Color drawing by artist Lucy Grossmith showing a white tree in the middle of a snowy clearing in a forest being visited and decorated by woodland animals
Wishing a blessed Winter Solstice to all!
the effortful project to make it seem like prompting chatbots is legitimately a skillful activity is so conspicuous, and not just because of embarrassing articles like these
Mr. Beast, all my friends and I were saying how good at boxing you’d be
reddit post from a presumably young person who watched sex and the city and couldn’t get over how much people smoked indoors. “wouldn’t everything smell bad?” they asked
this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
Every day, I lose some respect for people who continue to casually use this garbage. I wonder if they’ll finally pause when our whole state goes dark. www.wbez.org/environment/...
For readers who are about to lose care, I have been told that the Trans Youth Emergency Project is helping the families of trans youth contingency plan to access that care.
www.transyouthemergencyproject.org
White background, red ribbon. Text says “World AIDS Day”.
My wife has been HIV+ for 34 years. She’s alive today b/c work of activists who destigmatized the virus, pushed medical science to adapt & find ways to treat it, & advocated for gov health programs that helped fund her care. The current U.S. regime may want to go back in time, but we won’t let them.
you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
What if instead of Cyber Monday (aka Daddy Bezos Day), we did a Support Indie Media Monday?
What are your favorite indie publications? Who are some of your favorite freelance and indie reporters and commentators?
Can we make this a thing?
Union Starbucks baristas have overwhelmingly authorized an unfair labor practice strike starting TOMORROW (Thursday, November 13th), grinding Starbucks to a halt during the company’s busiest sales day of the year.
#NoContractNoCoffee
The New York Times quickly sending out Douthat to argue that Mamdani’s victory doesn’t really matter is so predictable it borders on self-parody.
Remember, folks: Every time the Right wins an election, it’s an undeniable expression of the will of the people. If a lefty wins, it’s just a blip.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez V @AOC X.com Maybe if you channeled all this anger into swimming faster you wouldn't have come in fifth. Riley Gaines @Riley_Gaines_• 17h We're being destroyed from within
🔥 🔥 🔥 from @aoc.bsky.social
hi, cis folks in california!
this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.
he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841
want to know what to say? next post! 🧵
Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE.
If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!
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I didn't know you moved. Congrats on the senator upgrade! I hope you're liking it so far.
I've seen people say things like "our troops weren't designed to be used on US!!!" and look, I totally understand, I agree in some ways, but I really, really hope that if you feel that way you spend time thinking about the fact that there's no such thing as a weapon that can't be pointed at you.
Anyone wowed by generative AI should be given a teddy ruxpin with an assortment of ted talk cassettes and a quiet place to marvel at its wisdom
A yellow lab in the woods with a branch in his mouth
Feels like the timeline could use some Branch Manager
To be 100% clear:
Parents do NOT have "legitimate concerns" about trans girls on sports teams.
They have knee-jerk assumptions, made up of sexist stereotypes, that self-serving politicians and media-types have fanned into a groundless moral panic.
Trans girls playing sports hurts no one.
I hate the argument that AI is being used in lots of jobs so students have to learn how to use it in school. AI is not that hard to use. Lots of jobs also use job-specific convoluted enterprise software and we don't teach them how to use those in school.
Thank you Team Datafam for your support! This was a great conversation about using Tableau for good!
my political ideology is i'm exhausted, i'm fucking sick of most people, but i'm going to keep fighting for all of them to have better lives anyway
Trans rights are human rights.
This wrong decision by an illegitimate Supreme Court* allows cis minors to get gender-affirming care, but denies that same care to trans kids — an unconstitutional double standard that treats trans people as 2nd class citizens.
trans people will always exist (laudatory)
trans people will always exist (threatening)
trans people will always exist (factual)
Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
@sifill.bsky.social
Outting someone as a pedo hits different when you made them president for your own benefit
🚨 Week 11 of Back 2 Viz Basics is LIVE! We’re teaming up with the Data Pride TUG to highlight Pride events across the U.S. This week’s challenge: Build a Gantt Chart to show when and where celebrations are happening in June.
Challenge: bit.ly/3T8Ec68
#B2VB #DataPride
