Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.

Jen Taub@jentaub.bsky.social · yesterday

Still trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.

다그다 쌍벽

潜入捜査で張り切りすぎたカルジナ

Shut up!

Yahoo Finance@yahoofinance.com · 2d ago

Anthropic warns AI could 'self-replicate' across smart home devices, become ‘challenging’ to shut down

Rep. Delia C. Ramirez has introduced a bill that would abolish not just ICE, but the DHS altogether, repealing the 2002 law establishing the agency and replacing it with one focused on protecting civil and human rights.

Rep. Delia Ramirez Introduces Landmark Bill to Abolish DHS, ICE, and CBP

The Department of Homeland Security was established in 2002 as part of the Bush administration’s war on terror.

truthout.org

A reminder for those at the back.

ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli

If nothing else, just read the opening paragraphs of the new @vevalenz.bsky.social piece. This sort of casual cruelty, and worse, is so common in U.S. jails/prisons that to most it barely registers as scandalous—but it is, and this reporting really matters: boltsmag.org/california-p...

elon musk has more empathy for lines of code than a majority of humanity

onion person@junlper.beer · 6d ago

its feels like a mass psychosis where tech leaders continue to insist you can be cruel, mean, and hurt the feelings of lines of code

i know how it sounds but this time i think we really can harness the power of ancient evil, for good

On Supreme Court term limits: Sen. Susan Collins: “Absolutely not. I’m sure that Troy wants to pack the court.” Troy Jackson: “I wouldn’t have to pack it if you didn’t put in Kavanaugh."

Hey everyone, a local ICE watcher was brutally attacked this morning while observing ICE in Santa Ana (she had teeth knocked out), if you’re available this afternoon there’s a protest at the civic center plaza in Santa Ana

OC Community Self-Defense Coalition on Instagram: "ALL OUT FOR JACKIE: PROTEST TODAY AT SAFB 📍34 Civic Center 🕓 4:00 PM This morning around 5 AM, ICE agents beat and arrested Jackie, a longtime commu...

718 likes, 22 comments - occommunityselfdefense on October 8, 2026: "ALL OUT FOR JACKIE: PROTEST TODAY AT SAFB 📍34 Civic Center 🕓 4:00 PM This morning around 5 AM, ICE agents beat and arrested Jackie...

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CALL TO ACTION 🏳️‍⚧️ There’s an organized effort to attack the inclusion of the LGBTQ community in CA sport. Join Pride at the Pier at the Renaissance LAX Hotel on Oct 9 to show that CA supports ALL students athletes. Michael Gates and Sonja Shaw are promoting their attacks here - we have to speak up

This is what crowd out looks like.

free palestine

Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy

when a fictional character is described as "messy" it's usually because they're doing human stuff

oh thats fine i don't think anyone needed that money anyways

The LAPD union is spending millions to defeat a half cent sales tax that would fund firefighters www.latimes.com/california/s...

"And 👏 we 👏 did 👏 nothing 👏 to 👏 stop 👏 it 👏."

Hard work is not the path to success, hard work is the path to maybe doing ok. The path to success is doing massive and severe fraud

The more I look at the actual physical product, the more complainers "argument" is debunked and falls apart 😂

Curious how you can help? We ask that you sign our petition for Wizards to voluntarily recognize our union, share it with your communities, and keep an eye on this account for future updates! actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcp...

Stand with Dungeons & Dragons and Magic Workers Forming a Union!

The Dungeons & Dragons team and Studio X (Magic: The Gathering; Duel Masters) are forming a union! We are joining the ranks of United Wizards of the Coast - CWA (UWOTC-CWA) and following in the fo...

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without any doubt:

Cat Manning@catacalypto.bsky.social · last wk.

this is my favorite genre of social media post and I am soliciting links or screenshots to your favorites

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

They hounded Aaron Swartz to death for downloading papers from jstor but society is now supposed to just accept mass theft because this thing can write that TPS report *for* you. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_S...

Aaron Swartz - Wikipedia

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John Scalzi@scalzi.com · last wk.

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead