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Spraypainting my mouth as I get a surge pricing notification from the Uber Crude app
The Lemkin Institute has issued a *THIRD* trans genocide warning, noting the next stage is widespread containment - and this was before the 4th Circuit ruled today that states can essentially do whatever they want to make trans people "appreciate their sex".
www.lemkininstitute.com/red-flag-ale...
I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.
State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.
www.wired.com/story/gramma...
For all the people saying that Grammarly should be sued over its "expert review" feature, here is the Grammarly class action lawsuit, alleging violation of the right to privacy and the right of publicity: prf-law.com/current-case...
By Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries
Terrible news. I’ve been reading Mobtown for a while now. Huge loss for the drug war reform world.
Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.
"I’m 54, and this task has shaped my life... I have spent days in hospitals and courtrooms, hours on the phone, pleading with social service agencies for help that almost never materialized. For a long time, I gave up hope of having a husband and children, convinced it wouldn’t be safe for anyone."
DC folks actually sort of need to demand that heads roll over this. It’s a real problem if law enforcement in the capital is so pathetic, weak, and supine that their instinct is to act as stormtroopers for illicit federal power grabs.
When I started participating in job interviews in my early twenties, I quickly learned the difference between “explaining why I think I’m doing the right thing” and “finding excuses in advance to do bad things”
ICYMI: Good. Pretti. Two US citizens killed by immigration agents whose deaths spurred outrage. Before: Ruben Ray Martinez, a 23yo in South Padre Island last spring, who
a DHS agent killed, arguing his clenched hands on the wheel was a “pre attack indicator."
www.texastribune.org/2026/03/06/s...
I don’t know why everyone’s upset about this question from Tapper. It’s an alleyoop and it’s even worded as such (“will be cast as,” which is absolutely true and absolutely easy to blow off.)
It would be only fair to the reader to say frankly in advance that the attitude of any person toward this story will be distinctly influenced by his theories of the Negro race. If he believes that the Negro in America and in general is an average and ordinary human being, who under given environment develops like other human beings, then he will read this story and judge it by the facts adduced. If, however, he regards the Negro as a distinctly inferior creation, who can never successfully take part in modern civilization and whose emancipation and enfranchisement were gestures against nature, then he will need something more than the sort of facts that I have set down. But this latter person, I am not trying to convince. I am simply pointing out these two points of view, so obvious to Americans, and then without further ado, I am assuming the truth of the first. In fine, I am going to tell this story as though Negroes were ordinary human beings, realizing that this attitude will from the first seriously curtail my audience. W. E. BURGHARDT DU BOIS Atlanta, December, 1934
I'd forgotten how hard the preface to DuBois's "Black Reconstruction" (1934) went...and am saddened by how contemporary it still feels.
As good a read as I’d hoped.
Is it bad when someone who was comfortable working for Meta and OpenAI finally says “This is too much?”
I'd also like to nominate "SPECS OFFENDERS". Thank you, I yield my time.
"Screw Covid, I'm going to Sturgis!" The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, held in August 2020, was the epitome of the individual choice mindset. Of course it spread cases outward and caused infections, illness, and death. A new research paper allows us to watch the Sturgis Covid wave spread across the US.
Cut down after just 14 months. What kind of monster would do that?
i have been to the emergency room for a dental abscess. it is a uniquely excruciating kind of pain. this man was tortured to death via medical neglect.
Chris Miller: Some clarification here: "no green screen" doesn't mean "no VFX". There were, in fact, thousands of VFX shots in the film (2018!) Green screen is sometimes used in lieu of building sets or figuring out locations/lighting in advance, which can be noticeable if not done carefully, and is something we didn't want to do. We built the entire interior of the Hail Mary ship - but within the ship, there were still wire and puppeteer removals and ceiling replacements, etc. When Ryan is outside on the hull of the ship, we shot him in front of a black background for space and a shifting hue background when he was up against the aurora of a planet which allowed for truer interactive light on him than a green screen would. The wide space exteriors and spaceship shots were entirely digital and beautifully done by ILM. Rocky was a seamless blend of puppetry and animation from Framestore. And other great work from many more. It really does take a village and we had the best of the best on our side.
you can all stop asking me to comment now
"Project Hail Mary" (2026)
For those of you on LinkedIn, I would deeply appreciate you liking/sharing my post! Especially if you are in biomed and/or are a member of the LGBTQ community
www.linkedin.com/posts/jey-mc...
After your splendid blitz of generosity, I am down to the last *3* of each of these prints! I can't thank everyone enough for welcoming my work into your homes, sharing it, and generally being cool.
Just in case you'd like to help get those numbers to zero:
www.brianna-ashby.com/new-products
Yeah, Tillis voted for Noem and these other shitbirds and he owns part of this mess. But for people who still have a shred of a conscience, that's going to make them more invested in righting what's gone wrong. We should all encourage that.
Seems consistent to me. “Your body and your life do not belong to you.”
I have a whole file of these stories that I point to whenever someone responds to allegations of domestic abuse/violence with "If it was so serious, why didn't she call the cops?"
The regime won’t let you have clean hands if you work for them, even if they’re punishing you. This was leaked on purpose, is uncomfortably close to confessing to a war crime, and highlights once again how tech’s unthinking growth directly leads to dead kids.
A gentle reminder that contemporary neural networks are only an abstraction built upon Boolean logic
And that said neural networks are only an echo of a whisper of what organic neurons are.
Imagine a world where the terms of this agreement—between two of the world’s most powerful & dangerous organizations—were precisely specified & robustly debated through transparent, accessible, & accountable public processes.
But no.
We get swagger, threats, proprietary systems, & tweets.
If you live in the Gorton and Denton constituency and spoke to a Reform party member on your doorstep or in the streets then I'd like to speak to you for an article. My DMs are open.