In Kenya, we spoke to the data labelers powering U.S. AI companies. They include someone who had to watch porn all day, annotate it, then had to flirt and sext with people over an AI chatbot. The users thought they were sexting an AI. It was actually a person.
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A truly depressing look at the role of crypto and AI spending in congressional races.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/u...
Local / County governments pushing the New York State government (read: Kathy Hochul) to do what's right and stop colluding with ICE. Here, it's Ulster County in the Mid-Hudson Valley. #ShareGoodNewsToo
Sadly, a lot of critics of ICE aren’t anti-war or anti-prison industrial complex. There’s so much political work to do.
Reform and body cams will fix this I bet
Everything is Gaza
James Baldwin said, “We are a racist society, racist to the very marrow, and we are fighting a racist war... My own condition, as a black man in America, tells me what Americans really feel and really want, and tells me who they really are. And, therefore, every bombed village is my hometown.”
As long as the costs of war are disproportionately inflicted on segments already deemed to be less worthy, less grievable, less human for whatever pre-existing reason (internal class, racial, cultural divides, etc.), you will find people who cheerlead the bombing of their own country.
Two are proposed in Pennsylvania — in Berks and Schuylkill counties.
Israel is wiping entire families in Lebanon off the face of the planet, just like it did in Palestine
Sánchez: “You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed.
“We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.”
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez: “A country that always defends human rights and international law, like Spain, earns the respect of the entire world, as has happened in recent weeks.”
Surely this is not shocking, but Rogan had most of the big anti-trans scientists that my reporting found to be in the Epstein files on his podcast.
Krauss even tried to connect Epstein to Rogan at one point.
“Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business.”
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If other people's children are fair targets in war, then so are yours.
Fossils show exceptionally rare evidence of a cloacal vent—the slit that most vertebrates use to excrete, have sex and lay egg—which could shed light on the evolution of the orifice
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I don't know that I've read a better piece on the danger of online age-verification than @taylorlorenz.bsky.social's piece for @theintercept.com.
The government, in concert with AI companies, is openly bragging about using mass surveillance to crush dissent.
And we're agreeing to given them more?
Unbelievable that we have to watch for things like this now.
The nature of war has been changed by the genocide in Gaza. The status of hospitals, medics, journalists, aid workers, churches and residential buildings has been changed by repeated, unpunished violations. We’ve entered a dark chapter for the whole world.
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST
"The most effective consumer boycotts in history share two qualities: they are narrow and they are easy," writes @rutgerbregman.com
Exactly. And shout out to editors specifically.
Brutal. This is what Trump did.
What if there was a mindful way to steal people’s art, pollute Black neighborhoods, and raise everyone’s electric bill?
The Mamdani Effect.
Establishment Democrats are so shook. They need you to be poor and hopeless so they can promise you to save you from the economic conditions they refuse to do anything about while they’re in office.
I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.
