"There's only one majority in this country and that's the working class." —Zohran Mamdani

Slide with a quote: Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is getting faster. - Wirth's Law, 1995

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it really is remarkable *how mild* the op-ed that she wrote was. It really shouldn’t matter what she said, but I think they chose to make an example of her precisely *because* she didn’t do anything remotely wrong. They wanted to show they could do this to anyone.

Exactly one year ago today:

Doesn’t get more on-the-nose than the American defense secretary quoting a fictitious bible verse from a 90s action flick written to satirize the biblical justification of violence in American foreign policy.

"while taking selfies"

With a final tally of 213-214, the war powers resolution to disengage US forces from the war on Iran failed by a single vote.

Representative Jared Golden of Maine was the sole Democratic lawmaker to vote against the measure. Had he voted for it, it would have passed, handing Trump an historic loss.

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

“A collapse would shift the tropical rainfall belt on which many millions of people rely to grow their food, plunge western Europe into extreme cold winters and summer droughts, and add 50–100cm to already rising sea levels around the Atlantic.” #ClimateEmergency www.theguardian.com/environment/...

ICE agent charged with two felonies for pointing his gun at motorists during Operation Metro Surge Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said a nationwide warrant has been issued in the first criminal charges against an ICE agent for on-duty actions during the surge.

A nationwide warrant has been issued in the first criminal charges against an ICE agent for on-duty actions during the enforcement surge in Minnesota.

This semester, my paleoecology students are working on species recovery plans for extinct species from the fossil record (I gave them a list to choose from), and my approach of "only assign things you'll actually enjoy grading" continues to be paying dividends.

It's not that LLMs use the 'it's not X, it's Y' construction a lot more, it's that LLMs use this construction to express metalinguistic negation a lot more than humans?1

I don't understand all these people who can pick just ONE favorite...

THERE ARE SO MANY GOOD DINOSAURS!

Maybe it says more about Utah...

Can confirm

Happy Tax Day, New York. We're taxing the rich. YouTube video by NYC Mayor's Office

A tax for the rich!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLKZ...

So... turn education into another gig platform? What could possibly go wrong?

I hate this timeline.

Spending a lot of time ripping out crab grass by hand so my clover can take root out back, and it has me meditating a lot on what it means to take out fascists.

We always used to say it was whack-a-mole, it wasn't.

Successful antifascism in a democracy is a practice of weeding

My bunny also loves to eat every part of the dandelion.

"The rise of extreme wealth is one of the clearest signs of this imbalance. In 1987, billionaires held wealth equal to 3% of global GDP. Today this tiny elite, just 0.0001% of the world population, owns the equivalent of *16%* of world GDP in wealth."

Alligator Alcatraz phones were cut off. Then the beatings began, court docs say Attorneys say the Trump and DeSantis administrations are disregarding a court order requiring access to phones and attorneys for detainees.

April 2: guards cut all phone access in the housing units without warning. When detainees protested, CRS officers allegedly punched a man, threw another to the ground, kicked him in the head, and pinned him by the neck. A third detainee's wrist was broken. The entire cage was pepper-sprayed.

The lack of ANY PLACE where you can exist, for free, with your community is a modern day tragedy.

No where for kids.

No where for humans.

Thank you for not shutting up about it.

It’s infuriating when a woman comes forward about a man raping her in his hotel room after drinking and the response is “Why would she go to his room?” “Why would she drink with him?” This is Mike Pence logic. Women should be allowed to hang out with men without expecting they will be raped.

I think it's notable that Anthropic is actually arguing *for* limitations on the industry.

"But why arent the college kids protesting?!"

I know this lady husband name not “dick tips”

Despite Apocalyptic Warnings, California Fast Food Wage Hike Didn’t Kill Jobs UC Berkeley study finds employment held steady — and only pennies were added to menu prices.

A new report from the University of California shows that the state's decision to raise the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20/hr didn’t hurt jobs, or raise prices much.

Data from over 2,000 restaurants shows that the $20/hr minimum wage didn’t reduce employment.

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Cartoon meme featuring a very round, smiley green frog playing an Ouija board (spelled “wedgie”). The background is a slate blue color, and curving above the frog is the following in black, all caps lettering: FUCK CHATGPT. I’M ASKING GHOSTS.

one of my oldest friends sends totally random monday memes. i thought the skyline would appreciate yesterday’s:

African thinking never contemplates something like “the end of the world.”

That is not how we understand time. It cannot be.

We understand catastrophe. We live with it. We die from it. A few survive it. We do not call it the end of the world.

Huh. I read most of mine in a PDF reader.