“AI is here, so we have no choice but to accept it”

so are immigrants and trans people, but I guess that’s a skill issue

I volunteered for her for an entire summer for her last run for Congress, and she's a vvvvveeeeery hard no for me.

Everything that is being said about her I found to be true. She's rude, arrogant, cruel, weird, patronizing and abusive. I really wanted to like her, but ended up detesting her.

benches, buses, and bathrooms. they should be everywhere

Donate to Help Meagan Fight Breast Cancer, organized by Meagan Kenreck I am reaching out for help as I navigate a recent cancer diagnosis that has brought ove… Meagan Kenreck needs your support for Help Meagan Fight Breast Cancer

Feeling a little vulnerable putting this out there as I don't typically feel comfortable asking for financial help but here goes nothin'

Now that the initial scary diagnosis part is over, I'm now entering the scary US Healthcare part. Any help at all is appreciated, even just a share. Thank you 💜

Meet a Ravenous Founder: Jaya Saxena I remember feeling like, "Okay, now I don't feel this guilt or like I'm trapped in this place now. I can make these decisions that I want to make without anything holding me back."

"Okay, we have to try. If it doesn't work, we can all get jobs later, but we have to try."

A Q&A with @jayasaxena.com about the risk / reward / revolution ratio that fires up the good folks running worker-owned @weareravenous.com.

It Could Lead to Tens of Thousands of Deaths. In the Meantime, It’s Wreaking Havoc on Americans’ Sanity. Imagine not being able to feed your kid because of a mistake on a piece of paperwork.

A mom and widow who had benefits cut because of a mistake on a form. A home health aide making $13/hour who said food pantries are so overwhelmed, they couldn't really help. A student who said SNAP access supported eating disorder recovery. So many people are being impacted:

i have just checked the rule book and there is no rule that a dog can not be a tailor

They think you're stupid.

"There is nothing that being hungry does not worsen."

‘Robby Has Never Been Your Daddy’ On the set of The Pitt finale, the acclaimed series zooms in on its main character.

aside from my gobsmacked awe at how the pitt pulls off its practical effects, my feature on the finale is really motivated by a small set of questions:

how does robby see himself? how does the show see him? and is there any daylight between those two perspectives?
www.vulture.com/article/the-...

First saw this story over on Threads, and people really, really, really did not like anyone correcting misinformation about their misreading of the story. We seem to be moving to some sort of post-reality where people just want fake stories that reinforce their beliefs.

Anyone arguing that some flavor of AI literacy will protect women from AI deep fake porn is at best unserious and at worst desperate to protect their automated goon generator. This is prima facie not a literacy problem.

Like, AI literacy in any form will not protect black and disabled folks from the algorithmic bias, and the violence that emerges from it, of spicy autocomplete. Full stop. No amount of AI literacy can protect us in the deployment of the system because it is tracking the wrong problem.

The Pitt is the Schrödinger's cat of TV dramas The Pitt is the Schrödinger's cat of TV dramas

(I did not post all this knowing that Caroline JUST wrote about fandom stuff and I haven't read it yet but I'm confident it's also good) www.avclub.com/the-pitt-is-...

I'm still not sure how I feel about this development myself but I found Caroline's insights on Mohan's S1 characterization illuminating bsky.app/profile/caro...

Anyway I think @carolinesiede.bsky.social's writing on The Pitt at both @avclub.com and her own Substack is good bsky.app/profile/caro...

I mean it certainly isn't Grey's! But also, Grey's isn't The Pitt, and has never really pretended to be in the lineage of ER. There's something interesting to investigate about HOW so many people got bad at watching TV, but I really don't think the conclusion there is "Grey's Anatomy is bad."

2. As a longtime Certified Hater of breathless fan theorizing, I rolled my eyes HARD at "the husband must be abusive/Becca's boyfriend must be abusive/Langdon must still be using" takes too, BUT I think there's a weird snobbiness to at least some of the "this isn't Grey's Anatomy" reaction to it

I think just it's a little too easy for a certain kind of Pitt defender to use the worst whiners as an excuse to dismiss any and all criticism (which as a reminder is often interesting, worthwhile, and enriching of the viewing experience whether or not you agree with it)

may regret wading into this fandom discourse at all but:

1. Obviously the most annoying kind of Pitt fan is the kind who's simply bad at watching TV, but the "I do know how TV and/or hospitals work so I will explain how ALL the complaints are wrong and dumb" kind aren't that far behind to me

A thing I think about a lot, as a confirmed social media addict, is how there used to be a time when so much more of the point of going online was to share things that were actually great and interesting, and how far we've strayed from God's light

“I really want to hold onto the distinction between someone who is actually my enemy and someone who is talking out of their ass, or making me mad right now, or who has hurt me, or become my opponent in a particular moment. Those are not all the same thing. And if I start treating them as though they are, that distorts my politics and makes me worse at navigating conflict. When I am dealing with my own communities, my responses actually help define, not only who I am, but who I am in relation to those people, and if I am treating them like the enemy anytime we disagree, I am going to become their enemy, whatever my intentions are.” - Kelly Hayes

"I want to be clear that I am not talking about Nazis here ... I’m never going to be in a process with one of those people, or trying to repair a relationship that we don’t actually have." truthout.org/audio/ruptur...

French Widow Detained by ICE in Alabama Is Released After 16 Days

is that a lot of days to detain a widow

what should we compare ourselves to

"I don't like that Dr. Al-Hashimi has a seizure disorder because I thought something else was going on there >:(" is not a critical analysis of art, it is just getting mad at reality for not doing what you expected it to do.

Beneath the pavement, the beach Ensuring that the Seine was safe enough to host a handful of Olympic and Paralympic swimmers was only the beginning of the story

My latest dispatch from Paris 🇫🇷 in which I immerse myself in the science, public policy, and unprecedented regional collaboration (AHEM) that made the Seine swimmable — and what lessons this legacy holds for the LA River 🏊🏼‍♀️

A critical agreement between Olympics organizers and LA is now 6 months late City Controller Kenneth Mejia called the delay "deeply troubling."

Blessings to LAist for staying on this very overdue agreement. Pretty wild that LA28 is selling tickets to an event and doesn't have a final deal in place with the host city!

“The people most enthusiastic about the construction of AI data centers are often the least likely to live next to them.”

It’s infuriating when a woman comes forward about a man raping her in his hotel room after drinking and the response is “Why would she go to his room?” “Why would she drink with him?” This is Mike Pence logic. Women should be allowed to hang out with men without expecting they will be raped.

Same goes for literally anyone in absolutely any creative profession.

"The empathy you feel for Trump’s targets is not, in and of itself, a rebellion against fascism, but we will never win without it."