“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.”
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Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded.
“This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.”
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Oh look. The thing that was predicted is happening, with a huge thick underline under my assertion about the hubris of devs believing they could code around the fundamentals of Garbage In, Garbage Out.
The models are ingesting AI garbage, and spitting out more AI garbage.
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The systematic destruction of feminist spaces online is what inspired us to start The Flytrap. Since last year, part of this work is archiving key Bitch Magazine articles that have disappeared from the internet. Here's some pieces we reprinted this year!
Experts estimate that the IRS stands to lose up to $479 billion over the next decade as immigrants face deportation and disengage from the formal economy. https://wapo.st/4vvl1pj
Disappointed, though not surprised, I began to describe various life- saving components of USAID’s global health portfolio, highlighting how we prepare for and respond to emerging pandemic threats; support the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV; and immunize millions of children from the deadliest childhood diseases. I spoke for about five minutes, focusing primarily on our infectious diseases work and hoping to keep the attention of people who seemed to have no experience—or interest—in global health. When I finished, the room was silent, the political appointees looking at one another in what appeared to be disbelief. The silence was broken by Ken Jackson, who chuckled softly and shook his head. “Wow, there really is so much that USAID does that we never knew,” he said. “This is the story that needs to get out there.” Joel, also smiling, chimed in next, echoing Jackson’s amazement. “I had no idea you did all this,” he said. “As a Republican, when I think of what USAID does in global health, I assumed it was just, you know, abortions.”
This is NUTS
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So much in this conversation w/ Eli Clare hit me, esp. the part about changing our relationship to the messages that live inside our body-minds. And the part about living brokenhearted. My favorite episode so far of @deanspade.bsky.social's Love in a F*cked-up World. open.spotify.com/episode/4wLa...
"What Iranians deserve is so ordinary is almost embarrassing to say aloud. They deserve not to spend their mornings calculating whether they will survive until evening. They deserve to be seen as people... not as acceptable losses, not as the unfortunate human context around a geopolitical problem."
Speaker Johnson, we are calling on you to bring the House back to DC IMMEDIATELY!
The Cabinet needs to invoke the 25th Amendment. But Congress can’t just sit on its hands and wait for that to happen when the President is threatening to commit war crimes TONIGHT.
NBD, just four humans further out in space than any other humans before. #Artemis2
This is what the world’s richest person has done and he’s only been rewarded since then.
ICE has kept a disabled double amputee prisoner for over 14 months.
Rodney Taylor has been denied access to his prosthetic legs.
Forced to crawl across dirty floors to access food.
Placed in solitary.
Denied medical accommodations.
They’re killing him & he needs the community to make noise!
We wanna get every interested collaborator paired up with someone ASAP for our 9th issue.
Now we need someone in EST or willing to work across zones!
Deadline for the project is April 30th so there's still time to sign up!
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Many of the photos that have come out of the moon mission so far were taken by crew members. NASA says the crew is getting guidance from scientists on what to capture when they get closer to the moon. n.pr/4c6V8Dg
Audrey Watters on Mary Oliver, poetry, and AI technologies: "At what point can you no longer even plan to do things with your one wild and precious life because these technologies have obliterated your ability to even imagine something outside their dictates, their designs for you?"
A brand-new poem with a ridiculously long title — “Flipping Back and Forth Between the #Artemis II Launch Live Stream and the Live Stream of the Supreme Court Hearing Arguments Regarding #Birthright Citizenship” — just published at @newversenews.bsky.social
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Thuhhh-reaaaad 🧵
A nice piece from @swapnakrishna.com about the plan for the #Artemis II crew to take a new Earthrise photo while swinging around the Moon
Donald Trump and the GOP gave our nation's wealthiest a $5 TRILLION tax cut. That's more than enough to cover these costs. That's what he's prioritized over your health and child care. Here are some other things Trump has prioritized:
Got a new poem up at the always-affecting @rogueagent.bsky.social -- one about being a #fat in a world that does not tend to accommodate.
www.rogueagentjournal.com/lahl-2
Got a new poem up at the always-affecting Rogue Agent -- one about being a #fat in a world that does not tend to accommodate.
www.rogueagentjournal.com/lahl-2
Footage captured from passengers on an airliner above Florida, showing the exact moment the Artemis II mission lifts off.
Shout-out to every other Gen Xer that was holding their breath the entire time for the first five mintues of the launch
For
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"We've got a beautiful moonrise and we're headed right at it." -Wiseman
This is so cool. #artemis
That’s one hell of a cover…..
Salty teeth, cold briskets, and tart & sweet… RA issue 133 is here! All new poetry including @surlyacres.bsky.social @clayrebenz.bsky.social @trishhopkinsonpoet.bsky.social @melaniemccabe.bsky.social @amymiller.bsky.social with art by @rachelturney.bsky.social🌻 // rogueagentjournal.com/issue133
Someone smarter than I am ought to attempt a #contrapuntal poem engaging with / harnessing the simultaneity of the Supreme Court arguments re: birthright citizenship and the #Artemis II countdown. I know there's something there, but my brain can't poem it. Maybe later. Or maybe you should try.
private equity is sucking the life out of everything around us
Once again, the stock market is not "the economy;" it's a mood ring for the plutocracy
