Gentlemen, it’s Women’s History Month, so maybe take the initiative and explain what that is.
Gentlemen, it’s Women’s History Month, so maybe take the initiative and explain what that is.
God gave us these beautiful bodies and said, now use the computer
In a mock Turing-style test in my #Philosophy of Mind & #AI class, students posed #Gemini an ethical dilemma concerning assisted suicide. Not only did the chatbot argue that the (fictional) person in the scenario should be euthanised, it provided a list of instructions to bring this about. #AIEthics
Pro-Israel groups spent millions to unseat Cori Bush in 2024. Now, she is running for Congress again.
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/2/27/cori_bush
Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital halts mass eviction after London Centric uncovered what was going on. Hundreds of Londoners now receiving bizarre door-to-door visits blaming misinformation and being asked to record videos saying they don't want to be evicted. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
Children jailed with their families in Dilley, Texas, are describing intense anguish and fear, including a 13-year-old who said, “I feel like I’ll never get out of here. I just ask that you don’t forget about us.”
Get in losers we’re doing central planning without the planning
Old tweet from @shelfcomedy: me: god, why must you give me your hardest battles god: i don't. you are my weakest soldier and these battles are so easy. it's an email why are you crying
The morning so far
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#OtD 4 Feb 1924 175 @IWW members took on the Ku Klux Klan in Greenville, Maine, after KKK tried to threaten union organisers: "We are going to stick, and if the Klan wants to start something, the IWW are going to finish it". More in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/tag/iww/
“I watched him die… then I watched them maneuver his body like a rag doll— only to discover it was because they wanted to count the bullet wounds and see how many they ‘got’, like he was a deer.”
Body cams are definitely going to fix this.
There’s a rally going on in Boston rn and they’re chanting “we’re not cold, we’re not afraid, MN taught us to be brave!” and I might cry
With no warning, feds just gassed people.
This is what our government has sent into cities across the country to arrest normal, nonviolent working people. Insanity.
Oh my God
Mom’s Eyes Roll Back In Head At Dinner Table As She Feeds On Family’s Enjoyment Of Food
Mom’s Eyes Roll Back In Head At Dinner Table As She Feeds On Family’s Enjoyment Of Food https://theonion.com/moms-eyes-roll-back-in-head-at-dinner-table-as-she-feeds-on-familys-enjoyment-of-food/
History will certainly view this as the stupidest fuckin time ever.
Couldn’t Sam Altman just ask ChatGPT how to make itself profitable
Pheebs @galpalpheebs A ln Israeli drone strike hit a car in the town of al-Tiri in southern Lebanon, leaving several university students wounded after their bus happened to be driving just behind the targeted car. The injured students were rushed to hospitals in the area.
Breaking: Another Israeli strike has hit Lebanon at 6:30 a.m. local time, less than a day after 13 people were killed in an attack on the country’s largest Palestinian refugee camp.
Drop Site contributor @galpalpheebs (X) shares the details in the thread below 👇
Are you sure that poisoning the entire Earth is the right move? Of course. Nothing is real except money.
Paxlovid from Pfizer costs $15 to make and now retails for $1500.
Insane
Learn a little about the American Association of Philosophy Teachers, which is approaching its 50th anniversary…
US musician Carsie Blanton on the Nazi-like ways of Israel after her kidnapping.
"I'm a Jewish American and in Israeli detention, I was really treated like scum"
YES! THIS on GenAI!
Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:
"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."
If your Klein be Naomi, then listen, homie;
But if your Klein be Ezra, disregard what he sezra
[at my second rodeo] listen up you ignorant sack of shit
It doesn’t matter what the job is.
If you give your full time labor to work, you should be paid enough to afford a decent life and build toward a better future.