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(He/Him) Human Paperweight. Compassion will be key in the harsh days ahead. We're all we got.

Democrats. The "lesser evil" you excuse today never washes off of your brand. The genocide, the transphobia. That's you now. We begged you not to do it. You did it anyway. Whether you win or lose, regardless of how evil the GOP is, it's on your permanent record. And you did it 100% to yourself.

Thinking back on the whole "Elizabeth Warren doesn't owe you anything!" thing from the 2016 election. And all the Clinton fans celebrating killing off all hopes for Medicare For All. 2016 really was the year of slipped masks for the DNC.

I’ve said it before but if you can’t drop a piece of entertainment because it’s funding actual hate crimes you are weak and won’t survive the winter. The real reason metalheads are tougher than you is because we’ve all done this with music made by a racist who has far less sway than this lady

GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️‍⚧️🎄@glairedaggers.bsky.social · last mo.

So I know in the past I've complained about Hogwarts Legacy and gotten responses to the effect of "is there a way I can ethically play it". With a sequel on the way, here's what my answer is: Don't play it. Don't even pirate it. There's like literally a billion other videogames you could play.

Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.

Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned

Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.

aiddata.org

Breaking News! Code: Bonkers! El Nino continues to spike towards an all-time record high anomaly, with the Nino 3.4 sea surface temperature more than 2.6°C above the 1991-2020 baseline as of August 4th, and more than 1.0C° above the previous August 4th record set in 1997.

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We won't hear a peep from the evangelical/MAGA/anti-abortion/qanon adrenochrome crowd about a billionaire cloning up a baby to harvest its blood and organs.

Police murdered a Black man in the street in Madison WI today. Shot point blank in the head while on the ground, tased, and surrounded by four cops. It looks like an execution. Multiple videos circulating online. Things are about to get very bad here.

"The lawsuit alleges staff deleted results and mischaracterized outcomes to cover up the AI tool’s mistakes. The former employee says Mayo fired her in retaliation when she tried to raise her concerns." It's good we're betting every aspect of Earth's future on this fucked-up AI shit.

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Mayo Clinic is being sued by its former AI compliance lead, who is alleging the hospital network tried to hide its AI tool’s 67% error rate at patients’ expense. /1 futurism.com/health-medic...

The silence in Gaza’s news isn’t a sign of peace. It’s the result of journalists being killed, one after another. The war hasn’t gone quiet—the voices reporting it have.