What's so hard to understand about the fact that holding AI companies accountable for laws they're breaking NOW is absolutely essential to keeping them from breaking more laws, in worse ways, with bigger consequences, in the FUTURE
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Lina Khan spitting fire at the People's AI Assembly rn www.youtube.com/live/JZ7DnHo...
LIVE: The People's AI Assembly
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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Big AI is spending big against me, because I'm for taking them on.
AI shouldn't be able to fire you, fire a weapon, or deny you healthcare.
Angel food sound system in Detroit Sounds just as delicious as it looks!
🚨 EXCLUSIVO: a campanha de Flávio pagou R$ 600 mil a uma empresa que tentou vender nos EUA um sistema de IA para manipular eleições. Documentos obtidos pelo Intercept Brasil revelam que a tecnologia oferecida incluĂa criação de contas falsas, desinformação e tĂ©cnicas de guerra psicolĂłgica.
EXCLUSIVO: Flávio Bolsonaro pagou R$ 600 mil a empresa que vende nos EUA sistema de IA para manipular eleições | Intercept Brasil
Elytron ofereceu operação clandestina para mapear eleitores, criar contas falsas, espalhar mentiras e desacreditar rivais, indicam documentos revelados por ex-consultor. Campanha de Flávio nega…
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I am entirely serious when I say that this should be seen as a moderate position. It specifically and surgically dismantles institutions that did not exist pre-9/11 and assigns their functions much as they were assigned pre-9/11.
Truthout@truthout.org · 6d agoRep. Delia C. Ramirez has introduced a bill that would abolish not just ICE, but the DHS altogether, repealing the 2002 law establishing the agency and replacing it with one focused on protecting civil and human rights.
Tech boss masks are off, and workers aren’t having it. We speak w/ Clarissa Redwine and @js-tan.bsky.social, authors of Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World’s Most Powerful Industry, in our latest episode “My Tech Workers Have Unionized”! (w/ @emilymbender.bsky.social)
“These men are all talk; What is needed is action — action!” - John Brown
Erik Loomis@erikloomis.bsky.social · 4d agoThis Day in Labor History: October 16, 1859. John Brown and a group of followers invade the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (today WV) to start a war and end slavery. Let's talk about this key moment in American labor history!
NEW and BREAKING @wired.com: Trump White House aides see almost no paths to Republicans keeping control of the House, according to three sources familiar with the situation — and are more focused on trying to save the Senate majority www.wired.com/story/trump-...
Trump Aides Admit the House Is a Lost Cause
With the midterm elections just a few weeks away, the White House knows it has to go all in on Senate races—while virtually forfeiting the House.
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WSJ reports that the Trump administration is deploying federal agencies in an effort to denaturalize and deport Representative Ilhan Omar: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Ilhan Omar Investigation Aims to Build Case for Stripping Her Citizenship
Authorities have subpoenaed members of the Democratic congresswoman’s family as part of a broader look at their immigration paperwork.
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This absolutely lovely interview with Lori Stratton for @pulp.aadl.org is out! So grateful for the chance to share about my exhibit, and hoping it leads to more artistic opportunities 🙏🏾🥰 #a2council
@pulp.aadl.org · last mo.Ryan Henyard’s photography exhibition shows the connection between nature & Washtenaw County's Black community. We spoke to the photographer about “Reclaiming the Wild,” which runs through 12/31 at the African American Cultural & Historical Museum of Washtenaw County. pulp.aadl.org/node/675338
A haunted house where every room has a broligarch, pacing the frontier
Aaahh!!! bstract Tesseract@abstracttesseract.bsky.social · last wk.A haunted house where every room has more of a comment than a question
At least eight people have been killed on the streets by DHS agents since the beginning of Trump’s second term, at least 57 have died in immigration detention, and thousands have been “disappeared” within the shadowy detention network or to places abroad.
Rep. Delia C. Ramirez has introduced a bill that would abolish not just ICE, but the DHS altogether, repealing the 2002 law establishing the agency and replacing it with one focused on protecting civil and human rights.
Rep. Delia Ramirez Introduces Landmark Bill to Abolish DHS, ICE, and CBP
The Department of Homeland Security was established in 2002 as part of the Bush administration’s war on terror.
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A haunted house where every room has a broligarch, pacing the frontier
Aaahh!!! bstract Tesseract@abstracttesseract.bsky.social · last wk.A haunted house where every room has more of a comment than a question
Multiple things are true here. This is a fascist, authoritarian administration. It has not yet fully consolidated power. Some of its efforts to do so have been frustrated. Trump is a doddering, confused egomaniac who started an unpopular war that's costing everyday people a lot of money.
Another picture of the speakers from PYM and UAINE.org in front of the crowd gathering before the march at the MA statehouse. IndigenousPeoplesDayMA.org
A group of people gathered at the MA state house to call for land back, free Palestine, honoring indigenous children who survived residential schools, and more
We've reached the glass atrium at Boston's Marketplace Center (near so called "Faneuil Hall" ). A speaker talks about how Faneuil was a slaveowner and describes the campaign to boycott until it is renamed
My constituent Melanie from Chelsea was abducted by ICE, taken away from her young children–one with autism–& her husband. She has lived lawfully in the U.S. for years and is being held by ICE with an active ear infection & denied access to her anti-anxiety medication.
ICE detains mother of two outside Boston Police Department following alleged shoplifting arrest
The agency and BPD say the woman had been detained for shoplifting. The family says it’s a misunderstanding, and she was helping shop for Uber Eats.
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this sort of betrayal by Dems sucks every time, but it hits different when it’s coming from a doctor, giving anti-trans positions the (incorrect!) aura of scientific legitimacy
Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 2w agoSC Dem Senate nominee Annie Andrews released an ad calling trans women "biological men." She embraces sports and surgery bans for youth. Her campaign even says she won't work to overturn the HRT/blocker trans youth ban. She once argued against capitulation. Subscribe to support our journalism.
