Lalia

western democracy sucks ass

“slow incremental progress that can be ripped away by the change of administration”

wow i hate it thanks

"I got my PhD by writing prompts instead of doing research, I'm winning"

got some bad news, there still no jobs and now you also know nothing

I just spent all of two weeks working on an application to a postdoc there. So that is good to hear.

This spring we will make a difficult but necessary further workforce reduction of approximately 15% across faculty and staff.

The New School announces a faculty and staff bloodbath

Under capitalism, new technology isn’t mainly about freeing workers. It’s used to raise profits by tightening control over workers, simplifying jobs, and weakening worker power.

ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in rare court testimony Under oath, officers said they were told to make eight arrests a day and given special tech to help choose ‘targets’

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

In the detail this is all as bad as it sounds, if not worse. At every level—from the ICE myrmidons rounding up people to meet quotas to the tech companies directing them to “target-rich” environments—the effort was to round up bodies and get paid. And to tell cover stories or sheer lies to justify.

Fuck you friday

Applied to a crazy postdoc that wanted me to design a whole course for them as well as an entire research proposal. I don’t think I will get it but I had to do it to show to myself that I am still trying to find academic work and not just giving up and becoming a school teacher.

Real

Always

Alt text: Two-panel comic featuring a girl in an oversized green hoodie and striped thigh-high socks. Panel 1: She stands proudly in a tidy room holding a stack of neatly folded laundry, the furniture and background sparkling dramatically. She smiles with determination and says, “Laundry is DONE! I’m gonna be so productive today! It’s gonna be GREAT! So much tooo dooo!” Panel 2 (caption: “Literally 30 seconds later”): The room is now dim and gloomy. She is curled up on top of a giant pile of blankets or clothes, hunched over her phone with a mischievous grin. Her phone reads: “1001 ways to eat a dumpling? Count me in!” Tone: A humorous depiction of motivation instantly collapsing into procrastination fueled by ADHD >.>

The dangerous moment when you finish one responsible task and briefly believe you’ve fixed your entire life.

(Repost because the original was *awful* for mobile, and I'm an idiot who messed up the darkness :D also, alt text *doh*)

It is open for transit if your ship is marked as coming from India or China. American ships should not apply.

How the Park Police are helping ICE carry out deportation efforts Immigration agents are arresting drivers on ‘routine’ traffic stops in the Washington D.C., Maryland and Virginia area.

On the Parkway and beyond, Park Police are becoming ICE’s eyes in the DMV

Hormusexuality on the rise

But I find it so enjoyable to hear the news finally mad about straights ! They are usually fuming at queers instead

But I find it so enjoyable to hear the news finally mad about straights ! They are usually fuming at queers instead

Also a fan of the video! Nice to see a foucauldian deconstruction of these manosphere fools

the mainstream social media is just 4chan

the white house posts like a school shooter

it is becoming harder and harder to ignore the abusive patterns that hold up this broken world

there will be reckoning

I did a full face just to go to the laundromat.

you can't be mad at college kids for not doing as many mass protests right now after you cheered for them being beaten, kidnapped, arrested, and harassed when they protested under biden. you wanted anti-insurrection tactics used on them and you got it.

you can't be mad at trans people for not trusting democrats when close to half a million of us were forced to flee our homes while biden was still president and did nothing to protect us in red states.

you can not blame leftists and anti-genocide protesters for kamala's loss without first explaining why asking them to stop arming and protecting a genocide was not a reasonable request.

The US taking the "weeks where decades happen" literal to a terminal degree.

During the beginning of a world war? Not likely

Like any market, the idea market is loaded with gimmicks and bullshit, inferior or even toxic products that, thanks to the tendency of the rate of profit to fall, become the new standard.

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:

www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

Even if you hate cops you dont hate them enough

The United Kingdom should give Farage’s political office and all of his money to beavers! That’s my idea of Woke!

Marnin palllzy