The desperate campaign to push AI down our throats is just what Nestlé did with baby formula, or Monsanto with patended seeds.

Manufactured Intermediation—inserting a corporate tollbooth into a process that used to be self-sustaining, using a low initial barrier to entry to destroy the alternative.

The defense secretary is derisively comparing the media to a maligned group of rabbinic Jews, the FBI director is denying reports of drunkenness on the job, the vice president is in a two-front theological war with the pope and Erika Kirk, Donald Trump is still president, and gas is $4. Happy Friday

Me too!

"me? Oh yeah, I ride acoustic."

holy shit he actually conceded

folks, they tell you they’re invincible

they tell you they’re inevitable

they tell you that you should give up and stop fighting

and absolutely none of that is true

PLATNER IS LITERALLY STILL OPENLY USING THE "R" WORD IN CASUAL CONVERSATION. TODAY.

(would probably be pretty terrible if you broke up after though...)

Neighbors to lovers sounds great because you have plenty of opportunities for lingering glances and "accidentally" bumping into each other but you're also close enough together distance-wise that you can just go back to your own house and sleep in your own bed when you want

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I appreciated that he did eventually explain the potential cleaner air benefits of nuclear vs generators BUT he never did have a convincing answer for people who might be worried about the safety risks of putting dozens of microreactors all over

"So let's say I'm on a farm in Iowa or I'm a software developer in San Francisco or whatever, just a random person in this country. Make me care about this [nuclear microreactors]"
"Uh, do I need to?"

This is the fundamental problem with techbros who only care about maximizing profit and not people

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I know it's late, but I need you all to realize that as soon as we started paying attention to these races, Moms for Liberty & their ilk, started losing. They exploited a window of apathy & did a lot of damage, but they just cannot win when actually opposed. No unopposed elections anywhere.

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

Let me say this plainly: Iranian children have as much of a right to live and thrive as American children.

Their babies MUST be as precious to me as my 6 niblings and my baby grandnib are IF I want them to have a future.

If I want a future for my kin AND humanity, I MUST act like it.

So must you.

A screenshot of the screen to deposit funds into the required messaging app to send messages to incarcerated people at a Michigan jail. It shows that the minimum deposit amount is $10, and that they add on $3 fees. They have a section offering to round up my $13.00 deposit to $14, $15, or $20, but it doesn't explain what that means. I covered up my phone number and the name of the jail my family friend is in.

Adding on $3.00 of fees for the privilege of paying 25 cents (per message!) to text your incarcerated loved one is A SCAM

I never want to see or hear pearl-clutching about people saying "Allāhu ʾAkbar" EVER AGAIN.

A drawing of my tabby cat, Otter, done in rough digital pencil lines over flat areas of gray and cream with white highlights and details in blunt lines. He is sitting in profile to the left with his head turned to look directly at the viewer with his normal cryptic expression. Chunky orange lettering surrounding him above and below reads ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

Thank you for including the full text in the alt text! I appreciate the time and effort you put into making the interview accessible for everyone

April from Parks and Rec saying “because I didn’t think March 31st existed.”

Therapists should get paid enough to be able to afford to pay for their own health insurance and therapy if they don't work at a job that provides benefits

Either he's lying or he comes from the Mike Johnson School of Burying Heads in Sand

If you told me this was part of a costume that an actor would wear to be a monster on The X-Files, I would believe you...

I don’t love being in a society where you can sell enough pillows to do meaningful damage to democracy or sell enough children’s books to do a genocide or sell enough chicken sandwiches to abolish gay marriage

That all seems like a ridiculous way to do society to me

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mavis beacon did not teach you typing so you could make such terrible posts

57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals.

And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked.

And then the DEI office was killed.

And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.

I spent probably 25+ hours per week as a teen coding and running a Harry Potter website and neopets guild after making the majority of my online friends in AOL HP chatrooms. It was a huge part of how I could socialize when I was home sick from school for a year. The TERFism and hate ruined it for me

What you think of the quality of HP, whether you think it's bad or good or embarrassing or important, doesn't matter. What matters is its author is making money off it to funnel into stripping trans people of their rights. I'd give up literally anything if that was the consequence of loving it.

Every time I post about endometriosis and dare to make it, gender inclusive, I always get a lot of comments from people angry that I didn’t just say “women”

And every time, I think about how Rowling has enough money to cure endometriosis forever. But she doesn’t actually give a fuck about women.