erin

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AuDHD burnout. Parent. Held together by toxic perfectionism. Silver Spring. Cville raised. I have too many interests. Free Palestine.

I have reached peak library this week. Watched The Great Dictator on borrowed DVD, read Tokyo Ghost on my iPad via Hoopla, listed to Ancillary Justice audiobook via Libby, and read my kid picture books we picked out on our weekend library visit.

I fucking hate AI almost as much as I hate the sniveling asshole billionaires and shithole corporations who have all forced it into every conceivable spot in our lives. It literally makes everything worse and it makes us worse and I fucking hate it.

People think "Hollywood" is rich and famous. The reality? Film and TV is a national industry. It's a blue collar industry. And it is an industry free fall. My latest for @newrepublic.com on how the Paramount merger would crush blue collar workers who can not afford it newrepublic.com/article/2136...

There’s a Blue-Collar Hollywood—and the Paramount Merger Will Kill It

Hollywood isn’t all glamour. It’s thousands of line workers. And a Paramount takeover of Warner will make their lives even more precarious.

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"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...

AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt

AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.

futurism.com

It really cannot be stressed enough how entirely reasonable and obtainable the goals of orgs like Aftermath are. What if you gave sites like this a buck every time your lip curled in annoyance at bad journalism elsewhere from billionaire-led, industry-complicit rags?

Aftermath@aftermath.site · last wk.

As of right now we have 26,205 'free' members. If that's you there's never been a better time to upgrade and try a full subscription! It's just $1! If only 1000-2000 of those free members converted, this website would change forever. aftermath.site/aftermath-su...

An illustration of the Aftermath team

Overnight Oats are an easy way to start your day with something cold and clammy, a textural nightmare, a sensory prop labeled "iced brains" in a haunted house

I think the Platner thing hit me so hard bc it was one of the most protracted, widespread acts of misogynist gaslighting from my own side that I've seen. We were presented with an obvious violent scumbag who was constantly lying (badly, might I add) and told we were crazy for not loving him

🚨 HEADS UP: If you haven't submitted a comment on the OMB proposal yet, there's still time - but it's running out! There are only 5 days left to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding. Take Action: zurl.co/w6DcW

Graphic from Stand Up for Science urging action on a federal funding proposal. Large text reads: "5 Days Left" and "Help Us Stop Vought From Destroying American Science." A portrait of Russell Vought appears beside the U.S. Capitol. A banner along the bottom reads: "Submit a comment on the OMB proposal | Link in bio to take action." The Stand Up for Science logo appears in the top left.

I wrote about how the women Epstein and co victimized have been minimized and ignored as individuals even in popular discourse about the very abuse they endured—and how the legal system has punished them and other women, not helped them, for daring to come forward. spitfirenews.com/p/even-the-m...

Even the most famous victims are silenced

From the Epstein files to Amber Heard, we obsess over victims while denying their own right to speak.

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