“there is no ethical consumption under capitalism“ increasingly means “I would like to not be judged for doing the least ethical consumption under capitalism”

The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?

this story quotes:

- A trump ambassador
- A museum run by Trump appointees
- Stop Antisemitism, an organization funded by right-wing donors

... aaannnnddd that's it! Not a single scholar of the Holocaust. Not anyone unaffiliated with Walz' political opponents.

screenshot of text from Adam Serwer in The Atlantic: "The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive - because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force."

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honestly last summer’s political messaging really didn’t go far enough by only tagging all these creeps as weird

It occurs to me occasionally that there is a group of extraordinarily rich people who have decided that we must have robots and AI whether we want them or not, and I find it somewhat terrifying.

Lawsuit Alleges Trump’s Guantánamo Transfers Aim to “Instill Fear” in Immigrants Three have died in ICE custody as Trump rapidly expands government capacity to surveil and incarcerate immigrants.

Three have died in ICE custody as Trump rapidly expands capacity to incarcerate immigrants, including at Gitmo and mainland jails.

“His family says he entered completely healthy, no history of health conditions, and within three weeks he left the facility brain dead."

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Sure is one way to write the headline for “refuses to rule out military force to annex territory belonging to a NATO ally.”

Thanks NYT!

Opinion | I’m One of the Last Doctors in This Hospital in Gaza. I’m Begging the World for Help. Most of the medical staff members at Kamal Adwan Hospital are gone. One of the last doctors working there shares his story.

Without evidence, Israel has arrested the last doctor at the last hospital in North Gaza and declared that he's a "militant". Here is his piece from earlier in December for NYT Opinion www.nytimes.com/2024/12/02/o...

“The last Black man to drink on this network got fired” - Roy Wood Jr on #CNNNYE

this is legitimately a big deal. zillow now putting climate risk on their website.

Israel burns northern Gaza’s last functioning hospital; patients and staff forcibly removed Isreali military vehicles surrounded the hospital, the Palestinian Health Ministry said, and communications had been cut off.

Israel has burned northern Gaza’s last remaining hospital. And kicked out its patients, including neonatal and ICU patients. I picked a western news source since y’all seem more likely to believe those. I don’t know how else to get people to care.

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Greg Gumbel was big time. He hosted a show on WFAN, he hosted the CBS NFL pregame show, hosted Sportscenter. And he was an anti-war protestor.

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It took less than a year for Israel to normalize waging war on hospitals, their staff, and their patients. Our government supplies the weapons,and accuses anyone who dare object of antisemitism.

“The occupation army is burning all the operating departments in the hospital while we are still there”

As a Jets fan watching Geno Smith and Sam Darnold playing against each other and throwing darts in a shootout is like finding out the farm upstate where your parents sent your family pets is actually real and there’s a link to a livestream

MrBeast is what Lucille Bluth thinks every Avenger is called

People voted for a fictional Trump they made up in their heads and the question is whether the massive propaganda apparatus behind him can maintain that fiction while he does all the things many of his voters told themselves he wouldn’t do bsky.app/profile/carl...

Survivors of prison sexual abuse scandal ask Biden for clemency: ‘Give us a chance’ Incarcerated women seek relief after exposing harassment, retaliation and assault by staff

NEW: We interviewed women behind bars who exposed the widespread sexual abuse of US prison officers, but who have struggled to get relief. They are pleading with Biden for clemency.

“After everything I’ve been through, I deserve to be protected. Give me a chance … Let me see my granddaughters”

A Guardian story with the headline “Brussels sprouts will be 25% bigger this year, and may be sexier too”

Editor: You write that story about the brussels sprouts?
Writer: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked.
Editor: what

That a dude with a couple cameras and a plate of appetizers can make something worth $82.5 million and a media company looks at that and goes "couldn't we make even more money if we had AI do it?" tells you exactly how stupid these people are

Cerberus, a private equity firm, buys a chain of hospitals, sells the land on which they sit, and charges them rent. The hospitals struggle and start cutting corners. Patients' care worsens, death rates climb. And Cerberus makes $790 million in profit.

UnitedHealth Is Strategically Limiting Access to Critical Treatment for Kids With Autism Leaked internal documents show that the insurance giant is culling providers of applied behavior analysis from its network and scrutinizing the medical necessity of therapy. Advocates say the company’...

NEW: UnitedHealth strategically limits access to critical treatment for autistic kids. Leaked documents show that the insurance giant is culling providers of applied behavior analysis from its network and scrutinizing the medical necessity of therapy. Advocates say United’s strategy may be illegal.

Kelsey really puts her finger on something that drives nuts about AI: The people who love it don't care about whether its output is GOOD. Just that it IS.

It's the sex robotification of art. If you can fuck it, it's sex. If it's got words in it, it's a book. Perfect. No human connection necessary.

very glad to see chase rice on here, his direction over the last couple years has been such a pleasant surprise.

In any other industry this rate of failure and this kind of utter ignorance and incompetence would get you fired, but we're supposed to believe techbros are somehow better than all of us at deciding what society needs

Gaza Faces Child Amputee Crisis Caused by Israeli Attacks Israel’s genocidal war on the Palestinian territory since October of last year has killed tens of thousands of people and wounded over 100,000 more, leaving many with life-altering injuries. The United...

"All That Remains": As Gaza Faces Child Amputee Crisis, New Film Tells Story of 13-Year-Old Leyan

Again, there are 40 men currently on federal death row, a number of whom will certainly be executed under Trump, whose sentences Biden has the power to commute.

Make sure he knows they're waiting to hear from him, too.