Burchett is right: the most DC thing ever *is* a member of Congress blaming the city for something he and his colleagues did themselves.

Chicago river in daytime.

Bucket drummers in front of the Art Institute of Chicago in day time.

Madison looking west in Chicago with low fog coming in.

Chicago, b&w
#chicago
#photooftheday
#streetphotography
#photography
#architecture

Look, the political situation is bad but I love my life. I have a wonderful loving partner, a great career, great friends, and amazing family.

It all starts with accepting yourself for who you are and finding joy.

This is your periodic reminder that Democrats introduced legislation in 2021 to ban gerrymandering nationwide and every republican voted against it except two who were absent.

This Democratic Party Is The Best Democratic Party It’s a low bar. But nostalgia will not help us.

wrote about the claim that the D party has abandoned its working class roots.

that didn't happen, bec Ds only recently began to fitfully fight for a multi-racial working class. the current D party is the best D party there's been. a low bar, but still. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/this-democ...

The 1982 Bally TRON Video Game Tournament was a national competition held across Bally arcades to promote the film’s summer release, leading to a final playoff at Madison Square Garden where the top player won a TRON arcade game and a Commodore computer. humanoidhistory.tumblr.com/post/8146078...

They couldn’t make Real Genius today because audiences would be confused why a bunch of nerds would sabotage selling their technology to the military-industrial complex

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ChatGPT Edu contracts say that the university must prevent end-users (incl. students) from misusing the service and commits the university to indemnify OpenAI for claims related to "(a) use of the Services in violation of this Agreement; (b) Customer Applications, if any; or (c) Customer Content."

I guess I'm gonna keep talking about how the systems for producing bourgeois hegemony, trust in the system, the consent of the governed, and the ability to unify the ruling class are breaking down.

It's time to envision a better world not ruled by billionaires and corporations. Time to organize

Totally agree with this great piece—with the caveat that it is timebound: the SV-MAGA alliance bought a two year window of indifference to consumers that is soon closing.

It is amazing how much US news ignores the daily corruption of this court

Drone flight data compiled and visualized by @lemonodor.bsky.social and shared with The Intercept shows how, for example, the LAPD launched 32 separate drone flights to surveil the March 28 No Kings protest in downtown LA.

The LAPD told me they only hit record when a crime happens.

There is no such thing as apolitical education and it's impossible for students or teachers to be neutral...the folks usually arguing for apolitical or "neutral" education models are almost always historical revisionists pushing white supremacist western civ.

Geek tragedy Look upon the works of the AI oligarchs and despair.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Anti-Data Center organizing is really ramping up especially in the South.

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.

Introducing Middle School Students to "The Secret Ghost Workers of 'Artificial Intelligence'" — Civics of Technology Upcoming Book Clubs: We’re reading The Digital Delusion: How Classroom Technology Harms our Kids’ Learning - And How to Help Them Thrive Again by Jared Cooney Horvath. Join us on Wednesday, Ap...

I really appreciate @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social's reflections on how she explored the social impacts of technology with her students by introducing them to the people - the ghost workers - whose labor makes “AI” systems possible.

Read this week’s @civicsoftech.bsky.social and find the lesson at:

“Palantir must be destroyed” is a phrase that works in both Middle Earth and Plain Old Earth.

I sat down with @alixdunn.com to talk about the lethality of nonsense probabilities AKA. How AI is collapsing the Kill Chain, outsourcing decision-making, and dehumanising targeted communities, from Palestine, to Lebanon and Iran.

Listen to this convo here: www.themaybe.org/podcast/comp...

“Stage Two: The sign masks a basic reality. The image becomes a distortion of reality.”

#simulacrum

leftists are my greatest adversary because they are destroying america destroying america or being rude to you online? being rude to me online

liberals on this microblogging website

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly

Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

Judge sides with creators of banned ICE trackers who allege DHS and DOJ violated their First Amendment rights The Trump administration coerced platforms into removing ICE monitoring projects such as ICE Sightings - Chicagoland and the Eyes Up app, the lawsuit alleges.

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The New York Times has a complicated relationship with telling the truth about the powerful, especially 45/47.

So much for being politically homeless.

GEN👏AI👏IS👏A👏FASCIST👏PROJECT.

Researchers May Have Found the Antidote to Social Media Brain Rot: Experimental Film UCSB scientists discovered that watching just seven minutes can open your mind and enhance creativity.

fellow film profs, rejoice!

“among a totally random population, levels of creativity for the people watching the experimental films were immediately higher compared to those watching YouTube videos”
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

Not everything that breaks is technically the fault of vibe coding but the kind of culture that would foster vibe coding is the kind that produces a lot of shit that breaks.