Meg Trevey
@megglin.bsky.social
obstinate, headstrong girl "I have been trying to ask myself what is required of me, because what is required of me tends to remain more consistent than my hope.” --Derecka Purnell
I HAVE BEEN SUBSIDIZING WALMART AND AMAZON STARVING THEIR EMPLOYEES FOR MY ENTIRE LIFE.
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
When you’re a 13 year old that’s digesting & appreciating lyricism/song writing, but also a loud fan of pop funk that finds a record that not only convinces you you’re NOT crazy, but knows this song will land when it’s nearly too late…but also shows music can make you a better person if you LISTEN.
Just a reminder that in this country, the process is punishment. 24 hours in jail to process your arrest, money for bail, money for a lawyer, missed work for your court appearances...it all adds up. We do this to poor people every single day in this country. Many never really recover.
CNN@cnn.com · 5d agoThe Justice Department is admitting that a $14 million renovation on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, was flawed, and is dropping the criminal case against a former Olympian that accused him of damaging the pool, according to a new court filing. https://cnn.it/3RJJnwj
You hear it more and more. The only thing stopping this from happening is electing Establishment Dems.
Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · 5d agoChaperoning a preschool trip to the aquarium and one of the other dads who is vaguely familiar with what I do comes up to me and goes “man I sure hope we get some Nuremberg-style trials at the end of all this”
"A single AI-focused data center can use as much electricity as a small city and as much water as a large neighborhood." Thanks, I hate it. blog.ucs.org/pablo-ortiz/...
What Are the Environmental Impacts of Artificial Intelligence? - Union of Concerned Scientists
blog.ucs.org
The fact that many, many people at Google thought that this AI tool was a good idea says terrible things about the company. Yes, an already awful company.
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d agoUpdate: Google just sent me a statement saying it is “rolling back” this AI feature that let anyone make completely bullshit satellite images. Comes after our demos of the tool and those from OSINT researchers. One of the worst AI tools I’ve ever seen bsky.app/profile/jose...
Congrats on getting Hamas to say “okay fine, we’ll disarm after Israel totally withdraws” and Israel to say “okay fine, we’ll withdraw after Hamas totally disarms.” No one’s accomplished that before, better make it the top headline.
trans rights frankly is a top 5, potentially top 3 issue for me despite not being trans and not having any trans family being bigoted against trans folks not only hurts my trans friends and every trans person but is so predictive of further bigotry
Imagine if you mailed the IRS a check to pay your taxes, but they left their mail unopened for years and then arrested you for failure to pay taxes. That’s effectively what ICE is doing to increasing numbers of people now; people out of status only because of GOVERNMENT delay.
Important anti fascist skill to learn is being brave enough to yell "shut the fuck up" at someone in public
Hemant Mehta@friendlyatheist.com · last wk.Evangelist Whitney Lynn says she preaches on planes because she loves “a captive audience.” She's not alone. It's becoming a trend. If spreading your message requires listeners who can't escape, maybe it's not as compelling as you think. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-...
Surely the solution here is just *don't use AI tools* for your writing and research and continue to do your writing and research in ALL the ways you were doing it before you started using AI instead of doing the work??
Among the worst ideas floating around is that "the free market" will naturally achieve desirable results for society. No, it won't, not even in theory, much less in practice. Markets don't optimize "good for society" unless you make them.
Jon of The North@krauza.bsky.social · last wk.Turns out that food companies were only checking their food because the government told them to, which is exactly why we need government regulations.
Here is an account of the police shooting in Madison today that does not directly contain any video but does contain eyewitness accounts, if that's something anyone is looking for www.wpr.org/news/man-sho...
MPD: Man shot, killed by police on Madison's east side after officer was injured with knife
A person was shot by police on Madison's near east side Wednesday.
wpr.org
*turn off autoplay on your videos right now*
Sami Schalk@drsamischalk.bsky.social · 2w agoPolice murdered a Black man in the street in Madison WI today. Shot point blank in the head while on the ground, tased, and surrounded by four cops. It looks like an execution. Multiple videos circulating online. Things are about to get very bad here.
flames on the side of my face breathing breathless heaving breaths
Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social · 2w agoTrump wants to redirect $200B “toward AI, away from Colleges”*** The plan was laid out in a new report by the Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP) — led by “Peter Thiel Protégé” Michael Kratsios. 1/
I just contacted my Senators. Here are some talking points (from CAIR) for folks who want to do the same: Oppose Section 1217 of the FY27 NDAA. Oppose intelligence authorization provisions requiring expanded intelligence-sharing with Israel.
Ahhhhh@nerdjpg.com · 2w agoIt passed the house legis1.com/news/house-d...
The only election interference happening in this country is coming straight from the White House, and no amount of pathetic late night rambling from a failing, fading president will change anyone’s mind
Like….everybody shut the fuck up and stop fighting. You are taking the wrong fucking lesson from this border-crossing smoke nightmare. The lesson is *all of earth’s ecosystems are entwined, borders mean nothing, all emitters are culpable, this is an EARTH PROBLEM NOT A COUNTRY PROBLEM*.
btw this is precisely what i am describing in acting like the dem leadership are teen idols and not your employees. they work for us. their job is to protect and defend. that means opposing trump on every front, the clearest threat to america since al qaeda.
I’m a climate adjacent scientist and I can confirm this is true
Kim McCauley@kimischilling.bsky.social · 3w agoI am not a climate scientist but when I was a kid the number of times we couldn’t go outside because of Canadian wildfire smoke was zero times
Chicago's air today is freaking apocalyptic. It hurts to breathe.
we really need to go back to calling these people weirdos
Matthew Gault@mjgault.bsky.social · 3w agoHegseth announced they're gonna start screening for T and administering testosterone treatment for warriors found wanting
Any sentence that starts with “it’s not really rape because…” is a sentence about rape
