But the one thing it does do well is code *touches earpiece* I’m getting an update …

Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

"The most effective consumer boycotts in history share two qualities: they are narrow and they are easy," writes @rutgerbregman.com

Yes, I always dreamed of a closed source compiler you pay per imaginary line for.

Thank god science fiction continues to become reality, what a time to be alive

Glad it's useful to you :-)

Working across element boundaries was a goal, but a text fragment compatible version would be nice. We did this before text fragments were a thing, but we all were excited by text fragments' arrival.

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Tell Condé bosses to reinstate the Fired Four, reverse the suspensions and end the union-busting On Nov. 5, 2025 in an egregious attempt at union-busting, Condé Nast management illegally terminated four union members – Alma Avalle, Jake Lahut, Jasper Lo and Ben Dewey – for participating in federa...

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Meta's AI thinks you should quit social media.

'Stunned by the solidarity': New York Times tech workers make 'shocking' $114,000 donation to Post-Gazette strikers, just in time for the holidays - Pittsburgh Union Progress It was shortly after 6 p.m. on Dec. 12 when Zack Tanner, president of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh, posted a cryptic message on the striking union’s Slack channel imploring everyone to attend the...

My colleagues in @nytguildtech.bsky.social donated what remains of their strike fund to the striking workers in Pittsburgh - a whopping $114K. That’s what solidarity is www.unionprogress.com/2024/12/19/s...

We did it y'all. I am a software engineer with a union and a contract. LFG!

Tommy Cappel, who co-founded the group Beats Antique, says the Archive is “hugely valued in the music community” for its preservation of everything from rare recordings to live sets. “This is important work that deserves to continue for generations to come, and we don’t want to see everything they’ve already done for musicians and our legacy erased,” he added. “Major labels could see all musicians, past and present, as partners — instead of being the bad guy in this dynamic. They should drop their suit. Archives keep us alive.”

Hundreds of musicians are speaking out against the recording industry’s lawsuit against our library for preserving 78rpm records 👉 www.rollingstone.com/music/music-... (🚫🧱)

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Which way progressives

I'm not on twitter anymore, but this tweet from 2 years ago is sadly more accurate than ever

New York Times Tech Guild goes on strike The walkout, which began just after midnight Monday, could disrupt the New York Times’s election coverage.

NYT tech workers are on strike for a fair contract. We are asking you to #BreakYourStreak on NYT games in solidarity. You can also support our strike fund to keep us going. www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...

Times to strike. — ethanmarcotte.com The largest union of tech workers just went on strike.

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A few quick thoughts on the New York Times Tech Guild strike, why it matters, and what it means for the rest of us:

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Trump’s housing policy: deportations
Immigration: deportations
Child care: tariffs
Inflation: deportations and tariffs
Crime: deportations
Taxes: tax cuts funded by tariffs
Federal debt: tariffs

Every policy revolves around punishing foreigners.

I just came back here after a hiatus. "Access to video" is a thing? What is this world? I thought this was the web or something.

Social Media, Authoritarianism, and the World As It Is Disagreement over recent TikTok legislation reveals a deep divide about our current political moment. Should we, like many of the bill’s proponents, assume the existence of a functional…

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On the TikTok ban, the danger of abandoning defense of speech to extremists, & how the liberal tendency to assume a just state "outside the scope of this paper" leads to confused law/policy that can exacerbate the problems platforms pose.

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