In the 1990s, the working class of this country was told that unfettered free trade would create millions of new jobs and raise wages.
As many of us understood then, that claim was a lie.
Now they’re being sold the same false promises about AI.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has signed an executive order banning state employees from using insider info to bet on prediction market apps like Kalshi and Polymarket, warning the unregulated boom “opens the door to insider trading and abuse.”
Best Novel A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey; Hodderscape) Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor (William Morrow; Gollancz) Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK; Orbit US) The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow (Tor US; Tor UK) The Incandescent by Emily Tesh (Tor US; Orbit UK) The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson (Orbit US; Hodderscape)
honored, bewildered, and slightly weepy to tell you that The Everlasting is nominated for a hugo, alongside all these incredible novels 🥹
Wow, congratulations!
Double Standards
————> must STOP in UNamerica
GOP is quick to recommend expulsion / sanctions etc for democrats who are alleged of criminal conduct
Yet; have nothing to say about republicans especially those who have criminal felony convictions
Release the Epstein files …🔻
Every single article I read about Madonna at Coachella mentioned that she’s 67. Not one article I read about Nine Inch Nails at Coachella mentioned that Trent’s 60.
ISN’T THAT WEIRD?
It’s almost as if everything Madonna has ever said about misogyny is true, or something. 🤷♂️
Dockworkers on the West Coast broke every productivity record — and are now being replaced by AI anyway.
This isn’t about efficiency. It’s about eliminating workers.
youtu.be/35CDCU5chKE?...
President Trump is reading Bible verses from the Oval Office today.
The Separation of Church and State cannot exist under a Christian White Nationalist regime.
This new White House “initiative” is proof of that devastating fact.
134 years ago this cartoon was drawn, and in 134 years the problem has only gotten worse.
The President of the United States is a crook.
Choose 20 Epic Books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20DayBookChallenge
(19/20)
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Can they get closed captioning?
Well, they are succeeding in their goal of killing off as many poor-middle class Americans as possible while deporting the rest of us. Isn’t it time to storm the castle yet?
The Brits appear ready to shame the US news media into covering this, distracted as they are by gazing at their own navels ...
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And #wethepeople have paid millions — upon MILLIONS — of dollars so this unfathomably depraved SELF-PROFESSED sexual assaulter can golf.
The most expansive cover-up in American history must END.
STOP. PREDATORS.
#stoppedos
#protectourdaughters
#protectchildren
#releasethefiles
#epsteinfiles
Insider trading is illegal...
but they don't care
❤️ if you agree that Donald Trump has lost his privilege to hold the highest office in our land
The cover is a large spaceship in space above a green planet, caught at just the moment when a setting or rising sun will cause lens flare.
JR Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovksy. I'm late to the party but, yes, this is excellent. The joy of good SF is an author with such imagination that you leave the book feeling your mind has been expanded. 600 pages is a lot but that said I read the last 150 in one sitting, I was so gripped.
I once heard a friend say that he didn't believe a woman should be President because we're too emotional. Name ONE woman who has ever gone on a shooting rampage out of anger.
GET HIM OUT!
Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick has reportedly resigned from Congress right before the Ethics Committee was to announce sanctions against her.
As @nlanard.bsky.social reported last week, Rep. Cory Mill is STILL hanging on despite facing a staggering number of scandals.
Iran’s Foreign Minister says the U.S. blocking Iranian ports constitutes an “act of war” and a ceasefire violation, and adds that targeting commercial vessels and taking crews hostage is an even greater violation. He says Iran will “resist bullying” and defend its interests.
Authentic portraits of Charlotte Brontë was drawn by George Richmond in 1850
Today is Charlotte Brontë’s birthday.
Did you enjoy Jane Eyre?
Her first #novel was rejected, and the next one changed #literature. She had to hide behind a man’s name, Currer Bell, because a woman writer in the 1840s could be dismissed before anyone had even read the first page.
⏰📚💙📚🎧📚🖋️ #books
There should be a better mechanism for getting rid of a dangerous, traitorous president, before it’s too late.
“The president has to look to the eyes of these people who gave the lives of their children. That’s why we live.”
President Zelenskyy talked to @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social about one of the hardest things for him do.
Eternal glory to every Hero, who gave their life for free Ukraine🇺🇦
