THREAD: The Massachusetts House just advanced a draconian and unconstitutional social media ban bill.

"This legislation would have kicked Greta Thuneberg off social media before she organized her first climate protest. How does that make kids safer?"

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Dear Journalists: You Are Dismantling Democracy and You Should Be Ashamed A Crisis Dispatch

"An OLC opinion is not a court ruling. It is not a statute. The law exists. The OLC opinion is the administration’s argument for why the law should not apply to them. Those are different things. And the press treats them as equivalent."

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Mass. House passes bill to ban kids under 14 from social media The legislation would also prohibit cellphone use during the school day.

The whole process around this has been hella problematic.

No one was even talking about this, there are a lot of potentially dangerous privacy implications that need ironing out, but the House rushed it through in just a few days with no real thought.

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Novel approach to clearing brain waste shows promise for Alzheimer's Boosting the brain's waste-disposal system is increasingly showing promise for Alzheimer's disease, with a study now suggesting that a novel approach eases brain deficits and symptoms associated with ...

Boosting the brain's waste-disposal system is increasingly showing promise for Alzheimer's disease, with a study now suggesting that a novel approach eases brain deficits and symptoms associated with the condition. www.newscientist.com/article/2522...

Analysis Finds That Google's AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.

This is catastrophic.

if you hit your kid I don’t take your liberation politics seriously

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Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?

In an experiment, scientists invented a fake disease (and labeled it as such in a preprint paper). AI told people it was real www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Sometimes I imagine that if I become wealthy enough, then I will fund every mutual aid campaign, invest in third spaces for organizers, and lobby for change that will save people's lives.

But those ambitions feel very far away. I have to focus on what I can do now.

I am convinced that white supremacy isn’t just about race but about gender, too.

Thank you!!

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Tonight:

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The solution isn't political purity but remembering why we are human and why we love each other.

Unionized ProPublica staff are on strike over AI, layoffs, and wages A key issue is protections against layoffs from AI

New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more.

They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom.

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Yeap. I don’t like it.

some people you can recruit, other people you have to simply defeat. politics makes more sense when you accept this

Yeah I agree. Kids will just find ways around the block.

House proposes ban on social media use for children under 14 in Mass. The Massachusetts House of Representatives is proposing a ban on social media use for all children under the age of 14. The bill, scheduled to be voted on by the House on Wednesday, prohibits social…

MA House proposes ban on social media use for children under 14. buff.ly/zmEI1d0

Anyway, we have ample research on how living under a state of sustained terror and stress causes life-long health problems as well as intergenerational epigenetic effects. This feels like it's making you sick because it actually is making you sick.

Teen who went to photograph L.A. 'No Kings' rally shot, blinded by Homeland Security agent, attorney says Tucker Collins, an 18-year-old freshman at USC, attended a 'No Kings' protest in Los Angeles on Mar. 28. He ended up getting shot in the eye with a less-lethal projectile by a Department of Homeland S...

"Tucker Collins, an 18-year-old freshman at USC, attended a 'No Kings' protest in Los Angeles on Mar. 28. He ended up getting shot in the eye with a less-lethal projectile by a Department of Homeland Security agent and is now blind."

I don’t want to hear about brave and conflicted service members I want to hear about people sacrificing their careers to do the right thing

Hi all, its your friendly neighborhood retired therapist here to remind you that the horrors persist and so do we!

Have you:
-had a glass of water or something liquid that is not caffeinated recently?
-used any calming or grounding techniques you like?
-eaten a food?

If not, do that now. 💜

Washington D.C., Virginia, Maryland folks! And anyone else who can get there.

I bet it won't be over fast. So, if you can get there later, do it!

genuinely think people outside of America don't realize how big this place is, how militarized and murderous our police are, how little our politicians care, how disconnected and impoverished we have been intentionally made to be, how we still have slavery just with extra steps. we really suck gang

Senator, I have great respect for your work, but in please also tell us how you are going to stop Trump. We know he must be stopped but we also want to see you take those steps. From our understanding, that's your job!

For people intending this evening to publicly petition our government for a redress of grievances:

AM I FREE TO LEAVE?

and

I INVOKE MY RIGHTS TO SILENCE AND COUNSEL AND WILL NOT ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS WITHOUT MY ATTORNEY PRESENT.

are the only things you say to police or law enforcement.

Watch your words folks. Seriously.