Anyone remember how WeRateDogs was caught renaming people's dogs in order to make the names more marketable to white people on Twitter.

What ever happened with that?

This is interesting to me because it echoes a pattern someone pointed out to me with respect to the Portland Community College faculty actions a month ago.

Someone who attended asked me "Where are all the students?"

Farmer Arrested for Speaking Too Long at Datacenter Town Hall Vows to Fight Darren Blanchard went a few seconds over his three minute time limit and found himself in handcuffs.

In February, a farmer went a few seconds over his time at a city council meeting when speaking out against a datacenter.

It's a $200 fine for trespassing, but he's vowed to fight it. We've also got the police report from the incident.

crude drawing of a smiling anthrpomorphic dog with a word bubble reading i want them to pay for what they've done

🤗

The fact that women raped by Cesar Chavez stayed silent out of fear of "tarnishing his image" makes me so mad. He talked a good game about equity and justice but clearly didn't see women and girls as worthy of either one!

Reputation damage my ass

A friend of mine has lived under the shadow of becoming meme content for a local police department because she had a panic attack when being arrested for a misdemeanor, and that meme sits in Google results even 10 years later. She's afraid anyone will try to Google her, is afraid to job hunt, etc

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

Lol 🥲

Ah the same individual who tried to get the Police "Union" into the Labor Coalition.

She's consistent...

madness

Today I learned here in Portland teachers are being asked to either take 3 furlough days or cut 170 full time teaching positions. My son is in a blended class of 4/5th graders because they didn’t have enough money for another teacher. Fuck off

United Airlines made me wait to book a flight to a funeral for several hours with a generic error message two years ago.

My assumption is that something is breaking down on the backend and there's not much you can do until it gets fixed. Unless there's a number you can use to book it via phone.

I'm just glad I live in a state with a Democratic supermajority, where our legislators can scramble together millions at the last minute for the important things, like an arena renovation that will benefit a billionaire

No menopause here but god damn am I feeling too old for this shit.

I can't do what I did in my 20s. I haven't put on MSNOW or CNN. I just cannot deal with all that in full blown menopause with high blood pressure and my asthma all flared up.

Once I was young, and now I am old, etc.

THIS IS WHAT SAM ALTMAN WANTS TO TAKE FROM YOU

ah great, more non-consensual code leaderboards pitting developers against each other and pushing them to do more work for free

people voted for him and then 10 minutes after he took office the swing voters all went “oh right, this guy’s a piece of shit”. idiot fucking country

On top of everything else I'm gonna have to remember Jill Stein exists. Heavens.

Night Traffic

how "out of town" are we talking about here? I would not expect any USian to react this way.

My neighborhood is full of blooming spring flowers, I'm kinda freaking out about the summer we're about to see.

I never get tired of your low opinion of PlymRock

The Future Is Fembot What does that mean for women?

Today's Bitch Mag reprint is from 2018, but it feels as relevant today as ever: Dejan Jotanovic explores what the feminization of AI means for, you know, actual women.

You cannot develop technology without understanding obsolescence and the fact is that this whole generation of silicon valley "leaders" are obsolete. They have literally nothing to offer except each other's recycled dumbfuck ideas

Yeah, we got here after half a century of hard, incremental, ground work by conservatives.

Recovering from this is likewise the work of generations, and is bigger than just winning the next couple elections.

ICE is pushing Minneapolis underground Scenes from a city under siege

if you’re mad that i profiled will instead of writing about what “really matters” in minneapolis, may i direct you to my 6,500-word feature on the mutual aid networks there:

www.theverge.com/policy/87710...