Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

his ability to do stuff like that without looking is absolutely buying his teammates just enough of a fraction of a second to beat goalies (or opposing defenders). it's gorgeous

Men should wake up every day grateful that women only want equality and not revenge.

Hearings begin for pro-Palestinian protesters arrested at Montreal Scotiabank sit-in Trial will be pivotal case for freedom to protest in Quebec, lawyer says

here is a globe and mail article about it with my friends looking hard as fuck

AI Use Appears to Have a "Boiling Frog" Effect on Human Cognition, New Study Warns A new study claims to offer the first causal link between AI dependency and cognitive erosion. Researchers warn of long-term implications.

NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty.

"People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.”

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straightforward, easy to explain, obviously sane, will eventually be the consensus position that everyone will pretend they were on the side of

feels like fan service. marty knows what we want!

hey this is bad

The same week the NYTimes was devoting its significant resources to producing this ridiculous piece about Lauren Sanchez Bezos's call for rich people to not worry and be happy, Ryan Hass, an independent journalist in Oregon, was investigating this horrifying story about a death in an Amazon plant.

‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.

For more than a week, Amazon has managed to keep a death at its Troutdale, Oregon, facility out of public view.

Workers I spoke to are pissed.

NDP Leader Avi Lewis calls on the Liberal government to ban algorithmic pricing

paul takes the form of a mortal girl is a masterpiece!

AI Overview There are 5 e's in "nonsense economy" Here is the breakdown: • nensense (3) • economy (2) Total: 3 + 2 = 5.

AH HA HA HA HA HA HA

There is no ceasefire in Lebanon. Israel has been bombing Lebanon non-stop since last night. If anything Israel is expanding its war on Lebanon.

You are being lied to

400 dead so far, over 1000 injured, dozens and dozens missing. This is one hour into the massacre. I have no idea what the death toll will be in the end. Also, they have announced “another wave” of attacks coming

My Years-Long Fight to Say “They” Over and over again, I would use the pronoun in my writing. Over and over again, editors would try to remove it.

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The Globe and Mail published a column claiming that the NDP has an antisemitism problem

Butterfly guy meme where the butterfly is “electing a Jewish leader” and the guy says “is this antisemitism?”

Honestly beggars belief what they expect you to believe.

black graphic with white font that reads 'fasicsts and bigots want to erase LGBTQ+ people from public life- this includes the internet! They're doing this through attempts to repeal Section 230, pass KOSA and make online id checks mandatory.

On this #TransDayofVisibility we're witnessing the early to middle stages of a genocidal process against Trans people in the United States. At the end of this thread we're sharing concrete steps you can take to do something about it.

screenshot of an interaction between 2 people in a comment section. the second person's screen name is "WifeEmailer227" and their comment is "check your wife's email..."

lots of this going around i guess

You cannot reduce fossil fuel emissions while producing more fossil fuels.

Have you blocked "Attie" yet?

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conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: the government can NOT do that 🙅🏻‍♂️🚫⛔️ but ☝️🤓 companies can if they want 😍🥺👉👈🫦

Bluesky Users Respond With Overwhelming Disgust to Platform's New AI Bluesky's latest foray into AI isn't exactly sitting well with what appears to be the vast majority of the platform's user base.

whomst could have possibly predicted this

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US Presidential Party switches are mirrored in global maternal mortality In this observational study, we provide estimates of the impact on the maternal mortality ratio of swings in US aid for family planning and reproductive health driven by changes in the implementation ...

"Countries heavily reliant on US aid see a 10.5% increase in maternal mortality following a switch from a Democratic to a Republican administration—about 44.7 additional deaths per 100 000 live births."

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just this week:

-- OpenAI killed Sora
-- Disney subsequently cancelled its investment in OpenAI
-- Wikipedia is now banning LLM-generated content

...tell me again how this is all "inevitable" and you have to "get on board or get left behind"?

just like the boston move from a few months back... except he provoked the turnover instead of just skating into it, and he had to execute the deke quicker because the guy he stole it from was hot on his heels. too sick

Seeing people say AI is a tool that helps "working class people become writers" and its such bullshit. The process of learning and skill sharpening is labour, and its telling that there is work to be glamorized (being perceived as a Writer) and labour beneath people (learning to write)

Cuba's mothers-to-be prepare to give birth in a country plunged into darkness Two pregnant women tell the BBC's Will Grant of their hopes and fears as their nation is mired in crisis.

I am struggling to understand the extremely muted international response to this. whatever you think of the regime, it is not the regime that is suffering.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

patrick roy, straight to jail

This essay is incredible and this recognition so very well deserved!!!!