This for comics too please
This for comics too please
On todayβs episode of Cartoonishly Overt Sign Weβre the Baddies: theyβre taking the olive branch off the dime because it presents peace
THENEW REPUBLIC Palantir CEO Alex Karp thinks his AI technology will lessen the power of "highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat" while increasing the power of working-class men. "This technology disrupts humanities-trained -largely Democratic-voters, and makes their economic power less. And increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working-class, often male, working-class voters," Karp said in a CNBC interview Thursday. "And so these disruptions are gonna disrupt every aspect of our society. And to make this work, we have to come to an agreement of what it is we're going to do with the technology; how are we gonna explain to people who are likely gonna have less good, and less interesting jobs."
Sorry ladies Palantir has a message for you and itβs that Rosie the Riveter also had to eat it and go back to her husbandβs kitchen
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BREAKING: The Florida Senate passed a version of the SAVE America Act requiring proof of citizenship to register and remain on the state's voter rolls.
The amended bill, which would go into effect in 2027, now returns to the House for a vote before heading to Gov. Ron DeSantis for a signature.
I was sent home early to WFH for "a few weeks... maybe a month tops." Stopped at the store on my way home and still I have the pic I took of the half empty shelves of toilet paper.
NEW: A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a bill requiring warrants for FBI searches of Americans' communications under FISA, aligning federal law w/ a 2025 ruling that found the practice unconstitutional.
It would also ban the government from buying Americans' private data from data brokers.
In March 2020, PPE was scarce. What began as a 3-week stopgap became hundreds of Aunties across the U.S., sending thousands of masks to those who needed them most.
Help us finish "The Auntie Sewing Squad Resistance Playbook" documentary:
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We've seen another morning of increased ICE activity with DHS helicopter out and about in Chicagoland.
Feds have taken people from Humboldt Park and Ravenswood. Vehicles also seen in Rogers Park. ICE watchers are asking north side neighbors to get outside and keep an eye on landscapers & laborers.
WAVY reporting live at the link
Too often I think we view misogyny through the lens of womenβs responsibilityβdo women cause misogyny, how can women avoid misogyny, how can we blame women, alwaysβinstead of recognizing that there is literally no way to opt out of or avoid misogyny entirely, because our whole society is built on it
I get that this has been almost entirely theater but I actually think it's quite bad if the people of DC become habituated to the presence of military personnel in the streets, for a whole host of reasons
Astrophoto of the stars and gas surrounding the black hole at the center of the Milky Way (unseen). The gas clouds are shown in red and wrap about two thirds of the way around the center of the image, from upper left to the middle of the right side.
#PPOD: This stunning snapshot, taken with ESOβs Very Large Telescope (VLT), reveals the stars and gas surrounding an invisible giant β a supermassive black hole, located some 27,000 light-years away, at the heart of our Milky Way. π§ͺ π
Close-up of white and pale pink cherry blossoms on an ornamental tree
Cherry blossoms have appeared, although with today's forecast, they may not last long
The fact that I have heard almost identical stories from Native students from probably every single ivy league college is so damning. Often the same claimββwe canβt find someone to assess your knowledgeβ what they mean is they canβt find someone w a PhD and fluency in the Indigenous language
Daily Memo: While ICE Lays Low, Theyβre Still Active While Building Up Its Fleet, Offices, and Detention Centers
@eltragon.bsky.social
What a shocking story, great local news coverage, and inspiring work all around. This is what it looks like when people (and lawyers) fight back for a more just society. lataco.com/ice-rams-veh...
Superb framing. Had to laugh that it's an Evergreen ship... at least it wasn't stuck. π
Going for the long lost deep cuts there π€(and that pic is like a postcard)
Facebook post by Nekima Levy Armstrong: "Friends, A Breaking News headline just appeared in the Star Tribune, claiming that the national Target boycott ended today. This is false. The writer of the story, Carson Hartzog, is fully aware that the Target boycott was launched in Minneapolis on February 1, 2025. I have spoken to her several times since then, yet she failed to reach out to me, Jaylani Hussein, or Monique Cullars Doty, the three founders of the national Target boycott for the story. Carson even used the photo from our press conference that includes my daughter, Assata Joy and Ms. Rosemary Nevils, an elder in our community, to try to add legitimacy to a bogus story. I am once again disgusted by the Star Tribune and their attempts to minimize and erase the voices of our community. The nationwide Target Boycott is not over, unless and until Target reverses its decision to rollback Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, as we said from the beginning. βPastorβ Jamal Bryant does not speak for us or our community and has zero authority to end the nationwide boycott of Target, a company that is headquartered in Minneapolis. Please donβt believe the hype and these attempts to rescue Target from the effects of capitulating to the Trump Administration. Target rolled back DEI because of Donald Trump. They donated $1 million to the Trump/Vance inauguration committee. Target also allowed ICE to stage in its parking lots during Operation Metro Surge. The nationwide boycott of Target is successful and it will continue. Please continue to shop elsewhere."
Nekima on the Target boycott.
Another tough day for team βthereβs no point in complaining about AI, just accept it.β
For anyone who needs the warning... the damn Bradford Pear trees are in bloom.
Gird your sinuses as appropriate.
Another view of the selfie captured by Perseverance earlier today.
#Mars π§ͺπ
The admin is also stepping back from changes to covid vaccine policy out of fear it will hurt them in the midterms. Which we should read as they plan to ramp all of their unpopular policies back up AFTER the midterms. No matter the outcome. archive.today/knNkZ
Orange and pink tinted wispy clouds across a light blue sky
A hazy moon in its Waning Crescent phase
A couple of morning pics - Sunday clouds, and a Wednesday lingering moon
#LaLuna
βWhat people who study this have shown over and over again is that it's only certain books that [...] get challenged,β Cohen says. βAnd it's often books by or about people of color or LGBTQ+ people. So it's a very selective use of obscenity.β
www.voxmagazine.com/arts/banned-...
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.
βThe University of Wisconsin-Madison Academic Staff Assembly passed a resolution on Monday calling for UWPD to end their contract with Flock Safety and publish all other contracts with surveillance technology companies, like Motorola Safeties and Rhombus.β
I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...
NEW: DOD employees are being pressured to volunteer to help with DHS's immigration crackdown. The work includes things like: βdeveloping concepts of operation and campaign plans to execute internal arrests and raids as well as patrols along the Southwest Borderβ
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