Getting ready to never forget again. Get Your War On is the best depiction of what it felt like for me to be progressive and anti war in DC post 9/11.
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No retreat, no surrender, die with their blood in your teeth. She/her.
This is what kills me. Just stay the fucking course. Have the fight.
Sandy Ernest Allen@sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 6h agoSinai is in a blue state and blue city with a mayor for example who woulda stood up for them. They've instead just caved to fascist bullying. It's the wrong move in so many senses — morally and strategically. I curse those cis folks involved with this cruel decision making. Absolutely reprehensible.
personally I think we should just take the ai doomers at their word and shut it down if they’re telling the truth, well, good thing we shut it down. If they’re exaggerating, well, they shouldn’t have done that
Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).
this is morally equivalent to something like: if Google were reading the gmail account of a famous mathematician, realized he was about to publish a breakthrough paper, and then attempted to scoop him on his breakthroughs (with a side of blackmail)
Trevor A. Branch@trevorabranch.bsky.social · 18h agoMillennium math problem solved by OpenAI may have "regurgitated" competitors unpublished work... also they spent more than $22 million in computing power in one week to scoop them. techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/o...
'We grieve the worlds we've known and what it felt like to live in them, and people are part of that. We grieve the fact that someone or something that accompanied us through the world will no longer accompany us through whatever comes next.'
Puff the Magic Hater@mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 17h agoSomething has really bothered me about the Gloria Steinem discourse—something that's not really about Gloria Steinem. So, I wrote about it.
The day after Labor Day seems like a great day to start a paid subscription to the only reproductive rights and justice news outlet without a history of union busting or taking money from corporate interests :)
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The Fifth Circuit will hear a case about the abortion drug mifepristone on Wednesday. The big thing to know is access won't change after the judges rule. But a bogus FDA safety "review" could upend access after the midterms. We'll be covering on @autonomynews.co www.autonomynews.co/mifepristone...
Did not know Mamdani was going to do this today Fuck Giuliani.
NYC Mayor Mamdani releases 9/11 records showing officials misled New Yorkers about air quality around Ground Zero | CNN
New York City has released more than 170,000 pages of previously undisclosed records about air quality following the September 11, 2001, attacks, showing city officials at the time knew conditions aro...
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis@kendrawrites.com · 2d agoIf you don't know the lore, Giuliani was in the streets on 9/11 because he had nowhere to go. He insisted they put the emergency-command center in the WTC because he wanted to be able to walk to it and it was destroyed. This was 3 years after the first WTC attack. (pre-Bari Weiss CBS link)
404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.
A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over
404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.
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I am sympathetic to Silicon Valley guys ascribing human-level consciousness to AI because if I had to talk to people from Silicon Valley all day I’d probably have a real low bar for sentience too
I remember when teddy tuxpin first started talking and it got me thinking "uh oh, what is a man? am *I* just a cassette tape in my back?" but then, because I had the cognitive prowess and standard comprehension of an entirely ordinary toddler, firmly realized No That's Not How Anything Works At All
Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2d agoUm, no?
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Sophie Lewis also has the most insightful takes on...Sophie Lewis (as refracted through kin relations). I particularly love this essay www.e-flux.com/journal/111/...
With-Women: Grieving in Capitalist Time - Journal #111
Sophie Lewis, nine months after her mother’s death, finds a needed, if only digital, being-with grief in today’s physically distant reality.
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Speaking from experience: running a small business can be absolutely soul-crushing. And half the time, your problems are ones the world is imposing on you that you had no part in creating. If you can, please give Maya a hand. This tariff bullshit is awful.
maya kern@mayakern.com · 2d agohi all! this is really difficult for me to talk about, but the store is in danger of closing before the end of the year. you can read more about what happened here: www.mayakern.com/blog i'm at a point where i need to ask for help. 👇
I am begging people to take a theory of knowledge, a philosophy of language, and a metaphysics class before they embarrass themselves like this
Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2d agoUm, no?
Bernie D. Jones really led the way on this stuff with Critical Race Theory and the Law in 2002-ish and these were all her observations
Sam Brody@samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 2d agoI don’t remember whose insight this is, but it blew my mind when I first read that to understand American history you have to get that race law was designed to increase the number of enslavable people (one-drop rule) and decrease the number of claimants to indigenous land (blood quantum)
The South's paranoia and mania around this rested, in some ways, on the recognition of a real dynamic: that their slave system depended on the North not just accepting it below the Mason Dixon, but essentially legalizing it everywhere. Policy concessions weren't enough: they needed total submission
Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · 2d agoAntebellum politics is fascinating, the South kept getting policy concessions and whipped themselves up into a paranoid rage anyway, essentially because they couldn't stand being culturally judged for having slaves
love when i see this reminder circulated bc then i can share the fruits of my labor from my random time down the insurance/credit rabbit hole earlier last year source: www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/t... no paywall: web.archive.org/web/20240311...
Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies (Published 2024)
LexisNexis, which generates consumer risk profiles for the insurers, knew about every trip G.M. drivers had taken in their cars, including when they sped, braked too hard or accelerated rapidly.
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Henny Gesserit@nmjmredux.blacksky.app · 2d agoThese new cars are basically a mobile subscription. People are getting hip to the fact that they can remotely cut your car off (or surveil you) if they so choose.
MAHA has been in power for two years. They have decimated basic science, gutted food safety surveillance and kicked millions of people off food stamps. *That* is their ideology, not their polite platitudes about corporate control of the food supply.
thank you The New York Post for what may be the funniest image of all time
DAMNATIO MEMORIAE folks, more and more people are saying it
lowtax speedrun enjoyer@rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 3d agoyes, and it's going to be very funny watching him be driven insane during the 2028 cycle as dems try to one-up each other with the base on who can more effectively erase trump's existence
A question we could face ourselves: what might we do differently, if we accepted that the police are not failing to protect the public, but telling us who they believe is worthy of protection?
Kate Allen@kateallen.ft.com · 3d agoPolice are facing growing questions over how up to 500 masked activists dressed in black brought parts of Dover to a standstill on Saturday. Authorities have been accused of failure to act, intelligence failures and being ‘caught on the hoof’. www.ft.com/content/f244...
A thread devoted to Jacob Lawrence, one of most acclaimed American painters of the 20th century, born #OnThisDay in 1917. Fitting that today is Labor Day since work & labor were among his most enduring themes. First up: Home Chores, 1945, painted soon after he returned from military service in WWII
“Which side are you on” resonates even more strongly this year
Patrick Skinner@pmskinner.bsky.social · 2d agoLabor Day is about unions. Unions built the middle class. You can’t support the middle class without supporting unions. Massively powerful companies & their politicians spend LOTS of money telling you not to support unions. Because it’s the only thing they fear. Happy Labor Day
kill the MAHA in your head, a non-exhaustive list: -stop using the word "chemicals" in a derogatory way. When criticizing specific types of chemicals, be specific. -stop saying "clean eating" for whatever diet you're on. food you're avoiding isn't dirty or bad just because you are avoiding it.
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