Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

To be clear, I have multiple clients who are undocumented but who have family members who are citizens.

I.C.E. IS INTENTIONALLY KIDNAPPING AMERICAN CITIZENS—with the hope that their undocumented family members have to present themselves in-person to claim them.

This is what we’re up against. 🇺🇸

Fannie Lou Hamer's Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party Speech YouTube video by Northwest African American Museum

61 years ago today Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer one of the most courageous activists of the Civil Rights Movement posed the question that echoes today with every migrant round-up by masked officers, as federal troops converge on D.C.,as institutions are threatened:

“IS THIS AMERICA?”

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One of my favorite things about being a Q train girly.

Watch Archival Theater Videos in Your Classroom | The New York Public Library For the first time, students can experience treasures from this world renowned collection without leaving their classroom!

Well, this is absolutely fantastic.

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"How can we communicate with optimism about the future … when we're living in the here and now where American democracy is in peril? … And we're supposed to ignore it? Leave it to others to wrestle with …? No no no no no. …

"That is tonight's Last Word on my last day at the Washington Post."

It is pretty noticeable that even as mainstream opinion on Israel and Gaza finally shifts, you don’t hear the Responsible Adults apologizing for punishing all the college kids protesting the atrocities. Quite the opposite in fact!

Setting aside the ethical and environmental concerns of AI, I'm really offended by a bunch of elite dudes telling us our minds aren't good enough when they've had to steal everything human minds have created to create their pretend mind and it doesn't even work right!

I do firmly believe that refusing to outsource your basic cognitive functions to LLMs right now - as so many are stumbling over themselves to do right now, like hogs trotting to a pile of slop that’s been set up inside of a butcher’s delivery truck - will very much pay off in a few years.

Gaza is starving Palestinians seeking food are being killed by the IDF. It's time for the entire world to say enough.

Gaza is Starving by @marisakabas.bsky.social

Venus Williams d. Stearns 6-3 6-4 in Washington

Unranked

Out for 16 months

Age 45

✅1st singles win since 2023

You can take a legend out of the game, but you can’t take the game out of a legend

What an honor to witness this icon once again

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Alan Cumming on bathroom bills:

"Why on earth would a rapist go through the bother of pretending to be trans in a country that treats rapists better than trans people."

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turn this up!

The secret to Baltimore's extraordinary year This April, Baltimore saw five homicides.

1. We interrupt this programming for some LEGITIMATELY GOOD NEWS

Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows

How did the city do it?

Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue

Little Haiti is vibrant. And it’s facing the same cost of living crisis as neighborhoods across the city.

That's why Brooklyn Chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn and I are bringing the Democratic Party together around a shared vision for an affordable New York. I am grateful for her endorsement!

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Monday night’s one hour rainfall in NYC ranked 2nd…Only behind Ida. That this happened without a tropical system is significant and shows our new reality. The top 3 wettest one hour rainfalls for NYC in the past 156 years have all happened in the past four years.

ain't no way.

I’m in this area a lot lately and something I keep thinking about is, this is the ground this federal building was built on www.nps.gov/afbg/index.htm

Farmworker dies from injuries during immigration raid in Ventura County, family says A farmworker has died after suffering injuries during an immigration raid at an agricultural area near Camarillo on Thursday, according to a family member.

ICE committed murder.

Djokovic denied AMEN! Sinner/Alcaraz is what the people want to see!!

Shooting our videos is a little bit different now.

The fact we have secret police whisking people off the streets doesn’t get enough attention. It ain’t normal and we’re further down the road to authoritarianism than you think.

This deranged and should bother our community more.

Man, y'all gotta read this whole piece about a rally in San Antonio yesterday. Texas Democrats — led by big names — are organizing and moving away from DC and the DNC. And they're getting wild, cheering crowds.

people freaking out about zohran mamdani “making people feel unsafe” based on nothing meanwhile are totally silent about eric adams hanging out on stream with actual anti-semite nazi sneako