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Their best defense against the growing challenge from the left would be simply to meet the moment and act more aggressively against Trump. If they just did that, half the energy behind DSA challenges would dissipate and they'd be safe. But no, they'd rather punch left in a panic.
Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 2d agoThe Democratic party leadership fighting harder against the DSA than they do against Trump really says something. These people gotta go, man
It would be cool if the FBI would actually do something useful for a change and start investigating the lynchings of Black people that are becoming an epidemic across the South. The world's purported preeminent law enforcement agency sitting on its hands as this happens makes me physically ill.
14 hours later and my mentions are still full of angry treatises about badly behaved cyclists. Bike lanes are not a reward for good cyclist behavior! They are infrastructure proven to make cities safer for ALL ROAD USERS. Whatever way cyclists have wronged you is irrelevant to the discussion!
Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 2d agoEvery conversation about bike lanes is like: "Car crashes kill a huge number of people every day, including pedestrians, cyclists, & car occupants. Good bike infrastructure has been shown to make everyone safer (& doesn't increase congestion)." "But sometimes cyclists break rules & hit people!"
It turns out that when your marketing plan is “hahaha, we’ll destroy humanity and your future” people don’t like that very much
Futurism@futurism.com · 2d agoThey're even more unpopular than data centers.
Oh the Democrats now claim they want to abolish the entity that Trump admin is able to use at scale due to the violent infrastructure that the Biden admin funded and built as it carried out the unrealized sick ambitions of the first Trump admin? Abolish ICE. Don't abolish facts and accountability.
Michael Kapp@michaelkapp.com · 3d agoBREAKING: the Democratic National Committee just unanimously approved a resolution calling for the abolition of ICE! After terrorizing our friends, families, and neighbors, ICE has no place in our nation. I'm grateful @democrats.org agreed. Now we're onto the hard work to make that happen!
Just some of the names of the Black people who have been lynched in the past year, though the list is likely longer
Because I had to (and it synced really well, for both of these):
They ran out of weapons, didn't realize how low they were, thought it was already solved, & now that they realize it isn't, they're all Gotta Go Fast on production with a reduced workforce & fewer safety checks? I'm sure that won't AT ALL lead to catastrophic equipment failures and own-side deaths 👍🏾
nathanrmcgrew.bsky.social@nathanrmcgrew.bsky.social · last wk.Im a former aerospace manufacturing engineer. I can tell you that because we currently have men in the various positions of checks and balances involving the military who are not experts in their fields, they are unaware how these things are built. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
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One child killed by the Israelis every day in Gaza since ceasefire, says UN
AN AVERAGE of one child has been killed by the Israelis every day in Gaza since the so-called ceasefire came into force last October, a United Nations organisation said on Thursday.The UN Children’s F...
morningstaronline.co.uk
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If tech giant Google has its way, residents of Fort Wayne, Indiana, may have to say goodbye to over 4 acres of federally protected wetland as part of the third phase of “Project Zodiac,” a $2 billion hyperscale data center project. futurism.com/artificial-i...
Google Data Center Announces Plans to Pave Over Protected Wetlands
Google is requesting authorization to fill in a chunk of precious wetlands to build three data center buildings in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
futurism.com
They started canceling DEI programs under Biden and Democrats, well before November. Some of y'all on here cracked "Woke is over!🤡" jokes while Black women were being laid off by the thousands. Many of y'all were very OK with that.🤷🏿♂️ Now Trump is doing this to all women. Now we care. Shared fate.
Mekka Okereke@mekka.mekka-tech.com · 2w agoWorking our way up the list! First we got rid of 300,000 Black women from the Federal government. Now we've expanded to women in general, from the economy at large. It's 2026, and I'm still explaining how getting rid of all the women from your workforce makes it less smart and less capable.
Answering earnestly: yes it does. Because it removes the perverse incentives that allow selfish US white Dem voters to keep ruining the world. The world is terrible because for 80+ years, Black folk in the US reliably voted for slightly less bad Hitler over full Hitler. That spell is now broken.
In a general election, if one candidate supports killing one million people and and the other candidare supports killing that same million plus another million, does boycotting that election do anyone any good?
“Students are concerned that we’re going to be closed in two years, three years… They’re worried they’re not going to get courses they need because we don’t have the faculty to teach them.” I’m so sad to hear this about my former institution. But not surprised. chicago.suntimes.com/education/20...
Illinois Institute of Technology cuts 160 faculty and staff just before fall semester
University officials say finances have taken a hit from declines in research funding and foreign student enrollment. Faculty say leaders’ slow response and lack of transparency have deepened the crisi...
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“In its first public test Friday at the Def Con cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas, Swearingen successfully demonstrated the pattern printed on a vehicle, proving that these patterns can be effective at defeating surveillance detection in the real world.”
This ‘adversarial’ pattern can prevent surveillance cameras from detecting you
A security researcher has designed an algorithm that can create computer-generated patterns capable of hiding people, faces, and vehicles from detection by surveillance cameras.
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Except... The Purge was not an absurd premise? It was real, and really happened. The real life version of the purge wasn't one night a year. It was every single night. Again, a lot of dystopian horror is just "What if someone treated us the way we treated Black people?"
Mekka Okereke@mekka.mekka-tech.com · 6mo agoThe Purge is fictional, and is just one day a year. But sundown towns are real, and the free license to murder and commit other atrocities was available every night of the year. Every. Night. In case it's not on the nose enough, The Purge trailer even uses a sundown town siren.🤡
Anyone running middle or high school classes where you give kids cheap blank phones & teach them to deconstruct them? I feel like getting people at an early age w/ things like "what do API calls do?" & "what are your phones/apps doing when you're not touching them?" would be good on multiple levels…
Periodic reminder for people that know next to nothing about criminal justice reform, but do a few quick searches and then try to tell me which laws and policies Biden was and was not responsible for.🤡 Watch the whole video of *Biden himself* claiming credit, before you try to argue with me.
Mekka Okereke@mekka.mekka-tech.com · last wk.And I don't argue with folks about how much of the racist 70s, 80s, and 90s war on drugs legislation Biden was personally responsible for. Instead of arguing with them, I let Biden tell it in his own words. The Dems, GOP, civil rights workers, criminal justice reformers and Biden himself, all agree
i found myself saying parts of this in more than one place so i figured i'd just make a nice little list
Very Sane AI Newsletter@verysane.ai · last wk.Who deserves the most style points for how their LLM commits felonies? (it's openai) verysane.substack.com/p/felonybenc...
In a conversation about how to rephrase away from talking about "AI" "agents" as having "goals", I settled on software systems having success conditions. Updated here, under the cognizer/products of cognition category: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
How to talk about "AI" without adding to the anthropomorphization
Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie In our op-ed for Tech Policy Press ("We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI'"), we made the case against the...
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Part of the reason we see so much backlash against Flock right now is that it’s become apparent to everyone that the system isn’t only capturing Black folks and immigrants, but instead it’s scooping up everyone.
"Women accounted for 100 percent of the decline in the labor force in July, according to a National Women’s Law Center analysis of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’s latest dismal jobs report. Overall, the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July: Women lost 32,000 jobs, while men gained 9,000."
Trump’s Terrible July Jobs Numbers Only Hurt Women
And the number of women who have left the workforce since January is more than double the number of men.
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Working our way up the list! First we got rid of 300,000 Black women from the Federal government. Now we've expanded to women in general, from the economy at large. It's 2026, and I'm still explaining how getting rid of all the women from your workforce makes it less smart and less capable.
Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox.com · 2w ago"Women accounted for 100 percent of the decline in the labor force in July, according to a National Women’s Law Center analysis of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’s latest dismal jobs report. Overall, the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July: Women lost 32,000 jobs, while men gained 9,000."
Honestly, if this is what your writing looks like after years as a professional columnist, fuck it. Just go ahead and use AI.
Ray Lavoie@proporhistorian.bsky.social · 2w agoI rarely agree with Bret Stephens and generally find him an insufferable, hypocritical prat, but he’s spot on here. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...
The public was warned for weeks, but I don't have the sense that anyone much was paying attention. Shwartz wants to "make sure that certain states are not...hiding abortions in [the] emergency services case definition." www.huffpost.com/entry/trumps...
Trump’s New CDC Head Said ‘Abortion Surveillance’ Will Be A Critical Focus
There is no evidence that states are purposefully misclassifying abortion data to the CDC.
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What a bunch of cunce. Cruelty and destruction just for the sake of it.
Jason Wilson@jasonaw.bsky.social · 2w ago“Zaki Jaradat, head of Zububa Village Council, said Israeli forces have uprooted more than 2,950 olive trees across more than 300 dunams of agricultural land since the start of the year.” www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli...
PM @mark-carney.bsky.social says he’s steering Canada toward a “green economy.” But look at what he’s really building: more pipelines, weaker environmental reviews, and a National projects fast-track that bypasses the checks meant to catch harm.
🚨 HAPPENING NOW 🚨 Women's Marchers have been arrested in the Capitol for standing vigil for the people killed by ICE. #AbolishICE llustrations by @channeldraw
Whenever you read a hot take from Politico that casts Dems in an unflattering light, remind yourself that the owner asked the executives to pray for Donald Trump’s reelection. It’s propaganda.
How come Mitch McConnell is still getting paid to be a senator, but Lindsey Graham, John McCain, and Ted Kennedy are not?
