"Tobacco ruled the world until it didn't" is such a good reminder and rallying cry

i simply find it a little hard to believe that shortly after every website implemented ai code and fired a bunch of engineers they all started breaking constantly every single day but its not related to the ai code or the skeleton crew

we have a TREMENDOUS amount of power when we just… opt out.

there are a lot of corporations that don’t deserve our money or clicks or participation. it’s not that hard just… not giving it to them.

people "have money", in that they have income. but the number of people seriously burdened by their rent is the highest it's ever been. the cost of living is so much worse than it was a decade or two ago. I know multiple people making the most money they've ever made who are barely hanging on.

Contrary to public perception a huge % of pregnant teenagers in the 1990s were impregnated by adult men. The younger they were, the larger the average age gap between mother and father was. Fixing teen pregnancy was in part a clampdown on statutory rape. That's what conservatives want to reverse.

this union is so important to me

Spent the 1st 15-30 minutes of both classes today checking in & getting a sense of how not-okay my students are, reminding them that I'm there if they need to talk, & doing my best to channel some Baldwin, Butler, & Le Guin (outlining avenues of action which might lead to beneficial change & hope)

AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance Causal evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and impairs unassisted performance across math reasoning and reading comprehension tasks.

Project page: ai-project-website.github.io/AI-assistanc...
Arxiv page: arxiv.org/abs/2604.04721
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Why does this happen? Two candidate mechanisms:

1) AI resets your reference point for how long things "should" take. Unaided work suddenly feels harder than it actually is, -- a kind of hedonic adaptation.

2) AI removes the productive struggle through which you learn what you're capable of.

We elected an administration on the messaging that all of society’s ills were a result of DEI & immigration. So we’re left with no choice when we look at all this immediate & staggering abject failure, death & unnecessary suffering around you but to understand that it is a direct result of whiteness

I know it's late, but I need you all to realize that as soon as we started paying attention to these races, Moms for Liberty & their ilk, started losing. They exploited a window of apathy & did a lot of damage, but they just cannot win when actually opposed. No unopposed elections anywhere.

Yeah this is literally the purpose of these products. I don't mean this in a "kids these days" kind of way. EdTech companies, and the feckless education bosses who team up with them, want education to be a credential-generating machine in which learners act like customers and teachers act like cops

hey parents, Tubi just added a large batch of old-school Sesame Street seasons.

I think a 20 minute session of doing an expressionist painting of Bert was the break down I needed to have today.

‘Succulent Chinese meal’ speech added to Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive Jack Karlson’s rallying cry of ‘democracy manifest’ added to national collection of sound recordings that hold historical, cultural and aesthetic significance * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Thirty-five years ago, when Jack Karlson was hauled into a police car outside a Chinese restaurant in Queensland, he couldn’t have known his bombastic speech would be watched by millions around the world, become a meme and now, be preserved for ever in Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive. Karlson’s declaration – “Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest! … What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal?” – is one of nine pieces of audio that have been added to the NFSA’s Sounds of Australia collection this year, along with a pedestrian crossing signal and Missy Higgins’ 2004 hit Scar. Continue reading...

‘Succulent Chinese meal’ speech added to Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive

Not a serious question.

The reason to boycott the Harry Potter series is not just because of J.K. Rowling’s heinous views. Any money she makes from the show will be used to terrorize trans people. She has made this abundantly clear. This is not a theoretical.

Here's a lesson in right-wing propaganda (which is what Western Journal is) when it comes to movies:

• if a movie is unsuccessful, they will try to find a way to make it seem like it's "woke."

• if a movie is successful they will try to find a way to make it seem like it's "anti-woke."

No question. If the ultimate goal is actual democracy for the first time in American history then the activation of the people is a critical lever. The activation of people is a work of spirit and we forever wanna solve spiritual problems with tactical solutions and judge the need for spirit.

Walking thru the “Ultra Normie” No Kings rally in my extremely rural, white town and there are Patagonia wearing moms carrying signs that say “DEAD PEDOPHILES DONT REOFFEND” and “ICE GETS THE WALL” and I hi fived an old guy with a sign that said MY DADDY FOUGHT NAZIS AND SO WILL I” this is wild

A woman riding her bike on a dirt road. She is wearing a helmet. There is a herd of horses following behind her. The text reads: The horses are with you. You are free. Always wear a helmet when riding your bike.

Free.

World Cup is in June. It’s going to be so chaotic.

OH MY GOD STOP TRYING TO SAY X IS AN IMPORTANT PLATFORM ITS NOT ITS THE SIZE OF PINTEREST BUT IF I WAS LIKE 'DEMOCRATS GOTTA WIN THE COMMENTS WAR ON PINTEREST' THEYD LOCK ME FUCKING AWAY

A screenshot of a picture of a baseball

Can we get 10,000 RTs for this

the girl guides in the UK just kicked out all their trans members specifically bc they were threatened with a lawsuit from a rowling-funded group

i think sometimes cis people truly have a hard time understanding that jk rowling is a living person actively using her wealth to fund the international assault on trans lives. she’s not some Complicated Author we can have a spirited debate about separating from the art with!!!!!

the degenerate trump ii regime had the gall to libel somali-americans with a welfare fraud conspiracy while systematically defrauding prospective legal immigrants who perfectly followed the rules

racists project their own criminal predations and ideations onto others

Thread. I'm begging people to realize how much we've already given in just the past 25 years. I'm old enough to remember when surveillance wasn't ubiquitous and before ICE or the TSA existed. There was even a time when the average cop wasn't kitted out for full on urban warfare.

the worst thing that can happen to a white man is being made fun of online