染井吉野の並木道🌸

most likely u.s. goal here is not merely to decapitate iranian government but also to inhibit its ability to project power. long-term goal is regime change as "mowing the grass" caries long-term costs; $$$, lives

it's shitty neoliberals who always somehow manage to build the largest audiences on these platforms, probably by virtue of not having real jobs

i'm wondering why you're reading the post, jeff bezos needs to be forcefully regulated

operation aipac fury lmao

A Child’s Voice Demands to Be Heard in The Voice of Hind Rajab Built around real audio recordings of the Palestinian girl’s final moments, The Voice of Hind Rajab is a docudrama like no other. Jacobin spoke with the film’s director, Kaouther Ben Hania, about Hind...

Built around real audio recordings of the Palestinian girl’s final moments, The Voice of Hind Rajab is a docudrama like no other.

Jacobin spoke with the film’s director, Kaouther Ben Hania, about Hind Rajab’s death and the urgency of post–October 7 cinema.

⭕ México registra 31 muertes por sarampión mientras las autoridades refuerzan la estrategia de vacunación

Los dos últimos fallecimientos, en Durango y Jalisco, elevan la crisis sanitaria que acumula ya casi 10.000 casos confirmados acumulados

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Will the Democratic Party put forward messaging and candidates amenable to the center-left, or will the party's libertarians and Zionists continue to rig the machine so progressives and socialists, and critics of Israel, cannot win?

A Running Count of How Many People ICE Has Killed and Injured ICE is not required to report any use-of-force incidents against the public. So The American Prospect created our own running tally.

Linda Davis, a K-8 special education teacher, was killed today after ICE pursued a driver fleeing a traffic stop in Georgia.

Linda Davis is one of many people who have died after coming into contact with ICE. The government doesn't record these deaths, but we do.

The people doing real work don't have time to build audiences because... we're busy. The people with the audiences have them because they sit on social media all day. The attention algorithm, which could better highlight authentic voices, still somehow doesn't. That's probably my complaint.

I have my actual hands on the actual machinery. I ship, for real. And somehow the media discourse about government is dominated by... talkers. They talk about my field. They talk about my work. Who gets the audience?

I thought it was bad the first time someone showed me a Jordan Peterson video and told me how this Canadian psychology professor was taking the Internet by storm and it was... well, you know: just Jordan Peterson. I pegged him immediately as some post-Jungian crank. How did he get so big?

Like, am I forever doomed to read Aaron Rupar, Charlotte Clymer, Angry Staffer? Richard Hanania's latest silly, predictable take? Noah Smith? Is my only recourse for ending the endless cycle of circular, shitty media to just stop consuming it?

Who decided who's in that rarified, small in-group of center-right accounts that talk to each other and get massive engagement for being part of the conversation, while the rest of us labor and write in obscurity, not shadowbanned, but who never break through?

I never consented to mainstream media getting their "opinion" from the same 10 center-right social media accounts.

I don't trust the guy who begged Epstein to visit the island and lied about being good at video games, or any of his companies, or any of their products, but we shouldn't be so quick to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Counter-counterpoint: LLMs are being deployed right now at VA to help automatically pull information from benefits-related documents, e.g. DD214, birth/death certificates, etc. precisely because it makes it easier, faster for the claimant to file complex benefits eligibility forms.

JD Vance loudly booed at the Winter Olympics today.

@siobhanogrady.bsky.social Tweeted a video, it was linked to in @theatlantic.com, and I'll never see it because I will literally never use Twitter ever again and it wasn't posted here

Does @newrepublic.com have a policy of sourcing from Bsky if the content they want from Twitter/X is available elsewhere? I don't have a Twitter/X account, and I have HOSTS file entries to block resolution of Musk-affiliated domains. I just can't see the content.

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

Meta created ‘playbook’ to fend off pressure to crack down on scammers, documents show A Reuters investigation examines its tactics, including efforts to make scam ads “not findable” when authorities search for them.

Another day, more bad behavior by Meta. Take back your data from Meta, delete your Meta accounts.

Governing is hard. Let’s get it right — in order for socialism to succeed, we must establish trust in our administration over meager public resources, and continually politically to fight for the ability to reduce capital-induced suffering and meet human need.

Probability Theory: The Logic of Science by E. T. Jaynes

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习近平：「房子是用来住的，不是用来炒的」