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Ashamed Meta Employee Just Tells Everyone He Works As Guard In Private Prison For Disabled Children

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For earth day my city gives away trees to the community - so cool! But people lined up in their cars which meant a line of cars in my neighbourhood idling for hours -blarg

People sleeping outside on benches and going to the bathroom on the sidewalk are problems of the social safety net failing and it is so much cheaper and easier to just expand the safety net than to punish people who fell through it.

AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.

“Today, AI advocates do not merely assume automation is necessary; they aggressively proselytize their faith, thereby paving the way for techno-fascism.” — @olivia.science

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gosh so much this part:

“If you ask tobacco companies to help write your school’s policy on cigarettes,” Garrett quipped, “you’re going to end up with guidance on how to smoke responsibly in school.”

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

Three panel comic. Panel 1: scene from the movie Aliens; Ripley is in a mech suit and delivers her iconic line: “get away from her, you bitch!” Panel 2: the xenomorph queen lunges at Ripley in the robotic suit and they engage in a fight. Panel 3: later, the xenomorph queen is standing in the shower, mid wash. She says, “‘it takes one to know one, honey.’ That’s what I should have said.”

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OMG! Those sound amazing! I'm gluing magnets to the chip clips so they can go on the fridge, because no one puts Dolly in the drawer.

Get yourself a partner who is just as excited as you are about buying Dolly Parton chip clips.

I really enjoyed the conductors books, cant wait to read more from her

“AI technology is much more akin to a ouija board than anything else: promoting and enabling mysticism, pseudoscience, and pseudo-intellectualism …” — @olivia.science @marentierra.bsky.social et al. (2025)

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I wish ALA could surprise me in a good way

hello there, tis I who was censored. Good times. Hi Jenne.

serialephemera Follow Thematically speaking, the most important thing Terry Pratchett taught me was the concept of militant decency. The idea that you can look at the world and its flaws and its injustices and its cruelties and get deeply, intensely angry, and that you can turn that into energy for doing the right thing and making the world a better place. He taught me that the anger itself is not the part l should be fighting. Nobody in my life ever said that before. 20,650 notes

“If you give ppl UBI, everyone’s just going to be making pots or painting or something!”

Good!! Good! Can’t express how much more I want to fill my home with pots and paintings than with a stovetop that inexplicably connects to the internet.

"When my wife's beloved Kindle DX was bricked by obsolescence through no fault of her own, it gave me a frisson of excitement and anticipation to take on Darth Bezos and break open the Kindle so she could once again read her favorite books"

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Has to be sock shoe sock shoe to prevent any invisible rocks/sticks from getting in shoe

great find, bri!

Twitter user @zapatistarising: the violence built into the system never counts as violence but the violence of resistance is always considered violence

Eviction, healthcare denial, food scarcity, overwork, imprisonment—all these things are violent.

they hurt my ears so much. it blows my mind how they don't seem to bother most folks

It's why we talk about genAI as a labor problem. 99% of all problems that genAI "solves" is just "hire more people and pay them a liveable wage."

THIS. Altman deserves to step on a rake. Daily. As do all of the assholes who justify him.

congratulations!

Time to pass the plate Skybrarians 📚📜

In the contexts of the humanities (and the social sciences) the AI is presented as a REPLACEMENT for the scholar and the skills they develop. You can now have GenAI write your essays, provide input via stolen data, correct your grammar, all things cultivated into students by humanities scholars.

thank you

I don’t want 99% of the “advancements” being forced on and/or sold to me.

I want clean air, clean water, and a stable ecosystem and planet. I want free healthcare and education. I want justice and collective liberation.

this is how most university and many library land convos sound. They seem to presume that if we don't like it, we just need to learn about it.
I know how it works and its crap. Please stop trying to make me eat a shit sandwich