They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 22h ago

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Oh my god I think I found the video.

CSketch@csketch.bsky.social · yesterday

I'm just gonna say: it somewhat baffles me that people who are understandably skeptical of opaque LLMs as legitimate sources of information will suddenly go full on "the computer KNOWS" when they are using opaque tools to "detect" AI. The computer does not know.

Susanna Kearsley@susannakearsley.bsky.social · yesterday

❤️ Gillian Green, publisher at Tor Bramble, told The Bookseller: “HM Wolfe has confirmed that Daggermouth was written entirely without AI. We stand behind our author, and we do not recognise third-party AI detection tools as a fair or reliable measure of authenticity when used on their own.”

The business of "A.i." is based on a lack of consent. The corporations pushing it don't ask if anyone wants it; they force it on us. They use it to surveil. They offer it to creeps to create nudes of others without permission. It's a business run by creeps with the ethics of creeps.

Muse’s Origin of Symmetry, Absolution, and Balck Holes and Revelations.

Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon Wish You Were Here Animals Bonus 4th: The Wall

This will be the US if the SCREEN Act passes. Call your Senators before August 5 and tell them that you oppose the SCREEN Act, KOSA, and the KIDS Act. Use the official lookup tool at www.senate.gov/senators/sen... to find yours by state.

⚠️ MMWI ALERT: MIGA CHANGED HER MIND ⚠️

Stella Sacco@antlervel.vet · 3d ago

August 2nd: Right (Long Walk)

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

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Goddammit.

Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 4d ago

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

I’m so fucking upset that the WPBL announced literal days before the first game that no, we can’t watch games on YouTube here in the US, instead we have to pay for an ESPN Select subscription. I don’t pay for subscriptions to watch sports so I guess I won’t be watching women play my favorite sport.

When you think of it, manufactured consent is cucked and harmful bullshit which never should have been invented and any proper AnCap movement should seek to abolish it.

that WNBA woman was not suspended for 'standing up for LGBTQ+ rights' she was suspended specifically for standing up for trans women. language matters

people talking about halloween creep while i’m sitting here like “shit if i set aside money NOW i can get the big skeleton in time”

yeah there are 1:1 identical clones of every single game they have, that are free and don’t support transphobic fascists

I feel uniquely qualified to argue their “points” as someone who grew up eating almost no processed food, didn’t attend a regimented school, spent most of my childhood outside, had very limited screen time, and has ADHD.

TikTok has incredible moderation team. Our InfoWars video about Multiple Horse Theory — the idea that there are many horses in the world and not just one — has been fully deemed misinformation and lost the formal appeals process. Confirmed by Larry Ellison: There is only one horse on Earth.

The Missouri Attorney General is threatening librarians with arrest over an LGBTQ+ story hour for kids, suggesting that a picture book about gay dinosaur dads is "pornography." The Secretary of State says he'll pull funding if the event happens, citing the state's new age verification law.

Given the property prices across most of NYC, there's an argument to be made that a significant chunk of the city functionally cannot have affordable free market alternatives either.

Turns out that food companies were only checking their food because the government told them to, which is exactly why we need government regulations.

I'm posting this not as a complaint, but a lament. Seeing our creations escape control in a universe where authorship is often treated as a detail, frequently ignored www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vpN...

Neuromancer Steps FullHD

YouTube video by Rafael Moco

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hey if you live in Georgia's 13th congressional district, YOU HAVE AN ELECTION TOMORROW. Apparently only 10k/500K elligible voters have voted early -- so uhhhh please go vote???????? find your polling location> mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/

look, if jennifer died when jake was a baby, ben ABSOLUTELY would have done simulated chestfeeding. then maybe jake wouldn’t have dated so many age inappropriate women.

THEY TALKED TO THE COMPUTER IN STAR TREK BEACUSE ITS A *TV SHOW* AND YOU CANT HEAR WHAT SOMEONE IS TYPING NOT BEACUSE IT IS GOOD UX

Jay Tholen@jaytholen.net · 2w ago

one of those things that was cool in star trek but absolutely sucks now that it's real