There Are Signs of a Massive AI Backlash The public outrage over the tech industry's obsession with AI is starting to boil over — and the pitchforks are starting to come out.

Where do we see this all going in 5 years? futurism.com/artificial-i...

A photo of a tray with three sections empty. One has chopped carrot in it. The other has what can only be described as a posit of brown dog vomit and an insole liner of a sneaker (or a used panty liner from the mid 1700s). The kind of meal that would have you happily tossing yourself overboard.

NEW: Growing fears of food shortages on USS Tripoli & other US ships in the Middle East.

This photo is the kind of meals now being served. It was sent by a sailor to her family.

Families are now trying to send food parcels to the ships.

Full story 👉 www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Tom Waits and Massive Attack announce collaboration The two artists (seldom releasing new material) have revealed themselves a pairing, with “Boots On the Ground" arriving April 16th.

I’m sorry WHAT

Listen! Me too. They hated my ass as a youth and many do now! 😂😂😂

Eric Swalwell running for governor knowing he had all this out there was absolutely insane.

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary's opposition leader Peter Magyar says Prime Minister Viktor Orbán conceded his election loss in a phone call.

CBS: American soldiers who survived the attacked that killed 6 say Hegseth is lying. They were left “unprepared” and exposed.

www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-wa...

Breaking:

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California Supreme Court orders sheriff to pause investigation into 2025 special election and preserve seized ballots.

The Must-See Reality Show You've Never Heard of One of my favorite reality shows of 2024 was the Netflix series, 'The Boyfriend.' Now, the beautiful and honest show about a group of gay and bisexual men living in a house is back for season two. Her...

This show and Great British Bake Off are the best demonstrations of how you can make compelling reality TV with people just... being nice to each other.

HAPPENING NOW: Ongoing status hearing in Kilmar Abrego Garcia's civil case.

The government is seeking to deport him to Liberia.

Abrego has said he would be willing to go to Costa Rica (which previously agreed to accept him).

The constant, inch-by-inch analysis of “normalization” is another form of denial. It’s a fascist regime in power. This has happened. It’s not threatening to take power; it has. Ok, let’s proceed from there.

Management consultants are ruining UK universities Relentless off-the-peg commercial rewiring has undermined British higher education

It's me in the Financial Times, detailing the deep and pernicious influence of one-size-fits-all management consultancy in our universities... Take a look! 👇
www.ft.com/content/5032...

‘The people have spoken’: Pride flags multiply as BU students, staff protest against signage policy Boston University community members protested against BU’s administration by placing pride and other flags in windows across campus after the University removed several over spring break and later ins...

Boston University’s student paper, The Daily Free Press, reports about the multiplication of pride flags on campus following the administration’s attempted crackdown on free speech.

Gilead refuses to sell groundbreaking HIV prevention drug to MSF Blocking humanitarian organizations from accessing a medical breakthrough puts vulnerable people across the world in danger.

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir.

The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell.

Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/

www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

Donate to Help ICE Protestor After being shot by Feds, organized by Sarah Gallimore Posting on behalf of my friend: On Friday, 1/9, hundreds protester… Sarah Gallimore needs your support for Help ICE Protestor After being shot by Feds

GoFundMe for Kaden Rummler, the young trans man blinded by ICE agents this week.
www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...

Resolution on transatlantic slavery supported by 123 countries, while three opposed it - including the US and Israel

Resolution on transatlantic slavery supported by 123 countries, while three opposed it - including the US and Israel https://aje.news/rr32hx

gotta update that retirement locale list.

if you're yellow, let the reparations mellow.

if you're red, reparations are dead.

Going to Press | American Libraries Magazine To expand the audience for local authors and stories, some libraries have started book-publishing operations.

I don't think many people are clued into the long history of public libraries facilitating publishing and self-publishing. americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2025/06/02/g...

Will Google’s AI hype man kill the BBC? Matt Brittin spent two decades at Google, a tech company helping to destroy journalism. His appointment as leader of Britain’s biggest news organisation represents an existential threat, writes Carole...

NEW: Will Google's AI hype man kill the BBC?

I've written about Matt Brittin because the coverage of his time at Google is shockingly naive.

The BBC's next DG is a corporate yes man at a rapacious AI monopoly that preys on journalism in order to destroy it.
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www.thenerve.news/p/matt-britt...

The airport perks for Congress may be drying up, not a minute too soon Delta Airlines suspends its special congressional service, while a Senate bill could end the line-skipping perk for members of Congress.

BREAKING: Delta is suspending its special service desk for members of Congress until TSA is fully funded, per @ajc.com.

Delta says members of Congress will now be treated like all other flying customers.

www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Please do not get your medical advice from social media influencers or YouTube ads.

It’s amazing how quickly Black women have been targeted by these laws and doubly so how little this factors into the analysis around the sexual and gender politics of this movement.

Afroman Wins Verdict Rejecting Lawsuit Filed by Ohio Cops Over Mocking Music Videos Afroman won a jury verdict rejecting a lawsuit from police officers who claim the rapper defamed them by mocking them in social media music videos.

Bwahahaha! Suck it, pigs.

“Police officers raided the "Because I Got High" rapper's Ohio home, then sued him after he ridiculed them on social media — but a jury just sided with Afroman.“

#SciComm 🧪🌎🦑

Serotonin’s role in mental health is more complex than we thought. by Elizabeth Hlavinka. A collage of a ball-and-stick model of a serotonin molecule, a sad-looking person, some drug capsules, and a brain.

For decades, doctors, neuroscientists, and the public have linked depression and other mental conditions to atypical serotonin levels. Recent studies have raised doubts about that hypothesis. Read more: cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic...

#mentalhealth #chemsky 🧪

These Haitian meatpacking workers face deportation. They voted to strike anyway. A JBS plant’s largely immigrant workforce is refusing to back down after they accuse their employer of poor working conditions.

3,800 workers at JBS's plant in Greeley, one of the largest meatpacking plants in the US, have officially gone on strike.

Exclusive | Trump Administration Set to Receive $10 Billion Fee for Brokering TikTok Deal Investors in the social-media platform’s U.S. business agreed to give the government several multibillion-dollar payments, sources said.

this is just open and abject corruption, but the way U.S. journalism frames it you'd not really understand that there's anything untoward

Tonight, in MTG's replacement election in Georgia, Shawn Harris, a democrat, garnered the most votes. Heading to a runoff election against Clay Fuller, a Republican. This is going to be a fascinating and nail biting election.

Bondi Is Said to Move to Military Housing Because of Threats

They're all living in bunkers now.

This Trump Administration won't leave legally or peacefully because they know they've committed crimes and will be - hopefully - held accountable.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...

Alabama was set to kill Sonny Burton on Thursday. Governor Kay Ivey stopped it. Sonny Burton did not kill anyone, but Alabama put him on death row. Update: Ivey granted Burton clemency on March 10, commuting his death sentence to a life sentence.

HUGE: Alabama was set to kill Sonny Burton on Thursday. Governor Kay Ivey stopped it.

Sonny Burton did not kill anyone, but Alabama put him on death row. Ivey granted Burton clemency on March 10, commuting his death sentence to a life sentence.

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