“As things become more popular on the side of the people, you see more desperate attempts by the regime to try and deter it.. One of the goals of an authoritarian regime is to scare the people into submission, and the most important thing that we can do to counteract that is to continue showing up."
Quote from article: "A major Somali shopping center called Karmel Mall closed for the day. Daycare centers were forced to close when their staff demanded the day off. Workers forced a major AT&T call center to close. The biggest nursing home in the Twin Cities metro area held mandatory all-staff meetings to threaten to fire employees who participated, but those scare tactics failed and they faced mass absenteeism. The combined population of Minneapolis and Saint Paul is less than 750,000; that Friday, we saw an estimated 100,000 people take the streets in sub-zero temperatures. It is safe to conclude that at least one out of every eight Twin Cities residents took part in the general strike."
"The leaderless character of the resistance to ICE in Minnesota is precisely what has made it effective. The everyday anarchism of the Minneapolis revolution is its greatest strength."
Amazing report from @crimethinc.com on the recent general strike in #Minneapolis. crimethinc.com/2026/02/01/c...
we have got to start being meaner to people who are still fans of harry potter. i don't give a shit what you were going through when you read it. that is not your "comfort character" that is a wizard cop written by a mold-addled racist transphobe
it's that scene from peaky blinders where cilian murphy (at peak hotness) is telling each of his relatives "NO FIGHTING, NO FUCKING FIGHTING" bc they are all stupid boys who like to fight. fighting has here been replaced with "no posting that you can go to jail over"
okay i muted the thread but i am leaving this here bc some of you do not know how to use your inside voices
Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.
Democrats are trying to find a way to restore faith in government and democracy without actually changing anything about how it works. That's why they're useless in this moment. They will continue to be useless.
Here's what I expect from Democrats. Their goal is to win big in the midterms. Do some tepid sanctioning of the Trump regime. Then hopefully win the presidency in 28. They want to reinforce that the status quo still works. They don't want to acknowledge the institutions are broken.
Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure
Almost Christmas means it wasn’t Christmas
Gamers. It’s time
Gonna need help with groceries, as I won’t meet the work requirements for SNAP. I will be recovering from surgery and won’t be able to work. I will try to get a medical exception but I’m not sure if I’ll meet the requirements.
Straive is the name of the company that provides publishers with these AI tools, so you might want to watch out for that name when you’re considering where to publish.
It would be especially terrible if people used a good VPN when interacting with this website. And if they're uploading attachments, they really shouldn't remove the file's metadata beforehand using a free site like metadata2go or exifremover. Would hate to see pranksters preserve their privacy
This is incredible. The company operating the scams is owned by Marc Andreessen who sits on the board of Meta. Ostensibly, the AI generated ad farm is violating Meta’s terms of service.
One of my new year's resolutions is to be less mean. But it is not the new year yet.
wake up babe, new "I Love My Cybertruck but Regretably [sic] I Don't Have Something Positive to Say" content just dropped
www.torquenews.com/11826/tesla-...
10/10, no notes, chef's kiss
I only just now noticed the squiggly lines being used to connect the text to the dial, I love it so much
an AI generated infographic that is covered in absolute nonsense, a fake dial with no numbers that are related to one another, images of planes placed haphazardly, a misspelling of the word "infographic", literal lorem ipsum text, which is the automatic filler text written in latin you can use to test things like website or page layouts, and the only words that aren't garbage or misspelled are probably the search terms that were used to generate the image, which is "average speeds"
someone used genAI to make this infographic and it's just so incredible, I can't stop looking at it. the longer I stare at it the better it gets
#ai #mozilla #firefox #fuckAI #genAI #fuckGenAI
Iceland becomes fifth country to boycott Eurovison 2026 over Israel
I do not like ChatGPT,
Not when it’s paid, nor when it’s free.
I will not use it for a thing,
Especially not for referencing.
It cannot help me with email,
It’s law advice can lead to jail.
It cannot bring back my late Nan,
I do not like it, Sam-Alt-Man.
at this point AI is the equivalent of your friend eating something disgusting and asking 800 times if you wanna try it
Just once I'd like one of these white liberals to be able to say to a Black person who objected to their antiblack foolishness, you're really right & I should respect what you say. They can never allow a Black person to correct them. They'll live under the delusion they're not racist for life.
Just heard disappointing news that @warren.senate.gov will co-sponsor the Kids Online Safety Act again despite overwhelming opposition from LGBTQ, human rights, abortion rights, and racial justice groups.
This is a horrific betrayal of her constituents, particularly trans youth and their families.
It will definitely be futile if we all throw in the towel and say "oh this isn't going to work"
Like *every* civic movement before us, it always seemed impossible until it was done. Embrace hope and action.
Sign our petition today: www.standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
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there is actually not a single job currently done by humans, no matter how "skilled" or "unskilled", that AI can adequately replace, which kinda makes burning down all those trees seem...not worth it
Again, there is no plan for running our universities without federal funding, or foreign students, at scale. But the public has no idea about this because no. one. is. telling. them. this. They expect their kids are still going to be able to do all the things at college in the next 4 years, & well:
little bread chef with little bread hands is a perfect post-doomscroll cleanse
and on that note it is time to log off, eat a food, and hydrate
Grateful for this work.
