. they need to stay warm. please help if you can
A young man and a young girl looking directly at the camera, posing close together, both with a somber expression. The man wears an olive green hooded jacket, and the girl has a patterned shawl around her neck. They are seated in front of a white tarp background.
"Winter is unforgiving, and we have no cover.
My little sister and I urgently need $200 for clothes and blankets.
The fear isn’t just the cold, but the helplessness of not being able to protect a child.
From a tired heart, I ask for help.💔"
please help💜
chuffed.org/project/mahmoudmohamed
Rand Paul up to his usual dipshittery. "The NSF spent $8 billion to study whether Japanese qual are more sexually promiscuous while on cocaine"
The total NSF budget was 9 billion. I doubt they spend 89% of it on quail.
This is important and, also, not not new. There were reports of this in LA, Portland, and Chicago, at least, as well.
what a legend lmao
Nature's dippin' dots
It’s the “I swear I’m still cool” show starring I was never all that great anyway with special guest, I was hate couture until the fascists put me in the bargain bin.
Shapiro has lost a ton of clout among the Nazis now that they've gone full, well, Nazi. He spewed so much hate for so many years for them, only for them to kick him in the face and call him antisemitic slurs as soon as it was possible to do so. Yet another sucker for the right. Oh well.
Good to listen to people who know what they're talking about before plunging into moral panic.
It'd probably be better for all of us if our reaction to apparently awful news were "What? Explain!" instead of "🤬🔥🤬🔥🤬🔥"
Oh, I know why he's doing it, my question is how the fuck he can morally spend his time having a fucking podcast instead of governing.
I deeply hope he descends into utter irrelevance once his term is over, but I predict a full pivot to right wing grifting when it's clear he won't win the primary.
Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.
I will say that electoral incentives do not currently seem to be giving Democratic legislators the motivation to lead as history is demanding of them
Minneapolis is headed towards something resembling a general strike, if you were wondering how the campaign to cow working people into quiescence is going
Also: People are confusing the fact that "elections can't solve this problem" with "elections don't matter." Fitting an entire strategy of opposition to consolidating authoritarianism to an electoral framework and timeline is not smart, but every single site of contest matters more than it ever has
This whole thread on limits of/on the Insurrection Act is helpful. "What's happening in MN is not a rebellion & there's no argument otherwise. No one is trying to topple the government of the state of MN." In fact, it's federal govt, not insurrectionists, undermining citizens' constitutional rights.
Again, I have to ask how and why it is that the governor of an entire ass state has time to do a podcast.
Gavin Newsom is the apotheosis of the corporate mainstream Democrat: he had widespread approval among normie libs for yelling at Trump, and has since used that to launder right wing slop to mainstream Democratic voters.
Also, ISN'T THIS MAN STILL GOVERNOR, why is he making a fucking podcast?
Gavin Newsom trying to impress Ben Shapiro, an incel who “owns the libs” by proudly talking about how he has never made his wife cum:
emergency shut the fuck up Friday has been declared for all future public defender needers
I mean I think the bigger point is that this admin is doing such flagrantly illegal shit because they don't anticipate any consequences
Like if an admin is going nuts violating the constitution while dismantling institutions, it's PROBABLY bc they plan on throwing out the constitution
Yeah, this is just a talk show
IF IT’S NOT AVAILABLE VIA. AN RSS FEED, IT’S NOT A PODCAST
Republicans control all 3 branches of government. Even when they don't, both parties pump out constant rhetoric about "real Americans" living in rural areas.
The entire premise of this article is a conservative-fluffing myth. Cities have more political power because that's where most people live!
"I own more land, therefore my opinion matters more" is a political philosophy America has not genuinely grown out of in 250 years
It’s actually good to defend yourself and your neighbors from fascist going door-to-door and shooting people in the street in anyway possible no matter what these broken windows liberals are trying to tell you to pacify you.
ICE must be abolished. It has become a lawless, rogue agency. Federal law enforcement agencies must follow the law, if they're going to have any credibility enforcing it.
We are demanding justice for Renee Good and the prosecution of ICE agent Jonathan Ross for her murder.
This is Minneapolis:
While walking kids to school we passed someone we don't know on the sidewalk. He made eye contact, put his hand on his heart and rubbed, with such a sincere look like "I'm with you."
But no words.
I did the same and held back tears.
This is so fucking weird and hard.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: if elected Democrats have no power to stop this in their roles as officials, they still have the same avenues that are available to every other regular person, with the added benefit that their every move is newsworthy.
