#OtD 21 Apr 1920 the Anaconda Road massacre took place in Butte, Montana, when mine guards employed by the Anaconda company shot 17 striking miners, killing one. All were shot in the back as they tried to flee. No one was charged for the killing stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9339...
Silo is back on AppleTV with Season 3 on July 3!
“Before we can know why we’re here. Before we can know everything is as it is. Before we know, how it all will end, we need to understand how it all began.”
CPAC is absolutely vital and if we can't find the (relative) pocket change to preserve it what are we even doing here.
some may drive but me and the others who can't afford a vehicle but still contribute to the economies of SF SMC and SCC might lose our jobs
“Data centers strain the electrical grid, increase costs, and make it a liability for residents and local businesses. They go up there, emit harmful pollution, worsening air quality in a community already disproportionately impacted by pollution. And there’s no community benefit.”
It’s in keeping with the basic idea of the original Colorado River Compact, which was to manage the basin’s water through some negotiation and compromise, rather than strictly following the letter of the law. But the legal foundation of prior appropriation hamstrings negotiations at every turn. Farmers account for the overwhelming majority of Colorado water use—almost a third goes to cattle feed alone—and thanks to how the system was initially designed, their prices are absurdly subsidized. One recent study found that while municipal districts pay an average of $512.01 per acre-foot, agricultural irrigation districts paid an average of $30.32 per acre-foot. Fully a quarter of all Colorado water diversions, all to farmers, cost nothing at all. Such a subsidy is difficult to unwind.
TIL that while Colorado basin municipal water districts pay an average of $512 per acre-foot, irrigation districts pay an average of $30--and fully a quarter of all water diversions, all going to farms, pay nothing at all prospect.org/2026/04/17/w...
Trump is within sight of an under 30% overall approval rating.
One of the most important causes right now is to establish a media narrative and popular support behind severe punishments and consequences to our present criminals running things.
Chris released a fully rigged anatomically accurate male skeleton for Blender, built as a study project with IK/FK controls and realistic bone behavior. 💀
See more about it: jettelly.com/blog/free-an...
#b3d #rigging #3dart
Don't worry, everyone. We always know what this is really about.
Welp... We already knew they were fascists.
Exclusive: Microsoft To Shift GitHub Copilot Users To Token-Based Billing, Reduce Rate Limits Edward Zitron Apr 20, 2026 4 min read Executive Summary: Internal documents reveal that Microsoft plans to temporarily suspend individual account signups to Github Copilot, as it transitions from requests (single interactions with Copilot) towards token-based billing. The documents reveal that the weekly cost of running Github Copilot has doubled since the start of the year. Microsoft also intends to reduce the rate limits on its individual and business accounts, and to remove access to certain models for those with the cheapest subscriptions.
Exclusive: Microsoft is reducing rate limits on GitHub Copilot, removing Opus from $10-a-month subscriptions, and plans to move users to token/API-based billing some time later in 2026 in a sign that it's looking for way to cut costs for its AI services.
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The Australian Greens are calling on the government to audit every Palantir contract across Government and particularly in Defence, Home Affairs and intelligence agencies and table the findings in Parliament. The public has a right to know the full scale of the risks and the sell out.
🚨 ICE Glasses are coming - specialized smart glasses designed by and for the Department of Homeland Security, documents reveal:
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IF YOU BUILD A BIKE LANE THAT DOESN'T CONNECT TO ANOTHER BIKE LANE THEN YOU DIDN'T BUILD A BIKE LANE
This company is out of control and its CEO appears in nearly every public appearance to be disturbed in some way.
There are companies our government should have nothing to do with anymore—e.g., those associated with Elon Musk—and Palantir is on that list.
ICE’s tactics aren’t new.
Years ago, sheriff Joe Arpaio turned Arizona into a testing ground for aggressive immigration enforcement including mass detentions, racial profiling and tent jails.
Much of it was later ruled unconstitutional.
it’s very weird, as a creative myself, to see other creatives who are proudly telling the world how much they loathe their craft and the process of making things.
I genuinely think it’s because it makes them feel smart, like they “programmed an AI” or whatever. It’s loathsome!
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Every time I read a piece about somebody with an “ai-assisted editing process” I feel like I’m watching someone trying to intellectualize a deliberate choice not to think or concentrate
To be clear, the United States military is not just "war crime" evil, and "genocide support" evil - it is also lawless pirates.
How many fucking “godfathers of AI” are there, and why do none of them talk about the actual realities of LLMs? Grifters galore
This is gonna revolutionize the divorce industry!
for an idea of how big a deal this is, my mom was in great shape when she got diagnosed and she lasted less than sixty days. six years is insane.
"not all men" But 62 million men visited an online rape academy in February.
The media crying about the “male loneliness epidemic” like it’s anyone’s fault but their own. We have a rape ideology epidemic.
Men telling us they’re our “protectors” my ass.
Primarily men have abused, manipulated, and exploited me the *majority* of my life. I have physical scars to prove it. #TW
Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.
Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement
Laura Stone from the Globe on X: #BREAKING: Ontario Premier Doug Ford's government is selling its $28.9 million private jet, a senior government source tells The Globe. The purchase set off a firestorm of criticism when the Star revealed it last week. with critics calling it "the gravy plane."
We did it! We stopped the Gravy Plane! Let’s keep fighting to save our waterfront from jets. #onpoli #topoli
"The university currently has no estimation for the cost of the damage, nor an estimated timeline for repairs, according to communication and marketing director Brian Hart."
Oh.
