a peach and two units of string cheese, now that's a good snack folks
"improperly received health coverage" going to rattle around in my brain a bit
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2mo agoAn influential conservative think tank is contending that 6.2 million enrollees on the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance exchanges — roughly a quarter of all enrollees — improperly received health coverage this year through the program.
from 'the monkey wrench gang,' personally
Words I Learned from Ultima@wordsofultima.bsky.social · 3mo agocaltrops
What so many have experienced personally has been confirmed by a new study: AI has been a disaster for working artists.
The AI-inflected crisis artists are facing, in 4 charts
An alarming new study reveals the dire impact AI is having on artists' livelihoods. It does offer some hope, too.
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this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.
Keep this man away from journalists, journalism, the internet, and other people’s money.
Vice News Is Being Resuscitated With Fresh Ambitions
Shane Smith's hard-hitting news brand, which covered global current affairs for a Millennial audience, is back, now equal parts creator-driven news outlet and brand partnership vehicle.
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then sometimes you'll find a website from a more hopeful internet era findaspring.org
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AI doesn't come up with Twisted Teens in a million years
trying to imagine the circumstances where i wouldn't rather sleep in a ditch until the next amtrak train could bring me within 500 miles of my destination
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 5mo agoIncredible scene: Travelers wait on hours-long security line at George Bush International Airport in Houston while Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” blasts through the speakers. (video shared directly with me)
If AI has impacted your job or the way you work, share your story at AIKilledMyJob@pm.me. I'll protect your identity as I would any source—stories can be shared anonymously. Next, I'm hoping to hear from healthcare workers: nurses, doctors, therapists, hospital workers, techs, admin, and beyond
Brian Merchant@bcmerchant.bsky.social · 5mo agoThree years into the AI era, educators say they face a major crisis. Bosses and clients replacing tutoring jobs with AI. Replacing *athletic coaching* with AI. Many students now cannot grasp why they would *not* use AI for schoolwork. And worse. The 5th installment of AI Killed My Job—educators:
The car lobby is why they kept adding more lanes to freeways in California instead of investing in public trans. California got labeled environmentally conscious somehow by adding electric cars and hybrids to the mix. Still more cars. Losses touted as wins. Waymo is the next verse in the same song
Even if rich people were no more prone to believe stupid shit than you or me, it would still be a problem. After all, I believe in my share of stupid shit (and if you think none of the shit you believe in is stupid, I'm afraid we've just identified at least one kind of stupid shit you believe). 1/
would you trade being dead now for having been at the live at the old quarter shows and also not having to be around for any of this horse shit?
my boy scout troop was an outgroup solidarity project with cool trips. fuck these monsters
Watching crypto exchanges pivot to prediction markets confirms they were always casinos masquerading as investment institutions.
I think about this quote from the Luddite movement all the time
Nolan Void@wolter.bsky.social · 7mo agoOne of the few positives about the last decade or so is people are starting to get hip to the fact that the Luddites were right all along.
I was reading Google reviews of the local Episcopal church and someone gave it a single star, denouncing it as a "do-gooder church." Which is an interesting combination of words to me