Washington State Supreme Court is in Play. In an very rare occurrence, 5 of the 9 Seats on the Court are up for election. VOTE! This is non-partisan race, there are clear differences in the backgrounds and views of the candidates, so it is VERY important for WA voters to make wise choices.
“GOTTA LEARN AI OR BE LEFT BEHIND.” Good. Fuck off! Leave me behind! Enjoy your artbarf rapture, your janky Temu future. I’ll be back here looking at real birds and writing weird, also real, books.
“I wish it need not have been so stupid in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such utterly stupid times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is not to be so utterly stupid and maybe work together so this shit doesn't happen again.”
A big update to an important case: Alaska is dropping charges against a family of American Samoans it had accused of voting crimes. It should not be forgotten that Alaska inflicted enormous hardship and trauma, for years, for a simple, understandable mistake that the state itself helped facilitate.
After a Yearslong Nightmare, Relief for American Samoans Punished for Voting - Bolts
Alaska officials for years accused American Samoans caught in a unique legal limbo of illegally voting, but finally dropped those charges this month.
boltsmag.org
And if they literally say "AI" can do your job, they are also relinquishing any claim to their own area of expertise, because "AI" doesn't refer to a coherent set of technologies but rather is used to wrap various different (usually janky) tech in a false veneer of magical functionaliy. >>
THE AI CON
How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want
thecon.ai
@courtneymilan.com I just pulled this from a post over on Facebook, felt like it might be info worth sharing...
[sighs deeply] Before feeding any of your research into any LLM, please check your grants and institution's information security/academic integrity policies. You may be surprised how very little of your work are allowed to let anywhere near the Plagiarism Engines.
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I just witnessed an ICE abduction in N Seattle, after following several black SUV's traveling almost double the speed limit I followed them to The Crown Inn where they stopped a man in a white work truck and abducted him I tried to raise the attention of cars and bystanders but most ignored me
BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...
Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah
An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.
nytimes.com
Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com
Update: she went viral, so Amazon decided to get off their backsides and have a human phone her & restored her account. So your Zon account being deleted for no reason may be fixable, IF you manage to go viral about it 🤪 Like I said above (links & all 😉), plenty of Zon alternatives exist!
Creatives, this has been a weird, WEIRD day. Amazon restored my publishing account. You know, the 14yo one they deleted? They restored it because of YOU. Community matters. Thank you. #amazon #kdp #k...
TikTok video by Author Ruthanne Reid
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Hey, guys, when the librarians get pissed about the destruction of books, it’s time to put those listening ears on. Because we are very comfortable with the idea that books are tools that can be retired. What’s happening right now is not that.
CALL TO ACTION! There's a data center proposed in North Minneapolis and we don't want that shit! www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Anybody at @moderation.bsky.app want to try to explain why they suspended @matthewcort.land, ANOTHER of the most prominent people out here fighting for disabled and marginalized people? Like… are y'all planning to suspend/ban literally every disabled legal scholar/policy worker out here, orrrr…?
ali alkhatib@ali-alkhatib.com · 2mo agoanyway, if you're looking for Matthew Cortland, you should sub to their patreon since they're a disabled lawyer evidently getting deplatformed from places.
WNBA suspends Seattle Storm minority owner for being rude to transphobic shitheads:
WNBA Suspends Seattle Storm Minority Owner For Being Rude To Transphobic Shitheads | Defector
On Tuesday night, a small group of weirdos held an anti-trans rally outside of the Seattle Storm’s home arena. The occasion for their gathering was a game against the Indiana Fever and bench player…
defector.com
I have to agree the statement, if not his reasoning, “man, people are strange out there.” (Also I think, independent of the subject, it’s just plain ugly) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
New York sculptor spent $100,000 to make a Charlie Kirk statue no one wants to buy
Sergio Furnari said he thought the lifesize sculpture – which no one commissioned – would raise ‘millions’ of dollars
theguardian.com
Seattle is currently hosting a mega masters — a hearing where hundreds of kids, some as young as three, are going through deportation proceedings. These kids are expected to understand complex legal processes and represent themselves in court. They deserve better.
‘Mega’ hearings for children begin in Seattle as part of deportation process
Tuesday launched four days of unusually large hearings for young immigrants. A judge said she wants to see some children more often to ensure their well-being.
seattletimes.com
Florida folks: If you have O- blood and are of African or African American descent, OneBlood is searching for donors who have a rare antigen that matches with a teenager with sickle cell disease who needs 50 units of blood so she can have a bone marrow transplant.
Rare blood needed to save life of Florida teen needing bone marrow transplant
FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. (WFLA)— Blood donors of African descent are needed to save the life of a Florida 18-year-old fighting an aggressive form of sickle cell disease, OneBlood announced. Gigi Felix,…
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In other "excellent news from religious bodies", the US Presbyterian General Assembly has formally voted to start the process to (correctly) declare white Christian nationalism a theological error incompatible with the teachings of Jesus: pres-outlook.org/2026/07/pcus...
PC(USA) labels White Christian nationalism "Theological Error"
Calling White Christian nationalism incompatible with the teachings of Jesus, commissioners approved a proposed constitutional amendment and a new policy statement opposing the ideology.
pres-outlook.org
I feel like portraying it as a fringe theological dispute between catholic sects over the 2nd vatican council and finger pointing over who's a heretic, rather than as a conflict with a fringe far right sect that says Jews are going to hell and Muslims are rapists hides the general interest aspect.
Hey HAWT Greater #Boston: an offer for elders 55-95 without Air Condition to participation in a Harvard Chan Public Health study that gets them AC, and some cash. Please share! #HeatWave #mapoli #Bospoli Attn: @universalhub.com & @weatherishappening.com www.healthycitieslab.org/beattheheat
Beat the Heat | Healthy Cities Lab
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JD Vance puts the Christ in "Christ, what an asshole."
The most strategic fumble I’ve witnessed among dem leaders is letting their cops beat up their constituents. And it’s been going on for years and weakening us all. It leaves people with few options but to lose faith in the entire system. And faith is all you got because there isn’t very much proof
Status Coup News@statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 4mo ago🚨BREAKING: NJ state police slam anti-ICE protesters with their shields and fire flash bang grenade smack dab in the middle of dense crowd of protesters. WE'RE LIVE ⬇️
Wife just got back from a 3-day doctors conference and she told me that one of the keynote speakers mentioned AI during his presentation and the doctors in the audience booed. Loudly. Someone tell that Google CEO it's not just college kids who hate this shit.
This whole thing of the entire global economy now being based solely on gullible fascists selling each other magic beans would be much funnier if the global economy wasn't how I feed, clothe, and house myself.
Black cemetery in Florida vandalized, 'Trump' spray-painted on graves reut.rs/495gOz8
Black cemetery in Florida vandalized, 'Trump' spray-painted on graves
Police in Florida are investigating vandalism at a historic, predominantly African American cemetery where 17 gravesites were damaged, with headstones knocked down and "Trump" and "DeSantis" spray-painted in red letters on tombs, referring to the U.S. politicians, Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
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