platypus meme, saying "every day. we stray further from god"
My mood these days is a combination of low-res brain fog and constant moral injury
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platypus meme, saying "every day. we stray further from god"
My mood these days is a combination of low-res brain fog and constant moral injury
The data economy has made us dumber in ways that also make us vulnerable to authoritarian takover. We are have become both cynical and gullible in the sense we think we are too jaded be fooled and as a result are tricked more easily www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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This is why I find the existence of orgs like Project South forever urgent and necessary. their interventions with language and action, their roots directly in Black communities’ material conditions, and commitments to international solidarity work is a sharp reframe.
They're going to poison a city with 17 million people
The angry part of Bluesky remembered KOSA (now under the Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act, or H.R. 7757) exists but rather yell at you I'll say:
If you have REALLY bad anxiety (like me!), you can call your reps after hours! Voicemail counts! The site 5Calls give you a script to read off of:
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
In Iran, air power alone will not reshape the regime. Since WWI, dozens of U.S., Israeli & allied air campaigns have tried to force political change — none installed friendly governments. None! They strengthen nationalism and intensify resistance.
the guy who wrote the literal book on this stuff is dunking on the admin:
21 minutes ago Farnaz Fassihi The attacks have come on a Saturday morning, the first day of the week in Iran, with millions of people at work and children in school. Residents in Tehran described scenes of panic and chaos.
Tehran is a city of nine million people, with 17 million in the larger metropolitan area.
Saturday is the first day of the week for Iranians.
Millions of people are at work, and children are in school.
lol (bitter)
We had a deal with Iran to ensure limits on its nuclear capacities. Trump ended that deal. Now he says that sending our young people off to fight and potentially lose their lives for this country is just a ‘cost of war.’ This is the cost of his broken promises. No war with Iran.
some of the olympic women including maddie mastro have been reposting this if you’re curious about the vibe in response to the US men’s little display
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
Of course you are a tone policing freak :)
I did not bring up Moskovitz - y’all did. EA adherents are all over the place and attract people of all manner of incoherent political ideologies. Moskovitz is a convenient weight for EA weirdos to launder their public reputation and their ideas into mainstream Democratic Party spaces and discourse.
Please feel free to fuck off yourself you tagging little toady!
Many major donors hedge their bets across both parties. Thank you for sharing your propaganda with me! You seem totally cool and normal 👍
Google fulfilled an Immigration and Customs Enforcement subpoena that demanded a wide array of personal data on a student activist and journalist, including his credit card and bank account numbers, according to a copy of an ICE subpoena obtained by The Intercept.
To everyone thanking me, much appreciated but not why I posted! Pls support your local immigrant defense group like:
The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota: www.ilcm.org/donate/
Or my hometown LUCE: www.lucemass.org/donate
Or Google your city/state & “immigrant defense” to find your local heroes!
The WSJ has been on the right side of history in the past year on some things (more than other #newspapers of record at least), and this is one of them. No holds barred.
Also inserting this in there. Vinay Prasad wishes he was in the Epstein Files… 🙃
no, it simply isnt.
People are talking about capital using gAI as an excuse to conduct mass lay-offs, about students losing learning because theyre being lied to about gAI in education, about the mass theft of the work of artists and authors to train LLMs, about CSAM and nonconsensual sexual images.
fwiw this is the same as automation discourse. indeed, it's just another (attempted, but it doesn't work) form of automation. it's just aimed at white-collar workers now
And they funded the Trump campaign so they could get their network state free-fo-all, and didn’t say shit when the regime then destroyed USAID condemning millions to death across the world.
You’re a racist dipshit gargling AI tech bro balls. Thanks for playing!
Wait til they go after the ISPs. then where will our respite come from
We are on the brink of like 90% literal state media
Today for @theflytrapmedia.com I wrote about the (techno)fascist push to grant personhood to anything except people
There is no case but the moral case. The public health data have precisely the moral valence that we give them and, crucially, that we are willing and prepared to act upon. The process of political development in public health is the process of developing just such a capacity for action - action that will be, by definition, not strictly related to public health in the majority of cases. The intellectual action consists of the movement from "free them all for public health" to, simply, "free them all." Public health will follow.
if you read one essay today public health friends, make it this one. buttondown.com/abbycartus/a...
