DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

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The whole speech is good, but this part in particular is particularly relevant now. www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/publ...

"It's funny 'cos it's true..." youtu.be/d6SPV4GZp-U

The Life of Death and the Ensh*ttificator

YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

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Godzilla vs. Cat (OwlKitty Parody)

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Awesome painting by Minette Dreier. Translating the text: "Oil/canvas After her trip through Namibia, a friend asked me for this lion portrait because she was so enchanted by the large, free animals in their natural habitat."

Minette Dreier@achkunst.bsky.social · 2w ago

„Remember“ 2026, 100 x 100 cm, Öl/Leinwand Nach ihrer Reise durch Namibia bat eine Freundin mich um dieses Löwen-Portrait, weil sie so verzaubert war von den großen, freien Tieren in ihrem natürlichen Lebensraum. #art #kunst #animalportrait #nature #lion

The great BILLY WILDER talking about how he wasn’t interested in “fancy-schmancy” when it came to filmmaking, it was always about telling the STORY.

Shel Silverstein somehow clocking AI all the way back in 1981

"Wherever justice is bound, nobody can ever be in accord with the common good, nor pull the cord straight; thus should tyrany prevail... she always protects the abuser, the robber, and those who hate peace, so that her every land is waste." -- Ambrogio Lorenzetti, "Good and Bad Governence," 1339.

Relax as much as you can going in too- a shot into a tensed muscle is going to hurt more than into relaxed flesh. Flexing AFTERWARDS will help A LOT!!!!

John Wiswell@wiswell.bsky.social · 2w ago

Okay so apparently it isn't common knowledge: after you get your shots, roll your shoulder and flex your bicep every 30-60 minutes. It dramatically reduces the soreness from the shots. Pharmacists taught me this tip Year 1 and it's a game changer.

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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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Name a non-LOTR character who could resist the one ring.

Charles R. Rutledge@crutledge.bsky.social · 3w ago

Name a non-LOTR character who could resist the one ring.

This is absolutely hideous. We are talking about a political party that wants women to reproduce and at the same time is raising the maternal mortality rate. The result is dead women.

ProPublica@propublica.org · 3w ago

NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

And since we were talking about graffiti.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4Sm...

Everything Banksy Gives Away - The Rich Take

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The media double-standard that lets the GOP get away with taking millions from a white supremacist

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Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · 3w ago

If only the media had as much interest in the world's richest person, the primary funder of the Republican Party, who spoke at Trump's Inauguration and gave a Sieg Heil, once again declaring his belief "white solidarity is the only way to survive" as they do some Twitch streamer.

In Alexandre Dumas' 1846 novel THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO, the titular Count "hacks" the telegraph system, a novel technology at the time, as part of his plan to avenge himself against the Baron Denglars. Thus, THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO is canonically a progenitor of cyberpunk. In this essay I will

All else aside there is nothing I want or need genAI to do for me. I like reading. I like doing research. I like playing around in spreadsheets. I like interviewing people. I like writing. I like doing these things for myself because I take pleasure in the doing and they make me a better thinker.

A perfect example of what AI is really for: removing consent, removing the social safeguards that used to keep the worst ideas at bay, and doing racism at scale. theplaylist.net/paul-schrade...

Paul Schrader Says He Turned To AI Because “No Black Actors Wanted To Play In A Movie Where There Are No Good Black People”

Paul Schrader explains why he turned to AI actors for ‘Three Guns At Dawn’ after Black actors rejected the original roles.

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This is pure art.

𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️@arepublic86.bsky.social · 3w ago

Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books. www.wainwrightbookbinding.com

For those who were "WTF?" about it, an explanation of why the nickname "No Tab Pete" is so derisive:

Charlotte Clymer@charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 4w ago

They hate him. They really hate him.

So while authors and publishers are arguing about divvying up the settlement money, Anthropic have got away with mass theft. Whatever they pay out is simply a cost of business. The shit machine they built with that theft still exists despite a complete lack of consent and blatant law-breaking.

Federal minimum wage in: 2009: $7.25 2010: $7.25 2011: $7.25 2012: $7.25 2013: $7.25 2014: $7.25 2015: $7.25 2016: $7.25 2017: $7.25 2018: $7.25 2019: $7.25 2020: $7.25 2021: $7.25 2022: $7.25 2023: $7.25 2024: $7.25 2025: $7.25 2026: $7.25 Folks, it's time to raise the damn wage already.

This country was built on the opposition to tyranny...so ICE must be abolished.

I love this. Back in the early '80s when I was putting up, relations w/ the guards were entirely adversarial. Our crew did respect the car numbers, never left cans behind, but we were the exception. Glad to know things are dramatically changing. 1/5

Goodnews@goodnews.computer · 4w ago

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

Yes, this. What many don't understand is that in the '50s, the 90% rate applied only to income above $400K (circa $5 mil today). Of course, that was on personal income. Anthropic is a corporation. Tax on corporate income was 23% up to $25K (about $356K today), 42% for income above that. But.. 1/2

Kameron Hurley@kameronhurley.com · 4w ago

The fact that Anthropic was able to cough up a billion dollars so easily reminds me again that we need to be taxing rich people at 90% again.

Back from a longish social media hiatus, gutted to learn about Dolly Parton and Tim Curry. (Note to this guy: You keep taking the wrong 80 year-olds, dammit!)

The Antikythera Mechanism, recovered from a Greek shipwreck dated to ~60 BCE, is the world’s oldest known analog computer. Built around 100 BCE with 30+ bronze gears, it accurately predicted eclipses and tracked the Sun, Moon, and planets over 2,000 years ago. ⚙️🌍

Nice work, everyone! Keep it up!

The Backlash Is So Strong That People With "Pervert Glasses" Are Afraid to Use Them in Public

Meta's camera-equipped "AI Glasses" are so divisive that some adopters are reportedly leaving their expensive smart glasses at home.

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