Maybe, I couldnt really see what was on the screen from where I was. But I’m certain no one touched it for a long time before it suddenly started talking.

The people I know who seem to be struggling the most are the people who are isolated and convinced that staying away is their best protection. Yes, horrible things have happened here, things I wish would have never occurred. But I feel safer than ever bc I know so many ppl now who have my back.

Having lived very close to the center of crisis twice in recent years (3 blocks from where George Floyd was murdered, 8 blocks from where Renee Good was murdered), this is very true. The people who have come out of these crises in the best emotional shape are those who found community.

I may be exaggerating somewhat but it felt shockingly long that it kept trying to respond and then suddenly stopped. It was an iphone.

It was SO FREAKY
And we all started shouting at it and it kept responding to the angry shouting for like five minutes!

My friend said this had never happened before, they have never turned anything on that allows the app to listen, and we couldn't find any setting to turn it off. WTF!?

Was in the car with friends tonight and Google maps was on giving the driver directions, I was in the back seat yammering on and SUDDENLY OUT OF NOWHERE an ai voice came on and started responding to what I was saying VERY accurately. It was disturbing af and we have no idea why it happened.

Yep absolutely! And the part that makes me feel extra crazy is that this is a fairly new problem. It used to be that the way being a landlord made you rich was collecting rent, which also sucks! But now being a landlord makes you rich merely by the concept of rent!

Thankfully I haven't missed a flight for several decades, I think the last (and only) time was when I was 23, and I did have to pay more than I could afford to get on the next flight home. But I have had a LOT of very close calls.

I can't either and I do have anxiety but I have a brain that tells me hanging out at the airport will feel like dying and that I would prefer the excited anxiety of running across the airport about to miss a flight so that's how it goes!

If I were a mayor that wanted to see a renaissance of walkable districts in my city I would introduce a strong vacancy tax, legalize accessory commercial units, and make it easy to convert any residential property on a major street into commercial space. But that'd mean snubbing the landlord lobby.

It makes sense from the standpoint of how our stupid, overly-financialized form of capitalism works in the US where we turn everything imaginable into a financial instrument to be leveraged. But it's definitely very bad and dumb!

Uptown doesn't lack ideas—it needs landlords who charge market rate for businesses that serve its residents.

Totally! That was when facebook mostly felt like a neutral good. But I distinctly remember in 2013 telling a coworker that I thought it was probably on it's way out bc ppl were starting to hate it - wish I'd been right!

Anti-Data Center organizing is really ramping up especially in the South.

Happiness 1972-2018 and 2021-2024. Shows huge crash in 2020.

Related, there was a giant crash in how happy ppl across all demographics said they were from 2020 onward! Of course there are many obvious factors but given that we know social media can make ppl quite unhappy, and what a positive effect IRL socializing has, I think smartphones are guilty here too

Texting made it so much easier to make plans and meet up w ppl but it didn't destroy the impulse to socialize the way smartphones have. Ugh!

Chart of minutes per day spent socializing in person, US residents, by age group, 2003-2024. Source: American Time Use Survey, US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Shows a steep decline for all age groups but an especially extreme one for 15-25 year olds.

Super fascinated by this chart of time socializing by age and how there was a HUGE spike among young ppl from 2009-12 and then a free fall. I'm sure the recession was part of it - hanging out w friends is free - but I also would guess this is related to texting becoming standard but not smartphones

Chart of minutes per day spent socializing in person, US residents, by age group, 2003-2024. Source: American Time Use Survey, US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Shows a steep decline for all age groups but an especially extreme one for 15-25 year olds.

I'd guess a non-negligible part of the decline is also how much less time teenagers spend socializing these days, unfortunately. Whereas adults are a lot more likely to be using it alone for sleeping and relaxing.

I live across from a parking lot for a church and their school. During the summer there are constantly families stopping by to play in the empty lot, lots of kids learn to skateboard and ride bikes there. more pocket parks and pedestrianized streets would be such a boon!

At a time when mass surveillance and autonomous weapons companies like Palantir are openly announcing their plans for violent world domination, it is crucial that our attempts at “big tech reform” don’t actually give them more power—ie via government mandated age verification/identity software

I think the problem here is not that he doesn't know what a corner store is bc he's such a disconnected weirdo - it's bc his brain is full of holes and rapidly deteriorating and normal shit is becoming incomprehensible to him. C'mon y'all.

Totally agree. I'm not the target of this project but I fully support it AND I think pointing out the lack of nude spas is the way to get people who think they are unaffected by this on board. Explain that changing this ordinance would allow for Korean spas here!

Get a sleeper room on Amtrak for every trip. Get a hot tub and hire someone to do maintenance on it so I never have to think about pool chemicals. Have my backyard professionally landscaped.

71.5% already funded; looking to raise $570+ more to contribute to this very large need! 🌻

Why?

C) The point is that the ICE officer interviewed is coming up w an unlikely scenario to gain sympathy. It's not impossible that they were seeking out a child sex offender for deportation and couldn't bc of community defenders, but based on the information available it is extraordinarily unlikely.

B) This is a matter of opinion but I want you to think deeply about wether you believe people who serve their time also deserve extra punishment. US citizens who commit crimes do not risk deportation bc of the justice system. Why do immigrants deserve additional punishment?

A) the article specifies child sex offender. We know that a very small % of sexual abusers, even against children, ever get arrested & we know that in MN most ppl locked up for child sex offenses never get out. I will accept that I *might* be wrong about *2 cases out of 3,789 arrests* ie 0.05%

This is, btw, why Meta has been secretly sponsoring/white papering all these internet age verification laws.

If advertisers realize half the people viewing the ads they spend top dollar on are fake, it could lead to some nasty law suits or a major reduction in profit for Meta.