look for the helpers

Newsweek@newsweek.com · yesterday

A Michigan nurse is accused of helping an injured immigration detainee escape from a hospital while in federal custody.

there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no

shawn@mulchy.bsky.social · 13h ago

two doses of lethal drugs and still alive. heartbreaking and barbaric

Every election season is just 3 months of Republican campaign ads: *nonstop, vile bigotry and promises of committing horrible acts once elected* Democrat campaign ads: "I'll work WITH the other side to get things done. Also give me money."

shutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight.

The flashback at the beginning of a dystopian film

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 19h ago

Hegseth: "Today, at my direction, we are announcing the creation of Autonomous Warfare Command, or Autowarcom."

A lot of the attitude from this country’s elites around the Epstein files shifted from “there are no files” to “the files totally exonerate us” and inevitably will shift to “pedophilia is good actually” as more info comes out Our country is the greatest evil of today

I love that the U.S. government now has ideas so dumb that the fact checks are simply “yeah this isn’t a parody, it’s real”

There's always a backlash against progress for marginalized communities unless it's too small to matter So no MeToo didn't go too far BLM didn't go too far The Civil Rights Act of 1964 did not go too far The Voting Rights Act did not go too far The backlash is against progress, not excess

CEO said a thing!

"CEO Said A Thing!" Journalism

"CEO said a thing!" journalism involves parroting the claims of a business leader or executive with absolutely no context, correction, or challenge whatsoever, no matter how elaborate the delusion.

karlbode.com

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 3d ago

The most useless form of news is “CEO says.” Can this tool actually do what it says or is the company just trying to profit off fear?

All it took was getting kicked out of the White House press room and suddenly CNN remembers that "lie" is a word.

CNN@cnn.com · 3d ago

Grocery prices are up, not “way down,” since former President Joe Biden left office. | Fact check: https://cnn.it/4xUDA65

It's good that we invented things like "government" and "the economy" but we can't meaningfully participate in them if the people in charge are constantly rubbing in our faces that these things are fake, and in fact you are a naive doofus if you think otherwise. That's a society on life support

it's the 40 year anniversary of cleveland's disastrous "balloonfest"

It’s a cult. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago

TAPPER: Was anything else agreed to regarding artificial intelligence? MIKE WALTZ: We're going with 'super intelligence' now, Jake

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

This is actually hell, right?

Every tech CEO belongs in jail.

The Verge@theverge.com · 6d ago

"It’s kind of like, in order to save you, they’ve got to hurt you first — that’s the nature of surgery. They’ve got to cut you open to save you. They’ve got to inflict an enormous amount of pain and suffering on you so that they can save you. And so I think AI’s kind of like that."

This company just radiates predator energy

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5d ago

“Everyone hates cameras in smart glasses. But if the camera is contained in a charm you wear around your neck, it shifts the agency. Suddenly, you’re not recording people. It’s just a cute little animated avatar looking out on the world.”

In the quarter-century of television that NYT list covers, I have literally only seen 3 of the 100 shows listed. That's not a commentary on the validity of the list, but rather an observance of how little TV I watch. I did binge the entirety of The Beverly Hillbillies last year. *shrug*

The profession most likely to domestically abuse has been given tools to make that even easier. Good job everyone.

Karen Attiah@karenattiah.bsky.social · 6d ago

"...At least 100 police department employees have been charged with or accused of misusing license-plate readers for unauthorized purposes...In many of these cases, officers used Flock’s roadside cameras to track the location of romantic partners and exes." www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Hobby Stimulus Bill that sends a check for any hobby - glue sticks together, make bracelets, birdwatch, hone a skill, sing little songs, invent a language - but under the condition it doesn’t get filmed and posted or turned into an online money making endeavor for at least one calendar year

The thing about trying to appeal to right wing bigots is that right wing bigots are all stupid idiots who get 100% of their news from propagandists so they will never actually find out that you were trying to appeal to them in the first place

Ellsworth Online@ellsworth29.bsky.social · 7d ago

chat, do we think the pivot is working

Democrats love repairing all the stuff Republicans break so that Republicans can break them again and nothing new is done. Repairing the car and handing the keys to the drunk asshole in a 2-4 year cycle and pretending to be serious people.

@discord.com I see now why age verification started rolling out, fuck this and fuck you for doing this

"Politician failed at politics because she was bad at politics."

The American Prospect@prospect.org · last wk.

Harris performed dismally in the 2020 primaries because she wasn’t clear about what she stood for. She suffered from the same deficits when she became the party’s accidental nominee in 2024. prospect.org?p=145214

have we considered having, you know laws regulations anything really other than "limitless wealth extraction"

Was just thinking about him yesterday. RIP.

depths of wikipedia@depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · last wk.

when i mention "claude" you can assume i'm talking about the albino alligator not the llm