Pittsburgh’s Black Paramedics Who Pioneered Emergency Medicine As part of Black History Month, Howard Hanna is spotlighting the brave men who made up the Freedom House Ambulance Service. The program, which was started in Pittsburgh in 1967, was the first public

Freedom House paramedics were the first to conduct intubation on a patient in the field and to transmit information to the hospital over the radio while they had a patient in transit.

🎶 1449 days till he’s gone, 1449 days… we get through one, oh Christ are we done? 1448 days till he’s gone… 🎶

Meals on Wheels America spox on OMB pause:

"the uncertainty right now is creating chaos for local Meals on Wheels providers not knowing whether they should be serving meals today. Which unfortunately means seniors will panic not knowing where their next meals will come from."

I was to give a talk at a big US Attorney's Office next week abt the complicity of German lawyers in the creation of the Nazi state. Yesterday the Justice Department cancelled it.
Irony is dead.
I've got an op/ed on this I'm looking to place. Help appreciated.
#LawSky #Skystorians #Holocaust

I built a Virtual Table Top server for a friend to use to run an RPG. I've been rearranging my home office and bedroom. I bought Star Trek door placards that read "Captain's Quarters" "Ready Room" "Head" and "Holodeck 1" (laundry). Still need to get "Cetacean Ops" for the basement.

🎶 1454 days till he’s gone, 1454 days… we get through one, Christ are we done? 1453 days till he’s gone… 🎶

I'm writing this with a heavy heart and no small amount of fear. As a former X (formerly Twitter) employee on an H1B visa, I can't reveal my identity without risking everything, but I can't stay silent any longer about what I saw and was made to do. When Elon Musk took over, everything changed. What started as a social media company became something much darker. I was part of a team that was directly ordered to manipulate Twitter's systems to influence the 2024 US presidential election. It wasn't subtle, and it wasn't ethical. We completely changed how the algorithm worked, pushing pro-Trump and right-wing posts to the top of people's feeds. To make it look balanced, we also boosted some left-wing critics of Democrats, but it was all carefully calculated. These changes didn't just affect Americans - they impacted users worldwide. One of the most disturbing things we did was create thousands of fake accounts using advanced AI systems called Grok and Eliza. These accounts looked completely real and pushed political messages that spread like wildfire. Havn't you noticed they all disappeared? Like magic. We also knowingly allowed foreign governments to manipulate the platform. State-backed groups from Israel, Iran, and Russia were running their own influence campaigns, and because their goals aligned with ours, we looked the other way. Even when they clearly broke the rules, we didn't stop them.

Perhaps the most unethical part was how we manufactured news stories. One team would write completely fake articles, while another team would artificially boost their engagement metrics to make them go viral. We specifically targeted certain groups of people, knowing exactly how to manipulate their views and emotions. The moderation team became a tool for our agenda. We systematically silenced anyone who got in our way, enforcing the rules when it suited us and ignoring them when it didn't. Elon Musk himself was deeply involved in these decisions, often joking about being "Black Hat MAGA." What started as US election interference has now spread to other countries. We're currently doing the same thing in Germany and other European nations. The damage we've done is immeasurable, and I don't know if it can ever be fixed. People don't know what's real anymore, and that's exactly what we wanted. The pilot program for the Eliza AI Agent, was election interference. Eliza was release officially in October of 2024, but we had access to it before then thanks to Marc Andreessen. I'm terrified to be writing this, but I had to speak up. I just hope that someone with the power to do something about this sees this letter. You'll know what i’m saying is the truth by Elon's actions to the news someone spoke out. For more evidence look at the docs of Eliza AI Agent software. We left bread crumbs. Yours sincerely, A former employee who can't sleep at night.

Elon Musk's and X's Role in 2024 Election Interference, a letter from an alleged X whistleblower.

"What started as US election interference has now spread to other countries. We're currently doing the same thing in Germany and other European nations."

theconcernedbird.substack.com/p/elon-musks...

One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.

DID YOU KNOW for 25 years Matthew Shepard had no permanent resting place due to concerns his grave would be vandalized

Reverend Budde learned of this, she invited the Shepards to inter him inside the Washington National Cathedral.

www.matthewshepard.org/matthew-shep...

She was and is a real hero.

A screenshot of a bullshit article from The Economist claiming the article is a gift.

Worst gift ever @economist.com — please stop bootlicking and actually be responsible journalists.

Most Black folks knew this nonsense was coming. It's wrong, but we've always had to hustle, so I feel like collectively we'll be all right. But I also can't help thinking that a whole lot of white people, deprived of the "DEI" excuse, are about to get a wake-up call about their own mediocrity.

Fuck this guy and every single one of his m/billionaire cronies.

We fought for years to make this office a reality and lives were saved because of it. Stay tuned because we’re not giving up on this. Trump might be okay with dissolving a life-saving office but the people aren’t.

For those saying it wasn't a Nazi salute.

Keep posting it. Keep sharing it.

I see that Melania chose to wear her Hamburglar hat to honor the criminals in the nation--and next to her.

"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "but Americans fucking suck."

@gardeningleftovers.bsky.social

Just saying…

Let’s see what happens next.

Petty as hell and I am HERE for it. #chefskiss

Special Counsel Report Says Trump Would Have Been Convicted in Election Case (Gift Article) “But for Mr. Trump’s election and imminent return to the presidency, the office assessed that the admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial,” the report said.

"What we did was too little and too late, the sad story of our species."

- Chrisjen Avasarala

Meta Deletes Trans and Nonbinary Messenger Themes Amid a series of changes that allows users to target LGBTQ+ people, Meta has deleted product features it initially championed.

So it continues from Meta. Seriously, even if you think, "well it's OK because it doesn't affect me," if you know me, and you know my family, then it affects you. It probably affects you even if you don't know my family. www.404media.co/meta-deletes...

Not the Doctor. (Gene Wilder in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)

Post your favorite Doctor (a la Doctor Who). Wrong answers only.

3) **Almost** overcame my aversion to taking compliments. And I got a lot of them, from audience and castmates alike.

4) Owned that role and would do it again in a heartbeat.

2) Overcame my FOMO caused by the role I played in the event wherein I wasn't improvising with those most talented improvisors, but interpreting their improvisation based on an audience question to answer that question.

This past weekend I was triumphant on several levels. 1) Performed in two amazing nights of The Oracle with some of the most talented improvisors I know. (Continued) ⬇️

Okay, then. It's been a year and a half since I posted here, but t#r3@ds is on my $3it1ist now, so hi! I'm back! Thanks for being awesome and following this hoopla! And by hoopla I mean self-aggrandizing bullshit. :)